My Story
A few years ago, a divorce changed my life completely. My partner began secretly withdrawing the funds we had in a joint account and transferring them into a separate account in their own name. At the same time, they stopped making the mortgage payments on the home we shared—a responsibility I ultimately had to take on alone. My partner cheated on me with someone else. Overnight, I didn’t just lose a relationship; I also had to face the financial consequences of someone else’s decisions. I went from having two incomes in our household to having only one, while the bills, the mortgage, and the responsibility of raising my daughter fell entirely on my shoulders.
It was a painful and deeply unfair experience. It forced me to understand, the hard way, that love, trust, and a life built together do not necessarily mean financial security. And I also realized something I had never been taught: no one is going to protect my future better than I will.
With a daughter to raise, I began looking for answers. That search led me to technology, business, finance, and ultimately to reinventing myself professionally. What I went through with my ex ultimately became a blessing. I paid them in cash for what they had invested in the house. The bank removed their name from the mortgage, and I became the sole owner of the home.
That experience also made me see the world differently. I realized that many of the things we take for granted—the way society tells us how we should behave, relationships, religion, power, laws, and information—shape our lives without us necessarily stopping to question them.
That is where Mujeres Que Piensan comes from: a space to ask questions, investigate, have conversations, and understand together what is happening around us, regardless of where we live. I don’t want to tell women how to live. I want us to understand systems of power and have the tools to make our own decisions.
I want us to understand our money and learn how to build wealth. I want us to understand technology and artificial intelligence, because those who understand emerging technologies will have more and more power to shape their futures. I want us to vote informed and understand the political decisions that affect our lives. I want us to defend the rights that women have fought so hard to achieve. I want us to occupy positions of power in business, science, technology, politics, and the media. I want us to question the rules that tell us who we should be, how much we should earn, when we should get married, whether we should have children, or how we should look and behave.
I want us to close the gender pay gap, for more women to own businesses, investments, and property, and for more women to have careers where they are respected and don’t feel oppressed. I want us to learn how to negotiate and protect our wealth. I want us to know how to recognize an abusive relationship and have the tools to leave it. I want us to be able to reinvent ourselves at any age—and for our daughters to grow up seeing women who don’t ask for permission to claim their place in the world.
Because to me, true empowerment isn’t about telling a woman to be stronger. It’s about giving her information, tools, and a space to have open conversations about all of these issues. Because a woman who understands the world around her has a greater ability to make decisions about her own life—and is less likely to let anyone convince her that she has no options.
We Think. We Question. We Decide.