The app was released in the App Store for iPhone (Android version to come) on my birthday, March 27th! I’ll never forget that day. My 10-year-old daughter, Grace, had her little hand on my hand the moment we hit the button to release it. She also wrote my first review! She’s even a quote contributor! It’s important to me as a single mom to show my daughter that we can follow our heart’s calling and go after our dreams. It’s taken me a long time to come to this realization myself.

So, I guess I’ll start at the beginning of my journey which lead to me where I am today. I’m a first Generation American. My family came here from Chile. My parents left Chile because at the time there was a lot of political upheaval and they wanted to give me and my sisters a better life. I wish I could say it was easy when we got here, but it was not. I came from a household that was full of limiting beliefs and programming like fear and a scarcity mindset. I didn’t have good examples of healthy relationships or even healthy mindsets. But there was always a little voice inside me that just watched the chaos around me that said, things don’t have to be this hard. When you are in this type of environment you basically grow up very fast. So, the moment I graduated high school I was out on my own. Life was hardly peaches and cream once I moved out. Because now I had all that programming that I had to deal with. I moved through life seeing that unhealthy programming unfold in front of my eyes. But I didn’t really know how to change the direction of my path so that I didn’t make the same mistakes my parents did. It wasn’t until I got married and went into couples counseling that I was shown healthy ways of thinking and being. But the real catalyst for my change was the birth of my beautiful daughter, Grace. I knew that parenting was a tremendous privilege after tying so many years with medical intervention. I didn’t want to mess this up. I knew that she was watching and learning from everything that I was doing and saying. So it was at that point that I wanted more for her and me out of life. And just as they say that when the student is ready the teacher will come. That is when I started learning from various therapists, mentors, authors, and teachers along the way. I was learning new ways of thinking. I started to see how this world is full of unlimited possibilities. I’m truly grateful for the wisdom they all shared with me. I would definitely say I’m a seeker. A seeker of universal truths. I get very inspired and motivated by other people ‘s wisdom and now my own internal guidance system. I have post-its all over my computer with inspirational quotes and sayings. I will pull cards often from various stacks of inspirational decks. I just love to surround myself with these things because they remind me of what I deserve and what I am capable of. So fast forward to the last few years. I will have to say that I am not a very techy person. But I do appreciate it. I for one love my phone. I use my phone for so many things. I use it to change the heat setting on my house. I use it to set up my security system. I use it to keep track of my grocery list. I use it for so many things that enhance my life. I started looking for an app that would also enhance my emotional and mental wellbeing by sending me push notifications of inspiring quotes, messages and thoughts to contemplate. I personally think that we get messages all the time from the universe if we are open and receptive to them. So, I wanted a random message to come through my phone. But I wasn’t really finding what I was searching for. There was a saying that kept popping into my head by a first century Jewish Scholar named Hillel the Elder. He said, “If not you, then who? If not now, then when?” So, I decided to create it.