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4 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Anthony Scaramucci Says 'Own Your S***' Is The First Rule for Young Investors: Urges Them To Embrace Change, Take Risks And Learn From Market Veterans Like Him
Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Founder and CEO of SkyBridge Capital, Anthony Scaramucci, has some no-nonsense advice for young investors looking for success in an uncertain business landscape: own your flaws, consult older investors and embrace constant change. What Happened: Speaking on his podcast Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci, he said, "Own your s*** in life." "And once you're able to own your s*** in life you can make massive improvements and it'll help your psychological health. It'll help your happiness and it'll help your outlook on life." Trending: — no wallets, just price speculation and free paper trading to practice different strategies. He highlighted that this should be the "number one" priority for any individual. Highlighting the importance of resilience, he said: "People that are in business for three, four decades, they've had at least eight to nine cataclysms... those bear markets steel you for staying in things and being patient." This piece of advice echoes lessons Scaramucci learnt from unknowingly holding on to $1,200 worth of Microsoft stock from 1992, which went up to $288,000 over twenty years. For young investors, Scaramucci recommended consulting with seasoned professionals: "Seek out older investors that have been destroyed in the markets like me over the nine cycles that I've gone through because it'll help you. It'll give you perspective and it'll teach you patience in the markets."Why It Matters: Scaramucci stressed the value of risk-taking as a strategy for growth. "You have to embrace new technologies and you have to embrace new ideas," he said. "Your brain is incredibly neuroplastic. It definitely can evolve and reshape its thinking." Advising young investors not to harbor a fear-based mindset, he said: "When people say the word risk sometimes they only hear downside risk... But risk also means reward. And you got to be willing to take some risk." Scaramucci, who regularly doles out advice on his podcast, reiterated his stance on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) being the single best investment idea earlier this week. Read Next: New to crypto? Get up to $400 in rewards for successfully completing short educational courses and making your first qualifying trade on Coinbase. A must-have for all crypto enthusiasts: Sign up for the Gemini Credit Card today and earn rewards on Bitcoin Ether, or 60+ other tokens, with every purchase. Photo courtesy: Al Teich / Send To MSN: Send to MSN This article Anthony Scaramucci Says 'Own Your S***' Is The First Rule for Young Investors: Urges Them To Embrace Change, Take Risks And Learn From Market Veterans Like Him originally appeared on
Telegraph
6 hours ago
- Business
- Telegraph
Dan Snow interview: ‘My father said I was nuts to get into podcasting'
In August 2004, the day after the first episode of his second history series, Battlefield Britain, was broadcast, Dan Snow took a walk through London and spotted an Evening Standard headline board that read 'Global record TV audience for Olympic Opening Ceremony'. BBC One's viewing figures had reached 10.2 million as the nation enjoyed the Friday-night theatrics from Athens. 'I pity the guy who was on BBC Two,' thought Snow. The guy on BBC Two, enthusing about the Battle of Hastings to almost no one, was Snow, alongside his father, Peter. 'You work and you bleed and you travel to make a project. And then the show goes out and it disappears.' Snow was 25, a newcomer on the cusp of a distinguished television career, but even then he was looking for a way to do things differently. Fast-forward a couple of decades and he is sitting in a wood-panelled room at the National Maritime Museum, in Greenwich, interviewing curator Sophie Nibbs about pirates, the subject of its latest exhibition. The setup is small – a couple of microphones, a laptop, a producer – but the interview is part of something much larger. In 2015, Snow turned his back on the holy grail of television historians – a regular plum gig for the BBC – and founded History Hit. Initially, it comprised no more than his Facebook and Twitter pages, plus an embryonic podcast. But now, a decade later, it's a 'premium entertainment network' consisting of eight podcast series with nearly 10 million monthly listens, an on-demand streaming service with more than 1,250 original documentaries, a YouTube channel with 1.6 million subscribers, and a production company that, among other things, has produced Dan Snow & the Lost City, airing on Channel 5 this Thursday. Snow has found a way to do things differently. Forget TV historian – he's a media mogul. After his podcast interview with Nibbs, he talks me through the rise of History Hit, which officially turns 10 on June 18 – the first podcast was for the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo. When I hear about his schedule, I feel grateful he can fit me in. He has spent the morning delivering a talk at a primary school, before a full afternoon of creating 'content' in Greenwich. After the interview, a photoshoot, before 'Lime-biking it to Waterloo and caning it home for story time'. Ah yes, and that's the other side. Snow, with his wife, the prison-reform campaigner Lady Edwina Grosvenor, has three children: Zia, 13, Wolf, 10, and Orla, 9. Tomorrow morning? Straight back to London from his home in the New Forest for more content creation. Given all that, you might expect Snow to be knackered, but the 6ft 5in ex-Oxford rower looks as fit and as eager as a butcher's dog. His title of the 'history hunk' looks secure for a good while yet, even at the age of 46. Away from the slavish demands of network television and its fickle commissioners, he is absolutely loving running History Hit. 'I'd been desperate to pivot to digital,' he says. 'I'd experimented with things – the Facebook page, smartphone guides for English Heritage sites. I was just aware that there was a new way of doing things.' It was a producer named Dan Morelle who suggested Snow make a podcast. Snow vaguely remembered Ricky Gervais doing one years before, but wasn't entirely convinced. But it was 2015, Sarah Koenig had recently launched the blockbuster podcast Serial, and the medium was about to explode. 'I was very lucky,' says Snow. 'I caught a bit of a wave, and it was still early enough to look exciting and fresh. I just remember the excitement of self-commissioning, which remains to this day. We were in Jersey last week [for the VE Day events]; we went to Libya recently, where we were the first camera crew in Cyrene since the conflict; we went to America – we didn't have to ask anybody.' What's clear is that Snow has a good nose for what's about to take off – and what's about to decline. He calls the late 2000s and early 2010s a 'bubble', during which the BBC threw money at history documentaries and made stars of the likes of him and Lucy Worsley. The controller of BBC Two between 2008 and 2014 was Janice Hadlow, a historian. 'She just commissioned loads of history,' says Snow. 'But I could sense the way the wind was blowing: shrinking budgets, and money being spent on internationally saleable stuff, big sexy dramas to compete with the streamers. The specialist factual middle was getting squeezed.' By 2015, Snow had made more than 30 history series for the BBC, but he recalls the constant frustration of having to 'convince someone in a big building, somewhere on the fifth floor' that his ideas were good. BBC commissioners would tell him that people just weren't interested in the Hurricane aircraft or the burning of the Medway dockyards in 1667. Snow disagreed. 'I still remember the first time someone sent me a cheque for just talking about history and putting it on the internet. It was the most amazing moment. A moment of emancipation. It was only £150, but it was exciting to realise there was a world beyond the History Channel, the BBC and the Discovery Channel. It felt like a path to sustainability.' That path, however, was not easy. One minute Snow was the BBC's poster boy for popular history, the next he was hustling on social media. It was, he says, pretty embarrassing. 'You turn on your livestream and four people are watching. And one of them is your mum, and then you notice your mum has stopped.' Former colleagues in television would politely ask what he was up to and why he was trying to sell subscriptions on Facebook. 'It felt tawdry,' he says. 'People would ask if this was a valuable use of my time.' Had he consulted his father for advice before pivoting to digital? 'Yes. And I am very happy to say that it's one of the few times he's been wrong about something. He just went, 'What are you on about? This is absolutely nuts.' Now, he's a subscriber. He listens to endless podcasts.' Another deciding factor in the leap was Snow's home life. Feeling frustrated at trundling around Norman castles and being the BBC's 'slightly younger David Starkey ', he suggested he might do something more 'authentic', something that would find the intersection between history and news. The BBC said no, just keep making films about castles. 'And then I had my first child. When I was in the hospital, I got a message.' The Syrian civil war had just broken out and the BBC wanted to send him there. 'I was like, 'Actually, I've changed my mind, I'd really like to go to some nice, safe Norman castles.' You become a parent and a switch just flicks. But I did do tours of Syria and the Congo. It was terrible. There's nothing worse than looking over your shoulder all the time, that feeling of insecurity, the adrenaline fizzing. It really degrades you.' Follow Snow on social media and you'll note an impish side to him, especially in dealing with politicians. 'When Donald Trump says, 'No president has ever been treated as badly as I have', it's just hysterical. I think of the Roman emperor who was imprisoned by the Persians and used as a footstool. It's quite fun calling these people out. 'What's funny is politicians who say, 'Don't rewrite history'. History is always changing. I was with a copy of the Magna Carta last week, and there, written down 800 years ago, it says we will not deny justice to any free man, nor will we enter their house or send them into exile. I studied that in the 1990s and it felt like ancient history. 'And yet today we are seeing images on social media of US immigration enforcement agents just chucking people into the back of cars and sending them to different countries. Normal people like us have spent thousands of years trying to get the powerful to behave themselves, to treat us with respect, to agree that they will rule in a certain way. It's a story that goes back to the beginnings of time, and it's there in the Magna Carta. And it's here today.' Snow has to go. Photoshoot. Lime bike. Reading Morpurgo to the kids. Bed. Content, content, content. Before he does, I ask him about his great podcast competitor, The Rest Is History. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook 's massively popular show, produced by Gary Lineker's Goalhanger podcasts, casts a long shadow over all others, let alone direct competitors. Snow is sanguine. Since Holland and Sandbrook began in 2020, History Hit's listening figures have only grown. 'We can all thrive,' he says. 'A rising tide lifts all boats, right?' The history business is booming.
Yahoo
7 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Do you have a 'living room kid' or a 'bedroom kid'? What it says about your family
Does your child come home from school and run up to his or her bedroom? Are you lucky to see them unless there's food involved? Conversely, do you have a child who hunkers down in the living room, does their homework, watches television, and just never leaves the comfort of the couch? Yvette Henry was in her kitchen fixing up dinner. So were all four of her kids. 'Ya'll, we have almost 4,000 square feet here and you're all right here. Right here,' she said on the "How Married Are You?!" podcast that she hosts with her husband, Glen Henry. But then she remembered a TikTok video about 'living room kids' and 'bedroom kids,' and realized she and her husband had built a home dynamic where their children felt emotionally safe in shared spaces. 'I don't think that I always appreciate what I have in this situation,' Henry said in the podcast clip that hit nearly 1 million views on TikTok and was posted elsewhere on social media. 'Like the gift of all this togetherness that we are going to look back on one day and say, 'oh my gosh, I miss that.'' Here's what to know about bedroom kids and living room kids. 'Living room kids' and 'bedroom kids' are not terms established by behavioral science but have gained popularity online as parenting influencers talk about their household dynamics and their own past upbringings. A living room kid refers to a child who spends much of their home time in shared spaces such as the living room, kitchen or dining room. A bedroom kid refers to a child who spends most of their free time in the privacy of their bedroom. No matter what kind of person you are, if you're a parent, pay attention to your children's needs and what rooms they gravitate to. There's nothing inherently wrong with either. Although it might result in more messes, parents should feel proud knowing that living room kids feel comfortable and safe when congregating with family, said Whitney Raglin Bignall, associate clinical director of the Kid's Mental Health Foundation, a nonprofit promoting children's mental health. 'Safety could play a role,' she said. If there's a lot of family conflict, a child might spend more time in their room to avoid that stressor. 'The Giving Tree': This author 'fixed' it with a new ending. Some say it's long overdue. It's not just about safety, Raglin Bignall said. There are other factors at play, such as culture, age and personality. Some children are naturally more introverted than others, she said. Other children prefer quiet and solitary activities, like reading. Families may designate specific playrooms for children and adult spaces for parents to unwind. Children also tend to spend more time in their rooms as they enter their pre-teen and teenage years, said Dr. Thomas Priolo, a child psychiatrist at Hackensack Meridian Health. "A teenager will want to be more independent and feel responsible for themselves, and having a space for themselves in their room allows them to take control," he said. "As children get older, it becomes more important and more of a conscious decision." The time children spend in their room may also depend on the time of year, Priolo said. During the school year, kids are more socially stimulated by school and extracurricular activities, so they may want more time to unwind in their room alone. It's not necessarily a bad thing for children to spend more time in their bedroom, but he said parents should be wary if an ordinarily "living room" kid suddenly starts isolating in their room. This could be a sign that there's something wrong. "Rather than viewing it as 'living room' versus 'bedroom kids,' the best way to view it is as a house and making sure that kids feel safe no matter where they are," Priolo said. Riglin Bignall also reminds parents that having 'living room kids' can sometimes be overwhelming. It's OK to be a 'bedroom parent' every once in a while to recharge. 'Everyone needs breaks. You can't have people around you all the time,' Riglin Bignall said. 'It's great to have communal and family time and build family belonging but it's also important to think about when are you making sure you have time to fill your cup.' Adrianna Rodriguez can be reached at adrodriguez@ This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Living room, bedroom kids: TikTok parents reflect on family dynamics
The Guardian
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
How many hippos are born each day and how fast can an ant run? The kids' quiz
Molly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a podcast answering children's questions. Do check out her books, Everything Under the Sun and the new Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book.
Yahoo
10 hours ago
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Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Scratch That!
There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solve today's puzzle before reading further! Scratch That! Constructors: Emily Biegas & Sala Wanetick Editor: Amanda Rafkin DES (28A: Boston Marathon winner Linden) Desiree "DES" Linden is a long-distance runner, author, and podcaster. She won the Boston Marathon in 2018. Earlier this year, DES Linden announced that this year's Boston Marathon – which she ran in 2:26:19, finishing 17th – would be her final professional road race. Since 2023, DES Linden and fellow runner Kara Goucher have hosted a podcast about running called Nobody Asked Us. MESCAL (9D: "Gladiator II" actor Paul) The 2024 movie Gladiator II is a sequel to the 2000 movie Gladiator. Paul MESCAL stars as Lucius Verus Aurelius, the grandson of the former emperor Marcus Aurelius. Lucius had been exiled from Rome as a child to protect him from assassins. He becomes a prisoner of war and is sold into slavery to become a gladiator. MADAM (5A: "___ Secretary" (TV drama)) MADAM Secretary is a TV series that originally aired from 2014 to 2019. Téa Leoni portrays the title character, Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA analyst and political science professor who becomes the U.S. Secretary of State. ANYA (14A: "The Gorge" actress Taylor-Joy) The Gorge is a 2025 sci-fi action movie. ANYA Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller portray elite snipers who are ordered to guard opposite sides of a gorge, without being told what the gorge contains. LYNN (17A: Country singer Loretta) We saw Loretta LYNN as a theme answer just two days ago, which is a fun coincidence. Loretta LYNN's country music career has spanned six decades; she has had 24 number one hits and 11 number-one albums. LIDS (19A: Retailer that sells hats) There are currently over 1100 LIDS stores, mostly located in malls and factory outlets. AERO (35A: European chocolate bar with bubbles) AERO chocolate bars are manufactured using a process that was patented in 1935. The chocolate is heated and aerated to create small bubbles. These bubbles expand as the chocolate cools, creating the chocolate bars characteristic bubbles. DUO (42A: Dynamic ___) It feels appropriate to see "dynamic DUO" in a puzzle made by a pair of constructors. BLT (43A: Sandwich that sometimes adds an "A") The A sometimes added to a bacon, lettuce, tomato (BLT) is avocado. CODA (58A: Person whose first language may be ASL (Abbr.)) CODA here stands for "child of deaf adult." Whether or not they themselves are deaf (ninety percent of CODAs are not deaf), a child of a deaf parent may grow up speaking ASL (American Sign Language). SUEZ (61A: ___ Canal (Egyptian waterway)) The SUEZ Canal, which is 120 miles long, connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. It runs through the Isthmus of SUEZ, dividing Africa and Asia. RAILS (65A: They often run down the stairs) This is a fun, slightly tricky clue. The answer is not a person in a hurry, but rather the RAILS that often run alongside stairs. DEMI (66A: "The Substance" actress Moore) The Substance is a 2024 movie in which DEMI Moore portrays a 50-year-old movie star whose fame is fading. She purchases a black market serum (the titular substance) in an attempt to counteract the aging process. The Substance is a horror movie, so as one might imagine in such a film, using the drug does not go well. MCDREAMY (5D: Nickname for a swoon-worthy character on "Grey's Anatomy") Derek Christopher Shepherd, M.D. is a character on the TV medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2005-present). Patrick Dempsey portrayed Dr. Shepherd from 2005-2015 and 2020-2021. Dr. Shepherd is often referred to as MCDREAMY by the other characters (and thus, by fans as well). DUST STORM (7D: Common weather event at Burning Man) Burning Man is a week-long event held annually in the Western United States. Burning Man aims to facilitate a network of people interested in the "pursuit of a more creative and connected existence in the world." The name of the event comes from the burning of a large wooden effigy each year on the Saturday evening before Labor Day. Burning Man is held in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, and DUST STORMs are common. SALE (10D: Square transaction) Square is a system that helps merchants accept credit card payments for SALEs. GOD (12D: Allah or Ganesha, e.g.) Allah is an Arabic term for GOD. It is used by followers of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Ganesha is a Hindu GOD whose image is recognizable by his elephant head and four arms. Ganesha is a widely revered and worshipped deity who is thought to bring good luck. ELTON (21D: NBA All-Star Brand) ELTON Brand is currently the general manager of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. He is a former NBA player. During his playing career he played for the Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia 76ers, Dallas Mavericks, and Atlanta Hawks, and he was a two-time NBA All Star. MED (34D: "Chicago ___" (NBC drama)) The medical drama Chicago MED premiered in 2015. Set in the emergency department of a Chicago hospital, the show is part of the Chicago franchise, along with Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., and Chicago Justice. ATTILA (47D: Hun ruler) The Huns were a nomadic people in Central Asia between the 4th and 6th centuries. Little is known of their culture. Perhaps the most widely known Hun was King ATTILA. Under the leadership of King ATTILA, the Huns made frequent raids on other peoples. ORE (59D: Rock smelted in Stardew Valley) Stardew Valley is a role-playing video game first released in 2016. Players assume the role of a character taking over their grandfather's farm in the titular Stardew Valley. Players can socialize with townspeople, grow crops, raise livestock, smelt ORE, and participate in activities such as cooking, crafting, and fishing. LOTTERY TICKET (20A: Purchase for someone who's feeling lucky) VINYL RECORD (36A: Item in a DJ's collection) MOSQUITO BITE (54A: Itchy "souvenir" from a warm summer night, perhaps) SCRATCH THAT: Each of the theme answers is something that can be SCRATCHed. An exclamation point in a crossword clue is an indication to solvers that there is a bit of trickiness going on, and the clue should be interpreted literally. The exclamation point in today's title is serving a similar purpose. Each of the theme answers is literally something that might be SCRATCHed. (We all know we're not supposed to SCRATCH a MOSQUITO BITE, but it happens.) I really enjoyed this theme. Thank you, Emily and Sala, for this delightful puzzle. USA TODAY's Daily Crossword Puzzles Sudoku & Crossword Puzzle Answers This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Crossword Blog & Answers for May 23, 2025 by Sally Hoelscher
