What is Ambitious Investing, according to this interview?
Ambitious Investing is a forex trading mentorship and community, hosted by Rihari. In this podcast episode, mentor Vigo describes it as a structured education platform split into beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, with a community attached where members chat, share progress and run "battles on FX replay" together.
Vigo compares the learning process to university: "it's like going to uni right you come into uni... you can spend going through the entire education platform and the pods and stuff." His point is that finishing the content is only the start. He says mastering the material, and controlling your own behaviour while trading live, takes far longer than working through the lessons.
Nothing in the transcript sets out pricing, refund terms or specific course contents beyond this general structure, so treat those details as unconfirmed until you check directly with the business.
Who is Vigo, the mentor in this interview?
Vigo is a mentor inside Ambitious Investing, and this episode is largely his personal story. He grew up in Auckland, has a background in rugby league as a player and later an NRL referee, and has done modelling work alongside his day job at Auckland Rugby League.
His trading history, in his own words: he got into crypto around 2016, mostly for spending money on trips, and picked up "real basics" like trend lines and candle patterns around 2017-2018. He says he only came across day trading "properly" at the end of 2024, and started badly, following paid signal sellers promising to "make you a millionaire". He says he burned through cash because he hadn't learned risk management or market structure, and by around March 2025 he was ready to quit trading altogether.
He then found Rihari through Instagram and YouTube, followed him for about a month before signing up, and says the mentorship had roughly 180 members when he joined, growing to around 300 within two months and to "nearly 800" by the time of this recording. These are Vigo's own recollections, not independently verified figures.
Before finding this mentorship, Vigo also tried copy trading through a bot that automatically mirrored someone else's crypto trades. By his account it didn't work well for him, partly because he was "skeptical around bots" at the time and didn't fully understand how the automation worked. He also describes the wider crypto market itself as unpredictable, saying "the crypto market is just, it's like a lottery."
Vigo says he became a mentor after reaching out directly, mentioning his prior background as a tutor with the New Zealand Institute of Sport and with at-risk youth. He offered to help newer members through the basics, and says he was invited onto the mentoring team shortly after that conversation. That's the process he describes for his own move from student to mentor, not a claim about how every mentor there is chosen.
Is Ambitious Investing a scam?
This is a fair question, and the transcript actually raises it directly. Vigo says that before he joined, "people are like, oh bro, it's a scam, they only make money off the stuff that they're selling." He also says he was initially put off by other operators in the space using aggressive "sign up sign up sign up" tactics, and that this pushed him away from trading education generally for a while.
His conclusion, in his own words, was that Rihari's approach felt different: free content shared upfront, no hard sell, and visible proof (he says he saw people withdraw money before he signed up himself). That's a personal impression from someone who went on to become a paid mentor for the business, so it's a testimonial, not independent verification.
The transcript doesn't contain anything about licensing, regulatory registration, complaint history or independently audited results. If legitimacy in the legal or regulatory sense matters to you, that's something to check yourself with the relevant regulator, separate from anyone's opinion in this interview, including Vigo's.
What does the Ambitious Investing mentorship actually cover?
Based on Vigo's description, the mentorship runs through three stages: beginner, intermediate and advanced. The beginner stage covers foundational things like setting up a TradingView account and basic chart reading. He says this stage moved quickly for him because of his earlier, informal crypto experience.
He describes the intermediate stage as where "a lot of the learning started happening", and says the volume of new information can be overwhelming: "it's hit you all so so hard at once... you need to compartmentalize it." He says he rewatched intermediate videos two or three times to absorb the material properly before moving on.
By his account, the advanced stage is where trading psychology becomes the main focus, more than strategy itself. He says a book on habit change helped him personally with this shift, and describes the strategy taught in the advanced stage as effective for him once refined, though he's speaking about his own results rather than a guaranteed outcome for every member.
Beyond the course content, he describes a community element: members chatting, comparing notes, and running FX replay sessions together, which he says has produced friendships and a sense of "being part of a group" for some members. He also recounts being recognised by a stranger at a car service centre as "that guy from Ambitious Investing", which he offers as a personal anecdote about the community's visibility, not as evidence of trading results.
Does Ambitious Investing guarantee you'll make money trading?
No, and nothing in the transcript suggests otherwise. In fact Vigo is direct about the opposite: trading involves real losses, and most people make avoidable mistakes early on. He estimates that "85, 90% of people" who come to him with account problems are revenge trading or FOMOing into trades they shouldn't.
He describes his own experience of this cycle: "you have that human kind of behaviour where you're like, revenge trade, nah, I gotta get the money back. And then you keep going and then boom, account gone." He also says that even after learning a strategy, becoming consistently profitable takes ongoing back-testing, forward-testing and journaling, not a fixed timeframe.
He's also clear that finishing the education doesn't equal profitability: "you're not gonna be a profitable trader straight away you might get some be some good wins... but you know it takes time to master your craft." Any suggestion that the mentorship removes the risk of loss, or promises a specific income, isn't supported by anything said in this interview.
Should you sign up for Ambitious Investing?
That's your call, and it's worth separating fact from opinion here. When asked what he'd do with $1,000 as a beginner, Vigo says: "I would put a down deposit on ambitious investing... this is not a sales pitch like I'm actually being for real." That's a genuine answer from someone who now mentors for the business, so weigh it as a personal recommendation from an insider, not neutral proof of results.
What the same conversation makes clear is that trading carries real risk of loss, that most beginners make costly mistakes, and that reaching consistency takes sustained time and discipline rather than a quick course. Vigo puts it plainly: "the strat is goaded, I'm telling you," meaning he rates the approach he was taught, but in the same breath he says mastering it, not just learning it, is "a different thing" and admits "how many people are successful in there that we don't even like post about... very hard."
If you're weighing this up, it's reasonable to want more than one person's account before deciding, and to check the operational and regulatory details yourself rather than relying on a podcast interview alone.