Rebuilding After Loss, Together

Welcome to the Inspirame Latina podcast with your host, Yudy Veras Bueno. Yudy is the Founder, Executive Director and Program Curator of Inspirame Latina, a non-profit organization that focuses on bringing diverse expertise, a shared vision, and a commitment to ensuring Latinas feel seen, valued, and celebrated. Yudy is also a Professional Life Coach, Healer, Fearless Women Empowerment Advocate, Speaker, and Author. She is the CEO and Founder of Y Veras Coaching.

Links:

Inspirame Latina Foundation: inspiramelatina.org Y Veras Coaching: yveras.com Yudy Veras Speaking: https://coachyudy.com/ 

In this episode, we explore what it truly means to rebuild after loss; not alone, but together. We sit down with Angelita Suriel and her daughter Penelope, a mother–daughter duo navigating business, family, identity, and healing side by side in the beauty industry.

We dive into their journey of losing a business during the pandemic, redefining success, and choosing partnership over pressure. Our conversation covers generational expectations, immigrant sacrifice, guilt, forgiveness, and the courage it takes to start again, with boundaries, faith, and intention.

Together, they share honest reflections on building a business as family, learning when to lead and when to listen, and how healing personal wounds can unlock professional growth. This episode offers encouragement and grounded guidance for anyone rebuilding, starting over, or considering partnership, especially within family.

Whether you’re a mother, daughter, entrepreneur, or woman in transition, this episode is packed with lived wisdom, emotional truth, and reminders that success isn’t just what you build, it’s how you show up for the people you love.

🎧 Subscribe, listen, and share this episode with someone who’s finding their way back after loss.

Guest Speaker Bio:

Angelita Suriel  I  Entrepreneur & Beauty Salon Owner [e-mail]     I   [phone]

Instagram: @anpbeauties  I  @angela_magichands  I  @abeautynyc

Website:  https://www.anpteam.studio/

Angelita Suriel is a master hairstylist, educator, and soulful entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in the beauty industry. Born in the Dominican Republic, she immigrated to New York at 30 and spent decades building a career rooted in discipline, faith, and service.

In this conversation, Angelita reflects on losing her salon during the pandemic, the emotional toll of rebuilding, and the decision to begin again, this time in partnership with her daughter. She speaks openly about immigrant sacrifice, motherhood, and the importance of boundaries when family and business intersect.

Angelita is deeply committed to mentoring women in business, emphasizing preparation, business planning, and surrounding yourself with the right support. Known for creating salon spaces that feel like sanctuaries, she believes beauty is a healing art, and teaching is her next sacred chapter.

Her guiding belief: don’t give up on yourself, even after the storm.

 

Penelope Montilla

Hairstylist | Licensed Cosmetologist | Natural Hair Care Specialist

Website: www.anpteam.studio 

Penelope Montilla is a licensed cosmetologist with nearly six years of professional experience and a lifetime spent immersed in the world of hair. Specializing in natural hair care and color, she views hair as both an art form and a responsibility; a balance between creativity, health, and care.

In this episode, Penelope shares her experience navigating entrepreneurship as a young woman and mother, opening up about guilt, shame, forgiveness, and redefining success on her own terms. She speaks candidly about the emotional weight many daughters of immigrants carry, the pressure to “repay” sacrifice, and how learning to forgive herself became a turning point in both her personal life and business journey.

Penelope brings a modern, creative lens to beauty and business, embracing technology, mentorship, and continuous learning as tools for growth. Her approach is rooted in presence, intention, and the belief that freedom comes from aligning who you are with how you create.

For Penelope, beauty is not just expression; it’s self-respect in action.

This episode of the Inspirame Latina Podcast is proudly sponsored by Every Task Skilled Virtual Assistants, a partner in empowering women to focus on purpose over pressure. Every Task supports entrepreneurs and changemakers behind the scenes, so they can keep showing up boldly in front of them.