# #532 Xavier Rivera: How Did a $300K Trade Erase $60K Debt?

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Podcast: [21st Century Entrepreneurship](https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325)
Published: 2026-07-24T16:00:00+00:00
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Xavier Rivera is a former U.S. Marine, trader, and financial education mentor, and we spoke about turning a $200 teenage investment into $20,000—then borrowing $60,000, losing most of it, and spending four years trapped in debt. At 17, he entered the military believing his basic needs would be covered while he learned the markets, but the failed pharmaceutical trade pushed him so far into pressure that, as he says, “I was so deep in survival mode.” During a nine-month deployment aboard the US...

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