I am a Spiritual & Mindset Coach, certified coach, Reiki Master, and student of Metaphysics and so much more, but before any title, I am someone who knows what it feels like to lose your sense of direction and have to find your way back to yourself.

When I moved to the United States because of my marriage, I left behind my country, my family, my culture, my language, and the life I knew. I came here carrying hope, but there were also moments of deep loneliness. During a period of depression, I felt very alone, while missing Portugal and trying to understand where I belonged in a life that felt so far from everything familiar.

That chapter changed me.

It taught me that sometimes people do not need a perfect answer or someone to fix everything. Sometimes they need connection. They need to feel seen. They need one conversation, one opportunity, one resource, or one person reminding them that this moment is not the end of their story.

That is why Happiness Matters Foundation means so much to me.

I believe hope can become very quiet when life gets heavy, but quiet does not mean gone. Sometimes it only needs a little light, a little support, or one small chance to come alive again.

As Vice President, I want to help create those chances.

If this Foundation can help even one person feel less alone, see a possibility they could not see before, or believe that their next chapter can be different from the one they are living now, then this work matters.

Because I know what it is like to need that reminder.

And I also know how powerful it can be when hope returns.