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Access and Opportunity - Ana Flores: Power Through Community

Ana Flores: Power Through Community

Access and Opportunity

01/08/21 • 34 min

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Carla speaks with media entrepreneur Ana Flores, founder and CEO of #WeAllGrow Latina Network, a community that has elevated the voices and stories of Latinas for the past 10 years.

Ana Flores is the creator of the first and largest community of Latina digital influencers, and is among the only 1% of Latina owned companies to ever hit the $1 million revenue mark. In this episode, Ana walks us through her upbringing between El Salvador and Houston, her early career in television, and embracing an entrepreneurial spirit that led her to start her first company. Today, she continues to elevate Latina voices through the power of her community, as she celebrates #WeAllGrow Latina Network’s 10-year anniversary. Come on and join us for the ride.

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Ana Flores: In 2010, really the conversations that we have now of VC funding for women, and especially for Latinas, were just not being had. Because what I created was something so new. People didn't see the value. And I knew that.

Carla Harris: On this episode of Access and Opportunity, we welcome Entrepreneur Ana Flores, Founder and CEO of #WeAllGrow Latina Network. Ana is the creator of the first and largest network of Latina digital influencers and is among the 1% of Latina-owned companies to ever hit the $1 million revenue mark. With no outside investment, she continues to elevate Latina voices through the power of her community as she celebrates #WeAllGrow Latina Network’s 10-year anniversary.

Carla Harris: In this episode, Ana takes us through her upbringing between El Salvador and Houston, her early career in television, and her embrace of an entrepreneurial spirit that led her to start her first company, SpanglishBaby and then ultimately #WeAllGrow. Come on and join me for the ride!

Carla Harris: Ana, thank you so much for being here with me today. It's a pleasure to have you on the show. Let's jump right in. Are you ready?

Ana Flores: I'm ready. Carla, thank you so much for the invitation. Let's do this.

Carla Harris: All right. First, congratulations on your tremendous success, especially as you come up on your 10th anniversary with #weallgrowlatinanetwork. You have been committed to raising Latina voices and scaled and monetize outstanding brands to advance that cause. So now let's go back to the beginning and talk about your path.

Ana Flores: Yes. I was born in Texas. I was born in Houston. My dad still lives there. Both my parents are from El Salvador. And thankfully, they decided to get divorced when I was six years old because that really defined everything and who I am. My mom moved back with myself and my younger sister. Grabbed us, you know, in a pickup van, I think it was, and moved us back to El Salvador — where really I grew up, where I had my formative years. But my formative years weren't only there. They were also in Houston. I grew up between both countries, between two different cultures. I grew up speaking both languages. I don't remember how I learned Spanish or how I learned English. My mom doesn't seem to remember either. I was in an American school in El Salvador, but that really defined this wholehearted 200 percent Latina American person that I am, that it has defined my career as well. And when I was 18, I moved back to Texas. To go to college. I ended up following a boy to Florida. That's the honest truth.

Carla Harris: I was about to ask how you got to Florida.

Ana Flores: He was going to Embry-Riddle, he was a pilot. And I had a lot of friends, actually. There's a really big community of La...

01/08/21 • 34 min

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