Everyone keeps telling you to “follow your passion” and the money will magically show up. That advice is bullshit. In this episode of the Bedros Keuilian Show, I break down one of the biggest lies sold to people in their 20s: that passion and career are supposed to be the same thing. They’re not. Chasing passion is why so many people bounce from opportunity to opportunity, never build mastery, and end up broke, frustrated, and average. Here’s the truth: every path involves pain. The pain of doing the work. Or the pain of being broke. If you only do things when you “feel passionate,” you’ll never stick around long enough to become a specialist, an expert, an authority, or a leader people actually pay attention to. Real money lives at the top and getting there takes years of discipline, consistency, and doing work you don’t always enjoy. If you’re tired of being broke, tired of starting over, and tired of lying to yourself about why you keep quitting this episode is your wake-up call. Choose the pain of hard work… or accept the pain of being broke.