EYL Reveals The Truth About Invest Fest, Haters & Building A Billion-Dollar Brand | Inside The Vault

The Earn Your Leisure story is bigger than a podcast. In this episode of Inside The Vault, Ash Cash sits down with Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings to unpack how they transformed a simple financial literacy show into one of the biggest business media brands in the world. From building Invest Fest into a cultural phenomenon, handling criticism, creating generational wealth, expanding into Africa, and why community always beats competition—this is a masterclass on vision, consistency, and ownership. They also share behind-the-scenes stories on scaling a media empire, building a billion-dollar vision, balancing family while building businesses, and why the next wave of Black wealth will be built through education, ownership, and global thinking. If you're building a business, growing a brand, or trying to leave the 9-to-5 behind, this conversation is required watching. 👇 Let us know in the comments: What's the biggest lesson you've learned from Earn Your Leisure? Connect with Rashad & Troy (Earn Your Leisure) Instagram: @earnyourleisure Invest Fest: https://investfest.com Connect with Ash Cash Instagram: @iamashcash Website: https://www.iamashcash.com Continue your wealth-building journey inside The Abundance Community, where you'll gain access to the Abundance Score™ Assessment, your Personalized Abundance Roadmap™, the 9-Step Abundance Formula™, live coaching, practical tools, accountability, and a community committed to helping you build lasting wealth. Join today: 👉 http://www.theabundancecommunity.com Abundance is Your Birthright. Connect with Inside The Vault Instagram: @insidethevault Timestamps 00:00 Basketball injuries, entrepreneurship & finding stress relief 08:18 Introduction to Earn Your Leisure 11:05 From two friends to a global financial media company 15:10 Creating millionaires through financial education 18:45 How Earn Your Leisure stayed relevant while everyone else faded 24:22 Is there an end goal—or is this forever? 29:01 The birth of Invest Fest 38:47 The $100 million impact Invest Fest has on Atlanta 46:41 How they handle haters, criticism & online backlash 58:34 Why criticism can actually grow your business 1:03:52 Earn Your Leisure Africa: the vision behind the movement 1:16:43 Why Africa is the biggest opportunity of our lifetime 1:28:54 The hardest part about building a media empire 1:32:36 Family, sacrifice & balancing success 1:39:58 Why every entrepreneur should write a book 1:46:25 Ash Cash gives Earn Your Leisure their flowers 1:51:12 Invest Fest 2026, what's next & final thoughts