6 Career Lessons From Cesar Chavez
As Cesar E. Chavez day approaches (Mar. 31st for those who don’t know) it is appropriate to not just recognize the farm labor activist, civil rights leader and justice crusader but also to learn lessons from hi...
Tom Brady’s Top 10 Rules for Success
Tom Brady's won five Super Bowl championships. He's quarterbacked the New England Patriots to eight trips to the Super Bowl - the most by a player in NFL history. Only one of two players in the NFL to win five ...
Conor McGregor’s Ten Rules for Success
As the face of mixed martial arts Conor McGregor know's a thing or two about success. He is the first fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two weight divisions simultaneously. He holds the record for the bi...
Lebron James 10 Rules for Success
He’s had six consecutive trip to the NBA Finals. He’s got hardware galore - two NBA championship rings, four NBA MVP awards, two Olympic medals, a Rookie of the Year award. The accolades go on and on. More amaz...
What Moonlight Can Teach You About Manhood
The film Moonlight has been hailed as one of the best movies of 2016. The plot centers around a young boy named Chiron and chronicles the stages of his life from adolescence, to teenager through to manhood, as ...
Anderson Silva’s Top 10 Rules for Success
Anderson Silva is considered by many to be the greatest mixed martial artist of all time. The former UFC middleweight champion made a record 10 title defenses and has the record for longest title reign by a UFC...
What Luke Cage Can Teach You About Manhood
Marvel's Luke Cage dropped on Netflix Friday. The reviews are flying fast and furious for each episode. From a dissection of lighting and character development, to Netflix outages, the buzz is strong. We did ou...
Wise Words of Latino Men
"Respeta tus mayores." While we heard it all the time growing up, many of us probably didn't get the deeper reason why it was important to "respetar" which was code for "listening" to older people that surround...
Is CPT (Colored People’s Time) Myth or Reality?
They say money isn’t everything, but if you don’t have it, it sure does feel like everything. The same concept applies to time. Yet, unlike everything else in this world we can’t reproduce time – we can only ...
Are the successful lucky, or the lucky successful?
During an exit interview my supervisor, an Ivy league educated Latina, asked me why two inner city kids like us succeeded when so many of our counterparts, with near identical circumstances, did not. My answer ...