October 31, 2025 • 50 mins
Ever had one of those moments where you're building your business and you get a text from family, someone's sick, someone needs you, and you instantly think: "I should be there. What kind of person am I for not dropping everything?"
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Analía Gómez Vidal career coach who built her business while being thousands of miles away from her family in Argentina. We get honest about what to do when family needs you and your business needs you at the same time.
Analia shares how she navigated family health emergencies from another continent, rebuilt community from scratch, and why you don't need everything figured out to move forward.
What You'll Learn:
✨ How to make decisions when family needs you and your business needs you at the same time
✨ The two-layer approach to building community from scratch (local connections + people who understand your journey)
✨ Why "having it all figured out" is keeping you stuck—and what to do instead
✨ The honest conversation about privilege: the financial preparation and resources that make big transitions possible
✨ How to stop feeling like you're betraying your family by choosing your business🎧
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If you're building a businesswhile managing family responsibilities,
whether they're across town oracross the world, this may be a common
feeling for you.
The constant guilt or athought of man, I'm not there.
And the fear that if you focustoo much on your business, something
will happen and you won't beable to show up when it matters most.
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Or maybe you've alreadyexperienced a family health emergency,
a crisis, and you had to makean impossible choice between your
business or your life hereversus there and being present with
the people you love.
I've worked with so many firstgeneration entrepreneurs, Elvis daughters
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and immigrant women navigatingthis exact issue.
And I knew I needed to havetoday's guest on on the show because
her story speaks directly tothis tension and back and forth.
That's why I wanted to haveDr. Anelia, who's a career coach
who helps internationalprofessionals navigate career growth
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in the US and globally.
She's built her business beingthousands of miles away from her
family in Argentina.
So here's what we're coveringin this episode.
The hidden emotional andfinancial costs of building a business
when your support system isfar away.
And what to consider beforemaking any big life transitions.
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How to make decisions whenyour family needs you and your business
needs you.
At the same time, our guestshares the exact framework she used
when facing multiple familyhealth emergencies while running
her business and living herlife here.
And the practical steps forbuilding community from scratch.
Right.
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I don't even know what thatcould feel like because I've always
had a built in community andso we really tap into whether you've
moved to a new place, a newcity or disappear during flare ups.
What does it, what are somethings you can put in place to kind
of stop that feeling ofconstantly starting over.
And we talk about severalother topics in this conversation.
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So this conversation is for you.
If you've ever felt tornbetween your business, your life
and your responsibilities andyour family that may be here or far
away.
If you're scared that slowingdown means losing momentum, or even
that you need permission tobuild something more meaningful in
the way that aligns with you,then you want to stay tuned.
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Because this episode is goingto help give you a different perspective
on a conversation that I don'tthink we hear of often enough.
So stay tuned.
There is a quick story that mydad always loves to share about me
that he would take me to theplayground when I was like three
years old and my family didnot have money to like buy me the
like bucket or like the toysand all this stuff so they could
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take me there and my dad wouldturn around and within like five
minutes I was already playingwith other kids and their toys and
we were all playing togetherand he was like, how is this possible?
And I feel like that's a storythat really tells something about
who I am.
And community is always at theheart of everything that I do.
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Welcome to Business withChronic Illness, the globally ranked
podcast for women living withchronic illness who want to start
and.
Grow a business online.
I'm your host, Nikita Williamsand I went from living a normal life
to all of a sudden being inconstant pain with no answers to
being diagnosed with multiplechronic illnesses and trying to make
a livable income.
I faced the challenge ofadapting traditional business advice
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to fit my unique circumstanceswith chronic illness.
Feeling frustrated and moreburned out than I already was while
managing my chronic illness tobecoming an award winning coach or
the flexible, sustainableonline coaching business, I found
the surprisingly simple stepsto starting and growing a profitable
business without compromisingmy health or my peace.
(04:04):
Since then, I've helped dozensof women.
Just like you learn how to dothe same.
If you're ready to create athriving business that aligns with
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Together, we're shifting thenarrative of what's possible for
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This is Business with Chronic Illness.
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Oh my goodness.
I am so excited to have Analia.
Did I say that right or did Isay it wrong?
Perfectly.
Okay.
I'm like so nervous.
Like I'm like, I want to sayit right so bad.
And I think I connected youwith another wonderful woman, Yvette
on this show.
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And I was like, when I waslistening to your story and when
we.
Connected I was like, oh my gosh.
You guys are like so alignedin such a, such a really good way.
But I'd love for you to sharea bit about like how you would describe
yourself, what you do andwe'll start from there.
Okay.
So my name is Analia Gomez Vidal.
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I am a US based Argentine bornresearch and coaching professional.
I moved to the US about 11years ago now to pursue my PhD and
since then I went through ahost of professional experiences.
And in parallel, I started mycareer as a career coach to support
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international students andprofessionals across the globe who
seek to gain awareness thataccelerates their growth toward their
life and career vision.
Throughout my journey, I havehad countless experiences, experiences
myself and supporting othersin which we don't necessarily feel
seen or supported or Find theright type of resources that we need
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to really thrive in our livesand careers, especially when we are
living abroad.
And so I felt the calling tostart a business, which is AGV Services
llc, to really address thatthrough a host of, you know, coaching
and consulting and a littlebit of advocacy to make that visible.
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That's awesome.
I am always fascinated bypeople who take a big leap to move
from one place to another,especially continents or countries.
Right.
To pursue something, whetherit's a passion, whether it's education.
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I know I have a lot of friendswho travel for like their spiritual
life, missionary work andthings like that.
We've only, we call it.
We've traveled in communitiesin different ways here in the States.
And it is a complete like theculture shock of just being within,
within a community ofdifferent people, even though you're
in the same community you'vealways been in.
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Right.
Is fascinating on how muchthings can shift and change.
And what you're doing is solike awesome because I do think,
you know, you don't get anecessarily a, a pamphlet that says,
okay, you're doing this.
So here you go, we're going towalk you through every step of what
this is going to look like,feel like, be like.
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So for you, what has been yourjourney personally and in what way
has health or taking care ofothers come into the picture?
Yeah.
So it's interesting because Iwas doing the math and at this point
in my life I've started spenta little bit over half of my life
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connected to internationaleducation in some way.
The first time that I traveledabroad by myself to practice English
was when I was 17.
And I remember coming back offthat trip just like feeling like
this was it.
I even like wrote down on alike journal that I had at that time
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that I just knew that therewas a seed here of what my life would
be like even if I didn't knowexactly how it would work out.
And I always go back to itbecause it really does reflect what
my life has been so far, butalso what I felt my mission was in
facilitating that for othersas well.
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And yet, you know, when Ithink about where I was there and
everything that unfolded afterand even, you know, like making the
decision of moving to the USto pursue my PhD and then continue
living here and now buildingmy business here, I did not know
what I was getting myself into.
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Yeah.
And I'm a first generationcollege grad in Argentina, let alone
everything else that hascontinued since.
Right.
And so when I made thatdecision of pursuing my PhD.
I was definitely driven bythis idea of like, I want a global
career.
At one point, you know, Ifantasized with being a diplomat.
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I grew up learning languagesand so, like, I really wanted that
for myself.
Eventually I decided that, youknow, I was a lot better at learning.
And so I went into theacademic route without really knowing
exactly how that would leadinto the next steps.
And so I think what happenedthere was that it was the realization
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that slowly but steadily I wasbuilding a life that was a lot more
long term.
And one of the things that hasalways played out in the, in the
back of my mind is theopportunity costs that comes associated
with this.
And I feel it's pretty universal.
When I talk to other clientsand people that I mentor who are
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also international studentsand workers, there is this sense
of betraying the clan in someways, of being away.
And so on one hand there isthis pull towards doing it because
you feel like this is alignedwith who you are and what you want
for yourself.
But it's not costless.
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And so you always have thatprocess or this sense of like guilt
or owing like something toyour family of origin, to your friends,
to your communities back home.
Yeah.
And so that's a thing that hasalways been top of mind for me.
And it played out veryinterestingly in the past few years
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because there's always thatfear of like, I hope nothing happens
to them while I'm away.
But also you are away long term.
Yes.
Right.
You're not down the street,you're at a different country.
Right, exactly.
And so, you know, like, thereis always that fear.
And then you start goingthrough experiences where you have
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loved ones that are either inthe hospital and you don't know if
they're going to make it.
And then you have to makequick decisions on whether you have,
you can afford to travel rightaway or not, or if you're going to
be there in presence or ifit's easier for you to be from here.
And that has played out acouple of times already in the past
few years.
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So do you mean.
I'm sorry, do you.
I just want to clarify.
So do you mean that in yourquest for education and learning
and providing for yourself andfor your family, the challenge has
been in the space of there isa cost to the emotional and.
Sounds like physiologicalfinancial shift.
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I don't want to say burden,because I don't think it's necessarily
a burden from what I'm hearingyou say.
It's like this choice, thisprivilege that I have comes with
this other side of it, my momused to say all the time.
My mom still says this, but,you know, there's good and bad consequences
with every decision, even ifit's a good decision.
Right.
In the world that we live in.
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And so it sounds like that'swhat you're sharing here is like.
Like having to navigate biglife decisions while living your
life and taking care of familyat home.
Yeah.
And I will say, you know,like, my full disclaimer is that
there are, like, severalprivileges in my experience.
Right.
I am not the primary caregiverfor my family or provider for them.
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I am actually the only one whodecided to move away.
Everybody else in my corefamily are all together, and until
very recently, they all lived together.
So there is also, you know,like, that conversation about what
that looks like and what thatfeels like.
But there is definitely thatsense that a lot of people do not
necessarily know of oracknowledge when they talk about
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someone who has decided to migrate.
Right.
That it's like, you absolutelylive with this sense of having to
make a daily choice tocontinue going down your path, knowing
that it's your path, but thatyou're missing out, missing out on
being there, missing out on,you know, like, being the person
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that they call right away.
And so there is that delayedinformation or, like, the wanting
to protect.
And on the flip side,something very interesting for them
as well, which is they alsohave their own experience of, I hope
that nothing happens to youand Aaliyah, because what do we do
if something happens to you?
Right.
Yeah.
And so those are the type ofthings that, when you're first starting
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to think about the decisionor, like, you go into the program
or you take that job offer andyou get excited and you're like,
yes, this is it for me.
These are the kind of thingsthat a little bit down the road,
you start kind of like,pondering about and weighing in at
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each step.
Yes.
So I am really curious for youto expand or just share with us,
especially if someone'slistening right now.
Who is?
This is a loaded questionright now in 2025.
Like, I'm like, I'm really nottrying to get into that, but I think
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it's.
It's an interesting thing tothink about because our audience
is great, made of lots offolks doing two different things.
I think they're living withchronic illness or they're supporting
someone with chronic illness,and they're also dreaming and living
the life that they want to live.
So some of that might be a business.
Some of that might Be being acreative, some of them may be learning
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a trade or a skill orsomething like that that requires
them to sacrifice or to makedecisions around.
Like we kind of going back tothat same premise of like, what is
the good and the bad of metaking this decision or making these
big moves in my life?
What are some things that youkind of like didn't think about or
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didn't know about that youfeel like it's something to consider
to put on the.
Table if you haven't when youdecide to live abroad?
Yes.
I would say the top of mindthing is that you will absolutely
have to become a lot morecomfortable with the uncertainty
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of it all.
Because it is very true whatthey often say, that you're not from
here nor from there.
And so I have over the yearsreally appreciated the experience
of having people who go pickme up at the airport when I go there
and who welcome me home when Icome here.
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That to me feels like atremendous gift.
Yeah.
And it's not a gift thathappens overnight.
Yeah.
So there is that element of insome ways rebuilding a community
of your own in a place that isvery different sometimes, like in
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my case, in a differentlanguage, and you find yourself holding
the space for, you know,crying when you leave and crying
when you arrive.
Yeah, yeah.
And if you can hold that spaceand you can, you know, live with
it, then absolutely go for it.
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Yeah.
But if not, then you mighthave to face some tough choices.
Yeah.
That's a really interestingpoint, I think, to what you're sharing.
It's like, oh, that soundslike a lot of work.
Like when I hear you say that,that's a lot of work.
I think for myself personally,living with chronic illness, there
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is a vulnerability that comesinto play when you're trying to create
relationships around the factthat your life looks different.
And I would imagine that ifyou're from a different country and
you're moving to anothercountry and there are uncertainties,
I call them the certain uncertainties.
Like we know they're going.
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There's going to be stuff thatwe don't know, but we know they're
going to happen.
Right?
Absolutely.
And being in the space ofbeing open for help or asking for
help or really getting out ofyour comfort zone, it sounds like
that's a huge aspect oftransitioning and being home here
and being home there.
Right.
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That I hear you sharing.
How have you navigated thatfor yourself personally on top of,
you know, deciding to build abusiness with that.
How's that look like for you?
Well, so it started early on,I will say, because I moved here
without necessarily knowingpeople around.
For the most part, the therewere some, you know, new friends
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that I connected with beforecoming here.
But, you know, I kind of likestarted like from scratch.
And what happened was veryinteresting, is like the first, like
year and a half or so of mytime here, I realized that my life
was very imbalanced.
Like, it was all work becauseeveryone that I knew was in grad
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school.
I spent all of my time oncampus and I didn't necessarily have
any outlets or any otherspaces that I would go to to unplug.
And so, like, leisure for mewas going to the bar with my classmates
and vent about, you know,where we were at in our program.
Yeah.
And so it got to a point whereI actually, like, hit a wall.
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And I remember I was so distressed.
And I remember visiting backhome and my mom was even like.
And Eliam, I'm concerned,like, why you keep crying?
Like, what?
What's happening?
And it dawned on me that I waslike, wait a minute, I'm not having
a balance that can make this sustainable.
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And so during those weeks thatI was there, I had this new year
resolution that I was going tostart a hobby that allowed for me
to make friends and to go intothe city.
I live in the D.C. area, andso I studied at UMD, so I would see
in College park.
And I needed something thattook me to D.C. more often and kind
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of change the year.
And so I signed up for animprov class.
That's awesome.
And that's how I startedimprov as a hobby.
And then over the years, thatbecame not just like a massive source
of joy for me, but also a bigpart of my community building because,
like, some of the friends thatI made there have become like long
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term friends.
Yeah.
Regardless of whether wecontinue playing or not.
Yeah.
And I have been very fortunatethat over the years I do not have
a hard time making friends.
Okay.
There is a quick story that mydad always loves to share about me
that he would take me to theplayground when I was like three
years old and my family didnot have money to like, buy me the,
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like, bucket or like the toysand all the stuff so they could take
me there and my dad would turnaround and within like five minutes,
I was already playing withother kids and their toys and we
were all playing together.
And she was like, how is this possible?
Yes.
And I feel like that's a storythat really tells something about
who I am.
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Yes.
And community is Always at theheart of everything that I do.
Yeah.
So when it came the time tokind of like figure out my next steps
career wise, I had alreadygone through a couple different jobs
that I felt had taught me alot, but were not exactly what I
wanted.
And what I wanted was to servemy community.
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I wanted to serve the earlyand mid career professionals, especially
grad students, especiallyinternational students and workers.
And I knew that I couldbecause of all the experiences that
I have had that are veryunique to finding just one person.
Right.
And then on top of that, beinga coach so that I could hold that
space for them and reallysupport them.
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Yeah.
In taking those steps the waythat I wish I had been supported.
Yeah.
And that was combined with acouple of years of having different
family emergencies that forcedme to decide, you know, do I go there
quickly and we just try to flythere or just like, quite frankly,
started to question whether Ishould stay in the job that I was
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in and think about ways ofcontinue building my life in a way
that I can integrate more thesides of me both living here, but
also living there in a way.
Yeah.
And that's how this all like,unfolded in the past, like six to
eight months.
And I decided to take the leapand really just go for it and launch
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the business.
Well, that, you know, it'sreally, really nice to hear that
you took the leap.
It sounds like you took the leap.
You also.
I use these terminology a lotjust from my spiritual background
of like counting the cost.
There's a verse in the Biblethat says count, basically talking
about how to count the cost ofdoing things before you start.
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And I think there's greatnessin doing that.
Like there's always solidfoundation on doing that.
But I think sometimes we inthat too long, like we stay in the
planning and we don't take the leap.
And it's interesting that yousaid there's been a lot of like health
emergencies that happen withyour family that made you question
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whether or not that this planthat you had thought up, created,
wanted to do may have shifted.
Do you mind sharing a littlebit more about, like what do you
mean by family emergencies?
Was it like a blip, was achronic situation?
Like what.
Because I imagine too livingabroad now you're also thinking about
how am I going to financiallytake care of myself?
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Right.
How am I going to take care ofmy health needs and things like that
on top of maybe potentiallysending money back home?
There's so many differentaspects of that.
But I am curious to know, likewhat did that look like for you and
your family?
Yeah.
So in my case, the first onethat happened a couple years ago
was over Thanksgiving breakthat year that I got a few messages
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from my family that someonereally dear and near to my heart
was hospitalized and theydidn't know if this person was going
to make it.
And so I remember the weekendof Thanksgiving just like hopping
on a FaceTime call to makesure that I was able to at the very
least like see them and talkto them in case that I couldn't again.
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And in that moment, I hadalready planned on traveling to visit
my family, but on that momentI was like, I, I cannot just stay
here.
And I remember my family,especially my mom, saying, you might
not even make it in time.
And I was like, I don't carebecause at the very least I will
be there to hold space foreverybody as weekly.
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And so I just like changed allthe plans and within a week I just
made sure that I travel.
And luckily, you know, likethis relative actually like just
had an amazing recovery.
Oh, that's so good to hear.
Yes.
And I was very glad that I wasable to be there because the truth
is like for a couple of monthswe still didn't know if they were
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going to make it.
And then what happened was2024 was a very pivotal year for
me in a lot of fronts.
But when it came to my familyhealth, there were a couple different
emergencies where two of myrelatives were going through biopsies
and one of them in particularwas like tremendously high risk.
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And so I found myself at thispoint where, you know, I just like
had this conversation with my family.
It's like, whatever needs tohappen, I'll just, I'll be there
and I'll make it happen.
And I remember calling myformer employer, just making sure,
like, okay, what's the likefamily leave policy?
I need to figure out I mighthave to live within a week and just
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like be there.
And things unfolded in a waythat ultimately they went through
the biopsies in ways that were staggered.
So like it was not multiplepeople that we needed to take care
right off at the same time.
And everything went well.
And luckily they are bothhealthy now.
Yeah.
But for one of them inparticular, to me it was a non negotiable
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to be there and to be therenot just for them, but for the rest
of my family.
And so when the time came todecide what I wanted to do, I was
in peril trying to figure outthe immigration details of whether
I could, you know, got you doanything about this.
Right.
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And luckily, everythingaligned in a way that I was able
to sponsor my work visa, whichis the one that I like hold now for
working for my business.
And so that's when I decidedthat I was quitting my job, making
sure that I had the gap timethat I needed to be there to be with
my family, to go through thisprocess and then come back and launch
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my business and become a fulltime entrepreneur.
Yeah.
I mean, it sounds like youwere in this place of your values
are your filter.
Right.
And I say this all the time tomy clients and just to people all
the time.
I think when your values areyour filter, they help you make decisions
a whole lot easier.
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And the hard.
The harder the decision, theymake it, the easier.
Right.
It makes it a bit more easy tomake those decisions.
So how has your value shapedhow you're building your business?
You're just getting started ina way, even though you've been doing
the work for a decade.
When we talked, I'm like,you've been doing this.
There's so many amazing, highachieving people are like, oh, I
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just started my business, butI've actually been doing this like
basically my whole life.
And I'm like, okay, tell meabout how your lived experiences
and your values are shapingthe way that you're showing up for
your clients and building your business.
Yeah, I will say that I dowant to caveat this with, you know,
also highlighting, again,there's a lot of, like, planning
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and privileges that allowedfor me to move the way that I have.
So do you want to tell us alittle bit about that, like, more
specifically?
Because you're right.
I mean, everybody has a.
Most of us have privilegeseven though we feel like we don't.
So please share with us.
Yeah, absolutely.
So, first of all, since Igraduated in 2020, I was able to
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accrue the type ofinformational, legal and financial
resources that allowed for meto give myself the options that I
have had.
I was able to sponsor mycurrent visa because I had consistently
been saving enough capital forme to afford that.
I had also saved the capitalthat allowed for me to bootstrap
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this business as I'm justgetting started.
How did you do this?
Well, I will say I think like,the pandemic has allowed for me to
save a lot more than in a, you know.
Yes.
Different circumstance.
Yes.
And I also come from a familywhere, like, I'm the eldest of a
family that was doing okay,but when I was growing up, we were
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building ourselves financially.
Got you and so I am kind of,like, used to the frugality.
Got you.
Of making sure that the futureis as secured as possible.
Got you.
Which is also very interestingmindset to confront.
Absolutely.
I'm listening to this, and I'mlike, this is a mindset jungle all
the way.
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But, okay, I hear it.
I love it.
You can.
You can imagine what the past,like, months.
Yes.
Just taking this leap has beenlike for me.
Yes.
And then also just making surethat I was getting the type of experience,
exposure, and evidence that Ineeded to build my legal case so
that then I could even qualifyfor the type of visa that I have
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now.
And so a lot of the work thatI do now has to do with finding ways
of facilitating thatawareness, like resource accrual
and experiences for my clientsas well, because not everyone's going
to have the same path.
But the important thing is,like, if you're intentional early
enough and then you're able togive yourself more options that you
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might be aware of.
Yes.
Early on.
Yes.
So that's what I am talkingabout in terms of.
Gotcha.
The top of mind privileges.
Right.
That a lot of people mighthear and be like, you know, oh, she
just, like, snapped herfingers and that happened.
It's like, no, it took a lotof work, but that work was also facilitated
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by a lot of other experiences,support, and resources.
And so that's.
That's what I. I always, youknow, want to highlight so that people
don't get the wrong impression.
No, I get what's possible.
I get it.
I tell people all the time.
I'm like, I mean, a lot of myclients, it's a.
It's a mix.
But most of them are single orthe other half are married.
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And there is a big differencein building a business when you have
a spouse, one that's, in away, supportive, and a spouse that
is also financially helpingthe household, like, carrying the
household.
So it's very different than ifyou're the main gal, you're the main
person doing the thing.
It looks very different.
And the strategy or the wayyou approach making decisions looks
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very different.
And even that is kind of aprivilege in a way, when you're on
your own and that's all youhave to think about.
So it's really important.
And I appreciate you bringingthat out.
Hey, I don't want you sittinghere listening to me like, oh, yeah,
I just moved abroad and I didit like this, and I'm great, you
know, and it's like, oh, no.
There were things that I did.
And I think we do need tobring more of those type of parts
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of the conversation into allof these stories about change and
transition and success andfailures that, you know, even within
all of that, there areprivileges that we all have that
some of us don't and willnever have.
Right.
And so it's, like, reallyimportant to kind of bring that into
the context.
So I appreciate you sharingthat in what you're doing for clients,
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specifically, like in your.
In your work.
Do you find that those who are.
And this is an interestingquestion, do you find that those
who are navigating educationhere in the States or just abroad,
maybe they left here and wentto Europe.
I don't know.
Maybe they went somewhere else.
Right.
And they are navigating notonly the health, like, not only their
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education, but also takingcare of themselves within a community.
That's completely different.
What has been some things ortools you would share with someone
that they need to lean intomore or take advantage of?
Yeah, I mean, my.
My answer is always community,but it is also, you know, with the
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acknowledgment that it is hard.
And so there are multiplelayers to it.
There is the local communitydefining people that you can connect
with that can help you fosterthat sense of belonging to where
you are at in that space andwhat you are building.
There is also community fromthe perspective of people who understand
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and see you for what you'regoing through.
Right.
This has been something that Isee present throughout my conversations
and sessions with my clientswhere, like, they truly highlight,
you know, how much theyappreciate to feel seen as we're
talking about their career development.
Because in most cases, manycoaches do not know what plays in
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the background.
Yes.
You're thinking about thesituations and decisions.
And that also happened to me.
I had great coaches who trulyhave had, like, a massive impact
in my journey.
And some of them, I hung upthe phone after conversations and
sessions, and I felt like theyjust didn't get what I was going
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through.
Yeah, I, I, Yeah, I can relate.
And so.
And that, to me, was also abig motivation of.
I want to make sure that I'mable to hold that space and provide
that space for people toreally think about what's possible
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and what's possible for themfrom a perspective that really celebrates
who they are.
Because what happens a lot ofthe time is that you.
You kind of, like, you getstarted in that new place and you
go into survival mode.
Yes.
You immediately are like,okay, like, how do I open a bank
account?
How do I get A phone, how do Iget a credential?
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How do I, like, meet all the requirements?
All of these different things,like kind of like going through the
mechanics, moving and settlingin a, in a space.
Right.
But what about emotional elements?
Yes, absolutely.
Right.
And all these innerconversations about, you know, did
I make the right decision?
Is this going to be long term?
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Is this going to work out?
Am I going to have to face thefear of failure and what does failure
look like for me?
And all of these questions arenot necessarily defined when you're
first getting started, butthey are always playing a role in
what you think is possible,how you move through all of these
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decisions and, you know, andthe way that things unfold for you.
And so I always talk aboutcommunity because I don't think that
I could have got into where Iam today without the people around
me.
Yeah.
Whether they are like longterm friends or they are just like
mentors for a year.
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Right.
They truly have shapedeverything about my life today in
some way or another.
Yeah.
And so I do feel that it'slike tremendously important for people
to really lean into thoseopportunities to connect with one
another.
And sometimes people arementors, sometimes people are mirrors.
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And to be able to really comefrom a perspective of curiosity,
of openness.
Yes.
Which a lot of people who arealready, you know, like moving abroad,
kind of like display and.
Yes, exactly.
And so to lean into that as away of really starting to build your
community in the new place.
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Yeah, I think that is important.
The other thing that I reallywant to make sure that I say out
loud is like the importance ofgrace and compassion for yourself
as you're going through it,because there is so much that goes
into it, like.
Oh, yeah, like small and big.
Right.
But like, to give you anexample that I often get teased by
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my family when I go back homebecause I have some of like the mannerisms
or ways of speaking fromliving here.
And so instead of in Spanish,you would say like when you're thinking
and I go like.
But that is a true shift thathappens because, like, at this point,
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yeah, I am bilingual and Ispeak to myself in English, but my
language, my native languageis Spanish.
Yes.
And so those are like verysmall but fundamental ways that end
up transforming who you areover time.
So to give yourself thecompassion and the grace of really
meeting yourself at each step.
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I love that.
Yeah, it's fundamental.
Yeah.
I really appreciate that pointabout meeting yourself where you
are along the way.
That's a huge piece.
I think, coming back kind ofFull circle to when you were talking
about finding your communityand getting your people started with
you first.
Connecting in with, like,doing things that brought you joy
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and that were exciting, likethe improv, and that led to this
kind of ripple effect.
And I think that brings you towhere you are right now.
It helps you reconnect, re.
Engage with yourself, and thenalso you re engaging with yourselves,
helps you to engage with otherpeople around you.
And instead of being sofocused on the one lane, I think
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I have a couple people in myworld, and myself included.
Eldest daughters, you know,come from families that are all or
in part from other parts ofthe world.
And the idea that we kind ofhave to wear masks and strip, you
know, strip a part ofourselves away in order to fit in.
There's a podcast show calledAnything for Selena.
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I love that show.
If you've never heard of thispodcast episode, you have to.
I mean, it's a whole series, apodcast episode.
It's Anything for Selena.
And I am a die hard Selena fan.
People think I'm crazy.
But there is an episode whereshe is talking about.
The host is talking about howyou kind of create a new identity
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here that you almost have towalk yourself back into who you actually
are.
And I'm wondering, how hasthat looked like for you in this
journey for yourself, likehelping others, but also be in that
space?
It's interesting because Ithink in some ways, me moving here
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has opened up the space for meto connect with a part of me that
feels a lot more authentic.
Okay.
And this goes back to, youknow, like, talking about the privileges.
So all four of my grandparentswere immigrants in Argentina.
Then my parents are firstgeneration Argentine.
And then here I am deciding tomove abroad.
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And the experiences of, like,the being raised by immigrants and
first generation were verymuch of what you were just saying
about, you know, wear themask, keep your head down, be grateful
for you get for what you get.
Do not ask for more.
Do not take up space like youwork hard, no matter what they pay
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you, how they pay you,whatever you just, like, keep at
it.
And then I move here and I'man immigrant like they were.
But, like, I'm a highlyeducated immigrant with a lot more
privileges than my grandma whomoved to Argentina at age 15 to be
the maid in her uncle's house.
And I am required to alsothink about my experience in a different
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way if I want to grow in thedirection that I want to grow.
And so that has led to a lotof battles internal, but also, you
know, even, like when havingdiscussions with my family or like
them not really understandingor seeing why I'm doing what I'm
doing and just like disagreeing.
Yeah, they don't understand.
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Right.
And even to, you know,launching this business, there was
a lot of, you know,conversations and sometimes like,
just like cold shoulder about it.
I was like, nope, I'm determined.
I'm doing this and I know whyI'm doing this.
But it definitely did take alot of courage and building that
courage over time of beingable to set that boundary to understand
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why I'm doing what I'm doing,to understand why my mindset needs
to be different from the onethat I grew up with and I was educated
in.
And even, you know, like, it'slike smaller things like improv.
Right.
Like, that's something that Iwouldn't have necessarily done when
I was back in Argentina.
There were also a lot of othersacrifices that I had to do to get
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here.
Like, I commuted five hoursper day every day while I was in
college.
And so like, I had no time forleisure whatsoever.
Wow.
And so I came here and thenstarting improv is something that
I actually feel a lot morecomfortable doing because I'm away.
My family doesn't necessarilysee it all the time, so they don't
get to judge it.
And I'm doing it in Englishfor the most part though.
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I do some, you know, liketelenovela inspired improv in Spanish
in the D.C. area, which I'mvery proud of.
But I know that my family doesnot approve of.
And yet that really resonateswith how I connect with myself and
just like the joy that I feelfor myself and that I want to, you
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know, like, connect others with.
Yeah, I love that.
That's.
That's really interesting.
I can relate.
I didn't move another state,but I did move to another.
Another country, but I didmove to another state.
And there is something aboutnot being in the space of your family
where you find just like yourtrue things, like who you are, things
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you like.
There's not that much likeyou're far away.
You can't come over here.
Like, you're not coming overhere to do, you know, I don't know
what it is.
I think it's like flying thecoop in a way.
It doesn't matter how old oryoung you are.
That experience, experience oflike leaving maybe a space where
you have.
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You were you, but you weren'tlike always necessarily feel.
I don't know what the word I'mlooking for.
You didn't feel as comfortableexploring those other aspects of
yourself because of theirlived experiences.
And now you get to live yourlived experiences, and they don't
understand.
And you're like, it's okay.
You don't have to.
Absolutely.
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So I. I love that you sharethat aspect of things.
So let's kind of put this in apretty boat.
What is something that youthought was true when you were making
these decisions to kind of bean entrepreneur against family's
ideas, doing improv that youthought was true about yourself,
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about your family, that you nolonger believe is true.
That you have to haveeverything figured out.
And I wrestle with this often,especially now in this, you know,
early stages of building abusiness and really getting comfortable
with the beginner's mindset ofthings are gonna look not polished,
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and it's okay, because that'show I learn.
I believe that for a lot ofus, we want to kind of, like, spoil
the end of the movie right away.
Yes.
Huh.
And it has been, like, a lotof hard inner work and identifying
the practices and spaces andrituals that allow for me to ground
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myself in the present and tobe able to come at every situation
with a lot more acceptance sothat I can both be grateful for what
it is and also figure out howI want to use that in the best possible
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way to really, like, continuemoving forward in the direction that
I feel pulled towards.
So, yeah, I think that that's the.
The biggest thing.
And I think that that in someways counters a lot of the fears
that I was raised with.
And so, I mean, I'm in themessy middle of it all.
We all are.
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Like, you know, I've talked towomen on this show who are.
Who have sold businesses, whohave scaled and grown, and I see
it with my clients who arejust starting pivoting, whatever,
and it's all messy.
It's all, you know, we want.
We want it to look a veryspecific way.
(45:24):
We have a desire for it tolook a specific way.
And then you get in it.
You're like, well, I mean,especially for those of us living
the chronic illness, there's an.
There's an extra messiness toit, in my opinion, that we.
We're just.
You just accept that that'swhat it's going to look like.
And honestly, that's life.
You know, everything we'vegrown up with in life, even when
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we were kids, was kind of messy.
You know, that's like, how welearned and experienced the world.
It was messy, and then wefigured it out.
And so I really appreciatethat, you Sharing that, especially
for my eldest daughters.
That's the thing.
We don't like messy becausewe're the ones who figure it out
and plan and do the students.
Yes, right.
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And not go against the grain.
And when we do, it feels likethe world is on fire, literally.
And we're falling in like freefalling or something.
It feels so weird.
So I appreciate you sharingthat and I'm sure so many can relate
to that experience.
So tell us how you work withclients and how they can connect
with you and how we can find you.
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Yeah.
So anyone can find me onsocial media.
I'm on LinkedIn.
Analia Gomez Vidal.
You can also find my businesson Instagram agbservices LLC and
my website agbservices LLC.comusually the way that I work with
clients is I have one on onecoaching options and I also have
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a membership that I recentlylaunched which is called AGV Lab
for Career Explorers.
And it's geared towards earlyand mid career professionals who
are seeking to gain clarityand action items on how to get started
on their next career moveswhile also building community with
one another.
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Love that.
So you can go toagbservicesllc.com you can learn
more about those options.
And I do have a host of freeresources available.
If you are in that stage whereyou are not necessarily sure about
where to go next or you need arefresher on just like the sheer
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value of everything that youhave done in your career so far,
you can find a few differentresources to help you get started
there and that connects youwith me on my newsletter.
Awesome.
Well, we'll have everything inthe show notes and I'm sure you will
help so many people reallyjust make that transition in career
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and in education, you know,with these lived experiences that
we don't always have roomsfor, we don't always have space for.
And I think bringing it backto something you said earlier in
the chat, which is likefinding someone who gets you, it's
not that the strategiesnecessarily change that much.
You know, this is something Ihave found working with my clients
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is like, I'm not telling youmuch, like a lot different, too much
from what maybe someone whodoesn't have a chronic illness has,
but I am seeing youdifferently and therefore I'm giving
you maybe a different nuancethan another person who's not actually
acknowledging that that is apart of your lived experience.
And I definitely think that'sbecoming more important, especially
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in the world of AI, of havingcommunity who understands your lived
experience.
Experiences because we are nota robot.
We are not all just doing thesame thing, experiencing life the
same.
And so I think that's reallyimportant to find your people, find
your community, especiallywhen it comes to making a living
and, you know, living yourlife in in the context of making
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a living.
So thank you so much for whatyou're doing and we look forward
to hearing more of how you grow.
Thank you so much.
And thank you so much forhaving me.
I absolutely love this conversation.
Yay.
Well, you guys check us out onthe Show Notes and let us know if
you have any questions too.
And be sure to leave themeither in my DMs or you can reach
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out to Analia and do the same thing.
And we can't wait to chat with you.
That's a wrap for this episodeof Business with Chronic Illness.
If you would like to start and.
Grow an online coachingbusiness with me, head to the Show
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A link to book a sales call.
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Until next time, remember,yes, you are crafted to thrive.
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Sam.
If you're building a businesswhile managing family responsibilities,
whether they're across town oracross the world, this may be a common
feeling for you.
The constant guilt or athought of man, I'm not there.
And the fear that if you focustoo much on your business, something
will happen and you won't beable to show up when it matters most.
(00:23):
Or maybe you've alreadyexperienced a family health emergency,
a crisis, and you had to makean impossible choice between your
business or your life hereversus there and being present with
the people you love.
I've worked with so many firstgeneration entrepreneurs, Elvis daughters
(00:45):
and immigrant women navigatingthis exact issue.
And I knew I needed to havetoday's guest on on the show because
her story speaks directly tothis tension and back and forth.
That's why I wanted to haveDr. Anelia, who's a career coach
who helps internationalprofessionals navigate career growth
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in the US and globally.
She's built her business beingthousands of miles away from her
family in Argentina.
So here's what we're coveringin this episode.
The hidden emotional andfinancial costs of building a business
when your support system isfar away.
And what to consider beforemaking any big life transitions.
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How to make decisions whenyour family needs you and your business
needs you.
At the same time, our guestshares the exact framework she used
when facing multiple familyhealth emergencies while running
her business and living herlife here.
And the practical steps forbuilding community from scratch.
Right.
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I don't even know what thatcould feel like because I've always
had a built in community andso we really tap into whether you've
moved to a new place, a newcity or disappear during flare ups.
What does it, what are somethings you can put in place to kind
of stop that feeling ofconstantly starting over.
And we talk about severalother topics in this conversation.
(02:10):
So this conversation is for you.
If you've ever felt tornbetween your business, your life
and your responsibilities andyour family that may be here or far
away.
If you're scared that slowingdown means losing momentum, or even
that you need permission tobuild something more meaningful in
the way that aligns with you,then you want to stay tuned.
(02:31):
Because this episode is goingto help give you a different perspective
on a conversation that I don'tthink we hear of often enough.
So stay tuned.
There is a quick story that mydad always loves to share about me
that he would take me to theplayground when I was like three
years old and my family didnot have money to like buy me the
like bucket or like the toysand all this stuff so they could
(02:54):
take me there and my dad wouldturn around and within like five
minutes I was already playingwith other kids and their toys and
we were all playing togetherand he was like, how is this possible?
And I feel like that's a storythat really tells something about
who I am.
And community is always at theheart of everything that I do.
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Welcome to Business withChronic Illness, the globally ranked
podcast for women living withchronic illness who want to start
and.
Grow a business online.
I'm your host, Nikita Williamsand I went from living a normal life
to all of a sudden being inconstant pain with no answers to
being diagnosed with multiplechronic illnesses and trying to make
a livable income.
I faced the challenge ofadapting traditional business advice
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to fit my unique circumstanceswith chronic illness.
Feeling frustrated and moreburned out than I already was while
managing my chronic illness tobecoming an award winning coach or
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Oh my goodness.
I am so excited to have Analia.
Did I say that right or did Isay it wrong?
Perfectly.
Okay.
I'm like so nervous.
Like I'm like, I want to sayit right so bad.
And I think I connected youwith another wonderful woman, Yvette
on this show.
(04:50):
And I was like, when I waslistening to your story and when
we.
Connected I was like, oh my gosh.
You guys are like so alignedin such a, such a really good way.
But I'd love for you to sharea bit about like how you would describe
yourself, what you do andwe'll start from there.
Okay.
So my name is Analia Gomez Vidal.
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I am a US based Argentine bornresearch and coaching professional.
I moved to the US about 11years ago now to pursue my PhD and
since then I went through ahost of professional experiences.
And in parallel, I started mycareer as a career coach to support
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international students andprofessionals across the globe who
seek to gain awareness thataccelerates their growth toward their
life and career vision.
Throughout my journey, I havehad countless experiences, experiences
myself and supporting othersin which we don't necessarily feel
seen or supported or Find theright type of resources that we need
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to really thrive in our livesand careers, especially when we are
living abroad.
And so I felt the calling tostart a business, which is AGV Services
llc, to really address thatthrough a host of, you know, coaching
and consulting and a littlebit of advocacy to make that visible.
(06:26):
That's awesome.
I am always fascinated bypeople who take a big leap to move
from one place to another,especially continents or countries.
Right.
To pursue something, whetherit's a passion, whether it's education.
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I know I have a lot of friendswho travel for like their spiritual
life, missionary work andthings like that.
We've only, we call it.
We've traveled in communitiesin different ways here in the States.
And it is a complete like theculture shock of just being within,
within a community ofdifferent people, even though you're
in the same community you'vealways been in.
(07:09):
Right.
Is fascinating on how muchthings can shift and change.
And what you're doing is solike awesome because I do think,
you know, you don't get anecessarily a, a pamphlet that says,
okay, you're doing this.
So here you go, we're going towalk you through every step of what
this is going to look like,feel like, be like.
(07:30):
So for you, what has been yourjourney personally and in what way
has health or taking care ofothers come into the picture?
Yeah.
So it's interesting because Iwas doing the math and at this point
in my life I've started spenta little bit over half of my life
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connected to internationaleducation in some way.
The first time that I traveledabroad by myself to practice English
was when I was 17.
And I remember coming back offthat trip just like feeling like
this was it.
I even like wrote down on alike journal that I had at that time
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that I just knew that therewas a seed here of what my life would
be like even if I didn't knowexactly how it would work out.
And I always go back to itbecause it really does reflect what
my life has been so far, butalso what I felt my mission was in
facilitating that for othersas well.
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And yet, you know, when Ithink about where I was there and
everything that unfolded afterand even, you know, like making the
decision of moving to the USto pursue my PhD and then continue
living here and now buildingmy business here, I did not know
what I was getting myself into.
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Yeah.
And I'm a first generationcollege grad in Argentina, let alone
everything else that hascontinued since.
Right.
And so when I made thatdecision of pursuing my PhD.
I was definitely driven bythis idea of like, I want a global
career.
At one point, you know, Ifantasized with being a diplomat.
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I grew up learning languagesand so, like, I really wanted that
for myself.
Eventually I decided that, youknow, I was a lot better at learning.
And so I went into theacademic route without really knowing
exactly how that would leadinto the next steps.
And so I think what happenedthere was that it was the realization
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that slowly but steadily I wasbuilding a life that was a lot more
long term.
And one of the things that hasalways played out in the, in the
back of my mind is theopportunity costs that comes associated
with this.
And I feel it's pretty universal.
When I talk to other clientsand people that I mentor who are
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also international studentsand workers, there is this sense
of betraying the clan in someways, of being away.
And so on one hand there isthis pull towards doing it because
you feel like this is alignedwith who you are and what you want
for yourself.
But it's not costless.
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And so you always have thatprocess or this sense of like guilt
or owing like something toyour family of origin, to your friends,
to your communities back home.
Yeah.
And so that's a thing that hasalways been top of mind for me.
And it played out veryinterestingly in the past few years
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because there's always thatfear of like, I hope nothing happens
to them while I'm away.
But also you are away long term.
Yes.
Right.
You're not down the street,you're at a different country.
Right, exactly.
And so, you know, like, thereis always that fear.
And then you start goingthrough experiences where you have
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loved ones that are either inthe hospital and you don't know if
they're going to make it.
And then you have to makequick decisions on whether you have,
you can afford to travel rightaway or not, or if you're going to
be there in presence or ifit's easier for you to be from here.
And that has played out acouple of times already in the past
few years.
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So do you mean.
I'm sorry, do you.
I just want to clarify.
So do you mean that in yourquest for education and learning
and providing for yourself andfor your family, the challenge has
been in the space of there isa cost to the emotional and.
Sounds like physiologicalfinancial shift.
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I don't want to say burden,because I don't think it's necessarily
a burden from what I'm hearingyou say.
It's like this choice, thisprivilege that I have comes with
this other side of it, my momused to say all the time.
My mom still says this, but,you know, there's good and bad consequences
with every decision, even ifit's a good decision.
Right.
In the world that we live in.
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And so it sounds like that'swhat you're sharing here is like.
Like having to navigate biglife decisions while living your
life and taking care of familyat home.
Yeah.
And I will say, you know,like, my full disclaimer is that
there are, like, severalprivileges in my experience.
Right.
I am not the primary caregiverfor my family or provider for them.
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I am actually the only one whodecided to move away.
Everybody else in my corefamily are all together, and until
very recently, they all lived together.
So there is also, you know,like, that conversation about what
that looks like and what thatfeels like.
But there is definitely thatsense that a lot of people do not
necessarily know of oracknowledge when they talk about
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someone who has decided to migrate.
Right.
That it's like, you absolutelylive with this sense of having to
make a daily choice tocontinue going down your path, knowing
that it's your path, but thatyou're missing out, missing out on
being there, missing out on,you know, like, being the person
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that they call right away.
And so there is that delayedinformation or, like, the wanting
to protect.
And on the flip side,something very interesting for them
as well, which is they alsohave their own experience of, I hope
that nothing happens to youand Aaliyah, because what do we do
if something happens to you?
Right.
Yeah.
And so those are the type ofthings that, when you're first starting
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to think about the decisionor, like, you go into the program
or you take that job offer andyou get excited and you're like,
yes, this is it for me.
These are the kind of thingsthat a little bit down the road,
you start kind of like,pondering about and weighing in at
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each step.
Yes.
So I am really curious for youto expand or just share with us,
especially if someone'slistening right now.
Who is?
This is a loaded questionright now in 2025.
Like, I'm like, I'm really nottrying to get into that, but I think
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it's.
It's an interesting thing tothink about because our audience
is great, made of lots offolks doing two different things.
I think they're living withchronic illness or they're supporting
someone with chronic illness,and they're also dreaming and living
the life that they want to live.
So some of that might be a business.
Some of that might Be being acreative, some of them may be learning
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a trade or a skill orsomething like that that requires
them to sacrifice or to makedecisions around.
Like we kind of going back tothat same premise of like, what is
the good and the bad of metaking this decision or making these
big moves in my life?
What are some things that youkind of like didn't think about or
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didn't know about that youfeel like it's something to consider
to put on the.
Table if you haven't when youdecide to live abroad?
Yes.
I would say the top of mindthing is that you will absolutely
have to become a lot morecomfortable with the uncertainty
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of it all.
Because it is very true whatthey often say, that you're not from
here nor from there.
And so I have over the yearsreally appreciated the experience
of having people who go pickme up at the airport when I go there
and who welcome me home when Icome here.
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That to me feels like atremendous gift.
Yeah.
And it's not a gift thathappens overnight.
Yeah.
So there is that element of insome ways rebuilding a community
of your own in a place that isvery different sometimes, like in
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my case, in a differentlanguage, and you find yourself holding
the space for, you know,crying when you leave and crying
when you arrive.
Yeah, yeah.
And if you can hold that spaceand you can, you know, live with
it, then absolutely go for it.
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Yeah.
But if not, then you mighthave to face some tough choices.
Yeah.
That's a really interestingpoint, I think, to what you're sharing.
It's like, oh, that soundslike a lot of work.
Like when I hear you say that,that's a lot of work.
I think for myself personally,living with chronic illness, there
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is a vulnerability that comesinto play when you're trying to create
relationships around the factthat your life looks different.
And I would imagine that ifyou're from a different country and
you're moving to anothercountry and there are uncertainties,
I call them the certain uncertainties.
Like we know they're going.
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There's going to be stuff thatwe don't know, but we know they're
going to happen.
Right?
Absolutely.
And being in the space ofbeing open for help or asking for
help or really getting out ofyour comfort zone, it sounds like
that's a huge aspect oftransitioning and being home here
and being home there.
Right.
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That I hear you sharing.
How have you navigated thatfor yourself personally on top of,
you know, deciding to build abusiness with that.
How's that look like for you?
Well, so it started early on,I will say, because I moved here
without necessarily knowingpeople around.
For the most part, the therewere some, you know, new friends
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that I connected with beforecoming here.
But, you know, I kind of likestarted like from scratch.
And what happened was veryinteresting, is like the first, like
year and a half or so of mytime here, I realized that my life
was very imbalanced.
Like, it was all work becauseeveryone that I knew was in grad
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school.
I spent all of my time oncampus and I didn't necessarily have
any outlets or any otherspaces that I would go to to unplug.
And so, like, leisure for mewas going to the bar with my classmates
and vent about, you know,where we were at in our program.
Yeah.
And so it got to a point whereI actually, like, hit a wall.
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And I remember I was so distressed.
And I remember visiting backhome and my mom was even like.
And Eliam, I'm concerned,like, why you keep crying?
Like, what?
What's happening?
And it dawned on me that I waslike, wait a minute, I'm not having
a balance that can make this sustainable.
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And so during those weeks thatI was there, I had this new year
resolution that I was going tostart a hobby that allowed for me
to make friends and to go intothe city.
I live in the D.C. area, andso I studied at UMD, so I would see
in College park.
And I needed something thattook me to D.C. more often and kind
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of change the year.
And so I signed up for animprov class.
That's awesome.
And that's how I startedimprov as a hobby.
And then over the years, thatbecame not just like a massive source
of joy for me, but also a bigpart of my community building because,
like, some of the friends thatI made there have become like long
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term friends.
Yeah.
Regardless of whether wecontinue playing or not.
Yeah.
And I have been very fortunatethat over the years I do not have
a hard time making friends.
Okay.
There is a quick story that mydad always loves to share about me
that he would take me to theplayground when I was like three
years old and my family didnot have money to like, buy me the,
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like, bucket or like the toysand all the stuff so they could take
me there and my dad would turnaround and within like five minutes,
I was already playing withother kids and their toys and we
were all playing together.
And she was like, how is this possible?
Yes.
And I feel like that's a storythat really tells something about
who I am.
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Yes.
And community is Always at theheart of everything that I do.
Yeah.
So when it came the time tokind of like figure out my next steps
career wise, I had alreadygone through a couple different jobs
that I felt had taught me alot, but were not exactly what I
wanted.
And what I wanted was to servemy community.
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I wanted to serve the earlyand mid career professionals, especially
grad students, especiallyinternational students and workers.
And I knew that I couldbecause of all the experiences that
I have had that are veryunique to finding just one person.
Right.
And then on top of that, beinga coach so that I could hold that
space for them and reallysupport them.
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Yeah.
In taking those steps the waythat I wish I had been supported.
Yeah.
And that was combined with acouple of years of having different
family emergencies that forcedme to decide, you know, do I go there
quickly and we just try to flythere or just like, quite frankly,
started to question whether Ishould stay in the job that I was
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in and think about ways ofcontinue building my life in a way
that I can integrate more thesides of me both living here, but
also living there in a way.
Yeah.
And that's how this all like,unfolded in the past, like six to
eight months.
And I decided to take the leapand really just go for it and launch
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the business.
Well, that, you know, it'sreally, really nice to hear that
you took the leap.
It sounds like you took the leap.
You also.
I use these terminology a lotjust from my spiritual background
of like counting the cost.
There's a verse in the Biblethat says count, basically talking
about how to count the cost ofdoing things before you start.
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And I think there's greatnessin doing that.
Like there's always solidfoundation on doing that.
But I think sometimes we inthat too long, like we stay in the
planning and we don't take the leap.
And it's interesting that yousaid there's been a lot of like health
emergencies that happen withyour family that made you question
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whether or not that this planthat you had thought up, created,
wanted to do may have shifted.
Do you mind sharing a littlebit more about, like what do you
mean by family emergencies?
Was it like a blip, was achronic situation?
Like what.
Because I imagine too livingabroad now you're also thinking about
how am I going to financiallytake care of myself?
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Right.
How am I going to take care ofmy health needs and things like that
on top of maybe potentiallysending money back home?
There's so many differentaspects of that.
But I am curious to know, likewhat did that look like for you and
your family?
Yeah.
So in my case, the first onethat happened a couple years ago
was over Thanksgiving breakthat year that I got a few messages
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from my family that someonereally dear and near to my heart
was hospitalized and theydidn't know if this person was going
to make it.
And so I remember the weekendof Thanksgiving just like hopping
on a FaceTime call to makesure that I was able to at the very
least like see them and talkto them in case that I couldn't again.
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And in that moment, I hadalready planned on traveling to visit
my family, but on that momentI was like, I, I cannot just stay
here.
And I remember my family,especially my mom, saying, you might
not even make it in time.
And I was like, I don't carebecause at the very least I will
be there to hold space foreverybody as weekly.
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And so I just like changed allthe plans and within a week I just
made sure that I travel.
And luckily, you know, likethis relative actually like just
had an amazing recovery.
Oh, that's so good to hear.
Yes.
And I was very glad that I wasable to be there because the truth
is like for a couple of monthswe still didn't know if they were
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going to make it.
And then what happened was2024 was a very pivotal year for
me in a lot of fronts.
But when it came to my familyhealth, there were a couple different
emergencies where two of myrelatives were going through biopsies
and one of them in particularwas like tremendously high risk.
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And so I found myself at thispoint where, you know, I just like
had this conversation with my family.
It's like, whatever needs tohappen, I'll just, I'll be there
and I'll make it happen.
And I remember calling myformer employer, just making sure,
like, okay, what's the likefamily leave policy?
I need to figure out I mighthave to live within a week and just
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like be there.
And things unfolded in a waythat ultimately they went through
the biopsies in ways that were staggered.
So like it was not multiplepeople that we needed to take care
right off at the same time.
And everything went well.
And luckily they are bothhealthy now.
Yeah.
But for one of them inparticular, to me it was a non negotiable
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to be there and to be therenot just for them, but for the rest
of my family.
And so when the time came todecide what I wanted to do, I was
in peril trying to figure outthe immigration details of whether
I could, you know, got you doanything about this.
Right.
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And luckily, everythingaligned in a way that I was able
to sponsor my work visa, whichis the one that I like hold now for
working for my business.
And so that's when I decidedthat I was quitting my job, making
sure that I had the gap timethat I needed to be there to be with
my family, to go through thisprocess and then come back and launch
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my business and become a fulltime entrepreneur.
Yeah.
I mean, it sounds like youwere in this place of your values
are your filter.
Right.
And I say this all the time tomy clients and just to people all
the time.
I think when your values areyour filter, they help you make decisions
a whole lot easier.
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And the hard.
The harder the decision, theymake it, the easier.
Right.
It makes it a bit more easy tomake those decisions.
So how has your value shapedhow you're building your business?
You're just getting started ina way, even though you've been doing
the work for a decade.
When we talked, I'm like,you've been doing this.
There's so many amazing, highachieving people are like, oh, I
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just started my business, butI've actually been doing this like
basically my whole life.
And I'm like, okay, tell meabout how your lived experiences
and your values are shapingthe way that you're showing up for
your clients and building your business.
Yeah, I will say that I dowant to caveat this with, you know,
also highlighting, again,there's a lot of, like, planning
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and privileges that allowedfor me to move the way that I have.
So do you want to tell us alittle bit about that, like, more
specifically?
Because you're right.
I mean, everybody has a.
Most of us have privilegeseven though we feel like we don't.
So please share with us.
Yeah, absolutely.
So, first of all, since Igraduated in 2020, I was able to
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accrue the type ofinformational, legal and financial
resources that allowed for meto give myself the options that I
have had.
I was able to sponsor mycurrent visa because I had consistently
been saving enough capital forme to afford that.
I had also saved the capitalthat allowed for me to bootstrap
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this business as I'm justgetting started.
How did you do this?
Well, I will say I think like,the pandemic has allowed for me to
save a lot more than in a, you know.
Yes.
Different circumstance.
Yes.
And I also come from a familywhere, like, I'm the eldest of a
family that was doing okay,but when I was growing up, we were
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building ourselves financially.
Got you and so I am kind of,like, used to the frugality.
Got you.
Of making sure that the futureis as secured as possible.
Got you.
Which is also very interestingmindset to confront.
Absolutely.
I'm listening to this, and I'mlike, this is a mindset jungle all
the way.
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But, okay, I hear it.
I love it.
You can.
You can imagine what the past,like, months.
Yes.
Just taking this leap has beenlike for me.
Yes.
And then also just making surethat I was getting the type of experience,
exposure, and evidence that Ineeded to build my legal case so
that then I could even qualifyfor the type of visa that I have
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now.
And so a lot of the work thatI do now has to do with finding ways
of facilitating thatawareness, like resource accrual
and experiences for my clientsas well, because not everyone's going
to have the same path.
But the important thing is,like, if you're intentional early
enough and then you're able togive yourself more options that you
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might be aware of.
Yes.
Early on.
Yes.
So that's what I am talkingabout in terms of.
Gotcha.
The top of mind privileges.
Right.
That a lot of people mighthear and be like, you know, oh, she
just, like, snapped herfingers and that happened.
It's like, no, it took a lotof work, but that work was also facilitated
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by a lot of other experiences,support, and resources.
And so that's.
That's what I. I always, youknow, want to highlight so that people
don't get the wrong impression.
No, I get what's possible.
I get it.
I tell people all the time.
I'm like, I mean, a lot of myclients, it's a.
It's a mix.
But most of them are single orthe other half are married.
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And there is a big differencein building a business when you have
a spouse, one that's, in away, supportive, and a spouse that
is also financially helpingthe household, like, carrying the
household.
So it's very different than ifyou're the main gal, you're the main
person doing the thing.
It looks very different.
And the strategy or the wayyou approach making decisions looks
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very different.
And even that is kind of aprivilege in a way, when you're on
your own and that's all youhave to think about.
So it's really important.
And I appreciate you bringingthat out.
Hey, I don't want you sittinghere listening to me like, oh, yeah,
I just moved abroad and I didit like this, and I'm great, you
know, and it's like, oh, no.
There were things that I did.
And I think we do need tobring more of those type of parts
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of the conversation into allof these stories about change and
transition and success andfailures that, you know, even within
all of that, there areprivileges that we all have that
some of us don't and willnever have.
Right.
And so it's, like, reallyimportant to kind of bring that into
the context.
So I appreciate you sharingthat in what you're doing for clients,
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specifically, like in your.
In your work.
Do you find that those who are.
And this is an interestingquestion, do you find that those
who are navigating educationhere in the States or just abroad,
maybe they left here and wentto Europe.
I don't know.
Maybe they went somewhere else.
Right.
And they are navigating notonly the health, like, not only their
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education, but also takingcare of themselves within a community.
That's completely different.
What has been some things ortools you would share with someone
that they need to lean intomore or take advantage of?
Yeah, I mean, my.
My answer is always community,but it is also, you know, with the
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acknowledgment that it is hard.
And so there are multiplelayers to it.
There is the local communitydefining people that you can connect
with that can help you fosterthat sense of belonging to where
you are at in that space andwhat you are building.
There is also community fromthe perspective of people who understand
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and see you for what you'regoing through.
Right.
This has been something that Isee present throughout my conversations
and sessions with my clientswhere, like, they truly highlight,
you know, how much theyappreciate to feel seen as we're
talking about their career development.
Because in most cases, manycoaches do not know what plays in
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the background.
Yes.
You're thinking about thesituations and decisions.
And that also happened to me.
I had great coaches who trulyhave had, like, a massive impact
in my journey.
And some of them, I hung upthe phone after conversations and
sessions, and I felt like theyjust didn't get what I was going
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through.
Yeah, I, I, Yeah, I can relate.
And so.
And that, to me, was also abig motivation of.
I want to make sure that I'mable to hold that space and provide
that space for people toreally think about what's possible
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and what's possible for themfrom a perspective that really celebrates
who they are.
Because what happens a lot ofthe time is that you.
You kind of, like, you getstarted in that new place and you
go into survival mode.
Yes.
You immediately are like,okay, like, how do I open a bank
account?
How do I get A phone, how do Iget a credential?
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How do I, like, meet all the requirements?
All of these different things,like kind of like going through the
mechanics, moving and settlingin a, in a space.
Right.
But what about emotional elements?
Yes, absolutely.
Right.
And all these innerconversations about, you know, did
I make the right decision?
Is this going to be long term?
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Is this going to work out?
Am I going to have to face thefear of failure and what does failure
look like for me?
And all of these questions arenot necessarily defined when you're
first getting started, butthey are always playing a role in
what you think is possible,how you move through all of these
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decisions and, you know, andthe way that things unfold for you.
And so I always talk aboutcommunity because I don't think that
I could have got into where Iam today without the people around
me.
Yeah.
Whether they are like longterm friends or they are just like
mentors for a year.
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Right.
They truly have shapedeverything about my life today in
some way or another.
Yeah.
And so I do feel that it'slike tremendously important for people
to really lean into thoseopportunities to connect with one
another.
And sometimes people arementors, sometimes people are mirrors.
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And to be able to really comefrom a perspective of curiosity,
of openness.
Yes.
Which a lot of people who arealready, you know, like moving abroad,
kind of like display and.
Yes, exactly.
And so to lean into that as away of really starting to build your
community in the new place.
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Yeah, I think that is important.
The other thing that I reallywant to make sure that I say out
loud is like the importance ofgrace and compassion for yourself
as you're going through it,because there is so much that goes
into it, like.
Oh, yeah, like small and big.
Right.
But like, to give you anexample that I often get teased by
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my family when I go back homebecause I have some of like the mannerisms
or ways of speaking fromliving here.
And so instead of in Spanish,you would say like when you're thinking
and I go like.
But that is a true shift thathappens because, like, at this point,
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yeah, I am bilingual and Ispeak to myself in English, but my
language, my native languageis Spanish.
Yes.
And so those are like verysmall but fundamental ways that end
up transforming who you areover time.
So to give yourself thecompassion and the grace of really
meeting yourself at each step.
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I love that.
Yeah, it's fundamental.
Yeah.
I really appreciate that pointabout meeting yourself where you
are along the way.
That's a huge piece.
I think, coming back kind ofFull circle to when you were talking
about finding your communityand getting your people started with
you first.
Connecting in with, like,doing things that brought you joy
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and that were exciting, likethe improv, and that led to this
kind of ripple effect.
And I think that brings you towhere you are right now.
It helps you reconnect, re.
Engage with yourself, and thenalso you re engaging with yourselves,
helps you to engage with otherpeople around you.
And instead of being sofocused on the one lane, I think
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I have a couple people in myworld, and myself included.
Eldest daughters, you know,come from families that are all or
in part from other parts ofthe world.
And the idea that we kind ofhave to wear masks and strip, you
know, strip a part ofourselves away in order to fit in.
There's a podcast show calledAnything for Selena.
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I love that show.
If you've never heard of thispodcast episode, you have to.
I mean, it's a whole series, apodcast episode.
It's Anything for Selena.
And I am a die hard Selena fan.
People think I'm crazy.
But there is an episode whereshe is talking about.
The host is talking about howyou kind of create a new identity
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here that you almost have towalk yourself back into who you actually
are.
And I'm wondering, how hasthat looked like for you in this
journey for yourself, likehelping others, but also be in that
space?
It's interesting because Ithink in some ways, me moving here
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has opened up the space for meto connect with a part of me that
feels a lot more authentic.
Okay.
And this goes back to, youknow, like, talking about the privileges.
So all four of my grandparentswere immigrants in Argentina.
Then my parents are firstgeneration Argentine.
And then here I am deciding tomove abroad.
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And the experiences of, like,the being raised by immigrants and
first generation were verymuch of what you were just saying
about, you know, wear themask, keep your head down, be grateful
for you get for what you get.
Do not ask for more.
Do not take up space like youwork hard, no matter what they pay
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you, how they pay you,whatever you just, like, keep at
it.
And then I move here and I'man immigrant like they were.
But, like, I'm a highlyeducated immigrant with a lot more
privileges than my grandma whomoved to Argentina at age 15 to be
the maid in her uncle's house.
And I am required to alsothink about my experience in a different
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way if I want to grow in thedirection that I want to grow.
And so that has led to a lotof battles internal, but also, you
know, even, like when havingdiscussions with my family or like
them not really understandingor seeing why I'm doing what I'm
doing and just like disagreeing.
Yeah, they don't understand.
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Right.
And even to, you know,launching this business, there was
a lot of, you know,conversations and sometimes like,
just like cold shoulder about it.
I was like, nope, I'm determined.
I'm doing this and I know whyI'm doing this.
But it definitely did take alot of courage and building that
courage over time of beingable to set that boundary to understand
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why I'm doing what I'm doing,to understand why my mindset needs
to be different from the onethat I grew up with and I was educated
in.
And even, you know, like, it'slike smaller things like improv.
Right.
Like, that's something that Iwouldn't have necessarily done when
I was back in Argentina.
There were also a lot of othersacrifices that I had to do to get
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here.
Like, I commuted five hoursper day every day while I was in
college.
And so like, I had no time forleisure whatsoever.
Wow.
And so I came here and thenstarting improv is something that
I actually feel a lot morecomfortable doing because I'm away.
My family doesn't necessarilysee it all the time, so they don't
get to judge it.
And I'm doing it in Englishfor the most part though.
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I do some, you know, liketelenovela inspired improv in Spanish
in the D.C. area, which I'mvery proud of.
But I know that my family doesnot approve of.
And yet that really resonateswith how I connect with myself and
just like the joy that I feelfor myself and that I want to, you
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know, like, connect others with.
Yeah, I love that.
That's.
That's really interesting.
I can relate.
I didn't move another state,but I did move to another.
Another country, but I didmove to another state.
And there is something aboutnot being in the space of your family
where you find just like yourtrue things, like who you are, things
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you like.
There's not that much likeyou're far away.
You can't come over here.
Like, you're not coming overhere to do, you know, I don't know
what it is.
I think it's like flying thecoop in a way.
It doesn't matter how old oryoung you are.
That experience, experience oflike leaving maybe a space where
you have.
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You were you, but you weren'tlike always necessarily feel.
I don't know what the word I'mlooking for.
You didn't feel as comfortableexploring those other aspects of
yourself because of theirlived experiences.
And now you get to live yourlived experiences, and they don't
understand.
And you're like, it's okay.
You don't have to.
Absolutely.
(43:13):
So I. I love that you sharethat aspect of things.
So let's kind of put this in apretty boat.
What is something that youthought was true when you were making
these decisions to kind of bean entrepreneur against family's
ideas, doing improv that youthought was true about yourself,
(43:37):
about your family, that you nolonger believe is true.
That you have to haveeverything figured out.
And I wrestle with this often,especially now in this, you know,
early stages of building abusiness and really getting comfortable
with the beginner's mindset ofthings are gonna look not polished,
(43:57):
and it's okay, because that'show I learn.
I believe that for a lot ofus, we want to kind of, like, spoil
the end of the movie right away.
Yes.
Huh.
And it has been, like, a lotof hard inner work and identifying
the practices and spaces andrituals that allow for me to ground
(44:23):
myself in the present and tobe able to come at every situation
with a lot more acceptance sothat I can both be grateful for what
it is and also figure out howI want to use that in the best possible
(44:43):
way to really, like, continuemoving forward in the direction that
I feel pulled towards.
So, yeah, I think that that's the.
The biggest thing.
And I think that that in someways counters a lot of the fears
that I was raised with.
And so, I mean, I'm in themessy middle of it all.
We all are.
(45:04):
Like, you know, I've talked towomen on this show who are.
Who have sold businesses, whohave scaled and grown, and I see
it with my clients who arejust starting pivoting, whatever,
and it's all messy.
It's all, you know, we want.
We want it to look a veryspecific way.
(45:24):
We have a desire for it tolook a specific way.
And then you get in it.
You're like, well, I mean,especially for those of us living
the chronic illness, there's an.
There's an extra messiness toit, in my opinion, that we.
We're just.
You just accept that that'swhat it's going to look like.
And honestly, that's life.
You know, everything we'vegrown up with in life, even when
(45:45):
we were kids, was kind of messy.
You know, that's like, how welearned and experienced the world.
It was messy, and then wefigured it out.
And so I really appreciatethat, you Sharing that, especially
for my eldest daughters.
That's the thing.
We don't like messy becausewe're the ones who figure it out
and plan and do the students.
Yes, right.
(46:06):
And not go against the grain.
And when we do, it feels likethe world is on fire, literally.
And we're falling in like freefalling or something.
It feels so weird.
So I appreciate you sharingthat and I'm sure so many can relate
to that experience.
So tell us how you work withclients and how they can connect
with you and how we can find you.
(46:28):
Yeah.
So anyone can find me onsocial media.
I'm on LinkedIn.
Analia Gomez Vidal.
You can also find my businesson Instagram agbservices LLC and
my website agbservices LLC.comusually the way that I work with
clients is I have one on onecoaching options and I also have
(46:53):
a membership that I recentlylaunched which is called AGV Lab
for Career Explorers.
And it's geared towards earlyand mid career professionals who
are seeking to gain clarityand action items on how to get started
on their next career moveswhile also building community with
one another.
(47:13):
Love that.
So you can go toagbservicesllc.com you can learn
more about those options.
And I do have a host of freeresources available.
If you are in that stage whereyou are not necessarily sure about
where to go next or you need arefresher on just like the sheer
(47:35):
value of everything that youhave done in your career so far,
you can find a few differentresources to help you get started
there and that connects youwith me on my newsletter.
Awesome.
Well, we'll have everything inthe show notes and I'm sure you will
help so many people reallyjust make that transition in career
(47:57):
and in education, you know,with these lived experiences that
we don't always have roomsfor, we don't always have space for.
And I think bringing it backto something you said earlier in
the chat, which is likefinding someone who gets you, it's
not that the strategiesnecessarily change that much.
You know, this is something Ihave found working with my clients
(48:19):
is like, I'm not telling youmuch, like a lot different, too much
from what maybe someone whodoesn't have a chronic illness has,
but I am seeing youdifferently and therefore I'm giving
you maybe a different nuancethan another person who's not actually
acknowledging that that is apart of your lived experience.
And I definitely think that'sbecoming more important, especially
(48:42):
in the world of AI, of havingcommunity who understands your lived
experience.
Experiences because we are nota robot.
We are not all just doing thesame thing, experiencing life the
same.
And so I think that's reallyimportant to find your people, find
your community, especiallywhen it comes to making a living
and, you know, living yourlife in in the context of making
(49:04):
a living.
So thank you so much for whatyou're doing and we look forward
to hearing more of how you grow.
Thank you so much.
And thank you so much forhaving me.
I absolutely love this conversation.
Yay.
Well, you guys check us out onthe Show Notes and let us know if
you have any questions too.
And be sure to leave themeither in my DMs or you can reach
(49:25):
out to Analia and do the same thing.
And we can't wait to chat with you.
That's a wrap for this episodeof Business with Chronic Illness.
If you would like to start and.
Grow an online coachingbusiness with me, head to the Show
Notes to click.
A link to book a sales call.
(49:45):
And learn how to make moneywith chronic illness.
You can also check out ourwebsite@ww.CraftedToThrive.com for
this episode's Show Notes andjoin our email list to get exclusive
content where I coach you onhow to chronically grow a profitable
business while living withchronic illness.
Until next time, remember,yes, you are crafted to thrive.
(50:08):
Sam.
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