15/04/2026
turns out you can take the girl out of the Philippines but you canât take the Pinay out of the girl.
i grew up thinking this was just how everyone lived.
that you found a use for everything twice, and nothing left the house until it had given everything it had.
and then i moved to italy and slowly realized, oh. this is actually something!
this is a whole way of seeing the world that iâve been carrying without even knowing it.
and the more i sit with it, the more i realize⊠everyone has something like this.
something in the way you were raised.
the way your family stretched things.
the way nothing was wasted, or everything was saved, or care was shown in ways you didnât think twice about at the time.
it follows you into everything.
it shapes how i run my business too, now that i think about it.
i donât constantly chase new clients, new offers, new strategies. i go deeper with whatâs already here.
i like to think i repurpose content the same way we prolong the life of an adobo. the idea that worked once becomes a post, an email, then a conversation.
and i use my own life as the material. my own stories.
i donât really need to look far for the next thing because the next thing is usually already here, just waiting to be noticed.
i just never realized until now that this is the most filipino thing about me.
and maybe you have your own version of this.
something youâve been carrying for years that doesnât feel remarkable to you, but is actually shaping everything you build?
i may never have a daughter, but i like to think that someone, somewhere, reads this and and thinks, hey, maybe i could do that too.đ«¶đŒ
