What's up, Badi Bees?

I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary

things, and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real

and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club. When I told my mom I was leaving the tech industry, she was seriously concerned for my sanity.

In the middle of the pandemic, when they allow her to work from home, she's able to travel so much,

and there's just so much flexibility, and her company's actually growing in the pandemic while so many people are losing their jobs.

And here I am choosing to walk away.

But when I had my client event over the weekend, it was the first time that my mom helped me.

And I hired her to help coordinate and just manage some things.

And I asked her after the event, I was like, do you think I should go back to tech?

And she was like, no, not at all.

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch. On this week's episode, we have Erica Cruz, who is a coach, speaker, and founder of courage-driven Latina. She helps her community align with their purpose, lead with courage, and find fulfillment. And today we're going to be hearing all about Erica's journey,

what led her to where she is today, and the relationship between confidence, courage, and

finding your purpose in life. So Erica, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for

having me, Brianna. I'm just so excited for today's conversation. I've been looking forward to it all

week. Good. Me too.

Well, then let's jump in. Why don't you tell our listeners a little bit more about who you are and what you do?

Yeah. So I am Erica. Thank you so much for the introduction. I like to say that I accidentally started doing what I'm doing because I started to post on TikTok.

So taking it back to when I went to school, I kind of did all the things that we should do.

I went to school.

I got a job.

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