Ricky Analog and Benito Segovia from TrueTrader.net join Kim and Lucas to discuss their respective trading journeys, philosophies on risk management, and the mentorship they provide members of the TrueTrader community.
Socionomist, professor, and author Peter Atwater joins Kim and Lucas to discuss his book ‘Moods and Markets: A New Way to Invest in Good Times and in Bad’. He also offers his approach to trading and investing in the current market, crypto, and much more.
Turney Duff on The Buy Side, Addiction, and the Danger of If Then Thinking
Turney Duff on The Buy Side, Addiction, and the Danger of “If Then” Thinking
Turney Duff joins Kim and Lucas to discuss The Buy Side, his time on Wall Street, and the deeper emotional traps that sit beneath ambition. This episode is more than a market story. It is a look at what happens when achievement, identity, addiction, and self-worth get tangled together, and why external success can still leave someone profoundly unwell.
What makes the conversation valuable for traders is that it takes the usual performance narrative apart. Turney speaks openly about excess, collapse, and the false bargain that says, “If I get this, then I’ll finally feel okay.” That lesson translates directly to trading and investing, where people often keep moving the goalposts without ever examining what they actually think money is supposed to fix.
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Turney Duff is a former Wall Street trader, journalist, public speaker, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Buy Side. In this episode, he reflects on the intoxicating culture of Wall Street, his experience with addiction, and the hard lessons that followed the collapse of the life he had spent years building.
Key insights from this episode
The “if then” mindset is a trap. It convinces people that the next number, promotion, or win will finally produce peace, even though that peace never arrives.
External performance can hide internal collapse for a long time. That is true on Wall Street and it is true in trading.
Honesty changes everything. Once Turney stopped lying to himself, the rest of his recovery had something real to stand on.
Achievement does not automatically translate into fulfillment. Traders and investors need to be brutally clear about what they expect success to do for them.
Recovery, reflection, and truth-telling create a stronger life than status ever could.
Episode chapters
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Author, trader, investor, and standup comedian James Altucher joins Kim and Lucas to discuss his new book Skip the Line and offers practical advice from his book on ways to quickly improve in any area of your life.
Trauma resolution and attachment expert, Alicen Halquist, joins Kim and Lucas to discuss how attachment adaptations (commonly referred to as attachment styles) influence every aspect of our lives, from personal relationships to individual trades.
Emotional connection and present moment awareness expert, Raphael Cushnir, joins Kim and Lucas to discuss his approach to “surfing emotions,” living in the present moment, and so much more.
Author of The Gray Rhino and You Are What You Risk, Michele Wucker, joins Kim and Lucas to discuss her new book and give insight into how risk is perceived and acted upon by different individuals and cultures.
Kim and Lucas discuss the most common roadblocks that traders face and how they have helped traders tackle these problems: Fear of Failure, Fear of Missing Out (FOMO), Lack of Discipline, Lack of Proven Edge, Greed, and Ego.
Kim and Lucas welcome Samantha Keen and Jason Apollo Voss – expert coaches in meditation and intuition. Both Samantha and Jason have worked for years as coaches with The Wall StreetCoach and both practice and coach meditation and mindfulness.
In this episode Samantha’s speaks about how her coaching and the practice of daily meditation led to over 1000% growth for a set of institutional traders.
Jason, author of The Intuitive Investor and former portfolio manager himself, discusses journeys through “the dark night of the soul,” how he coaches clients to tap into their intuition, and his experiences being promoted from research analyst to portfolio manager.
Kim and Lucas discuss how anxiety, PTSD, and other stress can manifest physically and how to hold space for yourself when these stresses appear – sometimes completely out of the blue.