I'm a work in progress, and I've made peace with that
I'm a mid-30-something Latina, raising a bilingual toddler, still figuring out how to fully reclaim a language and a culture I spent years learning to quiet down.
This page isn't a highlight reel. It's the real story—the parts that shaped how I coach, how I build my business, and why "success" means something different to me now than it used to.
fitting in meant leaving parts of myself at the door
the version of success I almost bought into
I was born and raised in Argentina, with Spanish as my first language, and a weekly dose of cultura at the family asado. Then I immigrated in time for high school—and landed somewhere with almost no one who grew up the way I did.
So I adapted. I learned that "successful" meant blending in—and little by little, the language faded, and the culture became something I visited in my memories.
I chased the only version of success I could see: hustle constantly, sound and look like everyone else, never stop to question if this life even brought me any joy. And with nobody around me who shared my cultura or the kind of life I actually wanted, I had no proof that another way was even possible.
I realized I didn't want to become them
Not because they'd done anything wrong. Because the life on the other side of all that hustling didn't look like living—it looked like more of the same, with better numbers attached.
I wanted to enjoy my life. Make real memories, not just hit milestones. So after a year of working for myself, I made my own rules—cut my hours down in half, stopped treating rest like something to earn, and built a business where stepping away (including three unplugged months with my newborn son) didn't mean falling behind.
And somewhere in the middle of redefining success for myself, I kept hitting the same wall: almost no one around me shared my cultura or my desired way of living. So I started the Speaker Movement.
Because representation isn't only about being seen. It's about being heard, in your own voice, without smoothing yourself out to fit the room.
the Shift, and what I built instead
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New memories made in 6 months
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Speaking gigs booked in 2 weeks
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27 clients enrolled inside speaker era
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Speakers featured in the movement
still reclaiming it, every single day
who I am now, and why this matters to me
These days, my biggest project isn't a launch—it's raising a bilingual toddler, and relearning how to fully live in a language and culture I spent years quietly stepping away from. It's not something I fixed once. It's ongoing—some days that looks like choosing rest over hustle, or regulating my own nervous system before I try to work on anything else.
I'm not coaching from the other side of this. I'm coaching from inside of it.
When I coach someone to build a visibility strategy that doesn't cost them their life, or to speak from their real voice instead of the polished, palatable version—I'm not handing you a framework I read about. I'm handing you the thing I had to build for myself, because nobody handed it to me first.
If you've ever felt like success meant leaving parts of yourself behind to get it—I see you. And I'd love to help you build something that doesn't ask you to.
