🌸 “Meet Stephanie & Georgina: Why our stories (and your support) matter.”🌸
- Araceli Esparza
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🌸 End-of-Year Blog Highlight🌸
Ambitions & Realities: Yo Quiero Dinero 2025 Spotlights
This year, as Midwest Mujeres celebrates our first year as an official nonprofit, we also celebrate the women who trusted us with their stories and their dreams through Yo Quiero Dinero 2025.
Two of those mujeres are Stephanie Habeck and Georgina Guerrero Hernandez. Their words capture exactly why this work matters — and why we’re fighting to keep our training center and support circles going into year two. Photos by Hedi Rudd! Thanks, Mujer!
💇🏽♀️ Stephanie – “I dream of thriving and being able to afford life.”
Stephanie is a cosmetologist and the owner–operator of Stephanie’s Chair. Like so many women in our community, she joined Yo Quiero Dinero while juggling the basics:
“Paying rent, monthly bills, car, everything to live.”
She hoped the program would give her support, business-building skills, and help her step out of her comfort zone. Inside the circle, she found community and clarity:
Most valuable lesson:
“How to get to the point.”
What surprised her most:
“The community.”
Being in the room reminded her that she already knows more than she realizes and that her story is worth telling. Financially, she’s honest that she’s still in the hustle:
“I dream of thriving and being able to afford life.”
Her reality is exactly why Midwest Mujeres exists: not to offer overnight success stories, but to walk alongside women who are still fighting to cover rent, still building, still dreaming — and who deserve a community at their back.
🏡 Georgina – “I had dreams and wishes, but thanks to Yo Quiero Dinero, I have ambitions and realities.” 🌸
Georgina is the owner of AmigosServices, LLC, a home daycare and bilingual services business.
Before she joined Yo Quiero Dinero, her biggest challenge wasn’t just money — it was confidence and isolation:
“The lack of confidence, not having a support system or a network.”
She joined the program looking to learn what it really takes to succeed in business for the first time. What she found was:
A sense of value:
She learned “to see myself as a valued asset and the techniques to manage my business.”
A new sisterhood:
“The family, public, and the environment support this program being free to access for women with the need for empowerment.”
Concrete action steps:
“I started promoting my business again and looking to start my networking by meeting new people.”
Because of Yo Quiero Dinero, Georgina has already started securing new contracts — new income that had been stalled for a while. She’s clear about the future she’s working toward:
“6 months securing my customers and 1 year finally open my location with an income enough for buying my house.”
And the quote that says it all:
“I had dreams and wishes but thanks to Yo Quiero Dinero I have ambitions and realities.”
She’s already recommending the program:
“I already done it. I have friends waiting for the beginning of the next program dates.”
🌺 Why These Stories Matter for Our Year-End Campaign 🌺
Stephanie and Georgina represent two TRUE STORIES that we know about working women:
Women who are still fighting just to cover the basics.
Women who are turning dreams into actual contracts, customers, and long-term financial goals.
Yo Quiero Dinero sits right in that middle space — where storytelling, community, and financial education meet.
As we close out our first year as a nonprofit, we are working to:
Reach our $8,000 Giving Tuesday goal,
Close our $30,000 first-year campaign, and
Keep our office + training center open for year two.
Those funds support the very things these mujeres talk about: support groups, business circles, bilingual spaces, and a community that doesn’t disappear when the workshop ends.
If Stephanie’s reality and Georgina’s ambitions resonate with you, we invite you to be part of this story.
👉 Donate: https://donorbox.org/midwestmujeres
📩 Contact: info@midwestmujeres.com
Thank you for helping us turn dreams and wishes into ambitions and realities.
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