How Melly Barajas Built One Of Mexico's First Female-Owned Tequila Companies

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

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Melly Barajas has become known as the “queen of tequila” among industry circles when she started hiring for her company’s launch in 2000 and only women showed up for the interviews. “That was my fuel to keep pushing when things got tough, that I trusted other women, and they trusted me,” she told Forbes reporter Maria Gracia Santillana Linares. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, Meli, thanks for
0:05.0	here with us today.
0:07.0	Comeence us a little of
0:09.0	learning what is the legend of Mexico
0:11.0	and how commenced the company,
0:13.0	a little of that history of origin.
0:15.0	Okay, I,
0:17.0	I was a designer of modas
0:19.0	and apart the educator. I'm the I'm the new, modas and apart of the educator I'm
0:21.6	like the
0:22.3	people,
0:22.7	I'm
0:22.9	love the
0:23.5	mother,
0:24.3	then the
0:25.7	morning
0:26.2	I was class
0:27.3	to the
0:27.6	and in the
0:28.3	time I
0:29.0	went to my
0:29.3	tarrie
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