A short excerpt from a YouTube podcast episode (Wealth Gap Warriors Podcast Episode #14) featuring a conversation about the importance of financial literacy, saving, participation in capitalism, and creating generational wealth—framed through family lessons and the mission of the Latino Leadership Institute.
And my grandmother told me that it was really important, that she wanted to plant the seeds, that it's important for us to be part of where capitalist society. It's important for us to participate in that. It's important for us to save. It's important for us to understand how things like stocks and bonds work to create generational wealth. And as I have aged and as I've reflected on that, I've realized what a blessing that really was and how that those lessons in my life, both about civil justice and economic justice, that I learned from one grand set of grandparents, and then the value of a dollar I learned from the others, I think, combined, have really led me to where I am today.
Wow. What. What a way that you're honoring your family, right? Your grandparents, your parents, your. And you've learned and you've taken all those life experiences and stories and leveraged all that. And I think that's what part of the Latino Leadership Institute is trying to do as well, right? To take a lot of information from a lot of other people and then help them who maybe haven't had the same privilege or the same access that you did. I'm seeing some of the work that you guys are doing, and it's phenomenal. And.
