With experience straddling two worlds culturally and in business, she’s on the way to fulfilling her mission: to leave a legacy of Latina leaders

Growing up with both parents raised in Mexico, yet grandparents one from Greece and the other from Spain & Germany, Marti Angel never saw anybody in leadership or business who looked like she did. As an entrepreneur working with coaches, she found the same lack of representation. “I have always worked with coaches, but never have those coaches been Hispanic nor Bilingual. Because they’re not really out there. If they’re out there, they’re in Mexico, but I’m talking about somebody who is like me—somebody who has two voices. Because that’s what it feels like to me: I’m living two lives, I have two voices.”

What inspires her now is to be that person, that model, for others in her community. She already has done that by teaching English as a Second Language to the Latinx community in her home city of San Diego. She experienced how appreciative they were that she could relate to them. They thanked her for that. Meanwhile, some of the non-Hispanic coaches she worked with told her it didn’t matter if her niche was Latinas. “A woman is a woman,” they told her. But Marti knew they were wrong, and she is building her business around that truth. “My inspiration is to leave a legacy of Latina leaders behind me,” she says, noting that now is the time: Latinas represent the fastest-growing segment of entrepreneurs in the U.S. 

Marti brings her own history—forbidden to speak Spanish in kindergarten, slapped for speaking Spanish in first grade, put in a closet for speaking Spanish in second grade—to all of her work with Latina clients, understanding the need to “code switch” and how difficult it can be to feel a part of two worlds but not fully part of either. “You’re caught in the middle,” she says. “When I would go to Mexico, I was not Mexican enough. And when I’m here, I am not white enough.”

Read more about Marti’s story in the inspiring new book Latinas Who Boss Up. “These boss ladies are truly inspiring, sharing their breakthroughs and triumphs for all of us to experience,” says by author, educator, and podcaster Tam Luc.. “Latinas Who Boss Up taught me more about a mix of cultures that I never stopped to examine. While there are many things shared between women of color, I also learned a few nuances that make me appreciate the Hispanic diaspora and their varied experiences. I interviewed women whose roots are in Mexico, San Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Chile, and more, from East Coast to West Coast. While our origin stories vary, we all experience life in full color and must navigate our circumstances. These beautiful women represent the world of Latina Supermamas and I am so happy to introduce them to you.”

Find Marti at her website, MartiAngel.com or on social media @MartiAngel_ELC. You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/MartiAngel, where you will find a link to Latinas Who Boss Up. 

About Women with Vision International

Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.  

About Tam Luc

Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies. Hear from some of the amazing entrepreneurs who have worked with Tam at https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit  

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She helped her parents translate legal documents from the time she could read. Now, leading her own law firm, she continues helping immigrants—as well as other young Latina lawyers.

“Whatever document would come in from school or from a hospital or from the Department of Children and Families, because we were a low-income family and we were receiving aid, I had to read all of them for my parents. I had to navigate that system with them,” remembers Marlene Markowitz of growing up as a first-generation immimgrant. “Anything legal, basically, I’ve had my hands in since I was six years old, since I could read.” And she loved reading—even the encyclopedia. “I had the one sample encyclopedia that I would sit down and read as a little six-year-old because I didn’t have my own full set of encyclopedias,” she says. “So that’s where that passion for interpreting things and reading things came from. That’s what led me down this path. I always knew that it was something I was passionate about.” 

She took her time before launching her own practice, working for others over a period of six years. “I am very, very happy that I felt confident enough to do it. If I could go back, I may have told my younger self, ‘Hey, go out and do it sooner.’ But I felt the time was right for me. I had learned a lot from my previous bosses on how to run a business. I had worked with two very successful law practices that were all exclusive to immigration. I had gotten the chance to travel around the world and around the United States, representing immigrants in different courtrooms, in different USCIS offices.”

Now she uses all that experience not just for her clients but for other young women seeking advice. “Just today I had another immigration attorney come visit me at my office who was starting out her law firm. And instead of thinking, ‘Oh, look at this competitor,’ I had her come in, I showed her how I work, I showed her my process, I gave her tips. I feel like my inspiration is seeing other women succeed.” She advocates for that attitude of sharing and giving throughout communities of color. “We need to step up for ourselves and for each other in order to succeed. That’s why I do that. I love volunteering at different organizations where I give free legal consultations so that I can give back, because I know what it’s like to not be able to afford an attorney.”

You can read much more about Marlene Markowitz’s own story in the inspiring new book Latinas Who Boss Up. “These boss ladies are truly inspiring, sharing their breakthroughs and triumphs for all of us to experience,” says author, educator, and podcaster Tam Luc. “Latinas Who Boss Up taught me more about a mix of cultures that I never stopped to examine. While our origin stories vary, we all experience life in full color and must navigate our circumstances. These beautiful women represent the world of Latina Supermamas and I am so happy to introduce them to you.”

Find Marlene at her website, markowitzpa.com, or on Instagram, where she is @AbogadaMarlene and @MarkowitzImmigration. She’s also rapidly expanding her followers on Tik Tok, where she is AbogadaMarlene. You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/MarleneMarkowitz, where you will find a link to Latinas Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. 

About Women with Vision International

Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.  

About Tam Luc

Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies. Hear from some of the amazing entpreneurs who have worked with Tam at https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit  

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You must listen to your inner voice, the “ancestral wisdom” telling you what you know in your heart to be true: You were meant for something greater.

Dr. Elise Sanchez is accustomed to being the first and the only. She was the first in her family to go to college and she was among the only women of color at her school. “I already felt like I didn’t belong because nobody in my family had done it,” she says, “and no one looked like me at my school. It was really challenging.” The challenge continued when she entered the professional and academic space as a newly minted psychologist—fields essentially “built around white men,” she says. “Being young, being brown, being the first, I would think, ‘How does a psychologist dress? What should I look like?’ That was really tough in the beginning.” 

But she finally had the revelation that however she looked was how a psychologist looked: She was a psychologist! “Battling these systems and being in academia was tough but stepping into and owning my power helped me.” It’s something she wants to help other women of color feel as well. Successful in academia, Elise felt pulled towards coaching once she started hiring coaches for herself. They were predominantly white women, who could be helpful but who couldn’t really understand or address her issues—growing up as the eldest daughter in a Latina family, being a women of color in predominantly white spaces, and other cultural nuances.

Just as she did, the coaching clients Elise works with “needed community and connection and someone to process with. Not someone to tell you that you just need to change your mindset. And that’s what happens all the time. We’re dismissed or blamed for how we’re feeling, when in reality there are external systems and things we’re interacting with daily that are impacting our mindset and our limiting beliefs and the stories we tell ourselves. And if you’re not a person of color, you don’t get that.”

Another way Elise is inviting women of color into a broader conversation is through her podcast, “Speak the Secret,” which has a twofold purpose: to reveal her guests’ secrets of success but also, she explains: “What are the secrets that we hold in? The shame, the taboo things that people don’t like talking about.” In an interesting way, Elise sees these “secrets” as two sides of the same coin. “We inherit trauma and generational experiences from our family lineage. But we also get so much strength, resilience, and power with it, too.” That strength sometimes comes through an “inner voice” that reveals what Elise calls “ancestral wisdom.” Listen, she says, when you feel that sense that you were meant for something more in this world. “Just get quiet enough to listen to that. We are who our ancestors have been praying for and waiting for. Listen to that voice and trust it and know that God, creator, source, whatever you believe in, gave us everything we need we just have to go out there and get it.”

Read more about Dr. Elise Sanchez in the inspiring new book Latinas Who Boss Up. “These boss ladies are truly inspiring, sharing their breakthroughs and triumphs for all of us to experience,” says author, educator, and podcaster Tam Luc. “Latinas Who Boss Up taught me more about a mix of cultures that I never stopped to examine. While there are many things shared between women of color, I also learned a few nuances that make me appreciate the Hispanic diaspora and their varied experiences. I interviewed women whose roots are in Mexico, San Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Chile, and more, from East Coast to West Coast. While our origin stories vary, we all experience life in full color and must navigate our circumstances. These beautiful women represent the world of Latina Supermamas and I am so happy to introduce them to you.”

Find Elise at SpeaktheSecret.co or on Instagram @drelisesanchez. She’s on TikTok as Dr. Elise Sanchez and there is a Speak the Secret Facebook page. You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/EliseSanchez, where you will find a link to Latinas Who Boss Up. 

About Women with Vision International

Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.  

About Tam Luc

Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies. Hear from some of the amazing entrepreneurs who have worked with Tam at https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit  

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After years of managing teams in the corporate space, she stopped focusing on the numbers and started nurturing the inner drive and confidence of her clients.

Jessica Rivera is a doer. Even more important, she’s a learner. After years of managing corporate sales teams with a relentless focus on performance and numbers, she realized she didn’t want to focus on these objective things. “I wanted to inspire them!” she says. And she did.

Now she has translated that experience into her coaching practice, where she is driven to work with leaders and help them grow and serve as models to others. “Ultimately I really want to reach leaders, because we touch a lot of people,” she explains. “If I can touch you in a way that inspires you and makes you feel good, then everybody you touch, you’re going to make them feel good. My goal is for everybody to just be confident, be authentic, be who you are, and know that it is okay to make mistakes because we’re going to learn from them and we’re going to be better.”

She also expects her clients to do the work. As a person who disliked public speaking, Jessica worked hard on her mindset and then put herself in situations where she could practice her growing skills. “I would force myself to volunteer for things that scared the living daylights out of me,” she laughs. “Now people tell me, ‘You’re such a natural.’ No, I am not a natural. I still get nervous, but I am prepared and that gives me confidence. Those are some of the things that are in my coaching program—building that confidence, working on that communication. And I never stop learning. I’m a lifelong learner.”

Wherever her clients are in their journey, Jessica meets them there and challenges them to take action, and also to realize they don’t have to go it alone. There are people and resources to support them. “I would say for the younger moms or the single moms—and I’ve been both—don’t let your circumstances trap you. I was undereducated, I was a single mom, I am Latina. You kind of play those stories in your mind and you think that somebody’s judging you because you’re judging yourself. Everybody has a story, everybody’s life isn’t as perfect as you think it is, and so trust in your own awesomeness. Trust that you are dope as hell, but know that you have to see it first.”

Read more of Jessica Rivera’s advice in the inspiring new book Latinas Who Boss Up. “These boss ladies are truly inspiring, sharing their breakthroughs and triumphs for all of us to experience,” says author, educator, and podcaster Tam Luc. “Latinas Who Boss Up taught me more about a mix of cultures that I never stopped to examine. While our origin stories vary, we all experience life in full color and must navigate our circumstances. These beautiful women represent the world of Latina Supermamas and I am so happy to introduce them to you.” You can learn more about all of the featured women at https://bossupbestseller.com, where you will find a link to Latinas Who Boss Up. 

Find Jessica at her website, jrcoaching.net, and on Instagram @CoachJessicaRivera, where she invites DMs! “Let’s chat. I mean, I have found some of the greatest friends through Instagram and social, so definitely reach out.”

About Women with Vision International

Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.  

About Tam Luc

Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies. Hear from some of the amazing entpreneurs who have worked with Tam at https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit  

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Women of color are raised to keep mental health issues under wraps, but only by working through them will they be free to find their greater purpose

What is the negative story you’ve been telling yourself all your life? Budy J amilly Whitfield wants you to name it and then process it. Because until you know where it came from, it will continue to control you—and it is not the story you should be listening to. “It is so important to process the “not good enough story,” she says. “Latina women who boss up have to release the old story and gender roles and expectations. If you grew up in a household where verbal abuse and name-calling were the norms, you could inherit those external beliefs. So this manifests itself in believing you are stupid when you fail a test. Believing you are not worthy when you are entitled to a promotion or a business opportunity. Believing you are poor and so your money mindset keeps you in debt. Believing you are unloved, so you date abusive people.”

Budy (pronounced “beauty”) experienced this herself when she evaluated her own adverse childhood experiences and feelings of being ‘unheard, unloved, and misunderstood.’ As a “wounded healer,” she brings deep personal knowledge and authenticity to helping clients. “It made me think, what can I do to help someone else?” What would her childhood look like if she’d had someone to support her? Now she feels called to be that person for others. “Despite my childhood traumas, I have persevered.” “I was placed in this world to live a purpose-driven life and to help motivate other people; I am here to support women who have also felt silenced because of their cultural expectations.” “For example, in the Latino culture, you’re not allowed to share your experiences, or you are taught to keep your family’s secrets,” she explains. 

In high school, her college counselor told her she’d never make it to a four-year college. “She was dimming my light and shooting down my dreams. As a trauma survivor, self-esteem issues are at the forefront; as a sexual abuse survivor, one doesn’t feel good about themselves. So hearing this from a person who was supposed to encourage me was hard.” But rather than believe the counselor’s message, Budy used it as motivation. As a result, she not only graduated from a four-year college with a GPA of 3.9, but she also went straight into grad school (with a newborn!) and got her master’s in social work within a year.

Now her biggest goal is to de-stigmatize mental health issues in the Black and Brown communities. “Our community views mental health as ‘putting your business out there.’ This thought process is unhealthy and unsafe,” she says. “And so I want to create a safe environment to share your struggles, your family drama, your ambitions, and dreams.” Of course, you can’t pray to the “Santos” that your issues will go away, she says. “I am a true believer in the therapeutic processes of healing.” Her podcast and coaching practice lead women through those processes. “God has given me this gift, and I have this passion for helping other women who share similar experiences.”

There’s much more from Budy in the inspiring new book Latinas Who Boss Up. “These boss ladies are truly inspiring, sharing their breakthroughs and triumphs for all of us to experience,” says author, educator, and podcaster Tam Luc. “Latinas Who Boss Up taught me more about a mix of cultures that I never stopped to examine. While there are many things shared between women of color, I also learned a few nuances that make me appreciate the Hispanic diaspora and their varied experiences. I interviewed women whose roots are in Mexico, San Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Chile, and more, from the East Coast to West Coast. While our origin stories vary, we all experience life in full color and must navigate our circumstances. These beautiful women represent the world of Latina Supermamas, and I am so happy to introduce them to you.”

Budy Jamilly Whitfield’s website is iambeauteousme.com, and she’s on Instagram @iambeauteousme. You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/BudyJamillyWhitfield, where you will find a link to Latinas Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. 

About Women with Vision International

Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all, such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.  

About Tam Luc

Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies. Hear from some of the amazing entrepreneurs who have worked with Tam at https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit  

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As a bilingual Black and Latina therapist and a highly sensitive person, she draws from her own journey through intergenerational trauma to guide others on their healing paths.

Anastasia Locklin helps highly sensitive women come back home to their highest selves by witnessing and mirroring their beauty, magic, and intuition back to them through therapy and holistic healing modalities. The founder of Unlock Your Joy Therapeutic & Counseling Services, she reminds her clients that “the goal of this lifetime is not about adopting the truths of others. As highly sensitive people we have incredible gifts to bring to the world. We have a gift of empathy, we have strong intuition that guides us and is always in our favor. We have hearts of gold, and we are full of love and depth. Our possibilities are endless because we yearn to live a life of meaning and create beauty and love around us.”

She is able to share these insights—especially with women from biracial or multicultural backgrounds—because she is a highly sensitive person who identifies as Black and Mexican. “My specializations have stemmed from my own desire to heal the wounded parts of me that I disconnected from due to shame and fear as well as my own intergenerational trauma I have chosen to work through in this lifetime and will continually dedicate myself to aiding others in theirs so as a collective we can experience healing and step into our purpose.” she says. “I really wanted to be the person that I wish I had through my journey of  education, self discovery, and healing.” 

While not speaking for the entire Black or Latinx communities, she explains that “sometimes family dynamics when you are multicultural are very non-conventional. In my instance, there was a more significant disconnect that I had with consistency and connection with my Mexican side of the family due to the intergenerational trauma specifically around mother wounds, toxic relationships within family dynamics, and substance abuse. I believe my Mexican side of the family struggled silently for a long time because in their generation and in my family lineage that’s just what you do. You get through it, and move on, and you don’t talk to anyone about your feelings. You have no other option. You don’t show the world weakness because it’s not safe. Going to a therapist wasn’t really a priority because survival and security was the main focus.” 

At a young age she also realized that her own role in the family, as the oldest of four children, required learning “how to make everything okay,” she recalls. “It became a thing for me just to make everything okay at my own emotional and mental expense. As a child, I didn’t know that’s what I was doing.” Now she understands the effect that role of “toxic parentification” had on her and she is able to help others understand their roles in their families and how those experiences continue to have an impact in adulthood. 

She is gradually seeing more acceptance of issues of mental health and is hopeful the focus of healing will continue to grow as a priority in Black and Brown communities. “When a womxn heals herself she heals herself, heals all the womxn who came before her and all the womxn who after her,” Anastasia believes. “Healing is what we have come to do as our soul’s purpose and be apart of in this lifetime.”

You can read much more about Anastasia Locklin’s story and her advice for bicultural women stepping into their own power in the inspiring new book Latinas Who Boss Up. “These boss ladies are truly inspiring, sharing their breakthroughs and triumphs for all of us to experience,” says author, educator, and podcaster Tam Luc. “Latinas Who Boss Up taught me more about a mix of cultures that I never stopped to examine. While our origin stories vary, we all experience life in full color and must navigate our circumstances. These beautiful women represent the world of Latina Supermamas and I am so happy to introduce them to you.”

Find Anastasia on Instagram @anastasialocklin, @Unlockyourjoytherapyinc and @rootedhealingcollective. You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/AnastasiaLocklin, where you will find a link to Latinas Who Boss Up. 

About Women with Vision International

Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.  

About Tam Luc

Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies. Hear from some of the amazing entrepreneurs who have worked with Tam at https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit  

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Experiencing highs and lows gave her perspective and patience to find success as a real estate agent. Now she’s giving back to her community as well.

As a little girl, Celila Martin’s playground was Marina Del Rey where her parents ran their yacht maintenance company. Having immigrated from Mexico, knowing no one, speaking no English, they built a thriving business and gave their kids everything. But when Celila was nine years old, they divorced. The business was dissolved, her mom was without an income, and they lost their home. “She had to go on food stamps, we had to take the bus everywhere,” she remembers. “I was lucky to be exposed to the value of being your own boss as well as the reality that you could lose it all overnight.”

Celila had entrepreneurial footsteps to follow. For those who don’t, she says, start by making a plan and putting it down on paper. Try to quiet your mind and let your intuition guide you. “Your inner self knows what your purpose is,” she says. Her current purpose is to create an organization to help people get a home even if they are short savings. “I’ve met so many people who could qualify for a mortgage. They have excellent credit, they have good work history, they just don’t have a certain amount of money saved up,” she explains. They might be short a few thousand dollars and that would make all the difference in what kind of mortgage terms they could get. Celila’s new organization will help to fill the gap, donating money to new homeowners so they can begin to build generational wealth. 

Read more about Celila’s story in the inspiring new book Latinas Who Boss Up. “These boss ladies are truly inspiring, sharing their breakthroughs and triumphs for all of us to experience,” says by author, educator, and podcaster Tam Luc. “Latinas Who Boss Up taught me more about a mix of cultures that I never stopped to examine. While there are many things shared between women of color, I also learned a few nuances that make me appreciate the Hispanic diaspora and their varied experiences. I interviewed women whose roots are in Mexico, San Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Chile, and more, from East Coast to West Coast. While our origin stories vary, we all experience life in full color and must navigate our circumstances. These beautiful women represent the world of Latina Super Mamas and I am so happy to introduce them to you.”

Find Celila on IG @celila_toliveandbuyinla, check out her website ihomesla.com and for questions her email is cmartin@helpyoubuyandsell.com. You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/CelilaMartin, where you will find a link to Latinas Who Boss Up. 

About Women with Vision International

Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.  

About Tam Luc

Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.

Hear from some of the amazing entrepreneurs who have worked with Tam at https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit  

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The former therapist turned emotional intelligence coach advises women to be aware of their thoughts and beliefs: “They form your reality.”

Cielo Prischak has always been fascinated with human behavior, so she took her bachelor’s degree in psychology and got a great job working in human resources as a big tech company. HR means working with people, right? As Cielo found out, a lot of the time it really doesn’t. So, she faced a choice: Climb the corporate ladder or go back to school?

She chose school and earned a master’s degree in Applied Clinical Psychology and then began work as a therapist in both individual and group settings. She loved the work, but she quickly burned out in the agency environment. “Burnout is so real and is experienced at an alarmingly high rate in healthcare fields,” she says. “I experienced tremendous burnout until I realized I had the tools I needed to recover from and prevent burnout in the future. I started to truly implement in my own life the concepts I was teaching my clients, specifically mindfulness, stress management, and emotion regulation. This is when I developed such a deep appreciation for mindfulness and emotional intelligence.” 

After further training, she became a certified emotional intelligence practitioner and mindfulness and meditation teacher. She now coaches others to utilize mindfulness and increase their emotional intelligence in order to unlock their potential without burning out. “I love teaching people that mindfulness simply means being fully aware of the present moment without judgment or attachment to that moment,” she says. “Mindfulness is accessible to everybody. You can practice it anytime, anywhere, and it will help manage your stress levels.”

Read more about Cielo’s work and her experience growing up in two cultures in the inspiring new book Latinas Who Boss Up. “These boss ladies are truly inspiring, sharing their breakthroughs and triumphs for all of us to experience,” says author, educator, and podcaster Tam Luc. “Latinas Who Boss Up taught me more about a mix of cultures that I never stopped to examine. While there are many things shared between women of color, I also learned a few nuances that make me appreciate the Hispanic diaspora and their varied experiences. I interviewed women whose roots are in Mexico, San Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Chile, and more, from East Coast to West Coast. While our origin stories vary, we all experience life in full color and must navigate our circumstances. These beautiful women represent the world of Latina Supermamas and I am so happy to introduce them to you.”

Cielo is on Instagram @cielo.prischak and you can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/CieloPrischak, where you will find a link to Latinas Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. 

About Women with Vision International

Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.  

About Tam Luc

Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.

Hear from some of the amazing entrepreneurs who have worked with Tam at https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit  

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Phone: 310 710 8954
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Website: https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit

Embarking on personal development as a college student, she saw a gap between traditional schooling and the life-changing skills she was learning outside the classroom.

For her 19th birthday, Claudia Ramirez asked her parents to help her get set up with a network marketing business. “Along with network marketing comes a lot of personal development—a lot of it,” she says. “And I would return from training and seminars and conferences, and I saw this gap. On one side of the gap there was what traditional school was teaching us to do, a ‘cookie-cutter’ system. On the other side were the lessons that I was learning outside of school that were helping me a lot more in school, in relationships, in fitness, in sports, in every other area of my life. And I thought, ‘How many people around me right now are going to university, are wanting to use their amazing abilities and skills, and will still live life to a fraction of their potential?’” The insight inspired her to become a person who would make the difference for others, even though she had no role models to follow. “I remember thinking, ‘I am going to live my life to my maximum potential, but it cannot stop there. I have to help other people do the same.’ Now it is what I teach and coach every single day.”

But it didn’t happen overnight. “I got my bachelor’s and master’s degrees within five-and-a-half years and my business wasn’t fully established yet, financially speaking. So I had to get a job as a high-school Spanish teacher, which is what I went to school for. I did that for three-and-a-half years. It’s very difficult when you know that this is not your final destination, but you are still there. I was also a high-school coach and found myself working 17-hour days and feeling completely exhausted. I was emotionally, mentally, and physically drained. I stopped working out and I would come home every single day feeling ungrateful. One day I caught myself in the midst of my pattern. I told myself, ‘This stops here. This stops right now. You have a job, you have a degree, and many people would do so much to have this.’ I had to shift the mindset and feel gratitude. I realized that without it, I was never going to attract and create the business that I so much desired and was working toward. That is when it all changed. Everything started coming into my life.” 

Now Claudia uses that experience in her work with clients. One of her favorite exercises for helping people get clarity is creating a vision board. “Some people think that this is overrated, but it’s not!” she says. “I have been invited into masterminds to teach people how to do this because it makes everything so clear. Write down your dreams, turn them into goals, and then integrate them into a beautiful vision board that you see each and every day.” Follow Claudia on Instagram @itsclaudiaramirez or check out her website, www.theclaudiaramirez.com.

There’s much more about Claudia Ramirez—who was also a champion college athlete—in the inspiring new book Latinas Who Boss Up. “These boss ladies are truly inspiring, sharing their breakthroughs and triumphs for all of us to experience,” says author, educator, and podcaster Tam Luc. “Latinas Who Boss Up taught me more about a mix of cultures that I never stopped to examine. While our origin stories vary, we all experience life in full color and must navigate our circumstances. These beautiful women represent the world of Latina Supermamas and I am so happy to introduce them to you.” You can learn more about Yuri and the other featured women at https://bossupbestseller.com, where you will find a link to Latinas Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. 

About Women with Vision International

Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.  

About Tam Luc

Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.

Hear from some of the amazing entrepreneurs who have worked with Tam at https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit  

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Website: https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit

We have registries for wedding gifts and showers for new moms. How about business showers for women entrepreneurs? Registries for product launches? That’s the idea behind Founders Registry.

Ana Pompa Alarcón has always been a connector. Her first company, findSisterhood (which, she will tell you, she didn’t realize was a company at first) connected women in her area who were struggling, like she was, with post-partum depression or the overwhelm of being a new mom and losing all focus on yourself. What began as a social network evolved into a platform to share advice on a range of topics. Ultimately, the business attracted massive investment and expanded to 2,500 cities globally.

Now she is building a community of a different sort: an “ecosystem” designed to serve a global network of diverse women who are starting businesses or who are able to provide support and services to women-led businesses. At the heart of the project is the idea of celebrating women business-owners the way we are accustomed to celebrating brides and moms. “Imagine how different it would be starting your new company with the same kind of celebration, presents, and attention people get when they get married,” she says. “When you throw a business shower, you gather your community together to bring along their network of resources, ideas, and gifts in support of your dream.” In Ana’s vision, a business shower is not just for the birth of a new company. Maybe it’s a new product, a new initiative, an anniversary of your business launch. It’s all cause for celebration and the support of a community.

An important part of the ecosystem is sharing knowledge and answering questions that new business owners—in particular, women who are underrepresented in business—might be too intimidated to ask. Looking back on her own journey, Ana recognizes that she made mistakes that might have been avoided if she’d asked more questions. What held her back? “I was always labeled. I’m an immigrant, I am a single mom, I am Latina, I am Mexican. There are so many intersectional layers to my personality, to who I am as a founder, that it feels like I have to work 10 times as hard to be viewed as any random white woman in this country, just because of who I am. I felt like if I asked a question people would judge me. But if you come from neighborhoods where you never saw entrepreneurs and your family, like mine, was working class, how should you know all of these things?”

In a conversation with one of her investors about this topic, she told him she wished people would have come at her with all their unsolicited advice like they did when she was pregnant. “I wish we would celebrate women who start their own company the way we do when they give birth, the way we celebrate them when they get married,” she told him. And Founders Registry was born. Ana also interviewed her family—the people she knows love her the most but also who had supported her the least with her company. When she asked them why, they told her they didn’t know how to help. “So I asked, ‘If I had a registry, like a wedding registry, for my company and on Christmas or my birthday I asked you to just get me stuff on my registry, would you do that?’ And my mom was like, ‘Hell, yes. I’d much rather buy you new business cards or pay for a social media manager for a year, than buy you more yoga pants.’” 

Find more about Ana’s services and how to create a business shower for yourself or someone else at www.founders-registry.com. Or connect with her on Instagram and LinkedIn under her name, Ana Pompa Alarcón. “I love to connect with other founders,” she says, “and other women who are out there chasing their dreams.”

There’s much more to Ana Pompa Alarcón’s story—including her social justice work and her commitment to giving a percentage of her profits to marginalized entrepreneurs who lack funds—in the inspiring new book Latinas Who Boss Up. “These boss ladies are truly inspiring, sharing their breakthroughs and triumphs for all of us to experience,” says author, educator, and podcaster Tam Luc. “Latinas Who Boss Up taught me more about a mix of cultures that I never stopped to examine. While our origin stories vary, we all experience life in full color and must navigate our circumstances. These beautiful women represent the world of Latina Supermamas and I am so happy to introduce them to you.” You can learn more about Yuri and the other featured women at https://bossupbestseller.com, where you will find a link to Latinas Who Boss Up. 

About Women with Vision International

Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.  

About Tam Luc

Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.

Hear from some of the amazing entrepreneurs who have worked with Tam at https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit  

Media Contact
Company Name: Women with Vision International
Contact Person: Tam Luc

Phone: 310 710 8954
Country: United States
Website: https://womenbossupsummit.com/virtualsummit