I don’t want to use AI today… Hi, this is me, Diana!
I am creating a new and better version of me every day. Is it easy? No… I have learned to have as many iterations as possible, and make sure I do step by steps progress in a very safe way. Today, I want to give all the kudos to my efforts, this is one of these weaknesses in my personality that I treated as a strength and a synonym of humility as the person I am. Guess what? Lately, my learnings in life have shown me that most people don’t care about my humility and being that person who works hard, does things and they are seen but is not me the person on the stage. Worse than that, there are my inner voices saying I don’t care, I like working in the background, where I don’t have to be seen and be the rockstar! Well, I am trying to change that after seeing betrayals and realizing how they affect my biggest treasures in life, my motivators, my purpose… My family and my well-being.
This week I celebrated with my family our anniversary #5. My husband and I have grown our family and now we are four! We had nothing to start but love, dreams, promises, and knowledge. Those are good assets! This is what helped us build our foundation. Being a new immigrant to this country, not knowing the language very well, not being able to work for over a year, and of course living in a pandemic… We… newlyweds, baby aboard, not having a place, I suffered a hurtful rejection I was pregnant and I had two experiences where we were kicked out of a home, one because of the stupid pandemic and I was “apparently” not allowed to see my husband, and the other, I will keep private. Our beginnings were not pink in color, let’s just say that!
From a world traveler, community activist, tech leader, and business consultant to the most humbling work in life as a full-time of my own business called, home. This is a real job, this is no joke and I am proud of everyone raising a family. The challenges today are so different, I wish we had the economy of the 80s and I could just be a mom, and have my husband work for the income, being able to have a comfortable life. Well, those were good years… I am not even the person who visualized myself being a “Stay at Home, Mom”, and life is just different now… life sucks without your own money and more than one income nowadays. (Opinions, my own 🙂 ) I am jealous of those who achieved big check boxes before the pandemic, such as having a house and hopefully full or almost paid off, owning your company, land, a house, or other assets, it is becoming important as I feel freedom is going away in many senses.
Over these past – and transitional years of my life I have gotten a bit better with the second language, I have worn different hats, hats in sales, marketing, social media, product and solutions, alliance/channel manager, strategy… while keeping my community contributions, growing my network, being a great advocate of tech for good! I love that last one! I am an avid learner, I am always in beta, if you know me… You have heard it before! I have grown amazingly in the last year but how did it happen? It hasn’t been easy… I don’t post as often my wins as I should, but there is a sleepless woman, tears, fears, and sweat. But I am firm with my goals every year, I set a purpose and all my thoughts and efforts towards my goal. Hard work with my partner and trusting God, I do everything I can, until I achieve it. In 2022, I worked so hard on my language, In 2023 I wanted to go back to big businesses, and I did! In 2024 my goal was to have our own home, and I am super happy about that. Guess what, In 2025 my purpose is to work at my own company. God and I have been preparing the land for years and over the last months, yes… I was not surprised at all when in February I finally got to put all my time towards my dream, my goal. Here I am, proud of my seeds, roots, you name it… I am not the same, I am a better version of the sweet Diana you’ve known. I feel empowered and I am so grateful for being surrounded by amazing people, every experience counts… It’s hard to throw me down, I am a faithful person, and I am so grateful for the people who have known me and criticized me.
I am grateful for technology and all my nerd friends, I love technology and AI despite some fears, I want to work harder to be a responsible advocate, I can’t wait to unlock and unleash more personal potential from all the gifts I have from God in my life.
As always, my doors are open. Feel free to connect with me!
Happy Valentine’s from the US!