Joe Fahmy on Optimism, Open-Mindedness, and Building Confidence in Tough Markets
Joe Fahmy on Optimism, Open-Mindedness, and Building Confidence in Tough Markets
Joe Fahmy joins Kim to talk about what helps traders stay constructive when the market gets difficult. With more than two decades of experience, Joe’s edge in this conversation is not just technical knowledge. It is the way he connects mindset, gratitude, flexibility, and humor to actual market survival. He treats mental strength as a daily practice rather than a slogan.
What makes this episode worth revisiting is the balance in Joe’s outlook. He is optimistic without being naive, open-minded without being directionless, and confident without pretending the market owes anyone an easy outcome. The conversation is especially useful for traders who are frustrated, demoralized, or starting to lose trust in themselves during difficult periods.
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Joe Fahmy is an investment professional with decades of trading experience and a long history of media appearances, investor education, and market commentary. In this episode, he brings a practical view of confidence, decision-making, and the need to stay emotionally strong when the market is not cooperating.
Key insights from this episode
Mindset is not optional. Joe argues that if your head is not right, the market will expose it quickly.
Gratitude helps reduce fear. He sees it as a practical way to steady the mind and avoid spiraling into reactive decision-making.
Open-mindedness is a trading skill. Being able to change your mind without ego is one of the strongest protections against stubborn losses.
Studying history helps traders endure downturns. The more cycles you understand, the less likely you are to treat temporary pain like permanent failure.
A sense of humor matters. It is not a trivial add-on; it helps protect perspective when markets become emotionally draining.
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Victoria Loorz on Nature, Connection, and Why Traders Need More Than Screens
Victoria Loorz on Nature, Connection, and Why Traders Need More Than Screens
Victoria Loorz joins Kim for a very different kind of conversation than most trading audiences hear. Instead of setups and market mechanics, the focus is connection, balance, and the cost of staying cut off from nature, community, and the wider world. For traders and high-achieving professionals who feel burned out or detached, that difference is exactly why this episode matters.
Victoria’s core message is that reconnecting is not sentimental or optional. It is a way of restoring perspective, creativity, and aliveness. For people whose work keeps them intensely focused on screens, systems, and pressure, this conversation offers a different kind of performance insight: sometimes the bigger edge comes from learning how to come back to yourself.
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Victoria Loorz is an author, eco-spiritual director, and founder associated with the Church of the Wild movement. After years in more traditional ministry settings, she shifted toward work centered on reconnection with nature, spirituality, and community. In this episode, she brings that perspective to an audience that often lives inside high-pressure, screen-heavy environments.
Key insights from this episode
Disconnection has a cost. High performers often normalize burnout and isolation without seeing how much it narrows their lives.
Nature is not a luxury add-on. It can function as a real source of healing, perspective, and emotional reset.
Creating small spaces for connection matters. Traders do not always need dramatic change first; they often need regular points of return.
Connection to place, body, and world expands capacity. It helps people think beyond the closed loop of work stress and performance anxiety.
Sometimes the most useful intervention is not more productivity, but more relationship with life outside the market.
Work on this with Kim:Book a free intro call – explore whether 1-on-1 coaching is right for you.
Not ready for a call? Take the Trader Positioning Index – a 15-minute clinical assessment that benchmarks your decision-making under pressure.
Shay Huang on Anger, Resilience, and Why Risk Comes First
Shay Huang on Anger, Resilience, and Why Risk Comes First
Shay Huang, known to many traders as Humbled Trader, joins Kim for a candid conversation about the realities that most trading content avoids. She talks openly about early anger, revenge trading, a painful $20,000 loss, and the emotional work it took to stop turning bad days into full-blown spirals. What makes the episode useful is not just the honesty, but the clarity with which Shay connects self-awareness, risk management, and survival in the market.
Shay’s perspective is grounded in experience. She does not sell a fantasy life or pretend discipline is easy. Instead, she makes the case that consistent trading starts when you stop chasing perfection, start respecting risk, and get serious about the emotional patterns that trading exposes. For traders dealing with frustration, overtrading, or identity tied too tightly to P&L, this is one of the more practical conversations on the site.
The Trader Positioning Index (TPI) is a 15-minute clinical-grade assessment that measures 70+ indicators of your decision-making under pressure – and delivers a 35+ page personalised report with a custom action roadmap. Learn more about the TPI ->
Before trading full time, Shay worked in the VFX industry, where long hours and intense production pressure became part of daily life. That background helped shape the work ethic she later brought into trading, but her real turning point came when she stopped treating markets like a shortcut and started treating them like a craft. Today she is known for combining education, humor, and blunt realism across her content and trading community.
Key insights from this episode
Trading magnifies whatever is unresolved inside you. Shay explains that anger and frustration were already there, but the market exposed them fast and brutally.
Journaling losses helped her identify the real problem: revenge trading. Once she saw that pattern clearly, she could stop pretending the issue was only strategy.
In difficult environments, sizing down is not weakness. It is one of the clearest signs that a trader understands survival matters more than ego.
Risk has to come before reward. Shay’s consistency improved only when she stopped obsessing over upside and got serious about what she could lose.
Community matters because trading is isolating. Having people around you who actually understand the work can stabilize both performance and mental health.
Work on this with Kim:Book a free intro call – explore whether 1-on-1 coaching is right for you.
Not ready for a call? Take the Trader Positioning Index – a 15-minute clinical assessment that benchmarks your decision-making under pressure.
Andrew Aziz on Resilience, Losses, and Staying Grounded in Tough Markets
Andrew Aziz on Resilience, Losses, and Staying Grounded in Tough Markets
Andrew Aziz joins Kim to talk about the mindset behind durable trading success. As the founder of Bear Bull Traders, Andrew brings the perspective of both a trader and an educator, and one of the most useful themes in this conversation is that resilience is not a slogan. It is a practical skill traders need when markets get rough, losses hit, and confidence gets tested.
Andrew is unusually direct about setbacks. He openly talks about how much paper wealth disappeared during a difficult market cycle and why that did not change how he showed up day to day. Instead of resisting the market or taking losses personally, he keeps coming back to the same ideas: respect the force of the market, stay balanced outside trading, and build rules that protect you when conditions stop being easy.
Is your trading psychology holding you back?
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Andrew Aziz is a trader, author, and the founder of Bear Bull Traders. Before trading full time, he worked in research and engineering, later redirecting that same discipline into the markets. He is also known for writing practical books for traders and for building a community focused on process, accountability, and consistent improvement.
Key insights from this episode
Resilience matters more than comfort. Andrew points out that traders need to become resilient about losses, difficult cycles, and the reality that the market does not care about individual hopes or opinions.
Good traders talk honestly about losses. Andrew’s openness about large drawdowns makes the bigger point that pretending losses do not happen only makes traders weaker and more isolated.
The market is a powerful force. Trying to fight it with ego or denial is costly; yielding to reality and adapting is the healthier and more profitable response.
Community can strengthen resilience when it is built well. The right trading environment helps traders stay accountable, keep perspective, and avoid spiraling when conditions get hard.
Balance away from the screen matters. Andrew’s relationship with the outdoors, climbing, and life outside markets supports the steadiness he brings back into trading decisions.
Episode chapters
1:02 – Introduction to Andrew Aziz
4:10 – Lessons from breathing at 20,000 feet
5:50 – What do traders need to be most resilient about?
8:26 – Andrew’s tips for increasing resilience
11:30 – So few traders honestly speak about losses. Why is Andrew so open to talking about it?
15:16 – The powerful force that is the market
18:22 – Why Andrew’s books resonate with traders
22:46 – The ‘air traffic control’ mindset + trading
26:07 – Over to Twitter Spaces + reintroduce Andrew
29:14 – How + why did Andrew start Bear Bull Traders?
31:20 – The role of resilience in community
34:30 – The impact of Andrew’s trading community on his personal trading
37:49 – Navigating the tough 2022 market
39:42 – Nature and its healing effects on the soul (and trading)
43:06 – How Andrew maintains balance in his life
47:43 – Trading success as a double-edged sword
50:30 – How to find a great trading teacher
54:02 – Tips for traders in the current market
56:24 – Andrew’s lessons from FTX
59:50 – Emotional intelligence in trading
1:04:00 – Blame in trading and life, lessons learned, and final words
1:07:00 – Upcoming Bear Bull Traders live trading event
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Ep 67: Jack Kellogg: From Valet to Multimillionaire Trader
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0:30 – How to access Kim’s FREE e-book, “Discipline & Finding Your Edge”
0:50 – Introduction to Jack Kellogg (as if you need one)
3:15 – Jack shares his trading trajectory
5:50 – What’s behind Jack’s work ethic + mindset?
7:40 – What are the biggest misunderstandings Jack sees among traders (and feels himself)?
11:17 – Dissecting losses + comfort with discomfort
12:24 – Trading isn’t about money for Jack anymore. So what is it about?
14:41 – Balance + how Jack operates now
19:00 – What Jack does in his free time
21:15 – How would Jack advise a beginner?
22:48 – How did Jack get his enviable big-picture mentality?
24:15 – Over to the Twitter Space + reintroduce Jack
25:30 – Why Jack doesn’t just want to be just a trader
27:24 – How Jack maintains balance in his life outside of trading?
31:05 – The secret to Jack’s internal grit and how he looks at losses
33:20 – Jack’s take on healthy living
37:15 – Listener question: where should traders turn for stock information?
39:45 – Listener question: how to avoid FOMO and forcing trades
42:51 – Listener question: what was a major turning point in your career?
44:24 – Listener question: Jack’s trades on SQQQ and TQQQ
46:30 – Jack’s exponential growth — how did he uplevel?
50:12 – Listener question: what is Jack’s edge?
52:57 – Jack’s Personal goals
54:20 – Listener question: how did Jack diversify and expand his trading strategy?
57:53 – How Jack gets support from loved ones + the trading community
59:30 – What mindset would Jack like to see shift in the day trading community?
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Ep 67: Jack Kellogg: From Valet to Multimillionaire Trader
If you’re a day trader, you’re probably familiar with Jack Kellogg. If you haven’t heard of him yet … well, he’s kind of a big deal. He’s traded OTCs, he’s traded meme stocks. He’s gone long, he’s gone short … and at just 24, he’s surpassed $10 million in trading profits.
You’re kind of tempted to hate him, right?
But here’s the thing: Jack’s a genuinely great guy.
As The Wall Street Coach Podcast host Kim Ann Curtin puts it, “Not only is Jack a world-class trader, but a world-class human being.”
In this interview, you’ll discover a side of Jack that few people have seen or heard before. In this combo episode featuring an interview coupled with a live Twitter Space recording, you’ll learn about the emotional side of Jack’s trading — including an honest discussion of his emotional struggles even in the face of success, and how he worked with Kim as a coach to develop more EQ and balance in his life.
There’s no doubt that everyone who listens to this episode is going to grow and stretch and see their EQ raised! Jack is a living example of someone who is unstoppable — you don’t want to miss this!
About Jack Kellogg
Jack Kellogg isn’t your typical millionaire trader. After he graduated high school, he didn’t want to go to college, but he understood that if he wanted to have the kind of life he wanted, he needed to make money.
In 2017, he made it his New Year’s resolution to learn how to trade and started with $10K he saved from his valet job. People think of him as an overnight success, but he spent years grinding and working on side hustles including an attempt to sell bamboo pillows.
His years of fine-tuning his skills paid off. When the crazy market volatility of 2020 hit, he was prepared. He passed $1 million in profits in late 2020, and his growth has been exponential ever since. He passed $10 million in profits this year and hasn’t stopped there. In addition to being a world-class trader, he’s also a trading mentor and active in the trading community, taking part in events like Traders For a Cause and more.
Disclaimer: All information provided is for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment, legal, or tax advice, or an offer to buy or sell any security. For full disclosures: www.thewallstreetcoach.com
Anand Sanghvi on FTX, Losses, and the Power of Self-Awareness
Anand Sanghvi on FTX, Losses, and the Power of Self-Awareness
Anand Sanghvi joins Kim to talk through the FTX collapse, what it reveals about traders, and why mindset still matters even when the failure looks operational from the outside. The conversation is direct, funny, and useful because Anand does not try to separate trading skill from emotional reality. His point is simple: you can be talented and still be dragged around by your own demons if you do not learn how to see them clearly.
Beyond the FTX breakdown, Anand speaks about acceptance, discipline, losses, and why traders need both community and generosity if they want to last. The episode works because it does not pretend there is a shortcut. It treats trading as a personal practice as much as a market activity.
The Trader Positioning Index (TPI) is a 15-minute clinical-grade assessment that measures 70+ indicators of your decision-making under pressure – and delivers a 35+ page personalised report with a custom action roadmap. Learn more about the TPI ->
Anand Sanghvi, also known as Sang Lucci, is a professional large-cap options and futures trader and the founder of Sang Lucci. He has traded since 2006 and later launched Sang Lucci Capital Partners. In this episode, he brings both market experience and educator perspective to a conversation about trust, discipline, and how traders actually recover from meaningful losses.
Key insights from this episode
The FTX collapse is not just a crypto story. It is a trader story about trust, risk, and what happens when people outsource too much responsibility.
You can be highly capable and still be ruled by your demons. Self-awareness is not optional if you want skill to translate into consistent results.
Big losses need acceptance before they can become useful. Fighting reality only compounds damage.
Discipline and numbing are not the same thing. Anand draws a line between healthy control and suppressing what still needs to be understood.
Community matters because trading can distort perspective. The right people around you can help keep ego, fear, and isolation in check.
Episode chapters
0:50 – Introduction to Anand Sanghvi and Sang Lucci
Thomas Vozzo of Homeboy Industries: A Radical Approach to Leadership & Life
Thomas Vozzo is an author, social enterprise builder and thought leader. He’s also the CEO of Homeboy Industries, an organization that The Wall Street Coach Podcast host Kim Ann Curtin has supported for years. In this conversation, he and Kim talk about his radical approach to leadership — and life!
About Thomas Vozzo
Thomas Vozzo was a successful corporate leader with a reputation for results. But decades into his career, he began to feel like something was missing – a thought that would eventually lead him to become the Chief Executive Officer at Homeboy Industries, the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. For more than 34 years, Homeboy Industries has been a beacon of hope in Los Angeles, providing training and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated individuals, helping them to heal and redirect their lives.
A decade into his executive leadership role at Homeboy Industries – Vozzo is also the author of “The Homeboy Way: A Radical Approach to Leadership and Life.” Written with heartfelt authenticity and purpose, Vozzo invites corporate America and leaders everywhere to create a new bottom line, challenge the corporate status quo – and combat injustice, economic and racial inequity.
In his free time, Thomas enjoys hiking, ocean swimming, travelling, and spending time with his family.
Disclaimer: All information provided is for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment, legal, or tax advice, or an offer to buy or sell any security. For full disclosures: www.thewallstreetcoach.com
Ep 64: Tom Brammar & Stackin’: Your Guide to a Better Relationship with Money
25:22 – Stackin’s money types: which type are you?
31:27 – The first step to changing your mindset about money (WOW)
39:45 – How our “stories” affect our relationship with money
45:20 – Are you in touch with your actual money goals?
Tom Brammar & Stackin’: Your Guide to a Better Relationship with Money
Want a better relationship with money? Don’t miss this episode!
Tom Brammar is the CEO & President of Stackin‘, a financial therapy business with a mission to fix our relationship with money. Stackin’s app leverages behavior based change, cognitive behavioural therapy and direct one-on-one coaching to help us understand the “why” behind our money behaviors and build a healthy practice of financial wellness so everyone can achieve their goals.
He’s also the Vice Chairman of Netguru, one of Europe’s leading digital consultancies, and a non-executive director of GlobalSource Partners, an emerging-market research business headquartered in New York.
Prior to this he was a strategic consultant for a number of high growth startups and blue chip firms having co-founded a business with the Financial Times and built & sold his own mobile technology company.
He began his career in the music industry working with such artists as Underworld, Elbow, Stereophonics, Tom Jones and a bunch of others who are now flipping burgers somewhere.
What To Expect in This Episode
Did you know that many people who earn over $250K per year feel like they’re living paycheck to paycheck? Many people believe that the solution to money problems is more money. Tom Brammar begs to differ. As the CEO of Stackin‘, a “financial therapy business,” he wants to help you find a better way. In this interview, he’ll explain his fascinating journey to finance and offer some actionable tips you can implement today to begin to improve your relationship with money.
Disclaimer: All information provided is for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment, legal, or tax advice, or an offer to buy or sell any security. For full disclosures: www.thewallstreetcoach.com
VWAPTrader1 JJ on Market Mechanics, Self-Doubt, and Short Squeezes
VWAPTrader1 JJ on Market Mechanics, Self-Doubt, and the Cost of Being Too Early
JJ, better known to many traders as @VWapTrader1, joins Kim for a live speed-coaching session built around real trader questions. As a former market maker and co-host of Confessions of a Market Maker, JJ brings a perspective most retail traders rarely get to hear directly: what actually drives price, why market structure matters, and how technical mistakes are often tied to deeper mindset problems.
This episode moves between market mechanics and trading psychology without separating the two. JJ and Kim talk through fear of failure, self-doubt, the temptation to chase price action, and the danger of being "right" too early. The result is a practical conversation for traders who want to understand not just entries and exits, but the business, behavior, and incentives sitting underneath the tape.
The Trader Positioning Index (TPI) is a 15-minute clinical-grade assessment that measures 70+ indicators of your decision-making under pressure – and delivers a 35+ page personalised report with a custom action roadmap. Learn more about the TPI ->
JJ is a former market maker and the co-host of Confessions of a Market Maker. The current post notes that he has traded billions in dollar volume, which gives him a rare inside-out perspective on price movement, liquidity, and how the business side of markets shapes what traders see on the screen. In this episode, he brings that experience into a live coaching format with Kim.
Key insights from this episode
Fear of failure does not stay abstract for traders. JJ and Kim connect it directly to how people manage risk, handle mistakes, and tie self-worth to winning.
Understanding markets means more than watching supply and demand on a chart. JJ emphasizes the importance of knowing who is driving that activity and why the mechanics behind price matter.
Traders often underestimate the value of understanding the business side of trading. That includes market structure, filings, float, and the incentives influencing participants on the other side of the trade.
One of JJ’s strongest warnings is not to get starry-eyed about price action. The conversation pushes traders to stay skeptical, grounded, and a little paranoid instead of treating momentum as proof.
Being early can be just as dangerous as being wrong. Even when the idea is directionally right, timing errors can create damage that traders do not recover from emotionally or financially.
The episode also tackles manufactured short squeezes from the perspective of a former market maker, giving traders a more realistic view of how those situations can be created and exploited.
This time, Charles gets into the nitty-gritty of his winning trades on Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA). Be prepared to learn from his expertise and experience plus plenty of stock charts!
Charles Harris is a Portfolio Manager at O’Neil Global Advisors Inc. with over 20 years of experience in finance. Recently, he released a YouTube video of a 2019 presentation he made at the final IBD Level IV Master’s Program workshop in Santa Monica, CA entitled “A Trader’s Journey.” In it, he details his personal journey as a stock trader and shares his highs and lows, the many boom and bust cycles he’s experienced along the way, and the lessons he’s learned and continue to relearn. The video went viral — it currently has over 34K views. Legions of traders have been blown away by his vulnerability and the wisdom he has gained as a result of staggering losses and hard-earned lessons — including legendary big wave surfer and trader Shane Dorian, who joins Kim as a guest co-host for today’s episode.
Not familiar with Shane? He’s been on the pod before — don’t miss his episode here. As a refresher, Shane spent 11 years touring on the World Championship Tour as a pro surfer before quitting the pro circuit to focus on big waves. Now, he’s one of the best-known big wave surfers in the world. But that’s not all — he’s also an accomplished trader, with years of experience. Following the CANSLIM system, created by William O’Neil, Shane identifies as a swing/position trader and has seen massive upside in his trading for over a decade.
What To Expect in This Episode
In today’s followup interview, Kim and guest co-host Shane speak with Charles about his approach to trading TSLA. As Charles explained in Part 1 of the interview, a series of winning trades on TSLA helped him recover his account after losing 85% of his net worth on a series of drawdowns. Then, Kim and Charles head over to a live Twitter Space q+a session so listeners can join in the conversation. Here’s what to expect:
Why Charles has so much conviction in trading TSLA. As he puts it, he’s a “love-hate relationship with TSLA since 2013.” Yes, it was one of his biggest winners — but he’s also lost a boatload of money on it, too. Charles explains why “it’s been great but I’ve also had periods where I’ve done very poorly with it.”
A detailed powerpoint presentation where Charles explains his approach to the stock since 2013 when he started trading it.
A new way to evaluate disruptive technology and why, according to Charles, “position size mirrors conviction, at least for me.”
Why the potential for Tesla is “enormous” and why traders need to look past the divisive individual that is Elon Musk. Charles about near-term catalysts for TSLA and why he’s still so bullish on the stock.
What Charles learned from trading AAPL — and how it gives him an edge trading TSLA.
If you believe that you have something that has massive secular growth, you don’t want to lose your core position. Charles explains why.
Plus, Charles shares TSLA charts + gives plenty of details about his approach to trading TSLA!
