v the first filipino american t v talk show in the new york metro area get to know us as we talk to the community leaders innovators and emerging artists who respect motherhood it's not a job it's a gift not an eye which means moderate and filipino comes in many forms and the spectrum is as broad and diverse and today we are thrilled to celebrate the many women too to accomplish all of the past with the care and you just need to be on time all the time even though i'm not i would try to and and then with the art that i'm doing  of course i always find a way to have a time for myself as well so that's why i you know i introduce myself into our world and my job i think together and i teach we always stop face to face but he would witness that i don't use them if i want to manage like i i would usually like right being so many things to do and i would not sleep until everything is i i thought the fifth going to the shelter is like where i would learn how to be a mom and i did like it and then and then his diet was diagnosed with brain and here i thought i thought the whole time that i was living our lives it was like oh we had we just have to get through that card part and then everything would be fine but then when he when he came like well we're sold everything is like already kind of get this is so that he just had this year and then the next day the i mean that every no no no i didn't know i was pregnant the whole day i know i say out it was it was like third month when i realize that because i was so young when i when i guess i was like eighteen years  own it's really hard because you do everything and then i don't have that much family here so i started scratch i got here early two thousand and nine so from them bringing them here getting used to mom i honestly don't understand how she does everything take care of three kids make sure that we're fed that we're dressed i remember her pulling my ponytail really hard go shopping for us prepares foods picks up takes us to like orchestra or sports and then also entertains my dad like i don't understand how she has all this time plus she started her own business y a real career and then i have four kids and then i decided all of you stay at home and then now that they're almost all out of the house now you feel like ok i mean all my friends are doing their retirement party or doing this and go like i'll never have i don't have anything i was like nothing so i was like i'm going to do everything and then i asked my mom to look for my to look after my child and and so i went i went to work three jobs business i have my own time so i can focus on well for me i think the best advice that i still keep on like putting it in my mind is i had like a sit on  after i gave birth and all this drama and then she just kept telling me just keep moving forward no matter how hard it is no matter like how many barricades come comes your way  just make sure you're moving even little by little even big leaps just make sure you keep moving forward in like i think that's the best advice that i thought of like i keep reminding myself like even if it's hard even during th laura well my latest collection is inspired was of course the filipino and so i'm that was my that was my part that market for this collection to appeal to the solo community filipinos who want to get in touch with their