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Podcast: Inside Personal Growth with Greg Voisen
Episode: Podcast 1218: From Manila to Wall Street: Butch Meily’s Untold Journey with America’s First Black Tycoon
Description: In this powerful episode of Inside Personal Growth, host Greg Voisen welcomes Butch Meily—author, PR veteran, and President of the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation—to discuss his new book, From Manila to Wall Street: An Immigrant’s Journey with America’s First Black Tycoon. Butch shares heartfelt insights into his journey from the Philippines to New York, his complex working relationship with Reginald Lewis, and the cultural, professional, and emotional transitions that shaped his life. The conversation explores identity, ambition, sacrifice, and the deeper meanings of legacy, loyalty, and personal growth.
Butch opens up about the costs of climbing the corp...