Legacy of Love: Balancing Family Values with Bold Career Moves
- Jun 3
- 3 min read
By Sarai Martinez
At the age of 24 I had a child. This time in my life I was working three jobs and one of them was my dream job. I was in a very unstable marriage and wanted to still go after my dreams. There were times I worked 60 hour weeks and my husband would have to pick up the slack. I had a second child and life become more tricky Sacrifice and juggling became part of my life. I had to come up with creative ways to make time for my family. So I left my insurance job and finally got to a place where I could work full time still be close to home. I manage to open a business in the same town I lived in where I was able to work and be more accessible to my children.
As the years went on I started gaining more freedom to do more things and developing a community whereas I was able to receive more help. I think self-care is a very important thing when trying to accomplish big goals in your career and family life. I’ve learned throughout my journey that not taking care of myself affects everything and whether I wanna accomplish a goal I’m not gonna accomplish it if I’m not healthy and happy and doing so.I always prioritize making time for myself and treating myself on days that I’m able to do so. I make sure I use utilize my timing as well. I always multitask and make my time work in a way efficiently where I prioritize things that need to be done first and then kinda compartmentalize throughout my day.
Setting boundaries with business relationships, family members or friends has been crucial in my growth in achieving goals. You can’t let people take from you that are not able to see the dream that you have for yourself. This vision of a dream is something that you see within and no one can see it, so explaining it to others that don’t have the same work ethic or same thought process becomes irrelevant. In order to succeed you have to set those boundaries, by not allowing any type of toxicity into your world is crucial. Asking for help has been a challenge when you are such a strong and independent person. It becomes crippling when you have to sit down and realize that you cannot do it all on your own you need to rely on family.
Family is very important when trying to achieve great goals as a single mother and allowing people to help you, especially in those moments when I’m trying to make career moves in other countries or other states. I’m constantly traveling those all play apart in the growth of being an entrepreneur and also providing for your family. The juggling act of being a single mother is always constant and never ending, and I feel as a woman whether you’re married or not, we’re constantly juggling different areas and managing and problem-solving. Being a single mother just adds more to that layer, but also being a woman it’s embedded in us to constantly to be the matriarch and problem solver and go-getter and achiever, while all doing it with a smile on our faces.
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