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

Paola, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?

The story behind my mission is that I went from depressed to thriving, and I help other women do the same. When I was depressed in my mid 20s, I spent two years struggling to get myself out of it. I was able to overcome depression by changing my diet, being consistent with movement, taking vitamins and listening to positive music. I also developed self awareness, overcame my limiting beliefs, set boundaries, built consistent healthy habits, and discovered my authentic self.

When I was going through my depression, there was a version of myself that I knew I wanted to become, I called her my thriving self because she was thriving on the inside and outside. I teach other women how to become their thriving selves and created “Your Thriving Self Academy” my online coaching platform.

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

My name is Paola Hernandez, but you can call me Pao (like POW) for short. I am a transformational coach and mental health advocate. I love to teach others how to become the version of themselves that is thriving. I do this through content creation on instagram, tiktok, and youtube.

My main areas of expertise are helping people build healthy habits to improve their mental and physical wellbeing. I also help others identify and overcome limiting beliefs, set boundaries, build healthy habits, discover their authentic self, and more.

I have a podcast called “Your Thriving Self” and have an online coaching platform for women called “Your Thriving Self Academy”

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I have created content for the last 7 years inconsistently. I have always wanted to start a successful podcast, build a following on social media and have a successful business. I have started several businesses, social media pages and podcasts but I wasn’t successful until I started my coaching business. After 7 years of failure I learned that everything I went through was not a failure, but things I needed to go through to build the skills I needed to be successful today.

You can look at my socials and think that I saw success as soon as I started posting, but what you don’t see are the 6 years of learning the exact skills I needed to get to where I am today. I don’t believe in failure, only necessary skills and lessons learned. Everything comes together like a puzzle piece at the end.

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

I truly believe I built my social media following by sharing content that was aligned with my authentic self and content that came from my heart. For example, when I shared that listening to positive music with affirmations in the morning, just because that was something that I truly loved doing, that post got over 3 million views on tiktok. I then created a playlist called “I’m Thrivin” on spotify which now has over 100k likes. I gained over 50k followers over night because I shared from my heart, and not something that I felt like I “had to” to go viral.

When I create content, I create content about lessons/insights that I am currently going through. When I do this the content creation process feels effortless, and my audience can tell that it’s coming from a really genuine and authentic place.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itspaohernandez/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa7W1zxGHfeHL46BswuIgUQ
• Other: Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itspaohernandez https://www.tiktok.com/@imthrivinplaylist Academy: https://community.imthrivin.com/