Rule Breaker Investing

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. Pre-order Rule Breaker Investing (hardcover, e-book, audiobook) wherever you buy books. Host: David Gardner Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 light context, lots of personality, and a lively tempo, this week’s one-of-a-kind episode plays like a curated mixtape of the book’s big ideas. It’s out next week! Pre-order Rule Breaker Investing: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Reactions or favorite excerpts? Write us: rbi@fool.com Host: David Gardner Producer: Dan Boyd Companies mentioned: ADBE, AMZN, AXON, CMG, CRM, ISRG, META, NFLX, NVDA, SBUX, SHOP, TSLA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 joins as David’s sidekick to share the what, why, and when of these stocks’ march through the decade. How did each of these stocks do? How about the sampler’s overall outperformance? David & Rick extract the key lessons. Rule Breaker Investing isn’t just about keeping score; it’s about learning how (and why) we win. Companies Discussed: ATVI, CASY, GOOG (legacy of FEYE/MNDT), MELI, MIDD Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast News here: www.fool.com/breakfastnews Pre-order David’s upcoming Rule Breaker Investing book here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Host: David GardnerGuest: Rick MunarrizProducer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the final mailbag of the Summer! One 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 dividends allocation, and to answer the question, “If you were investing your first $1,000 today, what would your approach be?” Those gems, plus another listener compares David to Chris Rock … a mailbag filled with summer delights awaits! Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast News here: www.fool.com/breakfastnews Pre-order David’s upcoming Rule Breaker Investing book here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Host: David Gardner Guest: Andy Cross Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 on current dark clouds investors may be able to see through, and brings Rule Breaker thinking across diverse topics, from portfolio construction to sports betting. Finally, it’s Chris who leads a round of Buy, Sell, or Hold, with David! Companies Discussed: AAPL, AMZN, AXON, CMG, CRM, DDD, GPRO, ISRG, META, MRNA, MSFT, NFLX, NVDA, ODFL, PTON, SHOP, TREX, TSLA Pre-order Rule Breaker Investing here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast News here: www.fool.com/breakfastnews Guest Host (first one ever): Chris Hill Guest: David Gardner Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 cooperate, and those who ignore rules or boundaries. They also reveal the word that David is trying his best to avoid saying, and finish with a raucous round of Buy, Sell, or Hold. Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast Newshere: www.fool.com/breakfastnews Pre-order David’s upcoming Rule Breaker Investing bookhere: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Host: David Gardner Guest: Sam Horn Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 dive into what makes feedback actually helpful, and finish with a spirited round of Buy, Sell, or Hold: Happiness Edition. Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast Newshere: www.fool.com/breakfastnews Pre-order David’s upcoming Rule Breaker Investing bookhere: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Host: David Gardner Guest: Arthur Brooks Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 wild surmise. Those nuggets—plus the new Authors in August lineup—power this week’s breezy, idea-packed summer episode. Companies mentioned: RKLB, SBUX Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast Newshere: www.fool.com/breakfastnews Pre-order David’s upcoming Rule Breaker Investing bookhere: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Host: David Gardner Guest: Yasser El-Shimy Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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-provokingquestions of his own. Sem Verbeek, a man of many talents, on and off the court. Host: David Gardner Guest: Sem Verbeek Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 sun! Companies Discussed: AMZN, NVDA Host: David Gardner Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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: AXON, IRBT, ISRG, LYV, MELI, NVDA, PAC, PEGA, PI, RMD, W, Z Host: David Gardner Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, multiplicands or multiplican'ts, and when your kids begin to see the financial light. Real stories and inspiration helping you achieve financial freedom, American-style. Host: David Gardner Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 1999! Companies mentioned: AMZN, BRK.A, BRK.B, WMT Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast News here www.fool.com/breakfastnews Pre-order David’s upcoming Rule Breaker Investing book here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Host: David GardnerProducer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Market Cap Game Show is back! David welcomes MC Game Show rookies, Jason Moser and Loren Horst to put their knowledge, or plain hunches, to the test with 12 energetic rounds of Market Cap excitement! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll even learn some banking history along the way. Looking for more Aaron Burr facts? It’s all right here. Fingers on buzzers… let’s go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Guest: Rick Engdahl Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Sign up for The Motley Fool's Breakfast News here www.fool.com/breakfastnews Pre-order David's upcoming Rule Breaker Investing book here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Host: David Gardner Guest: Randi Zuckerberg Producer: Rick Engdahl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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: David Gardner Producer: Rick Engdahl

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 Engdahl