Inside the mind of ‘self-taught’ millionaire Shawn Meaike: ‘I wasn’t trying to live broke’
NY Post
Serial entrepreneur Shawn Meaike is worth “in excess of nine figures,” and credits his success partly to distancing himself from his family’s liberal beliefs after noticing that successful people had a different world view.
The 51-year-old grew up broke, living in subsidized housing in Connecticut with a dedicated single mother.
He respected his mom, but wanted to create a better life than the one she was living.
“I told my mom one day, I’m like, ‘Mom, I love you with all my heart, but all you’ve preached to me about is how I have to believe in being a Democrat,’ like, that’s how I was raised… and I said, ‘But if all of us in this complex and it’s subsidized housing are all Democrats, we’ve all been voting that way our entire lives. Why do we all still live here? What is the deal here?’” Meaike told Fox News Digital.
“I gotta go find other people,” he continued.
“I wasn’t trying to live broke. I wasn’t going to go out that way.”
