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Just finished Season 1, and my first impression is that Glenn Stearns is a freaking GENIUS, and a great guy!! He may be the first rich guy that found a way to beautifully bridge the world of the super wealthy with the world of everyday common folk in a really beautiful, relatable, touching and more importantly lasting way. That's very interesting, educational and inspiring to watch. And at the end it just leaves you feeling optimistic for the future.

I don't think I can praise this show enough. It's so good! I'm kinda shocked of how little popularity it has. I only found out about it because Chris D'Elia joked about it on his podcast yesterday. And the premise of the show sounded too interesting to ignore.

The show also uses its own popularity to promote the MacGuffin of the story in a proactive way. Again it's just genius.

I give a standing ovation to everyone involved with the show.

Great job!

Ive only seen the first episode but I can tell that this is a show I'll be watching regularly. Having been in a similar situation and learning how to crawl out of a tough situation, I find it very inspiring. I'm very anxious to see how he pulls it off (creating a million $ business in 90 days). My situation didnt improve as much as Glenn's did unfortunately! (I have to assume he succeeds in his mission because I don't see the show being aired if he doesn't pull it off). To sum up my review: Great show Discovery Channel! I highly recommend it!

Show me where anybody with no job is going to be given a loan to buy a house by a bank with no JOB... AND a $10,000.00 cash loan to fix the house up with. NEVER going to happen. Never going to happen!!

This is how you make a documentary TV series.

It is well shot, well paced, well edited and follows the story with a great plot. Really interesting concept for the reality show.

I don't care if it's fake, it's entertaining and I enjoy every minute of it.

Finally, a TV series that makes people think in a positive and in an inspiring way! Everyone should watch this show because it actually teaches ordinary people HOW to get out there and make an honest living! No excuse for laziness and a life of crime stealing from others when YOU can use YOUR brain and make a few bucks with little in your pocket! It proves that you don't have to rely on the government for anything! Get out there an look for creative ways to put money in your pocket - not by stealing, killing someone else because you don't want to work hard to make money. The Government only wants to keep you down and dumb so they can control your mind and make you a slave to them!

My husband and I found this show on an airplane. We loved the first season, we've learned so much (from the first season) and applied alot of the ideas to our own life. The second season was far worse though, filled with agendas too. All 3 of the contestants were a bunch of brats.

This show is great for anybody who doesn't believe in themselves and doesn't know if they're good enough to chase their dreams. Your family, friends, and anybody who isn't you will not believe your most wonderful dreams are possible. Glenn Stearns proves that with a little hard work, patience, and perseverance, everything is possible. Self-esteem and success shouldn't be mutually exclusive. No matter who is in what office of any government, the people will always have the heart, soul, and mind to achieve anything they set out to do. Once you're feeling a little inspired by something, pay it forward!!!! All you need is love. And that's what Undercover Billionaires is about; the intangibles, not millions of dollars.

The lessons within the show alone are invaluable because he can truly be applied in real life to achieve similar results. It just takes a unique perspective in order to assimilate & apply what he's sharing.

I truly hope this show inspires people to realize that it doesn't matter where you're at in life, you can accomplish anything you set your mind to.

I first heard about this billionaire, when he was worth about $100 million, back in the early 2000s. He was living in Orange County CA, building company. I remember hearing his wife say that on their first date, as he was telling her a story about his past, she all of a sudden knew that he was the man she was going to spend her life with. So happy to see that they have been married for 16-years now. I recall that she was a news reporter working in L.A. To help her deal with the rush hour drive, he hired her a personal driver to make the daily commute.

Now about the show. Not much happens in the first episode with regards to seeing him build a business. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this is not like other business reality shows in that the entire season takes us through this one billionaires journey rather than a new store, new billionaire each week.

Even though he states several times, that he has a cover story about why their are cameras following him around, I have to assume that in reality, some if not most of the people in the town, knew right away that all was not as it was presented to them. Let's face it, when was the last time someone made a reality show about a homeless man trying to find a job and create a life in a small town? That's basically the cover story he and the show are claiming to be selling to the small town community.

I plan to DVR the entire season not just because I am an entrepreneur but also because I happen to like the guy as I had a very good impression, reading about him and seeing a video of him in the early 2000s, seeing his home and his wedding that he had in his Newport Beach backyard.

This was an unexpected tv show I decide to watch.

Must say its worth your time and very informative.

This first season was extremely helpful in learning how a billionaire thinks.

There is a quote that I'll paraphrase that goes: you should be able to build a mindset and skills to the point of abandoning everything and rebuilding it from scratch on an island.

Meaning, if you built something successful, one's true skills will be tested to see if they can do it again, but with less at their disposal.

Undercover Billionaire are my above thoughts and life realizations manifested into a tv show.

A truly great idea and tough to execute into a show. Wow.

PLEASE, ignore the miserable haters! This is a MUST WATCH SHOW! Being an Entrepreneur myself, being in the midst of a Covid Pivot, the tips have really given me some much needed confidence to launch my 2nd chance biz with my Covid Discovery Passion which is Art!

Season 2- hooked! Elaine is a ROCKSTAR- just sayin! What each of the 3 did for the communities they were thrust into, the LIVES they changed, watching them become a "real person" again and actually struggle is what made the show.

Watch and learn how the American dream is still alive. Get inspired.

I hope there is a Season 4! As I LOVE the premise of this shpw!

This show is packed with overt and subtle lessons about how to start a business, make money, and manage relationships. I don't necessarily think it's the best reality show/documentary. But for those interested in business it's fascinating.

However appealing the notion that the "American Dream" remains strong, particularly to North American audiences, "Undercover Billionaire" feels completely fabricated, unauthentic and seriously flawed on numerous occasions.

Who manages to sleep (and survive?) in a car wearing only the slimmest of winter jackets when the temperature outside is less than 30 degrees F.? Who runs a car engine for hours without running out of fuel?

Glenn rented an apartment and signed 2 leases for restaurant premises. He would have had to provide personal identification in each situation, thus disclosing his name. The same would have applied for using the small development business centre.

Glenn wouldn't have been able to buy a house and get a mortgage using a false identity, which would have been criminal. Obtaining a mortgage without disclosing one's real name is also fraudulent and any mortgage company would have required personal information disclosing who he really is and his net worth. The later would have made obtaining a mortgage very easy, but I'm very dubious about the very short amount of time it took to buy the house considering the legal and mortgage documentation required. Why didn't he carry out a survey that would have identified the mould problem is another question mark for me, especially when he states that he is an experienced property owner.

If the Underdog BBQ business was incorporated, he would have had to disclose his personal information to someone at some point in time, especially if he ended up being an officer of that company.

Glenn is seen signing cheques ... Was that with a fake signature and thus fraudulent?

And, what about the alcohol license for the restaurant. How did this happen so quickly?

One of the members of the Underdog BBQ team tells a colleague of hers that his research skills on the Internet are poor because he wasn't able to find out who Glenn was. Surprise, surprise! It took me 3 minutes to find a lot about Gleen using a few basic search words in Google and 3 different approaches (each excluding "Underdog" and "BBQ", and one excluding "TV show"). Glenn's personal website was very easy to find.

Glenn is clearly very experienced in business, articulated, structured, well-spoken, charismatic and at ease in front of the camera which, combined, are not traits of your average person.

I find it strange that some of the participants where willing to put their livelihoods and jobs on the line for Glenn, without knowing or at least hoping that there was an opportunity lurking in the background.

Finally, being followed by a camera crew and production staff usually gives a hint to people that something is not normal.

In short, despite its feel-good factor and interesting key learning points about starting and running a business, "Undercover Billionaire" feels fake, unrealistic and completely manipulated to prove a point. In that, it's more a dream than the American Dream.

Yes, as a show it is good as it demonstrated how to work hard, how one person can keep trying to find solutions - this part of the show is true, it is lacking on some of the people.

However, don't take this serious enough to think you can replicate what just happened in the show to create YOURSELF a million-dollar business in 90 days or a year or even longer. just like everyone else mentioned that you can not get a loan when you have nothing, and you can not get 10 people to work for you for nothing, you may get a good friend help you out a couple of hours for a few days, but not to this extent..

Again, a TV show is a TV show, and sit back and enjoy!

In one of the episodes the narrator says Glenn Stearns (his real name) has got himself a house/lease.

Seems that it is the little school of the enterprenning and seems that there are a lot of real scenes but acquaring the loan from the bank with no deposit, not bank history, not the mortgage is a little bit much staged.Pitty, because the general idea of realizing the American dream in 90 days is wonderfool.