I'm on a journey to change the world. This is my story so far.

I worked at the career center in college. My job was to approve or deny job opportunities that companies posted on our school's job website. Out of the 5,000 jobs I reviewed, none of them light me up inside.

I decided to take my fate into my own hands. I graduated from college without a job and moved into my childhood home. I didn't know how to change the world, so I created a podcast to learn from entrepreneurs who were. I called it Why It Matters it took off. Within a year and a half, it became a powerful media platform in a year and a half. After months of speaking with her team, I secured an interview with Frannie Léautier, the former Chief of Staff of the World Bank. After sharing that conversation on social media, I lined up ~10 interviews with global icons who were changing the world in their field.

While at this peak of success that I first lost my sense of love for it. Months later I decided to walk away from my podcast. I felt like I had learned what I needed to, and my future interviews were just for my ego. Little did I know, this experience built the foundation for what I am going today with Luke Martiros Consulting. A side story - while building my podcast I built a mobile application, that functioned as a social network, to connect the guests on my show. My vision was to build a community of people who were changing the world and believed we could live in our dreams. To keep the story short, I stopped building the mobile app because it was expensive and I didn't want to raise money for my idea and have investors telling me what to do.

Shortly after stopping my podcast, I felt a strong calling toward soccer. After watching Messi win the world cup, and having a few spiritual revelations, I realized that my destiny was to win the 2026 World Cup. I trained by myself for a year, and joined a semi-professional team in Boston, Boston Street FC. The coach had a bias towards players from Venezuela and Columbia, and a month into the season, I walked away from the team.

A new phase emerged - Kindros. A decade before joining Boston Street FC, my dad shared an idea he had for a financial literacy platform. His father, my grandfather, immigrated from Albania at 5 years old, leaving his family behind in the peaks of the mountains in Lashova. His "village" was a stone house, with a goat, and a pipe screwed into a rock ledge that provided fresh water. There was no technology where he was born. Coming to the United States shocked him, and traumatized him. He was bullied and he didn't know the language, or have the nuance to make smart financial decisions. He learned over time, and built his own business. He taught these lessons to my dad, who grew up in a family that ran on a tight budget and saved everything it had. When my grandfather passed away a few years ago, I went to his house to clean up. In his shed, there were rusted nails from 40 years ago when he first put a dock in the water. All he knew was nothing, so he held on to everything. Living through my grandfather's emotion, my dad grew up learning the importance of saving. My dad went on to build an impressive career in finance.

Throughout my dad's career in finance he consistently felt an urge to transfer the principles his father taught him to the world.

This is where Kindros emerged. Kindros is a personal financial literacy platform. This was the company I helped my dad build after I walked away from playing semi-professional soccer. During the time we worked together, I helped him build a community around the concept of financial literacy. Both internally through the team and externally through the colleges we partnered with. we brought the platform to the world. Today, there are 18 college campuses actively using Kindros and one private company. 

Welcome to the present day. I'm on planet earth to build community. And that is what I will help you do. Let's change the world.

~ Luke Martiros