Hispana Leadership Summit 2013 Recap and My Commitment To Be Vulnerable

I’ve been trying to catch up this month on all the blog posts I wanted to do. Hispana Leadership Summit was one of those events I almost missed out on because I had so much going on in September. I had four conferences back to back and almost didn’t go at the last minute.   I am so glad I didn’t because it was one of the best conferences I have ever gone to.

En Español:  La Cumbre de Liderazgo Hispano

Some fun highlights on video:

First I would like to thank Space Coast Credit Union for taking a group of us from Miami to Orlando on a bus. I didn’t have to drive plus the time on the bus was priceless because I got to bond with some amazing women.

Vanidades and Poder Magazine  put on a top notch event at Disney’s Grand Floridian and Resort.

This is a picture at the Women’s of Excellence Awards with Mariale Requena of CNN, Adriana Comellas Macretti, Karent Sierra, Jackie Blanco, Editor in Chief of  Televisa Publishing   Giselle Blondet and Sergio Carreras, General Director USA & PR Televisa Publishing.

Karent, Giselle and Adriana were the recipients of the awards.

The topics of the conference were totally up my alley: women’s empowerment. When Cecilia Ramirez gave a talk about setting a vision and commitment for next year, she asked for volunteers to share theirs. I nervously stood up and shared mine. It was something simple and scary. I said I wanted to allow myself to be more vulnerable. The reason I said that was because in the last couple of years I have been so ultra focused on so much work and details, that I have had very little time to blog.

Thank you so much Cecilia for creating that space! Please follow her on her Facebook page  and her Vida Sana (Healthy Life) page where she shares many posts on eating healthy. And she is about to come out with a new book! She is also the host of  Univision’s Primer Impacto on topics of health and family. She is also a coach, hypnotherapist and a master of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). See more on her website.

It could be possible that a lot of my distractions which give me little “time” to blog are just a way of me being afraid to be more vulnerable. So I put that affirmation out there to let go of my fear to write more of my deeper thoughts. I used to do this especially from 2002-2007 before I started blogging and I have a ton of boxes of writings which I have never shared. So by making the commitment to be more vulnerable, I am opening myself to write more from my heart.

I truly have been busy in my work, but the reality is that I also have been challenged with certain people in my life in the last couple of years that made me shut down my voice somewhat. I really can’t say what the circumstances are and it is not important anymore. I prefer not to focus on the negative…but to change a negative to a positive.

I think this happens to everyone. We have people in our lives as mirrors of fears and uncomfortable circumstances pop up to challenge us to move beyond those fears. The greater you confront those fears, the more you are able to be your true self. And when you are really walking your talk, well..then you have to be you…just vulnerable  you.

I have been me in private, but I haven’t been all of me here on my blog because of these personal situations and partially my own  fears.  But it is all over now…I can breathe freer and continue chasing my dreams. I really have nothing to complain about because I am truly blessed in so many ways

One of the Tweets on the Vanidades panel was very appropriate:

 

Translates to: My greatest lesson is not to dare. Don’t be afraid of failure. It is possible that this failure leads you to a greater success.

I do know that having had the exhilaration of dreaming of something  and almost letting it go is a painful path to go through.I have almost let go of blogging several times since I started because of these little thorns in my life.  But the beauty of life is that when you are about to, someone or something comes into your life and something magical happens where you just can’t let go.I never want to do that again. Let’s have magic all the time! Now that is a good affirmation. Right?

So thank you Hispana Leadership Summit for being a part of my reawakening this year and for all the new wonderful friendships I gained! Check out the stream of positive tweets with the #hls2013 hashtag.

 

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