Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Veronica Olga Hernandez. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Veronica Olga, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.
I believe that authenticity and brutal honesty is considered a risk. Sharing your truth is a risk because it is never scripted or planned . The real reason that I operate this was is because I have always felt like I didn’t belong. I recognized that I didn’t fit in because most people live a lie. The moment that I recognized that I didn’t fit in because I was never trying to be someone else. I realized that no one is ever supposed to be a sheep and follow others illusions. We are all unique and we are all supposed to shine differently. Most importantly we should all take a risk and share our darkness and weaknesses. When we don’t pretend to be perfect and share our challenges, only then can we be relatable. Only then car we connect in an authentic way. I regularly share my challenges and fears. I do this so that I’m not only sharing my wins but also my defeats. We can not share strength if we never strengthen our core identity. This means taking the risk of being judged, criticized and shamed. The risk is worth the reward. Empowering others thru understanding and support is far more beneficial than playing a fake roll of perfection. No one is perfect. We are all human learning and growing.
A year ago I became an author. I documented my life story to ensure accountability for my goals of assisting others with their personal development. I documented ever difficult situation that I believed strengthened me. I shared my truth. my childhood was misery and my life was a dark example of tragedy. I shared my life story along with empowering lessons to lend understanding and support to anyone struggling. I provided dark examples of unfair circumstances followed by solutions and valuable insight.
Today I am honored and grateful to share my truth with others. I believe that each and everyone of us has a story to tell and a challenge to overcome. I take pride in taking a risk daily, then sharing my process and strategy to overcome an obstacle. I recognize that I must always lead by example and go first. This means I will learn the hard way. This means I won’t have help. Most importantly, this means that if I can do it, anyone can do the same. There is nothing different about me. we are all human and can achieve absolutely anything we put our minds to.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
My heart is with the youth first and foremost. Next I am a huge advocate for mental health support. My childhood was a nightmare because I was raised by a single immigrant paranoid schizophrenic mother. She simply had no ability to raise my brother and I. We were forced to raise ourselves. At 4 years old was taken away from my mother because a neighbor reported the neglect. Once I was returned to my mother, I was slammed for getting caught and told to never share the truth about our private situation. None of my family understood the private challenges we faced. Because my brother and I were instructed to live a lie, we never had outside support or protection.
Growing so fast led me down the road of researching behavioral science and personal development. I became obsessed with strategy and processes to survive. I shared my knowledge with anyone willing to listed. My brother and I discussed what we learned and what we overcame on a daily basis. We understood that our life was going to be challenging but we agreed to never give up. We agreed to always share whatever we learned so that others would not have to suffer the same way we did. We took this dream and goal extremely seriously.
Today, I speak to the youth as often as possible. I share my truth and assure the children that I had everything against me and still raised myself to be a productive member of society. I am an author that shares her life story with strangers daily because the goal of being authentic and honest is a priority. I don’t care what people think of me. it is still important to represent myself as unapologetic and pure as possible. You can all read my book Modern Guidance TM if you are curious about who I am.
Last, I take pride in the nonprofit that I started on my brothers behalf. He passed away two years ago and today I provide Mental Health support to the youth and those directly associated with children. This is how I give back to the community I came from in a powerful way. At SACRED UNITED we support creative expression. My brother and I overcame so much because we tapped in to our unique individual strengths. We learned how to get out of our own way and share our soul with the world in creative ways. This empowered us to tap in to who we were to the core.
Services I currently provide are Growth facilitation, Sound Therapy, Public Speaking and Mentorship.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
Since my brothers passing, my own Mental Health suffered. I fell into a deep depression and sever panic attacks on a daily basis. I didn’t get out of bed for months at a time. I gave up on everything including myself. After a year of nonstop judgment and shame, I scrapped myself off the floor to honer my brothers legacy. I decided to document our journey and publish Modern Guidance TM. This was essential for my grieving process. Documenting our story reminded me of our tools and lessons. This reminded me of our strength. This still wasn’t enough. My guilt and same of being alive while wile my brother was no longer here to share is heart was devastating to me. So I decided to start SACRED UNITED nonprofit on his behalf.I did this to remind myself of the gifts I had to share with the world. This was how I decided to continue the community support and strengthening that we promised each other during our difficult upbringing. I was not going to allow what we promised each other to fall away. I wanted his name to make a difference in the lives of people that never met him. I wanted his massive heart to live on forever.
I figured out a powerful way to overcome my own Mental Health issues by sharing my truth. I truly believe that we can all overcome any tragedy thru sharing our difficult journeys to empower others to do the same.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
I have had to learn that we have all been convinced by society that we should all look and feel the same. we are taught to keep secrets and liv a lie. We are disempowered because we give more energy to being fake and not to strengthening our personal power. I have unlearned to follow the crowds, trends and society. I have taken my power back and I only give my energy to what matters most to me. I stay in my lane and preserve my peace at all costs. I don’t participate in negativity, comparison, judgment or drama. I simply nurture and support my strengths.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://ModernGuidanceShop.com
- Instagram: @Veronicaohernandez11
- Facebook: @VeronicaOlgaHernandez
- Twitter: @VeronicaOHer
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMhzPL2Oj3N7fROW-gFqzQ
- Other: https://SacredUnited.Com
