I recently sat down with someone to help them start investing. I began as I always do by asking what companies they already know. We were watching a football game at the time, so I asked when this person thought ESPN was going to stop...
Let us go beyond peace as Dr. Martin Luther King wanted us to. Let’s talk about money. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King provided a vision of peace, unity, and equality in his famous I Have a Dream speech. Many of us...
I was asked by a young Pittsburgh Steeler teammate to help him plan his money. I must have told him a dozen times, “Do not go and buy a new car.” But in his first year, making $550,000 ($300K after taxes and agent fees), he...
When you are successful, you want to give back to the people responsible for your success, but sometimes you have to say ‘no’ to family, even when it’s tough. I was recently talking to a friend — a phenomenal yogi, podcaster and public speaker. She turned...
When I was in the NFL, people asked me for money almost every day. Old friends, strangers, even family would pop out of the woodwork with their hands out. At first I wanted to help everyone, but after a while I smartened up and learned...
After 15 minutes of speaking to a group of youth for My Brother’s Keeper, talking about how to buy stocks and the wisdom of owning companies they use and like, one of the young men raised his hand. “So, can I buy stock?” he asks. Even...
My first year in the NFL, I found myself $30,000 in debt before I played my first snap. Then boom: before getting my first NFL paycheck, I’d already had my first surgery. These two experiences drastically changed how I viewed money. I decided to make sure that...