6 The Hampton Roads Messenger
Volume 11 Number 10
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Young Wall Street Curtis “Wall Street” Carroll grew
up in Oakland, California, a city known for its high crime and poverty rates. Growing up in an unconventional environment, Carroll found financial security by stealing. Over
time, the
scale of his heists grew and one day he got caught. At 17 years old, he was sentenced to 54 years to life in prison. Another African-American male in the system for a crime related to none other than the “dolla dolla bill”.
He walked into the pen as an
illiterate. He’d trotted through the school system without learning the basic fundamentals of
education. But one
day, a fellow inmate read the business section of the newspaper to Carroll and the first domino had finally fallen. Tat day, Carroll became enamored with the concept of investing.
In a couple years, Carroll learned
Undefeated will host an in-depth round table
HAMPTON, Va. — ESPN’s Te discussion titled ‘From
the 757 to the NFL’ with Super Bowl winning head coach Mike Tomlin; Buffalo Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor and former NFL quarterbacks Mike Vick and Aaron Brooks at Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications Auditorium Tursday, July 13 at 3:30 p.m. Tis must see event will be live streamed on
TeUndefeated.com.
“Tis production speaks to the
cutting edge projects and events that exist all across our campus,” said Dr. William R. Harvey, Hampton University President. University is
unparalleled
“Hampton in
the
delivery of content and at the forefront of all areas of creativity and innovation”
Te panel, moderated by Te
Undefeated’s senior NFL writer Jason Reid, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of life as a football player, competition, the journey to manhood and the pursuit of achievable dreams. Tis will be an inspiring conversation between three NFL quarterbacks and a Super Bowl-winning head coach who all grew up in one of the nation’s top talent-rich regions – Hampton Roads.
“Te Scripps Howard School of
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Journalism and Communications on the campus of Hampton University is a digital mecca for multiplatform production,” said B. DaVida Plummer, Dean of the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications. “Te collaborative effort between ESPN’s Te Undefeated, the Hampton Roads Youth Foundation and Scripps Howard is just one of many celebrated events held here. We are looking forward to creating more compelling programing from our studios here at our ‘Home by the Sea”.
Michael Vick and Aaron Brooks • Buffalo Bills quarterback Tyrod
Taylor
Bowl-winning head coach Mike Tomlin
• Pittsburgh Steelers Super
senior NFL writer Jason Reid Date: July 13, 2017 Time: 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Location: Scripps Howard
757-727-5253 Panel will be streamed live
• Moderator: Te Undefeated’s
Panelists scheduled to appear: • Former NFL quarterbacks
how to read and began studying the stock market. Te asset class that made “white folks” rich. Te more he learned about the financial markets, the more he realized that he’d been thinking about money from the wrong vantage point. And so had many of his peers in jails across the nation.
through
But as Carroll continued to dig the
archives of
prosperity, he noticed that money was not only an issue amongst
financial the
poor in high-crime, low-income neighborhoods like Oakland, but rather it was a national epidemic. According to MarketWatch, 62 percent of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings. 20 percent don’t even have a savings account. If people on the outside can’t manage their money, how can released felons go back into the world as “second-class citizens” and become financially stable?
With this in mind, Carroll developed a curriculum to teach to
inmates the foundations of personal finance. He founded an organization called Financial Empowerment Emotional Literacy (F.E.E.L.). Te vision was designed to deter inmates away from making poor impulse driven decisions and to help them create a sustainable
lifestyle that
generates wealth over time. He’s equipping his students with the tools necessary to become contributing members of society once they leave the penitentiary. Carroll emphasizes the importance of formulating rational judgments instead of emotional judgments, which typically lead to poor financial performance. I spoke a bit about poor spending habits in my recent post.
Carroll’s course teaches four core
principles: Save efficiently Borrow properly Control your cost of living Diversify Tink for a Second When’s the last time that you
made a poor financial decision? Perhaps Carroll’s model could have saved you some hardship. Te principles are simple. Te discipline to follow through causes the most difficulty. But having a system in place to lead our decisions away from irrationality makes a big difference in our pocketbooks over time. Carroll admitted to making bad decisions in his life and now he’s committing his time to helping others make good ones.
Carroll is nicknamed “Wall
Street” because he spends most of his day scouring through stock research. He even has a friend on the outside executing trades for him. At 36 years old, he’s done a complete 180. If he’s able to invest while behind bars, what’s your excuse?
July 2017
Auditorium, Hampton University For Additional Info: call
If so call Mrs. Cheryl Jones at 757-235-9580. She is a licensed agent and specializes in life/health/annuities. She is a broker and works for YIG insurance group and other major companies that offer term, whole life, final expense, burial, dental, vision, health and Obamacare. She has family and individual insurance packages with affordable rates for people between the ages of 0-85. (Some companies do not require a medical exam).
Mrs. Jones is waiting to hear from you at 757-235-9580 or email
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