The Earn Your Leisure story is bigger than a podcast.
In this episode of Inside The Vault, Ash Cash sits down with Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings to unpack how they transformed a simple financial literacy show into one of the biggest business media brands in the world. From building Invest Fest into a cultural phenomenon, handling criticism, creating generational wealth, expanding into Africa, and why community always beats competition—this is a masterclass on vision, consistency, and ownership.
They also share behind-the-scenes stories on scaling a media empire, building a billion-dollar vision, balancing family while building businesses, and why the next wave of Black wealth will be built through education, ownership, and global thinking.
If you're building a business, growing a brand, or trying to leave the 9-to-5 behind, this conversation is required watching.
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Timestamps
00:00 Basketball injuries, entrepreneurship & finding stress relief
08:18 Introduction to Earn Your Leisure
11:05 From two friends to a global financial media company
15:10 Creating millionaires through financial education
18:45 How Earn Your Leisure stayed relevant while everyone else faded
24:22 Is there an end goal—or is this forever?
29:01 The birth of Invest Fest
38:47 The $100 million impact Invest Fest has on Atlanta
46:41 How they handle haters, criticism & online backlash
58:34 Why criticism can actually grow your business
1:03:52 Earn Your Leisure Africa: the vision behind the movement
1:16:43 Why Africa is the biggest opportunity of our lifetime
1:28:54 The hardest part about building a media empire
1:32:36 Family, sacrifice & balancing success
1:39:58 Why every entrepreneur should write a book
1:46:25 Ash Cash gives Earn Your Leisure their flowers
1:51:12 Invest Fest 2026, what's next & final thoughts
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