MEET
PAUL
From food stamps to ownership, Paul MoReese Rodriguez turns hard-earned lessons in courage, business, loss, and resilience into a practical challenge: stop waiting for permission to build the life you were meant to lead.
Rejection, academic failure, military service, fatherhood, grief, divorce, blended family life, business ownership, and a $185,000 loss all became part of the education. None of them became the final definition.
Take The Swing
A first-timer's guide to gas station Investing
By Paul Moreese Rodriguez
About the Book
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Keynotes | Interviews | Seminars | Panel Discussions
About Paul
Paul's story begins in Lebanon, Pennsylvania—raised by a Puerto Rican mother whose confidence could not be limited by circumstance.
Rejection, academic failure, military service, fatherhood, grief, divorce, blended family life, business ownership, and a $185,000 loss all became part of the education. None of them became the final definition.
Take the Swing joins honest memoir with a practical introduction to gas-station investing. It shows what it takes to evaluate an opportunity, control risk, run the operation, survive the unexpected, and plan the exit before the entry.
SPEECH TITLES
COLLEGES | ASSOCIATIONS |
Conferences | SCHOOLS
Speeches:
1. Take the Swing: The Courage to Bet on Yourself
When the Paycheck Feels Safe Signature keynote | 45–60 minutes
2. The $225,000 Lesson: Why Your Exit Strategy Comes Before Your Entry
Business keynote or 90-minute workshop
Who pays: Entrepreneur conferences, SBDCs and chambers, franchise and convenience-store associations, business brokers, bank small-business client events.
3. From Uniform to Owner: The Veteran’s Blueprint for Buying a Business and Building Real Estate Wealth
Keynote or breakout | 45–75 minutes
Who pays: Base transition (TAP/SkillBridge) programs, military and veteran associations, VA and state veterans affairs events, veteran-entrepreneur organizations, defense contractors’ veteran ERGs.
