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Who is Showing Up For You?

Recently, it was brought to my attention that I didn’t show up as myself with everyone in my life. I guess this is not unusual—since we all embody different identities. I am an entrepreneur, a speaker, an author, a mother, a sister, a friend, and so on. How I show up when I embody one of those identities may be slightly different, but still fully me. However, showing up in a way that is so different that you don’t realize it until someone else says it out loud, was impossible for me to ignore.

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The Caged Tiger: Trusting My Intuition to Expand My Life

I was 14 years old when my mother found solace in faith. A single weekend retreat with Campus Crusade for Christ transformed her from a woman drowning in sorrow and anger to one immersed in a newfound faith. Our lives changed overnight. Prayer groups and church became our center, and our world shrank into a religious framework that, while comforting for her, increasingly became confining to me. Until then, daily religious practices were not part of our lives. Our family attended Catholic mass on special occasions, we attended Catholic schools because all of the bilingual private schools in Colombia at the time were Catholic, and I had my first communion at 11 years old like everyone else in my school, but we were not religious people.

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The Question That Changed My Identity

On an unusually sunny day in 1992 in Bogotá, Colombia, a city in the Andes Mountains where rain is more common than sunshine, I asked a question that triggered the beginning of the end of the life I was living. That morning, the sky was blue, and the temperature was around 70 degrees Fahrenheit—rare conditions in my birth city.

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