Monique Rodriguez
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first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Mar
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And I had to learn how to silence the noise, silence the distractions. And when you go through such a tragic loss like what I went through, for me, it was like, what what are what are my chances? Like at this point, I don't care what people think. I don't care, you know. about this career anymore. Like my mind frame was like, what's the worst that can happen?
Because the worst has already happened. So it just gave me another level of grit and tenacity that I didn't know that I had. And I decided to just follow God's calling and be obedient to what he had been calling me to do for years and decided to not feed into the fears, but to feed the faith and just to trust. And that's how my year was started.
Thank you. So I've always loved hair. And I've always been obsessed with making sure that my hair was always maintained and always presentable. Like I told you, I wanted to be the little girl on the Just For Me kick. That was my aspiration. I used to ask my mom to drive me to model calls. Every time they did a model call for a hair company, I'm like, I'm signing up. I want to be there.
And she would take me, and she got to the point, she's like, girl, they not picking you. And this is not something stable. This is cute, but I need to teach you how to find something stable. Because one day you're going to grow up. I'm not going to be paying for you for the rest of your life. You're going to have to find your own job. So she encouraged me to be a nurse. Right.
She didn't nourish the the the passion that I had to, like, pursue beauty and no fault to her. But she didn't see it. You know, she came from a a environment. She was raised of survival. So she was taught to only survive. So when you are coming from a survival mentality, you're not encouraged to dream big. And so she instilled that in me. And so even though I had, I was always a dreamer, but
That's the thing. Like sometimes people around you that have good intentions and they mean well, but sometimes their advice and their wisdom, it's coming from a place of fear because they didn't see it for themselves. So why would they see it for you? Right. Right. So she didn't see that in my future. And, um, So I just put my dreams to the wayside of being in this space.
And once I went through the loss of my son, it just circled me back. And it was like a full circle moment. God was just redirecting me back to that childhood Monique. And I feel like Mayel has healed a lot of that childhood dream. that I had, you know, growing up. I mean, not healed, but fulfilled a lot of the childhood dream that I had growing up, right? It just made a full circle.
360, like, God's like, I'm gonna run that back.
So you can know what's in front of your face.
Yeah.
And I always say, too, what's another insult to God is that when you don't fulfill your dream, God has attached... so many people to your dream. And when you don't fulfill your dream, you're disappointing the people who he's assigned to your gift and your calling.
And you're not being obedient to him and you're insulting him because you're not being obedient to the gifts and the talents and the purpose that he has put you on this earth to accomplish. Yes.
Yes. I think about like, we have over 300 employees. Mm-hmm. And some of the employees that we employ probably would have never been able to have the position that they had at Miel because of credentials. We always believe in giving people an opportunity, a chance. We put people in, sometimes we put people in positions that were probably too high for them.
But, you know, we wanted to provide opportunity. So we've been able to give opportunity to so many people and experience to so many people and exposure that they may not have had if I didn't follow my dream.
Yes.
So when I was in high school, I always saw something in him. He had great qualities, great characteristics. And I saw myself having kids with him and having a life with him, even at a young age. I just didn't know how it would all come together. But he was just different from other guys in the neighborhood where we grew up. And I know that I was also different for him.
And so I always joke with him like, you got lucky because you got a rare one, okay? You don't find them, they don't make them like me anymore. But I was always confident in that. And I talk about this in the book, my mom instilled in me like, If a man wants you, he's gonna have to court you. You don't just give it away for free. What you have is precious.
Your soul, your energy, everything that you possess as a woman is precious and every man is not deserving of that. So you gotta make him work. And I did that and we had some rocky moments in the very beginning. All in all, like he knew that if he wanted to be with me, he was going to have to put in the work.
Yeah, faith is holding on to things that we hope for that we can't see. And faith is everything. It's like our anchor. Faith is what keeps us grounded. Because when you enter into uncharted territory, it can be very intimidating.
like you don't know what's going to happen you're walking into the unknown and you have to trust and have faith in god that if he gave me this vision that he's going to equip me with everything i need to be successful in my calling and it's not for me to figure out how all the pieces are going to come together just yet it's for me to take a little step watch God do his work, right?
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