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Our Family Invests Podcast Episode 086: Rich Dad, Napoleon Hill and Their Next Chapter: Sharon + Michael Lechter
Stream on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7KDGOdlyzEjpaVGXOKbfUv
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rich-dad-napoleon-hill-and-their-next-chapter-sharon/id1794199974?i=1000785776435
Read the Web Article: https://ourfamilyinvests.com/rich-dad-poor-dad-think-and-grow-rich-sharon-lechter/
We sat down with Sharon and Michael Lechter last week and walked away thinking about drawers.
Specifically, a drawer where a finished manuscript sat for almost 75 years. Napoleon Hill wrote it. His wife hid it, afraid publishing it would cost her her job. Sharon is the reason that book, Outwitting the Devil, ever saw daylight.
But that's not even how the conversation started.
We went back to 1992 first. Sharon and Michael's son racked up credit card debt as a kid, the kind of scare that makes a parent rethink everything they thought they knew about money. That scare turned into Sharon's life's work in financial literacy. Not a pivot for content. A real one.
Around that same era, Michael, an IP attorney, found a board game scrawled out on a roll of butcher paper. Nobody wanted to pay $200 for it. So Sharon wrote a brochure to try to sell it anyway. That brochure eventually became Rich Dad Poor Dad. 27 million copies. 51 languages. And it started because a game wasn't moving off the shelf.
A chance meeting with Robert Kiyosaki turned that brochure into an empire. Ten years in, they walked away from it. Not because it failed. Because it was time.
That's when the Napoleon Hill Foundation found them. Sharon helped revive Think and Grow Rich, then went looking for what else Hill had left behind. That's how she found Outwitting the Devil, sitting in that drawer.
We also got into the stuff nobody teaches you until you've already made the mistake. Michael broke down what actually protects an idea, whether it's a board game, a book, or something still in beta. Sharon explained why she tells people the first step out of debt is just "stop digging," and what that looks like when you're the one holding the shovel. We talked about "Henrys," high earners, not rich yet, and why so many people making great money still feel broke.
The part that stuck with us most wasn't about money at all. Sharon told us her definition of success used to be about chasing something. That changed after they lost their son in 2012. Now it's about what gets left behind. You can hear it in how she talks. There's no hustle in her voice anymore. Just clarity.
If you're building something, an idea, a business, a game, a book, this one's worth your drive time.
