Coming Clean looks like an incredible biography. Can you tell us a little about your life?
At 21, he was a drug lord and a millionaire playboy. He made between
one and three million dollars a month. He had women, yachts, private jets and mansions
all over the world. He had everything and yet he felt miserable.
Jorge Luis Valdés
was 20 years old and he dreamed of becoming a millionaire before he was 30. He
had everything -technically speaking- to make his dream come true: family,
education, a brilliant mind and an enormous capacity for effort and sacrifice.
He showed great promise but succumbed to the temptation of money and power. He
was seduced by a group of Colombian businessmen and put his financial brain at
the service of international drug trafficking. Some years later, the group
would be known as the Medellin Cartel. In less than six months, he had become a
dangerous drug baron, responsible for 95 percent of the cocaine coming into the
United States.
He was faced with
prison, torture and betrayal. He envied people who could be happy with a simple
life. Today, he enjoys the luxury of being a common man and he shares his
testimony to help other people avoid the trap of searching for meaning where
there is none.
How long did it take you to write Coming Clean?
I was doing my Ph.D. when I wrote Coming Clean. It took me
one year to write the story, and then it took almost a year to edit and the
roughest part was promoting the book.
What inspired you when writing Coming Clean?
Honestly I never wanted to tell my story, when I finished my
Ph.D. I was one of five Hispanics with a PhD in New Testament, there was no
internet and I just wanted to go off to teach at a prestigious university, I
was highly recruited by many, and never tell anyone who I was. I never knew
that there be an internet. But, I had an ex-wife constantly threatening me to
tell my children and the university who I was if I did not give her what she
wanted. One day I said, enough, you do not have to tell them because I will! I
will tell the world who I was and let them judge me. This was the most
liberating day of my life.
Did anything stick out as particularly challenging when
writing Coming Clean?
I was challenged by the fact that I was re-living a life I wanted
to forget and worst yet, I was enjoying that life and then feeling horribly
guilty
What do you like to do when not writing?
Reading, spending time with my children.
Where can readers find out more about your work?
I urge readers to go to my webpage: www.jorgevaldesphd.com and join our
community, they will receive a free copy of my latest book: Narco Mindset – Freedom Edition.
What I do today I do at my own expense. I
thank God that I have been very successful and thus debt free and financially
secure. When I could not put my children
through college on a professor’s salary, I started a company from scratch and
built it into a multi-million dollar international company. I retired in 2010
financially set for life, with no debt, to raise my last two small children. So
today, this is a mission for me to change the world. To create a better place
for my grand-children to spread a message of hope, and redemption.
In my web page readers can find my blogs,
YouTube videos, and weekly podcast: www.narcomindsetpodcast.com
Coming soon I will be featured in a major
tv productions (can not mention any further). Following this feature my
Executive Coaching Program will come live in December or January of the
following year. This coaching program is
extremely exciting to me as I will train the new up and coming leaders and
executives to build a Narco Mindset. A
Narco Mindset is the mindset that help me to overcome ten years of
incarceration, tortures, build hundred million dollar empire, earn a Ph.D raise
six over-achieving and very successful children. A mindset that will allow
these young people to be all that God created them to be, change the world, and
overcome any challenge in their lives.
I will be writin more books, a mini
series about my life and the future looks glorious. Most of our proceeds go to send book to the
millions of incarcerated men, women and children who are victim of this
horrific and useless War on Drugs which is nothing more than a political scheme
by politicians to keep our eyes of the real culprits of the drug crisis in
America.