Heal Yourself

Money has always been a struggle for me. I grew up in a family that lived paycheck to paycheck, and making ends meet was a struggle for as long as I can remember. So I always found it difficult to juggle living in my purpose and being impactful and doing purposeful work and surviving. For many years I worked 80 hours a week, multiple jobs, in order to start doing this work in Colombia. And then the other struggle when you grow up not having much money is not valuing your work and not feeling that you're deserving of more money. So the biggest learning curve for me, with being the director of a nonprofit, is asking people for money. I've had to really do a lot of therapy and overcome shame around asking for money because now I realize it's not about me getting money. It's about my ability to support these women.