In my family, I grew up hearing money messages like:

• “You have to work REALLY hard to earn money.”

• “You have to get a safe, high-paying job, and then you’ll be set.”

(Any daughters of immigrants or eldest daughters relate? 😮‍💨)

Okay we are back with Part 2 of Q3 client wins!! 🥳

This last quarter has been full of life transitions, pivots, and expansion. And through it all, these brilliant visionary entrepreneurs, mothers, and creatives have shown up with so much grace, loving connection to their bodies, their voices, and continued to become the person Little Them wished existed. Here are some of the powerful life wins that my clients are celebrating! 

In the spirit of mid-autumn festival 🌕 and the transition into fall, I’m so excited to celebrate some of the incredible business wins my clients have created the past three months.  These are visionary daughters of immigrants, eldest daughters, entrepreneurs, and creatives who are building their businesses in ways that are bold, life-giving, sustainable, and true to them. Here are some highlights from Q3 🎉👇🏼

A client once told me, "I know I'm qualified. I know I have something powerful to share and offer. Why do I keep avoiding promoting my services and my brand?"

She had multiple degrees and credentials. She was a lecturer at a university and developed frameworks that were now being used in programs around the world. Her Google Drive was filled with detailed strategic plans and documents that she created over the many years she'd been preparing to launch her consultancy publicly. The problem was, when it came time to actually promote herself and sell her consulting services, she instead found herself: creating yet another strategic plan document, refining her frameworks, and developing a user research plan to gather more data. After years of planning but no action, she knew she was in an avoidance loop. 🔁

Have you ever felt that “I’m not ready yet” voice pop up right before you’re about to take a big step in your business? One of my clients noticed this every time she was about to do something that felt risky or required her to step into more visibility. Such as…Launching a new offer, selling her high-ticket services, or sharing a side of herself she’d never shown publicly. On the surface, it felt like intuition. Her gut and body sensations told her: wait, not yet. But when we looked closer, we discovered her nervous system was in conflict.

Growing up, I didn’t question myself much. I knew how to study hard, follow directions, and be an excellent student. But being a “good student” didn’t require me to trust my own thoughts or make high-stakes decisions. It just required memorizing, executing, and pushing through. So when I carried that same mentality into entrepreneurship, I thought it would guarantee success. But eventually I learned was: What got me here, won’t get me where I want to go.

I still remember the morning of my first speaking engagement years ago. I had been mentally preparing for weeks, and was soo excited for this opportunity because I knew I was meant to do this work. During multiple guided somatic visualizations, I had seen a vision of myself holding a microphone (pregnant) on stage, and I knew deep down in my bones this was a great next step for me. 🤰🏻🎤 But the night before, I felt a tightening sensation in my stomach, tingly nervous energy in my arms and feet...and I wondered if I was actually ready.

Lately, in coaching calls, I’ve been hearing something familiar. The folks I tend to attract—high-achieving, empathetic, creative daughters of immigrants and women of color—are incredibly self-aware and are years into their healing journey. They've gone through years of therapy or healing. They’ve gotten to know their patterns. They’ve unpacked the fear, the pressure, the perfectionism. They have language for what’s happening under the surface. And now...they’re ready to make moves and take action.

You know what you have to offer is powerful and transformative. You bring your own unique blend of skills, creativity, and lived experiences to help your clients get real results. So why does talking about your offering feel so complicated? Especially when it's a high-ticket offering. The founders I work with are deeply thoughtful. They’ve crafted their offering with care and discernment, because they genuinely want people to feel held. They’re not necessarily trying to overdeliver, but they want to honor their full vision and bring their clients real value. But eventually, the offer starts to feel like it’s carrying all the bells and whistles, overstuffed with "value," trying to do too much.

Ever catch yourself saying, “I just need to refine it a little bit more” and suddenly it’s three hours later…and you still haven’t posted the thing? Maybe you have something special to offer, and a part of you is ready to share. But another part says wait. Let’s refine it more. Let's prepare just a bit more. Plan out exactly what I'm going to say. Do some more market research. Make sure it's good enough. Make sure it’s safe. All that thinking, all that planning…it can feel like forward motion. Like you’re doing the right thing without risking too much.

As an eldest daughter/Capricorn rising/first gen immigrant who’s used to being very future-focused and goal oriented, always looking at the next goal and the next milestone, it’s taken A LOT for me to be able to celebrate my micro wins and the present moment. But it’s also been one of the most powerful rituals for me to feel more proud of myself, more peace, confidence, and trust knowing that what I’m doing is working, and have more evidence to show my brain and my body that things are happening. This is why my clients and I regularly celebrate their wins, and I’ve seen this transform their relationship to themselves, how they see themselves and their work, and their momentum to keep going.

You’ve worked so hard to be here. All that inner work…the therapy, healing, learning to unlink your worth from your productivity, embracing your softness, reprioritizing your values, learning boundaries, reconnecting with your roots and creativity. And now that you finally feel more peace and present beyond the survival mode you were stuck in, the thought of growing a profitable creative business that meets your financial goals sounds daunting. Not because you can’t do it, but you’re afraid of sacrificing your peace.

When you redefine what success means to you and live your life from that new definition, Not everyone will understand. When you choose to build your business from an aligned, more intentional place honoring your capacity and nervous system…when you say no to urgency, Not everyone will understand. And yes, while your community or entrepreneurial friends might cheer you on for resting or slowing down, the subtle pressure can often come from home. That tension can feel like a weight you carry quietly, because you want to honor their story, but also create a new path that works for you.

Sometimes, you know exactly what to do next. The step is clear: post that thing, send that message, make that move. But still, you freeze. You stall. You find yourself back at the drawing board, thinking just a little more, refining just a little more. Maybe you’re scared. Scared of what people might say. Scared of messing up. Scared of hearing no. Or maybe it’s something else entirely: The fear of it actually working. Of your calendar filling up. Of your to-do list multiplying. Of momentum demanding more than you can give. Not because success itself is scary, but the sacrifice you imagine it will demand.

This is for you if you have a big vision…but feel stuck when it comes to: Putting yourself out there and being seen, signing clients, raising your rates, making more money without burning out or taking your next aligned step. Whether you’re second-guessing your direction, tinkering with your offer, feeling resistance around visibility or money, or scared of burning out again, I see you. I feel you. Entrepreneurship can ask so much of us. It often pulls us outside our comfort zones every single day. 🫠 But how do you keep growing when you also want to prioritize your joy, well-being, time with loved ones, and peace? One thing I know for sure: Mindset and strategy alone are not enough.

There’s a quiet kind of pride that comes from doing things on your own. The kind that formed out of necessity, when you were always the one holding it all together. The translator. The peacekeeper. The responsible one. You knew how to read the room before you knew how to ask for what you needed. ➡️ So of course it feels unfamiliar, maybe even unsafe, to ask for support now. Not because you don’t know how to move forward. But because doing it alone became your default. And sometimes, admitting you want help feels like letting down the version of you who made it all work. Like you’re not maximizing your potential. Like you're failing yourself for not pushing through, when you technically could. And maybe there’s a part of you that still wants to prove that. But here’s the truth..

I hear this often from daughters of immigrants and women of color entrepreneurs. Maybe you're ready for growth—more financial freedom, more visibility, more creative expression that feels fully you. And yet…something in you hesitates. You pause before taking the leap. Not just because of the fear of failure or judgment. Not because you’re lazy. But because you remember. The all-nighters. The tension in your shoulders. The chronic headaches. Finally getting to the goal, only to feel exhausted and unwell. The moments of achievement that felt…empty. The hesitation for growth can come from the deep body-memory of what happens when you push too far, too fast. The fear of burning out. Again.

If you grew up learning to constantly read the room, consider other people’s feelings over your own, and stay humble as a courtesy…visibility and expansion can feel complicated. I hear versions of this often: “What if I share my true, unfiltered self, and they think I’m too much? Or what if they judge me and don't take me seriously? What if I shine bright and take up more space, and people don't like me anymore? What if I raise my prices and people think I’m selfish? What if they can’t afford it?” Under the questions lives a deeper concern: belonging. For daughters of immigrants, community isn’t just nice to have, but how we’ve always stayed safe. 

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from sitting on your own ideas too long. You know the ones: The offer you want to launch but keep tinkering wit, the Substack you dreamt up in 2021, the YouTube channel you named in your Notes app, the album you know you're meant to release, the email and IG post sitting in your drafts. Not because you don't care. And not because you aren't capable or serious about it. The pressure to “do it right” just gets in the way of doing it at all. And now, you’re staring down the thing, the thing you know will unlock the next step towards your goals, but so many fears are still lingering:

I remember three years ago in my business, I felt like I was finally catching my stride. Momentum building, ideas flowing, growth on the horizon. And then…my body said no. I had plenty of good ideas to keep growing my business and build upon the wins, but I was so stressed out trying to figure out how I was going to implement them all. My weekly podcast episodes and newsletter slowly turned into biweekly, monthly, then a hiatus. My group coaching program was a transformative experience both for my clients and for me, and while I wanted to relaunch it for the next cohort, I felt resistance. I was on the road to burnout trying to manage it all by myself, and I felt overwhelmed and stuck. The problem wasn't the ideas, but the consistent execution. The sustainable expansion. I felt like I was spinning in circles. This is a familiar place a lot of my clients have found themselves in.