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Mi nombre es Carlos Francisco Jose Hernandez Rodriguez Lopez Pi.  We were taught to remember our family and be proud of who we were. I remember my grandparents teaching it to me. They only spoke Spanish. Both sets. My Abuela’s weren’t making chocolate chip cookies; they were making ropa vieja or congri…maybe both if you […]

On October 16, 2023, I was let go from my job. Let’s be real, I was fired. What followed was a year of growth, death, learning, and living.  And let me be clear: I’m proud of what followed. I started my own company and helped a buddy build his own. I got insurance licenses. I […]

Have you ever seen a wordwith edges quite as sharpOne that makes you hold your breathFrom letting in the dark.  Whether it is a world worth savingor a simple requestEach time we Hope for somethingThat’s when we’re at our best. That momentum you build within,when you quickly glimpse aheadif everything goes just right worries no longer […]

It’s been 3.5 months since this Pirate was left to fight with Beastie, the Unemployment Kraken. She’s been a tough one to knock down. So has this article, this paragraph read 2 months originally. Saavy? Without an incredible support system, this could be much worse. I can’t help but think about the struggles other people […]

Humankind. Here’s to hoping we can be both. One Day. I’m sure you can imagine the look on people’s faces. They were never quite sure if this was serious or not, it sounded pretty crazy to me too. And that was only when I TOLD people about the mission on World Kindness Day. The looks […]

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” -Steve Jobs Back in 2011, I would listen to my idol Steve Jobs give his famous Stanford commencement speech from 2005 during daily work drives in the stagnant Miami traffic. It’s around 15 mins long and Jobs puts on a Master […]

No matter how clear the writing on the wall, you’re never quite ready to get fired. It’s been 5 days and I’m working through the entire process. I’d rather be better than be bitter. It was casual, my boss asked to move our regularly scheduled one on one up a day to Monday because he […]