Dropping Gems Con Muchos Colores

Anna's unique experience working in perinatal care when she experienced a stillbirth paired with her passion for improving health outcomes for underserved populations laid the foundation for creating her nonprofit, Gifts from Liam.

In this episode, Anna talks to us about the diaper gap and the education gap many families fall into that negatively impact parenthood and shares how her organization is working to narrow the gaps by increasing access to education and resources for families in need while also supporting bereaved families.

Christine is from Mexican and Guatemalan decent. She was born and raised in Pennsylvania and recently moved to Florida with her family 2 boys (age 2 & 4) and husband to Florida.

Christine has over 14 years of experience in the healthcare industry and has a Master of Science in Nursing.

Being in the healthcare industry she gained a lot of experience in quality improvement. Christine applied these strategies learned in combination with mindset work to apply to life's decision making situations.

I enjoyed our conversation very much as we discussed her move from the east to the sunshine state of Florida, her journey cultivating motherhood and career, and building confidence as a women.

Araceli Fernandez, a Mexican American Latina mom from Chicago, IL. Araceli is a Medical Coder in Health Information Management. She holds a Registered Medical Assistant Certification. Araceli shares her journey parenting her 3 children 2 boys and 1 girl ages 14, 12, and 7 and becoming a mom at age 17. As well as debunking some of the myths of young parenting in the latino communities. Araceli dedicates this episode to her children:

• Leo who taught Araceli at 17 yrs. old how to be a mother and both are still growing together.

o Leo also reminds Araceli of her late father.

• Her daughter Jasmin who Araceli has taught her to embrace speaking her mind and learning about patience.
• Mateo who is the life of the party and pours love and tenderness.

As well as her husband William for his unconditional support for 14 years of marriage.

Leslie's new journey of motherhood led her to create Latinx Montessori, a practice that fosters self-motivated growth for children in all areas of their development after struggling to find a Montessori community that she could culturally relate to. It is her mission to share with other parents how to incorporate Montessori at home while staying true to our beautiful culture.

It's a pleasure to have Leslie join our Dropping Gems Con Muchos Colores audio community!

Audrey Robles is a Confidence Coach, Confidence Booster helping women through faith, fitness and mindset.

Audrey's confidence journey began after she had 2 boys back to back and began to be more cognizant of taking care of herself. Audrey started to work out at home as an outlet and joined a community where she found herself thriving in this enviroment.

Audrey loved the support she received and decided to pay it forward by becoming at fitness coach. Audrey realized within the 1st year many women quit not due to the lack of support but because they did not believe in themselves which became her mission to empower other women to believe in themselves and boost their confidence through mindset.

Audrey shares with us tools to help us reframe our mindset and confidence!

Dr. Hortencia Jimenez was born in Nayarit, Mexico in la Sierra Madre and raised in the agriculture community of Watsonville CA. At a young age, she was separated from her mother and came with her grandma and aunt to the U.S.

Dr. Jimenez spent her childhood years working in the fields and learned the ethic of hard work and perseverance.

She holds a BA, MA, and Ph.D in Sociology and is also a certified Health Coach and Fitness Instructor.

Dr. Jimenez is a full-time tenured Sociology professor teaching at a local community college in Monterey, County.

Dr. Jimenez transitioned to social media during the pandemic and created her instagram account @drhortenciajimenez as a response to the lack of Latinx representation and conversation of an anti-diet approach in the Health and Wellness industry.

Her work centers on dismantling diet culture and helping Latinxs heal their relationship with food, embrace food without guilt and love your body. She is passionate about health and wellness!

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Her Financial Literacy journey started while she was on sick leave from work by reading books and watching YouTube videos which gave her the information to create wealth.

Some of Soledad's major achievements were: paying off over $23K in debt from Student Loans, creating a six-month emergency fund and maxing out her husband's 401 K and IRA's for both of them.

Soledad's tips to achieve financial wellness as a family:

• Creating a emergency fund
• Being intentional about money coming our way and coming out
• Investing for retirement

She also shares about the financial habits she has taught her children:

• Budgeting
• Delaying gratification
• Taking good care of the things they have
• Building credit history (for her godson who is 13 years old)

She decided to create a support system by creating a community Wealth para Todos to find other people that would talk Dinero to learn together about creating wealth.

#DebtFree #FIREJourney #FIRECommunity

Soledad's main takeaways from her journey:

• Start investing as soon as you can
• Get comfortable with fear and failure

Follow Soledad on IG @wealthtodos or visit her website wealthparatodos.com

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We discussed how we can dispel the mental stigma especially in Latino communities and how to achieve mental and emotional wellness in motherhood.

Jessica also shares with us her favorite ways to deal with stress, at this very stage of her life and how she is cultivating a balance between motherhood, entrepreneurship and her career.

Jessica is also the podcast cohost of Everything You Want To Know About Therapy *but were too afraid to ask.

To learn more about Jessica, please visit: https://www.cocopeachjewelry.com/ or follow her on Instagram @coco_and_peach_jewelry and @therapy_podcast_

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