My son Christian is very sweet, he always tells me that we have to help people. (Photo Christine Escobar)
Christine Escobar is a warrior. After living a very difficult childhood and adolescence, she managed to become a successful mother, businesswoman, and a kind and compassionate wife and companion.
“I lived a very tough life. With a mother struggling to support the family and an absent father involved in bad things. I had to learn to overcome all those blows and have the faith that I could dictate the path of my life. No matter how difficult it was. That experience gives me the foundation to share with all women the possibility of changing our lives, we need to have determination and not give up,” says Escobar in a previous interview with Parriva.
Escobar is a mother, wife, business coach, therapist, and founder of Gracefully Fierce, an organization that offers support to women to empower themselves and change their habits and thoughts about traditional molds that could serve as obstacles to progress.
Eddie, the oldest, is a DATA Analyst for the Texas Rangers. (Photo Christine Escobar)
But she also holds people accountable for their change, urging them to seek a way out of their difficult situations.
Christine Escobar, a mother of four, had to struggle a lot to ensure her children didn’t go through the same experiences she did.
“I worked in two or three places so that they could succeed. There were times when I cried all the time, when I bathed, in the room; life is not easy, but we have to be strong and move forward, it depends on us,” she adds.
“I was fortunate enough to be able to overcome my experiences as a child and teenager. We were a very poor family. My father got involved with people that were into bad things. I think I visited all the state prisons when I went to visit him. My mom worked full-time; she had to manage to support us. We lived in hotels, ate as we could, and saw how to survive in the neighborhoods and schools. Those were very tough times,” said Escobar in the previous interview.
Ashley, with her license in Real State, has become her right-hand woman. (Photo Christine Escobar)
Now she is a proud mother; Eddie, her eldest son, works as a data analyst for the Texas Rangers; Ashley has her Real Estate license, and Mia and Christian are successful students.
“I never told them what I was going through. I wanted them in good schools, and I had to fight, take them out of the life cycle that I had lived. On one occasion, we lived in a garage, and we had to cross the yard to go to the bathroom; my children would tell me, ‘home is where mom is’,” she recalls.
She is aware of the problems facing the Latino community in Los Angeles but holds the community responsible for the changes that can be made.
“Imagine, in Lynwood, there are four dead teenagers near a state park. If that happened in my community, ‘Ya hubiera hecho un desmadre.’ The community has to mobilize, but many give up, and we must not do that,” she adds.
Mia, a brilliant student at an excellent school. (Photo Christine Escobar)
For her, it’s not definitive where you come from or in which city you live. What’s important is education at home and the goals and achievements you set for yourself.
“Many times, we let ourselves be carried away by what people say; it shouldn’t matter to us. It’s our route, our path. To change things from above, resources from politicians, community aid, we have to change things from below,” she asserts.
For her, Go Fund Me campaigns are not enough. It is necessary to make the strength of the community felt.
“Many focus on the problem, but we have to focus on the solutions. What are we going to do? What can we do?” she says.
“I wanted to live a life for my children; I feel proud that they are now fulfilling their dreams,” she concludes.
Christine Escobar: “Every story defines us. The more we tell it, the stronger we feel.”
