Jefas y Mamás: Building a Business as a Single Mom | Mariela De La Mora

Yo Quiero Dinero

Jannese Torres

Saving, Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing, Wealth, Personal Finance For Latinas, Personal Finance, Budgeting, Finances, Generational Wealth, Equal Pay, Financial Literacy

4.9 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Episode 315 features another return guest, Mariela De La Mora. She's dropping some major gems on how she's building a business as a single mom Listen now!

Mariela De La Mora is a leadership and business coach helping daughters of immigrants and WOC turn their identity and story into money, PR, and speaking opportunities.

After 16 years in corporate marketing, she left to build a million-dollar business as a single mom, proving success doesn’t require shrinking who you are.

Now, she teaches WOC how to step into leadership, own their voices, and build businesses that reflect their full, authentic selves.

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0:00.0	It is just so refreshing to experience watching you, taking your daughter on trips and really showing, especially single moms, that they can show up in this brilliant way as entrepreneurs.
0:12.4	They can make a shitload of money, live a life that feels full.
0:15.9	I would love to close out this conversation with your best advice for single moms who are listening who
0:22.1	want to start their own business. Surround yourself with examples of people who are doing things
0:28.3	that you think you can't do. Watch who you're comparing yourself to. If you think that there's
0:32.3	something you want to do and you don't think it's possible, go find people that are proving you wrong.
0:36.7	Surround yourself with that. Look at that and not use it against yourself. Don't weaponize it and use it against yourself, but just to start to sit with, what if I could, with every reason that you tell yourself, but it's going to be harder for me. Okay, it might be, it might just look different for you. But what if you could do it differently and just entertain the thought and don't stop planning?
0:55.1	Just plan to do it your way.
0:56.2	Plan to do it differently.
0:57.1	It's okay if it takes longer.
0:58.2	You have to almost build a little delulu bubble around yourself when you're trying to build
1:02.4	something that you don't think that you can do or people before you didn't or you don't
1:05.8	see a lot of examples.
1:07.1	Go build your little dilulu bubble of examples that you can do it and just entertain the thought
1:11.5	of what if you could what would it look like and then just go from there we're not doing vision
1:16.0	boards anymore y'all we're doing dilulu bubbles okay that's the thing you're doing a delulu bubble
1:21.0	you're listening to joquiero dinero a personal finance podcast for the modern Latina.
1:30.3	I'm your host, Janice Torres, award-winning Latina personal finance expert.
1:35.0	I didn't always have my financial shit together, but when I started looking for POC-friendly personal finance podcast, I couldn't find any.
1:42.7	And so Yo Quiero Dinoino was born. On this show,
1:45.3	I'll show you how to make dinero, how to keep your Dino, and most importantly, how to make it
1:50.1	grow. Each week, I'm connecting you with the most brilliant minds in the world of money and business.
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