In this YouTube monologue, the host introduces his wife Angie—co‑CEO of Business Management Lab and a mother and grandmother with over 20 years of experience working with young families in the entertainment industry. He relays five pieces of advice Angie would give to a young Latina mother: (1) Preserve your personal identity and dreams after becoming a mother; (2) Be an active, collaborative partner in family finances, understanding money, setting goals, and sharing responsibility; (3) Build something that belongs to you—career, business, education, creative passion, or community service—to maintain a sense of purpose beyond motherhood; (4) Reject the myth of the perfect mother, give yourself grace, and focus on love and presence rather than perfection; (5) Model self‑value for your children, especially daughters, by how you treat yourself, handle adversity, and pursue your own growth. The overarching message encourages Latina moms to love their families fiercely while also nurturing their own aspirations, fostering partnership, and teaching their children what strong womanhood looks like.
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My wife Angie, she's a little camera shy, but after I did my video about the 5 things I would tell a young Latino father, I asked her, now if you could sit down with a young Latina mother today knowing everything you know now, what would you tell her? And so now I just want you to know that Angie's a mother, a grandmother. She's also the co-CEO of our business management firm called Business Management Lab, and for more than 20 years she's worked with young families in the entertainment industry. So Here are the 5 things she wanted me to share from one woman to another. Number 1, she said, don't lose yourself when you become a mother. Love your children, give them everything you can, but remember you are still a woman with dreams, talents, friendships, and a purpose of your own. Being a good mom doesn't require you to stop being you. Number 2, Angie said, be an active partner in your family's finances. Don't be passive when it comes to money. Even if your spouse handles more of the day-to-day finances, understand what's going on. Know what you have, know what you owe, understand your insurance, your retirement, your investments, and the financial decisions being made for your family. And most importantly, she said, you have to work together. Talk about money, set goals together, dream together, decide what kind of life you want to build together. Money shouldn't be his responsibility or her responsibility. It should be something you understand and build together as a couple. Number 3. Angie said, build something that belongs to you. Motherhood is an incredible part of life, but it doesn't have to be your entire identity. She said, keep learning, develop your talents, pursue something that challenges you and gives you a sense of purpose. Maybe it's a career, maybe it's a business, maybe it's going back to school, maybe it's a creative passion, volunteering, serving your community, or simply becoming really good at something that you love. Your children will eventually grow up and build lives of their own. Continue building yours too. Number 4, Angie said, stop trying to be the perfect mother. There is no such thing as a perfect mother. You're going to make mistakes. You're going to have those days when you're exhausted. You're going to question whether you're doing enough. Give yourself some grace. Your children don't need a perfect mother. They need a mother who loves them, listens to them, shows up for them, and keeps trying. And number 5, Angie said, your children are watching how you value yourself. They're watching how you allow people to treat you. They're watching whether you take care of yourself. They're watching how you work, how you love, how you handle adversity, and how you stand up for yourself. And especially if you have daughters, remember this: one of their first examples of what it means to be a strong woman may be you. So Angie's message to all the young Latina moms out there would be this: love your family fiercely. Build a life together with your partner. Never stop growing as a woman, and don't feel guilty for having dreams of your own, because one day, one day, your children are going to grow up, and hopefully when they look back, they won't just remember everything their mother did for them, they'll remember the woman their mother taught them to become.
