The Kidd and Friends Podcast | Self-Improvement and Mindset Insights · Christopher "KiDD" Perry

Healthy, Rich, Happy: Jacopo Iasiello’s M.P.B.E. Blueprint for Success

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He says a partner stole his jewelry business, and that mistake forced him to write Healthy, Rich, and Happy.

1. The Kidd and Friends Podcast episode centers on Healthy, Rich, and Happy and Jacopo Iasiello's MPBE blueprint for success. 2. Host Kidd speaks with Dr. Iacoppo Iaciello, a bestselling author, CEO of Luxury and Wealth Group, and co-creator of American Now at Forbes Italia. 3. The episode asks how mindset, health, and daily habits can create mental and financial freedom after a major setback. 4. Iasiello says he grew up in Napoli, dreamed of professional soccer, and played hard from age 6 or 7 until a knee injury at 17 and a half changed everything. 5. He says doctors warned him that continuing to play could mean he might not walk anymore, so he chose to stop. 6. He describes that decision as the first time he learned that life can change from one day to the next. 7. The host compares that experience to another athlete who changed after an avalanche, and Iasiello agrees that hardship can redirect a life. 8. Iasiello says his grandmother, grandfather, father, and mother all shaped him, and he repeats a story about his grandfather showing him a heroin addict near Gaeta when he was 7. 9. That moment made him decide, in his own words, never to use drugs and to stay away from the people around him who were taking the wrong direction. 10. After the injury, he says his mother told him, "don't worry, you will succeed wherever you will do," and he attached his new identity to that message. 11. He says he took a PhD in economy, started with government support in southern Italy, and opened his first jewelry shop while knowing nothing about jewelry. 12. That first store failed because he chose the worst location, and he says the lesson was that saving money can cause bigger losses. 13. He closed the shop, slept on the second floor for three months, and asked his father for 8,000 euros to reopen in a better place. 14. He says his father supported him, came in physically to help, and later joined the business full-time as a partner-like figure. 15. Once he changed location and added gold, he says he made good money quickly and opened more than 20 shops across different cities in Italy. 16. He also says that at 23 he began traveling to Africa and later moved into real estate and other investments. 17. He says he used to chase status, a beautiful car, and external proof, but later learned that money alone does not protect peace, health, or energy. 18. He defines "intention plus attention" as focusing clearly on what he wants in 12 aspects of life while avoiding distraction from rumors, offers, and people with different goals. 19. The tone is conversational and direct, with Kidd asking practical follow-ups and Iasiello answering in a reflective, motivational style. 20. People interested in entrepreneurship, mindset, and meditation will get the most from it, while listeners looking for a purely technical business discussion may skip it.

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Iaciello connects a soccer injury to a calmer model of success built on mindset, health, and habits.

A career-ending soccer injury in Naples becomes the starting point for a wider look at ambition, recovery, and what success can cost. Dr. Iacoppo Iaciello traces a path from the early dream of professional soccer into jewelry, gold, diamonds, high-level real estate, and the MPBE…

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You want a success framework that can hold a career-ending soccer injury, big ambition, and the search for daily calm.

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