“I feel like a failure!” Embracing Failures to Build Confidence

In this empowering episode of MAMI on a Mission Podcast, your host Mariana takes you on a heartfelt journey of self-discovery and resilience.

Join Mariana as she shares her personal experiences with failure, including the emotional toll of two painful divorces and the journey to rebuild her life.

She candidly discusses how these challenges initially shattered her confidence but ultimately became the catalyst for a renewed sense of purpose and strength.
Mariana delves into the transformative power of embracing failures, offering five practical tips to help you turn setbacks into confidence-building experiences.

 Learn how to acknowledge and accept failure as a natural part of life, reflect on your mistakes to foster growth, build a supportive network, set achievable goals, and practice self-compassion. Each strategy is designed to empower you to rise above your struggles and achieve a fulfilling life.

As the episode draws to a close, Mariana leaves you with a powerful scripture from Joshua 1:9 to inspire courage and faith.

Tune in for an episode filled with wisdom, encouragement, and actionable advice.

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Chapters

• 0:04 Embracing Failure to Build Confidence
• 11:01 Rebuilding Confidence After Marital Failures
• 26:23 Finding Support After Personal Hardship
• 34:26 Building Confidence Through Self-Compassion

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:04

Welcome to the Mommy on a Mission podcast. I'm Mariana, your host and the number one bestselling author of Mommy on a Mission a guide towards healing self-discovery and walking in confidence. As a dedicated life coach, wife, mom yaya and, most importantly, daughter of the king, I am passionate about empowering multifaceted women just like you. In each episode, we dive deep into transformative topics that help you reignite your passion and purpose. My unique approach is designed to help you overcome the fear of external expectations and create the space and time you need for both increased job satisfaction and personal growth. Join me on this journey of self-discovery and empowerment as we explore practical strategies, inspiring stories and actionable insights. Together, we'll navigate the complexities of life and emerge stronger, more confident and truly aligned with our deepest desires. Welcome to the Mom on a Mission podcast, your go-to resource for living a more purposeful and fulfilling life. So grab your taza of coffee and let's talk. Hola, amiga. Welcome back to another empowering episode of Mommy on a Mission podcast, the podcast that empowers Latina women and all women, to reach their impossible goals, one dream at a time. I'm your host, mariana, and first of all, let me just say this I have COVID and I have been home since Tuesday of this week and I no longer have a cough, I no longer have a fever, I'm still nasally, but I just feel tired. And today I took another test and it came out still positive. So hopefully I'll start feeling a lot better. And let me just say that this was supposed to be two weeks of me enjoying time at home, like I had been praying for some quiet time, but this is just not what I was praying for. So let me backtrack a little bit. My mother-in-law is currently out of town right now and she's going to be, I think away, for maybe another two weeks or so, I'm not sure. Then my children ended up going with my cousin-in-law so my husband's cousin on their little farm, and they're gone for two weeks. And then my husband has a work assignment that's also going to keep him home for two weeks. So for two weeks I was going to just be me and the dogs and I thought, okay, you know, I'm going to get to enjoy some time alone. I've been praying for this, just to not have to worry about anything, just a break. And how many of us get that? How many of us mojadas actually get two weeks off? And then, lo and behold, I get COVID.

Speaker 1: 3:21

So I've been in bed. I have enough energy to get up, make myself something to eat. I'll move around, I'll make sure that the house is straightened up and stuff, but then I go back into bed and that's what I've been doing. So I've been reading, I've been watching shows, I've been getting up, feeding myself and then cleaning and then, of course, taking care of the dogs, and so it's like this is not what I had in mind. I mean, this is not the type of self care that I wanted. But here we are. So, anyways, and so I almost didn't do this podcast because I was like I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it without coughing, and you might hear the dogs in the background. So I hope you're all for baby lovers out there, which I think a lot of you are, and um, but yeah, I mean you know like I've been just chilling at home, watching, catching up on some shows that I haven't seen in a while, but yeah, so that's me, just here with COVID. But I did want to get on here and it's crazy that I'm doing this episode because I've been reading this book.

Speaker 1: 4:33

So I went back in April, I believe, with some of my coworkers, I went to go see Sarah Jakes Roberts and she was doing a book tour of her newest book, which is called Power Moves, and in this book she's talking a lot about the power that we have within us, how we can move, reshape, extend, how we can see some of our power be powerless, how we can see some of our power be powerless, I mean, and it's just such an interesting book and I've been like really really taking my time reading this. So usually when there's a book that I absolutely love, I just want to read all of it, and with this particular book I've really just been taking my time and soaking it all in taking notes, because that's what I like to do sometimes is, you know, dive deep and then she uses scripture. So I like to go back and use and read the scripture that you know she's basing her information on. And I was reading a lot about, because, you know, here lately I've been feeling a little bit. I was reading a lot about because here lately I've been feeling a little bit I've been having some imposter syndrome going on, not to mention, some self-sabotaging has been going on as well, and, like I spoke about it last week when I was talking about, I was talking a lot about how that can be hard sometimes, right, but it's scary to change things and we don't know what other people are going to think.

Speaker 1: 6:29

What are they're going to say. So there's these external factors that end up taking place, and so I read something here that she wrote and I'm going to see if I can find it. But on one of these it says are you letting things rob you of the? I'm sorry, are you letting things rob you of power that you have the authority to control? And I thought for a minute wow, that's interesting.

Speaker 1: 6:58

And she was going on to talk about how we don't change things, or how we don't feel like we can't do something because we're not willing to change things. So, for instance, it's like it says I'm trying to see if I can find it, I'm sorry, I can't it. I'm sorry y'all, I can't lose weight. Well, the truth is, I can lose weight. I just don't want to change my eating habits. Or I can't control my spending. Well, the reality is is that I can control my spending, I just don't want to change what I'm spending my money on, and so it's just that mentality that I was reading, like wow, you know.

Speaker 1: 7:58

Or another thing that she had mentioned in this book also was talking about how we don't want to change, because we've already been a certain way around certain people and if we change, then it might cause them to think differently about us. But it says here that, no matter how subtle their misunderstanding may seem, if you allow them to make it true, then you are accepting a role as an imposter. So if you're accepting something for them and it's not who you want to be, then you're accepting to take on a role as an imposter, which is where imposter syndrome sometimes comes from. It says a false sense of contentment is derived only when you successfully mimic the thoughts and opinions of whoever you desire to please. When this occurs, you unconsciously allow the approval, validation and acceptance of those you're pleasing to possess more power than you. Your power is not gone, it has simply moved. Your power is not gone, it has simply moved.

Speaker 1: 9:05

I tell you, this book really has some very interesting things, and I'm just going to continue to read and dive deep into this, because it's just there's a lot of things that I just really, really found very interesting. Like, anyone who needs you to never change is requesting that you never discover who God has destined you to become. So the more people want you to stay the same, the more God is trying to get you to be something, completely who he needs you to be for his purpose. But yet you won't allow that to happen because you're so, um, we're trying to allow for other people to dictate our next move, which brings me to this topic of embracing failures to build confidence. Because a lot, I think, a lot of times when we have, uh, been in a position of failure, then sometimes it's we lose our confidence because we think that we're not worthy, or that perhaps we've been a disappointment, or maybe that we just need to stop trying altogether right, and we don't see the value in our failures. So that is what we're going to be talking about today, because I think it's very important for us to remember that in life we're going to do things and, yes, we're going to fail, but we don't have to look at it as failure, but, most importantly, how we can transform those marks into stepping stones. Right, so we can. Everything that we've done, we can change it and we can build our confidence as well. So I mean, I want you to grab your cafecito, grab a pen and paper, sit back and let's talk about embracing our failures.

Speaker 1: 11:01

I wanted to start by sharing a little bit of my personal journey. So if you, if this is your first time here, then this is probably your first time coming, listening to me and learning a little bit about who I am and what I do. So let me reintroduce myself. As you heard in the opening intro, I am a number one bestselling author of Mommy on a Mission A Guide Towards Healing, self-discovery and Walking in Confidence, and in that book I talk a little bit about my life lessons and what I've done in order to transform my life and how God was a key component in that as well. But in there I do talk about a little bit of one of my marriages. I don't talk about the first two, but there were times in my life when I felt like a complete failure, especially in the marriage department.

Speaker 1: 12:01

So I grew up in a typical Mexican household and divorce was just not an option. My mom was married to my dad for 11 years and they probably, if my dad would have never passed away in 84, which he died in a work-related accident Um, my parents would probably still be married today. They would have this month. They would have celebrated 51 years of marriage, and I see so many people that got married around the same time as my dad, and that's what they're doing is they're celebrating their 51st wedding anniversary. But I think my parents would have been together. My grandparents were together for until both you know, until my grandfather passed away they celebrated 49 years of marriage, and that is what I'm accustomed to. I'm accustomed that you stick with your spouse, because that's what I've seen. Well, that was my intention and purpose whenever I decided that I wanted to get married.

Speaker 1: 13:05

Now, I got married the first time when I was 17 years old, and that's a whole other topic. So I do encourage you if you want to learn a little bit more about that, grab a copy of my book and it'll explain to you a little bit about that situation. But I was 17 years old no, I was not pregnant. To you a little bit about that situation. But I was 17 years old. No, I was not pregnant. I was just going through a very hard adolescence and I was ready to get out of the house, and so I decided to get married at the age of 17. My boyfriend or my fiance at the time was 18. So, right when he graduated from high school, we got married. So I was a senior in high school, married, and, yes, we.

Speaker 1: 13:48

At that time I thought I was in love, I felt like it was love what my 17 year old, 16 year old brain thought was love. And we did have a beautiful son come out of that marriage. We were best friends, but we were just not good as a married couple. Mind you, he was a great man. Nothing wrong with him, everything wrong with me, and I'm not going to say he was perfect because he wasn't.

Speaker 1: 14:15

But I came with a lot of scars, a lot of baggage, a lot of emotions that I did not know how to deal with. A lot of baggage, a lot of emotions that I did not know how to deal with. At that time, depression was not spoken about, so I didn't know that I was suffering from depression. I didn't know how to deal with depression. I didn't even know that I was still grieving my dad's death. I never knew how to fully grieve, and so it caused a lot of havoc in that marriage. So after five years of marriage, my son was three years old, because I did have my son at 19, and in that marriage.

Speaker 1: 14:50

I tried and tried and tried to stick with that marriage for as long as I could, but unfortunately I was fighting a never ending battle because my ex-husband was an addict and it also became in a very abusive marriage and so I was dealing with quite a bit and although one of those divorces, you know, we were very amicable, we were civil, we co-parented our son very well, the second marriage, it was painful. It was a painful divorce and that divorce left me even more broken and left me feeling even more unworthy. So I remember questioning my worth and my purpose and there were many moments when I wanted to give up. I did, I didn't know what else to do. There was so much destruction that came from that marriage destruction of myself, destruction of the things that I had done within this marriage, what he had done in this marriage, how it was affecting our children. Um, my life was just all over the place and I could not even find direction.

Speaker 1: 16:26

Um, but I did find God and through the process I started reading a lot about what he thought of me and it was hard for me to believe what I was reading, because I didn't believe any of those things for myself, because I felt like I mentioned unworthy and unloved and without a purpose, mentioned unworthy and unloved and without a purpose, and so I prayed to God and I asked God to give me some guidance, give me direction of what that was going to look like for me, and so there were many moments when I would see exactly what he was trying to do. He led me to a group called Celebrate Recovery, in which I learned about boundaries and support and, talking to people who were going through similar situations as I was, I learned about depression. I learned about grieving. I learned that I needed this help. He also provided a way for me to channel my energy. So I've always written. So I'm not going to say I never really started writing, but I began.

Speaker 1: 17:40

Instead of just a diary of good things, I started to journal about my thoughts and feelings, what I was feeling, so that it could help me process my emotions, because they were all over the place, they were everywhere, and I found some wonderful friends who were there with me, and I've spoken a lot about them too, and they're even mentioned in my book. I reached out to family members, and the ones that I thought were going to turn their back were the ones that actually there for me. Of course, nothing was perfect in any of that right, because everybody's going to have their own set of opinions, everybody's going to have their own reactions, but nonetheless they were all there for me in every which way possible for me and for my children. Not to mention, god opened up a way for me to go back to college and get a degree so that I could have the things that I wanted. So, again, as I was diving deep into God's word, seeking his guidance and sharing with him my deepest desires for transformation, I started talking to him about I didn't want to give up on marriage. I believed in marriage and I still believe in marriage, but I wanted a successful marriage, one that wasn't going to consist of divorce. I wanted that college education because I knew deep down inside that I've always wanted that, and I wanted to have an education because I wanted a career, one that I was going to be proud of.

Speaker 1: 19:23

And but as easy as that all sounded, it wasn't it. It wasn't, and I also had to confess my sins, which was the hardest things, because I had to take responsibility. See, a lot of times what we do is whenever something goes wrong and I've heard this a lot and I hear it from my clients and I hear it from so many people that when you're trying to seek help, the first thing we want to do is blame everyone else. We want to blame the ex-husband, we want to blame the person in our life, we want to blame whoever caused us the hurt or the thing that caused us to hurt the pain. Whatever we want to blame those things, but yet we never want to take time to do a self-inventory or self-check on ourselves to see what part were we, where did we go wrong in all of this? And we have to point that arrow right back to ourselves and take responsibility of the actions Because, yes, although we may have been hurt by someone, that doesn't mean that we have to react by hurting someone else or by doing something wrong because of right. We have to take ownership of our own actions, and that is one of the hardest things, because we don't want to blame ourselves because of what somebody else was doing and what caused our pain and hurt, because it's easier to put all the blame on that person or that thing instead of taking inventory because we're already living with pain. But I had to. I had to take responsibility for my actions, and I had to learn how to forgive, and I also learned how to. I also had to learn how to ask for forgiveness, and so, through all of that, I found a renewed sense of confidence and purpose.

Speaker 1: 21:35

Was it overnight? No, it was not. It took time because I had to take things one step at a time. College took four years. Getting a career took another few years. Getting a career took another few years. Having a successful marriage took time.

Speaker 1: 21:59

Yes, I got remarried, and I've been married to my husband for 16 years, but I still had that baggage. I still had scars. I still had things that I was dealing with, that I had to overcome or come to terms with. So I had to go to counseling. Not only did I go to counseling, but we both went to counseling as well, because I still had triggers. There were still things that would trigger me, and I would react on him as if it were him that was doing this to me, like as if it were him causing me what I was already feeling. And it wasn't. And so I had to understand that it was going to take time, because it's like I mentioned in the last episode and in my book.

Speaker 1: 22:49

Life is a marathon. It is not a sprint, and it's going to take time to focus on things, and it's just like when you write down your goals you got a bigger picture goal right. You have this big dream, but you got all these little small goals that you have to accomplish first before you can even get to that big one, and so it's no different. So, now that I've shared with you a little bit about me, now let's talk about how you can turn your failures into confidence building experiences. So I'm going to give you five tips. There's so many, there's so much more that I could give, but I just you know you're spending this little time with me this morning and I don't want to take up the whole day because we could probably have a whole discussion on all this. Right, but if you do decide to dive a lot deeper into this, reach out to me. I'll be here to help you and we can talk about it. But the five tips that I'm going to share with you today that you can learn from your failures and build your confidence is number one embrace your failures.

Speaker 1: 24:05

Acknowledge that failure is part of life. It doesn't define you, but rather it shapes you. And accepting failure as a learning opportunity allows you to grow and become stronger, and I believe that to be true, because every time that I failed at something, it only made me learn about what I want and what I don't want. So, in other words, let's just talk about the marriage. I knew from the last marriage that and I'm not going to talk so much about the first marriage because I think in that marriage, had I been in a healthier mindset, he and I probably would have still been married we were just very young and very naive and neither one of us knew how to defend our marriage against anything or anybody. And um, and if I was never going to, I never accepted that I had a problem, because I didn't know what depression was. I didn't know that I was having a true problem, and that didn't come until years later. However, a true problem and that didn't come until years later.

Speaker 1: 25:10

However, with the second marriage, what I learned was is that I did not want to have a marriage that involved drug addiction. That was no. I wanted someone who was going to be a family man. I wanted someone who was going to be dedicated in their family life, that was going to take responsibility. That was going to be a shared partner in the household, in the expenses and in the upbringing of the children. I wanted someone who wants to go to church. I wanted someone that didn't always have the need to be out at the clubs drinking or spending money. I wanted someone that valued not only our marriage but valued themselves and valued me, but valued themselves and valued me. So there was a lot of things that I learned from that last marriage that I know now what I wanted and and that is exactly what I have.

Speaker 1: 26:23

And that took praying. So one of the books that I read during that last marriage was the the power of a praying wife. So that's the first step that helped me take an inventory of myself and I was praying about the kind of husband that I wanted. And at that time, when I was reading that book, it was because I wanted my former husband to change, and so I was praying so hard for that and I was writing down all of the qualities that I wanted, but he was just not that person.

Speaker 1: 27:05

And I fought and fought and fought for that marriage and I said, no, I can't give up on it. I can't give up because, see, there are going to be people in life that are going to especially and listen to what I'm going to say, because I'm not blaming Christian people, but I'm blaming those who have never been in the position that I was in, who had their own opinions, because, of course, everybody has their own opinions in life but I was told that you can't give up. You've got to stay with them. It's long suffering and stuff not when it involves abuse and not when it involves that your spouse is having marital affairs outside. And that is why, when I cried out to God and I said I can't do this anymore Of course after he beat me for one last time I said I can't do this and God opened up the door by showing me all the women that he had slept with, that he had slept with and I left, and I knew that that is not what I wanted in my marriage anymore, and so that is what I learned, and so I became stronger and I started to learn about what it was that I wanted in life not just in the marriage, but in life that I wanted in life not just in the marriage, but in life and I needed to be the kind of person that I wanted to attract.

Speaker 1: 28:37

That means I had to learn how to become confident within myself. I had to know how to live alone with my children, how to be responsible, how to value them so all of the things that I wanted my husband to be. I had to learn how to be myself so that I could also be that for him. So that's what point two was about reflecting and learning. Take time to reflect on what went wrong and why, and understanding the root cause of your failures helps you identify areas for improvement and avoid making the same mistakes in the future. What was that root cause? What was the problem? See, a lot of times what we don't understand, and it's funny enough because I was talking to a friend of mine who's going through a hard time right now. We were talking about the situation that she was in and we were talking about the root cause that, when I got with my second husband, what I was looking for was someone who was identical to my dad, not the bad parts.

Speaker 1: 30:00

I wanted someone who was social, who was a dancer, who, you know, could attract people, and who was just like the fun guy, you know, the one that every when we had events, it was always going to be at our house and this and that. But what I also attracted was a negative side the abuse verbal abuse, physical abuse. My dad didn't have a drug addiction, he had an alcohol addiction, he was an alcoholic and he was also a workaholic and he also cheated on my mom. So not only did I find almost a replica of my dad, it took me to a place of familiarity, because that's what I was familiar with, and I had to understand and recognize that that is not what I was wanting to have. And what I had to learn was that I had not truly mourned my dad's death, but nor did I truly forgive my dad, and I was holding on to all of these things Like there wasn't closure, because I was 10 years old when my dad passed away, and so there was no closure and I was finding ways to fill that void that I had, not knowing that what I was doing was destroying myself. So I had to learn to acknowledge that, to recognize that, to be self-aware about that and reflect on it.

Speaker 1: 31:47

Um and so what ended up happening was it took me to point three build a support system. Surround yourself with positive, encouraging people who can offer guidance, support and constructive feedback. Having a strong network can help you regain your confidence and stay motivated. I mean, I can't tell you how blessed I was to have moved to Oklahoma, and when I moved to Oklahoma I was moving. I moved kicking and screaming because I did not want to go. That was the last place that my ex-husband and I were living at together was in Oklahoma City, when he got the job that eventually he lost and what really caused him to go downhill from there.

Speaker 1: 32:37

But it was that year that showed me what God truly was going to have in store for me and that was going to be a journey, but he did surround me with some great, great women of God. That's where I learned about Celebrate Recovery. That's where I learned about boundaries. That's where I learned about self-awareness, also how to recognize my wrongdoing, how to take responsibility for my actions. So God provided all of those things. He put the right person in my life to tell me to go back to college, when I didn't even know if I wanted to. I mean, I knew I wanted to, but I was scared to. So he pointed somebody to help me go into that direction and I'm so glad that he did, not to mention the support that I had from my family was incredible. I doubted that my family was even going to listen to me. So it was incredible the journey of being able to having built that support system because I really, really needed it and I mean, I think you need it too, especially if you're going through something, if you have doubts about yourself, your relationship or your career or starting a business whatever that is find someone who can share with you their experience of something similar what you're going through, so you can't just go to anybody and tell them about your problems.

Speaker 1: 34:26

You've got to find the right person, because you've got to have somebody that's going to understand exactly what you're feeling and what you're going through, because they've already been where you're, what your experience? They've already experienced that. In other words, they've experienced the very thing that you're currently experiencing. And that's who I need it. And even today, as I'm building my business as you know, I, uh, I'm doing all of the things I have mentors and I have people that understand the frustrations of having your own business, of having, um, that moment of feeling like you don't know what else to say or what else to give or what else to do that person is going to be that key person that's going to help you, and it might be more than one person, not just necessarily one, it might be two or three, but whatever it is, you need those people in your life because I know I needed them, those people in your life because I know I needed them.

Speaker 1: 35:26

And, as always, like I mentioned before, we need to set those realistic goals because we have to break down those larger goals into smaller ones. We have to be able to manage that. See, if we try to accomplish the bigger dream, we're going to become overwhelmed. Overwhelmed because we're trying to do too much too fast and take big chunks. And I like this illustration because we've heard it a lot.

Speaker 1: 36:00

But they asked the question how does an elephant eat a cake? Question how does an elephant eat a cake? Which is funny because to see an elephant eat a cake, but how would you? You have to take one bite at a time. You can't eat the full cake in one bite. You could try, but you're going to have a big mess.

Speaker 1: 36:22

Same thing with our goals. We can try to take on that big goal and do all the things, but you may have more problems than what you started out with. So we have to break them down. We have to be able to accomplish the little ones that are going to lead us to our big ones, because it's going to help us see with clarity what we need to do next. And we've got to celebrate when we do accomplish those small goals, because if we don't, then we're never going to see the good in anything and we're always going to feel like failures because we're always trying to reach that big goal. We're always trying to do that big goal first without doing the little ones, and so when we do mess up, we're going to be like see, there you go again. I always keep messing up, I'm never going to get this right, and that's not true. That is not true.

Speaker 1: 37:17

Take your time, quit trying to rush, quit trying to conquer it all in one sitting, because you can't. You can try, but you can't. So we've got to celebrate those little things. We become more grateful, happier, and you're going to see that confidence build up. You are, and you're going to start walking differently. You're going to start talking differently. You're going to be looked at differently.

Speaker 1: 38:05

And then, lastly, practice self-compassion. Be kind to yourself. Remember we all make mistakes and it's important to forgive yourself and move forward. Treat yourself with the same compassion and understanding that you would offer to a friend. That's hard, that is very, very hard. It's hard to forgive ourselves, because I used to blame myself so many times and I could forgive everyone. I could even forgive the former ex-husband. I could forgive him, and yet I couldn't forgive myself. And that's crazy. It's easier to forgive a friend than a family member, and it's easier to forgive a family member than ourselves, and it's easier to forgive a family member than ourselves. Actually, it's easier to forgive an enemy than your friends, and then it's easier to forgive a friend than your family, and then it's easier to forgive your family member than yourself, which is crazy. But we always leave ourselves last. Why is that? Because we are so accustomed to doing that that we don't know how to do it any different. So be compassionate to yourself.

Speaker 1: 39:45

I would ask someone, especially other coaches, because you know, as a life coach, I go to therapy and one of the things my therapist says is what advice would you have given somebody that came to see you? So they said well, why don't you do the same for yourself? And that makes me think that I'm so much harder on myself, that I'm so much harder on myself, and most of us are. Most of us are so much harder on ourselves than we are on somebody else. We will sometimes allow people to make mistakes and tell them that it's okay, but yet, when it's when we make a mistake, it's almost like it's the end of the world, and we just can't do that. So those were my five tips that I wanted to share with you, and before we wrap up, I want to leave you with the scripture.

Speaker 1: 40:43

I've been doing this the last two episodes, bringing out scripture. Why? Because I am a Christian and I'm proud to be a Christian, and it's because of my faith in God that has gotten me to where I am today, and sometimes I do quite a bit fall short and sometimes I forget to go to scripture. So I'm going to bring it to you. That's your case too. And it says it's from Joshua one nine and says I have not commanded you. Oh, I'm sorry, let me. Let me go back. It says have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid, do not be discouraged, for the Lord, your God, will be with you wherever you go. So remember, amiga, you are stronger than you think and, with God's help, you're going to overcome any obstacle. Love yourself, extend grace to yourself, have compassion for yourself and take things one day at a time. So thank you so much for joining me today and I hope you found this episode encouraging and empowering. And, as always, please don't forget to subscribe, leave a review and share this podcast with another amazing Latina woman in your life, or any other woman in your life. And until next time, keep shining and stay blessed. Adios amiga.

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