Colombian Americans

So just for context, I started doing what I'm doing today because I saw that early on.

To me, as I'm Colombian American, and I was always, you know, I worked at a big agency where I was wondering at the time, why isn't the Latina being put up for that job? I was like flabbergasted in some of these rooms that I was in.

And when I decided to leave the agency, I made it a point to focus my career on only working with people of color.

And that was kind of what became my niche and helped me build up my name and the companies, et cetera.

Like, there's health insurance.

Are you first gen? Yes, girl.

I'm Colombian American.

Like, my dad was like, wait, you're gonna start your own company? You know, the first time around, he was like, absolutely not.

So in that sense, I was like, okay, so that's something that's at play along with mental health stigma.

Being Colombian American myself, I saw firsthand how the way mental health was viewed got in the way from people getting the help that they may need.

In my family, we could talk about feeling happy, angry, but frustrated or depressed.

scared or worried, those weren't very acceptable feelings.

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Colombian American, Paraguayan, uh, and the like, and there's just been a real, real concern that, uh, that you've heard about not just all of these other problems, you know, fuel being more expensive, it's harder to get a loan, and, you know, interest rates are going up.

But the m- the severity, the depth of the immigration enforcement that's happened in Miami-Dade County, a county that Trump won, which became a swing county, i- is, is at a, a fever pitch.

It's very personal, the immigration experience-

But there's, I always think about, I have, I own a coffee farm in Columbia.

I'm Colombian American.

I was born in the U S but my parents are Colombian and we have a coffee farm there or not.

And something my dad always told me was.