For those of us who are missing sports, The Last Dance, has become a weekly sanctuary. The ESPN 10-part documentary takes a deep dive into the career of basketball legend, Michael Jordan. Jordan is widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time, but the film is a lot more than a collage of basketball highlights, it provides a back-stage view of the mindset, and resilience that it takes to achieve the absolute pinnacle of any profession.
Jordan is a contemporary of mine and I observed his career in real time. As a Laker fan, I generally rooted against him except, of course, when he played against the Celtics, but his athletic virtuosity was like nothing I had ever seen. He was so talented, it was easy to assume that his championships and individual achievements came easy, and hard to relate to him. However, the best parts of The Last Dance, show the heartache, adversity and drama that Jordan and his Bulls had to overcome to win six NBA titles, and the complicated chemistry among players and coaches that is required to be successful in team sports. The NBA was different in the 80’s and 90’s. I was one of the many who believed that part of Jordan’s success was the era in which he played. He came when Magic and Bird were on the decline and before Kobe and Shaq hit their prime, but it was also when the league was at its most physical. Jordan loved to attack the basket and man; he took a beating. A foul that would likely earn a suspension today, was just an ordinary foul in the Jordan era. The documentary also shows that Jordan himself was not perfect. He had his own insecurities and demons to deal with.
The Last Dance is for sports fans, so I’m not going to try to convince someone who is not interested in basketball to watch it, but the themes and plot lines could apply to just about anything. Michael Jordan might be the most prodigious athlete of all time, but his physical talents guaranteed him nothing. It was his competitive spirit, toughness and his uncanny ability to overcome any challenge that made him who he was…one of the most successful American athletes of all time.
A recent exchange about astronaut Victor Glover raised a bigger question that a lot of people are still wrestling with: if the goal is equality, why are we still talking about race at all? In this episode, I break down why that question still matters, why representation is still relevant in spaces where access has historically been limited, and why the real goal is not to ignore race too soon but to build a country where race truly no longer determines who gets seen, supported, or given the chance to rise. This is a conversation about merit, opportunity, and what it will actually take to get there.
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.