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Money Stories · Episode 24

Jeff Burningham: $2B Investor Explains Why Happiness Can’t Be Bought

For founders and high achievers rethinking what money is for.

Mike Brown with Jeff Burningham, Investor and entrepreneur · Aug 22, 2025 · 0 min

About this episode

Jeff Burningham scrubbed carpets at 13 to afford basketball shoes, later built billion dollar firms and ran for Governor of Utah. On a family trip to Mexico he realized he had missed the first 11 months of his daughter's life.

He and Mike talk about therapy, meditation, failure, and what AI asks of us as humans.

More from Money Stories: all episodes. Mike’s book Be Rich Now covers the same ground in depth.