431: David Bahnsen—Poor Smart and Desperate

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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David Bahnsen is the founder, managing partner, and chief investment officer of The Bahnsen Group, which manages over seven billion dollars in assets. He’s also a podcaster, author, and Christian intellectual. His book, Full Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, is simpatico with Mike’s S.W.E.A.T. pledge.

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0:00.0	David Bonson, who you're about to meet, is looking for people that are poor, smart, and desperate.
0:11.9	A mission I appreciate so much.
0:13.7	That's the title of this episode.
0:15.7	I'm Mike.
0:16.2	This is the way I heard it.
0:17.5	How are you, Charlie?
0:18.3	Living the dream, buddy.
0:19.8	Live in the dream.
0:20.8	That was a, this is such a stupid thing to say out loud, looking for blanket confirmation as I'm
0:25.9	want to do, but that was a really good conversation. It really was, and it's right up your
0:30.0	alley in the message of micro works, which is that work ethic is important, and you don't even
0:35.6	need the ethic in David Bonson's case. It's the work that's
0:38.5	important. He's written such a great book. It's called Full Time Work in the Meeting of Life.
0:42.7	And I know that might sound a tad earnest. And you know what? It is. He pulls no punches with
0:48.4	this book and he makes a super reasonable case. But part of the reason I wanted to have him on
0:52.8	is because we have some mutual
0:55.0	friends that we'll discuss in a moment, but mostly it's because you don't often hear the
1:02.6	messages that you're about to hear from people who manage in excess of $7 billion of money.
1:10.3	Right.
1:11.9	You know?
1:12.7	That's exactly what he does for a living.
1:15.4	Yeah, he's good at it.
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