Erica is now a creativity mindset coach, a podcaster and a podcast producer, and she just launched a new course called Hello Creativity which is focused on helping 1st gen and women of color step into their creative identity and overcome their fears of going after their dreams. Erica shares her story of how she stepped past these beliefs and the limitations she put on herself, and how she stepped into her truth and finally started to believe she was worthy and how she finally gave herself what she felt she never received growing up… the space and permission to dream. As a child, with a dream of wanting to be a performer, Erica remembers being told by her family “people like us don’t do that.” What she told me was that she internalized that to mean that someone like her can’t live their dreams. In this episode I talk with Erica about battling between what she was taught she should embody or following her dreams and what her soul was craving. As a first generation Mexican American, Erica grew up internalizing her familial and cultural norms, which led her to believe that if she took another path, she would no longer be accepted by her family and loved ones. In this week’s episode, I talk to Erica Hernandez. We push aside our yearnings and our dreams because they would require us to step outside those boxes and risk being cast out from the ones we love. Whether we realize it or not, most of us grow up believing that happiness lies within the cultural, societal, and familial boxes we were taught to live within.
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