RWH061: How To Thrive No Matter What w/ Arnold Van Den Berg

You're listening to TIP. Hi, folks. It's a great pleasure to be back with you on the Rich, Weiser, Happier podcast. My guest today is the great Arnold Vandenberg, who, as many of you know, is a really central figure in the final chapter, the epilogue of Richer, Wiser, Happier. And as I mentioned there, for me, he's really in many ways the embodiment of what a successful, happy, truly abundant life looks like. And there's nobody really in the investment world I admire more than Arnold. And hopefully, in today's episode, you'll see why. He's a really wonderful human being, a very successful, very smart, self taught investor who's had a great record over fifty years at his firm, Century Management. But at the same time, he's also done an extraordinary job of building great relationships with his family, with friends, being a great philanthropist, helping countless other people. And he's done all of this despite incredible odds against him as somebody who grew up on the same street as Anne Frank in Amsterdam as a Jewish kid in 1939 at the start of World War two and spent the first couple of years of his life in hiding and then was smuggled into an orphanage while his parents were in Auschwitz. So it's an extraordinary story. I've had Arnold on the podcast a couple of times in the past, and I'm thrilled to have him on again today. This wasn't an episode that we had planned to do. And then we changed course because, he had been a guest speaking to my Richer Wiser Happier masterclass and had been such an extraordinary guest and had talked about some things that I think are so important that he had realized over the last year or so that I really wanted to bring these insights to you today on the podcast. So I hope you'll find this as helpful and inspiring and thought provoking as I've found it. Speaking of the Richer, Wiser, Happier Masterclass, I wanted just to tell you very quickly about this venture that I've got planned that's coming up, which is, as many of you know, last year, I had my first cohort of the Richer, Wiser, Happier Masterclass, which was a one year course. And it was such a beautiful experience for me, and I hope for the people in the group that I'm launching my second ever Richer, Wiser, Happier Masterclass, which starts in November. And this is for a group of between ten and twenty people. So it's a very small group, and it's an opportunity to study directly with me over the course of a year. And they're extraordinary people. They were very extraordinary people last year. And this year, just judging from the first people who have applied and been accepted in the group, they're equally remarkable. They tend to be fund managers or asset allocators, wealth advisors, CEOs. So these are very highly accomplished people. But at the same time, …