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If Your Dreams Don’t Scare You, They Aren’t Big Enough
- 9 jul 2025
- 3 Min. de lectura
Actualizado: 4 feb
Was Muhammad Ali talking about stepping out of your comfort zone and ignoring fear? It certainly feels that way to me.
I believe it’s essential to elaborate a bit more on switching careers at the height of my digital marketing profession, for you to understand how this agency came to be.
After a while in Virginia, I developed a deep, heartbreaking feeling. It was caused by seeing my daughter so sick and so depressed. It could sense she was giving up, and despite all our efforts, we were witnessing her disappear right in front of us.
I believe it’s essential to elaborate a bit more on switching careers at the height of my digital marketing profession, for you to understand how this agency came to be.
After a while in Virginia, I developed a deep, heartbreaking feeling. It was caused by seeing my daughter so sick and so depressed. It could sense she was giving up, and despite all our efforts, we were witnessing how she was losing herself.
Since I needed to keep my sanity for everybody’s sake, it felt like it was time for me to do something to motivate myself, and that meant being of service to others through my work.
Ideally, I would have gone into working with bees because I love and admire them, but I didn’t have enough time to get the certifications I needed, so I moved to the next best option.
One thing consistent in our lives since we arrived in the USA was that Latinos always struggled, especially over the language barrier. I mean, how do you progress if most of the tools to grow and care for yourself are in a language you don’t understand? I had a great educational background, and learned English from a very early age; I can’t claim I was one of them, but it was the perfect opportunity to help the Spanish-speaking community thrive. What better place to start than immigration services?! I was fortunate enough to get a job as a paralegal in Richmond, VA, and even though I was making half of the money I used to make, I loooooved it. Don’t get me wrong, I was anxious about not being able to fully provide for my family, and I wasn’t sure if the judicial system would be what I had hoped for. Val had found a pastry job at the historic Jefferson Hotel, but it was very different from the beautiful Ritz-Carlton. Being a paralegal worked out, but finding a job with better pay became a challenge in such a small city, so after a while, we moved to North Carolina after landing a great opportunity at an amazing law firm (Butler, Quinn & Hochman).
North Carolina was also the city where a doctor finally spoke the truth to us, and confirmed my daughter would never recover (I had started to wonder), and shared that there was no cure for her condition. I remember everything too clearly, and I know I lost a piece of my soul that day that I will never recover.
After a year, between struggling to continue to care financially for Coletta’s medical needs and the new treacherous administration, it was time for greater changes (including our move to Valencia). When it became a priority for Val to leave, he refused to leave us behind, and there was no way that I would make Val stay; his life depended on moving to Spain.
We discussed it as a family and decided to move to Valencia together (including the cats). After all, we worked best as a team.
The clock started ticking, and we had very little time to put everything together. Our aspirations were taking shape, but that meant starting from zero and leaving our dear friends behind. By then, fear was setting in; I guess our dreams were immense.
