Adriana Jasso

I go back to not having anything growing up. The drive to be a better person, and then when I became a mom, that was more of a push to keep going. I did go through postpartum depression, but I pushed myself out of that because I had a little one that depended on me. Everything that we go through in life attributes to people's decision to either do something good or go through the bad way. My parents, as pastors, always taught me that we should do everything like we're doing it for God. Everything that I went through in life is just the drive to keep wanting and desiring to become a better person, to know more things, to be able to help more people. Because without what I've done, I wouldn't be able to help out people. So it's not just helping me and my family as a successful woman, but also helping other people get there. I love pushing people to become better. Because I didn't have that push in my life, because my parents were not highly educated, it just gives me that passion to want to help people become better. I think that everything in life that I've been through is the push that has helped me become the person that I am.

Never put all your eggs in one basket. I think that women are strong, and we go through so much, from suffering from labor to building a career, to having a clean home, and just separating and bouncing from everything. When you like something, go for it, and just keep adding to your basket. Different things. It's not just one. That's what has helped me, from doing the international trade to now beauty. Right now, I just finished doing a manicure with somebody, and that's extra money that you don't count on. I've always been independent. Nobody has ever helped me. I've always been a single mom, so that's the push that I've had to do the things that I do. Some of my broker friends tell me, how do you find the energy? How do you do all this stuff? And I'm like, I don't know, I just get up and go. Best advice would be don't put all your eggs in one basket. I think that everybody should learn different things, because if something doesn't work out, you're gonna have something to back out to be able to feed your family. Be prepared to pivot.

Never give up. Because sometimes life throws curveballs, and sometimes those curveballs are hard, and people get discouraged, people lose track. I think it's just never to give up, and even if we go through a bad situation and you have some type of standstill, it's okay to have standstill. Sometimes it's okay to take the break. But then get back. Don't give up on your dreams. Just like I did. After so many years, wanting to be a cosmetologist, and now at 46 is crazy, but I love it. I really do.

There are a whole bunch of opportunities. There are a lot of job opportunities, and people have reached out to me. People going into international trade can never go wrong. You're going to find a good paying job to support you. The challenges I see for people who are barely starting up is that a lot of companies want people with the knowledge already, or the experience. This is where I love my company, Osana Trade Consulting, because I teach the practicality, so if you don't have it, I help you get it, and then you'll be able to be successful in any position in the international trade business. The challenges would be people with experience, but that's it, because they're good-paying jobs. I think people need the opportunity to learn, and there's not a lot of people in the industry who are willing to do it because they are afraid that the competition is going to take over, that you're gonna steal their customers. But I don't see it that way. I see it as the more brokers, the more people who have knowledge, the better we do things, and the better we grow. The regulations changed back in December 2023, where now a certain amount of employees that you have as a broker, you are required to have more than one broker in the company. Real companies see it as opportunity to present themselves as a really good company with multiple brokers working for them, so they know that they're gonna do things correctly, there's not gonna be issues, penalties, liquidated damages, or anything that's going to affect the importers or the shippers.

I value time. Time is the most expensive thing that we have. I use it wisely. Loyalty. I value loyalty, because I don't have a big circle of friends, because you have people who are envious, and unfortunately, a lot of people go through stuff like that. I just try to stay away and stick to the people who have been with me since I didn't have anything. I grew up very, very poor. I was a migrant worker, so I worked the fields. My parents were very, very poor. I started working when I was young at a notary public, and that's where I learned how to use a phone, how to use a fax. Loyalty is very important to me. Time is very important to me, because time, you never get back. Whatever you give in time, you don't get back. So it's valuable to me.