The first time I looked into the eyes of my newborn child, my life was changed forever. An earthshattering feeling of love, humility and responsibility overwhelmed me and I realized at that moment that I had a new job that would last the rest of my life. Fatherhood has brought me more pleasure than I ever imagined. There is nothing I enjoy more than seeing my kids happy, especially when they are learning and challenging themselves. When my kids did theater or debate, I hated to miss even one performance and when they played sports, I went all in. My wife has a special smile when she looks at our kids. I can’t really describe it except to say that it’s a different smile, a deeper one and it makes my heart melt.
However, in between those incredible moments of joy, comes a lot of work and it isn’t all fun. We have a big job as parents and fathers. Our job is to instill values, provide our kids with the tools to succeed in life, and create better people. I believe kids learn more from what they see than what they hear. Today with the Coronavirus, a broken economy, and the Black Lives Matter Movement we are all seeing the best and the worst in people, and as fathers we have the heightened responsibility of pointing out which is which. If you are like me and your kids are mostly grown, you have to do it in a conversation, so it’s a great time to have family meetings where everyone can share their impressions and you can provide some historical context. I have been surprised by how attuned my kids have been to what is going on around us and how formulated their opinions are. Thankfully, they know the difference between protesting and looting and why wearing a mask in public is actually a considerate thing to do and not a political statement. But my kids have also struggled with frustration and fear over the last few months, and that’s where I need to step up even more as their dad.
For me, it is important that my children see me as being on the right side of history. I have been thinking about that a lot lately. I remember when I was a kid watching a documentary on the civil rights movement with my parents. I learned about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his adversaries. At the time it seemed so obvious to me who the good guys were and who were the bad guys, and I thought about what shame the kids of racists, segregationists and appeasers must feel when they saw documentaries like the one we were watching. While hindsight is always vivid, and right from wrong today may not seem as obvious to some people as it is when we look back at the sixties, I am certain that in a few years there will be no question who the heroes of 2020 were and who were their antagonists. As I look to the future, I want my kids and grandkids to have zero doubt about where I stood. To my fellow Dads I think it’s safe to say that today is a Father’s Day few of us will ever forget. As wonderful as it is to be blessed with a family, make no mistake, fatherhood is a job, but it’s my favorite job.
I was watching a podcast recently, and something about it rubbed me the wrong way — but it also got my wheels turning. In this episode, I talk about what I love most about being American, why the system that built this country deserves more appreciation than it gets, and why some of the loudest “love it or leave it” voices go strangely quiet when powerful billionaires openly criticize the very system that made their success possible. This is a conversation about America, double standards, and what real patriotism should actually look like.
This April, the Hispanic Wealth Project is launching its High Net Worth Boot Camp, a 10-week intensive built around some of the most valuable wealth-building education I’ve seen. In this episode, I talk about why so many of us need to shift from a worker’s mentality to an owner’s mentality, why economic success has to move from consumption to wealth building, and why building wealth takes knowledge, work, and discipline. The High Net Worth Boot Camp is designed to help close that knowledge gap with modules on securities investing, real estate investments, buying and selling businesses, asset protection, and tax strategies. If building real wealth has ever felt out of reach or unclear, this is the kind of education that can change how we think and what we build.
The data tells a powerful story: Latinos are driving economic growth in America. If Latino Americans were a standalone country, we’d be the fifth-largest economy in the world, and without Latino homebuyers, the number of homeowners in America would have declined in 2025. So why doesn’t it feel like we’re winning? In this episode, I talk about the gap between growth and perception, why we still don’t have enough strong voices shaping the national conversation, and why purchasing power alone is not enough. Growth matters, but wealth matters more. This is a conversation about leadership, visibility, and what it will really take for our community to turn momentum into lasting power.