We tend to think of cycles in a negative light, like the cycles of abuse or the cycles of complacency. But there are also good cycles that can lead to even better outcomes than the ones you have now. Once you make a positive change in your life and stick with it, you create a new cycle that’s in alignment with what you want. The more you bet on yourself, the more results you’ll see and the more motivation you’ll have to show up for yourself. This is exactly what happened to this week’s guest, an...
Jul 08, 2025•1 hr
Starting a business can be so overwhelming and somehow so freeing at the same time. You have the freedom to use all 24 hours of your day however you’d like, but you also now have to take responsibility for all 24 hours of your day. It can be exhausting, and without the right support system, it can bring all those limiting beliefs to the surface. If this sounds like you, then what you need right now is some guidance from someone in the Chingona community who’s been where you are and found their w...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 3 min
If your thoughts are always about someone else with the greatest job, or the most incredible business, or the most amazing second husband, then you are trying to tell yourself something. It’s not that your life sucks and you should feel bad about it. It’s that you want what she has, so go get it for yourself. It sounds like you want to raise your standards, try something new, or explore something better than what you already have. It’s time to stop comparing yourself and start manifesting. And i...
Jun 24, 2025•31 min
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...
Jun 17, 2025•45 min
Failure isn’t something we should be afraid of. Yes, it’s a pain, and the rejection hurts, but it’s what helps us grow as business owners. We can never get better if we don’t figure out what isn’t working. And today we’re going to tackle the most common cause of failure. When I started talking to the business owners inside of Courage Driven Latina, I realized that their fear of failure was what was keeping my clients from reaching their full potential. These women were dealing with core wounds t...
Jun 10, 2025•26 min
Life isn’t just about struggling to live and sacrificing to advance your career. It’s about enjoying ourselves, connecting with each other, and using our money to invest in something incredible! It’s time to take back our power and live the lives we know we should be living. And we can start by listening to Arielle’s incredible story for inspiration. Arielle Diaz is a Peabody and GLAAD-nominated TV Writer-Producer with credits on GENTEFIED (Netflix), With Love (Prime Video), The Last Man on Eart...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Financial freedom is something we should all be striving for. Our parents taught us to be practical and get a good, stable job. But life isn’t always stable, and if we are going to be bad ass feminists who do what we want with our lives, we need to be financially free. Financial freedom means leaving your cheating husband without worries and about bills, it means fully funding your maternity leave to spend time with your newborn, and it means taking a calculated risk on your time and not anyone ...
May 27, 2025•40 min
Over the last six years, I’ve really been getting into the science of manifesting. Because it is a science! Manifesting has everything to do with neuroplasticity, neuroscience, and epigenetics. There’s a reason I created my dream life when I left my tech job. And there’s one specific method of manifesting that always works for me, so I’m going to share it with you today. It’s called the BFF method, and it's called the BFF method because this manifestation method is about to be your best friend f...
May 20, 2025•34 min
"Mira, ponte las pilas." How many times have you heard that phrase before? Or "no seas una pendeja," or "nadie te quita lo que está para ti." These phrases helped guide us into the women we are today. We picked ourselves up and dusted ourselves off because we had tough love at home that taught us how to be tougher chingonas. And to be honest, these phrases still help me out to this day! When I’m feeling low, I think, "Mira, Erika, ponte las pilas," and get out of my slump. Because mama didn’t ra...
May 13, 2025•44 min
Here’s the thing: no matter what your catalyst is, whether it’s a layoff or you quit and pivoted, you’ll always end up where you need to be. Take our guest, Lucia, for example. She was laid off during the pandemic, and soon after, she realized her dream wasn’t to be an art director for Amazon. That company, by the way, laid off her entire team as soon as things got rough. Now that she had the freedom to take a breath and think about what she actually wanted to do, Lucia knew she wanted to work f...
May 06, 2025•45 min
AI is an extremely powerful tool that is currently accessible to anyone with an internet connection. We, in the Latino community, can use to give ourselves the leg up we may not have had access to before. Say, for example, you couldn’t get a Master's in Marketing Data Analytics when you were in college, but now you need to make a marketing plan for your business. AI can help you create a personalized marketing plan that appeals to any and every algorithm out there. That being said, not everyone ...
Apr 29, 2025•56 min
You can do anything with the right community behind you, and this week’s guest can testify to that. Lourdes was going through an extremely tough time - she was put through the ringer in the military, she found herself in $75k of household debt, and her (now ex) husband kicked her out of her own home. She needed to make a change and FAST. So she reached out to her community, including the Courage Driven Latina community, and her community came through for her. Lourdes Fernando is a passionate adv...
Apr 22, 2025•58 min
It all comes down to learning how to trust ourselves. For example, picking between two great job offers and not being able to choose which one to take. They’re both great! They’re not perfect, some of the benefits could be better, and there's going to be some annoying parts of the job, but both opportunities are still great. And still, you can’t make a decision. If you know that something like picking between two great job offers paralyzes you, then we need to start strengthening your decision-m...
Apr 15, 2025•24 min
One, admittedly major, decision can change the course of your life for the better. Especially if that major decision involves you leaning into your life’s purpose. Because once you see the chance to align yourself with your goals, and you take it, everything starts to fall into place. This is exactly what happened with this week’s guest, Bricia Lopez. She started her culinary career taking over her parents’ struggling restaurant with her siblings, and now she’s a critically acclaimed, globally r...
Apr 08, 2025•46 min
Sex can be a beautiful experience full of love and fulfilled desires. It’s this amazing expression of love and intimacy that you can share with your partner and with yourself! But to be able to reach the sexual freedom we all hope for, we have to do some soul searching. Jocelyn Silva is a Life and Intimacy Coach with over 13 years of experience helping people break free from limiting beliefs and fully embrace their sexual power. Once a Catholic schoolgirl who dreamed of being a nun (true story!)...
Apr 01, 2025•57 min
You may say to yourself, “I’m not a controlling person, this isn’t about me.” But the need to control the world around us is a natural part of human nature. We crave control because we think control will bring us certainty, and then that certainty will bring us peace. But sometimes you don’t get certainty, no matter how much you try. And instead of freaking out about the uncertainty of it all, we should all try and take a deep breath and look at the situation differently. Believe it or not, you ...
Mar 25, 2025•26 min
Some people would consider my journey a series of failures before finally getting it right. But I don’t see it that way. Each path leads to another and even though a lot of those paths didn’t work out for me long-term, I learned a lot from each of them. I learned that I could live without my tech job when I became a yoga instructor. I learned how to put myself out there on the internet as a food blogger. Even the tech job I fell out of love with gave me the safety net I needed to try and build s...
Mar 18, 2025•30 min
Welcome to our highly anticipated webinar - The Purpose Pivot: Dare to Dream Again Webinar! This webinar has gotten so many incredible reviews that we decided to bring it back one more time, this time with brand new CDL bonuses! We had such an amazing time on live I just had to share the recording with the podcast. If you know you need to make a change but don’t know where to start, this webinar is for you. I have helped hundreds of clients change the trajectory of their lives and embrace the pe...
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 18 min
This is your life - you are the only one who can decide if you should go get more for yourself. It’s great that everything looks amazing on paper, but to truly live your best life, it has to feel amazing IRL. That’s exactly what this week’s guest is striving for. She has a great full-time job, a great husband, and a great start to her career as a college advisor. But she wanted MORE. Yesenia wanted to keep traveling, to help more people, and to finally start working for herself. So she started h...
Mar 04, 2025•35 min
So many of my clients struggle with, first of all, knowing what they want to do next, and then being married to that decision for the rest of their lives. They think that they’ll be stuck behind the confines of the decisions they make right now. But it’s not true! This is the beginning of your next evolution and you can always keep evolving! This concept can be hard to imagine, so this week I invited a very special guest to show you what always evolving can look like. Amy Landino is an entrepren...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 7 min
That feeling you have pushing you towards your purpose is giving you permission to go for it. You don’t need anything else to validate your thoughts, you just have to go for it. No matter what anyone else thinks. This week’s guest is Miriam Corona, a life coach and a Courage Driven Latina alum. Miriam has years of leadership and security experience at Microsoft’s Data Center under her belt, as well as a background in Human Resources. During her time at Microsoft, Miriam learned how to inspire an...
Feb 18, 2025•49 min
Before I started this coaching business, I wanted to start a food blog. I was extremely passionate about it, but I wasn't putting any action towards making it happen. It wasn’t until my ex, my boyfriend at the time, called me out on my inaction. At first, I was offended, but then I realized that he was right. I kept talking about this food blog I was so into, but I was too afraid to start actually posting. I was stuck because I felt like I needed clarity before I started anything. I was research...
Feb 11, 2025•27 min
Living your life’s purpose doesn’t have to be this huge apocalyptic event in your life. You don’t have to quit your job and cut off all your connections in order to get closer to your life’s goal. You can start with what you have right now. So many of my clients felt stuck in this limbo of wanting to live for their purpose but not wanting to give up their whole lives for it. And the funny thing is, they never had to! Burning down your old life is not a requirement for starting your new one. You ...
Feb 04, 2025•20 min
Books have changed my life in so many different ways. Every time I want to make a change, or grow, or even if I’m just curious about a topic, I do a little bit of research and pick up a book. I can’t tell you how much good it’s done for me. Even just one book, the Alchemist, has changed the trajectory of my life three times! The Alchemist gave me the courage I needed when I wanted to break off my engagement, when I left my six-figure tech job, and when I decided to move back home. I needed a new...
Jan 28, 2025•43 min
First of all, no one knows what they’re doing. It’s very rare that anyone knows exactly what their purpose is. That takes a lot of time and a lot of life to live so you’re definitely not behind. Don’t get too caught up in what everyone else is doing. In fact, most people we know are stressing out about feeling left behind and how everyone else is doing. If you’re feeling left behind because you’re not married, the married people are probably stressing out about their marriage, etc. We all feel l...
Jan 21, 2025•37 min
The magic of mindfulness has gotten me through some of the worst times of my life. We know there are always ups and downs - in life, in business, everywhere. We know that balance is key and that everything will correct itself in the end. In those low moments, I spent way too much time anxiously worrying about all the worst things that could happen. Worrying can feel like strategizing, but in reality, you’re making your mind feel as if you’re going through the traumatic event you’re thinking of. ...
Jan 14, 2025•32 min
The scariest thing about losing your spark is that it can happen at any time and from any number of circumstances losing your spark can come from a toxic relationship, losing your job, or a passion project not turning out how you wanted it to. My clients have told me that they feel overwhelmed by these “failures” and that they’re not sure where to go from here. The word failures is in quotations for a reason, just wait. Without your spark, it can be really easy to start to question your worth, y...
Jan 07, 2025•23 min
It's the end of the year, we’re preparing for the next year, and I just want to say thank you for being here with us! This podcast turns three next year and that means three years of improving our lives, reaching for our goals, and being absolute chingonas! I am so proud of all of you, whether you’re new listeners or you’ve been here since the beginning. I hope to see you all next year too! As you know, this podcast is devoted to helping you reach your goals and make your dreams a reality. Right...
Dec 31, 2024•32 min
If this year has taught me anything, it’s that ups and downs are a normal part of life. It’s frustrating, but it’s true. Some of my colleagues have had a very difficult year in business, while others have had their most abundant year ever. I didn’t meet my business goals this year, and while it’s not ideal, it’s not going to make me give up. And if you had a difficult year, it shouldn’t make you give up either. No matter how this year went for you, it’s always a good idea to take a moment to org...
Dec 24, 2024•33 min
Chances are you failed to do something this year. Whether it’s starting your business or starting to date seriously after a divorce, we all have these projects we never actually get to. There is no shame in acknowledging what you failed to do. But I do want you to take charge of your life and actually succeed at your courage project. You can bounce back from failure and change your life in 90 days. Seriously! It’s completely possible. I know because I’ve had over +200 clients and I’ve seen them ...
Dec 17, 2024•35 min
