- It's not easy.

I am a very upbeat person and I try to look at everything with the glass, I literally was just talking to my father, and I was just telling him, like, I try to look at things with the glass, you know, the glass is not half empty or whatever.

Like the glass is full.

There's still some water in the glass, right?

So I kind of look at things that way and I had to learn that though.

And honestly, with this new credit business, one thing that we focus on a lot is mindset and self-development.

So being able to start reading, learning self-development was huge for my mental, but don't get it wrong, I've been in the shower plenty of times, sitting on the floor of the shower, just crying, just 'cause I didn't know what I was gonna do.

I didn't know how my staff were gonna feed their own families, you know?

It wasn't just my family at this point.

Now I'm responsible for other people and their families.

So it was a huge stress.

And it's crazy because I don't have as much staff as somebody else might've had, but just the small stuff that I did, they were my own family as well.

So it's like, you know, how are they, you know, this falls on me, I'm supposed to help out.

And so mentally you just have to keep pushing.

And honestly, I think the biggest thing that pushed me was that failing was not an option.

I'm a young Latina, I got it all the time.

Like, "Oh, you're so young and you own this place?"

And so I'm trying to be all that.

I didn't come from the best neighborhoods and I didn't have the best, you know, we didn't come from money, but money has to come from me.

And so I'm very big on that.

I always knew since I was a teenager that I wanted to be successful or that I wanted to be my own business owner.

It was just a matter of when and how.

And so just being able to push forward was, is really like the biggest thing for me.