The Fortunate FISHES Podcast

Charlie Garcia
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R360 Global's "Fortunate FISHES Podcast" offers viewers an exclusive look into the entrepreneurial journey of individuals who have achieved an ultra high net worth. We focus on wealth & business Insights, building financial communities, and legacy building for those who want to understand and achieve wealth. At R360, we see wealth as something much bigger than accumulating money. We see wealth as Financial, Intellectual, Social, Human, Emotional, and Spiritual capital - which spells FISHES. In this podcast we're going to showcase many fortunate FISHES, learn about their journey, and offer valuable lessons to our viewers who want to achieve their own success.

  1. 3D AGO

    Harvard's Best on AI, Space Investment, and the Search for Technological Markers | Avi Loeb - Part 2

    A Harvard department chair told Avi Loeb the job would consume 90% of his time. He did it in 20%—while holding two other leadership positions simultaneously. The difference wasn't talent. It was architecture. Loeb doesn't play by academia's rules. Tenure in three years. Founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative. Currently hunting for extraterrestrial technology while most scientists mock the question. His approach to leadership and science challenges everything the establishment holds sacred. The 30% Leadership Framework: → Think like an architect, not a manager—design direction, not tasks → Radical transparency eliminates friction and suspicion → Delegate authority by making people believe in the mission, not the hierarchy He ran three Harvard leadership positions plus chaired the National Academies board—all while protecting 70% of his time for actual research. His predecessor said it couldn't be done. The Players vs Commentators Distinction: → Science popularizers report on others' work—they cannot score goals → Practicing scientists can be wrong, but they can also discover → Commentators optimize for being liked; players optimize for truth On Mars Colonization: "It's a death sentence. Two rocks that happen to be nearby." His contrarian take: redirect $1 trillion annually from military budgets toward space platforms that actually sustain human life. The vision most billionaires won't articulate because it requires 50-year thinking. The man advising the Breakthrough Foundation's Starshot project and installing observatories on the Las Vegas Sphere isn't chasing popularity. He's chasing evidence—and structuring his life to maximize the probability of finding it. Subscribe for more insights from leaders redefining what it means to be truly wealthy. Interested in becoming a member of R360 Global? Visit our website: https://www.r360global.com/ Charlie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlespgarcia/ Charlie’s Substack: https://substack.com/@cpgarcia?  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortunatefishes/  X: https://x.com/R360FISHES "Message us"

    34 min

  2. JAN 11

    NASA Just Pushed a Narrative, This Is Not The Way Science Is Done | Avi Loeb Part 1

    Scientists spent $90 million over a decade searching for a "ghost particle" that doesn't exist. Nobody called it "nonsense on stilts." But when Avi Loeb, Harvard professor of science, Former Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, and Best Selling Author of 9 books, wrote one sentence suggesting an interstellar object might have technological origins, the journal editor demanded that he remove it. Avi Loeb has written over 1,000 scientific papers. He thinks differently than most scientists - and he's not apologizing for it. The Innovation Paradox in Academia: → Tenure is designed to enable risk-taking. Instead, it creates ego-driven echo chambers where professors train students to repeat their mantras. → When Loeb started in 1987, his mentor asked why he wasn't developing computer codes. He built a successful career by thinking differently instead. → A century ago, quantum mechanics pioneers were willing to overturn reality. Today, large committees produce regression to the mean. When NASA held a press conference on the interstellar object, they showed fuzzy images and delivered a narrative: "It's a comet." They didn't bring scientists who analyzed the data. They didn't mention any of the 13 anomalies Loeb had documented. His assessment: "This is not the way science is done." Meanwhile, his collaborators privately agree with him but won't speak publicly—they're terrified of being attacked. The senior scientists who should be taking risks use their platforms to keep the herd in line instead. The $2.4 Trillion Reallocation: → Global military budgets: $2.4 trillion annually → Loeb's proposal: Redirect a fraction toward planetary defense infrastructure → The trigger: Finding alien technology would force cooperation faster than any politician Books mentioned: - Extraterrestrial (Avi Loeb) - Interstellar (Avi Loeb) - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn) For founders who've learned that the biggest risk is often the consensus view. #HarvardAstronomy #AviLoeb #InterstellarObjects #SpaceExploration #ScientificInnovation #DisruptiveThinking #NASA #SETI #AlienLife #ParadigmShift #TechnoSignatures #SpaceInvestment #FutureOfHumanity #InnovationStrategy #ContrariansWin "Message us"

    42 min

  3. 12/18/2025

    "We Don't Hire From Resumes—We Mine For Sparkle" | Valerie Jensen, Part 2

    Most people see 80% unemployment among adults with disabilities and think "charity opportunity." Wrong. It's the largest untapped labor market in America—and the accommodations often cost under $250. Valerie Jensen built movie theaters and farms entirely staffed by people with autism. Not as social impact. As the best business model she could design. Her method: "Sparkle Mining"—watch what makes someone light up, build their role around it. For 20 years, this only worked because Valerie had rare intuition. AI changed everything. The Sparkle Mining Framework: → Don't interview—observe what captivates them → Build role around intrinsic motivation, not job description → Use AI to scale what previously required physical presence and deep individual knowledge → Small accommodations ($250) unlock disproportionate talent Real example: Farmer's market running late. Employee Rachel melting down over schedule change. Valerie uses ChatGPT to create intervention in Rachel's favorite character's voice. 60 seconds. Crisis averted, shift completed perfectly. What required Valerie's physical presence and years of relationship? Now teachable. Scalable. Charlie's parallel: Writing for 800K MarketWatch readers. Drowning in thoughtful emails requiring 20-minute responses. Solution: Stanford AI grad building custom agents trained on his voice and million sent emails. Not writing responses—drafting them. He edits instead of creating from scratch. 5 hours becomes 30 minutes. The Real AI Strategy: → Not replacing humans or automating empathy → Democratizing what required rare intuition → Augmenting the thing only YOU can do—then deploying it 10x more The Pattern: Top performers aren't using AI to do what everyone does faster. They're using it to do what only they could do—but at scale. That's where competitive moats get built. The companies dominating the next decade won't automate everything. They'll figure out which human capabilities to amplify. 80% unemployment = massive market inefficiency. What other massive inefficiencies are you missing? Books Referenced: Jack Reacher series (Lee Child) The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) For family office principals, impact investors, and operators building scalable systems around irreplaceable human talent. Subscribe for more insights from leaders redefining what it means to be truly wealthy. Interested in becoming a member of R360 Global? Visit our website: https://www.r360global.com/ Charlie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlespgarcia/ Charlie’s Substack: https://substack.com/@cpgarcia?  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortunatefishes/  X: https://x.com/R360FISHES #UHNWI #UltraHighNetWorth #FamilyOffice #ImpactInvesting #MarketInefficiency #CompetitiveAdvantage #ScalableImpact #HiddenMarkets #AIStrategy #SystemsThinking "Message us"

    37 min

  4. 12/16/2025

    "80% Unemployment Is Just Lazy Thinking" | Valerie Jensen Part 1

    Former second-grade teacher stops wrecking ball, builds theater employing 300+ people with disabilities, pays out $37M in wages, pivots entire workforce to maple syrup farm during COVID, attracts Ryan Reynolds, becomes top-grossing 4-screen theater in America. This isn't charity. This is execution. The conventional wisdom: people with disabilities need special accommodations, lowered expectations, sheltered workshops. Jensen's contrarian insight: the 80% unemployment rate is lazy thinking. The real problem is bad systems design. The Sparkle Mining Framework: → Find what people are passionate about (not what they "can" do) → Break every process into universal design steps → Write operating procedures for everything → Let people with Down syndrome teach college graduates Her pink hair wasn't self-expression—it was strategic. Employees with trauma saw blonde hair as "the man" or the cruel teacher. Pink hair made her a cartoon character they could trust. When she needed maple syrup operations during lockdown, she had the system to move 120 employees to outdoor work in weeks. On Building for Excellence: → Never wanted "greatest disability theater"—wanted greatest theater, period → Hired people with OCD and autism for cleaning (cleanest floors you've ever seen) → Ryan Reynolds insisted: start the John Candy documentary tour here → Good Morning America award: best movie theater in America The mission is the cherry on top. Excellence is the foundation. Most nonprofits get this backwards. Jensen built a business so good that billionaire celebrities choose it—then happened to employ people everyone else rejected. Now: popcorn factory (1,200 bags/hour), 400 hotels, vertical integration. From teacher stopping a wrecking ball to proving that "meaning at scale" isn't an oxymoron. For founders who think mission and excellence are mutually exclusive. Subscribe for more insights from leaders redefining what it means to be truly wealthy. Interested in becoming a member of R360 Global? Visit our website: https://www.r360global.com/ Charlie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlespgarcia/ Charlie’s Substack: https://substack.com/@cpgarcia?  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortunatefishes/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fortunatefishespodcast?lang=en X: https://x.com/R360FISHES #SystemsThinking #ExecutionExcellence #SocialEnterprise #MissionDrivenBusiness #ScalingImpact #UnconventionalWisdom  #BusinessModelInnovation #LegacyBuilding #MeaningfulWork #EntrepreneurialMindset #UHNWInsights  #PurposeDrivenLeadership #SystemsOverStories "Message us"

    49 min

  5. 12/02/2025

    I Ran 135 miles in 2 Days While In Prison | Charlie Engle

    Charlie Engel ran across the Sahara Desert. Then federal agents arrested him at his condo for signing a mortgage document—while billionaire CEOs who crashed the economy walked free. He served 21 months. What he built inside changed everything. Most people in minimum security hide. Charlie started running at 5 AM every day around the prison rec yard. An inmate named Pick and Roll told him "21 months isn't long enough to unpack your bags." Charlie realized something: his happiness was still entirely up to him. The Service Framework: → Started with one overweight ex-basketball player asking for help → Grew to 50 inmates running daily, 25 doing yoga three times weekly → One inmate lost 200 pounds—Charlie still sees former inmates at his Durham gym Here's what's different: Charlie wasn't trying to inspire anyone. He was trying to survive. But "attraction over promotion" works in prison the same way it works in business. Do your work. Be consistent. Let people come to you. Dead Sea to Everest (January 2027): → Free dive in the Dead Sea, human-powered journey to summit Everest → Four and a half months, conceived in prison in 2012 → "This time it's more Anthony Bourdain does adventure travel" At 64, Charlie's not chasing records anymore. He's chasing meaning. After $10M (or after federal prison), the game changes. It's not about proving you can do hard things—it's about what hard things reveal about who you are. Books mentioned: Running Man (Charlie Engel's memoir) For entrepreneurs who know that voluntary suffering builds something comfort never will. #CharlieEngel #UltraEndurance #Resilience #EntrepreneurMindset #FederalPrison #DeadSeaToEverest #VoluntarySuffering #LeadershipLessons #Longevity #HumanPerformance #ServiceLeadership #MentalToughness #SecondAct #AthleteOver60 #FounderMindset "Message us"

    34 min

  6. 12/02/2025

    Two Marathons a Day Across the Sahara Desert | Charlie Engle - Part 1

    Charlie Engel ran 4,300 miles across the Sahara Desert in 140-degree heat, sinking sand, and sandstorms—two marathons per day for 111 days. But the running wasn't the hard part. The hard part was unlearning everything he thought resilience meant. Most entrepreneurs think resilience comes from pushing harder. Charlie discovered it comes from detachment from outcomes while maintaining relentless forward motion. The Day-By-Day Framework: → Week one almost killed the expedition—support vehicles quit, team ran out of water twice, producers threatened to pull the plug → Day eight shift: stopped focusing on 4,300 miles ahead, focused only on the marathon in front of him → Result: raised $6M, landed Matt Damon as producer with the worst pitch in history (20 minutes late, 10-minute rambling presentation) Here's what Charlie understood that most don't: his addictive personality wasn't the enemy. It was his competitive advantage. The same obsessive drive that destroyed his college basketball career and led to six-day crack binges became the exact trait that let him run 145 miles in 24 hours. The Voluntary Suffering System: → You can't teach resilience—you can only build it through deliberate discomfort → Hard moments pass faster than hard times if you let them → Self-punishment vs. channeling obsession: know the difference After the Sahara came federal prison for mortgage fraud. After prison came breaking the Death Valley Cup record. The pattern: resilience isn't about avoiding failure. It's about knowing you'll get up the next day regardless. The ultimate question Zig Ziglar taught him: "The sale doesn't begin until you hear the word no." Applied to life: growth doesn't begin until you choose voluntary suffering. Subscribe for more insights from leaders redefining what it means to be truly wealthy. Interested in becoming a member of R360 Global? Visit our website: https://www.r360global.com/ Charlie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlespgarcia/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortunatefishes/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fortunatefishespodcast?lang=en X: https://x.com/R360FISHES "Message us"

    53 min

  7. 11/20/2025

    If They Only Manage Money, Fire Them | James Bogart - Part 2

    Most wealth advisors gatekeep content and charge for advice. James Bogart built a $100M+ practice doing the opposite—giving everything away for free.  When COVID killed his dinner seminars, he went digital. First Zoom: 397 attendees. Within months: 100 new leads per week. The contrarian bet paid off. The strategy wasn't generosity—it was game theory. No payment means no conflict. Free content creates relationships at scale. Digital compounds like interest. The Free Content Flywheel: → Create educational content without gates → Distribute across multiple channels (webinars, podcasts, social) → Let quality self-select your ideal clients → Scale faster than hand-to-hand combat ever could Here's what separates this from typical advisor thinking: He tells prospects to buy index funds if they only want money management. The real value isn't portfolio returns—it's tax integration, account structure, and behavioral accountability. A mid-level Exxon manager who lived below their means accumulated more wealth than company presidents. The how matters more than the how much. The Three Account Framework: → After-tax: Flexibility, tax-inefficient growth → Pre-tax (401k/IRA): Deferred tax, mandatory distributions at 73 → Roth: Tax-free growth forever if structured correctly Most people optimize the wrong variables. They chase returns when tax strategy compounds harder. They hire for comfort when they need challenge. They wait to get advice when setup matters most. Books mentioned: Good to Great (Jim Collins) Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell) Various Rick Edelman financial literacy books The Little Red Book of Selling (Jeffrey Gitomer) For entrepreneurs scaling service businesses and families optimizing wealth transfer. Subscribe for more insights from leaders redefining what it means to be truly wealthy. Learn more at r360global.com Charlie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlespgarcia/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortunatefishes/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fortunatefishespodcast?lang=en X: https://x.com/R360FISHES #leadership #leadership #investing  #businesspodcast #businessgrowth #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #businesssuccess #millionaire #wealthbuilding "Message us"

    47 min

  8. 11/11/2025

    Create Value, You'll Never Have to Sell | James Bogart - Part1

    Most wealth advisors chase clients. James Bogart turned 60-80 retirees into evangelists by giving away everything for free—then asked them not to keep him a secret. The result: $600M to $3B in assets under management. Zero M&A. Pure referrals. The insight: Fortune 500 employees with pensions are vastly uneducated about net unrealized depreciation, mega backdoor Roth strategies, and pension-to-401k transitions. Bogart became the expert HR departments wish they had—then gave that expertise away in educational dinners twice a month. The Teaching-First Framework: → Educate before you ask for business → Master one niche deeper than anyone (including HR) → Set expectations upfront: "Don't keep us a secret" Here's the uncomfortable part: He bought out his father during the pandemic, took his net worth negative, and built it all back during the most uncertain period imaginable. His answer to "how did you get through?" isn't inspiration, it's desperation. "I missed when I didn't have a choice." On family business: → Don't do it—unless you can separate personal from professional → Invest in your kids starting their own thing instead → Structure governance from day one Books mentioned: Value Creation Kid (teaching kids entrepreneurship early) For advisors stuck at $500M wondering why referrals dried up. For entrepreneurs who think giving away value means leaving money on the table. For anyone who needs proof that education scales better than salesmanship. Subscribe for more insights from leaders redefining what it means to be truly wealthy. Learn more at r360global.com Charlie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlespgarcia/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortunatefishes/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fortunatefishespodcast?lang=en X: https://x.com/R360FISHES "Message us"

    54 min
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R360 Global's "Fortunate FISHES Podcast" offers viewers an exclusive look into the entrepreneurial journey of individuals who have achieved an ultra high net worth. We focus on wealth & business Insights, building financial communities, and legacy building for those who want to understand and achieve wealth. At R360, we see wealth as something much bigger than accumulating money. We see wealth as Financial, Intellectual, Social, Human, Emotional, and Spiritual capital - which spells FISHES. In this podcast we're going to showcase many fortunate FISHES, learn about their journey, and offer valuable lessons to our viewers who want to achieve their own success.

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  • Creator
    Charlie Garcia
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    28
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Fortunate FISHES Podcast
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