Undocumented To Entrepreneur: The Untold Story Of Grit & Sacrifice

So to your point, I want to talk about, like, the. I know that the theme of the show is to get deep and vulnerable. And one of the things that Henry and I made sure was conveyed in the story was the fact that, like, I've had this crazy journey where everything was going right on the external and on the internal. I was, like, truly fighting with what was happening because what I was getting really successful in was keeping me away from everything and everyone that I loved. And because I started this travel YouTube channel, and it was with a college buddy, and we had this spunky spirit, and we were kicking down doors and taking names and doing all this crazy stuff. And I had journal entries from the beginning of my. I mean, since I could write, but from the beginning of the entrepreneurship, specifically, and towards the end of that chapter where I was just miserable on the inside. And so for five, six years, we're riding this crazy wave. I paid off my student debt, which was 70k. I come from an undocumented immigrant backstory. This is not the story that you hear when it comes to entrepreneurship. So I come with all the baggage of it's not about just, like, an ego boost. This is about sacrifice. This is about making sure that 12 years of us not being able to travel, of my mom risking everything for us, that it was worthwhile. So I come from this gritty background.