We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Lisbeth Perdomo a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Lisbeth, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Crazy stuff happening is almost as certain as death and taxes – it’s technically “unexpected” but something unexpected happening is to be expected and so can you share a crazy story with our readers
Lisbeth Perdomo is Dominican born and raised in Lawrence, MA who immigrated to the U.S at only 3 months old with her family of 4 siblings and both parents. She majored in Vocal Performance with a minor in Liberal Arts History at Berklee College of Music and later attended Cambridge College for Business Marketing.
She has been a pillar in her community through community services such as music education for the youth.
She has helped several non-profit organizations such as Movement City and YDO (Youth Development Organization) in her city to further their community engagement and implement music education as a form of therapy and expression.
She later opened her own music studio in 2012 where she taught voice, piano, songwriting, musical theater, and music therapy.
Throughout her personal and professional career music has been her guiding force.
She always felt at peace onstage and loved how music brought everyone together.
Lisbeth not only used music as a tool to connect but also knew her audience (predominantly young Latina women, mothers, and professionals ) connected with her.
Through her experiences, skills, and time she has dedicated to the community she became a resource for her fellow young Latina professionals.
Her ability to connect the right people to the right company, organization, and/or network was her passion and she enjoyed watching those relationships, projects, events be executed because of her role in referring and or collaborating.
She realized after her postpartum journey after having her second child would lead her to her next career path.
She documented her postpartum highs and lows and decided to be vulnerable with her social media audience in order to 1. Help her cope with her postpartum experience 2. Connect with other mothers who could relate. 3. Open discussion on what postpartum is and what /how she learned to navigate through it with her partner, children, and her tribe of women around her.
After she was able to journey through postpartum she decided to bring all the women she knew together and have them empower, unite and connect each other to resources that could help take them to the next level in their personal or professional path.
Through her event, she became inspired, motivated, and confident in knowing that her purpose and calling would be exactly this. A place where Latina women could feel supported throughout their journey through motherhood all while being an entrepreneur.
Her ability to find the need and solve a problem ALL women to this day continue to struggle with as they try to work for themselves, be mothers, and continue to have their goals and ambitions.
Her entire experience led her to Que Mami giving Latina business owners space, opportunity, and guidance to take their business to the next level.
Her goal with Que Mami is to establish a Marketing, Public Relations, and Consulting agency that takes unknown Latina businesses and makes them profitable and sustainable businesses.
Lisbeth, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I knew I had something special for marketing was when in 2006 I entered a fashion/talent show in high school . I used the hundreds Myspace friends I had and promoted the crap out of that event for ticket sales, to help support the junior./seniors. I promoted my performance like the rent was due. I remember creating graphics with he tools myspace had at the time. I would make flyers with date, time , address , location etc., I would get asked everyday questions about it.
The day of the show almost 1k people showed up and the staff was scared because they were over capacity .
That was my introduction into brand, power ,influence , marketing , social media , public relations everything!
Fast forward to now, becoming a women , mother , partner and advocate for postpartum depression awareness , equity and equality black and brown my world perspective changed. I felt I had so much to say and share with the world.
I came from the world of entertainment , performance, acting, dancing , singing and I heavily promoted all of my endeavors. Creating awareness, influencing,uplifitng , sharing , embracing have always been my forte . I continue to keep that mission in my business today.
Enjoy creating magic with my clients , opening doors and making their vision come to life. I allow them experience their journey through entrepreneurship through collaboration , transparency, values, integrity and intention as we work together and build .
What sets me apart from others is that I fight 100% for my clients to get what they deserve . I lead with heart and always make sure that they valued no matter what comes their way. My loyalty to them is unmatched !
I am proudly clients never settle. We are keeping each other on our toes and never waiting for opportunity but creating them .
Proud moment: My clients Pineiro’s Kitchen and Café wherein Boston news 25 for the “feed your dreams” competition by Gordon Ramsey. They were top 3 out of 100 selected to have their business on national tv
2 weeks later they were on Hot 96.9 boston radio with the get up crew.
Then later the sold their Pastelitos at BRoxFarm where they sell out constantly.
Dulce Diana luxury artisan caramels, Diana Garcia invested in her brand after surviving cancer. She made a vow herself to go for what she loves and believes . Her goal was to spread love through her caramels to those you love. Now she is catering. events with her treats, selling at markets and placing her caramels in local farms.
Suited for Fashion non profit center on the arts and fashion in underserved communities like Lawrence, ma , lowell, ma and Boston ma . Their goal is to raise 75,00ok for our youth to be able to participate in programs that enhance their skills and talents.
I want my supporters to know that genuinely want to see black and brown women win. My intentions are pure and I love what I do.
How did you build your audience on social media?
I started share my postpartum journey . I am a shy reserved person extremely private . I only shared on stage when I performed. Later learned I had many wounds to heal.
Through sharing my story about motherhood, birth, gaining weight, losing weight , breastfeeding, weening, juggling 2 kids 12 yr old girl 4 year boy now (at the time in 2018 7yrs old and new born) I would share food I would eat to produce breast milk, products purchased for my son when he started eating solids. I would ask questions , share stories good and bad.
the response was astounding !!
women all ages, all ethnicities all backgrounds responded , engaged and connected .
My advice would be only stick to things you love and you would never get tired talking about . it will be seamless for you . women, support , self love , fitness , fashion business family , relationships are a hug part of my brand and I manage to merge them because it all revolves around all the things that make ME (Que Mami )
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
Not everyone women is all about women empowerment and that’s ok. It was a sad reality but some women just don’t care and I had to accept it.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.quemami.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quemami.inc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QueMamiInc/
- Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/quemami
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa4ltKc1qrVEUxUjQ2jEZXA
- Other: TikTok: @quemamiinc threads: @[email protected] Text ” Que Mami to 1+ 206-844-9150
Image Credits
both images your then intern and student Stephanie DelCastillo November 2022