From Detroit’s Streets to Stock Market Success: Jason Brown’s Rise
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Welcome to Mick Unplugged, where we ignite potential and fuel purpose. Get ready for raw insights, bold moves and game changing conversations. Buckle up. Here's Mick. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged. And today's guest is a seasoned stock market coach who transformed a ten thousand dollar student loan into a six figure portfolio in under a year.

As the founder of the Brown Report and Power Trade University, he has dedicated over 15 years to demystifying stock trading for the everyday investor. Get ready for an enlightening conversation with the insightful, the empowering, the transformative Detroit's own What Up Doe, Jason Brown. Jason, what's going on, brother? Mick, glad to be here. I'm surprised you knew the What Up Doe. See, I had this conversation with Marcus Collins, man, like...

There's four places where you know where everybody's from.

In New York, you know by the accent, right? Like, you hear that. People from Baltimore have a weird accent, so you understand that. Everybody that I know from Detroit starts a conversation with, what up, though? What up, though? And then people from California, you never have to guess because they're just going to tell you. So, brother, I am honored to have you on the podcast, man. I was telling you offline, huge fan of the work that you're doing.

I'm one of the subscribers to your Instagram or to your YouTube channel, and I take tips and tricks on a weekly basis from you. So I wanted to thank you just for what you're doing. I know you have paid services, but I want to thank you for what you're doing for free. I appreciate that. Yeah, I believe that.

You should at least get a taste of the information and the way that a person teaches without having to pay them. And I know when I first got started, I was just scouring all kinds of videos trying to look for information. So now that I'm in a place to give back and teach that information, I like to make sure there's a platform where people can at least get started and feel comfortable before they even put a dollar up. And that was that was YouTube for me.

Absolutely. Absolutely, man. So I opened this introduction with talking about you taking a $10,000 student loan and turning it into a six figure portfolio. How? What did Jason do? Like, how did that happen? Where was the the the mindset to even know that you could do that? I want to start with that journey, brother.

Absolutely. So that's like the pinnacle of one of the stories. And so I think it's important for listeners to understand the story behind the story. And so growing up, a poor single family home in Detroit, Michigan, my mother raised two young boys and we had bars on the window. I actually never had a bed growing up until like later on in life. But when I was little, we used to sleep with sleeping bags. And so I didn't really realize we were poor until we went to my friend's house and he had a bed.

And I remember telling him, I was like, wow, you have a bed. And he's kind of looked at me like, of course I got a bed. And I was like, well, I thought beds was for grownups because you only need a good night's sleep when you got to go to work and make money. That's when I was like, well, maybe we just pour.

And he had parents. So I'm like, well, maybe that's why he can afford the bed. The reason I'm sharing that was that was my early introduction to starting to realize like there was a difference in money and having it not happen. Because where we from, everybody had bars on their window. And so I just thought that was normal. I thought everybody, every kid slept in sleeping bags. So from an early age, then I started becoming even more aware when I would see TVs on radio.

I mean, houses on TV that didn't have bars. I'm like, well, where are those neighborhoods at? And it was typically California. We watching Beverly Hills, 90210 and those high school shows. And so, um,

Basically, I started to ask myself, how do we get out of this situation? How can we have bars on our window? How come we don't have a bed? I got real interested in money. Where I'm from, if you graduate from high school and you didn't sell dope, you didn't get locked up, you didn't get a girl pregnant, you didn't get killed, by the way, that was a big thing. At 18, in our neighborhood, we have these big parties when you graduate high school as if you got a college degree.

And at these parties or these like you made it, you didn't get someone pregnant, you didn't kill someone, you didn't, you know, get locked up. People would give you money like that was it. If they got you through to high school, like that was an accomplishment. And so I got two thousand dollars from my high school graduation. And so I took that two thousand dollars and I would hear people say, well, you want to be rich, you got to invest in the stock market. I started researching what do people

people that don't look like me, specifically white people, how they make money. It was always talking about the stock market. So nobody in my circle was in the stock market.

I took the $2,000. I went down to a well-known bank. I tell the girl, I want to be rich. I mean, I said, I want to invest. She said, why? She has some two questions. She was like, so you want aggressive funds, right? And I was like, yeah, I'm 18. I need aggressive growth. And she's like, well, what's your goal? I was like, I want to be rich. Like, why else do people invest? I'm not thinking people invest for retirement. They invest for, I'm just, I'm like, if I get rich, that take care of retirement, mobile home, vacation home, it takes care of everything. So I'm like, I just want to be rich.

I gave her the $2,000. I come back two years, I'm 18. I come back about two, two and a half years later, I'm 21. And I'm like, how's my investment going? I'm thinking, this is great. It's going to be at $6,000, $7,000. It was down to $700. Wow. And so I asked the lady, I said, well, what happened? That was my life savings. Like, I'm not about to graduate high school again. So I don't know where I'm going to get $2,000 from. And she just kind of looked at me like, I don't know what to tell you. And so I...

I said, I thought the professionals don't lose money. And she like market goes up, it goes down. I said, give me my $700.

I can do this myself. I could have lost my own money. At least I would have known why I lost it. Cause I didn't even know how they lost it. I just handed it over. No explanation. Just yeah. And it just disappeared. Right. And so that was the beginning for me. So what happened, Mick was I was making $8 an hour selling cell phones for sprint PCS. I'm that guy in Best Buy or you're going to Costco, Sam's. Cause they're like, who's your cell phone provider? Well, that was me. I was like 20, 21 years old. And so, um,

I did what most people do. I spent $200 on some gym shoes to make me feel better. I bought some Jordans. So I had $500 left. I was like, man, if I can make $50, because after making $8 an hour, $64 on a Saturday, you take taxes out. I'm left with $50. I've been working Saturdays since I was 16 in retail. I worked for McDonald's. I worked for Mervin's. I worked for Best Buy. I worked for Sprint, PCS, Southern Fund. I'm always working retail. I'm finally like

if I could just take a Saturday off and not lose pay, that would be like amazing. So I got 500 bucks. I'm like, if I can make 10%, that's $50. I can take one of these Saturdays off. And then I said, if I could do that once a week, then I could take a whole month of Saturdays off. So I bought Sprint Stock at $5 a share. Sprint Stock fell down to four. I was like, oh man, this doesn't work. Maybe I'm not as smart as I thought I was. Sprint Stock went back up to $5. I'm like, okay, let's go to 550.

It fell back down to four. I'm like the stock market rig. It's a setup. It's a scam. That's why they asked for my social security number. They know I needed to go to 550. They won't let it go to 550. Stock went back up to $5, Mick. And I said, I've seen this before. I got out at $5 and broke even. It fell down to four. I got in and went back up to five. I made my first $100.

I didn't know that at the time that was called a channeling stock. And so I started like, well, what other patterns out there exist that I don't know about? I got really good at studying the stock market, spent countless hours studying these patterns. Then I get really good at flipping my $500. I made my first hundred, like I just told you about. I started making two, 300 bucks. And then I was like, wow, if I had a thousand dollars, I mean, I would have made 200. I was like, if I had $10,000, I was like, oh my gosh, I'd be rich. Right. Right. And so-

I read books like Rich Dad Poor Dad, and one of the things he said in the book was, if you know the story, when the kids went to work for the daddy, he wanted y'all to work for free. They're like, you want us to work for free? He's like, by not paying you, you'll see money around you that would have before gone unnoticed. So for me, I was like, how am I going to get $10,000? Me and my cousin went to all our family. My cousin was trading too.

We were going to our family members like, hey, can 10 people give us $1,000? We're trying to raise $10,000. Nobody wanted to do it. I had saw my friends get, so I had a scholarship to the Mike Ewing School of Business, Wayne State University here in Detroit, Michigan. So full circle to your question, how did I get to the $10,000?

I saw my friends getting their student loan refund checks and they were partying, they were shopping, doing all this stuff. I went and talked to my financial advisor and said, hey, I got a scholarship, but I know we poor enough to qualify for financial aid. So what would happen if I qualify for financial aid? He said, well, your scholarship would pay books and tuition first. And since it doesn't cover room and board, you can use it to move on campus. You can use it for living expenses if you just want to go to school full time, whatever you want to use it for. So I'm like, I use it for whatever I want. Like, yeah, you'll get a refund check.

That was the light bulb moment for me. I was like, I'm taking the refund check and I'm putting it into the stock market. So that's how I got

the $10,000. And I know people will be like, well, isn't that risky? It's not risky because I had got so good at doing it with my $500 that I was just doing the same thing with a little bit more money. And so when I put that $10,000 in there as a 21 year old college student, I grew my trading account to over a hundred thousand dollars. So that's, that's the full circle of how that $10,000 student loan turned into a six figure trading account. In less than a year. In less than a year. That's wild.

I applaud you for that. You know, I'm picking up a lot of things, Jason. I mean, again, I've followed you on YouTube for a long time, but hearing this story, you know, I'm seeing the studying habits, right? I'm seeing the, hey, let me not be impulsive. Let me see what's going on. After you were impulsive first, right? You were impulsive and it didn't get you anywhere. And then you said, wait, I need to research. I need to truly understand. And then what I love about it is you took action.

Right. Because a lot of people, not even a lot, most people, the reason they're not successful when they try to trade on their own is they get very impatient and they get that one downturn and it's over.

right? But, but you were disciplined. And I love the fact that that was you. Where did that discipline come from? Toyota has been building a legacy of excellence for generations from pioneering hybrid technology to redefining the standards of safety and efficiency. Toyota is always innovating, always making progress. And,

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When did you realize that you were a disciplined researcher, a disciplined person? You know, I look back. I don't think I knew until, you know, you don't really know until you look back over your life. But as I look back over my life, I was always different. You know, I was in a gang here in Detroit, Michigan. And I remember when

kind of like when report cards came out, all the gang members, we'd be like, what'd you get on your report card? Like, I got three Fs and two Ds and an incomplete. It's like, what'd you get? I got four Fs and two extra Ds, right? And they was like, Jay, what'd you get? And I was like, y'all don't want to know what I got on my report card because I had like four As, two Bs, and like one C. Because I'm like, look, I'm getting up out of here someday. I ain't trying to be running these streets with y'all. And so even back then, I was disciplined because I always knew like,

That wasn't the lifestyle that I wanted. And even when I worked retail, a new level of discipline kicked in because it's like, I know I don't want to work retail all my life. No disrespect to anybody who works retail. I just knew I didn't want to stand on my feet every Saturday selling cell phones all the holiday seasons. And so I look back on different points in my life. I think that discipline always came from knowing that I wanted more and wanted something other.

other than what I currently had. And I knew that I would have to do something different or different than the people around me to get that success or to get to the levels that I wanted to get to. And now that I look back, I'm like, oh, you know, a little bit of that was discipline, a little bit was vision. And a whole lot of that was my mother praying. A lot of that was mom praying for sure. So I want to go back and unplug something, man.

I didn't know Jason Brown was in a gang. So let's talk about I don't even need to know why or how. Right. Like that's pretty much going to be understood. But what I want to talk about is in kind of the theme of Mick Unplugged is your because that thing that's deeper than your why. Right. What was your because? What was your purpose?

of leaving the gang and then staying away from the game? Because to me, that's the hard part, right? It's yeah, you can you can say, all right, this is this is not me. And then two weeks later, it's like, I got no money. I got to go back to doing what I was doing. What was your because what was your purpose of of saying I'm out and I'm staying out?

You know, my purpose was my mom. My mom. I don't think I've told this story anywhere else, but I had like an ounce of weed. And my mom was like, I got to talk to you when you get home. And I don't know why, but I'm like, she found the weed. Because I was selling weed. We were selling drugs. I'm like, damn, she found it, right? I just knew. She didn't tell me what it was. She's like, I got to talk to you when I get home. I was like, she found the weed, right?

And I ended up getting home before I took the weed, gave it to my friend. I just knew. I mean, mama, she didn't whoop me or anything like that. You know what I mean? I'm not grown. I'm like 13, which is even weird to be selling weed at 13. But again, we, I even think like the guy who sold us an ounce to break down and said like, what was he thinking? Some 13 year olds, an ounce to break down, but okay. So when my mom found that I was 13, I think it's eighth grade, seventh or eighth grade in, uh,

Just how hurt she was. And I remember how hurt she was when she found that she like, this is not us. This is not how I raised you. I told her at the time, I'm like, mom, I was holding it for somebody. It wasn't mine. My mom passed away last year. But, you know, I so I end up giving the weed to my boss. Like, you can sell it, do whatever. Like, I'm kind of done with that. And then even with the gang, I was just like, I was just like, man, you know, my cousin was the leader of a gang. And I'll never forget what my cousin said.

they went to do like some dirt. You know, I don't want to say what they went to go do, but I'm talking, you know, stuff that ends up on the news. And I'm like, okay, we riding out tonight. And I never forget. My cousin was like, she passed away since, uh, as well. But my cousin was like, no, not like you got to stay back. And she was like,

we need you to go on and become a lawyer or something so you can get us out of, out of prison. And I, you know, like at the time I'm like, no, I'm down. This the hood. We, but I look back and I was like, wow, like they saw something more in me than I saw myself. And I remember when she said like, no, you can't go with us. By the way. Yes. My cousin was a female leader of a game and they told me stay back. And I did, you know, they went, but I, I,

Like, even though I was in the gang, they would never let me do something that would, like, compromise my future, you know? And when I look back, I just was like, man, my mom, my family, it was like there was always something where it was like you meant for a little bit more than what this path has for you. And...

There's a part of me that just wanted to prove them right. You know, I remember saying that on my own podcast, I remember once saying like, I will be the best investment my mother has made because my mom's from Mississippi. She grew up in slavery times. They grew up picking cotton. My dad passed when I was two in a car accident. And I was like, my mom didn't have a lot of money. She didn't know about the stock market. I was like, but she did one thing right. She had me.

And so, you know, when I was 13 and I broke her down for selling drugs, I just I just never wanted to disappoint. I was like, I want to make sure I'm the best investment that my mom has made. And so that's like my driving force. I'm getting emotional even thinking about it. Man, that's that's wonderful. And here's what I'm going to tell you, man, like your mom, your cousin, everybody's looking down, smiling, man, because not only have you made them proud.

You've changed the legacy of the family. And I want you to know that, man. Like if there's one thing that Jason Brown should be proud of is you created the legacy, man. Like you personally changed the trajectory of your family. And I don't know if you know that, Jay, but I'm freaking proud of you too, bro. Like not even knowing that full story, it makes me that much more proud of you because changing family legacies, breaking curses, showing new paths,

is what we all should be destined for. And you've actually done it, man. So everybody's freaking proud of you, dude. I appreciate that. Yeah, man. You're about to make me cry in the pocket. I'm here for it, man. I got a big shoulder you can lean on. I got you, brother. Virtual shoulder. But, you know, one of the things...

That I love about your YouTube channel. Again, you break down and give a bunch of information. I'm a huge fan. And so I don't want to give it away. I want you to talk about it, man. Like one of your latest segments is six words that changed your life. Jason Brown, what were those six words and how can people use those six words to change their lives too? Okay.

Oh, man, that's another one that, man, you got all emotional stuff bubbling up. Let's go, Jay. You know, that was my cousin who...

you know uh you know just that episode was deep to me because you know i had dropped out of school most people don't know that when i had made six figures in the stock market i'm like what am i gonna go back to school for i'm making more money than you want the game was over yeah i'm like i'm richer than anybody with a degree at 21 i'm just going to be an engineer i'm like engineers making like 80 000 i'm like i made over 100 000 not working so i dropped out of school and um

What most people don't know, too, is I ran that account up to about $300,000, moved out to the suburbs, partied for a couple of years, all that stuff, bought a Lexus. And then year three, I'm like 25.

I actually risked a quarter million dollars trying to make half a million dollars. I lost it all. So I'm flat broke. I have to move back to the hood in Detroit, back to the house with bars on and back in with my mom, which is very humble point in my life. And so it comes full circle to you saying, what were those six words? At that time, I said, I got to do it. Only I know what to do is go back and get a job. And so I got a job at Verizon Wireless selling cell phones.

And I was like, all right, I'm going to base my lifestyle off the hourly and I'm going to use my commission checks to get back into the stock market. And at the time they had tuition reimbursement because, mind you, I dropped out of school, so I'm not eligible for any scholarships and stuff like that again. And so they had tuition reimbursement. So I'm working full time. I'm going to school. I'm trying to invest and build myself back up.

And, you know, my my pseudo senior year, I guess, like my second time being a senior in college going part time this time because I switched to finance from engineers. I switched majors. I'm like, no, I know what I want to be. It was just a really tough time going to school, battling living back at home, being broke after living high for so long.

My cousin calls me. I'm sitting in the driveway. Well, we didn't have a driveway. I'm sitting in front of the house. And my cousin called me. She's like, how you doing? And I just vented. I'm like, I'm tired of school. I think I'm going to drop out. I don't need a degree anyway with where I'm going. I just was just tired. And I was fatigued. And the sixth worst was, she was just like, boy, it ain't even about you.

So that's what my cousin said to me. And I said, boy, it ain't even about you. And she said, you don't know what young black man, what person from that neighborhood need to see you finish, need to see you get the degree so that, you know, you can inspire them and get them hope that they can do it. And for the first time, I was just like,

You know, I don't know. I thought she was going to be like, it's okay. Or like, take a break if you need to. She was like, boy, it ain't even about you. You better finish that. You know, she like, I just, it shocked my system. Cause that's not what I was expecting. Sympathy and all this and that. And,

She just said, boy, it ain't even about you. And those words really resonated with me. They stick with me to this day when I want to quit or I'm tired or I don't feel like shooting a video or doing a podcast. I'm like, it ain't even about you. You don't know who go hear this, see this. That's going to get inspired. That's go push them to keep going. When I lose money, if you look at my channel, I only talk about when I make money. I got videos like I lost $50,000. I lost $100,000 because if you don't talk about that stuff,

somebody thinks you just come on and hit home runs every time you press the button. He just probably has the Midas touch. All he does is make money. And I'm like, no, I'll lose money too. And I put that stuff out there because I remember my cousin. It ain't about me. It ain't about my ego. And I'm such a good trader. It's like, I lose money too. Sometimes I doubt myself too. Sometimes I'm not sure when I wake up every day, if I still can do this or got it. And so, um,

Those were the six words that changed my life. And I just think about it in everything that I do, even with writing the book that I have coming out. I'm like, I got here. It's tough writing the book. If you've never written the book, I got to some points where I was just like, do I really need to publish a book? It's like, boy, it ain't even about you. You need to publish this book. And so I take that those six words with me into a lot of lessons in life that

Sometimes it's not about you. It's about the next generation. It's about the person on the other end of these, the microphone and the person on the other end of these headphones. Listen to this, that you're going to impact that goes far and beyond, you know, you and yourself and your personal benefit. Totally agree. I tell leaders that same thing all the time when I'm doing my leadership development or leadership consultations with people as a leader. It's not about you.

Right. And I think that's one of the biggest challenges that most entrepreneurs have, CEOs have, is that they're focused on them and their vision. And I'm not saying that's not important, but it's not about you. Like if you don't have the right support team around you, if you don't have the right leaders that are doing their job, if you're not allowing your people to groom and be themselves.

you're never going to be as far as you want to go. And then for the influencers, the podcasters out there, everything you should be doing should be for your listeners or you're never going to grow. And so that's why I totally was in alignment with that statement. And then before we get to the book, there's another one. That's my favorite of yours. And I forget the title, but this was the message. And it's the difference between getting to a million and

versus being a millionaire. It's two different mindsets, right? And so I want to hear your breakdown of that, like the difference of getting to a million versus being a millionaire by Jason Brown.

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Yeah, it's, you know, so I think it's important to understand the reason I talk about my titles are like that. These are stuff that's just going on in my life. I'm just sharing my life. It's not stuff like I read in the book and I'm like, this should go viral. This is stuff I went through in my life. And what I realized was, you know, I'm in the stocks and options trading.

But I realize it's much more than that. And if you don't have the right mindset, you'll never be successful trading stocks and options, just like you want to be successful in real estate or podcasting, because it's a mindset, the energy, a consistency, a commitment that goes with it. And a lot of times all we talk about is the craft.

Look at a stock, look at a chart, press the button, buy here. But it's like, there's a mindset that you got to master before you can even press the button. You got fear, you got greed, you got worthiness. Can I do this? Do I believe in myself? Who am I to be an investor? Am I smart enough? It's all that stuff. And so in that episode,

I had always wanted to make a million dollars, but it wasn't until I became a millionaire that I made a million dollars. And I don't mean I became a millionaire, even though I've hit millionaire status and done that several times. It wasn't until I became a millionaire right here that I actually made a million dollars. And so the difference between making a million dollars and becoming a millionaire is the simplest way I can put that episode is

Think about anybody who's a lottery winner, a high school football player or basketball player or some type of sport that gets drafted. They instantly make a million dollars. But how come some of them or majority of them go on to blow the money, lose the money, get on drugs, hookers, you know, all the things they talk about, all the bad business deals that they invest in there because they made a million dollars, but they never became a millionaire. Right.

And becoming a millionaire means you know how to manage the money. You know how to make it back if you lose it. You know how to evaluate a good or a bad business deal. You know how to evaluate your investment. You're not just pawning that off on your agent or your financial manager. And so that was me. It was like...

I don't really have a fear of money because I, I'm the millionaire, not my bank account. The bank account just adds up the X's and O's and the ones and zeros of the results of me. I did that. It didn't just show up like you a millionaire. You know, me and my buddy joke about this all the time. It's like, if you said, if I said, Mick,

you're going to win a million dollars next week, two weeks. How would you act over the next two weeks? You didn't get the money yet. You'd be walking around like, what? I'm Mick. Don't you know I'm a millionaire, multi-millionaire. It's like, but what changed? You didn't get the money yet. You changed your mindset. You're like, I can't do this anymore. I'm a millionaire. You're like, I need to go hire financial advice. I need to learn about investments. Why don't you have that mindset now? Because

Two weeks is not here. You still didn't get the money yet. So what changed? Your mindset changes to be like, I'm going to carry myself like a millionaire. And once I started doing that, I started saying, well, what do millionaires do? I said, they know about the stock market. What do millionaires do? They get up early. They work late. They give. They're not selfish.

Are millionaires scared or do they get the answers, the knowledge and the resources and they learn how to manage risk? They don't get scared. They're like, what's the downside? How do I mitigate the downside? I'm like, well, let me figure out how to mitigate the downside. So that's when I became a millionaire versus making a million dollars. I don't care what my bank accounts say. Jason Brown is a millionaire. I know how to make it. I know how to think like it, walk like it, talk like it. And I could probably help a couple other people get there. And so that's what

Being a millionaire versus making a million dollars that episode was about. It was just my own realization that like, I'm the machine. I'm the millionaire. I'm my bank account. Yes, sir. I love it. So now let's go to the book, man. Talk to us about Five-Year Millionaire. Yeah. So Five-Year Millionaire, again, what I look back on my life, my episodes, my podcast, stuff that I do, one of the things I'm really proud of is that

None of it is something I pulled out of the sky, took from somebody else. It's all based on my real life experiences. And so Five Year Millionaire, the book was about from the time that I lost all that money, decided to go back to school, live below my means, and then invest in the stock market. It took me five years before I became a millionaire from losing it all to the time I made a decision. And there's some stuff in between that I actually wrote out a vision board, all that stuff. And I eventually hit it. I made a million dollars, right?

And so when I look at the timeframe, it was five years. When I looked at the formula about how to make a million dollars, I realized if you take $4,000 and you invest in the stock market, if you can earn 10% a month, so if you can earn one trade a month, 10%, if you do 60 trades or one trade a month for five years, you'd have $1.2 million at the end of five years.

And so number one, I realized everybody can come up with $4,000. Number two, one trade a month doesn't require you to be sitting in front of your computer all day because I couldn't sit in front of my computer all day. I was working a full-time job. I was going to school. And so I couldn't sit in front of the computer despite what society tells you. Like, you got to do this all day. It's like, no, you don't. Right? And then I was like, can you earn 10% a month? Well, I'm an option trader. So when I trade options, I absolutely can make 10% a month. In fact, what

when I was trading that $500 with Sprint, that's all I was trying to make was 50 bucks, which was 10%. And so if you can make 10% off $4,000 once a month for five years, you'd have $1.2 million. And so that's what five-year millionaire is about. It's about giving hope to regular people that they can start without having a lot of money. I'm talking, you can save your tax returns and drive Uber on the weekend or hustle up and get $4,000. And if you can learn the strategies and the skills to make one trade a month, 10%,

10%, you'd have $1.2 million. So anybody that's late, feel like they're late in retirement or started late or had a hard time in life,

Everybody can do this in about the same time that it takes to get a college degree. And in my program, we find... So I invest my own money. I don't just talk about this. I'm actually a real trader. So in my program, I find 10% trades for me and I do the write-up, a video, and then we send a text alert out to our members so that they can follow along. So all of our trades are documented, tracked, and timestamped in the back end of our platform. So value millionaire to book is...

is really a documentation of my life and how I became a millionaire and how we came up with the program basically. And then how people can do something similar. I like to say something similar because I can't guarantee you'll be a millionaire. Also every trade we do. Well, if you, if I looked at last year's track record out of 12 trades, um, what we did a little bit more to party at 15 trades, um,

Two of them were losses, but 13 of them were profitable, roughly. I have to look back at the numbers. Either three were losses and 11 were profitable. So like everything is not a home run, but it's about the average. If you can do one trade a month, 10% return over five years, you'd have $1.2 million. Lessons learned. Lessons learned. I love it. I love the wisdom you dropped there, Jason. So here's what I'm going to do.

And listeners and viewers, you always know I do this and I do it for the first 10 people. So if you're one that hadn't received, it's because you were not first. So first 10 people that messaged me five-year millionaire and I don't care which platform, I get the notifications and I go straight there.

I personally am going to send you a copy of Jason's book. The book comes out February what date, Jason? February 18th, 2025. February 18th. So don't say Mick. I ain't got it yet. We got to wait for it to come out February 18th. But I am personally going to purchase 10 and give them to the first. Actually, I'm going to purchase 11 because I want one for myself. But the first 10 people, I want you to know I will send you a copy of the book on behalf of Mick Unplugged Podcast and Jason Brown. So Jason, man,

Honored that you were here. Thank you for breaking bread with us, taking some time. Where can people follow and find you? And I'll make sure that these are all in the show notes and the descriptions on YouTube too.

Yeah. First, thanks for having me. And thanks for being willing to give some books out. That's super cool. I didn't expect that. So I appreciate that love. And everyone can find me at the Brown Report. So I'm Jason Brown. It's the Brown Report. And I just want to say one other thing. The way that the Brown Report started when I lost all my money.

I had a crazy idea that I was going to record myself making it back. And so that's how I started my YouTube channel. I just started reporting on trying to make the money back. And that's when people start asking me, like, how are you finding these trades? How are you finding these investments? And that's how I started the business. I had no intentions of starting a stock market coaching business. I was just sharing my story on YouTube of how I was making the money back. So my point is they can find me at the Brown Report on all social platforms, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter.

It's the Brown report or they just go to the brown report.com and all the socials are listed there. All right. We'll make sure that they're here. Jason, again, thank you so much for your time, brother, for all the viewers and listeners. Remember your, because is your superpower. Go unleash it. Thank you for tuning in to make unplugged. Keep pushing your limits, embracing your purpose and chasing greatness until next time. Stay unstoppable.