Investing for the Future with David Gardner

In this episode, Tim interviews David Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool, about how to make investing approachable for younger learners. David shares the scrappy origin story behind The Motley Fool, two classroom-ready stories to hook teens on stock market basics, and practical ways that you can help your own students distinguish between investing behaviors and gambling behaviors. You'll also hear why investing is often under-taught, how teachers can build confidence to teach it, and you'll get a preview of the new interactive "Freedometer" tool being piloted with NGPF to strengthen stock market and investing instruction across the nation!

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Investing for the Future with David Gardner is an episode from Next Gen Personal Finance by Next Gen Personal Finance.

This episode is 01:00:54 long.

This episode was published on Feb 23, 2026.

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