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Tell me about your vision.

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About my vision.

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My vision is that we have equal representation of women in the C-suite.

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So I'll share, maybe I'll elaborate a little bit.

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So I want to see more women in executive roles.

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Right now, if you look at research, researches that are done, representation of women, although

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like we're around 50% of the population, when you go into corporate and you see the representation

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of women, entry level, mid-management, senior leadership, and executive C-suite, meaning,

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you know, CTO, CFO, all those executive roles, see the numbers drop.

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Less and less women get to those roles.

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And when you look at founders, similarly, not many women start their own companies.

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And also the statistics around funding for women-led startups is very low.

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So my vision is to see that changes and to see more representation of women in those roles,

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in leadership roles.

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And that's why I do what I do.

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That's a very unique and great vision.

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But you mentioned some statistics about it.

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Where are those statistics that you got from?

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I'm usually looking at the McKinsey and Lin-Inn org report.

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They have this report going out once a year.

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Forgot the name, to be honest.

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But they have this report that they do, very extensive report, and they have different

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statistics about representation of women at different roles.

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And not just women as a whole, but also women of color, you know, different white women

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versus women of color versus black women.

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So they do a lot of good work and they publish it every year.

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Okay.

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That is awesome.

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I want to isolate the C-suite.

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Why did you only choose C-suite, not anything else?

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That's the end goal.

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And the end goal goes through getting more women to stay in tech.

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So my focus is mainly on tech because that's my background.

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So it starts with having women get to live in tech.

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It starts with having women get to leadership and then thrive and stay.

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But the end goal, eventually, if you ask me, okay, what's the success criteria,

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eventually, is to see more women, at least for me, that's my own definition of success,

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to see more women get to the C-suite because that's where decisions are being made.

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That's where the impact is made.

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And women should be there.

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Okay.

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Thanks for sharing that.

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Then where did this vision of you come from?

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From experience.

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So during my career, I was struggling.

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I was struggling from not believing in myself as I should have, and having doubting myself.

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Maybe confidence was not greatest, and it was hard for me to advance.

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And only when I realized I had to really work on my self-esteem and also on how I present myself

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and how I, you know, being more conscious and deliberate about my career, then I started to progress.

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I wish I knew that sooner.

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And that's why I decided to focus over the last few years on really supporting other women.

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Because I wish I had someone that supported me when I needed that.

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So that's where it came from.

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Came from personal experience and also from so many women that I work with.

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And I hear again and again their challenges.

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Thanks for sharing that. I want to go back to my time.

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So I'm actually in the tech world too.

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I started, I'm a software developer.

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I don't do that anymore.

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Okay.

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But I started in school, and in school I got hired as a junior developer on campus working for the

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campus society department.

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And the person who hired me was the only woman who was working in the tech world.

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And the person who hired me was the only woman who was working in the IT department.

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And I know how, I'm not sure if it's hard things that she had to go through,

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but I bet being a woman in a male-dominated IT department, it had their challenges.

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But she always protected the people under her.

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So specifically me and my colleagues, I know she was always protecting that.

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She made sure we had great resource.

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And she made sure we thrived in our environment.

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She made sure we were taught the right principles to thrive in our environment.

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So I was very grateful for her and what she taught me.

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So I kind of see where you kind of go with this.

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And I also understand challenges that are faced specifically with them and

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in tech fields and C-Suites, how we need more of those in C-Suits.

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So thanks for sharing that.

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So I'm going to go ahead and go to the next question.

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I think you kind of answered it already.

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But if I want, if you have more insights, what is your why, or why you do what you do?

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I do what I do because I want to help the next generation of women.

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To stay in tech, thrive in tech, and achieve whatever they aspire to achieve.

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And that is the thing that gets me going.

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And believe me, I am an employee in heart, right?

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I was raised in a middle-class family and all I knew to do is be an employee.

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And getting from being an employee to running my own business is hard.

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And although I've done it for the past four years, it's still hard because it goes against

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everything I was raised on and everything I knew how to do.

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So obviously, when you do something that is kind of not in your nature and you're not used to,

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you're not going to be able to do it.

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And if it's kind of not in your nature and you're not used to, it's difficult.

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And I have challenges.

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And what keeps me going despite challenges and setbacks is having a strong why.

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Because I know that what I'm doing is so impactful.

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Every woman who gives me feedback about how small to big, how I was able to make an impact,

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it gives me motivation and energy to keep on going.

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And it doesn't matter if that woman paid me or I just mentored her for free because I also do a lot of pro bono.

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So it doesn't matter.

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Every single feedback, even I have my own podcast, every woman that I bring to the podcast,

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I interview, and a lot of them like that was the first time they ever spoke in a podcast or publicly.

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So it just makes me so energized and motivated.

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Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is going to get more and more fun.

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We'll have more and more engagement as well.

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We'll invite people to participate in the show.

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And thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.