Lift Up Your Future: Seth Cogswell on Starting Early, Discipline, and Building Wealth That Lasts

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In this special Take Your Kid to Work Day edition of Lead-Lag Live, Grade 9 student Ezra Briski steps in as host to explore this year’s theme: Lift Up Your Future — how the choices we make today shape the opportunities we have tomorrow. Ezra sits down with Seth Cogswell, Founder and Managing Partner at Running Oak Capital, to discuss why starting early with money and investing can change your entire life’s trajectory.

In this episode, Seth shares:
– Why compounding is like a superpower for people who start young
– The lesson: “Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.”
– How to think of money as a tool, not something to chase
– Why discipline matters more than picking the perfect stock
– How to avoid “today’s impulse” stealing “tomorrow’s possibilities”
– Why reading and learning from others is the cheat code to growing faster
– The importance of minimizing distractions and building real-world confidence

This episode is about building habits, not hype.
It’s about learning to value your future self — and taking steps now that make life easier later.

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Chapters

1. Lift Up Your Future: Seth Cogswell on Starting Early, Discipline, and Building Wealth That Lasts (00:00:00)

2. Discipline And Money Choices (00:01:11)

3. Lift Up Your Future Theme (00:01:57)

4. Why Invest Early (00:02:13)

5. Seth’s Origin And Lessons From Dad (00:02:33)

6. Compounding Explained Simply (00:04:47)

7. Money As A Tool And Tradeoffs (00:06:39)

8. Practical First Steps: Read And Learn (00:08:16)

9. Build Confidence Beyond Screens (00:09:22)

10. Closing And Subscribe (00:10:49)

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