25 Jun 2026
City Boy, Confessions, and Why Psychopaths Run the World - Geraint Anderson- Ep145
Want more from yourself and success in your life?The Whole Man Academy has three membership levels — Spark, The Network, and Nexus — for ambitious men who want more from themselves and the men around them.JOIN HERE → https://www.skool.com/the-network-who... (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa09pY2hkWHlzb1hkUnpIdndFaGh2bjVSNXZzd3xBQ3Jtc0tuaGVDTEhNX0M2QjhGTTA3U0FrNTJ3aXhfLXVOS0RWaWxUQ2VHY0R1X3BJQVk1b3k5MmFoUjNqa0hESXFPbjRRTWZpYTZJcDFIWHNrZnFLSllYMDU4dU16NDEwVDJxUXlQWmRLaWVZR0Y1bUxFTTBDZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skool.com%2Fthe-network-whole-man-academy%2Fabout&v=ZOcI1LXwB9w)Geraint Anderson spent 12 years in the City of London — four banks, one anonymous column read by half a million people every Friday, and a lifestyle that involved everything you'd expect and a few things you probably wouldn't.He's best known as City Boy — the pseudonymous columnist for the London Paper who pulled back the curtain on the debauchery, corruption, insider trading, and sheer madness of pre-2008 banking. The column became a book. The book came out the month between Bear Stearns collapsing and Lehman Brothers falling. The timing was, to put it mildly, interesting.Now he's back with a new book — How to Con Friends and Manipulate People: The Subtle Art of Being a Titled Psychopath — out 2nd July. It's a parody of the tactics used by the Musks and Logan Roys of the world, a darkly funny manual on what it actually takes to get ahead in a post-shame, post-truth world, and a serious question about whether any of it is worth it.Geraint now lives in the Black Mountains of Wales. No coke, no strippers. Just dogs, chickens, and a half marathon PB of 1:44 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOcI1LXwB9w&t=104s) at 53. He seems to have landed well.In this episode, we get into:— The real reason he jumped four banks in five years (it wasn't ambition — it was imposter syndrome in full flight)— What the trading floor was actually like: why it rewarded banter, quick wit, and a certain kind of ruthlessness— The anonymous column that became his confessional — and what happened the day City Boy was uncovered— Why the bonus system turns ordinary men into something close to psychopaths, and whether that's actually useful— His new book: what psychopaths have that the rest of us don't, and whether you can fake it convincingly enough to matter— The 2008 crash, the K-shaped economy, and why conspiracy theories took off the moment bankers got bailed out— AI, the one-person billion-dollar business, and what the next decade actually looks like for ambitious menThis one's for you if:You've worked in a competitive environment and recognised the game being played around you. You've got imposter syndrome but kept going anyway. You're building something and want to understand the landscape — economic, psychological, human — more clearly. Or you just want an honest, funny, no-bullshit conversation between two blokes who've been in the room and aren't pretending otherwise.Geraint's new book How to Con Friends and Manipulate People is available now.https://geni.us/YsMum (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbEx0SnNfT2ljdk44UWVEUWNCSjNTbDd4VE1ZQXxBQ3Jtc0trTV9vRU9QQjNXSVRodzhQRk9KeVJHVkdDc0FrUzRYdDZPSkIycjBSZzFJOWJWRXpOaDNFNm5PMXZXNzNKamdIeWR3cm02QzRoVk5zUk5HdVlxek52bjZrSEJoSzU5dUFjbEsydFJud1JnOFcxREZ3SQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fgeni.us%2FYsMum&v=ZOcI1LXwB9w)
