Rule Breaker Investing
David Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool, shares his insights into innovative and disruptive publicly traded companies, following his signature "Rule Breaker Investing" principles. Each week, he discusses how to profit from these companies and offers financial advice. The podcast is based on his best-selling book and his experience as a successful stock picker.
Episodes
Breaking the Rules of Sports, Vol. 2: American Football
It’s football season! America’s most popular sport is in full swing, at both the NFL professional level and, of course, the college professional level. And what better time to ask whether the game we love could be even better?
Longtime sports journalist, coach, and baseball scout Kimball Crossley returns with a provocative proposition: Does football’s punishment always fit the crime? From penalti
Pet Perks, Vol. 3: Seven Little Things That Make Everything Better
A Pet Perk doesn’t need to be profound; it's the noticing that makes it profound. This time around, we leave investing and business behind for seven small pleasures and practices drawn entirely from life.What can a surprisingly good armchair teach us about spending? How might getting “upstream” today make tomorrow better? Seven reminders to notice, appreciate, and occasionally act on the good thin
September 2026 Mailbag: 16 Years Old to 25 Years Foolish
This month, eight correspondents bring us questions and stories from very different points along the Foolish journey. We talk time freedom, indexing in a faster-changing world, investing “miracles,” the rewards of choosing stocks even when the scoreboard disagrees—and the challenge of knowing when patience has simply become waiting.Plus, a little career advice, a one-man podcast production company
Market Cap Game Show: What’s Rare Earth Worth?
Price per share is only half the story. Multiply it by shares outstanding and you get the number that matters: market capitalization, the market’s current price tag on a public company. And for the 43rd time, it’s time to turn that lesson into a game.
David welcomes Motley Fool analyst Yasser El-Shimy and longtime Fool producer and personality Mac Greer for ten companies spanning cloud software,
ChatGPT Asks & David Answers, Vol. 4
ChatGPT is back on the mound, David is back in the batter’s box, and for the first time in more than a year it’s time for five fresh pitches.This time, the questions aren’t quizzes—they’re provocations. What advantages did David have as an investor at 30 that he no longer has at 60—and what has he gained in return? Which Rule Breaker principle might prove less durable over the decades ahead? What
10 Years Later: 5 Low-Risk Stocks for the Next Year
en years ago, amid plenty of bearish sentiment, David did something unique in the history of his 5-Stock Samplers: he picked five stocks specifically to beat the market over just the next year. The common denominator? Each ranked among the lowest-risk companies in his investing universe.A decade later, Rick Munarriz joins him to fire up the time machine. Apple, Canadian National Railway, Disney, E
Old, New, Borrowed & Blue, Vol. 11
Every once in a while, Rule Breaker Investing sets aside the theme and embraces the hodgepodge. Something Old, something New, something Borrowed, something Blue—four directions, no particular reason they should fit together, and that’s part of the fun.
This time, a World Series champion offers a lesson about sample sizes and staying with a winning process. An old investing truth finds a new home—
August 2026 Mailbag: The Scores We Keep
After three weeks of Authors in August, the authors step aside and Rule Breaker listeners take the conversation somewhere new.
A middle-school teacher wrestles with what happens when the measurements meant to improve education begin defining it instead. A father investing for his daughters wonders whether “Add Up, Don’t Double Down” applies to index funds. There are Rule Breaker songs, Spiffy Pop
Authors in August: Dave Ulrich & Why We Work
Why do we work? A paycheck matters, of course. And, when so much of life is spent working, might we reasonably hope for something more?Closing out the ninth year of Authors in August, David welcomes Dave Ulrich, one of the world’s leading thinkers on organizations, leadership, and human capability. Using the longtime favorite The Why of Work as a jumping-off point, their conversation ranges widely
Authors in August: Vasant Dhar & “Thinking With Machines”
Artificial intelligence may feel suddenly everywhere, but AI pioneer Vasant Dhar has had a front-row seat for more than four decades—teaching AI, building companies around it, and bringing machine learning to Wall Street long before ChatGPT entered the conversation.
For the second week of Authors in August, David sits down with Dhar to ask not merely what machines can do, but how humans can think
Authors in August: Thi Nguyen’s “The Score”
Authors in August is back! It’s our 9th year featuring authors of books that David loves and thinks you’ll love too.
So for the third time, philosopher and game scholar Thi Nguyen joins back with Rule Breaker Investing—and this time the conversation reaches far beyond games.
What happens when the scores we invent to measure success begin quietly reshaping what we value?
Together, in an incredib
July 2026 Mailbag: Year Twelve Begins
As Rule Breaker Investing enters its twelfth year, it is fitting to hand the microphone back to the people who have helped shape it from the very beginning: our listeners.This month’s Mailbag spans investing, artificial intelligence, financial freedom, World Cup soccer, custodial Roth IRAs, Rule Breaker stock selection… and even a soundtrack for Foolish living?! Along the way are a heartbreaking s
Five Idle Thoughts of a Summer’s Day, Vol. 3
It’s become something of a midsummer tradition on Rule Breaker Investing: set aside the markets for a week and simply follow curiosity wherever it leads.This year’s sampler wanders through technology, sports, business, demographics, literature, and a few unexpected places in between. Along the way are thoughts about how to get the most out of AI, a few tweaks that could improve the world’s biggest
10 Years Later: 5 Brexit-Inspired Stocks
In the anxious days following Brexit, rather than predict the future, David asked a different question: Where are the opportunities? The result was a five-stock sampler built not on politics, but on optimism.Now a full decade has passed. Joined by longtime Fool Karl Thiel, we crack open the time capsule, revisit the original investment theses, score all five stocks against the market, and ask what
Great Quotes, Vol. 22: A Nation Forever Young
Every so often, five quotations come along that don’t merely make you nod. They make you stop, put the book down, and think.This week we explore why the best investors first become students of themselves, why our minds work better when they’re surrounded by rich ideas, why business is one of humanity’s great engines for creating value, why prosperity may make societies not just wealthier but wiser
What You’ve Done to Create Financial Freedom, Vol. 4
Each Independence Week, Rule Breaker Investing asks a simple question: What have you done over the past year to create financial freedom—for yourself or for others? This year’s answers feature a listener’s Declaration of Financial Independence and a young woman whose very first stock purchase turned out to be… Nvidia. Along the way, we revisit three favorite moments from the first three years of t
June 2026 Mailbag: “Do You Know Its Market Cap?”
This month’s Mailbag ranges from Washington, D.C. to Germany, from the SEC to the moon, and from individual stock ownership to the deeper question of what freedom is actually for. Along the way, fellow Fools write in about transparency, curiosity, market caps, parenting, AI, adding to winning investments, and what can happen when decades of patient investing quietly compound into opportunities to
Market Cap Game Show: The King-Sharon Rule Debuts
The Market Cap Game Show returns for its 42nd installment, with longtime Motley Fool personalities Charly Travers and Jason Moser battling for a coveted spot in next March’s Market Cap Madness Final Four.But this episode marks something new. For the first time, players can invoke the King-Sharon Rule, adding an extra layer of strategy, risk, and reward to the game. Agree or disagree is no longer t
Stock Stories, Vol. 12: Time Travel Investing
For the twelfth time, we gather around the campfire for one of RBI’s favorite traditions: Stock Stories. Five Fools. Five investing lessons. This summer’s tales share a surprising common thread: A biotech shell company that refused to die. An old gift of IBM stock quietly compounding for decades. A Fool who finally bought Alphabet nearly twenty years after he first meant to. A company called Life3
I Fought The Law (And The Law Won), Vol. 3
Why do some organizations seem unable to solve the very problems they were created to fix? Why do seemingly rational people end up chasing the wrong goals? And why does one innocent purchase so often lead to five more?
In this new volume of RBI’s recurring cerebral series, David explores a handful of memorable laws and principles that help explain how people, businesses, markets, and institutions
May 2026 Mailbag: Divvy-Pops, Jellybeans & the Kids of Kopachuk
What happens when Nvidia’s annual dividend suddenly exceeds David’s original Motley Fool cost basis—six times over? This month’s Mailbag brings back a Foolish old term, “divvy-pop,” while also revisiting the power of doing less, holding more, and letting great companies keep surprising you.Also inside: a Buffett-meets-Rule-Breaker reflection from British Columbia, a jellybean contest gone mathemat
60 Thoughts As I Turn 60
To mark his 60th birthday, David delivers what may be the most distilled episode in Rule Breaker Investing history: 20 thoughts about investing, 20 about business, and 20 about life—gathered from decades of entrepreneurship, stock-picking, reading, losing, winning, and trying to stay Foolish along the way.
From the “Ship of Fools” and the spiffy-pop, to optionality, fads that weren’t fads, the ha
What You Have Learned from David Gardner, Vol. 7
Once a year, around David’s birthday, listeners send in notes sharing what they’ve learned from this podcast over the years—about investing, business, and life. This year’s volume includes reflections on “dips wait for dips,” learning to appreciate mistakes instead of fearing them, the surprising power of simply doing nothing during market volatility, and why optimism itself may be one of the grea
10 Years Later: 5 Winners in a Thinking World
What happens when you actually do the thing most investors only talk about… and hold stocks for a full decade? This week, David welcomes The Motley Fool’s Tim Beyers and together they go back exactly 10 years—to the week—to revisit five companies picked in May 2016, scoring how they really did and, more importantly, asking why. From biotech to big data to media to real estate, this episode is abou
April 2026 Mailbag: Harbor, Hawthorne & Higher-or-Lower
From buying in thirds instead of waiting for dips, to a dishwasher hack that still requires the humans to remember the hack, to one listener’s beautifully rebalanced “harbor-and-horizon” portfolio, this month’s mailbag is as motley as ever. Along the way, David cleans up a long-used reference to Heisenberg vs. Hawthorne, hears how Magical Athlete has become a family hit, and considers a pair of li
Three Fools Vol. 2, with Bill Burke & Mahan Tavakoli
What happens when you bring together three storytellers, three themes, and a podcast devoted to making you smarter, happier, and richer? You get Three Fools, our continuing episodic series! This time ’round, David is joined by superstar guests Bill Burke and Mahan Tavakoli as they each share three stories—one to educate, one to amuse, and one to enrich. From investing lessons that last a lifetime
Gotta Know the Lingo, Vol. 8
Some financial terms sound scarier than they are. Others sound familiar… right up until you realize you don’t actually know what they mean.This week, David returns with Volume 8 of Gotta Know the Lingo, welcoming Fool analysts Alicia Alfiere, Amanda Kish, and Nick Sciple to help translate the language of investing for the rest of us. Some terms are simpler, some more advanced, all of them useful—a
Mental Tips, Tricks & Lifehacks, Vol. 11
Can you quickly decide which AI companies deserve your attention—and which to skip? What do you believe that most people don’t? And is there a simple trick, learnable in one afternoon, that can delight kids (and maybe yourself) for a lifetime?
This week, David returns with Volume 11 of one of our OG episodic series: Mental Tips, Tricks & Lifehacks. He shares seven small ideas that punch above the
Blast From The Past, Vol. 12: ABB
Some truths are too good to say only once. This week, David re-blasts five timelessly powerful ideas from the past—about identity, investing, serenity, frameworks, and questioning—and brings them together in a fresh 2026 mix. One quietly powerful idea runs underneath: What you do, repeatedly, becomes who you are.Along the way:
A single line that might rewire how you think about your own habits
March 2026 Mailbag: Habits, Hacks & “Boom”
March Madness may be over, but the Mailbag is just beginning—and as always, you’re the star of the show. This month we hear from listeners who tracked the data on our Market Cap Game Show strategies (does “always disagree”… really work?), revisit a thoughtful challenge from Professor Jason Corso on whether Rule Breaker Investing is built on habits, recipes, or something closer to an algorithm, pic
2026 March Market Cap Madness Championship: Loren v. Emily
The bracket is complete. The stakes are highest. And now… it’s time to crown a champion.This week on Rule Breaker Investing, defending champion Emily Flippen faces off against Cinderella challenger Loren Horst in the March Market Cap Madness World Championship. As always, you’re not just watching—you’re playing along. Ten companies. Ten chances to test your market cap intuition. Range it… and deci
2026 March Market Cap Madness: Emily vs. Bill (BEMILY 2!)
The Madness continues! This week on Rule Breaker Investing, the second semifinal of March Market Cap Madness tips off as defending world champion Emily Flippen faces long-time Motley Fool advisor Bill Barker for a place in the championship round. It is a rematch of the epic Final Four game they played this very week one year ago.
As always, the real game is for you: ten companies, ten market-cap
2026 March Market Cap Madness: Andy vs. Loren
March Market Cap Madness tips off its Final Four this week on Rule Breaker Investing, and you’re not just watching—you’re playing. Past world champion Andy Cross (6–1 lifetime) squares off against Cinderella contender Loren Horst (1–0) in our first semifinal matchup, with a spot in the World Championship at stake. Grab a pencil, set your ranges, and see whether your market-cap intuition can outsco
February 2026 Mailbag: Countless… Right?
This week’s Mailbag picks up where Pet Peeves left off—and then some. Listeners write in with their own linguistic grievances, from “10 straight unanswered points” to the curious inflation of words like “countless,” to the conversational reflex of “Right?” that may or may not actually validate anything. Along the way, we touch on Evernote in an AI world, foreign exchange risk from a Fool down unde
Pet Peeves, Vol. 9: Buy Now, Pay Later… Right?
It’s been 27 months since this series’s last installment, which means David has had time to quietly bottle up a fresh batch of entirely new irritations—all original, no repeats. This year’s edition takes aim at the slippery phrase “Buy Now, Pay Later,” the suspicious preface “If I’m being honest…,” and the curious cultural surrender embedded in “In my day…“.Along the way, there’s a certain Hallowe
10 Years Later: 5 Stocks to Feed the Bear
Ten years ago this week, in the teeth of a downturn, David picked five stocks under the banner “5 Stocks to Feed the Bear.” This week, he and longtime Fool Rick Munarriz revisit that full basket—not after a month, a quarter, or a year, but after a much better, truer timeframe for the Rule Breaker Investor: 10 years. To the very day.Which stocks did David get really right? Which ones really wrong?
Let’s Talk About the Future in 2026 with Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly—founding editor of Wired magazine and a lifelong observer of technology in motion—returns to Rule Breaker Investing for a conversation about how the future actually shows up. We don’t trade in predictions here. Instead, Kevin shares ways of noticing long arcs, understanding why certain platforms and ideas compound, and staying optimistic without getting swept up in hype. From AI workin
January 2026 Mailbag: Values, Kids, Games & Inspiration
This week’s Rule Breaker Investing Mailbag brings together beautiful questions and stories to start the new year. We wrestle with a values-alignment dilemma around owning Robinhood, explore what it looks like to turn investing into a real, score-kept game for kids (including outperforming Dad), consider a mischievous strategy for the Market Cap Game Show, and close with an inspiring note from a re
Calculating Risk Foolishly, Vol. 4: ETSY v. DUOL
Risk gets talked about a lot in investing—and often defined poorly. This week on Rule Breaker Investing, David is joined by Motley Fool analysts Alicia Alfiere and Yasser El-Shimy to walk through his full 25-point risk rating system, a framework he’s used for more than a decade to replace vague labels like “medium risk” with something concrete and measurable. Using Etsy and Duolingo as live 2026 c
Healing Leaders: An Inside-Out Path to Better Decisions
This week on Rule Breaker Investing, David is joined by Raj Sisodia and Nilima Bhat, co-authors of Healing Leaders, for a conversation about leadership burnout, meaning, and why wholeness may be a strategic advantage. Rather than treating healing as a “soft” idea, Raj and Nilima walk through the book’s seven steps and explore how inner state shapes judgment, patience, courage, and long-term thinki
Essays From Yesterday, Vol. 8
As we open 2026, David looks backward to get clearer about what really matters going forward. In the eighth installment of Essays From Yesterday, he revisits four Rule Breaker essays written between 2006 and 2014—spanning market sell-offs, forgotten drawdowns, early buyouts, language that shapes behavior, and the enduring power of mindset. Along the way, we’re reminded that sharp declines happen m
December 2025 Mailbag: “Am I a Fool?”
It’s the final Rule Breaker Investing podcast of 2025, and the year ends as it always does—with your Mailbag. David shares his annual year-forward market call, then works through listener notes that capture the heart of the Foolish journey. We hear from a father investing alongside his seven-year-old son, an investor who audited his own selling history and discovered just how early he’d stepped of
Market Cap Game Show: Bubble Wrap & Sidewalk Robots
It’s time once again for the Market Cap Game Show Holiday Edition, where intuition meets valuation and everyday life meets market caps. Bill Barker and Matt Argersinger take the stage, vying for the final spot in our 2026 March Market Cap Madness World Championships, as they test their mettle—and yours—across ten public companies. From Bubble Wrap and sidewalk robots to semiconductors, ski resorts
The Besties of 2025
t’s the 50th week of the year, which means it’s time once again for the Besties—a celebration of the episodes that educated, amused, and enriched us most in 2025. David highlights ten standout episodes from this year, revisiting the ideas, stories, and lessons that lingered long after the microphones were off. And all of the voices behind those moments return for brief cameos, reflecting on the ye
Old, New, Borrowed & Blue, Vol. 10
This week, David returns to one of his favorite flexible formats: Old, New, Borrowed, Blue. In this tenth volume, he brings back a few personal lifehacks, peeves, and perks from past episodes; introduces a new financial holiday—“National Share Day”—imagining a country where every American becomes an owner; borrows a passage from his free downloadable book chapter to explore how AI may (or may not)
Games, Games, Games, Vol. 7
It’s that time of year again—our annual tabletop gift guide returns with Games, Games, Games, Vol. 7. From family-friendly favorites to rich, strategic adventures, David shares five “in case you missed it” classics and then moves through a curated list of 12 games, arranged from lightest to heaviest. Expect quick, joyful picks like Wavelength and Dorfromantik, followed by deeper journeys into titl
November 2025 Mailbag: Be a FOR Person
As November comes to a close and Thanksgiving arrives, our Mailbag is brimming! From Gratitude Challenge triumphs to a brand-new five-stock sampler, from Winter Soldier fortitude to navigating concentrated positions, inheritance questions, regrets, and remarkable investing wins—this month’s notes run deep and wide. David is joined by Andy Cross and Robert Brokamp to explore strategies for retireme
Extra: Funding the Future with Gooding
David is joined by George Khalaf, executive director of the Fool Community Foundation, for a special Weekend Extra featuring Gooding — musician, storyteller, and founder of Funding the Future. Together they explore Gooding’s mission to reach young people across America with dynamic, music-driven performances that make financial literacy not just understandable, but unforgettable. From inspiring st
Gratitude: 2025
As the final months of 2025 ebb away, it is time once again to pause, reflect, and openly acknowledge the gratitude we feel. From great companies that make great stocks possible, to the unifiers who build bridges instead of walls, to the quiet power of candles and the people who share their flame — this episode celebrates them all. David even offers five simple ways you can build a bridge in your
10 Years Later: 5 Lesser Known Rule Breakers
We’re back with the second episode of a new series—10 Years Later—where we blast through time to peek in on a 5-Stock Sampler from 10 years in the past, then zoom back to the present to see what really happened. On the marquee today are 5 Lesser Known Rule Breakers (from 11/11/2015) that feature a company providing commercial kitchen solutions, a few big name changes, a couple of even bigger acqui
Great Quotes, Vol. 21: The Primary Pull is the Vision
In this 21st installment of one of our longest-running series, David shares five insightful quotes—really more like passages this time—particularly aimed at business and entrepreneurs. Whether it’s making your vision manifest, providing genuine help for free, or choosing the better story when faced with a decision, this episode offers food for thought on visualizing your goals, deepening your cust
October 2025 Mailbag: Add Up, Don’t Double Down
From Diwali’s lights in India to a “spiffy-drop” on Netflix, this Mailbag travels widely and thinks deeply. A listener celebrates the Rule Breaker habit of lighting candles, not fanning flames, while others ask how to “Add Up, Don’t Double Down” in practice, what makes a business cyclical, and how to think about price momentum. Plus, a 67-year-old Fool goes all-in, a Boilermaker misses Investor Is
Financial Horror Stories Vol. 4, Grave Financial Robbing
By the pricking of my thumbs, something SPOOKY this way comes. That icy chill in the air tells us that it’s that season again. It’s that time of year when Robert Brokamp brings his ghoulishly chilling tales of frightful scams, legal guillotines, and savings depleting poltergeists. But, along with every tale of fright, comes a lesson and a warning, to help you beware these dark and malevolent pitfa
Stock Stories, Vol. 11: Silicon, Supply Chains & Spicy Wings
Every stock tells a story. This week we gather around the campfire for five fresh tales—from silicon driving the AI era to supply-chain software that keeps retail humming, from a Latin American marketplace that became a fintech/logistics flywheel to a spicy franchiser scaling flavor by the bucket… and a legendary spiffy-pop that still makes us smile. Expect lessons in patience, optionality, moats—
9 Foolish Truths I Hold to Be Self-Evident: 2025
Today is that day—once every two years—when this podcast goes back to basics and we restate and recommit to the eternal verities David sees in business, in investing, and in Rule Breaker Investing. So put down those oars, join us aboard our sailboat, and let the winds guide you back toward these valuable core beliefs. Whether you’re well steeped in Foolishness or at the beginning stages of your in
Blast from the Past, Vol. 11: Character
David slips on his Fred Roger’s cardigan to revisit five valuable lessons, intertwined with the theme of “how to win in life.” Pulled from classic episodes spanning the last decade of weekly podcasts, David spotlights lessons that light candles—at a time when too many are busy fanning flames.
The five growth-minded blasts from the past:
Roy Spence on being a “For” Person
“Do you have a ___
September 2025 Mailbag: The House That Netflix Built
It’s a Mailbag of gratitude as the reviews are rolling in for David’s new book. A listener invests $100 for each of his daughters’ birthdays, positioning them for success in their financial futures, as another listener follows David’s advice: “Add up, don’t double down.” David also shares some Strat-o-matic memories and reminds us that the math is always against you when it comes to sports betting
Market Cap Game Show: Planes, Steaks & Automobiles
Welcome back to our quarterly Market Cap Game Show! Two past champions—Andy Cross and Yasser El-Shimy—take the stage to test their market-cap mettle (and yours) across ten public companies, vying for a spot in the 2026 March Market Cap Madness World Championships. From tech titans and international hotel brands to down home Texas fare and online car shopping, the matchups run from familiar to deli
Extra: Audiobook Sneak Peek—“After Yesterday”
A 5-minute listen from Chapter 3 of the Rule Breaker Investing audiobook, out September 16. In “After Yesterday,” David tells the CNBC story of a co-host stunned that he still liked cloud stocks—after yesterday—and why Rule Breaker investors don’t let yesterday’s tape write tomorrow’s script. Enjoy the excerpt, then share it with a friend who could use a smarter, happier, richer mindset.
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“Rule Breaker Investing” Highlight Reel
All year long we’ve opened each episode with a “Page Breaker Preview” sneak peek from David’s forthcoming book. Today, we’ve stitched those 35 snippets into a single, chronological highlight reel—a mini-audiobook that traces the arc of Rule Breaker Investing: from first principles and habits, through stock-picking traits and portfolio rules, to the capstone ideas that tie it all together. With lig
10 Years Later: 5 Stocks for the Next 5 Years
We’re launching a new series—10 Years Later—where we open a time capsule, revisit a 5-Stock Sampler on its 10th birthday, and see what really happened. First up is our original (9/2/2015) sampler, 5 Stocks for the Next 5 Years: a motley mix that spanned Latin American e-commerce, rural convenience, blockbuster gaming, frontline cybersecurity, and kitchen-tech roll-ups. Longtime Fool Rick Munarriz
August 2025 Mailbag: Sports Bettor Turned Investor
For summer’s final Mailbag, a listener shares how he dropped sports betting and picked up investing, while another wants to know how to allocate portfolios as a Rule Breaker. David brings back Motley Fool Chief Investment Officer, Andy Cross, to discuss tools for tracking your portfolio against the S&P 500, thinking briefly about dividend allocation, then answering the question, “If you were inves
Authors in August: “Rule Breaker Investing” with David Gardner & Chris Hill
To close out the 2025 Authors in August series, we flip the script—and the mic. Chris Hill, longtime Fool and creator of Motley Fool Money (and host of Money Unplugged) returns as guest host to grill David about his forthcoming book, “Rule Breaker Investing.”
David reveals his first-ever Rule Breaker stock (before he’d even coined the phrase), the inspiration for his discipline… he names names
Authors in August: “Talking On Eggshells” with Sam Horn
Continuing our eighth annual Authors in August series, David welcomes Sam Horn, renowned communications strategist and founder and CEO of the Intrigue Agency, based in Austin, Texas. Sam gamely plays a little book roulette. She starts by detailing how to nail a sixty-second pitch, then walks us through how to handle rude people, blamers, shamers, complainers, non-stop talkers, people who refuse to
Authors in August: Arthur Brooks’s “Happiness Files”
In this inaugural episode of our eighth annual Authors in August series, David welcomes back bestselling author, Harvard professor, and Atlantic columnist Arthur Brooks. Arthur brings along counterintuitive ideas about happiness as a habit, the difference between joy and happiness, public vs. anonymous philanthropy, and how the pursuit of money can sometimes… reduce freedom?! David and Arthur also
July 2025 Mailbag: Spiffy-Rocket-Pop
Grab the popcorn—this Mailbag goes well beyond beach talk. A listener uses Rule Breaker tactics, keeps adding as the stock climbs, and lands their first spiffy-pop. David retells the term’s origin and brings back analyst Yasser El-Shimy, whose original pick sparks a rocket-themed chat. Another listener feeds Keats’s “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” to AI for a Rule-Breaker remix full of wil
2025 Wimbledon Champion & Fool, Sem Verbeek
Fresh off of his mixed doubles title at Wimbledon, Sem Verbeek sits back down with David (three years later) to share his journey from professional tennis player, facing a career crossroads, to becoming a Wimbledon champion. He compares the similarities in mindset between tennis and financial strategies, and even turns the tables by becoming the interviewer, asking David some thought-provokingques
Five Idle Thoughts of a Summer’s Day, Vol. 2
As summer in the Northern Hemisphere kicks into second gear, David unveils the second volume in this episodic series. He explores the four types of capital, speaks to the importance of embracing good ol’ “R”eality, brings back an honest-to-goodness pet peeve, and unravels a spool of cool words that rhyme with “Fool.”Grab your lemonade, find a comfy spot in the shade, and join us under the summer s
Reviewapalooza 2025
We’re approaching the 10-year anniversary of the dawn of our 30 five-stock samplers, picked from 2015 to 2021. In this special episode, David reflects on the fully updated results, sharing 10 fresh lessons from both the wins and the whiffs. How’d we do? Discover the highs and lows, the reversals in just a year’s time… and the enduring principles of Rule Breaker Investing.
Companies Discussed: AXO
What You’ve Done to Create Financial Freedom, Vol. 3
Independence Week in the United States is the perfect time to explore financial freedom. This week’s podcast highlights nine key points leading to financial independence, featuring insights from Greek Philosophers, Rule Breaker listeners, and David himself. Rediscover Ask For a Raise Day and living below your means. Learn from listener stories about the importance of resilience, avoiding debt, mul
June 2025 Mailbag: Top Quantitative Traits for Rule Breaker Stocks
June brings us another motley mailbag, where your notes nudged David to share, among other things:
*his top quantitative traits for a great stock
*summary thoughts a few years later on Michael Hebb’s Let’s Talk About Death (over Dinner)
*consideration of a Peacock streaming road trip show with Fools that never happened
*a trip back in our time machine to see what was Amazon’s market cap in 1
Market Cap Game Show: “Boring Stocks… Eh?!”
The penultimate Wednesday of every quarter… it’s time again for the Market Cap Game Show! This time around, longtime Fool Jason Moser and podcast debutant Loren Horst step into the ring to guess (and second-guess) the value of some amazing (some of them amazingly boring) stocks. As always, you’re invited to play along at home: Can you beat our talented Foolish guest stars?
Companies Discussed:
A Fool for Life, with Rick Engdahl
Here's an experiment: Take a young artist with no interest in investing, no financial savvy, and a ton of debt, and then drop him into the deep end of Foolishness. Wait 25 years, and what do you get? A Fool for life! This week, producer Rick Engdahl comes to the other side of the glass to reflect on what he's learned from 10 years of RBI and a career at The Motley Fool.
Host: David Gardner
Gu
Mind Your PQ with Shirzad Chamine
This week our old friend Shirzad Chamine is back to remind us who we are and who we've always been. Embrace your superpowers and defeat your saboteurs, because you have everything you need to be happy right now!
Host: David Gardner
Guest: Shirzad Chamine
Producers: Rick Engdahl, Bart Shannon
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May 2025 Mailbag: More than a Marathon
Whether you're taking another lap around the sun, buying to hold for decades, or literally running for miles on end, life is more than a marathon. Where you come from matters. Where you're going matters more. How you'll get there? Well, as your mailbag contributions showcase, that's the fun part!
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Earning Attention with Seth Godin
AI, marketing, brand, creativity... just a few of the subjects that Seth Godin can talk about with eloquence and insight. This week the "Purple Cow" author is here with David and guest-host Andy Cross to shed light on what earns attention, transaction, and loyalty.
Hosts: David Gardner, Andy Cross
Guest: Seth Godin
Producer: Rick Engdahl
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What You Have Learned from David Gardner, Vol. 6
The best gifts are the ones that keep on giving, and that's what this episode is all about! Today's show highlights the things you've told us that you learned from David, called out and amplified to help us all navigate another challenging year. Now that's an awesome birthday present. Thanks!
Companies mentioned: AAPL, ACHR, AMZN, CMG, DIS, MELI, MSFT, NFLX, NVDA, ODFL, SHOP, TSLA
Host: Davi
Gotta Know The Lingo, Vol. 7
If knowledge is power, today's show will give you superpowers! Our all-Fool cast is here to help you understand some common and not-so-common investing terms, so that you can leap tall buildings, swing from a web, and more importantly, be better investors! Are we heroes? Are we zeros? Keep score and let us know.
Host: David Gardner Guests: Nick Sciple, Yasser El-Shimy, David Meier Producer: Rick
April 2025 Mailbag: Better Than it Seems
Tariffs, corruption, political posturing... it's no wonder that the market is crashing! But wait, is it? Back up that graph a bit and the market is still near all-time highs. In today's mailbag we strive to find happiness, maintain rational optimism, and see through the dark clouds plaguing the headlines. Plus, some tips on diversifying your portfolio, voting with your wallet, and challenging the
Extra: Boxing & Business with George Foreman
In remembrance of the life of George Foreman, we've gone back to the Motley Fool Radio Show vault to bring you this interview with the former heavyweight champion. From poverty to fame, sport to business, cattle to annuities, Foreman was fully invested in a life well-lived. A world-beater, a rule breaker, and by our measure, a true Fool.
Host: David Gardner Guest: Mac Greer Guests from the Vault:
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