08/12/2025
11th ANNIVERSARY
Reflecting on the journey, it feels like just yesterday. The late nights spent absorbing laws, regulations, and mastering tasks like payroll processing, Excel organization, and even physical labor like painting and furniture moving. Balancing a full-time role as a tissue recovery technician while launching a company, navigating single motherhood to a 10-year-old, driving a car as old as me, and residing in survival mode. Enduring rejections, dismissals, and being underestimated. Juggling caregiving and administrative duties, pushing boundaries with a personal best of 53 consecutive hours worked.
Through myriad experiences including a pandemic and legal challenges, I stand resilient. This path has been a profound lesson in transformation. A quote once resonated with me, stating, "Entrepreneurship is a spiritual path," a raw and enlightening journey that has shaped me both professionally and emotionally. It has molded me into a compassionate servant, a dedicated leader of a team serving elders from a place of empathy.
Chajinel (guardian of the soul in Mayan Quiche) stands as a significant mentor in my life, alongside every patient and team member. Each encounter, whether a colleague, associate, or stranger, has imparted a lesson or a blessing, contributing to my growth. In ancient wisdom, the spiritual awakening is called "Path of the Jaguar," where solitude becomes a companion and perseverance prevails even in moments of doubt, not different from entrepreneurship.
Today, Chajinel and GereOM have achieved remarkable milestones, becoming the sole MBE as a Latino and women-owned entity in CA. Pioneering the first Geriatric Club in Mexico, boasting a workforce comprising 98% Latinos and 85% females. This success has enabled me to support fellow single mothers and uplift my community, fostering reciprocity in my homeland while upholding integrity.
Amidst it all, what endures is the person we've evolved into, the ability to rest at night in gratitude knowing we've given our all. This unwavering commitment I deeply believe should be the measure of success.
I can barely remember the Daniela who arrived to America at 18 years of age. Transformation continues. I am yet to be amazed for what is to come and the person I will become as I continue to walk the "Path of the Jaguar".
More than a business Chajinel is the embodiment of the Immigrant dream, lets lift each other always with respect and reciprocity for each others paths and challenges.
In deep gratitude - A Latino immigrant who dared to dream.
( 1st picture 2016, 2nd 2025)
