Her Story
About Laura
Laura Amezquita is an entrepreneur, speaker, and holistic spiritual coach, and the Founder and CEO of Abuse to Empowerment, a platform she established four and a half years ago. Her mission is to support women around the world—especially those who have experienced abusive relationships—to reconnect with themselves, rebuild self-worth, and gain clarity about the emotional and psychological patterns that have shaped their life experiences. Through meditation, spirituality, and self-inquiry, she guides women in returning to their inner sense of identity and personal truth. Her work is rooted in the belief that healing comes from awareness, presence, and reconnecting with one’s inner strength.
Her inspiration for this path comes from her own lived experience. While living in New Zealand, far from her home in Colombia, she went through a difficult and isolating relationship with a narcissistic partner, which led her into a profound personal crisis. Without external support, she turned to meditation and inner work as her primary tool for healing and transformation. This experience became the foundation of her life’s purpose. She transitioned away from her previous career as a business consultant and entrepreneur in sales and marketing to dedicate herself fully to personal development and human transformation, integrating her professional skills with her passion for empowering others. She also brings extensive experience as a fundraiser with UNICEF New Zealand, where she worked in donor engagement, team leadership, and public campaign initiatives in dynamic, high-performance environments.
Laura’s academic background in International Business, Sales, and Marketing from Universidad Santo Tomás, combined with her long-standing volunteer work with TECHO Colombia, reflects her commitment to both professional excellence and social impact. Today, she lives a deeply purpose-driven life as an entrepreneur, continuously investing in her own growth through daily discipline, learning, and self-development. She follows a philosophy of incremental improvement—striving to grow at least one percent every day—believing that personal evolution and service to others are interconnected. For her, entrepreneurship is not just a career but a lifestyle of continuous transformation, awareness, and contribution to the well-being of others.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Laura
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to changing my actions and understanding that every action I do has a consequence in my life. The more aware you are of your actions and your thinking, the more aware you are of changing your life. It's about being really, really conscious that everything you speak, everything you do, everything has a consequence, whether immediately or in four hours. That consciousness and awareness of how my actions impact my life has been the key to my success.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I've ever received is 'where your focus goes, your energy flows. That advice has stuck in my mind forever. Since I work with energy, that changed my life. It completely transformed how I approach my work and my life.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say that no matter what you're going through right now — whether you feel lost, unclear, or disconnected from yourself — it is always worth returning to who you are and reclaiming your value.
Personal development is not just about building a career. It becomes part of the way you live. It is a tool that helps you help yourself, and in doing so, helps you help others too.
I would tell young women to learn how to meditate and learn how to breathe.
We grow up in environments where everyone is rushing. Everyone wants everything immediately. You finish school and people expect you to go straight to college, and if you don’t, they make you feel like you are falling behind or doing nothing meaningful with your life. There is so much pressure placed on young people to have everything figured out.
But don’t allow the external world to define your pace or your worth.
Meditation is far beyond being just a practice or a trend. It is part of spiritual development. When you become aware of simply sitting with yourself, simply breathing, you begin to stay grounded no matter what people say or what situation you are facing.
It helps you become conscious of your actions and understand that everything we do carries consequences.
Most of the time, we are not even aware of what we are thinking because thoughts arrive before we are ready to process them. Meditation teaches you to observe your mind instead of being controlled by it.
That is why meditation is such a powerful tool. It does not only help you professionally or emotionally — it helps you reconnect with yourself, and through that, become someone who can genuinely help others too.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The biggest challenge in my field has been finding the courage to truly step into the work and believe in myself.
Believing that everything I have gone through, everything I have learned, and every experience that shaped me can also help someone else heal, grow, or feel understood.
For me, the hardest part was not the work itself — it was putting myself out there.
Fear has many faces. Sometimes it looks like self-doubt. Sometimes it looks like perfectionism, comparison, overthinking, or the need to wait until everything feels “ready.” But most of the time, fear simply tries to convince you to stay hidden.
And I think many people underestimate how vulnerable it is to be seen, especially when your work comes from personal experiences and genuine emotion.
But I’ve learned that courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is choosing to move forward even while fear is present.
Because the moment you stop hiding parts of yourself, you realize that your story was never meant to stay only yours. Someone else may find clarity, comfort, or strength in the very thing you once struggled to accept about yourself.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
For me, one of the most important values in life is protecting my peace of mind. Peace is one of my core values, and so is truth.
I deeply value people who speak honestly. Even if I do not agree with what they are saying, I still appreciate the courage it takes to tell the truth.
I feel like we grow up in a world where we are taught to stay silent about what we really think and feel. They teach us many things in life, but not how to communicate honestly. They do not teach us how to express discomfort, how to set boundaries, how to say no, or how to have difficult conversations with honesty and respect.
Because of that, I admire people who are real. People who choose honesty instead of pretending. People who can express themselves openly, even when it is uncomfortable.
To me, truth creates peace. Even painful truth feels lighter than confusion, mixed signals, or silence.
That is why honesty is something I value so deeply. Not perfection, not always agreeing with each other — just truth.
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