A podcast for wiser investing and stronger living. Success in the markets and in life requires sound investments — in our portfolios and our personal wellness. A weekly show, Invest Well, Be Well explores the principles of long-term investing, behavioral finance and peak performance with top-performing investment professionals and cross-industry leaders. Hosted by investment executive Rusty Vanneman and seasoned journalist Robyn Murray, each episode offers practical strategies for building wealth and prioritizing well-being, so you can make better decisions, grow your resilience and elevate your life. In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Phil Pearlman. Dr. Pearlman is the founder of The Pearl Institute, a new venture dedicated to inspiring resilience, fitness, and joy via long-term personal health planning and performance training. He is the author of the Prime Cuts Newsletter, which focuses on cultivating a healthy lifestyle, mindset, and identity through the powers of creativity, reinvention, and grit. Phil is an advisor to and investor in social/digital media at all stages of development. Previously, he served as CBO and CMO at Osprey Funds, EVP at Bank OZK, Executive Editor at Stocktwits, and Interactive Editor at Yahoo Finance. Phil ran a hedge fund which focused on behavioral strategies and currently runs a private account. He earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from Argosy University. He lives in Montebello, NY with his wife and two boys.
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In this episode, we discuss the connection between cultivating discipline in your personal health routine and in the markets with Dr. Phil Pearlman.
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“The idea of Alpha is that it’s outsized gains, or outsized losses, but in this case outsized gains relative to a benchmark…As I was getting healthier and healthier — losing a bunch of weight, improving my cardiovascular capacity, improving my muscle mass, I was finding that I was performing better. Whether it was consulting, whether it was professionally…relationships improving in my private life, all aspects of my life were improving in the present…When we think about getting healthy, we usually think about the long-term…but there’s also…there’s multiple time frames, there’s the future aspect and there’s also the present aspect. Our performance improves as we get healthy and so it’s like fitness alpha and then the tagline is ‘get healthy, perform better.’ As I started looking into it more deeply, I started finding that there was all of this research that supported this.” - Phil Pearlman
“Once concept, that I think has really resonated with people, is this idea of priority stacking…because we take our health, we take arguable the most important thing in the universe…and a lot of times…we’re just kind of trying to fit it in [at the bottom of] this incredibly busy schedule…So for me, it’s like what is really your priority? [We take] that sort of smooshing it in at the bottom, if we have time, and pulling it out and putting it at the top of the stack.” - Phil Pearlman
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