Maria La Rubia

Third installment of the Latinas in Writing and Entrepreneurship Workshop Series, aka Brujeria Navigation 101.

Gracias to everyone who upgraded to a paid subscription. Every Thursday you will receive new chapters of “The Nine Lives of Maria La Gata.” After seven years of researching, imagining, writing, and re-writing this fictional story inspired by my entrepreneurial bisabuela, it feels “cathartic” to entertain readers willing to buy a ticket to the show.

It’s exciting to see some readers got inspired to write and share their own entrepreneurial journeys!

Check out Gilda Alvarez’s beautiful story on LinkedIn about her abuela’s influence on her journey as a Latina in Data.

If you’d like to learn more about my bisabuela Maria La Gata-Nalgona-Perdida-Rubia and the way her zig zagging journey from dancer to gangster is similar to my zig zag in tech and startups, keep reading below.

In this next chapter, we see how Chucho, aka Quin Cardona, tries to impress Maria La Rubia with his new gangster money. She is wondering how she isn’t already a gangster herself…