Cafecito Con Jefas

Meet Jefa: Daisy De Anda - Dayz & Co.

• Kita Zuleta • Season 2 • Episode 6

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What if you could transform your professional life and truly earn what you're worth? That's exactly what Daisy De Anda, the remarkable founder of Dayz & Co., has done. Join us as she shares her inspiring journey from a humble Mexican-American upbringing to becoming a professional development powerhouse. Daisy's story is marked by resilience and determination, from printing her first resume at a public library to celebrating a 20-year milestone in the legal industry. Her mission? To empower others, especially within the Latinx and BIPOC communities, to achieve their career dreams.

Our conversation takes you through Daisy's extensive mentoring experiences—from guiding high school students to providing college coaching—and how these moments have fueled her passion for connecting employers with potential employees. Hear about the pivotal Jefa networking event that reignited her entrepreneurial spirit, leading to the creation of Dayz & Co. Daisy opens up about the challenges and joys of starting her own business, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and harnessing one's unique skills. Through her story, you'll see how a supportive community of trailblazing women can inspire and drive entrepreneurial success.

We'll also explore practical tips for building a professional brand without relying solely on logos and websites, and the significance of personal storytelling in career development. Daisy shares her insights on networking effectively on LinkedIn, along with her favorite coffee recipes and impactful books that have shaped her journey. Tune in for an episode brimming with actionable strategies, heartfelt reflections, and gratitude for the milestones achieved with the Cafecito con Jefas community.

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Kita Zuleta

Hi, jefas, welcome back to the Cafecito con Jefas podcast. I'm your host, gita Zuleta, a brand strategist, jefa coach and photographer in LA. It's season two and, whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, this season is packed with powerful conversations, actionable strategies and the realness that Cafecito con Jefas is known for. My efa journey has been anything but linear. I've pursued entrepreneurship in many forms over the past 15 years and I'm excited to share my knowledge and use this podcast to host conversations about real life and entrepreneurship, aka Jefa life. While our paths may vary, the emotions and experiences we share unite us. We're all the same, same but different. So grab your favorite mug, pour yourself a Cafecito and get cozy, because these conversations will ignite your passion, spark creativity, elevate your thinking and fuel your determination. I see you, jefa. Keep going. Welcome to the Cafecito con Jefas podcast. Hi Jefas, welcome back to the Cafecito con Jefas podcast. I'm your host, gita Zuleta, today. I am so excited for the conversation that I'm going to be having and the opportunity to introduce y'all to Daisy De Anda.

Kita Zuleta

Daisy is the proud owner and founder of Days Co. Consider her your professional development amiga. With 20 years of legal industry expertise, her mission is to empower and uplift women of color and BIPOC working professionals and first-gen students in any industry by collaborating with them to craft their life resume, guiding them on their career, advancement strategies, optimizing LinkedIn, coaching people through interview preparation, and so much more. She is located in Southern California and works with clients across the US. Her motto is to empower you to love what you do and get paid what you're worth. Deys, thank you so much for being here today. I'm so excited to talk to you¿. Cómo estás?

Daisy De Anda

I am so thrilled to be here. Como dice Selena estoy muy excited. Yes, I am so thrilled to be here. Como dice Selena estoy muy excited. Yes.

Kita Zuleta

That's a classic right, of course. Of course I love that so much. Bueno, I know I just read your official bio, but I would love for you to also give your own introductions. It's just a casual, you know, sharing what you do, what you do, who you serve and where you're located.

Daisy De Anda

Yeah, so a bit about me. As Gita mentioned, my name is Daisy De Anda and I'm actually a first-generation professional and college graduate. I have over 20 years of legal industry experience, so I do have a nine-to-five. I have over 20 years of legal industry experience, so I do have a 9 to 5, and I have over 15 years of experience mentoring and coaching first-gen college and high school students as well. I'm a Mexican-American and I'm also a speaker to empower students and professionals to really excel in their careers through things like mentorship, professional development and personal branding strategies, and I think one of the beautiful things about my business is that I've kind of encapsulated everything that I've learned over the last 20 years in my profession and now want to build that and see that grow in our comunidades, you know. So that's a little bit about me, and I like to call myself the professional development amiga. So, yes, I've coined that phrase. I hope people start recognizing me by that.

Kita Zuleta

I'm sure they do. I'm sure they do, especially in the CCJ community. I know that it's something that so many of us have heard you say already in introducing yourself as such. So it'll stick, I promise. Say it long and hard enough, and people will remember what it is.

Daisy De Anda

It'll be nice to be yelled at like across the room professional development, amiga. And then I'll look back.

Kita Zuleta

Well, people, have started recognizing you already, amiga. So it'll come. It'll come, but bueno, I'd love for you to share. You know, of course, I have the privilege of knowing a bit about your journey into this Jefa life and the beginnings of Days Co. But I would love for you to share with your fellow jefas the story about how long you've been pursuing entrepreneurship and what motivated you to start. What had you jump in and just telling us a story about what got you here now?

Daisy De Anda

Yeah. So I love sharing this story, actually, because I didn't realize I had been sharing my story for such a long time, so it's been really awesome to kind of now share it with my comunidad on platforms like podcasts or even like online, right. So I am a first generation Mexican-American and my parents immigrated here from Mexico and my parents immigrated here from Mexico and so soy mexicana and you know, as a little girl, I think now I up loving books and not being able to afford books right, going to the segunditas, the flea markets, or you know goodwill to pick up, you know, secondhand books, even yard sales right Las yardas, even yard sales right Las Yerdas. And now being a legal professional in specifically in libraries has been a full circle moment for me. I've had quite a few circle moments. So if we start there and kind of move forward, I can tell you that I grew up in libraries, because my very first resume was printed at a public library. Right, some of my most fond moments were at a local library in Highland in sixth grade me walking from home to the library back when it was safe to do so, and me just being giddy and just so happy that I checked out books and eventually that led to me having been part of a actual paid internship experience straight out of high school and I was taken under this organization's wing over a summer and I was placed at a law firm a local law firm here in Riverside California. And I was placed at a law firm a local law firm here in Riverside California which is where I'm, is home for me so Cal, so Southern California and I was there throughout a summer. It was a really empowering place to be because it was paid internship, right, and at the time I think minimum wage was maybe seven something eight dollars, right, and I was paid for that. So that was really exciting.

Career Journey and Entrepreneurial Inspiration

Daisy De Anda

I finished my internship there and then I started my first year as a first-gen college student at UCR and I actually went through my first semester and my mom and I both looked at each other and were like, hmm, I need to go back to work and you know it's just not cutting it not having a job. And I went back to that firm and I actually they had loved the work that I had put out for them and I stayed with that firm for 14 years actually. I went back and that's where my legal career started and I can tell you that I kind of started from the bottom and worked my way up into management, which is what I do now, and I graduated UCR with a psychology degree in 2009. And after having finished that, I quickly went into mentorship. Actually, I went into mentoring high school students locally at North High School if anybody knows, the IE or Riverside North High School, which was my rival high school, because I graduated from Poly High School and I was with an academy there and I was placed with students and being able to do one-on-one mentoring with them and that led to so many opportunities. We were able to host those students at my law firm and it was a partnership with the law firm and they could tour the firm and we could tell them about kind of shadow us attorneys myself and see what it was like to work in the legal industry, and then also set up really awesome behind the scene kind of tours at the local court and they actually got to meet some justices and some judges. So it was very incredible for them to see how they can take part in the judicial system and ask questions right as citizens of this country. So it was really amazing and then eventually that led into college coaching. I ended up coaching college students that I connected with and just recently actually, I just connected with my alumni association. So I'm really excited for that because just going back to UCR and being able to connect with my alma mater and just know that there's a community of first gen first gens there, right students, but also Latinos, first gen college students so there's just a big array of people in our comunidad that I feel like Days Co can serve.

Daisy De Anda

So, all that to say, fast forward 20 years and here we are, and this year, this summer, was my 20-year anniversary in the legal industry and it didn't dawn on me until you and I actually connected Kita, what it is, that I should be Kita, what it is that I should be entrepreneuring in right.

Daisy De Anda

It didn't dawn on me until late last year actually, and I'll be honest, this is a dream that I've had. I had had for over gosh just around that time, 15 years right, the time that I, right after graduating college, and it started off as helping family and friends, you know, redo their resume and write cover letters and provide reference letters, right and referrals. Also, if I knew of any jobs in the professional environment, being able to say, hey, I know someone or is anybody interested being able to be that person, that connector between employer and employee or potential employee, right. And then all that led to me doing that, and it was something I was doing for free, right, absolutely free, just because it was something that I felt so passionate about. And late last year you hosted a networking event right, the HEFA the HEFA.

Kita Zuleta

The Show Up HEFA. Show Up HEFA.

Navigating Professional Development and Entrepreneurship

Daisy De Anda

Yes, experience. It was a live experience of your podcast recorded live, and I was so incredibly honored to have been a part of the planning committee for that event and I met so many incredible entrepreneurs. So before that, let's go back a little farther 2023, that year that I decided I was going to get intentional about my friendships and the people that I wanted to meet. I've shared this in a couple different spaces. That 2023 was a really transformative year for me because I decided that I was going to start growing new friendships of women and women that were, you know, de otro calibre. They were just resonating at a certain vibra. They were go-getters, chingonas, you know. First gens Didn't have to be, but you know, most of them have been trailblazers, you know, leaders in their own right. And I didn't know where this came from. And I ended up in a space with you, cafecito con Jefas, you know. And then I ended up on that committee for that show up Jefa experience and it was there that women approached me and I remember to this day Lorena she's a realtor and she hit me up and she goes Daisy, what is your business? And I go I don't have a business, I'm the Jefa of my life. I'm the Jefa of my vida and the boss of my home, and you know, but I'm not. And she goes. You got to do something and shout out to Lorena because she was instrumental in sparking that fire. And then you blew on that fire, kita, and you know so many others, bea and Angel, and it just it's been amazing. So once I figured out, oh my goodness, I already have a tapped in market, I already have a tapped in market, I already have a tapped in client base Right, and another very, very, um like memory that sticks out is at the same time that all of this was happening.

Daisy De Anda

I was being intentional with friendships, I was networking, I was finding these group of women. Um, somebody reached out to me and, um, I'll say his name. I actually haven't said his name. Oh gosh, now I wonder if I should probably get permission. Maybe I won't. He's a good friend, he'll know who. He is, a friend from high school, a longtime friend. And he hit me up and he goes hey, can you redo my resume? And I said, are you sure that was me? And he goes yeah, I said, gosh, I don't remember doing one for you. And he goes it was from this email and I don't even have that email anymore.

Daisy De Anda

You know, thinking back, I'm like that was a moment that I was like whoa, this person thought of me 10 years later, after having done their resume, and that was another like, I think, very important moment, um, that that will live with me, because I was like wait a second, I do have people, this is something. And then, very quickly after that, I connected with you and I was like Kita, I think I want to start a business. And you were like wait what, I think I want to start a business. And you were like wait what I was always. Do you remember that meeting Kita?

Kita Zuleta

I really do, I do. It's what kickstarted having you come and join us for the show up, the mini mastermind, the first round of group coaching, the first beta round back in December of 2023.

Daisy De Anda

Yeah, yeah, and I mean that really started it. I didn't know what I was doing. I knew in my heart that I had been wanting to start a business. If you know me, I'm a Jackie O of all trades. That's what I like to say. I love event planning. I'm a creative. I love writing, even though I haven't done it in a really long time. I love designing typography. There's so many things, right. I love connecting people. I call myself a people connector. I'm also an information connector, right With my nine to five. So there's so many different things.

Daisy De Anda

And when I figured out that this is where I should be, the direction that I should be going, I had never thought of myself as a professional development coach Never, not once. And I'd been doing it for so long, right. So it's interesting to see take an assessment of the things that we're really good at, what we're passionate about, the things that we've done, and then kind of sit with ourselves and have those reflective moments and be like wait, wow, I'm actually really good at something or a few things right. And think, wow, I can start something new. You know, I can create something new, give life to something that wasn't there before. So that kind of brings us to something that wasn't there before. So that kind of brings us to today and why I'm here and now.

Daisy De Anda

I've been in business for oh my goodness, nine months. I've been in business for Days Co has been live for nine months and it's been so exciting. So much has happened since then. I've gotten new clients. I've had returning clients that I say, yeah, I'd love to redo your resume, but I'm now you know these are my fees and okay, where can I send it. And that's been so. You know it's so. It's such a different feeling getting a new client but then getting a returning client that that you've had and they're willing to pay you for your services and they see the value of your work. That's been incredible.

Daisy De Anda

And then creating these new relationships with these new clients that I've never that have found me online right, have connected with me on LinkedIn or have found me on Instagram, uh, or have found me because of my speaking engagements that I've done and they're like hey, I heard you speak, I'd love to connect, or you really inspired me to. You know, go in and start pushing some buttons and be a LinkedIn ninja. You know, go in and start pushing some buttons and be a LinkedIn, ninja, because I heard you speak on this topic or I heard, I saw a post of yours. It's been really incredible to kind of see the range of the people.

Daisy De Anda

And then, of course, my students, the people that in the comunidad that are just our young minds students from high school are still graduating. There's so many goals that I have for Days Co, but before I get there, you know that, before I get to that, yeah, that's a little bit about like where I am in the trajectory of my career and I'm here to really just help people navigate through, rediscovering their professional selves, and that's something I've done for myself too. I feel like in this journey of launching a business, I've rediscovered who Daisy is and her potential, but also what Days Co, what that means for Days Co.

Kita Zuleta

So, yeah, Well, thank you so much for taking us on that journey and really just sharing how you really got to where you're at now, and I think that's so much of part of the conversations we had early on, when you came to me and was like I want to start a business, and I was like, what do you want to do? What do you want to do? Because you can do it, and it's something like I've told I know I've told this to you and I've told this to plenty of Jefas in the community where you may be new going into entrepreneurship or doing something on your own, but you're not new to the services that you're offering. Right, like you said, you've been in professional development and coaching people through it for 15 years. Right, it's just the like scaries of now doing it alone with like it is I am, this is my business and days and co. Right Like, and these are the services that I offer, but it's just taking those skills and learning what it just takes to run the business.

Empowering Latinx Communities Through Professional Development

Kita Zuleta

Right To like actually start looking at you know the things that it does take to provide these services for a price and being able to say, okay, this is how I can serve you and this is what my services are worth and this is what all of the things are. And um, and also learning to be able to, you know, market yourself and show up online. Right, and defining your brand and, like you said, defining like who is Daisy on behalf of days and co. Right Because of you know, now you are showing up differently, like it's still you, it's still fully yourself, still all of the things that you've been doing, but now owning all of those pieces of you and being able to say, hi, I am your professional development amiga and you know these are the ways that you could work with me and being able to do that.

Kita Zuleta

So I just I love that you shared so much of your journey and getting here I mean even having someone you know from 10 years ago saying, hey, you helped me a while back. I'd love for you to help me again. Like that's such an amazing, amazing story. So I'm so proud of you for all the things you've accomplished since we first connected and the time that we've had together and being able to see you grow and really just thrive Like mujer. I've seen you fly. It's been beautiful to be able to see you truly develop into yourself.

Kita Zuleta

You know what I'm saying and just being able to say like, yeah, this is me and that's like it's just. I mean true to form, I mean it's so much of who you are already. It's been so cool because I feel like you're one of like the Hefas that has been able to, because of the not just being extroverted but also being able to really receive the encouragement from not just myself but your fellow Jefas and like being able to truly say no sabes que I'm going to do this and you're like all in right. So then, therefore, being all in, you're like I'm here, this is what I'm doing, and so being able to take up that space and really saying like this, how I can help, it's just been really powerful to watch you grow in that way. And so the next question, which is what you were leading up to, which is telling us about your brands why? So? I'd love for you to share now, officially, the mission and purpose behind you know, the services that you provide your clients.

Daisy De Anda

So, okay, that's something I'm going to be honest, right, porque sin pelos en la lengua, which is what I love about your podcast, kita right, nos dejamos el pelo down and sin pelos en la lengua. So I'm still working on that. I'm still working on my vision and mission. Right, I don't have yet, I don't yet have a website. One of the things that you know I'm super transparent about is that I don't have a website, I don't have a brand yet, and that's okay. I think that's something you taught me, kita. It's okay. So many things happen. When I launched the business, things just picked up so quickly, and I feel like one of the things I can and in this journey as a professional myself, a first-gen professional is that there are so many coaches out there, there are so many mentors out there, but there's not enough that look like us, that sound like us, right, that we can identify with. And that's one of the biggest things that I saw was a need, and I didn't realize it until I embarked on this journey, because and I didn't reflect on it until I became one and I say that because I had tons of mentors in my professional career Most of them were men of a particular age and of a particular race, right, and God of them were men of a particular age and of a particular race, right, and God bless them. They poured so much into me, right, and there were a few women in there too, but again, they were of a certain age and they were of a certain race, right age, and they were of a certain race, right. So, having said that, I can tell you now that one of Days Co's main values, right, is to be able to service Latinx walk clients, right, women of color, but also BIPOC, right, and I feel like there's not enough coaches that are Latina based, right, or that are servicing those communities specifically. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not ever going to turn anybody down, right. I've worked with other clients, too, that are not WOC or that are not BIPOC, if they want to work with me. But here's the beautiful thing about that I'm totally transparent and I'm totally open and say if you want to work with me, you're going to hear some Spanglish, you know my idioms are going to come out and you're going to get some references that you're not going to get right. So, and as long as they're comfortable with that, there's no problema, right? So my demographic is so large and so huge in my range too, right, like the communities I work with, but then also geographically, anywhere I've had, I've had pre-consultations with somebody in Latin America, in Mexico, right, so it just in Latin America, in Mexico, right, so it just.

Daisy De Anda

I'm very intentional about serving our comunidad because I feel like our comunidad is not represented fully in professional development, you know, and I feel like not only is it in the work environment, but also for our college students. Right, there's so many women of color, latinx, bipoc communities in college right now that have no idea what it's going to look like when they go out into the workforce. Right, and I talked about having so many goals for Days Co. One of them is that I want to reach those masses. Right, I want to reach the masses. I want to reach those students that are in their second, third year and they have no clue what's about to come. Right, once they leave and they're going to say, they're going to say, oh, my goodness, I heard her speak at my college, at my university. That's a long-term goal with Days Co. I want to be on those stages talking to those students about resume strategies, about building a professional brand, before they even exit those university hallways you know what I mean and those college campuses.

Daisy De Anda

Because I didn't have that and I'll share something with you that I haven't shared yet with you during the podcast is I actually was a first generation college I had. I was full, seven months pregnant, six months pregnant at that law firm, and that organization that worked with me, that local organization, took me in arms wide open. Wouldn't it be amazing for us to have that, to have something like that right In our comunidades, where we're placing students that are paid for internships, whether they're teen moms or foster students, foster kids or and pick something right In all those unrepresented communities? I was there. I know what it feels like and, um, I say that with so much pride because my daughter is 20. She's 20 tomorrow, she's going to be 20 tomorrow and my uni, my anniversary in the profession, is linked with her. Forever, is linked with her forever, right.

Daisy De Anda

And the joke is that I went back to that law firm and I took my baby girl and this was actually my mom's idea Take your baby, go show her off and then ask if they have employment. The joke is I landed that job because they fell in love with her. You know. You know what I mean. And they threw me this beautiful baby shower before I completed my summer internship. And then, when they saw me three months later and I brought the baby back, they were thrilled to see me. They were thrilled to hear about my first semester as an undergrad.

Daisy De Anda

And then I asked you know, is there any, any openings? And they said yes and they gave me an application and I came back for that interview and I mean almost on the spot, they gave me the job because they had worked with me, I had been given the opportunity right To have been put in that environment and had picked up skills, and then I had proved that I was going to be going into higher education. So I say that with so much pride because we need, we need to have spaces where people, where our comunidades feel safe, where they feel heard, where they feel seen, and I hope Days Co can create that somehow at some level. You know what I mean. So that, in short, would be my vision and my mission. Somehow, you know, once I dissect it and make it pretty.

Kita Zuleta

Well, listen, listen, the question really isn't to you know, provide your professional mission statement, right like? It's very much so, just wanting to know the why behind your work. And I know you did mention and I and I want to say this because I want to gently remind you and then also have your fellow, have us here I heard you say you know, I don't have a brand, and that's something that, um, what I did tell you was you do have a brand, you don't have a brand, and that's something that, um, what I did tell you was you do have a brand, you don't have a logo. That's different. A logo is not your brand, right, like, because, even with what you do by teaching, you know everyone to show up on LinkedIn, right, like, even what you were saying, having your. You know students graduating and thinking about their personal brand, your name. That is your brand. Even if you're not a full business, you are your brand, right, and a brand really is just how you present yourself professionally when you're thinking about it in a personal way. Because when you think about a business and a brand, right A business, anyone can do a specific business, right, whether it's coaching, whether it's photography, whether it's whatever it is the product or service that you sell, right, but the brand is the experience that is provided to the client for X, y. This is what makes you different. So it's why personal brands like Daisy just Daisy. Deanda, your professional development amiga, right, but Daisy and Co, that is your brand.

Kita Zuleta

It's simply yeah, we don't got a logo yet, we don't got a website yet, that's okay. Can you still provide the services? 1,000%. So that's where, not just for yourself, but for all of our fellow jefas who may not have logos yet, or we're still in the DIY stages, or you know, putting it, putting you know a basic website together, whatever that may look like for you. There's so many building blocks that we get to work towards and I know that, especially in a community of Jefas, a lot of times we'll get into this space of comparison Like, well, I'm not there yet, right, like I'm not able to work with a professional website designer. Or the funding yes, absolutely.

Kita Zuleta

You know the the branding part is the sexy part of the business, right. Like the business is just get the job done, get the clients do the work. Like being able to say, yes, I can do this for you for this amount of money. Like just being able to get confident and comfortable with doing the work. That is owning a business that is making the sales, that's making sure that you are creating this income. The brand is the sexy part, because the brand is where we go and we start marketing, right Like even in the group coaching program. Because the brand is where we go and we start marketing, right Like even in the group coaching program.

Building Professional Brand Without Logo

Kita Zuleta

The focus is branding and marketing, right Like, how do you think of yourself or what you're doing as a brand? And then how do you market yourself outside of just social media? It's a great, amazing tool, but it's not just IG, it's not just LinkedIn, it's email, it's right Like, it's the website, it's the different ways that you create an online presence and that's what is like the branding and marketing side of things. But you can have a brand, you are a brand before you even have a logo. Tanto tanto to prove that point Cafecito con Jefas we just we've been to.

Kita Zuleta

We just celebrated two years as a community. I'm super proud of that. So we just celebrated two years, but for the first year and a half we didn't have a logo and we didn't have a website. That is still being pieced together. Right now, thankfully, we have a website, officially cafecitoconjepascom. You can go check it out and find all of the things but one. It's still being built out by yours truly. We're pushing all the buttons back there and plugging away at it, but we didn't have a logo for the event. No, no, the logo was just Cafecito Con Jepas, typed out in all caps. We picked it up and then that was it. It wasn't a specific logo, we didn't have a website. But no one is going to come here and tell me that we didn't have a brand or we didn't exist as a community because we didn't have a logo. Yeah, a logo. It doesn't take away from what was created in that experience because there wasn't a specific logo.

Kita Zuleta

On things Like now for the second annual Show Up Hava experience, we got a logo, y'all. We got a logo and we'll be able to sell the tickets on the website. We have a place to go. You know what I mean. But we worked hard to build to that and still it's not getting built out by someone else because we're still working on funding the community. So it's this thing where we get to grow into the sexy part of branding, of branding pero, the building of the brand, the personal brand, the experience that we create for our clients. You can do that without a logo, you can do that without a website, you can do it the panzazo puro DIY but you can serve your clients well and provide an experience that only you can provide as a brand, as yourself, even if that is just your name.

Daisy De Anda

And I love that so much, gita, that you shared that with me and that you're sharing it now, because let me tell you with what I do that in itself, rediscovering your professional self online, in person, on your resume. You know, this is something that I think people don't understand, especially college students, right, and I keep talking about that because it's so important, right? Who's teaching our young about to be professionals that are going to be the next generation of working professionals for us? Right? Not even they don't teach us that in college, right?

Kita Zuleta

Let's be real, nobody is taking a strategy. You know one-on-one, maybe specifically in business, maybe, maybe, maybe in business right.

Daisy De Anda

And even then it's not specific to profession, it's to business, right. So that's where I feel like I can definitely come in and say you know, like you said, you don't have to have a logo to sell yourself to an employer, but you can start building that professional brand of what did you do in college. Let's go way farther. What'd you do in high school? Do you know how many people I've sat on my pre-consultation calls and we go through and we taught, we take it all the way back to high school, right, and the certifications they didn't even realize. Oh, I didn't realize. You're right, I did get my CPR license or my CPR certification. I did have you know this thing and this other thing and I did. Oh, I was volunteering at this nonprofit and I was doing all these, all these amazing. There's so many things that we don't even realize until we start rediscovering who we are right as a professional, as a business, as a business owner, as a HIFA. There's so many beautiful things that happen in rediscovery and one thing that I'd love to say here, if I can, is if you're someone who doesn't know where to start, start somewhere right, like you said, you don't have to have, you don't have to have that degree finished. You don't have to have, girl, I am in the legal professional and I don't have a legal degree. Okay, I don't have a JD, I don't have a MLIS, which is what is needed a master's of library information science for my profession. I have been self-taught the last 20 years, right, and experience has spoken right, and I'm now a manager in the legal library space, right? So, if you didn't know law firms and legal law schools and law libraries, they have legal professionals, they have researchers, they have people who need to figure out, right, attorneys need people to do the research and that is part of my profession. So you know, it's funny, so many people are like oh, I didn't know, I didn't know that legal libraries existed and that there was research. There's so many industries that we don't even know exist. There's so many jobs, right. There's so many different professions that we haven't even tapped, you know, into it's a tip of the iceberg, right what we see and the knowledge that we have into how many different job opportunities are out there. So you're right, I totally agree. You don't.

Daisy De Anda

Your resume could be your brand, it could be your logo, right, and it's a matter it'll get there. You'll get there. You know you'll put it all on paper and you'll get it figured out. But you can start before that. You can start building that in networking, in showing up on LinkedIn, in telling people your name and what you do and what you hope to do, right, shaking a hand and saying you know you do and what you hope to do, right, shaking a hand and saying you know I'm doing XYZ and I'm looking to move into XY space, right?

Daisy De Anda

So and it doesn't always I love to say this too it doesn't always mean that when you're looking at your profession or you're looking to hire a professional development coach, that you're looking to leave where you're at. You might love what it is that you do. That's why I also say I can help you find what it is that you love to do and get paid what you're worth, because you can love what you do. And that doesn't mean you have to stay where you are. You can love what you do in another company, in another industry, right. But you can love what you do here too, if you really love the company you're at and the industry you're in. But maybe you're not getting paid enough. So let's get you paid what you're worth, right. So no, I love that. That was so beautifully put that you don't need to do it right now.

Daisy De Anda

And, by the way, can we take a beat and just congratulate you, mujer, because two years of Cafecito con Jefas, I've been along for the ride for I feel like half of that journey and I only wish that I would have been a part of it from the beginning. You know, um, because somebody very wise once said you know it'll never be, there'll never be another first, and I hope you can go back to that first moment when you decided to launch. You know Cafecito con Jefas Just kind of like. I shared my story just now of how I came to be. You know Days, co, how this idea evolved into reality.

Daisy De Anda

You've created such a beautiful space, gita, and brought so many of us together, and we all know each other because of you, and we're all growing together. You know, and you're that fire, you've been that fire underneath us. So thank you for that fire underneath us. So thank you for that and thank you for being that um in our circle, in our, in our casitas and in our businesses, right, um, we're your Jefas.

Daisy De Anda

You know you're the teacher and we're the student, and and I was so lucky to also take on your mastermind, not once, but twice Y'all if y'all, yes, if y'all have not checked out, y'all are missing out, and it's been an experience to see you grow equally and I'm so excited, I'm so happy to call you my amiga and I call you my, my madrina, my madrina, um mentor, because you, you literally, were one of the very first people, uh, outside of, like my husband and um, my daughter, who, who, who knew that I wanted to launch something, and they heard what it was. You know what I mean and um. So, yeah, thank you for creating that space and Felicidades de Nuevo. That's a huge milestone Two years. It's a toddler.

Kita Zuleta

It is, it is, and, uh, thank you. Quiero llorar, quiero llorar, um. But uh, you always, always have the right things to tell me, to get me all up in my feelings, mujer, but I'm, uh, I'm, but I'm grateful for that beat, thank you. It's been a beautiful celebration these past few weeks, I think, because when we, cuando cumplimos el año, we actually launched the podcast for the first year, but there was still so much like that was just the first step in the evolution, which was, you know, launching the podcast and creating, expanding the platform. You know, launching the podcast and creating, expanding the platform. But ever since, this past year has been transformational. Not just like the first year was transformational, I think, for me personally, yes, and really being able to see and feel all of y'all around me as a community and I'm like, oh, this is a thing, like, oh, okay, this is, we're doing something with this, you know, and, and this past year has been much more of almost um, an integration of really accepting CCJ, as like as the dream I didn't know was the dream when I started it, you know, and because I started it, just literal cafecitos, like let's just get together, and. But now there's been a need in order to continue, to be able to fund CCJ and continue in general, I've had to adapt and pivot my business as well, right To be able to serve the community and have it also be able to fund itself somehow. And so it's evolved quite a bit, especially even with what started out as the show Peppa Mini Mastermind, which you were a part of, which really was a group coaching program, but I was struggling with owning the title coach and you know I love that. You shared your story about how long you've been coaching and you know, when I really look at where I started pursuing entrepreneurship was, you know, at this sales job that I got, but it was one of those jobs where you're a 1099. So you're like working for yourself but you're selling, you know, a bigger product that's bigger than just you.

Kita Zuleta

But I quickly went into management and training and coaching the sales reps. So, like I've been coaching sales reps on the fields that were not based in an office, we got together every week just so happened to be also on Wednesdays to get together because that is how we were able to celebrate the wins on the fields and acknowledge and recognize the hard work so that one reps that were just learning or brand new in the business can also see like, oh, there's other people actually doing this too and oh, it's actually possible and being able to connect and have this stuff. And so I've been cultivating like I hadn't seen, the like, almost what ends up being like almost a mirror image, a version of that, but obviously it's not like my sales rep, like cada quien esta en su mundo, our Jefas right, but really creating this like coworker environment, but also now like owning the coach title and being able to say that I do teach. You know, and I said it recently, that I've had the honor to be a coach to some, but a host to all.

Kita Zuleta

I like that so much and you know, because I'm not. There's so many coaches in the community also, and there's Hefas that have been doing this specific thing or coaching specifically in whatever direction that they're doing you know, for longer, or cualquier cosa.

Daisy De Anda

Yeah.

Kita Zuleta

Pero just being able to have what feels like a tangible community because y'all exist, y'all are here, you know, like y'all aren't getting ridall are here, you know, like like y'all aren't getting rid of me, now you know. And and being able to have y'all like have those moments, you know where, you know, we were on a call recently where you said a version of the same, you know, thank you, because connected you with someone else and someone else is having a win and different things are going on and getting the, that acknowledgement of like well, you connected us and this is where it started, or little things like that. It's beautiful to see and, quite honestly, especially for the community, specifically seeing that I mean con eso, I'm good. You know what I mean Like it's. And so the evolution that has been Cafecito con Jefas and where we're at today, I mean there's just there's so much of what's happened, it's been transformational this past year and so I really appreciate you taking that beat and it means a lot and it's why when I tell you that it like I love seeing you fly and I love seeing all the things that you're accomplishing.

Kita Zuleta

You know, and I'm honored to have you call me, you know your madrina, mentor and and having you trust me with you know the process and the behind the scenes at the beginning and you know, just being able to hold space for you and and coming to me with you know, you know, give me, what advice would you give me? X cosa, depending on how do you do this and that, right, how many, how many hours have we put in days behind the scenes, like just talking about this whole process and, um, it's been time invested, you know, and so I'm, I'm honored to be a small part in your journey, um, and and being able to see what you're doing now, because it's like, yeah, days and Co is gonna, it's gonna blow, like I've been telling you, I've been telling you from the gate.

Daisy De Anda

You told me You've been telling me that.

Building a LinkedIn Coaching Academy

Daisy De Anda

You've been telling me that. I've been telling you from the beginning. You know, I don't know that. I've been listening. Y mira, te voy a ser franca. The wins that I've had, quita, are not financial. I'll be honest, right, because I'm just starting, right, yeah, and I'm not, you know, selling packages and this. I've got a consistency, pero I'm starting off, which means I have a lot of costs right now. Right, I don't have overhead, pero I have a lot of costs because I'm starting. So, subscriptions, computer, you know all these different things, attending networking events, all these things, things attending networking events, all these things. My wins have been in right, like my wins have been, like, you know, um, creating my very first coaching program. That I thought was not going to happen.

Kita Zuleta

Girl, yes, can we talk about that for a little bit. Wait, wait, wait, let's back up, back up, back up, back up. Before we just like celebrate the win, I need you to tell your fellow half-husbands the story Like I need you to talk about. Tell them about it, Please tell us. Tell us about it.

Daisy De Anda

I decided that I was going to very early on. I launched this business January 2024. By March, I had a coaching program that I had released right and that I mean in business world. That's insane. That's you're talking what? Two months to prepare right and not having done this before, not had mind you, I will say and I'll keep that I've shared this with you. I was in your coaching program and that was a huge learning experience for me. So I took this on and here we are. I don't know. I opened up the doors for the coaching. I have no website, I have no way to take payment. I literally am like, oh my gosh, ¿qué estoy haciendo? And I'm nervous as all get out that nobody's going to sign up. Right, nobody's going to sign up. Who's going to come? Literally within the week of closing the doors to the coaching program, I had only thought that I would get one or two people. I had was it four, four or five coaching clients?

Kita Zuleta

We were for sure five. It was five of us.

Daisy De Anda

It was five. It was five of us. Yeah, and I throw myself in there, girl, because I was doing the practice.

Kita Zuleta

Six conmigo.

Daisy De Anda

Yeah, six conmigo, right, six conmigo. So I throw myself in there because, as I'm launching this coaching, the coaching program is for the mini. It's called the LinkedIn Mini Academy, right, and even in the middle of it the name changed because it was supposed to be LinkedIn Mini Mastery Academy, right, and I was like, oh no, that's too long of a hashtag. I got to change it and LinkedIn is changing. As I'm putting this course together and you'll, if anybody, if anybody purchases the replay, you'll see that, as we're, as we're coaching along, linkedin is changing and I kind of have to, kind of have to figure out like, oh no, this isn't working anymore. This moved and technology is changing, right, and I just I couldn't believe it.

Daisy De Anda

Gita came in. She actually, okay. So, gita, you came in. I want to say I raffled off, right, I raffled off a seat because somebody donated and that somebody was one of the girls that was already in the coaching academy. She had, okay, and I know what you're talking about. Now let's go back, okay. So I attend the Besties Brunch with Café Todo Mujer and I am a highlighted vendor in February. I'm a highlighted vendor in February.

Daisy De Anda

I'm a highlighted vendor in February.

Kita Zuleta

And I need a. We had closed the group coaching program in January y'all. So, like the group coaching, it was six weeks. The one that the show up Hefa one that Days was a part of with me. It started in December and ended in January, so we were done in January.

Daisy De Anda

February you were a highlighted vendor at the besties brunch and then the LinkedIn uh academy was in March and at that um, at that um highlighted vendor event, I met so many women, one specifically, and I'll give her a shout out here Daisy Carlos. And Daisy Carlos decided that she wanted to give a seat to another another LinkedIn sister right To attend my coaching program for free, because they couldn't. If they couldn't afford it, she wanted to give it away. She wanted to give a seat, she was going to attend and she was going to give another seat and that brought in Liz right, holistic.

Kita Zuleta

Calidad Holistic Wellness.

Daisy De Anda

Yes, calidad Holistic Wellness, who's a therapist? And that was three of us. And then I had connected with somebody in November, right In November, right after your network, your event, your show up event, and I had told them I think I'm going to launch a business and she goes oh, my goodness, I just hired a professional, a career coach, but we didn't touch on LinkedIn, it was very minimal. I would love it if you launched a coaching academy, let me know. I hit her up, she signed up and then Nadia, the happy desk, nadia, decides to join and there are my five, my fantastic five. Right, that launched my coaching business. Those are my wins, because I had just met this community of women, one at Friendsgiving in November, the other two at Cafecito con Jefas and one one at a besties brunch. Right, they didn't know me, they didn't know who I was, they didn't know my story. You know, and if you're ever inclined to purchase someday, this course will be a course in itself, right? Kita?

Kita Zuleta

I've been telling you that too.

Daisy De Anda

Yes, and life, oh my goodness, life has just been happening and it hasn't happened, but it will. And when it does and people buy it, they're going to be like, oh my gosh, there's so much here, right, that that I didn't even know existed. And LinkedIn can be a very scary place. But this, this Academy experience, is intended for you to be able to do things as a DIY skill, right? I think about LinkedIn and I think, gosh, I wish somebody would have taught me how to show up on LinkedIn. I was one of the very first adopters for LinkedIn and I had to navigate it all on my own and figure out how to push the buttons behind the scenes and what I wanted to showcase and what I didn't, how to push the buttons behind the scenes and what I wanted to showcase and what I didn't. So in this experience of this mini academy, I wanted to be there with you as your development amiga, teaching you the way, so that you didn't have to do it alone. You didn't have to do it. You know, with those social media scaries that Kita loves to, you know, say, those social media scaries that Kita loves to, you know, say Social media is already daunting and so so overwhelming. You know, I want to take that away. I want to take the overwhelming and the scary part away, because if we're not showcasing ourselves, our professional selves, right out there in a platform like that, then we could be missing opportunities right out there in a platform like that. Then we could be missing opportunities, right. So that's that experience of us learning DIY skills meaning I take you along and show you where to push the buttons and how to optimize it. What are the things you need to do so that you're showing up on a Google result and your LinkedIn profile shows up? Right? That you show up on a recruiter search within LinkedIn or outside of LinkedIn? So many people don't know that that 1 billion user platform is where people are looking to hire their talent, right? So, especially not in our comunidades, right? Nobody's telling us that. So if I can be that lighthouse, right? That light um that you can steer your ship to and say, oh, that's the guide, then I can be that for you. But that's my story with my and those are my wins. That's the win of that is that creating something like that, launching it, going through it, mind you, so much happened in that moment in time with me Personally, there was so much going on in March of this year for me Mentally I was not okay and I still had to show up right. And there's so many other things that I consider wins that are not monetary, like I said, for example, having met this amazing community of people right Of Hefas and entrepreneurs that I didn't even know existed Right, and open my eyes to, oh, my goodness, I have so many friends that have their own businesses and, and why am I now seeing it for the first time, you know? Um, so, yeah, that and and and learning how to another one, navigating. How do I navigate? Owning a business, being a professional, a working professional, being a mom, being a wife, being all these other roles that we play, right, being a daughter, right, being a sister, a prima? So how do I do that? How do you have?

Daisy De Anda

And it came at a moment where I thought that I had finally found balance between my profession and my home life and then I decided to launch a business and it just, you know, it stirred everything right up and I was just like, oh, we're going to have to relearn this from scratch again. You know, when I do make it big and I am, you know I blow up, like you say, say, um, the, the, the compensation, all that that will come. I know that, I know, um, but it's these little wins that I don't even know if I can call them little, because they are. They're just so important right now. You know they're so important, um, also realizing that I have to invest in myself. I have to invest.

Daisy De Anda

One thing that I I, one thing that I've shared with a few other people, is, if you have a coach, that is, as coaches, we have to continue learning. Right, and if you are looking to hire someone, something that you should highly consider is looking and assessing whether that person is continuing to grow. Right, because, as coaches and as as human beings, we're continuing to evolve and continuing to, to be intentional about our learning and growing and and florescer, you know. And if, as coaches, we're not doing that, then we're doing a disservice to the clients that we're serving. Right, because we have to continue to grow in order to be able to keep up with the technology or the industry or the business or the strategy or whatever. It is right. So that's something that I'm like, okay, I have to continue and learning how to, very early on figuring out that I had to invest in myself, which is why I took your mini mastermind and, mind you, I was not making anything.

Daisy De Anda

I didn't even launch the business yet. It was like an incubator for me. It became an incubator for me. So don't be afraid. Don't be afraid to invest in your business and in the dream that you have early on, because what do they say? The proof is in the pudding. You're going to see that. Do they say? The proof is in the pudding, like you're gonna.

Kita Zuleta

You're gonna see that um return exponentially grow.

Daisy De Anda

That investment's going to invent, exponentially grow over time, right? So I was very intentional about I need to figure out how to build a strategy about building a business, even though I don't have a logo and all that. You covered so much of that in that, in your mini master, in your mini mastermind, and I didn't know anything. I learned so much and I, I I'm continuing to grow. After that, I've hired a speaker coach, I've been part of an accountability speaker group, um, I've also done non-monetary investments where I've gone to my professional organizations.

Daisy De Anda

I'm part of a couple of different associations. I'm part of a national association for legal librarians and a local chapter that I'm very involved in, by the way, and I partnered with a mentor, a speaker mentor, and I'm the mentee. Right here, I'm a coach, but I'm a mentee. Somebody's pouring into me too, right? So it's important to say that and tell everybody that it's okay.

Daisy De Anda

You should give ourselves permission to be teached, to be open, and we have to be open to being teachable too, right? So? And I'll share this one last thing about since I brought up those national organizations and my local chapter I mentioned full circle moments earlier on and the fact that another huge full circle moment for me is that I now sit on that committee, that community youth internship committee for the Southern California Association of Law Libraries. That helped place me at that law firm. I now help students get placed right and it's just amazing to me because I didn't even and that was before I launched this business I did that. You know what I mean, and it's just another confirmation that I'm exactly where I need to be right. I'm doing the thing that I have been so passionate about and I'm giving back to the next generation of Daisies.

Kita Zuleta

Yeah, 1,000%, which is perfect, because that actually leads into our next question, which is like what piece of advice would you give your fellow Jefas?

Owning Your Story and Growth

Daisy De Anda

It would be that Don't be afraid to invest in yourself Anywhere in the journey of your business, whether it's early on, or maybe you've been with the, you've had your business three to five years, or maybe you've had it 10 to 15 years. Don't be afraid to go and teach yourself something new or be poured into by somebody that's been doing it for 45 years, right? So I've always said this and I'm a true believer of this If you are the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room, babe, because who's pouring into you? Everybody is looking to you to pour into them in that room, but who is pouring into you? You need to be in a room where you're also surrounded by people that know more than you. Experiences or knowledge or education. It could be a range of things. It doesn't have to mean education, right. It doesn't have to be thought and knowledge. It could be experiences. So I'd say that Don't be afraid to be in a room where you're not the smartest person, right. Be open to being led and be poured into, because one of the things you have to be open to receiving, too, right? Yeah, sometimes we get in our ways. If you've had a business, this is interesting. Maybe you've had a business and you're opening up a new business and you bring all those things with you in this new business. But it's a new business, it's a new industry, it's its own new, fresh creation. So you have to be open to receiving new things, right? Sometimes things have to change and change is very hard, right? So that's what I would leave the Jefas that are entrepreneurs Now, what I would say to my professional development amigas, those amigas, I would say, those amigas, I would say don't be afraid to own what it is that you do right.

Daisy De Anda

Don't be afraid, because, especially us Latinas, there's so much that we don't own and that we're afraid of speaking into the universe that we've done. It isn't until we intentionally sit back and we write it down or we self-reflect, right. And I say this because in my pre-consultations which, by the way, as of right now, I still offer free consultations, um, and I do that for a couple of reasons. One, because of the demo. You know, a community that I work with, it's hard to be able to afford, right, a coach.

Daisy De Anda

So one of the small things I think I can do is offer a free pre-consultation, and one thing that I discover in that is once that person becomes a client, I always tell them go back, go back and watch that first recording of our pre-consultation. And then I want you to watch this playback of today's session, of our last meeting, right, our last strategy call or our last coaching call, whatever it is. That we're meeting for Our last LinkedIn audit, right, and there is so much growth that you'll see there happened when we finished your life resume or your LinkedIn profile, and there's this confidence that was never there before, or maybe was there, but it's been dust off and it's been, and now it's shiny and it's brand new. You know what I mean. So I would say that those are the two pieces or I don't even know, maybe five pieces of advice that I could give.

Kita Zuleta

I mean there were so many gems that you were dropping as you were speaking throughout the entire time together, but I love the advice that you did share and there's just.

Kita Zuleta

There's so much there.

Kita Zuleta

We can keep going for another hour just on those pieces of advice.

Kita Zuleta

But absolutely, you know, it can be scary to invest in ourselves, but it is so important and really seeking out the knowledge right and constantly learning, constantly growing, constantly improving, it's so, so important and really just owning who we are and owning our story I mean that also applies to us as Jefas, and whether you're a Jefa de tu vida or simply an actual Jefa of your business you know owning who we are is the foundation of being able to take care of ourselves and also being able to take care of our clients and serve them in the best manner.

Kita Zuleta

And, you know, build a brand and build all of those things still comes with that foundational piece of you know, knowing thyself and knowing who you are and owning our stories, which can take time and a lot of healing and a lot of processing to own our stories, but it's important and so I'm really grateful that you have shared your story with us and shared your journey. Thank you so much for just taking this time and really being willing to show yourself, and I'm so grateful because we had talked about having you on the podcast back in January, right after, and I remember I was like you know what, deez, I think we should hold on, I think we should wait and see where this goes, because you did jump into the second round of group coaching, right, and so you know it was like okay, well, oh man, and that was a whole other experience A whole different level.

Kita Zuleta

She got to go into beta round one, beta round two, and that again, I mean it's definitely a group coaching program, that I've invested time and energy developing the curriculum and there's been a lot que tenía que pasar, you know, and it's all on purpose. I believe that, and so I'm grateful for your story, for sharing it with us, and, before we head out, I would love for you to share where our fellow Jefas, your fellow Jefas, can find you, how they can support your work and how they can connect with you online.

Connecting on LinkedIn and Coffee Recipe

Daisy De Anda

Yes, thank you again, kita, for having me. I couldn't wait to get on your podcast, but I am so very thankful that we waited, because there's so much that has happened, you know, and I'm so happy that you've created also this space for us to be able to share our stories, you know, with our comunidad and have that reach, you know, because it goes very, very far and wide, um, in the interwebs, as I like to call it. So, uh, where can people find me? Um, I am. You can find me on LinkedIn, uh, under Daisy De Anda. So definitely connect with me there. By the way, you want to connect, you don't want to follow, and if you want, to know why check out my replay of my mini LinkedIn Academy.

Daisy De Anda

There is a huge difference in following and connecting with people on LinkedIn. And you want to make sure you connect, hit the connect button. It's a little hidden, but it's there and if you want to, you know, work with me and see how it is that we can work together. I do have a ZCal link, so that's ZCalco slash Days Co D-A-Y-Z-A-N-D-C-O. And then, last but not least, I'm also on Instagram, so that's more like Daisy behind the scenes, I like to say right. So I take you kind of a little bit behind the scenes about my professional life, what it is that I do as a legal professional, but then also Days Co. You get to see me as Days Co and see what my special offers are and what I have coming up. I also do speaking engagements. So if you'd like to hire me as a speaker, I am here. Get into my DMs, email me. Uh, you can email me at Miss Daisy Deanda I'm sorry, mrs Daisy Deanda uh, at gmailcom. And yeah, that's where you can find me and hopefully soon on a website.

Kita Zuleta

Yes, even if it's a DIY website we are all about DIY here at CCJ we are okay with it being super basic and super thin, but it's eventually having a space where we can send our people. But for now, we do have LinkedIn to connect with Daisy, as well as Instagram, and be sure to reach out to her via email as well and get on her calendar, because she is a gem. If y'all don't already know her, be sure to connect with her Now, before we sign off, I have just a couple of rapid fire questions, so these are just little get to know you questions outside of, like you know, heavy days, right? And so, as you know, we are a cafecito loving community, right? So, whether it's cafecito or a tea, un tecito, you know how do you order your favorite drink at your local coffee shop?

Daisy De Anda

Oh I. Okay, I am not a huge coffee drinker, but when I have coffee it has to be cafe de olla, it just has to be um with the piloncillo and the canela. You know what I mean. And if I like to get wild, I don't even add cream, just literally a little bit of sugar, because I do like it sweet. But if I get wild, I like to make it over ice a cold cafe de olla.

Kita Zuleta

And I have a little recipe for you, if you're willing for me to share. Absolutely, mujer de cafe.

Daisy De Anda

Come on, and this is a recipe I want to say it's the Rising Phoenix. It's from a coffee shop in Arizona and I wish I could remember the name of the coffee shop, but I was connected through AZ, arizona, az, lotus, art. God rest her soul. Kita, when I first met you, I told you that you reminded me of her. She was a creator that I met during the pandemic and she was just a light and she lived in Arizona and I was able to visit the coffee shop, actually, that she actually painted a mural in their wall and she was just such a beautiful being and I met her only briefly and the coffee owner, her friend, shared this coffee recipe.

Daisy De Anda

So you take any coffee that you like, cold brew, and you take two squirts of agave and you mix it in with a little bit of the coffee, you swish it around, then you take ice cubes and pour them in, you pour the rest of the coffee in the rest of the cafecito de olla and then you top it off with your favorite milk and you sprinkle cinnamon on top. Oh girl, delicioso, refrescante, so delicious. That's my specialty coffee that I make for guests that come and visit me and they're always like what is it? And I'm like, nope, you only get it when you come to Daisy's house. So now, if they listen to the podcast, they're going to know the recipe.

Kita Zuleta

There you go, there you go, a special that only happens on the podcast. Muchas gracias, mujer, for sharing the recipe. We're going to have to try it out and, Jefas, you're going to have to let us know if you try it and what you think about that. What sounds delicious? Café de olla.

Daisy De Anda

I'll have to make it for you. You're going to have to come visit.

Kita Zuleta

Absolutely. We will set a date after this. Okay, and then two final questions. What book has impacted your life and that you would gift a fellow Jefa?

Daisy De Anda

A book that has. Okay, I have my favorite book, but I feel like I don't know if that one's impactful and but the one that I love books. You can, you can share.

Daisy De Anda

I do, but it's just it's, it's, it's, no, it's. Can share, I do, but it's just, it's, it's, it's no. It's my favorite book, but it's, it's also like my favorite movie is kind of weird, so I feel like the book is equally it's, it's a yeah, they made it into a mini series. It's called um. Oh goodness, why am I blanking on the title of the book? Um, it'll come to me, but and and it's by Wally Lamb. If everybody knows that author, I'll think of it, but the one I'm thinking about is the Latina Bible. I want to say the Latina Bible. I don't know if you've heard of it, kita, and it is an amazing book that I started reading as part of a book club that I also joined during the pandemic Girl. I was looking for comunidad in the pandemic and maybe that's why, in 2023, I made those decisions. But the book club had that book and it's literally a guide, a resource guide for Latinas on how to navigate anything from dating to golly dating to your professional career.

Kita Zuleta

Anything in between Life as a Latina Life.

Daisy De Anda

I want to say it's the Latina Bible. Let me see if I can get the title. But yes, and it was super good. I actually gifted it to a couple was super, it's super good. I actually gifted it to a couple of my nieces and my daughter, um, and that are off to college now. Yeah, the New Latinas Bible and the author is Sandra Guzman.

Kita Zuleta

Yes, Awesome, awesome, yes, yes. And then, finally, what is one word, one word that best describes the season of life that you're currently in?

Daisy De Anda

Ooh, that's a good question. I think the word would be acceptance right now. Yeah, acceptance, and it's funny because you think of the word and maybe you're thinking something, but when I think about it it's acceptance of accepting the now, Accepting where I am right now and that things will be okay. You know, so much comes at us at one time that sometimes it's hard to accept right, what's coming at us. And when we sit and we accept, then we can move through it, I feel like right. So accepting is a big word, I think right now. And, if you don't know, my house just went through a mommy makeover, so I'm accepting.

Kita Zuleta

There's a lot of accepting happening. There's a lot of accepting no, absolutely, absolutely no. My reaction to you was actually I got to interview another fellow Hifa yesterday and her word was also acceptance. So I was like, okay, there's a theme here. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah and I don't think, at least certainly not back-to-back days.

Kita Zuleta

It just so happens to be where, you know, both of you responded with that word and you know, both of you were reflected on it differently, of course, but also it was just like, okay, all right, what am I? I'm hearing the same thing here. There's a message there is, there is, and so I'm receiving it, and I'm grateful that you did share that as well. So, thank you so much. Bueno, okay, ahora, si we have officially gotten to the conclusion of our um podcast interview, I'm so incredibly grateful for your time, for you sharing your story with us, sharing your wisdom and um all of the encouragement and, of course, love that you've shown me, but also the wise words that you've shared to your fellow jefazas as well. So, thank you. Thank you so much for being here today.

Daisy De Anda

Thank you, kita, so excited. I can't wait to hear who else is on this podcast, so I'll be tuning in. Thank you so much again for having me.

Kita Zuleta

Of course, of course. And, jevas, we are so grateful that you have hung out with us today. We have spent some quality time together today, so thank you so much for tuning in, for listening to our conversation. Be sure to support your fellow Jeva Days. Connect with her on LinkedIn. That's Daisy De Anda, also on Instagram at Days Co, so be sure to connect with her. Put some time on her calendar. Go check out that LinkedIn replay.

Kita Zuleta

I got to be a part of that academy. It is three action-packed, information-packed sessions that can be really transformational for your LinkedIn. As long as you apply and integrate those things to your LinkedIn, it can be just a really, really great tool to learn from. I know being a part of it was a great learning opportunity for myself as I was dipping my toes back into LinkedIn, so I'm just really grateful for Daisy and everything she has been doing. Super excited to see what you're going to be doing. So be sure to connect with her and follow her. All of the updated links will be on the Cafecito Con Jefas website, so you'll be able to see all of her information. Be sure to go follow and support her work there as well. So thank you for tuning in, until next time.

Kita Zuleta

This is your host, kita Azuleta, and thank you for listening to the Cafecito con Jefas podcast. Well, Jefas, that's a wrap for today's episode. I hope you're leaving with fresh ideas, encouragement and inspiration to keep going. Being a Jefa isn't about having it all figured out. It's about showing up, learning, growing and taking imperfect action towards your vision. Remember, Jefa, you are not alone. This community is here to support you, cheer you on and celebrate your wins, because we go farther together. So let's do it scared pero juntas. If you enjoyed today's episode, show some love by leaving a review and sharing it with a fellow Jefa. Be sure to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss the incredible stories we have in store.

Kita Zuleta

If you're looking for a place to connect and focus, join our cafecito and co-working sessions. Sign up to our email list to get those invitations directly into your inbox. Come as you are when you can and surround yourself with your fellow Jefas. I can't wait to connect with you at a future cafecito. Connect and follow along with the community on Instagram at Cafecito con Jefas, and you can reach yours truly directly at La Jefa Quita. If you're ready to grow your brand online and looking for guidance, book a free consultation with me, and together we'll develop strategies that are in alignment with the season you're in. I'd be honored to walk with you on your Jefa journey. Before we go, remember that being a Jefa is an ever-evolving journey. There's no rush and no finish line. Just keep going. Pasito a pasito Until next time. I'm your host, kita Zuleta. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Cafecito con Jefas podcast.

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