Dubbed “The Man Who Knows What the World’s Richest People Want (and How To Get It),” Rey Flemings has years of experience solving the world’s most complicated problems for the ultra-successful. His company, Myria, provides concierge services to fewer than 100 elite clients. In this episode, Flemings discusses what he’s learned about wealth, money, success, and happiness while on the job; how he makes impossible tasks possible; and what it was like to try and smuggle ventilators into New York City during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Flemings founded Myria in 2021 and has worked in the luxury services industry since 2017. He also served as the founder and CEO of Stripple, a web imagery monetization company, and CEO of Particle, an Internet services company acquired by Apple.
Here are a few highlights from our conversation:
We need to broaden the definition of what success looks like to be more holistic, to not just be money.
I think we’ve got to recognize that the system is getting to a point where it doesn’t make sense even to the people who are operating the system.
Well, those people who are getting up to fuel your plane, they have got to earn a living wage because at the point that they don’t learn a living wage, then you have a problem.
We are all connected. We are not going to be able to ever create a society where we don’t need each other, and if we could create it, who would want that?
We’re wasting about 200 moonshots of human productivity being selfish, not letting the lessons of the past change our future.
I think money is an amplifier. It turns up the volume on who a person is.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
01:04 – How Rey smuggled ventilators out of China
05:39 – What is Myria? (Rey’s company)
11:20 – The difference between being rich and being wealthy
16:24 – How the constant exposure of success impacts happiness
21:20 – The difference between a million and a billion
25:15 – How to rebuild trust in our society
32:04 – How your circle shrinks the more successful you become
35:44 – How capitalism has changed since 1776
42:42 – The questions Rey asks potential clients
55:35 – What stresses Rey’s clients out?
57:10 – How do successful people raise kids?
01:04:10 – Rey’s day of reckoning
01:07:07 – What is success for Rey?
