Monique Rodriguez
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1,123 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Mar
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Because that's how he works. Like you take that step, he'll open up some doors, he'll reveal to you his power. And then you're like, oh, okay, God, let me take another step, right? And then he'll open up some more doors, he'll reveal his power. And that is literally a faith walk.
Like you're just climbing some stairs and we don't climb stairs to go from the bottom of the staircase to the top of the staircase. They're just very small steps that we have to take to get to the ultimate top, right? Right. And that's how I look at my faith journey. And it's a lifelong journey, right? Because you will have moments that you will doubt yourself.
You will have moments where you're like, you're questioning your faith. And that's normal. Like we're human. He blessed us with emotions for a reason, right? But when we do have moments of when we feel down and despair, like that's when we have to lean on him even more for his strength. Like he doesn't want us to run away from him.
And even if you have ran away from God, like he's still always right there waiting for us to just come back to him. Always. You have to trust that. And the only way that you can trust that and have a true relationship with God is by knowing his word. Right. If we want to have a relationship together as friends, we have to get to know each other. God is no different.
God is saying, I want you to have a relationship with me. But in order for us to have this relationship, you have to know my word because my word speaks to my character and my promises. And once we know his character and his promises, we can stand on that. And his word does not lie. And I'm a living, willing testimony that what God says in his word will come to pass.
And we can hold God accountable to his word. And that has been what has manifested in my life.
Oh, absolutely not. No. Like, we bump heads. Yeah, and we bump heads quite a bit. But, you know, it's at the end of the day, like, we see the big picture. I think it's normal to have conflict.
And I teach my kids that. And sometimes we may bump heads in front of our kids because I want them to see the back and forth bickering. But I also want them to see how do you solve conflict? That's good. Because life is not the absence of conflict. It's how you respond to it. Yes.
And so that's what we focus on because we know that we're not gonna always agree and we know that conflict can be healthy and it's how you work through it. So because we are aligned with the big picture, we're aligned with our vision, our goals, we're aligned with our legacy that we want to leave for our family.
And we realize that no matter what we argue over or bicker about, it's not even important. When you look at the big picture, is it worth messing up what we've built, what we've created, the legacy that we're leaving. And nine times out of 10, it's really not. It's so minor. It's so minute.
And, um, but we do understand that we have to have our own individual lives outside of being a wife and a husband. And that's important for us. So like, you know, I am a mom, a CEO, a wife, but I have to have my girl, girlfriend time. You do that.
Because you need your girlfriends. You need your support group that you can share things that you can't necessarily share with your husband. My husband can't relate on female things. So you have to have the balance of your friends, your inner circle. And he has to have that for himself. He can go on golf trips. I can go on my girl trips because when we come back, you want to miss each other.
I think that's important for you all to miss each other. Yes. And even when we worked in the warehouse in the office, his office, we intentionally made his office way on the opposite side of the warehouse and mine was over here. And that was because we work together, but I don't have to see you all day. Like I still want to miss you.
And sometimes we will be in the office and not see each other until we go home. And then we still talk about our day. Like, you know, we work in two separate entities, but we're actually together. So you have to give each other time to like have their space and miss each other. Because I think that's important because you are a person outside of, you know, who you are to your spouse.
Yeah, it was a day that we launched. I realized that this is something special because when I did all of the other direct sale business, nothing ever took off. Like I couldn't sell something to save my life. And then when Mayel took off and then I had all these orders coming in, I was like, oh, this is different. You know, this is like...
This is like God ordained because I had no clue that it would sell the way that it sold. And I remember my husband jumping in on board because he has the logistical background operations. That's what he focuses on. And I'm the visionary, the creator. So I created this product. I created this brand.
And then once we started selling, I'm like, oh, now we got to ship it out to people like the customer. So I have no idea how that works logistically. So he jumped on board with his logistical engineering background and set up a whole process and system. So we were like very organized. We had a... a two-man shop in our basement at the time. And we were just shipping out orders. And we were a team.
That's amazing. And yeah, we just came together. And I knew, like, this is something special. And if we put 1,000% into this, we can really make this thing big.
Yeah, so we went from our basement to the garage. So we had a three-car garage.
Yes, yes. So we had a time clock in the garage. We had a pumping system where my husband would like, he put this contraption together and we would pump out the Babassu deep conditioner and I would package it and label it. We had a whole operation. And... When we had the call to go into retail, it wasn't because we chose to go into retail. We were just focused on building and the company.
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