My mom has always been a master manifester. Anyone who knows her knows this. She can see exactly what she wants in her mind and she always makes it happen! It’s honestly so surreal to see it happen in real-time. 

Which is exactly why I invited her on the podcast. This week, my mom is teaching us how to manifest our wildest dreams no matter what situation we’re in.

Tune in to this week’s episode to meet my mom, Blanca Gonzalez! My mom is an absolute wealth of knowledge and I am always learning new things because of her. In this conversation, we’ll be discussing her manifestation process, her goals for the future, and some very helpful advice for the next generation. 

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Erika: Hello, and welcome back to this week’s episode. I know that I always say I’m excited when I have a guest, but this is a guest that I never really thought I would have on the podcast. 

So let’s see how this goes because this guest is very nervous and is not used to being on podcasts and has asked me all morning To help rehearse and I was like we can’t rehearse for a conversation When it’s just a conversation, so This episode is going to be mostly in spanish So if you don’t understand I will do my best to translate as we go And if you do speak spanish and you are a proficient spanish speaker.

I ask You that you extend a little compassion because my Spanish is not the best, but we’re gonna make this work. So let’s go ahead and introduce our guest who is Blanca Gonzalez. Blanca, bienvenida.

So this guest is my mother. I had posted on Instagram a few weeks ago or maybe a few months ago that I was thinking about bringing my mom on the podcast and she’s actually a great person full of wisdom. So I’m very excited about this conversation. And I also went to Instagram and asked you all for some questions for what you wanted to know about my mom.

And I got some really good questions. So let’s go ahead and get into it. Nos puedes platicar de tu niñez? Dónde naciste y cómo era ese ambiente? 

Mom: Nací en un rancho donde no había electricidad ni agua, pero éramos felices en 

Erika: pobreza. So my question was, tell us a little bit about your childhood. And she says that she was born in Mexico on a farm, where they didn’t have running water or electricity.

But her childhood was still joyful, and even though they didn’t have a lot of material wealth, they still had a lot of abundance. Platicanos un poco de las memorias nacer en el rancho y de tu niñez allí.

She’s mad at me because this wasn’t a question I gave her. Te gustaba ir a recoger agua? preferida? Estar en el forest? cerro. Oh, okay. So I asked what her favorite part about growing up in a rural place was, and she said walking outdoors. 

Okay, yo me acuerdo que me decías, creo que me habías mencionado cuando yo era niña, que cuando estabas en el rancho, que tú te mirabas en mirabas en un carro y mirando por una ventana. Y ahora sé

Mom: I was a two story housewife, and I still can look at those pictures when I was driving a new car. And well equipped, well, with money. That’s how I looked at myself when I had nothing. 

Erika: So to quickly translate what was just said, I asked her, okay, you, you’ve mentioned to me, ever since I was a kid, I remember her telling me the stories that she would see herself in the future, driving a car in a two story house, she would visualize herself.

Even though at the moment she was still a kid on this farm.

Mm-Hmm. . Que había algo mejor, porque no tenían teles, ni tenían, o sea, no estabas en una ciudad. Entonces, de lo que escuchabas del norte, o cómo empezó eso? Sí, de lo que escuchaba. Entonces, porque en el rancho 

Mom: no había de dos pisos las casas, o sí? No, no, pero sí sabía que mis hermanos habían comprado casas de dos pisos.

Mmm. Y sabía que se podía vivir mejor que como, como yo vivía. 

Erika: Esto fascinating. Ja, ja, ja. So she’s saying that she always knew that there could be a better life than what it is that she was living. And even though she didn’t have access to television or anything like that when she grew up on the farm, she knew that her older brothers had already immigrated to the States and that they had bought a home that had two stories.

So she would see herself in her mind’s eye. In the two story house and driving the new car, even though at the time they mainly had horses and donkeys where she lived. Verdad? En ese tiempo tenían puro? Sí. Sí, okay. Algo más que quieres compartir de el rancho?

Mom: En medio de todo eso, el rancho era, era bonito. El cabrón fue

eso.

Erika: I also want to, to mention that it is a big courageous move for her to be on this podcast because she is not, The public speaker of the family and every time she has to speak up at church, she gets really nervous. So this is a huge fear of hers that she is overcoming, but I’m proud of her for being here.

Okay. Las personas que te conocen, como mis primas y como yo y mis amigas, siempre decimos estamos todas de acuerdo, que eres una manifestadora muy poderosa. En otras palabras Cuando dices que quieres algo, siempre encuentras la manera de hacerlo posible. Entonces, algunos ejemplos vienen siendo la casa que tienes en Puerto Vallarta, los nuevos carros que has comprado, las propiedades que tienes.

Entonces, mi pregunta es, cómo lo haces? Cómo haces para manifestar lo que, qué es lo que dices? Cosechar lo que, lo que 

Mom: tienes? Primero lo pienso. Y después lo actúo. Comienzo a actuar y hay un proceso difícil, pero al final hay victoria. 

Erika: So to translate what I just said, I asked is the people who know you know you as this master manifester and like myself, my friends, some of my cousins, and we see her go from an idea to a manifestation and the question was, how did you go?

How do you go about that? And she responded with, First, you have to think it. And then you have to act on it, and then there’s probably gonna be some struggle, but after the struggle, there’s victory. Dime cómo piensas. Es como lo que acabas el rancho y imaginabas el futuro. Así es como lo piensas? Te imaginas lo que quieres?

Es 

Mom: un poco diferente porque ahora lo que, lo que planeo hacer es posible. Cuando vivía en el rancho estaba, estaba visualizando algo que yo no sabía si iba a pasar, pero yo lo miraba. 

Erika: This is so good! Oh my gosh, so I asked her,

 how is it that she first thinks Is it the same as when she was visualizing when she was over in the farm? But she said, no, it’s a little different because now anything I think about, I know it’s possible. But when I was out in the farm living in this rural area, it was actually really, it felt impossible.

Like I was visualizing something that I didn’t know that I could attain. 

 So, cuál es la la próxima manifestación que quieres hacer? Cuál es la próxima meta? What’s your next goal? 

Mom: Pues la próxima meta es vivir de mis inversiones porque tengo más de 60 años.

Erika: So she says, now that she’s over 60 and now she’s really focused on retirement, the next goal of hers in the next manifestation. Is to live off of her assets and live off of the homes that she’s invested in. Because the question I had initially asked was, how do you begin to think about it? Like, what’s the next goal and how is it that you’re going to think about it?

Entonces, cómo estás pensando ya en ese próximo, en esa próxima meta? Porque ya has estado

what to say. spoke about earlier, she first thinks about it. So she’s first made the decision that she wants to retire.

And then next she has to act towards it, right? So this means maybe saying no to new business and starting to really invest more in the rental properties. And actually I’ve already seen her do this because she’s already taking action where she renovated one of her rental properties, which then allowed her to rent it at a higher rate, which is going to bring her more recurringly, right?

So it was a one time investment of renovating the House to then raise the rent for that and now she’s looking at her other contracts and she’s like, okay How can I? Maybe get more out of what I already have to live off of this and then another thing that she did as she was already Thinking about this next step telling you from being her daughter and being in this like Being in this space is that she built a house in mexico That she can go live at meaning the cost of living is a lot lower in mexico.

It’s also her motherland It’s where she’s from So she’s done. These are the actions that she’s taken to help her get to this manifestation. So it wasn’t like she just thought about it and was like wishful thinking. She thought about it and then took a line to action towards it.

Okay. And it is so crazy that these are a lot of things I teach. If you listen to a recent episode, I think I talked about like be. Act have like first we have to become the person and then we have to take the action and then we become that That’s literally what my mom is saying right now and I guarantee you that her and I are not reading the same books So I asked her what book she reads and she says I always read the bible So the reason i’m bringing this up is because what her and I are both talking about is universal truth And we’re coming at it from these different Okay Lines of, of study, but we’re still saying the same thing at the end, right?

She’s talking about the importance of your thoughts. She’s talking about the importance of visualization. She’s talking about the importance of the actions that you take. So this is just universal truth, whether you’re looking at this from a neuroscience perspective, from a spirituality perspective, from a Christian, Christianity or Catholicism perspective, it’s just universal truth.

 sabes ahora, cuál consejo te darías a la versión tuya más joven?

 like good advice.

She said that the advice would be to be really careful and and selective about who it is that you’re spending your life with from a partner perspective, because a partner is going to have a great influence over your quality of life and over how it is that you see yourself as well. So choosing somebody who also chooses you is really important.

Um, and I’m now, I’m going to ask her what advice she has for people who, especially women in today’s society who may feel Feel like time’s running out for them, like maybe the train is leaving and they’re just gonna be, they’re gonna stay behind.

Que esperen por el 

Mom: hombre correcto. Nunca tomen una decisión por pensar que se van a quedar solas o que no van a tener una familia. Ese esposo, esa persona va a llegar en el tiempo apropiado, cuando Dios lo envíe. Casarse con la persona correcta es Es lo más hermoso que puede pasarte porque vas a poder compartir una vida, una vida cosas buenas cuando estás con la persona correcta.

Y de repente pensamos que queremos una familia y nos apresuramos y cometemos el error más grande de nuestra vida, es estar con la persona incorrecta. Mm 

Erika: hmm. So she says that. For those people who maybe feel like it’s a little too late, like they might just end up alone for the rest of their life, her advice is rather than just rushing to end up with whoever is willing to be in a relationship with you, it’s better to be with yourself and to wait.

For the divine partner that’s going to be sent to you like having the correct partner is really going to influence your quality of life. Not even just like financially and I know this because we talked about it a little bit before, but also emotionally and my mom happened to be in a situation where she had everything financially that she wanted, but she wasn’t emotionally happy.

So, she’s speaking from experience. 

Amiga, I hope you’re enjoying the show. We are going to get right back to today’s episode, but I just had to drop in and check with you. How are you feeling? How are things going? If you find yourself frustrated or maybe shaming yourself because you have not taken the action that you wanted to take, maybe you are just tired of starting and stopping or overthinking or worrying about what your coworkers are going to think about you or your family members are going to think about you if you finally start that project that you’ve been wanting to start.

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Mom: misma. 

Erika: Mmm. So, she says being happy with who she is and with herself. Y cuál consejo le darías a las personas que en el momento no se sienten contentas con ellas mismas? 

Mom: Que busquen de Dios. Dios es el único que llena nuestro corazón, y él es el único que nos hace sentir con esa plenitud que necesitamos.

Erika: I asked her what advice she has for people who don’t feel happy or fulfilled with themselves, and her response was to look for something bigger than yourself, to look for God or whatever it is that’s going to make you feel more connected. Well, specifically she said God. And that is the way in which you will find fulfillment and yourself. 

 Ahora vienen las preguntas de mi. Uh, como How was Erica as a little girl?

Mom: Siempre tenía amigas. Siempre estaba como conectada.

Erika: So she said that I was an independent child and that I would make friends everywhere I went, , and that we’d go to the beach and I’d have friends, and at school i’d, I’d have friends. And she also says that she saw me as a leader as a kid, which is crazy because I don’t think I saw myself in that way. But it’s crazy how parents can see these things in you.

Um. Te mencioné que me iba a ir de mi trabajo en tecnología. What did you think when I told you I was going to leave my tech job? 

Mom: Yo me asusté un poquito porque no entiendo mucho de tecnología. Y era algo nuevo, algo que yo no entendía. Y yo dije, qué vas a hacer sin trabajo? 

Erika: So she said she was scared because she didn’t understand what it was that I was looking to do because it wasn’t something she had seen done before.

And she was like, In her brain, we came here to work, right? And I’m literally leaving a job. So she was like, I don’t understand what you’re going to do. Cuándo fue el momento que pensaste que hice la decisión correcta? O sea, qué pasó durante mi negocio, durante mi carrera que dijiste, okay, ya entiendo lo que estás haciendo, ya entiendo por qué hizo esa decisión?

Cuando empezaste a ganar tanto dinero. 

Mom: Sí?

Erika: So I asked her, at what moment did you have confidence in my decision of of leaving tech? And when did it feel like, oh, okay, this makes sense that she made that decision. And she said, when you started making a ton of money, Okay, but. Las personas que escuchan el podcast a veces piensan que todo siempre me está yendo bien, que siempre estoy ganando mucho dinero, pero tú tienes una vista más cercana y más honesta, verdad?

Pero, nos puedes platicar un poquito de cómo es el camino de ser emprendedora? So the question was, you know, her response was that I make a lot of money. So my follow up question was, what? Because she gets this, this honest view of what really goes on behind the scenes and how it’s not always entrepreneurship isn’t always about winning and making money.

There’s actually a lot more negative months. There’s actually a lot more times when I’m in my head or my business just isn’t performing the way that I’d like it to perform. So what is it that she sees behind the scenes? And she says, well, I see you cry a lot.

Cuál fue tu reacción cuando me viste en Telemundo la primera vez? 

Mom: Estaba muy contenta y orgullosa de ti. Allí sí 

Erika: entendiste ya lo que estaba diciendo? 

Mom: Sí, uh huh, sí. Y ahora, 

Erika: como cuando vas a mis eventos, ahora ya entiendes un poquito más? Sí. So, my question was, or the question that was given to me is, what was her reaction when she first saw me in Telemundo, which is obviously the Spanish speaking news, uh, channel.

And, she said she felt very Proud of me. Sorry, I forgot how to say the word orgullosa in English. Sometimes I don’t know how to speak any languages, and I’ve been learning to speak Italian, and now I’m confusing Spanish and Italian. It is great. But she said that Yeah, she’s just very proud.

Creo que ya te pregunté suficiente de mí. La otra pregunta que tenía, que se me olvidó hacerte, es de que el rancho, y no tener nada de dinero a cómo estás ahorita? No pasó de un día para otro. Fue un proceso. 

Mom: Llegamos, no teníamos carro, no teníamos casa.

Vivimos con nuestros hermanos por el primer año. Y después

So my 

Erika: question was, how did you go from living on a farm with no running water, no electricity, and having no money to your name, to suddenly today, where she is today, where she has her own business, her own house cleaning business, and she also has a few investment properties, which is going to be what she retires from.

Um. And she said that it really wasn’t from one day to the other. When they first immigrated, it was really difficult. But they also lived with their siblings for the first year. And then they got jobs. And then her and her siblings, like, closer to her age. Because she has a lot of siblings. Cuántos hermanos y hermanas tienes?

Tengo 

Mom: cuatro hermanos y cinco hermanas. 

Erika: She has five brothers. Cuatro hermanos? 

Mom: Cuatro, 

Erika: Oh, sí, cierto. So she had six. Now she has four brothers. And five sisters. So they’re a big, big family, but that’s how she was able to go from essentially living in, in scarcity, right? Like there wasn’t a lot available to her to now being a landlord, investor, and a business owner.

Even though it’s a very different type of business than my type of business. It’s still a business. It’s still something that she started on, on her own.

Oh, that’s nice. I was like, was it hard for you to build your business? And she was like, nope. I was like, well, that’s nice. Um, I guess it’s different whenever you’re doing a in person service as well, especially when it’s something that’s so fundamental. So her be having this house cleaning business, she found a need, right?

People need clean homes and they’re busy to do it. So, and then it’s not just a one time thing. It’s a repeated service. So I think that’s why her business works. So well, and that business has allowed her to then build her investment portfolios. Um, so when my, when I was younger, my parents were very, very poor.

But then they ended up investing together and started building their portfolio. And after they split up, my mom started investing on her own.

I love this. I was like, was it hard for you to start investing on your own? She said, Nope. 

Okay. We can start to wrap up. La mayoría son latinas, la mayoría están más o menos de mi edad, entre tener como 20, 30, 40. Muchos están pasando algo, un cambio en la vida. Si es como empezar nuevo trabajo, emprender, empezar un negocio, tener un divorcio, pasar un divorcio, ser mamá por primera vez o por segunda vez.

Y la mayoría de personas que escuchan mi podcast la escuchan para obtener como consejos y más dirección en la vida. Entonces con toda la sabiduría que ya tienes, que has pasado muchas de estas cosas que ya mencioné, cuáles consejos les darías a las que están escuchando? No hay nada como incorrecto. Ya me, ya nos has dicho, and let me just translate the question.

I’m saying the majority of my listeners are in their twenties, thirties, and forties, most of you all are women. Most of you are Latina, even though you don’t have to be any of that to benefit from this podcast. But everybody’s usually going through some type of transition in their life, whether it’s a new job, a divorce, becoming parents, and as we’re going through this transition, I think you all listen to the podcast for some guidance and some.

some clarity. So being that my mom is this wise woman, I’m asking what advice She has for you all. And I know that the first one is start to visualize what you want even when you don’t have it and even when it doesn’t feel real, just like when she was on the farm, visualizing that she was going to be in a two story house and now is, is in a two story house.

Oh, the, uh, visualizad. Que te mirabas viendo por una ventana, cómo ha pasado eso en realidad? En Vallarta, no? En Vallarta, siempre tengo una ventana bien grande y un sillón allí 

Mom: y siempre estoy mirando por mi ventana.

Erika: So she was nine when she had this vision of her looking out of a window and now she has constructed this home in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, which is her retirement home. And it’s a two story house and she has a window and a couch and a little table outside and she just sits there and stares out of the window and it’s exactly like she visualized it.

So she literally created it in her mind. before creating it in real life and not to say that the creation of this was super easy because I was involved in the construction of this home and it was a disaster but in the end it all worked out. Cuál otro consejo tienes? Ya mencionaste estar feliz y llena, como que se busquen estar contentas con ellas mismas.

Que escojan una pareja, la pareja correcta,

Mom: correcta, 

Erika: algo más que puedas pensar. Y si no está bien, porque ya no asiste. 

Mom: Y que sean valientes cuando estén emprendiendo algo. Como ahorita estás practicando 

Erika: valor. Sí. Estar en el show. So, her four tips, we just talked about them. The first one is visualize what you, what you desire. Not what you don’t want.

Because a lot of times we can focus on what we don’t want. What she’s saying is focus on what you want, even if it doesn’t feel possible. The next one was Um, uh, be, be more focused on your, like, being happy with yourself and looking for fulfillment within you. The next one is choosing a partner, an aligned partner.

Somebody who chooses you, somebody that you choose, and don’t rush into a partnership just because you’re afraid of being alone. Allow the correct aligned partnership to come to you. And then the last one, which is so on brand is that she said, be brave, be brave with the way that you are approaching life and whatever it is that you are creating, because we are all creators, right?

Whether you are creating a business or creating a podcast or creating a job change or creating life, be brave with your creations. Okay.

Okay, Blanca. Okay, muchas gracias. Gracias por venir en el show.

Oh my goodness. She literally could not wait to get out of that chair. But, I hope you all enjoyed the wisdom in this episode. I enjoyed recording it. And I will see you all next week. My mom will not be on with me. I apologize. Maybe one day I’ll convince her to start our own little podcast because she obviously has a lot of wisdom to share.

Okay, everyone. Thank you so much for listening and I will see you next week.