This episode is a special repost from The American Dream: In the Eyes of Immigrants podcast, hosted by Heidy De La Cruz, where I was invited to share my story, my roots, and the work I do around healing, identity, and alignment.

In this conversation with Heidy, I open up about growing up as a first-generation daughter of Guatemalan immigrants, how my upbringing shaped my worldview, and why inner work became the foundation of everything I teach today.

I talked about:

• Growing up in the San Fernando Valley as a first-gen daughter of Guatemalan parents
• How my parents’ immigration story shaped my identity, values, and sense of pride
• Experiencing life between cultures and what it taught me about belonging
• Visiting Guatemala often, and how seeing real poverty changed my definition of wealth
• Being raised with great pride in my Guatemalan and Mayan roots
• Doing “everything right” on paper and still feeling unfulfilled
• My journey through anxiety, depression, ADHD, and learning to slow down
• Discovering transformational coaching and how it changed my life
• Why our generation is often the first with the privilege to heal
• How I support Latinas through coaching, group programs, and community
• Why I don’t teach hustle, but instead focus on self-trust, inner wisdom, and being work
• My honest perspective on the American Dream and why I believe we get to define our own version of wealth

This episode is an honest, expansive conversation about immigration, identity, healing, and choosing a life that honors where you come from and where you’re going.

🎙️ Originally aired on: The American Dream: In the Eyes of Immigrants podcast
🔗 Listen on: Spotify
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🎧 Hosted by Heidy De La Cruz
💛 Reposted here with love and permission from the original show

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Have you ever felt like your intuition is quiet or hard to reach even though you know it is always guiding you? Your intuitive brain never stops speaking to you. Sometimes life just gets loud enough that you forget how to listen.

In this episode, I walk you through the seven tools I personally use to strengthen my intuition and deepen my connection to my intuitive brain. After learning how powerful the three brains are, today I focus on how you can tap into your gut brain in a way that supports your highest alignment.

If you have ever wished your intuition spoke louder, clearer, and more consistently, this episode gives you the exact tools to make that happen. I guide you deeper into the intuitive brain and why your gut brain is often the most accurate of your three brains. I share how the intuitive brain communicates, why the cognitive brain gets loud and confusing, and how your emotional brain supports clarity when you slow down enough to listen.

On this episode, I share:

• Revisiting the Three Brains and why intuition lives in the body
• Seven Tools to strengthen your intuitive brain
• Tool 1. Embrace Silence and create space for intuitive clarity
• Tool 2. Observe Your Body and notice the somatic cues that guide you
• Tool 3. Ask Clear Questions that your intuition can respond to
• Tool 4. Follow Life’s Hints and pay attention to synchronicities
• Tool 5. Spend Time in Nature to regulate your nervous system
• Tool 6. Stop Asking Others and learn to ask yourself first
• Tool 7. Future Self Check In to align with your intuitive future
• The power of intuition for women of color and how intuitive knowing is ancestral, embodied, and culturally rooted

If these seven tools resonated with you, come listen and learn how to bring them into your life with clarity, trust, and intention.

📚 Research Mentioned

• Women’s Experiences of Intuition (2021)
This study explored how women experience intuition as inner knowing, embodied insight, and spiritual or energetic awareness. Many women described intuition as real and relevant, even when difficult to explain because traditional systems do not always validate this kind of knowing.
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355866183_Women's_Experiences_of_Intuition

• Cultural Intuition, D.D. Bernal
A framework from Chicana and Latina feminist scholars that describes intuition for women of color as ancestral, communal, and embodied wisdom shaped by lived experience and intergenerational memory. Cultural intuition recognizes intuitive knowledge as a meaningful and legitimate way of knowing.
Link: https://criticalracestudies.ucla.edu/cultural-intuition

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In this episode, Wendy brings you back into the heart of transformational work as she shares one of the most powerful frameworks she uses in her coaching practice: the 3 brains. Most people only use one. But the real magic begins when you understand and align all three.

You’ll hear Wendy talk about the cognitive brain that analyzes and plans, the heart brain that feels and opens, and the intuitive brain that guides you with ancient wisdom. She breaks down how each one works, why they all matter, and how learning to listen to all of them can shift the way you make decisions, create results, and live your life.

Wendy also shares personal stories about her own evolution, what she has learned working with her coach, and why building a stronger relationship with her intuition brought her more freedom, clarity, and alignment than she ever expected.

By the end of this episode, you’ll walk away with simple but powerful growth work you can start practicing today so you can build a deeper connection with your mind, your heart, and your intuition.

✨ In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why we actually have 3 different “brains”
• How society conditioned us to rely mostly on the cognitive brain
• Why the heart brain and gut brain hold untapped wisdom
• What intuition really feels like in the body
• The reason your cognitive brain lies to you but your gut never does
• How to check in with all three brains before making decisions
• What freedom feels like when you trust yourself fully

✨ Growth Work for the Week:
The next time you make any decision, pause and ask all three brains:

1. What does my cognitive brain think?
2. What does my heart feel?
3. What is my gut telling me?

Start building a relationship with each part of you, one choice at a time.

Sharing these studies that help bridge the gap between quantum science and the spiritual wisdom we've always known.

HeartMath Institute – Science of the Heart - https://www.heartmath.com/science/

Quantum Models of Consciousness from a Quantum Information Science Perspective - https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27/3/243

Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis and Its Therapeutic Applications (Nature, 2024) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-024-01743-1

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