Teca Furst

He was very lucky to grow up with a loving family, and with different ancestry. Her father, being of African descent, and her mother of Spaniards. However, there was a social difference between the two families, her father’s family, still struggling against masked racism, educational equality and access to better jobs, like many Brazilians at that time, of African descent.

At a young age, he began to wonder why we all didn’t have access to the same lifestyle and opportunities. She was only five years old at the time.

Slowly, an idea began to grow within her, that of social, educational and financial equality and she was fortunate to have grandparents, among others, who understood and supported her feelings. It gave her the confidence to begin to understand the importance of resilience and breaking down barriers.

It was with this thought, even with all the barriers she experienced, that she decided in 2002 to live in Spain. She was accepted into a public Spanish university, the University of Salamanca, for a law degree. The process was not easy, but she directed her thoughts towards her goal, always in a positive way, and with passion. After a few years, in 2004, she started a new life project, studying English in the United States, New York.

With the way of thinking of many young people, she had the innocence to believe that with the techniques applied for her student and professional success in Spain, she would have the same result in New York. And it wasn’t like that. She found in this “city that never sleeps”, many barriers and among them, the language, the cultural difference, the cold climate, difficulties of being accepted in an American University, for not knowing English and loneliness. But, with the help of great friends, the support, even from afar, of her Brazilian family, and of a life coach, she managed to change her thoughts and actions, and thus, she completed the English course, was accepted at a university. American, Stony Brook University, to major in psychology, and found his professional passion, that of being a life coach, in New York. With that, she continued what she did and always believed, since her childhood in Brazil, to support and help others, to break barriers of inequality, with perseverance and confidence in herself. And so, with professional life coaching techniques, helping people with emotional, social, family or professional blocks to find strategies, formulate concrete goals, and discover their true passion and inner potential, to believe in themselves, in achieving a full, healthy and happy life.