Dear Family,Most people don't recognize patterns. They just live inside them.I grew up watching my parents steward what they had. Not perfectly, but deliberately. Money was something you managed, not something that managed you. Decisions were made to...
Dear Family,There isn’t a week that goes by where a LUX member with a high-paying six-figure job tells me they’re thinking about leaving to start their own business.That conversation happens more than you might think. And every time, I feel the same...
Dear Family,If you’ve turned on the news this week, you’ve probably felt it. A sense that the world is… unsettled.Over the last several days, conflict in the Middle East has escalated dramatically after coordinated military strikes against Iran trigg...
Dear Family,The other day I was scrolling Instagram between meetings and came across a post featuring Jim Rohn, the motivational speaker, sharing insights on what he called “the midlife squeeze.” He described it as that season, often around your 40s,...
Dear Family,I recently watched Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee’s reinterpretation of the classic crime story. Denzel Washington plays David King, a powerful music executive whose son is kidnapped in a scheme that forces him to confront more than just a r...
Dear Family,There’s a different kind of pressure that hits when you start taking your life seriously.Not the “I have a test tomorrow” kind. I’m talking about financial pressure.Family pressure. Job pressure. Community pressure. The pressure of wantin...
Dear Family,I spend a lot of time studying people who’ve achieved what most of us would call “success.”That might be icons like Warren Buffett or Robert F. Smith. Or more modern operators like Alex Hormozi or Tim Ferriss. Different industries. Differ...
Dear Family,Most of us have good intentions. We want to be better partners, better parents, healthier, more disciplined with our money, more present in our work and in our lives. But when you zoom out and look at everything at once, it can feel like...
Dear Family,There’s a lot of chaos in the world right now.If you turn on the news for more than five minutes, it’s hard not to feel the anxiety, the anger, the heaviness. Bad headlines. Loud opinions. Endless outrage. And if we’re not careful, that...