Vida Divina, a global direct marketer of nutritional and healthy lifestyle products, announced today that Mexican entrepreneur Macaría Mejía from California has obtained the rank of Diamond.
Her personal story makes her achievements even more remarkable. Once a humble girl living in Oaxaca, Mexico, Macaria Mejía spent her last years of high school thinking about how to make her dreams of prosperity come true. So, as a very young woman, in 2009, she made the hard decision of migrating to the United States.
Macaria recalls those days with a bittersweet feeling. Her arrival to a new country was a mix of courage and inevitable fear.
“I just made it to the border, then hiked over the mountains and now I’m here”,
she says. But it was not as easy as it sounds. Leaving her land behind was risky and emotionally painful.
She had a friend who walked along with her in that journey to America, and they overcame all obstacles together. But then they parted ways: that friend went to Washington and Macaria Mejía stayed in Salinas, California—the city where good fortune would smile to her many years later…
“I had a brother here in the US, who helped me get a job, but all I