So many of the guests we’ve had on the podcast are some of the most courageous people I’ve ever met. As Latinas, the odds are often stacked against us. Not only are we separated from our homelands, but the country is systematically trying to keep us from succeeding. This is exactly why I wanted to take the time to shout out some incredible women who beat the odds and gave themselves the lives they always dreamed of. 

Revekka Balancier, the founder of Axiom of Purpose, leverages nearly 30 years of marketing and communications experience, bold creativity, and passion for the purpose to craft impactful campaigns dedicated to the greater good. After spending a decade in Hollywood publicity and promotions working on movies for Disney, Paramount, Universal, and other studios, she shifted her focus to public service. She served in key communication roles for the Lt. Governor of Colorado, Denver Human Services, Denver Public Works, the Denver Mayor’s Office, and the Port of San Diego, where she launched the agency’s new brand. She spent two years as creative strategy VP for a boutique agency before starting Axiom, focusing exclusively on purpose-driven projects, channeling her expertise toward positive environmental and social change. She spends most weekends brunching with her granddaughters, searching for better crepes than the ones she learned to make from her abuelita – hasn’t happened yet!

Anahi Bravo is a First-Gen Mexican American and was born and raised in Houston, TX. As someone who comes from an immigrant background, she’s found a passion in helping the community. She is a social worker who supports unaccompanied minors, which has been a fulfilling and learning experience. During her free time, she enjoys working out and trying new hobbies. She’s also in her running and soccer era! She takes pride in being a dog mom, and she enjoys spending time with family.

Maideli Garcia is a Latina money coach helping WOC save, invest, and earn more without sacrificing their JOY. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and the First-Gen to attend college. She got her BA in Elementary Education, but after experiencing burnout, Maideli pivoted out of teaching and into the tech space, working remotely. She now has more energy and time to commit to her mission of helping WOC confidently take control of their finances.

This week’s episode is a mash-up of three women who found their courage and manifested their most amazing life. Whether it was starting a business, launching a podcast, or reaching out to help their communities, they each made the courageous choice to take aligned action. They took their ideas to the Courage Driven Latina program and made their wildest dreams come true. Tune in to this week’s episode to hear how they did it and how you can do it too. 

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Episode Transcript:

Erika: Hello friends. Welcome back to this week’s episode of Ana Revolution podcast. If you hear any background noise, I apologize. I am currently in Italy. I’ve been here for almost two weeks, and I will be here for a total of about 18 days, so like two and a half weeks and. I am outside on a balcony with an olive tree behind me.

So if you’re watching the video version of this, you can see the olive tree behind me and I’m just looking out at nature and I can hear the birds chirping and it is honestly. [00:02:00] Very peaceful and beautiful, and I feel like since I’ve gotten here, I’ve been living a little bit slower than I do back home. Um, I’m not in a rush.

Uh, obviously I’m in nine hours ahead of California time, so when I wake up, nobody back home is awake. So I don’t really have any work messages. I don’t really have any messages from, from my family, so I’ve really been forced to be present here now. Now with that being said, I can’t dismiss what has been going on back home since I have arrived in Italy.

Uh, I’m referring to the ICE raids and everything going on around immigration and obviously my brand and focuses on serving daughters of immigrants. Every client of mine is either an immigrant, they’re first generation or second generation. I have had some people that are third generation, but either way, we all come from immigrants and I don’t [00:03:00] feel like I can run my business or even sell my offers without acknowledging what it is that’s, that’s happening.

And as much as I am in paradise, it’s been difficult. It’s been difficult to go on social media and see everything that’s, that’s going on. I. And you know, I think as a business owner, sometimes you feel insensitive talking about what you’re offering whenever all of these different things are going on.

And I was at the beach just a few days ago and I was sitting here thinking to myself, I, I don’t believe the narrative that there’s nothing I can do. Of course, there’s always something we can do. And there’s a proverb that says, if you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

And that saying always sticks with me because we’re never too small to make a difference. And it’s, you know, crazy that just. A few weeks ago before coming to Italy, I was given the award of 40 under 40 Latinos. Wow. I realize I have not even shared that here on [00:04:00] the podcast, but I was nominated by, um, somebody named FrankHe runs the Silicon Valley Leadership Summit every year, and he nominated me for this award and I ended up getting it. And not only did I receive the award at the award ceremony, I was also awarded the Rising Star Award, and one of the top anchors from Telemundo ended up interviewing me on. Stage and we had about a five minute conversation.

It was such a good interview. I should probably talk to my team about putting that interview on the podcast. And then a week and a half later, all of this immigration stuff begins to happen. And I think what the scariest part about all of this is, is that. We all know how our current administration feels about immigrants.

But I think the amount of people that have also supported that maybe we have known in our personal lives and their true colors are now showing regarding how they feel about immigration. It’s just really sad. And yeah, so [00:05:00] back to, to what I was saying, being at the beach. So I’m sitting there at the beach and I’m reflecting on, I just received this award for making a difference in the community.

How can I not do something about what it is that’s happening right now? So yes, I’m not a politician. I probably can’t go rewrite laws, right? But if there’s anything I know it’s that when we advance as a community, we help everybody else advance as well. And the numbers don’t lie. Latinos make up a big percentage of the United States population.

We also own about, actually, lemme get the specific numbers. 

These numbers are coming from the 2024 sole report, which is a Stanford, um, report and research that’s done every year. 

Between 2007 and 2019, the number of Latino owned businesses grew 34% compared to just 1% for all other businesses. Latinos are also creating businesses at a much faster rate than any other demographic, and then Latino owned [00:06:00] businesses alsoGenerate over 800 billion in annual revenue and employ nearly 3 million people.

In 2022 alone, Latinos accounted for 52% of net new employer businesses, despite only making up about 19% of the US population. Latino entrepreneurs are more likely to employ others, meaning they not only lift themselves, but also support their communities and contribute to broader economic growth. And 

 Despite their growth, Latino owned businesses continue to face systemic barriers like being 50% less likely to receive full funding from national brands, even when they’re high credit applicants.

So all of this to say that,

I mean, really, we can have a whole podcast episode talking about the state of immigration, why everything’s. So messed up. The, the narrative was, let’s get criminals out of the country. I think we can all agree that whether they’re immigrants or not, nobody wants criminals in the country. [00:07:00] I think we can all agree on that.

However, picking up mothers who are attending their child’s elementary school graduation or jumping out of vans to profile people and try to sweep them up, that is not. Okay. On so many levels, right? Just from a human humane perspective, but if we wanna talk about numbers, the Latino community literally has, the United States would not be what it is without the Latino community.

California would not be what it is without the Latino community. And being that my business is pretty much built on the Latino community and I’m a daughter of immigrants myself, and I do have privilege in that. I speak Spanish and I speak English, and I was born in California, so I have citizenship. I’m very aware that I have a lot of privilege here.

And for those people who are being targeted, what’s happening, a tremendous amount of fear. People don’t wanna go anywhere, people don’t wanna be seen. Our people are really being forced [00:08:00] to essentially be invisible right now. And because of that, 

 I feel a responsibility to. Speak up. Now’s not the time to let fear get the best of us. If we have citizenship, if we have privilege, now’s not the time to play small with our goals. Now’s the time to even take up more space. And that’s exactly what I created my business for. So on one end, I’m feeling this guilt of like, damn, I shouldn’t even talk about my business.

But on the other end, I’m like, my business is literally built to help this community. So one of the things that I brainstormed while I was sitting at the beach that I could do, I was like, well, what if I donate a percentage of my sales to an organization that is supporting immigrants? And that is what I’ve decided to do.

So for the month of July, the sales that are made for my courage driven Latina enrollment is going to go. 10% of those sales are going to go to an organization that is supporting immigrants. I’m still looking at the different organizations. I’m kind of leaning towards unaccompanied minors who have to represent [00:09:00] themselves in court, right?

Because nobody should have to represent themselves in court. It’s so, such an intimidating place to be. But now imagine being a minor, imagine being a 4-year-old who’s separated from your parents and you have to go to court to advocate for yourself or maybe misplaced, um, children who. Who have been separated from their, from their parents.

So I’m really leaning towards that and I’m still evaluating different organizations. And once I have one. Um, finalized. I will let you all know. So that is my plan right now. Obviously I want to do a lot more. I’m, I’m still brainstorming other ways that, that we can help, but if I can tell you anything, it’s that I understand that in moments like this, we don’t wanna say the wrong thing, we don’t wanna be insensitive, we don’t really know how to help.

And the best thing I can say is now is not the time to play small. Now’s the time to, even if it just means checking on your friends that you know have family members that are undocumented, that is enough. So do what feels right for you. But if I can give you any words [00:10:00] of advice, it’s that now’s not the time to place small. If you have privilege like I do. There are people in our community who literally do not even feel comfortable going outside. And it is up to the people who do have status, that do have privilege to advocate for those people in our community because that could have been my parents before they got citizenship.

There was a time when they were undocumented. I could have also been born in Mexico and been undocumented. It’s literally dumb luck that I have the privilege that I have. I had no control over where I was born. So with all of that being said, this is obviously a topic I care a lot about and I mean, we can even get into like how dangerous it is that people who aren’t even in uniform are going out to detain people.

Like imagine being a woman just walking and then somebody pulls up on the in this car and says, oh hey, guess what? We’re ice agents And takes you away like so much can happen. They can literally un unlive you, they can rape you, right? There’s so many things that can happen and it could not even be [00:11:00] ice.

There’s so many. I, it’s, it’s obviously something that fires me up. And again, I, I think I need to bring on like an immigration lawyer onto the podcast so that we can talk more about what it is that’s going on from, from an expert. But for today’s episode, because I’ve been so.

Focused on trying to keep my nervous system calm, figuring out how it is that I can, that I can make a difference. I’ve decided to put together a little collaboration of a podcast for you from different clients that I’ve worked with. One client has worked on growing her business.

Another client worked on a career pivot and another client worked on launching her podcast. So even in Moments of Darkness, I want you to know that there’s still hope. There’s still hope for us to make a difference. And because I do have my webinar coming up on July 14th, it’s all about the 90 day manifestation [00:12:00] path to entrepreneurship, to courage, and to career pivots.

I figured sharing some, some success stories with you would be a great use of our time.So. As I mentioned, this episode is a mashup of real stories from three incredible past clients of mine. Actually, some of them are still existing clients. We are going to listen to 

 Rebecca’s entrepreneurial study, Ali’s career pivot story and Anais content creation story, and how it was that she ended up launching a podcast. I want you to remember that you do not have to be a hundred percent ready. You really just need the right support. You need a little bit of strategy and some courage so that you can make your dreams a reality. You are going to hear how each of these women went from doubt and analysis paralysis to launching businesses, landing the dream job, as well as launching the podcast. These stories aren’t just inspiring. They’re proof that when Latinas come together in Community magic happens. Let’s get into [00:13:00] it. 

In this episode, the guest and I talk about the reality of finding our authentic self and how sometimes it seems like you just reached this point when you figured out who you are, but that’s actually not true. You’re who you are continues to evolve and it continues to change, and we really do need to normalize that sometimes.

Life is gonna life and things are going to happen, and it can affect our confidence, it can affect the way that we’re showing up. We can go from like taking up space to maybe feeling really small. Things can happen in the workplace. Things can happen in relationships, things can happen. That can really affect our confidence.

But just like you built it initially, you can always build it back. But I do think it’s so important to normalize that we are going to go through phases in our lives when we’re not going to feel like ourselves. And that is when this guest and I crossed paths when she was going through a hard time. And this guest is my client, brave Rebecca, who is the founder of Axiom of Purpose, and she leverages nearly.

30 years of [00:14:00] marketing and communication experience. She works on campaigns that are purpose driven and that are really dedicated for the greater good. After spending a decade in Hollywood publicity and promotions working on movies for Disney, paramount, universal, and other studios, she then shifted her focus to public service.

She served in key communication roles for the Lieutenant Governor of Colorado. Denver Human Services, Denver Public Works, the Denver Mayor’s Office, and the Port of San Diego, where she launched the agency’s new brand. She spent two years as a creative strategy VP for a boutique agency before starting Axiom, which is her, uh, agency now focusing exclusively on purpose driven projects.

Channeling her expertise towards positive environmental and social change. She spends most weekends brunching with her granddaughters. I swear she does not look like a grandmother at all. I just met her over the weekend, but whenever she’s hanging out with her granddaughter, she’s searching for better creeps than the ones she learned to make from her [00:15:00] aita.

But of course, that has not happened yet. Rebecca and I crossed paths in November of last year, so November of 2023, and the progress that I have seen in this individual is incredible. When we invited her to come on the podcast and she filled out the form that we have, she mentioned that after joining Courage Driven Latina and working with me for a short period of time, that she completely turned things around.

I mean, she talks about this in the podcast episode, but like. Motivation is back, has been losing weight, has been more active, and has also added two new contracts to her agency, which is 80 k worth of new business and negotiating another one, which is what she talks about inside the program. And she feels like this is just the beginning.

And I feel the exact same way because I, I’m telling you, I just met her this last weekend and she is radiating and the reason that I am so focused on this is because. Rebecca already had a business and she already had a successful business when she joined, and you’ll learn [00:16:00] what her courage project is in the interview, but it is not, it was not a business courage project, yet we managed to get her motivation back, her confidence, and grow her business even more.

hello and welcome back to this week’s episode of Ana Revolution podcast. Anytime I bring on a guest, I am so excited because I really only bring on people that I find fascinating and that I think you’ll also find fascinating and how amazing that this individual happens to also be one of my clients, but also an incredible business owner.

And this person is Rebecca. Welcome, Rebecca. Can you please introduce yourselves and tell the audience and the listeners what you do, who you are, and what you do. Yes. My name is Rebecca Lencia and I am the founder of Axiom of Purpose, which is a, uh, purpose-driven marketing and communications company. [00:17:00] Uh, founded my agency on the premise that we wanted.

All of our projects to have a positive environmental or social impact. And so our purpose is helping other companies and projects that either already have a positive impact or that are looking to shift into that purpose driven space, and we help them do that. Hmm. How amazing, and I know I’ve mentioned this to you before, before we started working together, but courage driven Latina used to be called Purpose-Driven Latina, and because of trademark purposes we actually had to change the name, but it, we are just so aligned on a value level.

I went to South by Southwest, which is a big, huge conference, and they were really all about like purpose driven at that time and still are, but really was like, I feel like the work that I’ve been doing in the public sector all of this time is very purpose driven and I don’t think that one, the public sector gets enough credit for that.

[00:18:00] And two, that. It’s time for businesses to get on board with that as well, right? That like private sector business really needs to be serving people and community and plan it just as much. And I really wanted to help bring that change about, and I was really seeing that happen. And so I developed my, my brand and like all of like my, my ideas for my agency, but I didn’t take the leap for like.

Years, right? I went to work for another agency first and then was like, I’m finally ready to do this. Like, so it took me probably, I think I started the agency idea in 2018 and I didn’t actually start it until 2022. So it took me like four years to actually do it. And so that was two little over two years ago now, and I’m just like, it, it’s working.

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Erika: Does it feel like everybody around you is manifesting their dream job, starting businesses, finding their dream partner, and you’re just sitting there wondering what in the world you are doing wrong?

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But I think one of the main reasons why I finally got the audacity to create this podcast was because I was like, you know what? Like this is something that I’ve thought about for a couple years now, and it never leaves my mind. And the fact that like I go to sleep thinking about it, like what will happen if I create this?

What will happen if I end up actually doing something outta my comfort zone? Like all these what ifs? I wasn’t gonna just. Sleep at night knowing like, like I wasn’t just gonna, if I kept thinking about these [00:30:00] things and I didn’t act upon them, then I would’ve been like, okay, who, who would’ve really known what happened if I didn’t act upon this?

So I wasn’t gonna continue living my life, listening to my intuition, um, and not act up on it because. Life is so short. I learned that the, I really learned that that life is really short and a lot of the times people have dreams and they don’t really act upon them just because they care about what people think.

What are people gonna say? And till this day, I still think about those things. I’m not gonna lie, but I still show up regardless because I already started. So I’m not gonna just. Let it, like, I’m not gonna let it go just because I, I, those thoughts still come up into my mind. I just try to learn how I learned how to coach myself when I go through these thoughts.

I think that your program really helped me understand that coaching yourself is really important, um, because sometimes you just don’t have it. [00:31:00] Like you don’t have anybody to really go to whenever these things come up. So really coaching yourself, really having your own back is really important. Um, I was, yeah, I was just like, you know what, like, I’m gonna do it.

I have free time, so might as well just make use for it. Yeah, definitely. And you described this beautifully about these thoughts and the doubts don’t ever really fully go away. Even if you’re feeling a lot more confident, there’s still going to be moments of like, oh man, you know, this was a risky episode.

What are people going to think about this? Or the production of this one wasn’t that great, dammit, the lighting wasn’t good. You know? And it’s like all these things that can come up for us. And you just described what courage is. And courage is to like feel the fear, but still take the action. And so for you to not let those doubts be the ones that essentially are in control, right?

Like you, your higher self is in control. Your courage, courageous self is in control and it’s like the little [00:32:00] doubts and the fears just kind of take the backseat rather than the driver’s seat. They’re not the ones navigating and that is. In my opinion, the key to a fulfilling life. Like how can you not let, because doubt is always going to come up.

It always is. I mean, even I experienced doubt. I think people think, oh yeah, you’ve had your podcast for X amount of time. But there’s still doubt that happens in my mind’s, like every day. And to your point about coaching ourselves, I feel like my journal is my best therapist. Like I still have a therapist, but my journal is really my best therapist.

’cause it’s kind of always there when I, when I need it. I love it. 

all of these conversations. Are Extreme Cup fillers. They are just very fulfilling. And I’m so excited about this one because it’s almost like a courage driven Latina reunion with my deli who was in courage driven Latina when it was called Purpose-Driven Latina.

We were just talking about this, it was almost two years ago, so she was in the [00:33:00] program in the summer of 2021 and yeah, we’re like in the summer of 2023 and so much has happened and I love doing these episodes of where are they now? Because as much as things can feel transformational in the moment, I think that when you look back, you’re really able to see what happened and like what kind of transformation you experienced.

So, I mean, I could sit here and go like on and on about that, but my has such an amazing story. So my deli, can you please introduce yourself, tell us who you are, what you do, where you’re located, and welcome to the show. Yeah. Thank you so much. I am so happy to be here. I think it’s finally time that I, that we connect again.

I missed you, but yeah. My name is Del. I am a first gen daughter of immigrants. I am a former teacher Just. Pivoted out of teaching recently, and we’re definitely gonna talk about that and currently work remote, but I also have a coaching business, so I am a money coach for women of color, [00:34:00] helping them save, spend, invest, and basically enjoy their money and not sacrificing the things that bring them joy at the same time that they’re enjoying their money.

So yeah, that’s a little bit about me. I currently live in Des Moines, Iowa, which is very different than most people I meet online, but representing the Midwest and yeah. Yeah. And you received an invitation to be on the podcast about a year ago? I did. And tell us what happened. We talked a little bit about it, and I have your consent to speak about this.

Yes, you do. So tell us what was going on. So, a year ago when I got that email to be on Erica’s podcast, I accepted, like I said, yes to the email. And then I go into the, what’s it called, the sheet where, you know, you ask questions on like, what are the things that you wanna talk about? And I got. So much my drama from looking at that sheet, feeling like I don’t know what I wanna talk about.

Like I don’t feel like I’m good enough, like I don’t feel like I deserve to be on Erica’s podcast, which now thinking those things [00:35:00] makes me feel really silly. But they were true like that. That’s actually what I thought when I was filling out that form. And so then I just didn’t complete it. And I didn’t show up to the podcast because I’m just like, Nope, little me, like there’s no way I can do that, just because I wasn’t in the place that I thought I would be.

Whatever that place. Might be like, I don’t even remember where I wanted to be, but it was just that self-doubt and just that feeling of almost imposter syndrome, which is weird because you know, your podcast is all about. Like first gens, Latinas. And so for me to feel that it’s just, it sounds silly now.

It sounds silly to you now, but I think the reason I specifically wanted to ask about this is because I think people assume that the self-doubt just goes away and that the imposter syndrome just goes away. But at at every stage of which, I mean, we’re gonna talk about your journey, but. Every time you pivot, every time you do something new, it’s going to be scary.

Right? Oh yeah. And there’s going to be moments when we do self-sabotage, and it still happens to me now. So I’m just so glad that you are on the podcast now, [00:36:00] but what would my de today say to my de a year ago, if you could give her advice, like what would that conversation look like? Yeah, I would probably tell her like, look at how much you’ve grown since you were in.

You’re a Latina. Like look at all the things that you’ve done. Like you are 100% worthy of those things and people need to hear your story. That’s exactly what I would say, and I think I would also say to her like, nobody. Just wants to hear like the end results necessarily. Like they wanna see the journey because then they’re gonna feel like one day they’re in this place and then tomorrow they’re gonna have those end results.

And that’s just not how life works. So for me to feel like I didn’t wanna share anything because I was still in the process of my journey and I didn’t feel like I had the end goal result, like I shouldn’t feel that way because people need to hear. What somebody is going through in their journey. Right?

It kind of helps them and I think if I would have been in the podcast, it would’ve been so great to see now the growth from that time and kind of, you [00:37:00] know, going along with the process and the journey. I think it would’ve been beautiful. So I definitely would’ve told her, girl, just do it. Well, here you are now, so no regrets, lesson learned.

Thank you for sharing that with us. So, okay, take us back because you have such a great. Story. Take us back to how did you even find me in the program to begin with and where was my then? Oh my God. Yeah. Where were you two years ago? Let’s go back. So two years ago I was teaching, I had just gotten back from South Korea.

I taught in South Korea two years and had just gotten back and I was teaching in the States at a private school and then the pandemic hit. And I was just in that situation of. Basically burnout from my job of teaching, but also all the things from the pandemic and feeling like there had to be more, right?

Like there had to be more to life like I, you know, had been a part of, I had done my finance journey and that was really helpful for me. I. But then I’m just like, [00:38:00] okay, like what’s next? Like there’s still something missing from my life and I don’t quite know what that is, and I don’t even know how I ran into your content.

It must have been just scrolling on Instagram, to be honest. I think that’s how I ran into your content, but right away it spoke to me and the way I usually. Do like content is I’ll like secretly hide. Like I won’t DM the person, right? I’ll just like binge all their content and then that’s when like I’ll make my move.

And so I scheduled a call with you and I remember in that call just showing up and I was so tired. Like I had just gotten done tutoring. Like I remember exactly where I was in that moment, like the classroom that I was in. I think you still. In your classroom? Yeah, I was in the school. Yeah. Yeah, I was in the school.

In the classroom and I just remember feeling like so tired and I had just gotten done tutoring a student because that’s what I did for extra income. And yeah. And I was just like, what am I doing? Like, is this even gonna be like something that I wanna do? Like what am I doing? Like this isn’t normal to me because I had never seen anyone invest in coaching.

So I was just in that space of like, I don’t know, back and [00:39:00] forth. And then talking to you like. I dunno, I just felt like it was the right way to go. Like I felt it in my heart like, like, you need to work with this person. Like there, you know, it’s okay to ask for support and it’s okay to have help in your journey.

Because at that point I had done my entire finance journey by myself and I just, I think I needed that hand. From somebody who had similar background as me and just, you know, somebody who’s actually in a place that maybe I wanna be in someday. Right? And I think that was so powerful. And so, yeah. And I said yes to you right away.

And then we started. So that’s kind of where I was two years ago.