Sin Miedo
We are in a particular moment in time, it is February 2026 and I am in Los Angeles, California and I just watched the Bad Bunny Super Bowl LX Half Time Show. I am a changed woman. It was EVERYTHING. I have no words nor no notes and will leave it to the pros for their cultural, historical and artistic analysis that I will continue to devour for the rest of my life.
What I do know is that Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio’s (aka Bad Bunny) performance inspires me in so many ways - one of which is to live my best and most authentic life for something bigger than myself and to do so “sin miedo” (without fear). Bad Bunny’s art aligns with his vision for a better world, his love and pride of Puerto Rico, his actions, creativity, words all while exuding confidence in who he is. His performance and how he moves through this world motivates me to step up, live into and practice my values unapologetically, with pride and without fear.
Three of my most cherished core values are
INTEGRITY
CONTENTMENT
FUTURE GENERATIONS.
They guide what I stand for, how I navigate this world and how I do business.
Integrity - means “being honest, having strong moral principles, and consistently doing the right thing, even when no one is watching”. To me, it is deeper than that - I define integrity as doing your best to mean what you say, say what you mean, to talk the talk, walk the walk and when you know better, you do better.
This value is important to me, partly because of the way I am wired, and also because of my life experiences and growing up in an alcoholic household. I loved and learned to live with someone who suffered from alcohol addiction for my entire life and it has absolutely shaped the person I am today.
It is difficult to live with integrity when someone you love is trapped in addiction. For many years I felt as if I was hitting my head on the wall. I learned how to navigate a very tricky relationship for the majority of my life, to manage my anger and expectations, to let go of what I couldn’t control, and to love deeply and show this love when the opportunity arose (during sober times) and could be reciprocated. It was hard to lean in to integrity all the time, but that is why I value it so much. Because my environment didn’t allow for me to practice it as fully as I liked, it became a north star for me and gave me hope especially when I felt lost, sad and helpless.
Today, my relationship with integrity has evolved, but one thing that remains is a steadfast commitment to strong moral principles and to build a social enterprise business that does not squarely live in capitalism and is instead mission driven. I am proud that People’s Yoga has by design always been socially minded and driven.
Contentment - I learned at a young age that life was going to give me very high highs and very low lows and this yanked from me any expectation of fantasy of a perfect life handed to me. I realized that I was going to have to work hard to build the life I wanted, protect and work on my mental health and also learn to not get pulled too far into the highs and lows of life that are sure to come. In my 20s, I started to learn from Zen Buddhism and Yogic teachings about the concept of contentment and it brought me a lot of healing. Contentment is the practice of being present and accepting the moment. It does not mean giving your power away or accepting shit from people.
It is the practice of understanding that life will absolutely give us experiences that result in emotions of extreme happiness and extreme suffering and everything in between. How we navigate these immense feelings and our ability to practice being present and be in relationship with these emotions will affect our quality of our mental, emotional and physical states.
Through the value of practice of contentment, I can be more present, understand that absolutely everything in life is temporary and this allows me to detach from holding on too tight to any outcome I want whether personally or professionally. It reminds me to take walks, look up at the sky, connect with nature and be present with the people who are in front of me. It helps me learn to be content with what’s in front of me and present for the experience I am having and to not be in my head and in a place of constantly striving for some perceived outcome.
If I can’t do these things, then being successful in business won’t mean much because I’ll never be happy with where I am.
Future Generations - This core value reminds me that I am here on this planet at this moment in time, but I am just one link in a chain of my ancestors and future generations. I am not the center of the universe and I am incredibly lucky to be born into human form at this time. Future generations reminds me that I have a very short time on this planet and that I need to do right by this beautiful earth that creator let me be on for this short amount of time and do my best to take care of it and pass on this earth, lessons, culture, love, life to my children and future generations. In business this means that I have to do work that is meaningful for my spirit and to proudly pass this on to future generations for the benefit of the earth, nature and all humanity.
Integrity, Contentment and Future Generations are core values that help me remember who the f*ck I am and to lean into and live by them, sin miedo/ without fear. Vamos.
