Jefas y Mamás: Why You Shouldn't Make Motherhood Your Whole Personality | Sonia Alejandra Saunders

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Jannese Torres

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4.9 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Episode 318 features return guest Sonia Alejandra Saunders. We're chatting about why you shouldn't make motherhood your whole personality. Listen now!

Sonia Alejandra Saunders is a speaker, coach, and founder of Mujerón Movement—a platform helping Latinas embrace their purpose, own their power, and become the fullest expression of themselves. Through events, mentorship, and real conversations, she empowers first-gen women to break limiting beliefs and build lives they love—on their own terms.

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0:00.0	And I think my mom, I remember it was like four months into motherhood.
0:05.2	And I was a mess just crying.
0:07.2	And my mom's like, get, yates.
0:09.0	I'm like, I just don't want to be a stay-at-home mom.
0:11.8	And I remember her looking at me with like, what?
0:14.9	What do you mean?
0:15.7	Look at your baby.
0:16.5	He's so beautiful.
0:17.7	How could you say that?
0:19.2	And I feel like in that moment, I understood that it was just a
0:23.6	different perspective, right? I just have different goals. And what fulfills me doesn't mean that
0:29.6	that fulfills my mom. And like, that's okay. And I think that's one of the biggest things that I've learned
0:34.8	is through this journey, really just what makes you happy
0:39.1	and being okay with people are going to say things. There are going to be comments about your
0:44.5	parenting, about what you do, about how you spend your time if you're taking your kid to the park
0:50.5	enough times a week or whatever that looks like, right? But at the end of the day,
0:55.6	how are you fulfilling yourself so that you can be the best mom for that child?
1:03.4	You're listening to Joquiero Dinoero, a personal finance podcast for the modern Latina.
1:09.4	I'm your host, Janice Torres, award-winning
1:11.9	Latina personal finance expert. I didn't always have my financial shit together, but when I
1:17.1	started looking for POC-friendly personal finance podcasts, I couldn't find any. And so Yo
1:22.1	Quiero Dineiro was born. On this show, I'll show you how to make Dineiro, how to keep your
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