Category: Resilience
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What If You Decided It Could Be Easier?
By Ana Vargas Que lo que, mi gente— We’re so used to equating progress with struggle, growth with pain, and success with sacrifice that sometimes we forget to ask ourselves the simplest question: “What if it could be easy?” Not because life is always easy—clearly, it isn’t—but because maybe we’ve been conditioned to expect difficulty…
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Seeking Alignment: Honoring Your Values Across Work, Family, and Growth
by Ana Vargas Image: Person standing at a crossroad, staring at the horizon considering the best direction for the next part of their journey. Mi gente, la vida nos da sorpresa…it is full of transitions. Sometimes the hardest decisions aren’t about leaving something behind, but about choosing something better—something that aligns more deeply with our…
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“Pa’ que falte, que sobre”/ “It is better to have extra rather than not have enough”
Generosity, Boundaries, and Service: Lessons from My Mother’s Living Room Growing up, generosity wasn’t just a value—it was a way of life, thanks to my mother. The title of this post is a nod to when I started cooking at Mami’s and I would ask her, “Mami, cuanto ago? How much should I make?” Her…