Vivian Pena PA

05/17/2026

Amen to this

05/17/2026

Sometimes you wanna help people and you keep going and keep going until you realize trying to help them you’re getting hurt so if this is happening to you stop immediately focus on you and that everybody else do what they wanna do for themselves. You know that you tried and your conscience is clean have a blessed day 

05/17/2026

05/17/2026

05/17/2026

Shaquille O'Neal sat down on the Earn Your Leisure podcast, looked the hosts in the eye, and said something that has become one of the most quoted parenting moments in modern celebrity culture.
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"My kids are older now. They kinda upset with me. Not really upset, but they don't understand. I tell them all the time. We ain't rich. I'm rich."
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That single line has been replayed so many times it now functions as a financial philosophy of its own.
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Shaq made over $286 million in NBA salary across his career. After he walked away from basketball, he built something far larger. He invested early in Ring, the home security company, before Amazon bought it for $1 billion in 2018. He owns hundreds of franchises, restaurants, car washes, and gyms. He's been the public face of Icy Hot, Papa John's, Gold Bond, and General Insurance for over a decade. Estimated net worth: roughly $500 million. Some recent reports put him closer to a half a billion in business assets alone.
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He has six kids. Three sons and three daughters. None of them are getting any of it just by being born to him.
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"There's one rule: education," he told the podcast. "I don't care if you play basketball. I don't care about none of that. I would like a doctor, somebody to own a hedge fund, a pharmacist, a lawyer, someone that owns multiple businesses, someone to take over my business. But I tell them I'm not going to hand it to you. You gotta earn it."
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"You've got to have a Bachelor's or a Master's degree," he continued. "And if you want me to invest in one of your companies, you're going to have to present it."
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Shaq grew up in a working-class family with a single mother. He has said in interviews that he remembers exactly how it felt to have nothing, and he refuses to take that lesson away from his children by giving them everything.
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The kids, he admits, weren't thrilled about it 💼
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He doesn't really care. He says they'll thank him for it eventually.

05/17/2026

05/17/2026

Bello matrimonio buenas enseñanza

05/17/2026

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