Here’s a confession: there was a time when the words social media, apps and even the term high-tech used to send me into fits of panic. “How am I ever going to keep up with this stuff, never mind learn it,” I would ask myself, daunted time and again by the pace and non-stop dynamism of the all-consuming Internet.

But like ...

Sometimes when something happens to us that seems like the end of the world, it happens to push us to a higher place. It helps us take a leap that we might not have otherwise been brave enough to take.

When I was in my early twenties, I ran a little television station that I treated as my own business. I ...

Raise your hand if you have ever woken up to a feeling of utter frustration, and maybe even a tinge of resentment, feeling, “I just don’t want to go to work!” Guess what? You’re not alone. Believe it or not, there have been countless times in the history of my career where I’ve felt exactly this way, but you have ...

It’s no mystery that becoming self-made doesn’t happen overnight. More often than not, we find ourselves working several different jobs before we’re able to truly zero in on what it is that’s really calling to our souls.

You might spend two or five or even ten years in one position, gradually climbing the ranks. But more than climbing those ranks, earning ...

There’s no getting around the fact that the news has been downright tragic lately. Sometimes it feels like the whole world has turned upside down. But as painful as all of these events have been to witness, in these moments, I feel we must, in the inspiring words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “accept finite disappointment, but never lose ...

I hope you all had a restful and happy holiday weekend. I finally had some downtime time to reflect, and one of the things that kept coming up for me was the beautiful, powerful and often karmic notion of support.

In life, you can be on the receiving end of support, or you can be the one who gives it—and there ...

We know that life is always uncertain. Look at what happened last week with the Supreme Court divided on immigration. These are things that make us afraid, worried about our futures. But I believe it is precisely in these challenging moments that the self-made woman rises up with strength and perseverance, and keeps going—because that’s what we do. We don’t ...

I’m so excited to tell you about Adelante’s next live webinar, because the subject is social media—a topic that, I have to admit, is relatively new (and often scary!) to me. Let’s see this as an opportunity for all of us to learn together. As you know, I’m a huge proponent of digging deep to achieve mastery—even (and especially!) when ...

This summer has been all about getting things done!

Did you know, thanks to your critical support, SELF MADE: Becoming Empowered, Self-Reliant and Rich in Every Way has been a New York Times best-seller for two weeks in a row?

Last week week we also made history in Washington DC. On Monday, June 13th, Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet, the head of the U.S. Small ...

Wow. So far, the summer of 2016 has been all about radical achievement!

After what seemed like some of the most grueling months of my life, I can honestly say I feel proud, accomplished, and more than anything optimistic about the future of women’s empowerment through self-reliance.

You see, The Adelante Movement has come such a long way. What began in 2012 ...