Meet Rosa León Fandiño of Si Quiero.Por eso Puedo

Today we’d like to introduce you to Rosa León Fandiño. 

Rosa, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I came to United States to teach Spanish as a second language with a J1 visa for three years. 

Being here in in the beginning of my first year at met Matt, who is now my husband. After 21 years without a love relationship, since my first marriage, was beautiful the way we fell in love. After a year of relationship, Matt proposed and I said YES!!! 

Of course, the next step was preparing the wedding and then my immigration process. My J1 visa expired after three years working in a multicultural school in Fort Collins but still my green card was not ready. Far away we were to think in 2018 my process would be denied. 

To make the story short, so you can read it in my book, lol, the green card was denied twice, yes, two times, and was until 2021 when finally, I got my work permission first, in April, and the green card later in September, everything after a very long, difficult, expensive, and exhausted process. 

I spent three years in an immigration limbo status without permission to work and thinking about what I really wanted at that stage of my life, especially after losing my dad in Venezuela without the chance to see him for a last time. I began to review myself internally, to explore my talents, and to know myself in depth. I realized that I wanted to align my talents with my purpose of live -giving something valuable to the community- so I started an inward journey and discovered life coaching and the world of business, and irremediably I felt in love with the idea to start my own business where I could help other people in their reinvention process, personal and professional, building their businesses with purpose. 

In that moment Si Quiero Por Eso Puedo got born which means If I want I can. 

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
This process has been many things, except a smooth road. In the first year, we had to struggle with being short with money, and the depression about me feeling guilty to leaving my dad sick in Venezuela. My dad was always my best friend and mentor and he himself urged me to stay here in the States because if I had to wait for my process outside the country that could take me five years before I could comeback, and also, even we have been very short with the money, we could pay for all he needs in a country, like Venezuela, where the situation was plenty of misery, scarcity, and lack. 

I needed to find the mechanisms that would help me achieve inner peace, develop the best version of myself, and train myself in the world of life coaching and business, my new goal in my new life. 

During the process, I learned many things that today I put at the service of my community. 

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
In Si Quiero Por Eso Puedo, as a Consultant and Business Instructor, I help people to empower themselves and deploy the best version of themselves so that they can achieve their goals, and with them achieve the full life they deserve by undertaking with purpose. 

I know from my own experience that entrepreneurship is not easy, but it is wonderful. That is why I accompany entrepreneurs step by step so that it becomes easier for them to reconcile all those challenges and tasks that entrepreneurship means, without being worried about their age. 

Through courses, workshops, programs, and consultancies, I can help entrepreneurs make their ideas business a reality with a higher percentage of accomplishment, working not only in their business but also in their mentality, to reinvent themselves with success at any age. 

Some of the sets me apart from others is I have been there, I know what means reinvent yourself after fifty, in a foreign country, with not too much money and a lot of fears running thought your veins. 

I know what means to be part of the minorities been and work hard to make the difference. 

My experience as a teacher, coach, and businesswoman has helped me develop programs that combine learning strategies, coaching, creativity, and teaching materials, which I put at the service of my clients, together with my expertise, so that through courses, programs online, live workshops, group consulting and mentoring, based on innovative formulas that combine the best of the world of learning and training, they can achieve their projects and everything they set out to do. 

And since the end of 2021, I have been serving the community around Mi Casa Resource Center community, as a Senior Bilingual Business advisor & Instructor. In MI Casa I have been further developing my skills, next to the amazing work team there, to help develop the potential of people and their business goals. 

What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
Freelance opportunities have already been growing. Boston Consulting Group’s 2018 study of 6,500 executives worldwide found that nearly 40% expected to increase use of freelancers in the next five years. Opportunities in more industries skyrocketed in 2020 as COVID-19 shifted the direction of businesses. 

In the next five years, I see myself as a trusted brand and reference in the world of personal development and entrepreneurship, offering a range of services tailored to our clients so that they can make their own vision as entrepreneurs a reality, no matter their age. We will helping more people, coming from any country, culture, and age, to make true their projects being part of the solution and impulsion the opportunities this modern world is offering based in their talents and vocation. 

Also, I see myself, personally, impacting lives with my books. This next May 25th we will have my book launch: Me, Old? How to reinvent yourself with success an any age, at Mi Casa Resource Center. Though my story, experience, and exercises, I try to help the readers to discover themselves, reprogram their mindset to the success, manage their emotions, enhance their talents and align their lives with their purposes, no matter their age. 

Contact Info:

• Email: rosaleon@siquieroporesopuedo.com
• Website: www.siquieroporesopuedo.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siquiero.poresopuedo/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SiQuiero.PoresoPuedo
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/SiquieroP
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYzVMv6GOJhmKb2d7V6ZOFw
• Other: TikTok https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdHhy9yP/