We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Manny Blue a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Manny thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s start with education – we’d love to hear your thoughts about how we can better prepare students for a more fulfilling life and career

Actually there are quite a few things that we can do but, they key here is, as parents we need to take matters into our own hands. I say that because for a system that has been around for as long as it has, nothing has change that would be beneficial to us when it come to financial knowledge. The first thing that I would change would be implementing financial classes starting in middle school. I truly believe that if we had learn about Money, Taxes, Credit, Investing, Saving just to name a few, that people would actually would have been abled to make wiser choices with their finances. There are other subjects that could be implemented rather than have a one size fits all educational system.

Manny, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I spent most of my teenage years into adulthood in the entertainment business as a recording artist.

​I also expanded my interests to include Philanthropy, Authorship, Speaking, Acting, Producing, Consulting and Coaching. Most of these ventures came about after personally dealing with financial hardship, due to lack of financial education and resources where it led me to contemplate suicide because of it. What kept playing in my head was, How can one live life and not stress out and wonder how are you going to provide your family the life they deserve when you are barely able to get by living pay check to pay check. Shortly after that part of my life I aligned with a firm that focused on financial literacy, but I felt they were still missing a few pieces to the puzzle. That is when I launched my own company in 2019, Blue Legacy Capital, LLC, a company that focuses on helping individuals and families, strategies, and become financially stable, utilizing different financial vehicles to protect their income and assets, overall learn about money matters.

Because of the event of 2015, I had to rebuild my self-confidence, change my mindset. It led me onto writing and self-publishing my first book, “Little Boy Confidence; How to Build Your Self-Confidence” which opened the doors to a book series being released later in 2022. Recently I published “Kids and Finances 101” which can helps parents plant the seeds when it comes to financial literacy.

In the process without realizing it, I found myself coaching and mentoring individuals privately which has led me to launch a coaching and mentoring program.

I have made it my mission to be of service and contribute to the community as much as I can. I like to see people succeed. I want to encourage everyone to chase their dreams regardless of the outcome.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

After contemplating suicide I realize that there is more to life than just the default life we were born into. I realized that for me personally a 9-5 job is not going to help me get where I want in life. I believe we all have a purpose in life. When things get hard, when I experience set backs sometimes I just want to walk away, but then I remember what that life looks like and its not what I desire.I have a mission and although my purpose have expanded I am sure that other doors will open up and I will get a clearer vision of my purpose.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

In the latino communities no one is really talking about money. I was always told that money is the root of all evil and that it take money to make money. For a long time I believe that . Those are two lessons that I had to rewire my mind to see differently because that mindset can easily stop someone from taking action trying to venture into something.

I learned that we can create money, what I mean by that is we can bring money in to fund a project or idea, we just need to get creative. A lot of us are pretty handy or talented. We can use those skills to provide a service or skill to generate money to fund the idea or project. We can go work on someone’s yard, paint someone’s house, etc. We can go to a garage sale and buy items and flip them. Sometimes people are giving away free stuff, take those items and flip them for profit. It literally took no money to take those items and now you flip it on eBay, the Facebook market place or a similar website.  Sometimes with the mindset of “It takes money to make money” we assume that it takes a lot of money to start a business or that you must be wealthy to start one. It is simple things like that mentality that can stop someone in their tracks from reaching their next level of life or chasing their dreams. That is something I personally stopped me in the past and had to change with a few mental tweaks.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.mannyblue.com
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