So happy to share another specially curated batch of episodes featuring some of the inspiring women we've had on the show.

I have been on a mission to get Masi Arias, personal trainer, health coach, Instagram, Phenom 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 maysayers, 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 into 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 was enriched, obviously, and was a working

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