Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Corina Sanchez. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Corina, appreciate you joining us today. What did your parents do right and how has that impacted you in your life and career?

Imagine going from single-parenthood in Caracas, Venezuela, to immigrating to Seattle, Washington, to having two sons with autism, to getting diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and battling it courageously for 10 years – while growing in strength as this happened.

This is who my mom was. She showed me how to rise up and face any circumstance that life would serve. Her and my dad instilled a sense of inner strength that has carried me through every challenge I’ve faced.

Upon my mom’s passing, I made her a promise that her story would be known; that she would continue to inspire others as she had during her courageous fight. So instead of letting the sorrow overtake me, I turned it into a keynote speech about facing challenges with intention.

This same spirit led me to found Moms Who Leverage, packaging up how I faced the challenges of being a working mom to twins + a toddler.

My parents taught me that hard is not the same thing as bad, and it’s an honor to spread this message.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

The 5 words that forever changed my life – “there’s two babies in there.”

WOW. Didn’t see that one coming. But maybe I should have…

Fast forward about a year, and “you’ve got your hands full” started to feel like a name tag. I heard this almost every time I would go out with my twins and toddler.

Then I would usually get a follow up question along the lines, “but how are you so calm?”

This question threw me off, because “calm” wasn’t a true representation of how I had lived most of my life. From immigrating, to growing up with two brothers with autism, to losing my mom at a young age, I was surrounded by a lot of chaos. I always yearned for peace, but it felt out of reach.

I thought it would only come when the steady stream of struggle ran out and all these challenges were behind me.

But I started to realize, these very challenges were the things that taught me how to cultivate peace. It wasn’t something elusive that would one day arrive; it was something I could generate.

And that ability became essential when I became a mom of three under two.
It was assumed that having twins & a toddler would go hand in hand with mayhem. And while it has been the busiest season of my life, it’s also been the most productive.

I started to get a lot of questions from other moms: “How are you doing this? I’m barely surviving.”

The sense of overwhelm was palpable. The demands of working like we don’t have kids and raising kids like we don’t work takes an enormous toll.
I saw moms being pushed to breaking points, completely overstimulated. They were waking up feeling underwater and only falling further behind each day.

Almost every working mom I talked to described daily life as chaotic and completely unsustainable. They were just waiting for things to get better.
But it’s in this waiting that our life & opportunities to grow pass us by.

I began to realize that the skill of cultivating peace in the midst of chaos is not a common one.

I felt compelled to share what I’ve learned. Moms Who Leverage was created to help moms regain control over their daily lives so they can move from surviving to thriving.

I lost my mom to cancer before I became a mom, and this profoundly changed how I view time. It helped me see how finite it really is. Even the hard moments are precious, and when faced with intention, they become our greatest fortifiers.

That said, I also empathized with that feeling of overwhelm deeply. I knew how crippling it could feel. And I also knew how to overcome it.

I felt personally called to help moms break this cycle of overwhelm. So I leaned into all that I had learned as an older sister to two brothers with autism, a twin + toddler mom, an internal consultant in tech, and created a program that empowers ambitious working moms to face their challenges systematically & with intention.

I do this by teaching them to:
– shift their focus from time management to energy management
– build systems that reduce friction
– sustain these systems so they run even on their hardest days

There is so much joy is on the other side of overcoming, and I want all the moms I help to feel this for themselves. I’m here to help them thrive during motherhood, not just survive.

Have you ever had to pivot?

How long does it take for a plot twist to turn into a happy ending?
Professionally, I grew up in corporate. I went to business school, worked at major corporations like United Technologies, Microsoft, SAP. I thought this would be my life for the next 40 years.

After I had my first son, there was an adjustment period, but we eventually settled back into our work routines. Just when we were getting the hang of it around his first birthday, we found out we were expecting twins. Such a massive change in a short amount of time felt overwhelming to say the least. Life was giving us a chance to undergo a major transformation, but construction zones can be messy.

As we navigated the first few months with three under three, I started to feel this ever growing calling to reconsider this career path. Was I really helping the people I was meant to help? Was there a bigger purpose to going through the series of challenges my life had offered me?

So while the year of having infant twins and a toddler may not logically seem like the best time to start a business, I couldn’t NOT start it. The calling to do this was too great. I knew I could help moms who were deep in the trenches of overwhelm regain control of their daily lives so they could reclaim joy in motherhood again. This is such a fleeting experience, and I deeply believe in sharing the tools to help moms move out of the survival state that keeps us from living it fully.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

I think one of life’s greatest designs is that you don’t realize you’re heading into a hard time until you’re right in the thick of it.

Had I known what a full year of 3 under 3 hand in store for us, I would have wanted to stay pregnant forever. It would have felt like too big of a learning curve to take on willingly. Being thrown into survival mode was a forcing function to focus on figuring things out instead of getting caught up in overanalyzing.

My background is in internal consulting, which taught me to look for leverage – how can I figure out a solution that’s good not just for today, but for tomorrow.

After the twins were born, I realized the amount of things we have to do far exceeded our supply. This wasn’t just about getting through a to-do list, this was about redesigning our daily lives. We started building systems. We would look at the friction that was coming up in our daily lives and analyze – what’s happening here? What’s leading to this breakdown? What would it look like for this to be simple, even enjoyable?

Answering these questions led to Moms Who Leverage being born. And now as challenges come up, I get such a thrill building systems to get through them, because I know that other families will be served by them.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.momswholeverage.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/corina.a.sanchez/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinaasanchez/

Image Credits

Adela Manotos
Amanda Ron