Monique Rodriguez
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1,123 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Mar
Monique Rodriguez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, in my professional life?
You know, it can... It tries, you know, when I face criticism or when I have trolls on social media that feel like they are entitled to say certain things. Or, you know, people that may also try me, like... in the public or during an interview. And I feel that, you know, I can politically correct, check someone, but still remain poised and peaceful about it. And so I feel that like,
In business, being a professional, you have to be able to not go there or not pull out the south side, Monique. She has to stay back there because I'm also a representative of God's kingdom. I'm a representative for my kids, and I have to lead by example. But it's tempting, and I think we're all tempted to pull that person out.
But it comes with self-discipline, self-awareness, to be like, you know what? I'm going to just pray for you. And do we fall short?
Like, I'm sure you have had instances where you may want to just jump out on somebody on social media. And I have like commented back on certain things and I'll go back and I'm convicted and I'll delete it. But, you know, that I feel like that's the growth in me.
give your energy to things like that. And that's how I also maintain professional mode. I have to choose what I give my energy and what I give peace away to. My peace is not worth the negativity and the trolls.
Yeah, I feel that. So I've built this company over the past 10 years. It'll be 11 years in May. And I feel that the success that I have garnered, you know, people tell me all the time, oh, you're a unicorn. It's so rare to see a black woman have such a successful exit in this space. And I want to normalize that. I don't want to have the conversation or the narrative of like creating more unicorns.
I want this to be normal in our community. And I wanted to share the roadmap of what it took to build a successful company, what it took to scale to the level that, you know, the public sees today and the trials and the tribulations that, you know, came with building this company because I feel that entrepreneurs need to hear this story, right? Anyone needs to hear this story because...
There's so many different, you know, facets that can relate to people, right? If you are a career person, this book is definitely for you. If you are someone that's trying to increase your faith walk with God, like this book is for you. If you are going through a loss of a career, a loss of a loved one, a loss of anything that you may be grieving, like this book is for you.
So it's many different relatable chapters. I feel relates to anyone. But I wanted this book to be like, I'm your big sister and we're having a conversation and I'm giving you all the wisdom, the knowledge that I've learned over the past 10 years because the knowledge is not for me to just keep to myself, it's for me to share it. And people ask me all the time, can you be my mentor?
So this is my gift to my community of like all those people that ask for mentorship, like I'm literally
pouring my heart and soul into this book being very vulnerable and transparent over not just the instagram real highlights yeah but like the tough moments when i didn't even think maya was going to make it like right people don't see that on instagram and i wanted to share because you may feel that you're the only one
going through what you're going through in this moment and i want to give hope to that person that's reading like you're not in this alone i went through it and if i can overcome that you can too so my husband would always say from the very beginning the story must be told we have it painted in our office space yeah and he was manifesting that and the story has to be told because it's not my story it's god's story and that's why the glory goes to him absolutely i love that and thank you for being obedient and giving us this because i know i get asked all the time as well like
Yeah, that's true. So I actually started as a labor and delivery nurse. So I worked in the field. So I understood everything about labor and delivery that you can possibly know. And so when I was in the hospital room, And I went through, you know, being rushed to the hospital, being on the hospital bed, and them having to, like, rip my clothes off, put my baby on the monitor.
And when his heartbeat was down, like, I knew if you all don't act quick, like, it's not going to be a good outcome.
And I remember I kept asking, like, where's the doctor? Where's the doctor? And the doctor was at home. And that wasn't a hospital that was equipped to have like an on-call doctor that was 24 hours. And so them having to call the doctor to rush to the hospital to deliver my baby by the time he got there, his heart rate was like, Like, it was so low. It was probably no saving at that point.
And so when he did the C-section, you know, and my son came out, he was lifeless. So he didn't get there in time to, you know, cut him out quick enough. And so it was just devastating. And then... I remember like waking up and I asked my mom and my family, I'm like, is he pink? Because I was incoherent. Like I was drugged up, but I knew to ask like, what's he pink?
And then I saw the look on my mom's face and I knew at that point that, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't right. So it was a very, like even talking about it, just,
even though it's healing, it's therapeutic, it's still so hurtful because when you think about the health disparities in the medical system for Black women, like, I tried to be my own advocate because I knew I was highly educated in the field, and my level of education couldn't save my son. Wow.
And so I think about the women or the Black people, the Black community in general that go to the hospital and don't have any knowledge of their care or being an advocate for themselves, like how doctors and nurses dismiss their symptoms, dismiss their care for whatever reason because of the disparities.
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