A financial guide for Latino readers that outlines basic principles while identifying cultural barriers that may be preventing optimal use of personal resources, offering advice on how to create a secure and successful future.r.

The Latino Journey to Financial Greatness gives Latinos a clear guide to basic financial principles as well as identifies the cultural barriers that have prevented them from making the most of their resources. In helping Latinos discover their own powerful and personal reasons for creating the secure and abundant future of their dreams, Louis Barajas -- named one of the 100 best financial planners in America by Mutual Funds magazine -- offers the basic information Latinos need in order to have money work for them.

The Latino Journey to Financial Greatness gives Latinos a clear guide to basic financial principles as well as identifies the cultural barriers that have prevented them from making the most of their money. In helping Latinos discover their own powerful and personal reasons for creating wealth and happiness, Louis Barajas - named as one of America's Top Advisers by Money Magazine - offers priceless wisdom people need in order to live a better life.

An inspiring collection of success stories from the country's most prominent Latinos, Building the Latino Future offers and inspiration and advice for Latinos in any industry who want to succeed spectacularly. The future is bright for America?s Latino community; this book lets you learn from the success of such luminaries as actor Edward James Olmos, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, former housing secretary Henry Cisneros, NPR correspondent Ray Suarez, and many more.

Your Money and You: The Ultimate Guide to Wealth Management for Latino Entrepreneurs and Executives is the definitive resource for Latino business owners and professionals looking to make smart decisions about their wealth. Written by experienced wealth manager Aquiles Larrea, the book gives readers a framework for coordinating their entire financial lives that empowers them to: • solve their biggest financial challenges • capture new financial opportunities • position their wealth to build the life they truly want for themselves and their families. Confronting the many challenges Successful Latinos and their families share numerous financial concerns and goals today. Chief among them: • Growing and preserving wealth to meet life’s most important goals and achieve financial freedom and independence. • Gaining the knowledge and confidence to manage wealth effectively and maximize the positive impact it can have on family and community. • Building successful businesses that thrive for years—and generations—to come. • Transferring wealth to heirs to ensure that loved ones have a strong financial foundation on which to build meaningful lives. • Protecting wealth from those who would take it unjustly. • Using wealth to make a difference in the lives of family, friends, community and the world at large. The comprehensive wealth management solution Addressing these many and diverse issues requires a comprehensive approach—one that brings together a broad range of resources and expertise to coordinate all the strategies that must work together to build true, meaningful and lasting financial success. That approach is comprehensive wealth management—a framework for making smart financial decisions that consists of three key components: 1. Investment Consulting—investing assets to achieve the growth and preservation needed to reach key financial goals. 2. Advanced Planning—solving the most important non-investment objectives, including reducing taxes, passing wealth on to heirs, safeguarding assets and having a charitable impact. 3. Relationship Management—assembling and managing a network of experts to help create and oversee a wealth management plan for financial success. There’s no question that comprehensive wealth management stands in stark contrast to how the vast majority of Latino entrepreneurs and executives—as well as most financial professionals—make decisions about the most important aspects of their financial lives. Armed with the information, insights and strategies outlined in Your Money and You: The Ultimate Guide to Wealth Management for Latino Entrepreneurs and Executives, successful Latinos and their families will find themselves better able than ever before to build, preserve, protect and leverage the wealth they have worked so hard to create.

In a clear and encouraging voice, Sosa reveals how Napoleon Hill’s positive, practical, and empowering ideas can help Latinos overcome self-esteem issues, thrive while embracing change, and map a clear-cut plan to achieve their goals and fulfill their dreams. By applying the proven principles of preparation, competence, hard work, and sincerity devised by legendary motivational author Napoleon Hill, Lionel Sosa advanced from painting signs at $1.10 an hour to running the largest Hispanic ad agency in America. In this indispensable guide to prosperity, Sosa shares his inspiring story of achievement, as well as those of other respected members of the Latino community, including: Alberto Gonzales, who rose from humble roots in San Antonio and Houston to become the first Hispanic attorney general of the United States. Linda Alvarado, who defied both racism and sexism to head the biggest construction company in America led by a woman. Jeff Valdez and Bruce Barshop, the team that created SiTV, the first and only twenty-four-hour English-language cable channel aimed at Latinos. Patricia Diaz Dennis, who triumphed over many obstacles and personal tragedy to serve as the first Latina chair of the Girl Scouts in the United States.

America has an urgent need for Latino and Latina executives. This book identifies a path to uplift and amplify their representation in leadership. Latinos and Latinas will account for a third of our workforce by 2050—yet they make up only 5 percent of senior roles in corporate America. Dr. Robert Rodriguez and Andrés T. Tapia call this low percentage of Latino and Latina corporate executives today the “5 percent Shame.” Inspired by Price M. Cobbs's seminal work on the secrets of successful Black leaders, this book seeks to understand the impact on Latinos and Latinas of the external forces of conscious and unconscious biases and of the internal forces of whether to assimilate or double down on their cultural identities in their quest to get ahead. The second edition features a new foreword by Henry Cisneros, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as updated statistics and graphs to represent how America's career landscape for Latinos has and has not changed and how to ensure Latinos can rise to their fullest potential. Using insights from in-depth interviews with twenty highly successful boomer Latino and Latina executives and focus groups with dozens of Gen X and millennial leaders, the authors have captured lessons about how these individuals chose their career paths, addressed challenges, and seized opportunities. The discussions are interpreted through the lenses of the authors' different personal experiences as Latino leaders in corporate America and synthesized as a guide for future leaders.

What’s the secret to becoming a millionaire? For years people have asked David Bach, the national bestselling author of Smart Women Finish Rich, Smart Couples Finish Rich, and The Finish Rich Workbook, what’s the real secret to getting rich? What’s the one thing I need to do? Now, in The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach is sharing that secret. The Automatic Millionaire starts with the powerful story of an average American couple--he’s a low-level manager, she’s a beautician--whose joint income never exceeds $55,000 a year, yet who somehow manage to own two homes debt-free, put two kids through college, and retire at 55 with more than $1 million in savings. Through their story you’ll learn the surprising fact that you cannot get rich with a budget! You have to have a plan to pay yourself first that is totally automatic, a plan that will automatically secure your future and pay for your present. What makes The Automatic Millionaire unique: You don’t need a budget You don’t need willpower You don’t need to make a lot of money You don’t need to be that interested in money You can set up the plan in an hour David Bach gives you a totally realistic system, based on timeless principles, with everything you need to know, including phone numbers and websites, so you can put the secret to becoming an Automatic Millionaire in place from the comfort of your own home. This one little book has the power to secure your financial future. Do it once--the rest is automatic!

A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure- capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the producer and host of the award-winning public radio program This American Life. These pieces-on teenage white collar criminals, buying a cow, Saddam Hussein, drunken British soccer culture, and how we know everyone in our Rolodex-are meant to mesmerize and inspire.

"Your business can earn more for your family while you have a fulfilling life." All too often, small business owners settle for less than the best life has to offer thinking they have to choose between financial success and family time. Do you want financial success? Then you'd better be prepared to sacrifice you family life. Do you want more quality time with loved ones? They you can forget about taking your samll business to the next level. Renowned financial planner Louis Barajas knows you can have both. You don't have to choose between giving up successful finances and abandoning your family. Written for "ordinary folk who have more dreams than education, capital, or resources," Small Business, Big Life will show you how to build a business that creates both money and meaning, and that provides a legacy for you and your family. What is Barajas' secret? Whether in his East Los Angeles office or on the road speaking as an author and small business expert, Louis Barajas teaches his clients a unique, integrated approach to balancing the professional and the personal. The book contains Four Cornerstones for a Big Life Five Steps of Building a Small Business, Big Life 22 Temptations of a Business Owner Let Louis Barajas show you how to make your business work for you, and not the other way around. Small Business, Big Life is not just a plan for financial success?it's a blueprint for a truly fulfilling life.