Blog Posts
Keynote at ULI Memphis RegionSmart 2018
June 28, 2018The Urban Land Institute’s Memphis chapter invited me to keynote RegionSmart 2018, its annual gathering of developers, planners and civic leaders. I told the room that a city’s real infrastructure is its people: their credit scores, their savings and their small businesses. Build that, a
Roland Martin at HOPE Global Forums: Raise Your Credit Score
March 28, 2018Roland Martin covered HOPE Global Forums 2018, and he sat down with me between sessions to talk about the one number our community keeps ignoring. We brought together the largest bank meeting in the world for the empowerment of the poor. And one statistic sums up the challenge: almost half of all Bl
Money Matters Podcast: The Memo
February 6, 2018The Money Matters podcast had me on to talk about my book The Memo: Five Rules for Your Economic Liberation. Once you have satisfied your basic needs of food, water, health and a roof over your head, poverty has more to do with your head than your wallet. Most people in the invisible class, and [&he
Conscious Capitalism CEO Summit: Jobs and Wealth for Those Who Need It Most
January 25, 2018At the Conscious Capitalism CEO Summit in Austin, I laid out my plan for changing the world with two things: jobs and wealth creation for the people who need them most. I talked about Operation HOPE and about The Promise Homes Company, which buys and renovates single-family homes so working families
Speaking at the CARE Global Leadership Conference
October 26, 2017Michelle Nunn and CARE invited me to speak at the CARE Global Leadership Conference in 2017. My message to the room: stay woke, embrace your failures, laugh often and lean in. And get the memo on how money really works, because dignity and opportunity go together everywhere in the world. Source: CAR
NewsOne Now With Roland Martin: Reimagining the Global Economy
April 11, 2017Ahead of HOPE Global Forums 2017, Roland Martin had me on NewsOne Now to talk about why we were gathering leaders to reimagine the global economy. We also talked about a problem too many families know well: too much month at the end of the money. The answer starts with financial literacy, a budget a