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The Case for the Miracles and Magic of Life | ”Holiday Special featuring Janet Pagan and her Guiding Stars”

Janet Pagan, CEO, Janet Pagan Home Loans and Branch Manager with ParamountResidential Mortgage Group, Inc. NMLS #220666
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Janet Pagan broke the glass ceiling twenty-five years ago when she entered an industry that was mostly male dominated and developed her expertise in the mortgage lending industry as an entrepreneur. Pursuing her passion to help people, Janet Pagan has achieved for hundreds of homebuyers the American dream of homeownership.
She has built a business based on consistent referrals and in educating borrowersregarding the complex home buying process and mortgage options so they can make informed decisions that will give them financing tailored to their needs, listening to those needs and future desires, and pairing them with the best loan program to fit their lifestyle. Her Borrowers can realize the American dream of sustainable homeownership and continue to build wealth through to their new generation.
Janet prides herself as being a Latina who speaks fluent Spanish and has dedicated herself to helping Hispanics achieve the dream of homeownership.Janet is an active participant and volunteer in her community by serving on various groups and associations to name a few, President of the Rotary Club of Fort Lee,Board Director, Women with Vision NJ Mortgage Bankers Association Women’s Committee, Regional Director NNJ Board Director, Hudson County Latin American Chamber of Commerce. President, Rotary Club of Fort LeeShe has received industry awards and has been named in industry publications.She has also collaborated as a co-author on several books.
Janet is paying it forward by motivating and guiding women and men in entry level positions in the mortgage industry advance themselves.Janet loves spending time with her family and exploring new places like traveling,museums, art and good food!

The Case for Healing from Loss and Grief

Ana Reynoso is the Founder of Reynoso Real Estate Inc. She offers over two decades of real estate experience consisting of residential sales.
Ana is a real estate professional who is known for helping her clients reach their goals. She brings to the table more than twelve years of experience in real estate development, with a focus on residential, commercial, and multifamily building services. Having worked in a variety of positions, everything from construction project management to sales, she has cultivated a unique perspective of the business and grown into someone who can be counted on to get results. Her negotiation skills are widely respected, and when you work with her, you can be sure that you are ending up with the best deal possible.
Ana has established long-term relationships with key stakeholders and C-level executives, making her business network particularly effective. She is someone who takes an active interest in her clients' success, overseeing asset management and redevelopment projects and keeping everyone apprised of what is going on from beginning to end. Communication is one of her major strengths. She has worked with short sales, BPOs, and bankruptcy situations before. Serving families from the Central Valley to the Bay Area, she is also heavily involved in hotels.
Bilingual, Ana is fluent in both English and Spanish. She is well-versed in fair housing laws, codes, and regulations, and she is qualified to provide counsel on a range of real estate-related topics.

The Case for Compassionate Curiosity: Navigating Sensitive Questions with Empathy

Jacqueline is a woman with a purpose driven goal: to be a part of a woman’s healing journey in these three pillars: Entrepreneurship, Faith, and Infertility.
Jacqueline Vazquez aims to help women struggling with Entrepreneurship, Faith, or Infertility by providing them with the tools & resources to release, heal and achieve emotional freedom. Her life’s journey and experiences has prepared her to become a resource for women worldwide.
Jacqueline Vazquez has been an entrepreneur and well-esteemed professional in the event industry for over 25 years. At the age of 28, she soon learned her journey with motherhood would take an unexpected turn into a journey with infertility. Her faith has kept her on firm foundation throughout all her unexpected situations. Whether it was a challenge or a loss, her resilience and faith has allowed her to move ahead towards her purpose.
Other than being a Latina CEO, Jacqueline is an Author, Speaker, Educator, Mentor, and Podcast Host. She is also described as being genuine, caring, resilient, patient, mindful, funny, empathetic, driven, reliable, trustworthy, curious, a survivor, and a realist.
While at the height of building her company and speaking in countries from Ecuador to China, not only was she struggling with the nuances that comes with being an entrepreneur, but she was also experiencing and struggling with infertility.  This is one of the reasons that lead her to serve other women.
Jacqueline is always looking for ways to support & empower girls and women by mentoring and speaking at events that build awareness and encourage women to be curious and driven. As a supporter of women’s mental wellness, she created this community that offers life-changing tools and resources. This community was created with intention and purpose based on Jacqueline’s real life experiences in all the three pillars: Entrepreneurship, Faith, and Infertility.
She launched the Inspired by Jacqueline Podcast, to educate, spread awareness and equip women globally. Tune in to the Podcast, as well as the Breaking The Glass Ceiling book where she discusses her journey with infertility while being an entrepreneur. Also look out for the Becoming An Unstoppable Woman book, where Jacqueline shares her journey on how she changes her narrative as a shy introvert. Jacqueline’s journey was also featured in the Event Therapy Magazine, a magazine focused on building mental health awareness for event and entertainment professional.
- https://inspiredbyjacqueline.com/about/

The Case for Wealth Creation: The Scenes Behind the Curtain

“I wanted to be able to help people achieve their dreams.”
 
Peggy Pratt Calle, a successful Associate Broker from Century 21 North East. Specializing in first-time homebuyers, Hispanic buyers, and investors, Calle assists clients within the Boston and North Shore markets, where her years of experience flipping houses comes in handy with her investor clients. She is a certified Loss Mitigation Specialist and has completed more than 240 short sale transactions throughout her career. 
 
Last year, Calle formed her own team, taking responsibility for training and teaching her new buyer agent and assistant as well as implementing new systems to streamline her process and increase production. In 2018, she ranked at No. 116 for the Top 250 Latino agents in the nation by the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP). Previously, she’s earned the Double Centurion Award from Century 21 and the Community Contribution Award from the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She has also been named a NEAR Platinum Top Producer and among the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals’ Top 50 in the Northeast for 2017.
 
Calle is the NAHREP Boston Chapter President for 2018 and a member of the North East Association of Realtors. She is a supporter of Rotary International and Habitat for Humanity.
 
Credits: | Boston Agent Magazine

The Case for Vulnerability: Showing the Genuine Side of Yourself

Lourdes Genao Ulloa is a multifaceted professional who is naturally curious about life and the "why" of things. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire in Marketing with a minor in Race Culture and Power and Master of Science from Bentley University in Information Age Marketing.
 
She is a co-author in a book titled Breaking the Glass Ceiling which has been a amazon top seller in 29 categories in 2 countries with a chapter called Island Roots, Global dreams. Her passions include understanding people and trends and relentlessly pursuing a better version of herself in all facets of life. Originally born in the Dominican Republic and growing up in Nashua, NH. Lourdes is known for her persistence, and work ethic, these characteristics have served her to accomplish a debt free college education and fully paid tuition for her masters degree.
 
As a part-time venture, she’s a real estate investor,  principal and owner of Genao Marketing and provides public speaking services on the power of influence, the art of persuasion and tools to be a master negotiator. She enjoys traveling, dancing and spending time with family and friends. Her goal is to share her experiences and serve to inspire as an example that despite hardships, obstacles and stereotypes anything is possible.

The case for representation and wealth creation

Neily Soto, Developer & Housing Advocate, and Best Seller Author of Breaking the Glass Ceiling. She is now running as one of the first Latinas for the city council in her community.
 
Growing up in subsidized housing, she recognized an opportunity in real estate, becoming an investor and housing developer. 
 
Neily’s passion for real estate and entrepreneurs has allowed her to help develop programs locally to aid first-time home buyers in the early stages of her career, such as the down payment assistance program for the City of Lawrence under the administration of Mayor Sullivan and Interise, a program she taught to help aide local businesses scale. 
 
Her focus has always been First Time Home Buyers and business owners in communities of color. In the great recession, she pivoted her business to serve over 400 families, modify their loans, or transition them with a short sale. In 2011, she shifted her business to helping owner occupants cash out some equity to start building a portfolio, as well as serving entry-level investors to attain the knowledge to start investing. A decade later, Neily has shifted again to start developing inventory as our communities are in dire need of housing.
 
Some of her accomplishments include becoming Founding Chair for the Diversity Equity & Inclusion task force in Massachusetts and Founder of PRG, LLC a development and consulting firm producing Attainable Housing Developments which is focused on bringing housing stock for home ownership into all communities of color.
She is the Co-Founding President of Business Network International Advocates in Lawrence, MA, and Is the current President of the Massachusetts Housing Coalition in Cambridge, MA, where their mission is to promote a sustainable and smart growth housing environment that supports economic, racial & social equality.
 
Neily was born in Massachusetts to Dominican parents and lives there with her husband and children. In her free time, Neily still sits on several boards and is working to create sustainable homeownership and generational wealth for as many families as possible. She enjoys traveling with her family and dances Salsa for entertainment. She loves to eat and exercise and has a passion for art and literature. Her biggest accomplishment has been to put her oldest daughter through college debt-free and mentor her for home ownership and passive income at the age of 22.

The Case for Changing the Narrative and Giving People a Voice! | Part 2

Tune in for the Part 2 of Dr. Lorilet's episode! 
 
Dr. Lorilet Monegro is a pediatric speech and language pathologist focusing on bilingual Spanish/English language development and disorders. She is based in Westchester County, New York. Dr. Monegro holds a Bachelor of Science in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology from New York University and a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Long Island University — Brooklyn Campus. She completed The Bilingual Extension Institute program for speech-language pathologists under the direction of Dr. Cate Crowley from Columbia University. 
Dr. Monegro is passionate about supporting Latina Spanish-speaking mothers and their children’s vital speech and language skills. She is committed to empowering Latinas and helping future generations of women achieve their educational goals. Her doctorate in Executive Leadership focused on understanding the influences on high school academic success for Latina college graduates. She was inducted into Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society as a Saint John Fisher University Alpha Gamma Omicron Chapter member. 

The Case for Changing the Narrative and Giving People a Voice! | Part 1

Dr. Lorilet Monegro is a pediatric speech and language pathologist focusing on bilingual Spanish/English language development and disorders. She is based in Westchester County, New York. Dr. Monegro holds a Bachelor of Science in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology from New York University and a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Long Island University — Brooklyn Campus. She completed The Bilingual Extension Institute program for speech-language pathologists under the direction of Dr. Cate Crowley from Columbia University. 
Dr. Monegro is passionate about supporting Latina Spanish-speaking mothers and their children’s vital speech and language skills. She is committed to empowering Latinas and helping future generations of women achieve their educational goals. Her doctorate in Executive Leadership focused on understanding the influences on high school academic success for Latina college graduates. She was inducted into Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society as a Saint John Fisher University Alpha Gamma Omicron Chapter member. 

The Case for Undocumented Immigrants: The Power of Your Voice

Zoila Marisol Gomez is the Managing Partner & Founder of Gomez & Palumbo, LLC. She obtained her JD in 2006 and since has been licensed to practice by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She has specialized in immigration law. She dreamed of becoming a lawyer since she was a child living in the Dominican Republic. She immigrated to the United States in 1988. 
 
She has dedicated her life work to advocate for and educate the immigrant community. In her efforts to further educate them regarding their rights and responsibilities, Attorney Gomez, participates weekly in the radio show “Al Son de la Mañana,” in WGUA Radio Católica, 98.1 FM. She is extremely passionate about giving back to the community that has seen her grow into the successful professional woman she is today and is active in many boards to further the betterment of the community she is proudly part of.

The Case for Resilience: From Crossing the Border in a Wooden Box to CEO

Meet Johana Quintuna, a nail artist and the founder and CEO of Nails by Johana.
 
Johana Quintuna, a woman who defied the odds and crossed borders, both literal and figurative, to create an extraordinary life. At age 17, she crossed the borders undocumented and inside a wooden box. Imagine entering a foreign land undocumented, concealed inside a wooden box, without knowledge of the language, culture, or the daunting challenges ahead. Johana Quintuna did just that, and her journey was nothing short of terrifying.
 
But what sets Johana apart is her indomitable spirit and unwavering resilience. Join us as she shares her heart-wrenching yet empowering tale of survival and transformation. From her humble beginnings as an undocumented immigrant, she has risen to become a successful founder and CEO of her own businesses - and now she is becoming a published author of our coming book Breaking the Glass Ceiling
 
In this episode, Johana Quintuna opens up about her experiences, her struggles, and her triumphs, with the hope of inspiring women everywhere to discover their own inner strength and resilience. Tune in for an unforgettable conversation that reminds us all that resilience knows no borders. Don't miss it only in Inspirame Podcast.