Daughters of immigrant entrepreneurs need more than business strategy, and this episode will show you why.

In this deeply moving conversation, I talk with my Reclamation client Eunice Kimian, a somatic business coach who grew up in a Korean immigrant household where silence, emotional suppression, and over-responsibility were the norm.

We talk about what it meant for her to start her business from scratch while healing—without abandoning her culture, her family, or herself.

Eunice shares how choosing softness felt like the biggest risk, how her somatic work created enough safety to even have a vision, and why it matters that daughters of immigrants have access to mentors who understand the emotional cost of being “high functioning.”

✨ And as Eunice says: “We’re not taught to listen to ourselves… it’s not just about strategy. It’s about helping people hear themselves again.”

This conversation is a reminder that for daughters of immigrants, healing and business aren’t separate—and strategy alone is never the full answer.

📌 In this episode we talk about:

• How Korean collectivist culture shaped Eunice’s identity and instincts
• Why emotional repression was tied to safety in her family—and how she’s unlearning that
• The moment she realized “softness” was her next edge
• What it actually means to regulate your nervous system enough to hold a vision
• Why thought leadership looks different when you come from a high-control environment
• Why Eunice believes strategy is never enough for daughters of immigrants
• How she’s now filling a powerful gap in the market between somatics and entrepreneurship

How to stay in touch with Eunice:

• Listen to her podcast Embody Your Brilliance with Eunice Kimian
• Find her on Instagram @eunicekimian.
• Check out her website for 1:1 Somatic Business Coaching.
• Join her upcoming Free Somatic Workshop on 8/7, Safe to Shine: Unblock Your Visibility.

Work with me:

• Get coached in community with incredible WOC like Eunice by joining the waitlist for Reclamation Mastermind
• Apply to work with me privately

This week, I’m sharing a joint episode I recorded with Andrea Ramos, founder of Building Gen Wealth. She’s a first-gen Peruvian American financial educator who teaches first-gen WOC how to move beyond saving and begin building true, long-term wealth.

We recorded this conversation because we wanted to name something that often goes unsaid: the ways our early money beliefs shaped not only how we spend—but also how we dream, take risks, and show up in business.

As first-gen, we weren’t raised to invest or become founders. We were raised to save and stay safe. But building wealth—on our terms—meant teaching ourselves a new language. One that held space for both financial security and growth.

Inside this episode, we talk about:

• The early beliefs that shaped our “save everything” mindset
• How Andrea’s parents’ cancer diagnoses changed her financial path
• How even my multiple six-figure corporate salary still came with tradeoffs
• The ways fear disguised itself as responsibility in our financial decisions
• What we had to unlearn in order to become profitable founders and investors

Andrea is the founder of Building Gen Wealth and host of Latina Investors Podcast where she supports first-gen WOC to build wealth with confidence and clarity. If you’re new to investing or unsure where to start, check out her “Get Started” page.

Connect and work with Andrea:

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And if this episode made you realize how you have been missing business coaching from a First Gen coach who can help you work through "invisible weights" you carry as a First Gen founder so you can grow to six and multiple six figures, here's how you can work with me:

🔗 Join the waitlist for Reclamation Mastermind

🔗 Apply for 1:1 Coaching

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What if security didn’t mean staying put in a familiar job or city?

My client Jenn Jamali is a first-gen money coach who, like many of us, was rooted in immigrant “play-it-safe” mindset: buying a house, making six figures, saving hard. But even after checking those boxes, she still felt like something was missing.

When a Pinterest contract ended and she was eight weeks pregnant, Jen could have panicked—but she didn’t: she’d saved, invested, monetized her skills, and built financial cushions outside just a salary.

She declared her dream—to move back to her family's motherland in Colombia, to live in alignment—before knowing how.

Months later, a mix of family loss and a crazy opportunity to live in Bogotá led her to actually do it. She and her family just moved a month ago but it was ANYTHING but easy.

She worked through first gen guilt, family not understanding, fear and unexpected losses in her family. But through it all, she never made herself wrong for her move.

She and I talk through:

• How she made intentional, easier choices that felt like raises—without earning more
• Why values-first decisions opened pathways she hadn’t expected
• The emotional truth of leaving family behind (and still staying connected)
• How she deeply reshaped her mindset—and her money—to live on her terms

It’s a story of trusting yourself, choosing freedom, and resisting the urge to wait until you have it all figured out. It’s exactly the kind of conversation I want more of in this community.

About Jenn:

Jenn is a Financial Empowerment Coach, former tech recruiter, and first-generation wealth builder who helps women—especially fellow first-gens—rewrite their money stories and take bold action toward financial freedom. Through her signature coaching framework, she helps clients make more, keep more, and align their finances with their values so they can live with more ease, purpose, and autonomy.

After navigating career transitions, investing in multiple properties, and self-funding her maternity leave, Jenn recently made her boldest move yet—relocating her family from Texas to Bogotá, Colombia. In this episode, she shares how getting clear on her values, building financial systems, and trusting herself made it possible to build a life abroad rooted in connection, nature, and intentionality.

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This episode is a personal recap of The Table We Built, my second international retreat for Reclamation clients—this time held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Unlike traditional business retreats, this wasn’t about jungle breathwork or hotel ballrooms.

It was about creating an intimate, intentional space that supported the whole human experience of women of color and daughters of immigrants.

In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on:

• Why we must start with intention—and how that single choice guided every decision I made
• What I learned from my first retreat that helped me simplify the second
• How environment, safety, and design all helped clients experience deeper breakthroughs
• The very real behind-the-scenes of managing my own energy as a host
• And how conversations around identity, safety, motherhood, and belonging unfolded naturally—without being on the “agenda”

If you’re a coach or leader dreaming about bringing people together in a way that feels human and healing—this one’s for you.

🎧 Listen now and let me know what lands.

Learn more about Reclamation Mastermind at www.marieladelamora.com/reclamation

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You know your offer works. Your clients get results. People refer you. So why isn’t it selling consistently?

In this episode, I break down 8 specific reasons why a proven offer might still feel hard to sell—especially if your leads are mostly coming from referrals or word of mouth instead of your own marketing.

These are the kinds of blind spots I coach my clients through all the time, and I’ve experienced them firsthand. Inside, I cover:

• Why “my audience just doesn’t get it” is usually a messaging issue
• How positioning your offer as a step beyond where your audience thinks they are can backfire
• The difference between helpful content and content that actually converts
• How to sell to the person who’s been silently creeping on your page for weeks
• Why storytelling-based social proof works better than testimonials—and how to use it
• Subtle ways we unintentionally create resistance with our audience (and what to do instead)

If you’ve been questioning your marketing or wondering whether you need to change your offer—this episode is your sign to pause and audit before you pivot.

🔗 Learn more about Reclamation Mastermind

📎 Website: marieladelamora.com

💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marieladelamora

📱 Instagram: @marieladelamora

Lately, I’ve been sitting with a question that so many of my clients—especially daughters of immigrants—are bringing to our sessions:

How do I show up for my business when I’m personally impacted by what’s happening to my community?

When ICE is conducting raids.

When people are being kidnapped out of their homes, workplaces, and off the streets—thrown into unmarked vehicles without due process.

When your nervous system is overwhelmed and your community is afraid.

This episode is a conversation about how I’m navigating that myself—and how I’m supporting my clients through it.

Because we don’t run our businesses in a vacuum. We do business on our phones, while our friends and families are being impacted in real time. And when the attacks on immigrants feel like an attack on us, it makes total sense that showing up in our business can feel… impossible.

Inside, I share:

• How I’m helping clients (and myself) discern: What do I need in order to show up?—instead of “how do I push through?”
• What it looks like to lead and support others when your own body is in fight-or-flight.
• Ways to tend to your nervous system so you don’t freeze or burn out while trying to stay informed and visible.
• How to stay connected to your community and purpose without abandoning yourself.

And when it feels especially hard to market your business in moments like this, I come back to this question:

Why does my business exist—and why does my message matter more than ever right now?

For me, the answer is this: Who controls your money, controls your voice.

That’s why I believe so deeply in daughters of immigrants building brands that are rooted in truth, identity, and self-determination. It’s not about selling—it’s about sovereignty.

This episode isn’t polished. I recorded it walking through my house, because that’s what my body needed in order to speak. But if you’re grieving, triggered, and trying to figure out how to keep showing up—this is for you.

Ways to connect and work together:

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Every dollar in your business has a job to do.

If it’s sitting in your account just to make you feel safe, but you have Profit Problems you don’t know how to solve, you might be keeping your business stuck on your own dime.

This episode is for anyone who’s navigating the very real tension of needing their business to be profitable because they pay the bills with their business—yet not always feeling safe enough to do what it takes to make sure that happens.

I’m pulling back the curtain on how I manage my business revenue as a single mom breadwinner CEO—someone who pays herself every single month and takes a six figure salary from her business, and who knows she can’t afford to pull support and “figure it out” later.

Here’s what I break down:

• What changes when you have to take a salary vs. when you don’t
• The difference between thinking about business revenue like a CEO vs. like an employee. It’s not your money - it’s belongs to the business.
• How I decide what investments to make, keep, and stop
• The exact order I prioritize where my money goes (spoiler: it’s not salary first)

This episode is about radical honesty, smart risk, and making sure your money is solving the right problems in your business.

Especially if you’ve ever said:

“Can I really afford to invest in this right now?”

or

“Am I just pulling a Jenga block that’s holding everything up?”

In this episode, I’m sharing the real story behind adopting—and ultimately rehoming—a puppy I thought would "complete my family" as a single mom.

It’s a story I almost didn’t share. But what started as a deeply personal decision became a mirror for the kind of choices so many of us make in business.

Because this wasn’t just about a puppy.

It was about trying to soothe a feeling I hadn’t fully acknowledged—and how that showed up in a major life decision.

Here’s what I’m unpacking in this episode:

• Why even the most “well-thought-out” decisions can still come from a place of lack
• How I’ve seen brilliant women (myself included) set goals not because we want them—but because we think they’ll finally make us feel safe, successful, or enough
• What happens when you bring your unhealed self into a milestone and still feel unsatisfied
• The real cost of setting goals to escape how we feel about ourselves today

This episode is an invitation to get radically honest with yourself:

👉 Are you building from sufficiency—or trying to earn your way into feeling whole?

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• Private Coaching Info or DM me on Instagram to talk about Telegram coaching ($700/mo)
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You’re already making money.

You’ve got a proven offer, clients, and the receipts to show for it.

But even now, you’re looking around at what everyone else is doing—and wondering if you're missing something.

Should I be doing reels like her?

Should I start a funnel?

Should I be on LinkedIn more?

If you’ve ever felt that spiral of “do I need to do that too?”—this episode is for you.

In this solo, I’m talking about:

• Why this happens especially to women of color and daughters of immigrants
• The difference between tactics and strategy (and why this matters more the further along you get)
• The 5 questions that will help you decide what’s actually aligned for your business
• A story from a past interview with a marketing exec who launched Airbnb and Lyft—and how it shaped the way I coach today

This episode isn’t about working harder or optimizing faster.

It’s about thinking more like a CEO and less like a good student.

If you’re tired of outsourcing your decisions and you’re ready to build a strategy that honors your values, capacity, and goals—press play.

🎧 How to Stop Wasting Time and Money on the Wrong Strategies

🪴 Resources:

• Private Coaching Info or DM me on Instagram to talk Telegram coaching ($700/mo)
• Join the Reclamation Mastermind Waitlist
• Connect on LinkedIn

Sometimes you’re not not trying… you’re just not solving the right problem.

In this solo episode, I talk about what to do when you feel like you’ve been doing “all the things” in your business but it’s still not working. You’ll hear me share a voice-note-born analogy (yes, this one’s about plants 🌿) that helped one of my private clients finally see why her sales had slowed—even though it looked like she was showing up.

We dive into:

• The difference between sitting in a problem and actively solving it
• Why “changing your offer again” might be distracting you from the real issue
• The invisible ways you might be capping your demand, energy, and client capacity
• And why having someone else diagnose the real issue with you is the most loving thing you can do for your business

I also share a transparent look at how I support my clients through this—whether that’s through 6-month private coaching or month-to-month Telegram coaching for $700.

This episode is a permission slip to stop over-efforting, stop fidgeting with your offer, and start solving the real problem.

🎧 Tune in and let me know what lands for you. I’d love to hear which part made you feel seen.

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• Private Coaching & Availability
• Reclamation Mastermind
• DM me on Instagram for Telegram Coaching ($700/month)

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