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Fiduciary duty is often treated as the finish line in choosing a financial advisor, but Michael Gold says it’s closer to a starting point. The founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, argues that real trust depends on something broader than a legal obligation to act in a client’s interest. Gold has […]
Greg Soros author has built a career writing for young readers across more than a decade and a half, and he traces much of his approach back to a single question he asks before drafting any character. Rather than starting with what a character wants, the author begins by asking what that character needs to […]
Justin Fulcher left Charleston, South Carolina at nineteen with a return ticket and roughly three months of plans. He came back more than a decade later, in early 2020, having spent the intervening years building and eventually selling a telehealth company that operated across dozens of countries. The path between those two points ran through […]
Why Independent Reviews Still Matter in Home Services In an industry built on trust and repeat visits, independent reviews remain one of the most reliable ways for homeowners to gauge whether a pest control company will deliver on its promises. Marketing materials can highlight strengths, but only a broad set of customer reviews reveals real […]
Ask children’s author Greg Soros what he wants a young reader to feel within the first few pages of one of his books, and he points to recognition before anything else. “Young readers need to know that their feelings, their families, and their struggles matter,” Soros says, describing the foundation of what he calls the […]
Most families evaluate wealth managers through the lens of reputation and performance. Michael Gold, who leads Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, believes that lens misses what actually matters: how an advisor operates before a client ever commits. Gold has spent over 25 years working with entrepreneurs, business owners, and families managing multigenerational wealth. The […]
Kelcy Warren did not drill the wells that unlocked America’s shale boom, but he built much of the infrastructure that made it matter. As executive chairman of Energy Transfer, Warren oversaw the construction and acquisition of pipeline systems that connected new production from the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, Bakken, and Marcellus formations to markets across […]
Luciano de Vries does not wait for consensus before taking a position. He looks for the gap between where regulation is pointing and where market pricing currently sits, then moves while that gap is still open. It is a discipline he has applied across transport assets in Poland, real estate in Portugal, and now industrial […]
Michael Polk spent decades at the top of some of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. After tenures at Procter & Gamble, Kraft Foods, Unilever, and a run as CEO of Newell Brands from 2011 to 2019, Polk retired briefly before discovering that his appetite for leadership wasn’t finished. What came next surprised even him: […]
A 5.2-acre green deck park sitting atop a sunken freeway in central Dallas exists in large part because of a $10 million commitment from Kelcy Warren. The Energy Transfer Executive Chairman made that donation in 2012, providing the catalytic private funding that helped transform a divided stretch of downtown Dallas into one of the city’s […]
