April 4, 2026

The news of our friend's sudden passing stopped me in my tracks.

No warning. No time to brace yourself. Just a moment that lands heavily and does not let go. How could we miss it? He was so full of life, so loved, so not alone.

December 31, 2025

As the final days of 2025 settled in, I found myself standing quietly in our kitchen, looking out the window. In the foreground, our maple tree stood bare for winter, its branches stripped down to their essential lines. Tucked within them, almost camouflaged, was something unexpected. A red-tailed hawk, still and composed, blended into the bark and sky until its steady, unmistakable gaze revealed it. Uncommon. Impossible to ignore.

November 25, 2025

Change has a way of testing us, shaping us, and ultimately clarifying who we are. As I look back on the journey I have been on, I am reminded that every experience, no matter how challenging or immediately confronting, carries a blessing in disguise. Some lessons arrive wrapped in success. Others arrive wrapped in adversity. All of them arrive with purpose, each one contributing to the person and leader I continue to become.

March 30, 2025

As a father to two incredible daughters, I’ve learned that my role as a parent isn’t just about providing for their material needs or guiding them through schoolwork. More importantly, it’s about teaching them to be kind, empathetic, and inclusive human beings—values that will shape their interactions with others and ultimately their place in the world. It’s one of the most profound lessons I can impart, and it’s a lesson I take seriously.

September 16, 2024

Today marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September 15th to October 15th. This is a time to honor and celebrate the diverse Hispanic community in the United States. It's a great opportunity to learn more about this segment of the American population, which currently makes up 18% of the total population and an even greater percentage in five key states (California, Texas, New York/New Jersey, Illinois, and Florida).

Happy 2023! We are well into this new year and the hope of an eventless new year has been overtaken by our business headlines of late. The news has been filled with the seemingly endless list of Technology company layoffs. This cycle started in Q3 of 2022 and has continued to the present day. 2022, saw almost 100,000 positions shed in the big tech sector.  The new year has picked right up where last year left off with close to 50,000 layoffs announced in the first few weeks of the new year in tech and carrying over into financial services. 

Dear 2020:

In prophetic fashion, we learn the most from that which challenges us the greatest and challenge you did indeed. But even in your finest hour of provocation- you taught us what is most important-each other. You taught us to appreciate the simplicity of living, our great outdoors. You taught us to walk back from the busy schedules, the travel and you allowed us to spend valuable time with those we love the most-family.

Social Psychologists have written about the impact of the quantity of interactions that an adult has in their 20’s and compared it with the quality of interactions that we have with individuals in our 30’s as primary predictors of the quality of our relationships in our 50’s

By Sofia.I.Sandoval

How Entrepreneur & leader Louis Sandoval’s experiences paved the way for the man he is today.

(Shared with permission from Sofia I. Sandoval- written as part of her 8th grade ELA project).

2020 has been a grind. There, I said it- the understatement of the year.  It has been one proverbial punch in the gut and disappointment after another.  It has taken us everything to beat the issues (self-inflicted of course) created by this pandemic.  At every level, there has been no shortage of sacrifice.  The pandemic has challenged us personally, professionally and in every way possible.