I used to be a human trafficking journalist.
It's where I saw my first dead body.
My first live act of deadly violence.
It changed me; a story on why you making money is so important:
It's where I saw my first dead body.
My first live act of deadly violence.
It changed me; a story on why you making money is so important:
I lived in Juarez where every day, the newspaper would tell of body parts found in the desert.
Almost as common as quoting the stock market was to count the dead.
I'll never forget my first brush with death.
Almost as common as quoting the stock market was to count the dead.
I'll never forget my first brush with death.
I was tasked with going to the morgue to figure out true death counts.
It was cold, damp, oddly bright, and smelled awful.
The first trip I got sick.
Then it became clinical… were three women’s remains found or seven?
Were their hands really chopped off or just fingers?
It was cold, damp, oddly bright, and smelled awful.
The first trip I got sick.
Then it became clinical… were three women’s remains found or seven?
Were their hands really chopped off or just fingers?
After a while, they wouldn’t let me in anymore.
I thought I’d cry seeing those bodies but that wasn’t what made me cry.
It was that so many of the women had brown eyes and long brown hair like me.
And no one cared.
I thought I’d cry seeing those bodies but that wasn’t what made me cry.
It was that so many of the women had brown eyes and long brown hair like me.
And no one cared.
Do you know why no one cared?
Because they had no power, no money.
So I decided that I would figure out this thing called finance and share what I learned.
Because they had no power, no money.
So I decided that I would figure out this thing called finance and share what I learned.
It's why I built a Latin American business in finance, it's why I hired a ton of women and Latinos.
YOU have the power with what you're building to change the world.
YOU have the power with what you're building to change the world.
What you build is more important than where you donate.
You earning money, hiring others, and giving the hand up can make massive change.
I hope you realize that.
You earning money, hiring others, and giving the hand up can make massive change.
I hope you realize that.
I wrote a whole article on my time in Juarez, do you want to read it?
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