Conversations with Haydee Cano

Today we’d like to introduce you to Haydee Cano. 

Hi Haydee, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers?
Hello, my name is Haydee Cano, I’m a Colorado state-certified esthetician. I’m the first generation of immigrants in my family. My story begins a few years back when I gained the desire to go to school again. I got married at a very young age in my tiny village (Nenetzintla) in Puebla Mexico, so I had to begin adult life sooner than most.  Ever since I entered my 30’s, my mother‘s side of the family had been encouraging me to go back to school, but I was afraid to do so because of my age (I thought I was too old to be in school again). When I came around to the idea of returning to school, I realized that my daily schedule would have to change. I had to come to a compromise with my family, which includes my husband, and most importantly my daughter and my son (Audrey & Alejandro) 

An obstacle that I had to overcome was my lack of knowledge about the process of how to begin. I had yet to choose a career, I was so motivated but I didn’t know anyone who I could ask for guidance. For a time, I was afraid, nervous, and had this guilty sensation that all mothers have when we begin to prioritize ourselves. My head became a big box full of negative thoughts until I met Ms. Klaudia Neufeld and Mireya Mendoza who were wonderful mentors to me, both helped me redirecting my perspective about my ideas, turning them into positive goals to achieve. 

Ms. Neufeld would always answer questions that I would ponder and never hesitated to guide me towards the right direction. She recommended me to go to CCA, I followed her advice and that’s where I met Ms. Valerie Gantzler, who helped me a lot while and after I was in her program, together we found the best option for me and later Ms. Gantzler redirected me to Pickens College, where I found my place in life. I began to study and slowly learned how to control my nervousness and I even improved my knowledge of the English language. The environment and people I found until now are an extension of my family, (and yes, I found another mentor) Ms. Laurie Murdoch, who is a wonderful source of knowledge and generosity. Without her encouraging me I couldn’t have made it this far. 

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
To be honest, there have been several ups and downs along the road, like the lack of time, from when I started my journey to now it isn’t easy to handle my schedule. As a mother of 2, I have to be there for my kids, I am always participating in their school events and I keep myself active in their activities dealing with my own responsibilities, while I am also supporting my husband, who has also been very supportive of me, I had to accept that I was needing help and this was the time to ask for it. The second struggle I have is with the English language, at the time when I began to get back to school the translation of language wasn’t that easy, at the beginning it was so tricky and I was confused and I really had to force myself to get back on track. It gets easier to speak it day by day but to have a career with specialized vocabulary, I need to push myself extra to provide me with more information. 

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
Now I’m an esthetician and graduated being part of the National Technical Honor Society NTHS which is an honor. With a variety of certifications to offer several treatments to my clients, I’m still interested in learning to obtain more certifications to improve my skills and knowledge. Right now, I’m working for Laila Makari in her wonderful company, she is another wonderful woman who has been working in the aesthetic field for about 18 years. I have been working with many mentors who are guiding me through this journey, fulfilling me with experience and love for our career. 

We’d love to hear about how you think about risk-taking?
I have heard a lot that “when you’re beginning to feel uncomfortable in a place it is time to move on” well to me it’s exactly the opposite, the longer I stay in a place the more I start to turn it into my home, to me, it’s a little bit harder to move on because nobody wants to leave home, nobody wants to leave their families, nobody wants to change a good thing for expectations, for unknown fields.  When I made the decision to begin a professional career by myself, I was afraid because I was supposed to walk alone, trying to figure out how to handle my absences and how to make them easy for my family. Now I see that I only made it a risk in my head and I had a predisposition to fail. I was almost sure that at some point I was going to leave the school and I was expecting my failures because I was feeling a lot of pressure. For a time, it felt like this wasn’t the journey for me, but the remedy for that was to just stop expecting and I began to enjoy every day one at a time. I missed school so much so I began to be more grateful for my experiences, the new beginning, for the positive “change of direction” in my life, for the people around me because I was receiving a lot of help from my family and my friends, and of course, I was grateful for my happiness (because I was deeply happy). 

So, in retrospective I’m not a risky person, but what I have deep inside myself are values. I’m a family woman who puts a lot of weight in her family, her roots, and traditions. I want to improve at my job, I want to keep creating experiences for my family, nice memories, and a loving environment. I really do believe that if you are a good person just the good things will follow, if you act with respect and ethics, those with the same thoughts are going to naturally appear in your life. So, my lesson learned is that each person has to trust themselves, and think that each difficulty will make their goals more attractive, and are opportunities to overcome. 

My next goal is to work harder to create my own business and provide a wonderful experience with the best results for my clients, is not going to be easy but with the love that I have for my career and the best disposition that I have to work with them that is my next challenge to achieve. 

Contact Info:

• Email: estheticianhaydee@gmail.com
• Facebook: https://fb.watch/aU9UMybJrV/

Image Credits:
https://lightweaverphotography.smugmug.com/School-of-Rock-Shows/SOR-Winter-2019