This Mother`s Day, we`re thinking about two mothers who built something remarkable, without a roadmap, without a program, and without a community telling them it was possible.
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Jeanne Liriano immigrated from the Dominican Republic, opened multiple businesses, and raised her children largely on her own. She educated herself through books and audiobooks, talked openly with her kids about money, and figured it out through sheer will.
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Imran Malek`s mother arrived from India as a single mother in New Hampshire, built a motel business, and became the financial resource her family turned to.
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Neither had coaches. Neither had formal cohorts of women cheering them on. Neither had Women`s Money Matters.
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Their children — Christina Alfaro, WMM`s Program and Tech Lead and Volunteer Coach, and Imran Malek, WMM Board Member — both joined this organization because they were inspired by what they watched their mothers do alone.
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"My mom figured it out on her own, at a time and in a field that wasn`t exactly welcoming to women, and without the kind of structured support that makes that journey easier," Christina says. "She never had the chance to not do it alone.”
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"What my mother had was access to a network that most people don`t have the good fortune of finding on their own,” says Imran. “Women`s Money Matters is, in many ways, the formalization of that. It takes something that happened organically in our community and makes it accessible to anyone, regardless of who they know or where they come from.”
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That is what we are building. A place where no woman has to figure it out alone.
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Happy Mother`s Day to every mother doing the work, and to everyone who shows up to make sure the next generation has more support than the last. 💚
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