In this inspiring episode, I sit down with Anna Lozano, a mom, founder, investor, and host of the Prosperity Playground podcast. Anna shares her powerful story, beginning with her upbringing as a Polish immigrant in Canada, where she was programmed to "work hard, study hard, get good grades, [and] climb that corporate ladder".

She followed that path to an Ivy League business school and a "soul-draining" corporate job , which she intuitively knew was not her purpose. Anna recounts her pivot into network marketing—to her father's dismay, who called it a "pyramid scheme" —where she discovered her love for entrepreneurship and personal development . This led her to co-found Love Powered Company , a brand that brought affirmation cards for children into homes, with the goal of introducing mindfulness to the whole family.

After selling her company , Anna took her family to Mexico for what she thought was a one-month reset. This trip became a profound "initiation" —a period of "deep and uncomfortable" inner work —forcing her to recalibrate her "masculine, very driven" energy. She connects this drive to her immigrant "survival" programming and shares how she consciously learned to balance it by embracing her feminine energy and leading with intuition as the "CEO of all the decisions".

You'll also hear about:

• (03:30) Quitting her "soul-draining" corporate job after an intuitive nudge that she was not living her purpose.
• (04:43) Co-founding Love Powered Co. to bring affirmation cards and mindfulness to children.
• (06:19) Selling her company and moving to Mexico for a "nervous system reset".
• (06:57) Her journey of recalibrating her "masculine, very driven" energy and healing her immigrant "survival programming".
• (18:59) Why Anna believes conscious parenting is the "biggest work" and how our children mirror our unhealed wounds.
• (22:25) The power of apologizing to our children after reacting and the importance of repair.
• (24:40) Dr. Gertrude's discussion of the "Carpenter vs. Gardener" parenting analogy.
• (27:11) How Anna is now applying the "gardener" approach to herself by trying new things, like pickleball.
• (31:30) Making "crazy aligned decisions" based on her core value of "freedom".
• (40:35) The importance of only taking advice from mentors you truly admire (like her "mentors from afar," Sarah Blakely and Jamie KernLima).
• (48:58) Anna's beautiful definition of "Rewrite the Mother Code": "parenting your little self first".

Learn more about Anna Lozano

• Learn more on Anna's Website
• Follow Anna on Instagram
• Connect with Anna on LinkedIn
• Listen to The Prosperity Playground Podcast

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• Follow Dr. Gertrude on Instagram
• Stay in the loop and sign up to Dr. Gertrude’s Substack
• Order Dr. Gertrude’s new book “Rewrite the Mother Code”