Starting from Scratch with financial advisor Maria Castillo

In this episode I am introducing you to my friend Maria Castillo! Maria started her journey in the US as a babysitter, 13 years later we are celebrating her recognition in Investment News Magazine list for best financial advisors in the US.

Often times hearing career stories can fuel creativity or spark ideas to others, and we all have to get very creative and resourceful navigating our careers no matter what industry, now more than ever.

Topics we touched:

• How Maria ended up from Spain to the US.
• How she grew and got to position herself as an outstanding professional on her field, overcoming challenges such language, discrimination, no experience nor education in the US.
• Perspective on agency/ Temporary contracts to get feet in the door.
• Mental health within the process of managing a complex journey in another country. 
• Maria’s take and reflection on Networking and the effect to “making it”
• More to come and future topics we will address with Maria!

Note --> We recorded this episode after an exhausting week of work and at midnight Saturday, on top of it I messed up the editing and cut a fun piece of the interview and the actual part where we talked about her award (Sigh, seriously I am a disaster) Thanks to everyone who is joining this conversation and is supporting the show in spite of how the huge learning curve I have producing it.

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