If you’re in business, you probably hear a lot about the importance of managing your relationships. Good sales professionals maintain a database of past customers and prospects, but I actually know only a handful of people who are truly exceptional at relationship management. Here are some tips on managing relationships that can help you business-wise and personally for the rest of your life.
- Be authentic. If you genuinely care about people, this will be easy. People can smell fake.
- Don’t always be selling something. You have heard the phrase “he only cares about people who can do something for him”. I have recently been getting messages from people who I haven’t heard from in years, mostly because they think REOs are coming back, and believe that I may be able to help them. Of course, I know they couldn’t care less about me, they only want something. Like most people, if I am going to help anyone, it’s going to be the people who have proven to me over time that our relationship is based on something more than what I can give them.
- Your most valuable relationships are the people who you have helped in the past. Everyone likes the idea of having rich, successful friends, but I believe if you spend your life focused on helping people, you will never need anything. My father told me to always be kind to people because you never know when or where you will see that person again. Definitely one of the best pieces of advice he gave me.
- Don’t think short-term. It takes time to build a strong relationship with someone. People are only focused on the immediate. Your most valuable relationships are the ones that have survived the test of time.
- Trust is everything in a relationship. I severed a relationship this week with someone I have known for years. It was disappointing to have to do it, but this person proved they couldn’t be trusted. A decade of friendship can be lost in a moment if you violate someone’s trust.
We all have a finite amount of relationship capital, and like money, the more you invest the more capital you will have when you need it.
In this episode, I talk about why progress rarely comes from perfect ideas or moral certainty—and why waiting for purity often keeps us stuck. Idealism can feel virtuous, but history shows that real change happens when people are willing to act, accept imperfection, and move forward anyway. For our community, that means choosing momentum over stagnation, results over symbolism, and responsibility over comfort. If we’re serious about building power, dignity, and lasting progress, this is a conversation we need to have—honestly and without illusions.
In this episode, I talk about something we’re almost never encouraged to say out loud: wealth is power—literally. Not likes, not outrage, not visibility. I break down why real influence comes from ownership and leverage, not consumption; why income feeds families but equity builds dynasties; and why a wealthy Latino with a clear purpose shouldn’t be seen as a problem, but as proof of what’s possible. If you’ve ever felt uneasy talking about money or ambition, I’d love for you to watch this one and think about what “owning more” could look like for you and our community.
For a long time, Latinos in America were told a comforting story: work hard, be loyal, and eventually the power would follow. In this episode, I talk about why that story was never completely true—and why visibility, outrage, and good intentions still don’t translate into real power. I lay out what every successful group in this country eventually figured out about leverage, capital, and building our own institutions, and why 2026 has to be the year we stop waiting for permission and start playing a different game. If you’re ready to think beyond parties, elections, and slogans, this is where that conversation begins.