I have been on a mission to get Masi Adias, personal trainer, health coach, Instagram, Phenna, on Latina to Latina since we launched.

We have hit a few bumps in the road.

This is actually the third time we've connected. Once Masi got pulled away to be a mom,

another time she was at a photo shoot and the acoustics didn't work. And through it all,

I learned that Masi is exactly who she says she is. Disciplined, driven, committed,

relentlessly positive, and enthusiastic.

She's also really savvy about her business, how she's building it. And for the first time,

Massey opens up about her divorce, ignoring naysayers, and building the life she's dreamed up.

Most of the time when I hear your story, it starts with you coming to the states from the DR. You were 13. I want to know what your life was like before that when you lived in the

Dominican Republic. Well, my life was pretty simple. I come from very humble backgrounds, very humble beginnings, and I lived with my mom and my stepdad. My parents were divorced. But it was pretty simple. I had an awesome childhood. Then my family decided we needed a better life. Was that transition to the state's smooth? What do you remember about it?

No, the transition wasn't smooth at all. When my parents made the decision of bringing me to the states, I was a sophomore in high school. So as a teenager,

obviously I don't want to leave my friends, my family, my culture. I had to pretty much

transition into a new environment, into a new culture. And even though I was excited to come to the States, it was very rough.

You say that as a kid, you had to be an adult.

I wonder how that showed up for you.

When I came, two of my brothers came as well with me, a stepbrother and my blood brother, my only blood brother. And when we came,

I pretty much had to be sort of like the mom. My father here, he wasn't rich, obviously, and was a

working parent. So when I came, I had to be the one overseen the things that my brothers were doing, even though they were a year or two years older.

So a lot of responsibility was put on me.

One of my brothers got diagnosed with Birkid Symphoma, and he got really, really sick with stage four Berkid Symphoma.

He did not acclimate to the culture like I did

and went back home. And when he was back home, he was 18, I was 17, just graduating from high

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