Flora C.
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Birth month? June
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Marriage anniversary date? November 10, 1999.
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What is your family heritage? Both my parents are from the Dominican Republic.
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What is your spouse’s family heritage? Puertorican.
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How many children? 2 Boys.
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Do you have pets? Nope.
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What is your occupation(s)? Eco-friendly Designer and Publicist.
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In the morning coffee, tea or smoothie? Coffee then a smoothie for brunch.
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In the evening wine, beer or spirit? Wine always!
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What is your favorite phase when you get upset? Don’t play yourself! I guess I’m still in the 90s! 🤣
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What makes you feel overwhelmed? A messy kitchen!
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What gives you strength? The Bible.
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Who inspires you most? What qualities do they possess that inspire you? Jesus and his teachings.
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What do people mostly ask your help with? For some reason decision making.
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Complete this sentence with anything other than your job title: I am a free spirit.
16. You want to write a book on? Self Worth and Self Love.
​17. If you had a warning label, what would yours say? Careful, I’m analyzing you!
18. What is your favorite movie of all time? The Count of Monte Cristo.
19. If you had to teach a class, what would you teach? Spanish.
20. If you could master one musical instrument, what would it be? I’d master the guitar.
21. What is your guilty pleasure? Cheese!
22. What fictional superpower would you like to have and why? Invisibility.. sometimes I just want to disappear from it all! 🤣🤪
23. What's your superpower, or what's your spirit animal? A Butterfly because I value freedom and butterflies so beautifully represent that.
24. What would your autobiography be called? My autobiography would be called, Unapologetically Me: How I Remained True to Myself Despite Life’s Pressures.🤣
25. What do you do for fun/relaxation? I love to read with a glass of wine or hot tea for relaxation and for fun, I usually cook for friends and have them over for deep conversations and laughs.
26. If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go? Bali.
27. What's your favorite holiday? None. I treat every day as if it were a holiday. Also, I dislike the commercial aspects and origins of many holidays.
28. If you could choose to do anything for a day, what would it be? Go without my phone the entire day.
29. If you could bring one fictional character to life, who would it be and why? Mary Poppins. She was a loving disciplinarian who encouraged creativity and imagination. I guess is because that’s the type of mother I try to be, all the things I value in child-rearing.
30. If you could change your age forever, what age would you choose and why? My current age, 38. I feel complete at this age. I’m comfortable in my own skin, I embrace my physical flaws and I’ve learned to say NO and not feel guilty. I’ve had many epiphanies at this age.
31. What did your parents teach you that you appreciate now? To be considerate and present at all times. We are all fighting battles and we want to refresh others not drain them.
32. If your name was on a product, what would that product be? Coffee.
33. If money wasn’t an issue, what would you do with your time? I’d love to learn all types of dance and languages.
34. What would you say is your proudest accomplishment to date? My two boys and how loving and smart they have turned out.
35. What do you geek out about? Holistic Health!
36. What or who has been your greatest influence in business, career and/or personal life and why? I could not say just one person. I surround myself with strong amazing women and they have been an amazing source of strength. However, my mom has been my strongest influence. My mom for her work ethics. Mom can outwork an ox and come home and cook amazing dinners daily, growing up we never ate out. She rarely ever complained about her grueling schedule. I still do not know how she did it.
37. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Creatively I’d say a nice stroll through a gallery or museum and my creative juices start overflowing. Spiritually I’d say focusing on a chapter from the Bible and I’m instantly encouraged, and my faith strengthens. Emotionally beginning my day early and reflecting on my previous day and going over what I’m grateful for always balances me out emotionally.
38. What’s the best advice you have received in business, career and/or personal life that you wish to pass on to our readers? Just start things and don’t overthink them, you will always figure it out along the way because of over-analysis results in paralysis.
39. What are some challenges, difficulties, and hardships you’ve overcome or are working to overcome? How can what you've learned help others? I’ve had to learn to live with fibromyalgia for two decades now and it’s been extremely challenging on a day to day, but I’ve had to learn not to let that define me. It’s made me more in tune to my body and careful with what I put into it and how I process problems and stress in order to not increase my pain level. Living around a condition is humbling and at the same time makes you slow down and focus on what’s really important and prioritize.
40. What advice would you give yourself 3 years ago? 3 years from now?
Three years ago I would have advised myself to simplify and become a minimalist. Three years from now would be to stay close to my boys and in tune with their thinking and know their hopes and dreams. I don’t ever want to lose our deep connection.
41. What’s something you keep telling yourself you’ll do when you retire, or when you “have the time”? Dance, it’s a passion and it keeps the heart, mind and body young.
42. What’s something about yourself or your life that might surprise others to learn? I think many would be surprised to learn that I competed against junior Olympians in Fencing as the Captain of my high school team.
43. What’s your theme song? Why? “Say what you need to say” by John Mayer. You never have to wonder with me, I will always be frank and honest and say what I need to say. Always with love and truth, no regrets.
44. What’s a quote that inspires you and why? The price of anything is the amount of life You exchange for it —- Henry David Thoreau. This quote reminds me to put every decision I make into perspective and not make hasty decisions or give up my time and freedom for things that do not matter at the end or in the grand scheme of things.
45. What is one thing you really appreciate about your spouse? Sooooo much but mostly his mental strength. My husband has gone through a whole lot but you would never know because he’s such a level headed intelligent man who can find humor in everything.
46. What tv show(s) or movie(s) do you and your spouse enjoy watching together? The Investigation Discovery channel’s Homicide Hunter and Locked Up Abroad.
47. What chores does your spouse help you with around the house you really appreciate? I appreciate it when he helps with the dishes.
48. How often would you like to go out on a date night? Twice a month.
49. If you were ruler of your own country what would be the first law you would introduce? Hard to decide the first one!
50. Is there anything else you’d like to share with our readers? I’d like to thank you for the honor of being featured as one of your trophy wives! I love what this blog stands for and how it celebrates us women and all that we do to balance all the facets of being a wife. Keep up the great work Real Trophy Wife!! You’re amazing!!
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