“If you want to be a singer, you have to pack up your stuff and forget I’m your mom,” are the words Maria’s mom warned. Her mom wanted her to grow up being financially independent, especially coming from Venezuela with limited opportunities. The concept of pursuing creative opportunities wasn’t in her cards. It wasn’t until Maria was in her 30’s that she took a major leap of faith by leaving her well-paid and safe job as a corporate lawyer to follow her creativity and pursue a career in the art world. It’s safe to say the risk paid off.

Fast forward to the current day, and Maria is an award-winning contemporary art advisor to clients like Gwyneth Paltrow, curator, and author of the new title, How Creativity Rules the World: The Art and Business of Turning Your Ideas into Gold. You could say that Maria is a creativity guru with a knack for the intersection of art and business.

In this episode, Maria shatters the lies we have been told since childhood about careers in creative fields and how her upbringing of being culturally educated led her to start the career of her dreams. Maria shares how one of the biggest factors she had to overcome was what people were going to say about her once she left her well-paid career as a corporate lawyer to pursue a career in the arts. Maria teaches how to cultivate your creative ideas and turn them into “gold.” This is an episode filled with intelligent and motivating advice on how you can transition to the job of your dreams.