Have you ever had one of those moments where you’re no longer willing to ignore how you feel?

For me, this happened when I was first introduced to the world of dance…. I was so hypnotized of what I was seeing that after the song was over and as he stepped out from the dance floor I RUSHED UP TO HIM AND SAID, “I want to dance like that too. When do I start my first lesson?"

I was 18 years old at that time and that was the moment when I really felt alive, because I finally started doing what I LOVED. Since I was a little girl, I had it in my blood , it was part of me. I was simply born with it, but I was just ignoring it until.... I started my first lesson!!!!!!! It was wow... my instructor was amazed by the talent I had and how quickly and naturally I was learning everything. After a short while I became his assistant and I found myself teaching along his side and also became his dance partner and we even started dancing shows in clubs . I was on top of the world expressing all my emotions and the music was burning through my veins and my heart was beating faster and faster ... I didn’t  have words to express how I felt when I was dancing ... I was simply rocking the dance floor and everybody was noticing my vibrant energy. 

When you love what you do, it comes naturally to you

When the instructor opened a dance school, I started to teach as well and it was something that I was doing not even thinking about it. I was in my element when I had the chance to explain to others what music is, how you can express yourself through music, plus the importance of having a great attitude towards yourself empowers you through dancing. I also started working with women on how to improve their sense of style, their posture and embrace more of their femininity. 

 My Women's Styling workshops were always full and all my students were empowered by my motto: "Dance salsa with FEELING, ATTITUDE and GREAT POSTURE and don't forget to HAVE FUN on the dance floor!!!"  Later on I took over the school and my love for teaching grew even more. I created one of the best dancing schools in my city and not only that I had so many people passing through my hands, I helped others to start teaching during my classes .... I helped many of my students to become instructors and today they still run their own dance schools . I travelled a lot in over 13 years of dancing, teaching, creating shows and choreographies . I was invited throughout the country to teach ladies styling workshops and participating at many international salsa congresses around Europe. If you want to know more about my dancing life CLICK HERE. I was named one of the best salsa dancers in my country in 2005.

Meanwhile I was nurturing my hobby and building up my own dance company, I was studying Management at the university and I was also working in our family business. I had it all , but still .... At one point I knew I could do more and felt so inspired that I started my own business. I was always very active and studying management challenged me more and motivated me to create my own signature style in a different area in the services market. I was founder and owner of a restaurant. In a couple of months I started to build an empire: I was organizing a lot of events like big weddings, baptism parties, cocktails, receptions, corporate parties and so much more. All days throughout the week the restaurant was working and serving a la carte up to 200 people.

Later on I got married, I become mother of a little gorgeous angel and kept myself busy with my business that was growing day by day. I gave up dancing because the pressure from all the judgements that I was hearing : “It is time for you to grow up!”; “You have a business to take care of, a family and a little daughter, so you have to stop wasting time dancing”... 

I was not satisfied at all and I was not happy with the person that I married and made me give up on my passion. Deep inside my heart I knew that I could have continued teaching and motivating people to change their lives by dancing and I could still be a successful business woman but the possessiveness of that person just cut my wings off. As you can imagine I started to be very frustrated about my life because I was limiting myself. I was devastated  about the fact that I gave up on so many things that I loved so I started to ask myself :

Even though I lost everything, I knew that I had what it took to rebuild. That’s why I now empower women to do the same thing. To build their lives on their own terms, no matter what.

I gave up everything I built, my business, my car, my home, I took my little angel with me and moved in a small apartment, I started teaching again, I started dancing and this gave me so much self confidence, the one that I almost lost completely in the last years, but now it was me again. I found a new job and all my prayers were answered because I met the love of my life, my guardian angel, my best friend, my companion, my greatest fan and supporter in everything I was feeling to do ... my husband, my all!!!! So ladies just think about: 

I had the opportunity to keep my mind busy thinking about what I could do and started dedicating time to something I loved doing since I was younger and that was MAKE UP ARTISTRY. I enrolled in many professional makeup masterclasses and I dived in this amazing and colorful world. If you want to see some of the works I've done, click HERE.

Even though I was busy learning and developing my skills I started to have doubts and many questions rose again:  

• “Will I be able to find a job for what my requirements were?”

• "Will somebody want to hire me taking in consideration that I was not speaking their language ?”

• “ Will I ever fit in this society and will I ever make friends here?”

One day I had a revelation : I woke up and started to write all these ideas that were just exploding in my mind. I was writing a huge concept that I wanted to share with all the women that were feeling like me; and how I could teach them to change their life without reaching the critical point where I was once. I designed a program to help empower women, a program for women who openly display their power and skills, that will awaken the inner voice inside that will get rid of the bad habits that took them to a point in their lives where they felt : overwhelmed, frustrated, exhausted, somehow lost in their own routine, busy with thousands of things and yet at the end of the day realize that basically not much was achieved, always complaining about how busy they are and they don’t know how to deal with organizing their lives better, never having the time to take care of themselves, never having time to actually do what makes them happy. 

I hope you can relate to this in some way and just take a moment to think about all these feelings.

There are basically 3 ways how we live in this world. We either live as:

1. a VICTIM - who feels powerless and being used by others, often experiencing injustice

2. a WARRIOR - who can see there is no need to be the victim any more, they value themselves and fight for their own dreams and rights

3. a MASTER – who can see that there is a deep wisdom in life itself and that we all get what is for our highest good (there is no need to fight, no need to feel injustice, because deep inside you can see that everything is ok, no matter how challenging your life is or has ever been). There is a deep level of trust here.

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF? 

As I end my story, I would love to share with you all the things I did in my life to help me staying motivated on a personal level, how I re-invented myself and how I always chose to just get out of my box and step out of my comfort zone.

If you want to know more about how you can do the same then click the button below and let’s begin the journey together. 

DREAM BIG, SPARKLE MORE & SHINE BRIGHT !

The world needs your beautiful light!