5.11 | Immigrant FU Money with Adriana Solórzano
> Isha Vela:
We can’t talk about money without also talking about how it impacts gender, ethnicity, race and immigration status. Especially in the context of what is happening to immigrants in the US where people are getting picked up, you off the street and put into police cars in broad daylight and then getting deported to a detention center or to their home countries where they don’t have any existing family members. The topic of putting more money in the hands of immigrants is both crucial and timely. And for this conversation I sat down with Adriana Solórzano, who is a financial mentor, intuitive healer and founder of RA Alas, which is a podcast dedicated to helping immigrant women heal their relationship with money. She was born in Venezuela and is now based in British Columbia, Canada. And she blends financial education with emotional and spiritual wisdom to guide women towards conscious wealth and personal sovereignty. And in this podcast we talk about how Latinas are still in the early stages of reclaiming financial sovereignty and how we can become more active participants in the existing money system while creating a new one by being co creators of the new one both for ourselves, our families and for our communities. Adriana, I’m, I’m so excited to have this conversation with you because you and I have had. We did a presentation a while back on Latinas and well, and I wanted to bring that conversation for whoever missed that presentation. I wanted to bring that conversation onto the podcast because I think it’s hugely important to talk about like culture, money, immigration, all of those pieces and bring it all in together.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah, so important.
>> Isha Vela: And I wanted to start just by asking you what is it like, what turned you on to thinking about money as a Latina woman?
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah, let’s see. Well, for me, I think what trigger the, you know, the whole journey in my finances, and my identity. I think it was a time in my relationship my marriage was just like’doing really, really bad. that was actually during pandemic and the biggest reason behind all those situations that we end those conversations that we were having and just like, you know, we couldn’t like overcome that emotional, I don’t know, felt Like a nut in a relationship. We couldn’t even like untangle it. It was, it came down always too, me not producing, me not having an income. so of course at that time also I felt like I had to I didn’t realize that, but I was doing it. I was kind of like asking for permission to even like buy something for myself because I just had my daughter. We had you know, pandemic then we, I wasn’t producing. We were receiving something from my husband’s work. But you know, I was very stressful globally. But also yeah, I felt that I didn’t have the right to just spend money for whatever I need in the moment. I just needed to ask for permission, be you know, very clear what it was. And you know it was just very hard for me at that time even just being here in Canada because as a ah, first generation of immigrants I didn’t have a family close by so I didn’t have the time. Also the luxury of having the time to just going to work and make my own income. Right. Because I had a little one, she was two years old. And this is something that a lot of women experience. I know I’ve met a lot of women that have been in this situation where you know, is whether being at home or working to pay a daycare, which it doesn’t make sense.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah. So let me, let me back up for a second because I wanted to ask you like when you and your husband would, let’s say argue or have a discussion about money, what did it look like? Because I think that it’s important for people to hear themselves or see themselves in. Oh yeah, that’s an argument that I have too. Or Yep, we talk about those things too. How did, how would it come up?
>> Adriana Solórzano: it was usually me coming to him like hey, I want to. Whether it was I want to invest in course or what, I want to buy something or I need a computer or you know, yeah, I’m gonna go this, clothing, things like that. Then it was kind of like well but okay, we’ve been spending on this and that and that and then it becames more about like let’s talk about what we already spent on and all the things that we are putting money towards. and, and maybe in this occasion it’s not okay to spend on that what you want right now, but then the next week he will have, I don’t know, he will buy something for himself and I wasn’t even aware of it.
>> Isha Vela: Got it, got it. O wow, that’s tough.
>> Adriana Solórzano: So then of course.
>> Isha Vela: So he was in the role of a financial gatekeeper.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yes. Yeah, yeah. And then of course after seeing that I will come back, you know, when that will turn into an argument and.
>> Isha Vela: You would say, hey, you spent money on something.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Exactly.
>> Isha Vela: I asked for some money.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And Or I will be like, you know, just having. Doing all sorts of things to find, use clothes for Alina.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Everything u secondhand, you know, like everything that I could do to just reduce our expenses. And then he would even pay attention of like, I don’t know, you’re spending on drinks every single day. You’re going out to get like coffee, things like that. And and I’be like, wait a minute, like I was doing all this effort too because we had this previous conversation of we were spending too much on here and there. Then what’s up? Right? Like he’s gatekeeping finances but without even having a budget or actually Financial liter.
>> Isha Vela: Yes. Yes. Oh my gosh. Yes. That’s so true. Because we often get into these dynamics and I’m talking about, yes, heterosexual relationships, but it could be any, any kind of dyad. But that the person who’in charge of the finances doesn’t necessarily have all the information.
>> Isha Vela: And they re. They’re not necessarily pretending they have all the information, but they’re assuming they have all the information or that they have more information. And so that sets up a power dynamic that can be really unhealthy.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yes, yes. There’s power struggle constantly that, that will lead to emotional stress and of course that will bring like so much from my past. Like for me it just was like, wait a minute, but what am I doing here? What am I doing here? Like looking myself in the mirror and being like, what am I, what is the example that I”m giving my daughter in this moment of my life? What I’m putting out there, is affecting her directly. Right. Like now seeing myself as a mom as well. And then of course seeing that leads you to see my mom. And I love very interest in psychology. I also have, you know, the postpartum doula course, the early childhood educator and all that. It was just I’ve been really good in self reflect and questioning so that I started to dig in a little bit deeper in like, okay, this is something that I’m experiencing, but why am I experiencd this? And I think it’s because as Latinas and let me back it Up, I think, like, and I did a little bit of research here because in general, like worldwide, we women’been just like 100 years that we’ve been, reclaiming our sovereignty. Only 100 years in worldwide. There are places in the world that still women don’t have the right to vote. Things like that. Like. Yeah. Financially rights.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: It’s amazing that in North America it wasn’t until like 1970s that women were able to apply for a credit card or a mortgage without their husband’s signals.
>> Isha Vela: Correct.
>> Adriana Solórzano: 1973, we are dragging that, right? Yeah. Ah.
>> Isha Vela: So yeah, we.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Or we’re still healing that. Hm. But wait a minute. What about Latin America does even later?
>> Adriana Solórzano: So has Latinas sp still in the early stages of reclaiming that sovereignty?
>> Isha Vela: Yes.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Right. So. And you know, our collective nervous systems is still healing. And this is healing. We’re healing centuries, centuries of represression.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Because 70s that mean is just my mom, right?
>> Isha Vela: Yeah, yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: It’my mom who experienced that and that was so new that maybe it wasn’t like applied right away in Latin America.
>> Isha Vela: Ex.
>> Adriana Solórzano: My mom was still dependent and I was taught. And I think this happens a lot for Latin America women. We learned to be a good wife.
>> Isha Vela: Y.
>> Adriana Solórzano: We learn. And that means being a good dependent. Yeah.
>> Isha Vela: And I mean, as s crazy as it sounds for you to like sit here and say that, like hearing that, it says like, oh, that’s so like stereotypical. Or that’s so 1950s. And it’s like, yeah, like, you know, even the question like, oh, are you a good cook? Or you know, you know, do you work outside of the home? Or this. That is all around like, are you going to be a good wife? Are you going to be able to be a good mother? Like it’s.
>> Isha Vela: There is so much still around that. That is.
>> Isha Vela: Maybe more subtle, but still an expectation.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yes.
>> Isha Vela: you know, and the like, if you, if you are somebody who’s, let’s say, ambitious about their career, that is still kind of like. But are you gonna be a good mother and wife?
>> Adriana Solórzano: Ex. Rightly.
>> Isha Vela: Whereas, you know, nobody asks a man, you know, if he’s going to be a good father and husband if he is s career oriented. So that’s still very much in the ethers, in the air, in the culture and the expectations.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah, absolutely. And that would. Those were also the conversations with my husband, you know.
>> Adriana Solórzano: And that’s why, you know, we’re about to get divorced at that time because, I remember once he told Me something like, no, no, no, but your job is being a mom, like right now. Yeah, I know we’re talking about finances, but no, no, no, your job right now is just being mom. And being a mom means, you know, being cooking, etcetera, etcetera. Because I wanted more time for myself to being able do this something for me. So I had to negotiate time. So that meant that he had to do more at home, he had to take care of more of Alina. So that meant, oh, of course now, but you’re taking time, you’re taking my time. And for him it’s like. But I’m already working, like I already PA my dues. And of course you know that that was a year of a lot of struggle. We did therapy, we did a lot, I did a lot of healing. and when I had Len, a lot of things came out. Like I was holding into intergenerational pain because I was holding some pain in my body and a lot of things came out to that pain. And of course that opened up a whole journey process of. In my relationship. Ah, that led to be more equal.
>> Adriana Solórzano: In all those topics. Right. Like we have to do that. I feel like I was the first in my generation who did it. That’s why I was so painful.
>> Isha Vela: Yes, absolutely. So I want to just make a, make a note to whoever’s listening, like you are still married. Like you, you worked through all of those really big challenges and you did, you both did the work to get to a place where yes, things were felt more equal, felt more balanced, where the power was better distributed in your relationship. And yes, I want to also, you know, if you can share about like the, the part about like you, you immigrated from Venezuela to Canada. So that’s also like a factor in that whole dynamic of like you being in a country that is not your home country or the country that you grew up in and how that affects then your perspective on money and wealth and all of those pieces.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah, absolutely. I think every immigrant leaves their country to find a better life. And for me it’s like, yeah, everything works here, everything is perfect here. But then, you come, or at least I came into a system that I wasn’t really understanding at the time. And once again I’m marrying a, ah, Canadian. So I’m thinking he got it, you understand? So then I’m rel. Line and asking those certain questions that made like hey, how this works or whatever. And, and of course, well, for me at the Time I felt like, need I need to go to the institutions that I think are gonna guide me for this, financial literacy. And unfortunately I didn’t get that. I was just basically led to open, account under with. With Connor and, and I had yeah, I had that account. Then we got married and we continued just like, you know, having our own things together. But yeah, I didn’t really know anything about finances. And when we were having those struggles, it was when I realized that I needed to take, you know, I need to take control of that part. So I started learning everything started more like, healing my relationship with money. More like a therapy and spiritual part. Money.
>> Isha Vela: How did, how did that, how did that start for you? Like, what was your process?
>> Adriana Solórzano: well, actually, what. Everything started when I joined a, group called a sacred economy. And it was all based in the gift economy. So we were gifting. It was a group of women who were gifting each other’s money. I’m just like taking turns and it was very beautiful. But there I started to meeting a lot of women that were in the same situation. I’m just trying to find something that gets me out of this relationship. And you know, u. you say.
>> Isha Vela: Out of this relationship. You say out of like love partnership. Love relationship.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Love relationship. Yes, yes. And. And it was my situation as well. I was like, I’m feeling trapped because I can do what I need to do, which is work. Ah, to be able to be. To leave or to just find my way. we ended up find it as we mentioned. But
>> Isha Vela: Yeah, and so that spiritual journey started there.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yes, yes, that s. Spiritual journey started there. Then I just started, ah, I started working. U. and then I was paying close attention to everything that was coming in and out. Right. And then I was, you know, counting every dollar.
>> Isha Vela: And what was that, what was that about for you counting?
>> Adriana Solórzano: what’s that?
>> Isha Vela: What was, what was the. What was the reason behind you counting every dollar?
>> Adriana Solórzano: Well, obviously me working, it was like I’m earning now money, right. I have to pay close attention of how to use it.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: And now with the added income of my husband, also where we can find now that middle ground. Right. Like now I can see okay, if I’m go goingna pay 50, 50. Let’s see. where are the places that maybe, I have to save a little bit more to be able to pay like rent or food or any, you know, my child’s needs. Right. My needs. so. And of course, that was Just, you know, an introduction to finances. Because at the end of the day, I still didn’t have any real knowledge about it. it wasn’t until I joined the Wealthy Women’s V that I learned so much. That was 2023.
>> Isha Vela: That was 2023. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For those of you listening, the Wealthy Woman Vaul was an online program that was all like a. Almost like a summit around women and money and wealth. And it was. It was basically like, ah, was viral. It went viral.
>> Adriana Solórzano: M. That was like my university on financial literacy. And I just became so passionate because I found, finally, I found the tools. I found the tools. My relationship was better, though. But, I found the tools that gave me the step by step, the structure of how to find financial independence.
>> Isha Vela: Wow.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Because I want to do it in my family. I didn’t have that many women in my family didn’t have that. So I want to be that. I want to be financially independent and give my daughter that example.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: And, there I met you, and I started the. I joined the vortex and I started studying everything about finances here in Canada. And it just. Everything blow my mind away.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Because, even Canadians don’t have that knowledge. Right.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: So.
>> Isha Vela: Right, right. Average Canadians, Canadians who grew up in Canada don’t have that knowledge. And you, as an immigrant, Latina, you know now, and you can share that. I think that’s so amazing. That’s so awesome.
>> Adriana Solórzano: It’s so powerful. I think that because of that healing that we’ve been going through, women and now has Latinas, you know, it’s our time. I feel like it’s our time to really just making those moves. Because I feel that those moves, emotional, legal, financial, entrepreneurial move, are rooted in an act of ancestral healing. And that’snna take us just so far, you know, and that’s what I’m giving my daughter as well. I’m just healing. I m thinkking, you know, my. My ancestors, ah, everything that they gave me. Thank you for giving me that. And from now on, I’m doing it differently.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Right.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: So. Yeah. And I release so much pain already. I release, beliefs. But there’s still space for improvement. There’s still a lot of things that.
>> Isha Vela: Still growth and expans.
>> Adriana Solórzano: There’s definitely. There are a lot of growth and expansion. Yeah.
>> Isha Vela: What are some of the things that you had to let go of in that process that you feel, you know, would be helpful for other women to hear?
>> Adriana Solórzano: Well, I think it’you know, one of the beliefs that we’been domesticated and feantalized about is that women are not good with money. And that’s something that is just maybe ah, a trauma response. And I’m not good with money and not. I don’t know about anything. I’m gonna talk with my husband. He, he’s the one who takes care of the finances. Just talk with him. So. And I was doing that and m. And when I see for example my mom and how she did it, even though the fact is that not only my mom, a lot of women, we are like 99% the managers of our finances in our household. We manage at least 99% of it but still feel that we have. We’re not good with numbers and we have to ask for permission. So that was something that I released. I released that inherited belief. and just start saying myself as someone that is completely capable of learning. Numbers. Managing numbers.
>> Isha Vela: Ye.
>> Adriana Solórzano: And just doing it, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was amazing.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah. And when you. Yeah, and I mean for what, for you are the steps of when you talked earlier. I’m sorry I’m jumping around but earlier you said this is when I started studying for your, you know, your license. I learned the steps to financial independence. What are those steps? For the people who are listening. What are those steps?
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah, well, I think that, and this is something that, why I want to share these, start my own pat podcast. Because in here you’re going toa listen to the stories that is going to help you to be aware, to identify where you’re at. Because I think that’s the first step, like just being aware and being able to articulate that, being able to just express those needs. It will be the second step. Just identify, then express those needs to your partner, know, to your parents, to whoever is around you. That min need to know that you are starting a new journey. And this is like anentity work. Right. And yeah, so, and, and of course then learning the practical tools u. and, and I will suggest not only as a financial mentor but also as a intuitive healer to do a ah, financial plan as well. Like just seeing, just understanding where you’re at, that awareness and where you want to go and then having a professional to lay out to you. Like look, these are the steps, this is what you need to do. Just learn the tools, just learn how the system workse. Yeah, I think that’s what it will bring. that foundation, that security that we’re longing for.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah. What do you say to, to Latinas who’s like, the system is not made for me. I don’t want to learn the system. I opt out.
>> Adriana Solórzano: M. Oh my goodness. I feel that that’s a tricky one.
>> Isha Vela: Because, you know, you know, poss I asked because, you know, because when we talk about immigration, we talk about like when people come to the United States or Canada, the assumption. Right. Is that they’re coming to live a better life, better quality of life. And part of that is being able to make more money.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah. Right.
>> Isha Vela: And so. Right. And some people that say first gen born here, second gen born here are like, my parents came here, but this system was not set up for me or, or was not set up for me to win. Right. So my parents made the sacrifice to come here, but I’m just, I’m not going to participate. So what do you say to those women?
>> Adriana Solórzano: I think that that’s once again, that’s a belief that you have to work on because then you feel that is not set up for you just because, you, you don’t know the tools. You have to work first into, believing that there’s something out there for you. There are opportunities for everyone to understand how the system works and how you can make, you know, invest wise investments where you can save, taxes, for example. That’s a big one here, right? Because we come from. Yeah. Latin America or for example Venezuela. We don’t even know what taxes are.
>> Adriana Solórzano: We don’t do that. We don’t pay taxes.
>> Isha Vela: Exactly Right.
>> Adriana Solórzano: So you come here and you’re like, how come I’m getting my first paycheck and they just took away this so much money. Right.
>> Isha Vela: Yeahide understand. Like, I think we need to like when as you’re talking, what it’s coming to me is like, we need to understand the money system as a language. so you know, if you come from Venezuela or somewhere else and you come to Canada or the United States and you’re like, what is this language? How do these folks talk about money? How do they understand the money system as a language? Right. We need to become bilingual in money systems.
>> Adriana Solórzano: That’s right. Right.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah. And so that we can navigate our way through the language and maybe come up with our own language.
>> Adriana Solórzano: M.
>> Isha Vela: I think that it’s only when we understand a language that we can play with it.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Absolutely.
>> Isha Vela: You can play with the words and the expressions. And I think you and I are both on the same page. It’s like we understand that the current systems are not ideal, they’re not Necessarily built for women or people of color.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Mmm.
>> Isha Vela: Right. And so we understand that that’s. Yes. That may be fact. And we can change that by understanding it more. Understanding how it works is like the first step in tifting it. And, and like I want to say use the word manipulating it, but I. In a positive way, like moving it, manipulating it for our gains. That we are also like, taken care of.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Ye. Yeah. You can see it even like a game, you know.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: It’s like. It’s the game. You have to just learn the rules and play the game.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: And just.
>> Isha Vela: Exactly.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah. Played it on your favor.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: You have to understand first how to play.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: So. So you can, you can have fun as well. And yes, there are certain things that we see that has been gate kept everyone.
>> Isha Vela: It’s not ex.
>> Adriana Solórzano: People of color or Latin, but everyone. Right. So yeah, that’s the fact. So we just. And you know, access to people like us. That we are, we are doing this, this is our mission. We want to share these tools with everyone because we believe that everyone deserved to have these tools.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah. Yeah.
>> Isha Vela: What are some of the things that you see in specifically Latine families around money? Like what are some of the trends, the cultural trends, the habits? yeah, habits, beliefs, etc.
>> Adriana Solórzano: I think it’s just one of them is just holding. Holding the money, holding it under your mattress. You know, you have this good a bit of money. You just made it here, you so solding it sol dearly. And then you just don’t want to. Don’t want to even spend it, don’t want to even use it. Don’t want to put it in this account or the other account because you’re so afraid of just losing that.
>> Isha Vela: Right.
>> Adriana Solórzano: And you work so hard for it.
>> Isha Vela: Right.
>> Adriana Solórzano: So yeah, I’ve had experience with Latin families. He has a financial mentor. Mentor that I have to spend more time, just making sure that they understand that certain places, there’s. There are, places with your money is going to be secure. You know, that trust back to that trust.
>> Isha Vela: The trust. And I mean is it possible that part of the distrust is not only because the system was not made for us, but because in our home countries the system is much more corrupt.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Exactly. It can happen.
>> Isha Vela: Yes. So the only safe place is under the mattress.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Exactly. Yes. Yeah. It happened, it happened to me in Venezuela was with the bank and it actually just went backrupt. Then I lost. I lost more money. O my God.
>> Isha Vela: Yah. You had Money in the bank and you and the bank went bankrupt, closed and.
>> Adriana Solórzano: No. No one got their money. Yeah.
>> Isha Vela: My God.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Ad yeah. And this is when all the like the expropriation were happening of like private companies.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Private land.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: So yeah, that time Chavez and the government was just taking taking over a lot of those private companies. So yeah, of course a lot of people just experience the consequences of that and it was awful. Awful. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s why a lot of people left and now they were here are like, oh, this is not also the, the American dream or the Canadian dream that I thought I was going to experience.
>> Isha Vela: U.
>> Adriana Solórzano: what can I do now? Right. So m store under my mattress because I don’t trust anybody.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah, yeah. There’s also. I found that there’s. And you can confirm that this is true or not true for you. There’s also a lot of secrecy around money. A lot of secrecy. Like we don’t talk about money. we don’t tell each other how much we make. parents don’t tell their children how much they make. Parents don’t talk to their children about investments. I know that my family, like I don’t. Yeah. I didn’t know how much my dad made or my mom made. That was like a secret. Like you don’t, you don’t tell your kids how much money you have because you don’t want them taking advantage of like asking for things. I mean that’s part of it, but it’s also just kind of like it was just something that wasn’t talked about. And I know that partly that’s generational for me.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah.
>> Isha Vela: But I saw lot that secrecy. Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah, definitely cultural too. Like we don’t, we didn’t learn. We just heard our parents saying money doesn’t grow on trees or you know, you just have to work really hard just to survive. And, and you know we just have those stories of, of negative narratives. You money. And of course then we, we repeat that and we, we choose not to talk about as well because it’s just painful. Again, just about the Because yeah, some of us experienced poverty. You know that’s also trauma. So But yeah, the, the thing aboutrecy and not talking about money is really big. Like when I having some sessions, with Latin, Latin Latinos, Yeah, it takes a little bit longer to build that.
>> Isha Vela: Build the trust. Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah, definitely makes total sense. Yeah. Is part of it. And you know, I honor that that is what is happening Right now. But I see we are changing as well. We are reclaiming that sovereignty. We ah, are healing those parts of ourselves. I think a lot of people is becoming aware of, whether it’s a trend or not, you know, people are rec. Becoming aware of like the tools. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> Isha Vela: And I’ve heard you talk about fuck you money, which I think is really important for any woman to have. So. And to have the, to have the the ability to, you know, as you said, you talked about these women that you met in, in circles and they were maybe not necessarily Latine or whatever, but for any woman to have fuck you money, to be able to leave a relationship, to be able to change a job if they want to change a job, or to be able to go somewhere and travel, it can be for pleasure. It doesn’t need to be for an emergency or some dire situation. M. But for us all to have fuck you money and especially like in machista cultures, the cultures that are still, you know, where there is a little bit, you know, where we’re maybe behind, you know, five or 10 years in terms of like gender roles or.
>> Isha Vela: You know, power dynamics. For us to be able to move forward on our desires, on our dreams. I’ve seen statistics about Latina women that we are incredibly entrepreneurial. Like, yes, have a entrepreneurial fire. And for us to say, be able to say fuck it, I’m going to start this business and I don’t need to ask for anybody’s permission. I don’t need to like ask my husband, my father, my brother, my uncle, my cousin for permission. It’s like, I feel like that is very powerful.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Just make the move. Just make the move. You know, because yeah, that, that’s exly how the root of how everything started for me as well. it was anger. It was just like, I want to say fuck you, fuck this relationship, fuck the government, fuck whatever. If I want to take off, I’ll take off, you know. Soah. This is important for. Yeah, as you said, for every woman. Just because it. We’re still in this, How can I say it? Yeah. In this, we’re still emerging. Right. So yeah, we still need a little bit of that angry anger to just make them move.
>> Isha Vela: Yes.
>> Adriana Solórzano: And oh my goodness, it’s gonna feel so good. It’s gonna feel so good for everyone to just have it. Even if in my experience, even if I just I heal my relationship, I’m still in my marriage. Back to being. Okay, you still have. You took Your power back.
>> Isha Vela: Exactly, exactly. That’s the whole point. Right. And you, you know, women of all cultures can come to you and sit with you. You know, Canadian citizens can come to you and they can sit with you and you will make a plan for them. You will show them how they can get the fuckgy money to do whatever they want to do. Right. Whatever goals and dreams they have, you do that for them and you show them what investments they can make. Right. And how they can minimize, you know, paying taxes or how they can maximize the growth of their money. Because under a mans that money is, you know, losing power. Power right through. Because of inflation. Yeah. So you do all of that and you also train other women. You train men and women and everybody in between. But that’s part of what you also do is that you train people to become financial advisors as well in Canada.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yes, yes.
>> Isha Vela: So I think that that is really like you are, this is like a full circle kind of like dharmic, calling that you m. Provide the plans. And you also train people how to just have a new career, change their identities and upgrade their own like wealth signature or like internal map around like what they get to have. Yeah, I think that’s amazing.
>> Adriana Solórzano: It’s an identity shift definitely for sure. You have to stop saying that we’re not good with money.
>> Isha Vela: We def good with money. Yeah, that’s not true.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yes.
>> Isha Vela: And you’re also starting a new podcast. You mentioned that a little bit earlier but I wanted talk a little bit about it because it’s really exciting.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yes. Actually the podcast, is called Raialas. It means roots and wings and it is actually the name came to me when I was having some female clients that were stay home moms and their experiences was so similar to what I was experienced and I was just like, oh my goodness yah, this isnna keep happening. This is gonna be presenting to my life and I justnna as I mentioned, just share stories of women and bring professionals that can give you legal tools, financial tools, emotional tools, psychological tools so you can really articulate, just find your way and be like, okay, now I know what I can do next. Or just even able to know what it is that is happening to you. Yeah, you knowute.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah.
>> Adriana Solórzano: So yeah, so I am bringing this podcast, pretty soon I’m doing the pre launch and I’m just offering right now a hundred dollars to also, you know, in representation of that financial freedom. This is just like a token of. There you go, you can have it. for those who Share the most, who bring the most listeners.
>> Isha Vela: So there’like like a launch, like a launch special where people share the podcast. They can enter to win a hundred dollars.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Exactly.
>> Isha Vela: Oh, that’s awesome. I love.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah. And many other things. Like I have a lot of gifts that I’m gonna give, just because I feel, it was the goal in the moment and I’m just very passionate of like, yeah, let’s honor our stories, let’s honor our ancestors. But right now it is the time to take off, you know, with your own wings.
>> Isha Vela: All right, that’s so I’m guessing that there’s a link that people, where people can sign up to get the information. Okay. ablutely put that in the show notes. Okay.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah, yeah, you can put it there. All right. Aw, yeah. And it’s not all about finances. It’also it’s a lot about storytelling. Mmm. M. Yeah.
>> Isha Vela: So yeah, so this is for, this is for who the podcast is for all Latinas.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Is it for, for all women that, you know, might be in their 30s with young children? Maybe I experience something similar to my story that I told at the beginning that are breaking that cycle. They’re healing their lineage that, you know, they’re building their wealth. They want to, you know, with intention, but not with fear. They want to learn about generational wealth, just all that. And yeah, want to heal their relationship with money.
>> Isha Vela: That’s awesome.
>> Adriana Solórzano: I love it.
>> Isha Vela: I love it. And when are you go goingna be launching the podcast?
>> Adriana Solórzano: that’s gonna be in September, so.
>> Isha Vela: Okay.
>> Adriana Solórzano: whoever joins the link, in the link, I’ll let them know.
>> Isha Vela: okay.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Email.
>> Isha Vela: Okay.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah.
>> Isha Vela: All right, so you’re basically, you’re creating a waiting list for people to be able to join and so they get the first notice when the podcast launches and when the contest starts that they can participate in that.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Exactly. okay.
>> Isha Vela: Awesome.
>> Adriana Solórzano: hi.
>> Isha Vela: Adrianaa was so nice talking to you today.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Thank you so much.
>> Isha Vela: Just in closing, where can people find you if they want to sort of follow you right now and get a feel for you? Where can they find you?
>> Adriana Solórzano: Instagram. adrianaapi. Underscore.
>> Isha Vela: Yeah. Okay.
>> Adriana Solórzano: Yeah, Just text me, message me if you want to chat about, if you want to share your story, anything. I’m, here. I’m really open and easy to talk, so don’t be shy.
>> Isha Vela: All right. And so what is one thing that you want to leave? one really important thing that you, if you felt like we didn’t talk about something. What is one thing that you really feel someone needs to hear right now?
>> Adriana Solórzano: Well, I just want to say from the bottom of my heart that, for those women, they might be experiencing a hard time. You know, they’re not broken. You’re not behind. This is just a moment to remember that you have the power.
>> Isha Vela: That can. You can shift it, right?
>> Adriana Solórzano: You can shift it. Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. The tools are available and we’re here to help.
>> Isha Vela: Awesome. I love it. Thank you so much, Adriana.
>> Adriana Solórzano: thank you, Isa.
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