We recently connected with Myshelle Peguero and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Myshelle, thanks for joining us today. Risk taking is something we’re really interested in and we’d love to hear the story of a risk you’ve taken.

The idea for what I do today came from survival, healing and something in me that just wouldn’t let go. In 2014, after trying to take my own life, I started therapy. Through support of my therapist, other patients and my willingness to keep going, I began my spiritual journey through tarot and started exploring holistic and practical healing. These were things I had never been taught growing up. For the first time, I had language for what I was feeling. I started to process my trauma, understand my patterns, and really see how much I had been carrying. Being a teen mom from the Bronx, growing up around trauma and loss, I had always been in survival mode but I knew I didn’t want to stay there. I had dreams and I wanted more.

The idea for Mindful Intervention came through survival, healing and something in me that just wouldn’t let go. It wasn’t some business plan I sat down and created. It was a deep pull. A knowing. I saw a gap. I saw how so many women, especially in urban communities like mine, were suffering in silence. Many doing what they had to do to survive, but not really living. Through my tarot readings, I got a front row seat to people’s pain. I wasn’t just reading cards. I was coaching, listening, guiding. I saw how many people didn’t have the resources, support, or emotional stamina to pull themselves out. They were told to heal, but nobody was showing them how.

I didn’t run with the idea right away. I sat on it for years. I had all this insight, all this information but I didn’t know if I was ready. I still had doubts. I was healing too. To be real, I was scared. I did this work for free for a long time through tarot, but I didn’t fully own it. I didn’t step into it the way I knew I could.
What excites me most now is the potential. Mindful Intervention is still new, but I know it’s powerful. Mindful Intervention is DIVINE INTERVENTION. It’s that moment when you stop running on autopilot, and you interrupt your cycle with intention. It’s that choice to turn inward, to get clear, to grow on purpose. I want to build something that makes healing feel possible, relatable, and even fun. It’s not just about pain, it’s about power. It’s about showing people that they can shift, even if it takes time. This community can grow into something that truly impacts lives and that lights me up. I know what it did for me. I know what’s possible when you finally give yourself permission to heal on your own terms.

Myshelle, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I was born and raised in the Bronx, the 5th of six children in a loud, tough, deeply traditional household. My mother raised us all to be wives, and most of my sisters were married off young. I fell in love early too, but deep down, I always knew I wanted more. I became a teen mom and graduated high school 7 months pregnant with my first child. I was the first in my family to graduate, and although I had dreams of college, life had other plans. I went straight onto welfare and got my first job through a welfare program. That was the beginning of me carving a path I’d never seen anyone take before.

Eventually, I worked my way up in a male-dominated field and became a business development manager in the car industry. By day, I was leading sales teams and driving results and by night, I was doing tarot readings. I didn’t advertise it loudly at the time, but those sessions were powerful. People came to me in pain, looking for clarity, and what started as readings turned into deep conversations about self-worth, purpose, healing, and transformation. I realized I wasn’t just helping people see their future but I was helping them reclaim their power and rewrite their stories.

What sets me apart is that I don’t sugarcoat! I’m not here for surface-level advice. My approach isn’t kumbaya, sunshine and rainbows. I bring a real, no-nonsense approach to healing that merges the spiritual and the practical. I’ve helped clients go from feeling completely lost to starting businesses, walking away from karmic patterns, building confidence, and embracing their purpose. I was taking them from wishing upon a star to actually doing real inner work and taking actionable steps to changing their lives.

That’s what led me to create Mindful Intervention, a brand and community for people who are done pretending they’re okay and ready to actually do the work. It’s a space where healing is direct, transformative, and culturally relatable. I built this while navigating my own grief, trauma, and healing journey. And what I’m most proud of is that I never gave up on myself even when life gave me every reason to.

I want readers to know: you don’t have to be polished to start. You just have to be honest. Mindful Intervention is my way of holding up the mirror and reminding people that healing is possible and it can even be beautiful.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

Just a few months into that healing journey, I lost my daughter’s father due to a tragic motorcycle accident. As toxic as that relationship had been, nothing prepared me for the grief of losing someone I never got to reconcile with. I never got the apology I needed, and I had to learn how to forgive without closure. That was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done…I chose peace without permission.

Still, I kept pushing forward. Eventually, I made a bold decision to move from New York to Florida. I didn’t know anyone there. I gave myself two weeks to make it happen, stayed in a hotel, and told myself: you’re starting over, this time for real.
I’ll never forget someone telling me, “You moved to a new state…this is your chance to be whoever you want to be.”
I took that seriously. I leaned into becoming a more confident version of myself. I started networking, speaking to strangers, putting myself out there, and chasing the woman I knew I could be.

After securing my place, I went back to New York, picked up my kids from my mom’s house, and surprised them with a new home in Florida. It was one of the proudest moments of my life. But what people don’t talk about the beginning of entrepreneurship is the inconsistency.

I didn’t have a stable 9 to 5 anymore, and the car industry in Florida wasn’t what I was used to in New York. Money got tight very fast. I ended up receiving an eviction notice. The toughest part was telling my kids we had to move out of our home. All because of me and the mistakes I’ve made. Not only personal mistakes but mistakes in business too. The first few days were the hardest.

I remember the first night, I had signed up for a business training with a mentor. My car was completely packed and my kids were sleeping in the back seat. It was dark outside and so I had the car lights on so I can take notes. This mentor then asked me if everything was ok. I told her my situation and she, along with the other mentees on the call put money together for us to stay in a hotel for the night and get some food.

I tried getting into shelters but was turned away because of my son’s age and how they had policies where boys after a certain age can’t be around other girls within the shelter. The majority of the shelters were completely packed. Eventually, I swallowed my pride and reached out to family, who helped me get into a hotel for a few weeks.

I ended up returning to New York and had to move back in with my mother. It felt like a complete reset, like I was back at square one. But I wasn’t the same woman I was in 2014. I had tools now. I had knowledge, strength, and a sense of self I didn’t have before. So instead of spiraling, I stayed grounded and focused. I used everything I had learned to pick myself back up again.

That experience showed me what resilience really is. Not just surviving, but choosing to rebuild even when it feels like life keeps knocking you down.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

One of the biggest lessons I had to unlearn was working out of desperation, from survival mode and that hustle mentality. Growing up in the Bronx and working in a male-dominated industry, I was taught to grind hard, move fast, and chase the bag by any means necessary. I prided myself on being a hustler. I knew how to make things happen but I also learned the hard way that you can work your behind off for something and still lose it all in an instant.

There were moments in my life where I was doing everything “right”. I was working long hours, being resourceful, sacrificing sleep, and pouring everything I had into trying to build stability. However, it never felt sustainable. I was always burned out, anxious, and chasing the next thing. I learned that kind of hustle was rooted in fear…. fear of going back, of not having enough, of failing.

Eventually, I had to unlearn that. I had to shift from desperation to intention and from surviving to aligning. I started asking myself: Is this rooted in peace or pressure?

I realized that everything I want is possible without killing myself to get there. Now, I work from a place of purpose, not panic. That lesson changed the way I move through life and business, and it’s something I now help others identify and shift, too.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/mycertifiedangel
• Instagram: personal page: @iamcertifiedangel and @mindfulintervention