In this Story Time episode of The Intentional Investor, Matt Zeigler revisits Roger Mitchell's lessons on sports leadership, career ambition, power and personal values. Through stories involving FIFA, Scottish football, Italy and his family's fish and chip shop, the episode explores how people become indispensable, how narratives shape institutions and why choosing the right ladder matters as much as climbing it.

Writers Jim Ruland and Seth Lorinczi meet for the first time to explore how punk rock, outsider culture, and underground communities shaped their lives, creative work, and approach to parenting. They trace their paths through the DC and Los Angeles punk scenes, the writers and mentors who sent them into the world, and the challenge of preserving subculture in the algorithm age. Along the way, they discuss Henry Rollins, Hunter S. Thompson, Devo, DC Space, punk zines, Gen X parenting, and the accidental discoveries that can change a life.

Michael Perry climbs into a hunting blind in rural Alabama with a .270 rifle, a copy of Call Sign Chaos by General Mattis, and a nagging sense that something in the social fabric is tearing. The pigs never come. The questions don't stop. A meandering, funny, and quietly urgent essay on what honor means and costs in our current moment.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has spent the summer winning over American sports fans from the Fox studio - deadpanning that a World Cup without him wouldn't be a World Cup, and meaning it. Turns out the man behind the myth has a money philosophy worth paying attention to, pulled from a 2023 Piers Morgan interview most Americans haven't seen. It holds up better than most financial advice you'll read this year.