Real Leaders Ask Questions 🥣
🔥 Burned, Healed, and Now Holding a Lantern for Others
🇵🇷 Let’s start here: every 9 weeks, another 20+ esthetics students get told a glossy story.
“You’ll open a spa.”
“Get scooped up by a medspa.”
“Be rich, booked, and build a celeb brand.”
What they don’t say? That they’re paying thousands of dólares to be sold a mentira — one that’s marketed as a career path, but smells like performance and is padded with evasive words.
🥁 I’ve seen nail techs “turned instructors” talking trash about students behind their backs. I’ve been in rooms with “leaders” who never went to instructor school, who shamed anyone with a backbone or a boundary.
When I stopped being a yes-girl — a polite, quiet, look-the-other-way persona — I felt the shift. 💀
🪇 It’s not easy being the one who names the invisible basura. The one who says, “No, that’s not right.” Especially when your livelihood is on the line and the system is built on image over integrity.
But we gotta talk about it.
Because vague, slippery, or evasiva language isn’t just annoying — it’s how harm hides. It’s how people get trapped in debt, shame, and doubt about their own gifts.
We’re told to take tests: “Are you a cow? A motivator? A mango-flavored visionary?” And when we answer honestamente, we get ignored. Or labeled “uncoachable.” Or straight up ghosted. 👻
That’s not leadership. That’s teatro.
🌺 Real leaders ask questions. Real instructors evolve. Real space-holders don’t throw their students under the guagua to feel important.
We’ve learned to say:
- “I just wanted to check…”
- “I think I maybe…”
- “I guess I was wondering…”
It’s not weakness. It’s survival. It’s auto-protección. But now we get to do it differently.
🕯️ Summary:
🇵🇷 This is not a gossip piece. It’s not a tell-all. It’s a real-time reflection from someone who’s lived it, named it, and walked through it with dignidad (dignity), claridad (clarity), and presencia (presence).
The author isn’t trying to cancel anyone or call anyone out. They’re calling things in — for the sake of future students, professionals, and those of us who value integrity over image.
This isn’t bitterness — it’s a boundary. A beautiful one. 🥣
We’ve all seen things that made us shrink, stay silent, or second-guess our own voice. This post is about reclaiming that voice — without apology, and without playing small to make others comfortable.
This is one instructor’s truth. Offered with candor, corazón, and a lantern in hand. 🕯️
Puerto Rican. Bilingual. And still here — speaking up with love. 🇵🇷
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