HI, I'M MAO FLÓREZ
NLP MASTER PRACTITIONER. HYPNOTHERAPIST. MINDFULNESS PRACTITIONER. EMPOWERMENT BLOGGER AND PODCASTER. PURPOSE AND MINDSET COACH.
THIS IS MY STORY
ARE YOU FACING A HARD TIME IN YOUR LIFE THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO END ?, LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND.
I HAVE FACED HARD TIMES, LIKE YOU.
I GOT DIAGNOSED WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WHEN I WAS 16 YEARS OLD AND AIMING TO BE A TOP FOOTBALL(SOCCER) PLAYER
I know for fact that the diagnose i carry is not the worst ever, but is not easy to take either. When you face this type of limiting condition when you’re about to start college and aiming to be a football star, it feels like everything you aimed for crumbles and faints away.
I FELT USELESS
The best time of life is youth. How about living those beautiful times limited, because, as the doctors and the diagnosis dictate, the body and its functions will continue to deteriorate to the point not being able to do the things you enjoy the most like dancing, walking around with your friends, playing your favorite sports and not being able to do many things you used to. Also facing the possibility of forgetting names, faces, places, and also acquiring a learning disability. The worst? Learning that the rest of your life will be ‘just like that’?
I WAS DEPRESSED AND GOALS-LESS
Turns out life can be tough in so many different levels that I didn’t know that you could get rejected so many times because of a medical condition that even aiming to a decent salary after finishing a professional degree in a top-class university turned out to be a longing and nothing else.
THE ONLY WAY OUT SEEMED TO BE ANY PAID JOB
Teaching english turned out to be the best way out when your goal is finding a way to help home, because any further and bigger dream was out of the picture.
EVEN THOUGH LIFE HASN’T BEEN ‘PERFECT’ (AND WON’T EVER BE, NOT FOR ME AND NOT FOR YOU EITHER) I FOUND OUT THAT CHANGING PERSPECTIVES AND REALIZING REALITY HAPPENS FROM WITHIN CAN GIVE YOU A LOT OF POWER
SO WHAT HAPPENED ?
After all these situations I faced, like giving up the dream of being a top football player because of a medical condition that, so far, has no cure. Finishing a professional career in a great university that resulted in me struggling to find interviews that ended in shutdowns after the medical check. Being able to find a job, not even remotely related with what I had learned at College, gave me something I was craving for after all these negatives, a hope and a dream to aim for. A calling.
FROM DESOLATION AND DEPRESSION TO AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE
Thanks to an almighty God that hasn’t left my side, and that has been with me in every step I took, have taken and will take and after more than ten years of continuous and different challenges that have came in all shapes and colors (struggles you wouldn’t expect by the time you’re only in your 20s) I came to the realization that life can happen against you or for you, and that decision is not made by anything outside of you.
So here I am, with my physical and mental strength rebuilt, with my capacity to walk without any type of aid regained. Today I live 12.658 kms far from home and my family in the challenging Russia.
If you let me walk by your side, I can help you be what you want to be and do what you want to do.
PROBLEMS, STRUGGLES AND CHALLENGES WILL ALWAYS BE THERE
I KNOW THE STRATEGIES TO FACE THEM, BEAT THEM AND PUT THEM IN YOUR FAVOR
