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community strategist & founder 🇵🇦
building chicago's home for women founders @beyondhervision_

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Soñando y Planeando all Hispanic Heritage Month. Featuring real people from our community who use @seventhirtygoods.

We asked them to share how they plan today and what planning and dreaming looked like growing up Latino.

Closing out the series with @cathycoops , Founder of @beyondhervision_ + Community Builder & Strategist.

Link in bio to shop the Hispanic Heritage Month drop featuring our Spanish Quarterly Planner. Limited quantities available.

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Hey hi hello.

What does your day consist of. And I’m not talking about what you do after you brush your teeth. I’m talking about what do you fill it with?👀

how intentional are you with what you add to your life? You do get to choose. You get to choose your experience. Me? I fill it with as much community, love, dancing, fun, whimsical, beautiful, lighting up my soul, things.

and sometimes that means making a tough decision. Sometimes it means showing up when I’m really really tired, or really feeling stuck. It means trusting myself and trusting others. It means being vulnerable in front of people and saying the scary things out loud. ✨ you can’t say that you want to dance more and that you love dancing, but refuse to show up to the actual dance….

You get to have a beautiful thriving community when you participate in that community. When you show up to it.

You get to have honorable and loving relationships and partnerships when you’re also honorable and loving. When you show up for it.

❤️❤️I love my life because I work really hard at loving my life lol. I genuinely enjoy all of it even in the not so enjoyable parts… it’s because I fill my life with these things, these people instead of chasing fame money or other material things that the world tries to tell us are important. I just don’t think they really are.
for me, it’s also finding all of the beautiful moments in my day. Appreciating the people that I have in my life, giving grace, giving and asking for forgiveness. Allowing the world to teach me. Being open to new experiences even when it feels really, really big.
So, what are you filling your life with? ✨ and how are you showing up for it?

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Spotted: girlies after a long day of closing deals, hyping each other up and building empires together at @createcultivate 🫶

The goodie bags are SO good

[irl, community building, events, content creator, female founders]

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@createandcultivate day 1 photo dump: this is how women do business

Also wow Chicago girlies showed UP

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She couldn’t find the room, so she built it. 🧡

Cathy Cooper started Beyond Her Vision because early-stage women founders needed a community of their own and those who were in the exact same stage of figuring it out.

Today, Beyond Her Vision brings women founders together through intimate events, workshops, and an annual summit, and the connections that come out of it are the whole point.

Get a little nosey and read Cathy’s full story in nosey vol. 5 at the link in our bio.

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Surround yourself with women who inspire you ✨ I had an amazing time speaking on the panel hosted by @the.she.e.o.s with my lovely panelists @cathycoops @chanla.chau.cosmetics @jamieberry202. Special shoutout to @ashleyrufino. It was so inspiring being surrounded by such talented women ❤️🙌🏼

And a hugeeee thank you to my amazing friend @hamda_awan for taking all this BTS for me without even asking. You a real one 🫶🏼

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So proud to be part of the @the.she.e.o.s and honored to serve on the board alongside such an incredible group of passionate women business owners.

Our recent Built to Last panel was a great reminder of the power of community, connection, and women supporting women.

We’re all working hard to grow our businesses, learn from each other, and build something meaningful that lasts. I’m grateful to be surrounded by women who inspire, encourage, and cheer each other on.

Here’s to building, growing, and doing it together!

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School’s back in session so I guess that means it’s unofficially Fall..Summer of weddings, engagements, family, friends, and food, you’ll be missed☀️😌

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The women behind the conversation. ✨

Four panelists bringing their real stories, hard-earned lessons, and completely different business journeys.
One moderator ready to ask the questions that take us beyond the polished answers.
And a room full of women invited to be part of the conversation.

At Built to Last: Navigating the Seasons of Business, we’re talking honestly about the growth, uncertainty, pivots, setbacks, reinvention, and everything else that comes with building something of your own.
Joining the panel:
✨ Chanla Chau of @chanla.chau.cosmetics ✨ Nilly Naseer-Farooqui of @wordsbehindasmile  ✨ Cathy Cooper of @beyondhervision_  ✨ Jamie Berry of @vernstavern
With Ashley Rufino guiding the conversation as moderator.

After the panel, the conversation continues through live audience Q+A and guided roundtable discussions—because some of the perspective you need may be waiting inside another woman’s story.

📅 September 9, 2026 | 6–9 PM 📍 The Ellery | Crystal Lake

For the first time ever, this She.E.O.s event is open to non-members. Come pull up a chair—we would truly love to have you in the room.

🎟️ Reserve your seat through the link in our bio.

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Some stills from the weekend 🖤

My birthday bash! 🎉

“Look at all this field!”

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My incredible brother and I 🥰

My sisters ❤️🇵🇷

Family 😊

It’s my birthday! 💖

The man of the hour… the one who made it all happen 😍💞

The love of my life!!! 😘😍💓

Another angle 📸

I love you so much!!!

My beautiful friend Cathy and I 💕

My family 💘

Me, my bf, and Mami 😍♥️

Friends 🤍

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Celebrating my 35th birthday bash with family and friends, seeing my favorite baseball team @whitesox when it’s Puerto Rican Heritage Night?! 🇵🇷😍 It felt perfectly aligned. I knew we had to do it right and get a suite! 🖤🤍⚾️

Thank you to my family and friends that came out to celebrate with me. We had an amazing time and I’m so grateful to see 35 years! And thank you to my boyfriend who made it all happen. We wouldn’t have had this celebration without you mi amor! I feel so blessed, fulfilled, and loved. Cheers to 35 and to all that God is going to do this year! 🥰🙌🏼🙏🏼

#birthday #birthdaygirl #chicagowhitesox #baseball #celebrate

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