Breaking Traditions, Stigmas & Silence with Stepheny Jacquez - Entrepreneur/Wife/Mother/Advocate & Badass Latina, Ep #137

Stepheny is a powerhouse Latina who is speaking at our LatinTalks event in Houston this week. She is an entrepreneur, a wife, a mother, an advocate for women, and so much more. I have loved meeting her and hearing her story because how it started is so relatable to so many members of the Latin community in the U.S. From becoming a mother as a teenager, to opening her first business at age 18, to realizing she needed to evolve her mindset in order to increase her success, she has walked the path to excellence and taken responsibility for her life.

You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in...

  • How Stepheny found her passion for entrepreneurship (3:41)

  • How to fight negative self thought in a career (10:30)

  • Ways to help your children break from the cycle of your parents’ care (18:29)

  • Why vulnerability is essential in a family dynamic (27:19)

  • How having a good partner can drive your success (38:21)

What entrepreneurship teaches you at a young age

Stepheny became a business owner at just 18 years of age when she took over a car dealership in Houston, Texas. She was good at sales and relationships, but over time she began to realize she had inherited lots of patterns and mental habits from her family that she needed to change if she wanted to evolve into a bigger person. Her life experiences of getting pregnant in high school, moving in with her boyfriend now husband, and taking responsibility for her life at a young age have all shaped her mindset and self-confidence. Over the last 10 years, this personal journey has inspired her to lead and teach other women to make the same transition in their lives.

How to have conversations with your kids about being better

I asked Stepheny how she has learned to teach and talk with her kids in a different way than she was raised. She reminded me that kids will do what you do, not what you say. Being an example as their mother is the most powerful way for her to teach them how to follow their dreams, how to use the power of positivity, and how to deal with challenges when things don’t go the way they thought. She is a realist and is honest with them, being open about herself and what she experiences. She has the conversations with her kids that she wishes her parents had had with her. 

Learning that emotions are not weakness

Stepheny is the middle child in her family, but she says she acts like she is the oldest. She has two sisters who she loves deeply and as she put it, they love hard and fight hard with each other. One thing she had to learn to mature and evolve in her family relationships was that showing emotion is not weakness. She had grown up thinking that emotions were a way to be vulnerable, to be weak, and that they were unacceptable. She learned that reaching new levels requires creating a new version of you. She did the work to peel back the layers of why her mindset was the way it was about emotions and vulnerability and found new strength in acknowledging her emotions as valid parts of her experience. 

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