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How to Build Wealth With Growth Mindset and Leadership Resilience That Scales with Jacopo Iasiello
Montag, 19. Januar 2026 · 36 min
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Wealth, growth mindset, strategies, AI in business, business growth, mental health, self improvement, leadership and resilience collide in real business insights shaped by lived experience and founder psychology.Summary:
This is the psychology behind transformation from immigrant uncertainty to global investor clarity.A conversation that forces founders to confront identity, discipline and the cost of staying small.Key Insights:
• How growth mindset strategies rewire decision quality under pressure
• Why leadership resilience determines survival during uncertainty cycles
• How wealth creation starts with value creation not capital
• Why business growth systems must be built on identity not motivation
• How therapy insights for founders protect long-term mental health
• Why self improvement becomes infrastructure for serious operators
• How financial literacy compounds generational outcomes
• Why founder psychology shapes every scaling ceiling
• How smart business strategies outperform hustle culture every time
• Why contribution is the highest form of influence and legacyGuest Links:
Luxury Wealth Group: luxurywealthgroup.comBook and platform: healthyrichandhappy.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jacopo-iasiello-50936244The King Dems Podcast ranks in the Global Top 2 percent on ListenNotes. Help us reach the Global Top 1 percent by leaving a rating on Spotify and Apple.
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I don't have money. This is what people they starting to create in their mind. I don't have money where I need the starting and all these let me speak with French word bullshit, you know is reality is really something we have in our mind and I will explain. I will really share why. For example in country like United States where I am right now, you have the possibility to create. Possibility to create.
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Once again, this is a paid partnership with Betterhelp and I encourage you to take that first step. If you've been thinking about it, sometimes the best investment you can make ease in yourself. Welcome to the King Dems podcast, where we share the stories of extraordinary people and dissect hot, relevant topics that shape our world. From visionary leaders to trailblazing creatives, we uncover the mindset, strategy, and grit behind greatness. Whether it's business, culture, or personal growth, we ask the real questions.
This isn't just conversation, it's transformation. The Kingdom's podcast, Your Next Breakthrough, starts here. Music licencing reimagined. We are live. Ladies and gentlemen, you'll once again welcome to the Kingdom's podcast. And today I have with me a very, very interesting and special guest and big welcome fighting out of my Abby United States of America by way of Dubai and Napoli, Italy. Big welcome, Jacobo Las Yellow.
How are you? King, really thank you to inviting me to this called the guest and how I shared before. Like the main goal over here, King is to add the value to your audience. We are over here to ensure this moment at the value. Definitely, you know, value, value, value. Life is all about adding value.
But you know, a lot of people do not see that value system. And I always say when the use of something is unknown, abuse is inevitable, you know? How do you leave? Healthy, rich and happy, it's all about your mindset. Everything, everything starting from from mindset, you know no, no other way. It means if you don't create your correct mindset that you don't create a method work for you. You are in the ocean of thinking and in the ocean of emotion. What it means you are don't have direction. You know, like your own journey as a person is, you know, pretty interesting and your, your energy as a person is, I would say, very positive, very charismatic, very energetic. You have this drive, you know,
even when the cameras are off, you know, to achieve results, you know, to be happy to to to move forward, to make progress. And you know, one thing with you is that you do not just, you know, do things for yourself. You tried to make sure that your people are carried along with you and your people are happy as well. You made a very bold move from Naples, Italy to Florida, you know, Miami and the United States. And of of course, it's safe to say you're chasing the American dream now, right?
So. So what's that leap of faith that you know? What does starting over again in a new country look like for you? King is everything because like you are, we are similar, you and me with similar emotion. Wherever we coming from, you coming, we spoke before you coming from Nigeria to go to London, I coming from Napoli to go to United States. Story of an immigrant is never easy. Never is, you know, is no other thing, but you know my situation, it will be a little bit different and I will share with you why because my story coming from Napoli where I create already a really big business in jewellery space and why I'm moving from United States. The main reason is because you know, I won't create more. I already created my country in
Italy. The business started to lose revenue in the jewellery space where I come in from zero and to make this company really big success. Zero to hero. Zero to hero, hero where where we go through the wall, you know, after we go to the wall we have the hero part and you know it is the hero part.
And after I arrived at one point started to invest in in Italy real estate at 22 years old when the market started to lose revenue in my business and in real estate where everything is freezing in Italy, I have two options reduce my. I expect that if what this means, I have already create good wealth for myself from zero, from nothing or or find some other opportunity. Because I am creative human being with a lot of energy every time I am on the something to create. Your head is constantly spinning ideas and ideas rule the world. You know what does it mean?
You know, it means like it's something where you need to do something because we have two. We are two humankind, human beings, women and men. Men is great to create. Women is great to support, to give love in general to the men to to to create. But great. I seen another vision in another way. I feel like it's so important have near you.
Some kind of women will support you, give you love. And two, if they have a dream, bring their dream to reality. But you know, it's so unique, so important, like have creativity to women and men. And for me, it's starting really a young age and I'm moving to Florida because I want to create more after I read one article only one where I see the opportunity in the supreme supreme mortgage over here.
What's happening with market crash real estate take one fly coming from the other part of the world started to understand those speak English start to understand how it's working in in Miami in Florida. And I go back the first couple of year, three-year, 4 year Italy to United States because I have my business over there where I have now to, but my father take care. And then what's happening, you know, starting and really a lot of cry, a lot of pain, a lot of difficulty, like every emigrant feel.
But after, you know, because I am light, I receive and now I am in the part of contribution where I want to share with more people is possible. My knowledge, my experience and really the book is something that is coming from contribution. You know, contribution life. In life, most people are actually selfish.
Think about just themselves. And I always say that it takes a higher level of individual to go above that selfishness because, you know, human beings are animals. It's what separates us from, you know, the wild animals, the other animals is that we are higher animals. We are the animals with the highest level of IQ and that is why we dominate, you know, the ecosystem, right?
We're not the strongest or we're the smartest. And think about it, what's the rule of the jungle? Self preservation, survival of the foetus, Everyone looking out for themselves. But when you're able to go above that and look out for other people, that is when you're a blessing. Of course you are a blessing.
You faced a lot of challenges. You know the language where we has the financial pressure, the limited support. Most people would have quit. Or what was it inside of you, that inner drive that kept pushing you forward? You know, looking the reality is this one. You know when you grow up in a nice family with Lovejoy supporting and everything, you have already something inside you, you have like really something more.
Or if you grow up in a family where you don't have love and you're searching for the love, you have more. The normality is what is no create, especially human being or different kind of human being. And I will explain better what is driving me reality from really young age is to create more 11 years old.
I already have this interest intention to read story of entrepreneur and people and my journey starting from something we spoke before you know where I try to becoming professional soccer like a lot of Italian, a lot of people in the all the continent to in in Africa to, you know, moving forward in something better in my life, not because I coming for a poor family from normal family, but because I want more for my life.
And what I feel inside me from really young age is the war create through the people I met during my journey, my people, the people where I play soccer, my mother. This world is resilient. I'm really resilient. What does it mean? Is this one all my story of my life, starting from moment where I have really big drop in my life. What is mean I from 7 years old until seven years old, I try to become a professional soccer.
I leave my city Napoli at 14 years old to play around in different team in Italy. And after I have this big injury, well, I don't know anymore what I need to do. I don't have any clarity and my mother because my mother, my and my father in particular, is my hero. He saved my life. How she saved my life with small world. Sometimes small world, a small action give you the direction and the clarity where you me to go where you are. In phase of confusion, my mother put the head over here in my head, the hand over here in my head and told me you will succeed whatever you will do.
And from all day I attach all my energy, my mind, everything to this couple of words. And I started to create from zero with really a lot of different change. What this means I need to first of all convince my family to I want to becoming an A serial entrepreneur and after I becoming an investor. And because they have other idea other direction for my life, because they want to study take a PhD and I take my PhD. But I am really human being with win win creation of situation and what's happening, what I tell them at the time, OK, I will take my PhD and I will agree with you. I take my PhD in business management, international business management.
And at the same time I started to work at 18 years old, when I take money from government from Italy, open my first shop, make a big mistake, slept on the second floor of the shop. And after thanks to my father, where I asked for small amount of money to moving the shop in another position, I started to create everything. And from over there I started to create a couple of business in the same space of jewellery.
And in a 22 I starting in auction in Italy through one book. The book changed my life in real estate. Rich, dead. Poor dead. Thanks Robert Kiyosaki. Wow. Robert Kiyosaki. Guess what? Robert Kiyosaki and myself, we share the same birthday. Wow, nice. Like, good thing, good thing, good thing, you know he's a he's. A great guy.
For you and really, really, really like like word and actions possible change other people life and because I received, you know, we really young age good word for my family, for my near family, but really hard to during my process when I grow up like a businessman, entrepreneur, I want to becoming the opposite of the people they are close mind that they don't want to share because I know when you share, you become so powerful. The majority of people, they're becoming powerful in the way where touch other human being and when other human being, they realise their dream and they're becoming part of this dream. Exactly, you know a lot of people are closed minded and but they don't realise that in order
for you to receive you need to open your hands right? But a lot of people work with a scarcity mindset. They don't realise that the sky is big enough for for the stars. You know, the stars don't collide, they don't fight for space, right? So why hate when you can't collaborate, you know? So having a fixed mindset will not let you grow. And that's why I always talk about two different mindsets, a fixed mindset and the growth mindset. People with the group mindset are the ones that are open to learning and learning is going to open you to earning. Learning is what opens you to success in life. Successful people do not hold back information, but people that end up being unsuccessful
have a scarcity mindset, thinking information is limited and that if they share information with another person, the person will become more successful than them. Why not build somebody that has a potential to become more successful than you? Why are you feeling inferior? Build other people up. If they become more successful than you, you are a blessing, right?
We rise by lifting others. Rising tides lifts all boats, right? So I always love to meet people like yourself with that, you know, selfless mentality. You know, there is no success without a successor. And we all are alive to be a blessing unto other people. And until you start to be a blessing unto other people, until you're resourceful to other people, then you should be questioning your existence, right?
And everybody has something to give. Everybody always has something to give. You talked about your your, your God giving talents, right? You talked about your philosophy of win win. You know in business and in life, the only way to achieve sustained business success is to achieve a win win situation.
You have been in business, you've, you know, consummated over 350 plus, you know, major transactions, you know, from your first deal till you know, all of these major deals. Are you doing the real estate which has helped you to achieve financial independence? But what would you say is the common myth about real estate investment that holds people back? Because a lot of people shy away from investing in in in real estate.
Yeah, the main is only one. I don't have money. This is what people they starting to create in their mind. I don't have money where I need the starting and all these let me speak with French word bullshit, you know is reality is really something we have in our mind and I will explain. I will really share why for example in country like United States where I am right now, you have the possibility to create possibility to create wealth for if you have your bank account 3,000,000 under or 5 million under, you are good to create. And now I will explain why and how you possible do this in the United States.
And I talking about what I know my market is United States. I know market in real estate in Italy and in Dubai. But United States is the best one. Why? Because what you need to do over here is create add value to other human being in real estate. Now if you don't have money OK your only value is time plus find opportunity.
Now if you coming to me like I am a serial save investor and you ask me to teach you to mentoring you, but you don't bring me at me value, why I will do something like immediately when I met. Now the strategy to networking to create real estate opportunity is this one. First of all, add the value to the other human being in real estate like in life. And second of all, find opportunity for them initially and after the door of the world is open for you year how it's working When you find opportunity, if you don't have money, you have two category of people. They lend the money investor like me private people or private lender where you possible have an A deal. You have really small amount of
money to put on the deposit and in some case you have the possibility to have two-part of the deposit. When you when you do invest in material estate, you have three fees. The first one deposit if you buy in the regular market to try to do an offer. The second one close the deal. The third one when you do flipping because market real estate is dividing different kind of submarket is renovation now in United States only what you need to do if you don't have the money find the deal.
After you have all three phase of money deposit close the deed and renovation means technically you have everything available to starting from less in your bank account and moving forward. The thing you need to find opportunity, how you find opportunity through four phase research, grow action and finally. Do the contribution.
This is the fourth phase in every business in real estate, in everything is not adding anything more means like everybody, they want to start to invest in real estate is possible is the most beautiful business in the world. In particular, I repeat, because rules is similar, but in some kind the country is more complicated bureaucratic.
Italy is 1 in United States is the opportunity of the market and have think about you have the opportunity to in United States to war from another part of the world. Find opportunities in this country you call united it bless the you know United States God of. The free and who are the brave? God Bless America.
And what's happening, you know, you possible sell the contract to somebody like me investor, they will do the you know, the other part. It's like meat of don't moving real estate is only something in the in the mind because everything is ready to moving forward in real estate. You know, if you are in some kind of country like United States, you know. Very interesting.
So Speaking of paying it forward, I do have a group of common and fast rising podcasters in the ecosystem, right. I do have a new podcasters in the podcast and ecosystem that I currently mentor and one of them is Steph. She just started a new podcast and it's a real estate podcaster interestingly.
So I like you to speak with her. That is one of my procedures in the podcast in that industry. So the name of the of the podcast is Bricks and Banks with Steph. So you guys will have a really, really fantastic conversation deep diving into the real estate business. You know, real estate business is something that has proven from time immemorial to be continuously and sustainably profitable over time because you know, it speaks to one of the what I say in the needs of man. You know the main needs of man are food, clothing and shelter. So real estate actually covers the basic needs of man. So you know, your book actually explores building multi generational wealth right with timeless principles. Principles should families adopt
today to create lasting legacy? Yeah, I think so. Like to create legacy and I have the fortune to have a billionaire friend and multimillionaire friend. One in particular is my best friend. I try to learn from everybody, from people they have, you know, big success financially and people they have big success emotionally. And what I understand in reality, legacy is something completely different for the majority of human being they think about legacy is create first of all something in the mind of your child where they understand how it's important create step by step process to work and generate money. And I will explain better what doesn't mean. I read and I see one interview with one billionaire, the owner of Biomeo Biome is 1 company.
They are specialising. And I will interview, I will be, you know, in a meeting soon with these people where he told something so important. He create, he's a billionaire, he created multiple really big company. He normally creation legacy and generation wealth. You know, he explained 1 concept the first time in my life I lost him. And he talked about how is important if you ever you know, you want to bring your mind, your body, your energy to the next generation in your family or to the next generation in life is to show what you tell.
And now I go deeply what's happening, the beautiful story is this 1 he becoming a billionaire really a young age like I think so 4344 years, that's all I don't remember. And what's happening when you receive a billionaire, I ask to the billionaire, you have all this money and technically you don't know anymore what is your life.
It's like like similar to people, they don't have a job with only the difference. One have a lot of money the other one no. Now why I share with you because he stay in the couch and the daughter and the son, if I remember correctly, coming to the father and he told hey you guys, you need to do this that and you know he's explain everything and the daughter tells something to him that why you are in the couch at 3:00 PM in the afternoon.
And he realised at that moment the most important part to create legacy to create the generation. Well, is this 1 So to people what you do and he restarted to create something big a recreate, continue to create, continue to create big company, not because he need the money, but because he love what he do and he share with the you know, family and people like me. See the video Something important you know. Legacy is a process mind process and is a process where you do action everyday to build something you know. You know, you know, it, it actually feels like you went to deep dive into, you know, a few of my previous podcast episodes because there's something I always say, what is important is not the example of your power,
but the power of your example. You know, you always have to be a good example. You know, we have very little time left. And of course, I hope well, we would have you on a Part 2 episode. But you know, they say where there should always be a method to the madness because if there's no method to the madness, the madness would would make them take you to the psychiatric hospital. They're talking of method.
You talk about the MDPE, right? That is the method behind the mindset. So could you quickly explain the method behind the mindset and you know, give our audience any brief advice that you can possibly give them before you run away? First of all, I want to share with your audience, you are the mentor of your life personally, everybody we have the mentor of our life.
What this means this one is something important to starting something you need to ask the correct question and what this means is this one. The method I assembly is called MPB meditation, morning pray, bio walking and exercise. This 4 pillars that is the metal generate everyday my energy to moving forward in the direction where I want to go in my life in order to help aspect of my life not only in business.
Now what's happening is this one before do anything you need to try and ask the correct question. What is means every people they need to started to ask some kind of question for what they are grateful for what they are they have a joy. But this is for question I asked for myself every day in the morning for what give me passion and what give me serenity. After you respond to this question, you need to starting to try something work in your life. This method changed completely in my life starting from when I been in the dark moment of my life where I'm moving from Italy to United States, where I need to find friend, speak English, I don't speak English, where I need to understand the business real estate in United States.
I feel empathy inside how I arrive. I create this because I see one person, the name is Dominico, who is 1. My friend is an engineer. We do some kind business together in Italy. And what's happening? You have all the time this energy from over there. I asked one question, the important question, what do you do to have this energy?
And he told me two words, meditation, transcendent. From over there I started to meditate and I create this method where I understand precisiously when I am powerful in my day in the morning, I wake up 4:30 in the morning until 2 PMI am super energetic. I have clarity in my mind, body and and mind. Is there a line?
And after, you know, I discovered first of all, I I went to in Finland in a fair of bio walking and after I find the father of bio walking United States called Dave Asprey and I learned everything is possible. Today I will have a beautiful interview with him where I, you know, soon I will be in his event in Austin in May in bio walking.
And I learned all the things from this guy and you know, the exercise, this is the four pillar part of this method bring me so much energy. But this method is not the, you know, the gold for everybody. You need to adapt to yourself for me, wake up at 4:30 in the morning, but for you, you need to try for one month. Lester, this is not working for sure because it's not if you don't have cost, you are not constant every day in what you do.
You don't achieve any kind of a salty life. What it means you need to try you try in the morning to start it to meditate, to start it, to do bio working and exercises. See how it's going for your life. If it's working means you find your phototype of human being. If it's not, you choose other part of the day to start in this process. But you know for me I find this is my rock, is my everything because nobody or everybody or not stay for no other people, they possible take this method from my heart, from my body for my man and I utilise every day until I will die because bring me energy.
And this is part of the book where I study university because I wanna first of all something actionable in my life. Remember I am investor, pragmatic, sensible investor. What it means I utilise this I see is working. I study from university, I go deeply and I see why this working at university. Tell why and after you know I put everything together inside the book because we are no send people like we want to something concrete.
You know we need to move forward in the external part. But first of all, I creating internal and external is my vehicle to create external abundance. So important is an obligation to everybody is through real estate and real estate bringing abundance the possibility to create a generate the possibility to share with the people I love the most important and I hope so soon to be a philanthropic investor where I possible help more people is possible, but already I do with SAN association where I devil.
I give all the money from this book plus I give them one of my one of Moro of my real estate portfolio where they help homeless people to have any another time dignity. This is giving me love inside my heart. The most important part, you know. Wow, wow, it's it's always great to see you be a blessing and of course pay you forward. And of course we we all know that you are a busy man and would have to let you go pretty soon. Where can the audience get your book? Looking the possible not the possible I ask to buy really why not for me for them for help This association the possible finding Amazon is a best seller in Amazon healthy richandhappy.com is the other part where the possible find the book and I am sure what I tell
your audience please read this book because it's not coming from it's coming from what I receive in my life and to support and have a support from three really powerful people. This means 1 is a billionaire. He create one the most university important company a support to the book key to the endorsement. The other two multi millionaires means this book misdemeanour real estate.
This means this book have really value to other people because people like this, they don't put face and name in something they don't believe, you know? Exactly, exactly. And of course, you know, I do admonish everyone watching this broadcast or listening to this broadcast to go grab your copyright now, the link to the Amazon and to the website are going to be in the show notes in the description.
So whether you're grabbing these from YouTube, Spotify, Rumble, our Apple podcast, wherever you get your podcast, check the description of the podcast below and you will see the links to get the book from me to you guys. It's, you know, love and respect. And of course to Jacobu. Yes, yellow it is sorry, doctor, Doctor J, it's it's very big. Thank you to you.
I appreciate my friend to enjoy this conversation and you know, I really admire people like you because I know podcast is a place where you share knowledge with other people at the same time. We spoke before, but to time and when you spend time to knowledge other people means in another way your life, which I am sure you will receive something beautiful. You know, because your main goal, I know it's put your face out like everybody, but the main reason when this podcast is great, I seen a lot of people, like two other people have been interviewed, is to share knowledge. When you share knowledge, you receive light. Exactly, exactly.
You know, the main goal is that impact, you know, in light of a people. And that's why when you check the Spotify category that this podcast belongs to, it's under the section called self help. You know, self help is a goal. Self development is the goal. Education and inspiration is the reason why I put in this hard work, you know, into the show where of course, you know, investing time, then, you know, resources that's in a lot of fonts into getting the best technological resources, the best guests from all around the world born the only ways up. And of course, thank you very much once more for your time. And guys go like, subscribe, share with your network support, show us love, and of course,
congratulations to us on the forecast. We just hit 10,000 subscribers on YouTube. A very big thank you to everybody who has made it happen. And of course, let's celebrate and get on to work on the next milestone. 1K incoming. And we will get that said, do look out to yourselves guys, Bye. Being a nice conversation.
Thank you. Thank you very much. I don't know how how soon you you want us to get.