Call To Leap · Personal Finance · Investing · Trading · United States
Former Los Angeles middle school math teacher who runs Call To Leap, a personal finance and investing education business selling an options-focused membership and a coaching program.
Steve Chen is a personal finance and investing content creator and the founder of Call To Leap. According to a Business Insider profile republished by Entrepreneur in March 2021, he taught middle school math in Los Angeles starting in 2014 and quit teaching in February 2020, at age 33, after saving and investing enough to live off his investments. His own about page, where he signs as founder of CALLTOLEAP, repeats that he left his job as a public middle school math teacher after becoming financially free at 33. He is a different person from Steve Chen, the co-founder of YouTube: none of the information on this page refers to the YouTube co-founder, and the sources cited here identify this Steve Chen through Call To Leap and its linked accounts.
Call To Leap operates two websites: calltoleap.com, which hosts the membership area, and invest.calltoleap.com, which hosts free lead magnets, the investing class sign-up and the coaching application. He also hosts The Financial Freedom Faster Podcast, which had 45 episodes listed on Apple Podcasts as of September 14, 2026, the latest dated April 19, 2026.
He publishes on TikTok (@calltoleap, about 1.7 million followers and a verified badge), YouTube (@calltoleap, about 734,000 subscribers and roughly 1,300 videos) and Instagram (@calltoleap), all linked from his website; figures read on September 14, 2026. His TikTok bio says most of his students are 40 or older and claims a portfolio above $1.5 million and more than 5,000 people joined; his website claims he has helped 5,000+ wealth builders. These figures are self-reported and no independent source confirms them.
What he sells: the calltoleap.com homepage shows an annual membership called HYDRA at $399 per year, marked down from $550. It bundles three video levels (Level 1 on ETF investing, the Wheel Strategy, covered calls and cash-secured puts; Level 2 on LEAPS options; Level 3 on spreads, margin and bearish strategies), quizzes, weekly "Membership Positions", a Discord community, a stock market simulator and coaching support. Separately, invest.calltoleap.com offers a free investing class and a free $1M Investing Roadmap, and an application for the P.A.I.D. Accelerator, a coaching program whose price is not published: applicants fill out a form and book a strategy call, after which they may be invited to 1:1 coaching.
Reputation: in March 2021 Business Insider (republished by Entrepreneur) and the Foundation for Economic Education profiled his move from teaching to roughly $28,000 a month in income from tutoring, content creation, two rental homes and investments, figures he provided. A February 2024 QuickBooks blog post about him is a customer story for Intuit's product, not independent coverage. The Accelerator page states that its content is not financial, investment, legal or tax advice. A FINRA BrokerCheck search for "Steve Chen" on September 14, 2026 returned 44 individuals, none associated with Call To Leap, and a firm search for "Call to Leap" returned no results; from these records alone it cannot be determined whether he holds any securities registration. No FTC or state attorney general action naming Call To Leap was found in a web search on September 14, 2026.
Not confirmed: his current city of residence, his exact date of birth, the price of the Accelerator coaching program, and any independent verification of his student count or portfolio size.
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| Program | Type | Published price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| HYDRA Annual Membership Annual membership with three video levels on ETF investing and options strategies (Wheel Strategy, covered calls, cash-secured puts, LEAPS, spreads), quizzes, weekly membership positions, Discord community, stock market simulator and coaching support. Shown at $399/year, reduced from $550, on September 14, 2026. | Community | $399 Checked Sep 15, 2026 | View |
| P.A.I.D. Accelerator Coaching program built on his P.A.I.D. Strategy. Applicants complete a form and book a strategy call to receive a customized investing roadmap and may be invited to 1:1 coaching. Price not published. | Mentorship | Not published Checked Sep 15, 2026 | View |
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He is a former Los Angeles middle school math teacher who left teaching in February 2020 at age 33 and founded Call To Leap, a personal finance and investing education brand with about 1.7 million TikTok followers and 734,000 YouTube subscribers as of September 2026. He is a different person from the YouTube co-founder Steve Chen.
On September 14, 2026 the calltoleap.com homepage listed the HYDRA annual membership at $399 per year, shown as reduced from $550. It includes three levels of options and ETF investing videos, weekly membership positions, Discord access and coaching support. The P.A.I.D. Accelerator coaching program has no public price; it requires an application and a strategy call.
Beginner investing with ETFs and income-oriented options strategies: the Wheel Strategy, covered calls, cash-secured puts, LEAPS and spreads. His podcast also covers Roth IRAs, HSAs and side hustles. His TikTok bio says most of his students are 40 or older.
What can be checked: the membership and coaching application are live on his official sites, and his teacher-to-creator story was covered by Business Insider in 2021 based on figures he supplied. Claims of a $1.5M+ portfolio and 5,000+ students are his own and not independently verified. On September 14, 2026, BrokerCheck showed no Steve Chen linked to Call To Leap, and no FTC or state attorney general action naming the company turned up in a web search.
His website does not mention any securities license, and his coaching page says its content is not financial or investment advice. A BrokerCheck search on September 14, 2026 listed 44 people named Steve Chen, none tied to Call To Leap, so the records reviewed do not show a registration for him; that alone does not prove he has none.
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