Funded: A Tradeify Podcast

The trading world moves fast. And most of what actually drives it, the real decisions, the hard lessons, the mechanics behind who wins and who doesn't, never makes it into the conversation. Funded changes that. A new podcast by Tradeify hosted by Maryam Rushdi, Funded goes deep into the world of trading with the people who know it best: platform builders, risk managers, firm operators, and traders who have figured out how to win. The people who built this business and the people inside it every single day. Each episode tackles what's coming next in these markets, what most traders get wrong about how this industry actually operates, and what it truly takes to survi

Funded: A Tradeify Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Tradeify, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #9

  Two Years of Grinding. Zero Payouts. Then One Email Changed Everything. | Funded Ep. 9

  Aug 11, 20261h 11m

  Damareous — known as D-Money — ran $100 million stores for Target and Walmart for 15 years. He was trading the whole time. Taking trades in the bathroom before a four-hour walkthrough with his boss. Staying up trading penny stocks, then Forex, then options, then losing most of it. Two years before his first payout. Then an $85,000 payout from a Forex prop that shut down overnight and vanished. He kept going anyway. In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with D-Money — co-streamer at BDH, creator of the character Jerome, and one of the most quietly compelling personalities in the prop trading space — for his very first podcast appearance. D-Money breaks down how he went from Zoom calls with four family members to streaming in front of 6,000 people, why he trades better on stream than off it, and what Patrick Whelan saw in him that led to a full-time offer within ten days. He gets into why you should never quit your job to trade full time until you're ready, how discipline is the one thing that will keep you in the game when everything else says quit, and why the chat keeps him more accountable than any rule he could set for himself. This one is for the grinders nobody has heard of yet. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Be Strategic With Who You Share Your Dreams With 00:54 - Who Is D-Money and Where Did the Name Come From 02:18 - 15 Years Running $100 Million Stores. Then This. 03:29 - Penny Stocks, Forex, Options — and Losing Most of It 05:00 - Stumbling Upon Patrick Whelan and the Futures Market 07:21 - Taking Trades From the Bathroom at Work 09:44 - Quitting Retail to Trade Full Time After His Daughter Was Born 13:03 - Jerome: The Character Nobody Saw Coming 20:49 - Why He Trades Better on Stream Than Off It 59:00 - Winning Isn't the Money. It's This. New episodes drop Tuesdays. Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube --> https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV Spotify --> https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA Apple Podcasts --> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589 For more from Tradeify and Tradeify TV, check out our website at https://tradeify.co/ Stay connected! Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding Twitter/X – https://x.com/Tradeify Discord – https://discord.com/invite/tradeify TAGS/KEYWORDS: Funded, Funded podcast, Tradeify, TradeifyTV, D-Money, Damareous, DmoneyTrader, BDH, Patrick Whelan, prop trading, futures trading, prop firm, trading discipline, trading patience, live stream trading, trading from scratch, Walmart trader, retail manager trader, trading journey, first payout, trading consistency, higher timeframe trading, mgtrading community, trading accountability, prop firm 2025, Maryam Rushdi, trading podcast, futures podcast, trading education, new trader advice LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/ Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital — money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Hold

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  Episode #8

  She Gave Her Entire Portfolio Away. Here's What Happened Next. | Funded Ep. 8

  Jul 28, 20261h 11m

  Nav became profitable in her first year of trading. Then she gave her entire portfolio away to help someone in a life-or-death situation. She sat at her desk for 17 hours a day with a paralyzed neck and rebuilt everything from scratch, growing 1,000% in four months. She ended up in the Wall Street Journal, had hedge fund partners calling her, turned them down to help retail traders instead, and built a community with 100% five-star reviews. No certifications. No license. Just life experience and a gift for getting into people's minds. In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with Nav Sandhu, trading psychology coach and founder of Market Mindset, for a conversation that goes way beyond charts. Nav breaks down why 95% of your trading decisions are controlled by your subconscious, why reading Trading in the Zone won't fix your psychology if you don't know how to implement it, and what theta state actually means for traders who keep doing the opposite of what they know they should do. She gets into why treating money like a partner changes your relationship with it entirely, how to stop revenge trading by shifting your energetic frequency, and why the feeling you're chasing in the markets is already inside you. This one goes places most trading podcasts never go. And at one point, Maryam starts crying. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - I Gave My Entire Portfolio Away. Then I Rebuilt It 1,000%. 00:52 - Who Is Nav Sandhu 02:09 - Why Trading Came Easy From the Start 07:13 - Giving the Portfolio Away and What It Cost Her 08:44 - 17 Hours a Day With a Paralyzed Neck 09:40 - The Wall Street Journal and the Hedge Fund Calls 12:27 - Why She Chose Retail Traders Over Hedge Funds 30:50 - Treat Money Like a Partner 36:23 - Manifestation vs. Aligned Action 41:37 - Theta State: Rewiring the Subconscious New episodes drop Tuesdays. Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube --> https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV Spotify --> https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA Apple Podcasts --> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589 For more from Tradeify and Tradeify TV, check out our website at https://tradeify.co/ Stay connected! Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding Twitter/X – https://x.com/Tradeify Discord – https://discord.com/invite/tradeify TAGS/KEYWORDS: Funded, Funded podcast, Tradeify, TradeifyTV, Nav Sandhu, navstrades, trading psychology, prop trading, futures trading, prop firm, Market Mindset, trading mindset, subconscious trading, theta state, manifestation trading, money mindset, trading energy, revenge trading, trading consistency, hedge fund psychology, retail trader, trading coach, spiritual trading, quantum physics trading, trading burnout, prop firm 2025, Maryam Rushdi, trading podcast, futures podcast, trading education, trading journey LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/ Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital -- money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Holdings, Corp. does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and is not responsible for any losses or damages resulting from reliance on this information.

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  Episode #7

  From Rock Bottom to the Biggest Name in Prop Trading | Funded Ep. 7

  Jul 14, 20261h 16m

  Big Daddy Max is the loudest voice in trading. But most people don't know the rest of the story. The Army paratrooper who cried on his brother's kitchen floor the week he got out. The salesman who did $2.3 million his first year. The options gambler who made a million and lost it. The man whose insurance brokerage collapsed in a single email and left him $400,000 in debt. And then the note he wrote on the back of his daughter's photo that changed everything. In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with Big Daddy Max - CEO of the Max Options Trading Network, 75,000-member Discord, and the loudest voice in this entire space - for the first real conversation about who he actually is behind the reaction videos. Max breaks down how he lost $139,000 in three hours on a Costco credit spread, how he threw the biggest in-person futures prop event in history in four months with a hotel bill close to a million dollars, and why he gave a nine-months-pregnant woman fleeing her abusive husband a cash account instead of money - and watched her turn it into $60,000. He gets into his ABCD framework, why he hasn't missed a day of posting in seven years, and what it looks like to build everything from zero twice. This one goes deep. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - $400K in Debt. Don't Fuck This Up. 00:36 - From Army Paratrooper to Big Daddy Max 03:28 - Rock Bottom After the Military 07:37 - First Week in Options: $40K and No Idea What He Was Doing 13:24 - Switching to Options Selling and Quitting the Day Job 27:00 - Free Community and Why He Does It 34:34 - The Photo on the Desk, the Baby, and the Most Profitable 17 Months 37:42 - $400,000 in Debt: The Insurance Brokerage Collapse 51:07 - The Biggest Futures Prop Event in History 57:36 - ABCD: Max's Framework for Everything New episodes drop Tuesdays. Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube --> https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV Spotify --> https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA Apple Podcasts --> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589 For more from Tradeify and Tradeify TV, check out our website at https://tradeify.co/ Stay connected! 📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding 🐦 Twitter/X – https://x.com/Tradeify 🎧 Discord – https://discord.com/invite/tradeify TAGS/KEYWORDS: Funded, Funded podcast, Tradeify, TradeifyTV, Big Daddy Max, Max Options Trading, prop trading, futures trading, options trading, options selling, prop firm, prop firm payout, trading psychology, trading mindset, trading discipline, trading consistency, military trader, Army veteran trader, trading comeback, $400K debt, trading rock bottom, discipline over dopamine, ABCD framework, trading community, free Discord, prop trading event, Maryam Rushdi, trading podcast, futures podcast, trading education, trading journey, trading resilience LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/ Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital -- money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Holdings, Corp. does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and is not responsible for any losses or damages resulting from reliance on this information.

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  Episode #6

  He Ignored the Big Payouts and Focused on This Instead | Funded Ep. 6

  Jul 8, 20261h 13m

  Amas is 22 years old. He started trading at 18, went straight to prop firms, built his strategy with his brother, and decided from day one that he was going to do the complete opposite of everything the internet was telling him. Low risk-to-reward. Base hits. Mechanical entries. No discretion. No flash. No $200K months. His goal was $3,000 a month. Then he built from there. In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with Amas -- TradeifyTV host and one of the most refreshingly honest voices in the prop trading space -- for a conversation about what it actually looks like to build quietly and intentionally. Amas breaks down why he thinks discretion is a word bad educators use to avoid admitting they have a bad strategy, why you could be trading noise for five years and never know it, and how a mechanical one-to-one system built on base hits creates more certainty than chasing big risk-to-reward setups ever could. He also gets into the Dunning-Kruger effect in trading, why keeping your expenses low is one of the most important trading decisions you can make, and how DM'ing Brett on Twitter turned him into Tradeify's first exclusive affiliate. This one is for the traders who are tired of being told they need to go bigger. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - If You're Aiming for Consistency, Making a Living Is Possible 00:36 - Who Is Amas and How He Got Here 03:17 - Why He Went Straight to Prop Firms From Day One 08:58 - Building the Strategy With His Brother and Why They Stopped Listening to Everyone 13:18 - Low Risk-to-Reward, Base Hits, and Why Boring Works 22:02 - Flashy Lifestyles Are the Opposite of Real Trading 33:49 - Discretion Is a Bad Strategy in Disguise 42:00 - You Could Be Trading Noise for Five Years and Not Know It 52:12 - Fitness, Fasting, and How the Body Affects the Charts 1:01:21 - How He Became Tradeify's First Exclusive Affiliate New episodes drop Tuesdays. Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589 For more from Tradeify and Tradeify TV, check out our website at https://tradeify.co/ Stay connected! 📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding 🐦 Twitter/X – https://x.com/Tradeify 🎧 Discord – https://discord.com/invite/tradeify TAGS/KEYWORDS: Funded, Funded podcast, Tradeify, TradeifyTV, Amas, AmasPFT, prop trading, futures trading, prop firm, prop firm payout, trading psychology, trading discipline, mechanical trading strategy, low risk reward trading, base hits trading, trading consistency, discretion trading, backtesting, Dunning-Kruger trading, trading boring, prop firm business model, trading lifestyle, intermittent fasting trading, trading mindset, prop firm 2025, Maryam Rushdi, trading podcast, futures podcast, trading education, scalping strategy, trading from scratch LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/ Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital -- money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Holdings, Corp. does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and is not responsible for any losses or damages resulting from reliance on this information.

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  Episode #5

  Two Traders. Four Years. Every Win and Loss Together. | Funded Ep. 5

  Jun 23, 20261h 9m

  Dhesi blew his brother's bank account trading meme stocks at 17. He was profitable eight months later. Brian got lucky on penny stocks during COVID, dropped out of college with one year left, and never called the school back. Both of them have been building in parallel for years -- talking every day, pushing each other, watching every run happen in real time. In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with both of them for a conversation about what it actually looks like to grow together. Dhesi breaks down how he was up $380,000 with 10 days left to a max payout -- and watched it go to zero in three days. He gets into the motto that changed his trading: speed up by slowing down. Brian walks through the silver run that generated $2.7 million in two weeks, why every trader has a moment they just have to survive long enough to reach, and what it cost him to figure out that trading every session around the clock was actually making him worse. They also get real about psychology over strategy, when to shut the charts off entirely, and why the two-person support system they built is the thing neither of them could have done this without. This one hits different when you hear it from two people who watched each other earn it. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - The Less I Do, The More I Make 00:37 - How Brian and Dhesi Met 03:33 - Blowing His Brother's Bank Account on Meme Stocks 07:00 - Brian's Story: Lucky Runs, Dropping Out, No Plan B 13:04 - Capital Preservation and Slowing Down to Speed Up 18:51 - How Do You Know When to Shut It Off 22:49 - Two Different Styles, Same Foundation 34:16 - Brian's $2.7M Silver Run 38:14 - $380K Gone in 3 Days. Then a $936K Month. 51:00 - You're a Trader First. Content Is Second. New episodes drop Tuesdays. Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube --> https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV Spotify --> https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA Apple Podcasts --> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589 For more from Tradeify and Tradeify TV, check out our website at https://tradeify.co/ Stay connected! 📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding 🐦 Twitter/X – https://x.com/Tradeify 🎧 Discord – https://discord.com/invite/tradeify TAGS/KEYWORDS: Funded, Funded podcast, Tradeify, TradeifyTV, Brian Stonks, DesiTrades, prop trading, futures trading, prop firm, prop firm payout, trading psychology, trading discipline, trading consistency, trading support system, ICT trading, silver trading, speed up by slowing down, trading burnout, when to stop trading, trader mindset, capital preservation, trading community, prop firm 2025, Maryam Rushdi, trading podcast, futures podcast, trading education, trading journey LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/ Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital -- money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Holdings, Corp. does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and is not responsible for any losses or damages resulting from reliance on this information.

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