Hi! I'm Maria, but everyone calls me Mimi. I am a thinker and builder and do-er. I'm currently building Funding Findr while training to become a marriage and family therapist (MFT). I work at two altitudes, the inner and the collective, because I've come to think they're the same work. This is my personal website — it outlines the values and worldview I operate from, and why I'm a radical optimist who believes the future is worth building.
Every single person has a vast inner life: a whole world of thought and feeling behind their eyes. Nobody is better than anyone. When you catch yourself thinking someone else is weird, bad, or less, that's a place where you lack self-acceptance. And that's useful: it's data on where you still have to look inward.
The loud story is that the future's already decided, the worst case scenario is the one that will happen, and effort doesn't matter. I don't believe it. Uncertainty isn't a reason to stop; it's the call to live more fully.
Intimate relationships are healing containers, but not everyone can meet you there — maybe even you can't meet yourself there. Let people meet you at their own capacity for depth, don't take the mismatch personally, and make room for fun and sweetness. Be you; your people will come.
You won't get it right the first time, but you have to start. Stop trying to make the right decision; make the decision right. Value comes from iteration and a bias for action, not from analysis paralysis.
Being wealthy makes you no better and no smarter than anyone. Money is a resource — but notice the moment greed turns the tool toward harm: to others, or to yourself.
Do the work well: for yourself, not the boss (even when the boss is you). Take the thing to its highest expression, which only means try hard and refuse mediocrity. Beauty, craft, and visual harmony are part of the work, not a coat of paint.
To give your all is to risk that your all doesn't work. But you can survive the fall. You wanted it, you cared, and if it doesn't land you feel the ache, trust it to shift and pass, and keep going.
The greater the fear of death, the more unlived life you're carrying. So where are you holding back? Treat your life as a soulmate, your path as something you're in relationship with, and ask why you'd give it anything less than all of you.
People are good.
Life is worth living.
The work is worth doing.
And the treasure you seek is in the cave you avoid.