I watched the sun rise this morning. I had embarked on a 5-mile lake-loop trail run before dawn and now admiringly observed the cold, dark sky disappear into a swallow of pale yellow light. As I rounded each corner of the long-traversed trail, I began to view more and more of the passage ahead of me...
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By Eric Diaz The Smile – Meeting Tyannah As I’ve learned in the advertising business, you can tell a lot from a smile. When my team first presented me with Tyannah’s friendly expression; I knew she was a perfect match for my client’s campaign. While working on one our agency’s CPG cli...
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The 2016 October Beer Diet There is truth in numbers. I weighed in at 195 on October 1st at 7:30am. On October 11th at the same time I weighed just under 185. This is my story. Once again this October in honor of Oktoberfest I performed the Beer Diet, which is a diet pioneered by my friend Evo ...
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I will never be young again. Or any younger than I am today. I will never be faster, shoot straighter, or jump higher. I will never outperform 22-year-old players who seem to have been born on a basketball court. I will never be MVP. None of those things will happen. But none of that matters anymo...
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Trying a new Beer Diet! What can I say, I love a beer diet. When I completed my successful return to the 170 pound weight class this past October, I just wished I had another reason to do another diet a bit sooner. I started to think, "Why does the beer diet have to be an annual event? Is the...
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As I stood on the stage and looked out on the 60 blank stares, I gripped the microphone with my sweaty palms and did what I always do in this situation; told a joke. A few weeks back I was honored to be awarded with the 4 Under 40 Award from ALPFA, the Association of Latino Professionals for Ame...
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This week kicked off the 2nd annual Phoenix Startup Week. PHX Startup Week, started by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, is a week-long, Valley-wide showcase and celebration of Arizona’s entrepreneur community. My team at Coworking on 15th Ave had the pleasure and honor of hosting the Hispanic Tr...
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The 2015 Beer Diet: New Challenges So this year's beer diet was a bit of a challenge. I knew I could do it having already done it last year with great beer diet results, 8 pounds in 10 days. However I knew there was a number of factors that were going to be a trial to get past this year. They we...
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There are many bad airlines these days, and very few good ones. The only good one that I know of is Southwest. Below are details of my horrible experience from flying with the worst airline in America (Frontier Airlines), but the main point of this article is for people to know they can fight back a...
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In the last week I have been called the 'B word', accused of hiring illegal immigrants, and told that Donald Trump is going to deport me back to Mexico. Yes, you guessed it. I am posting a job in Spanish on Craigslist. The featured image (above and below) is the typical negative response that...
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