Digital Social Hour
Wi-Fi & a Dream: Tony Delgado's Path to Legacy | Tony Delgado DSH #1257
Sat, 22 Mar 2025
🚀 Ready to unlock the secrets behind success with just "Wi-Fi & a Dream"? 🌍 Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour Podcast as he sits down with Tony Delgado, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Latino Wall Street. Tony shares his inspiring journey from New York to Puerto Rico, his mission to empower the Latino community through financial literacy, and how he’s building a legacy for future generations. This episode is packed with valuable insights on entrepreneurship, resilience, and creating impact where it matters most. From stories of overcoming cultural stereotypes to reshaping the narrative around financial freedom, Tony’s passion and wisdom will leave you motivated to chase your dreams. 💡 Don’t miss out on this powerful conversation! 🎙️ Tune in now to discover how Wi-Fi and determination can change lives. Hit that subscribe button and join the conversation for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 📺🔥 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 🚀 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - Entrepreneurship Challenges 03:00 - Building Dreams with Wi-Fi 09:20 - Wall Street Youth Culture 13:27 - Latino Conservative Movement Overview 15:54 - Latino Shift to Conservatism 18:28 - Trump Presidency's Impact on Puerto Rico 20:34 - Trump vs Biden Analysis 24:58 - Collaborating with Trump 27:18 - Parenthood and Mindset Shift 28:28 - Understanding Toxic Masculinity 30:24 - Depopulation Discussion 31:20 - Significance of Alternative Media 33:45 - Finding Tony's Work 34:30 - Outro APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: jenna@digitalsocialhour.com GUEST: Tony Delgado SPONSORS: SPECIALIZED RECRUITING GROUP: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #stocks #financialcoaching #financialeducation #realestate #investinyourself
Chapter 1: Who is Tony Delgado and what is his connection to entrepreneurship?
All right, guys. Someone I've known for a long time on social media, Tony Delgado. Thanks for coming on today, man. Thanks for having me, man. Yeah. We probably chatted for what, seven, eight years now?
Yeah, man. It's been inspiring watching both of our, each other grow through the years. And we're here for funnel hacking here in Vegas. And it's kind of like the freshman school yearbook of all these entrepreneurs. And it's like, oh yeah, I remember when you were selling lemonade and now you're driving a Ferrari, but yeah.
Yeah, it's been cool to see who made it and then a lot of people did not make it, man. Yeah. But it's been cool to see like who really toughed it out.
Yeah, who didn't give up, right? I was speaking to an entrepreneur friend of mine just yesterday and Shark Tank, the Damon from Shark Tank goes to him and he's been trying to get him to invest for years. And he says, listen, you're actually the right man for the job because you're actually still at it. So it says a lot.
Back when we were running the Startup Accelerator with Gerard Adams, there were so many different companies That came and got investment from us, came through our accelerator program. And when I look through that roster, there's maybe one or two of them that hit it really big. But there are just so many people that gave up.
Yeah. It's like VC investing one out of a hundred, right?
Yeah. Yeah. You have to have it. I mean, it's grit. There's some people that say that you can teach entrepreneurship and you can teach skills. You can teach sales and marketing and things to get you to the next level. But I do think that there are just some people that are actually born entrepreneurs.
I think it's a big part of it. And I think it comes from environment.
Well, and that's why you'll see a lot of entrepreneurs came up with really hard backgrounds, kind of like myself. It's like, for me, entrepreneurship wasn't a choice. I mean, I was an entrepreneur before it was a thing, before Gary Vee made it cool and all these people.
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Chapter 2: How did Tony Delgado start Latino Wall Street?
And then when Hurricane Maria happened, I knew that I wanted to go back and give back to my community. So we went down there with a bunch of crazy entrepreneurs, giving out solar panel lights, food, water, supplies, whatever we could, knocking on people's doors. And then I realized that it was the people with no money and no resources that got hit the worst. If you had a lot of money,
You know, you either had JetBlue money or you had FU money, right? You had enough money to at least get on a JetBlue, go to Orlando, go to New York, go to someplace safe and weather the storm that way. Or you had so much money that it was like, I don't care. I have a big, strong house. The hurricane is not going to affect me if there's no power, no water.
You know, I'll go to Europe or I'll go to Miami for a couple of months and I'll come back when things are fixed or I'll put a bunch of money into a backup generator to fix it. Um, and it was really the people that, that had no money, no resources that got hit the worst. But then I realized that they had the same internet connection that I did. Right. Uh, I was, funny story.
I was in a province, uh, Copatiles. And we go to give solar panel lights. We had these small little solar panel lights. It gives you a nightlight. Um, so people that don't know, Hurricane Maria is the largest blackout in American history. Some people six months, some people a year, some people a year. still waiting until they don't have electricity.
And what happens is when you don't have electricity, now your water's not being pumped properly. Now your water's coming out of your faucet dirty.
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And now your stoplights don't work, your traffic lights don't work, there's traffic jams. There's all these, it's like a domino effect of problems that happen. And so Puerto Rico created all of these problems after the hurricane, had all these problems after the hurricane.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Wi-Fi and a dream according to Tony?
And we're coming back, and I look into one of the stores, and as I'm picking up all these boxes of pizza to go bring them to the school, there's a guy from FEMA just sitting there eating the pizza, hanging out, not doing nothing. And I was like, oh, wow, isn't that synonymous of what's going on here?
You know, you have these big government contracts, these big government employees, all this wasteful government spending, you know, billions of dollars that got sent to the island by President Trump to try to fix things. But a lot of that money got mismanaged, right? A lot of that money didn't go exactly where it needed to go. And then we were in another town, not too far.
And there was a small house at the top of a mountain. And it's like a dirt road. You got to drive.
up and we're driving up in our truck and we're like a little scared because it's dangerous I mean there was all this rainfall and mudslides and I get to the top of the mountain we give them the supplies they're so happy right and then all of a sudden my phone rings and it's a FaceTime call and I pick it up and I'm talking to someone about business back in New York and I was like wait a second
If I can take a business call from the top of this mountain and this is how I make money, well, then this family could be making, you know, hypothetically the same amount of money as I am because they have the same internet. They have the same Wi-Fi. So that's when we came up with the concept Wi-Fi and a dream is all you need to succeed. We started hosting seminars and workshops in Puerto Rico.
And then when I met my wife, my vision expanded from just the 300, the 3 million people in Puerto Rico to 1%. 400 million latinos all around the world um and so today we've done events in miami new york peru colombia puerto rico obviously um panama and all throughout latin america um you know preaching that same thing that you know the disconnect between uh financial freedom
uh, and is financial literacy, right? If you don't have the information, then you're not going to be equipped with what you need to succeed.
Right. And a lot of them didn't have that information, right?
No. Yeah. I mean, they don't teach these things in school anyway. But the schools in Latin America are even more behind, especially the public schools. They're defunding public schools and they're selling them in Puerto Rico.
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Chapter 4: How does Tony Delgado view the role of music and media in influencing youth?
I know you just had a ball in D.C. a few weeks ago, right? Latino ball.
Oh, yeah, yeah. We hosted the biggest Hispanic inauguration ball in history, I believe. Over 2,000 people there. I mean, we literally had Miss Universe on the red carpet. Wow. Every single news station, Jimmy Kimmel ended up picking it up, Fox News. uh, nationally syndicated all over. And, uh, yeah, it was a good time.
Cause there was a lot of balls, man. You were competing with a lot of people.
Well, we were competing with a lot of people with big money. So for a bunch of Latino kids to pull it off, I think we did pretty good.
That just shows the strength of the Latino community, right?
Yeah, I mean, we've definitely seen a huge shift in the political narrative from Latinos being told to sort of vote blue no matter who to really embracing conservatism. And, you know, the Latinos for Trump movement was obviously big in 2016. That's obviously how he got elected the first time. But this year, this year, we were really historic in the amount of support.
And and it really felt like Mardi Gras. I mean, people were so happy. That was even my Democrat friends are like, you know, I. Obviously, our side didn't win, but at least you guys just seemed so happy. It feels like Mardi Gras. A big weight was lifted off of everyone's shoulders. And it's magical, man. We had Robert F. Kennedy Jr. come to our conference. We had...
President Millay of Argentina, who we initially met at Mar-a-Lago when he met with Trump. And they started working on this, make the Americas great again. How can we forge partnerships between the United States and the rest of Latin America so that we can increase the economy and increase the strength of all of our nations, right? We don't want to... have a world where there's no nations.
That's bad. A weak Latin America is actually bad for the United States because what's happening in certain places is China's taking over. Anywhere where there's a weak economy, a weak government, if there's an ability for things to be destabilized, Well, then China or Russia or any of our competitors are going to come in and they're right there on our borders.
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Chapter 5: Why has there been a political shift among Latino communities?
And if you look at what happened on the ground, I mean, I think it was individual nonprofits and entrepreneurs and business owners. did a lot more good uh during those national disasters than the government ever could wow they seem to give any money to those hurricane families no i mean so we partnered up with uh with an ngo that was a former military who basically set up a camp
You know, they're military. They know how to set up camps. They set up this camp. And now they're going and fighting with FEMA to get supplies because they're like, guys, supplies are sitting there. You're not giving them out. Please give them to us and we will give them out. And so they were fighting with FEMA and getting them.
But since they're military, they were able to get them to cooperate slightly. And that's how a lot of the supplies were getting distributed. But the government, they found... warehouses all throughout Puerto Rico with all these supplies.
Years later, bottles of water that had went bad in the sun because they melted because they were basically hoarding these resources and not distributing them in times of need.
That's crazy. Yeah, it's disgusting. And now a lot of that's getting exposed with the USAID stuff.
Yeah, with the USAID and with Doge and with Elon Musk. Yeah, they're going and they're exposing a lot of this stuff. But this is what politicians have been doing for years. They've been enriching themselves. So, like, my big thing, the reason I was really excited about this administration was because it wasn't about Democrats or Republicans.
You had Robert F. Kennedy Jr., you had Tulsi Gabbard, you had all these lifelong, Elon Musk, all these lifelong Democrats who are like, no, we just want to make America great again.
Mm-hmm.
And then you had Trump in the middle. Now, Trump's a tough guy, but he's also rich. So when someone's rich, they're a little bit harder to manipulate. Now, you can still manipulate them, but the price is a lot higher, right? It's going to be a lot higher to pay off Trump than it is to pay off the average politician.
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