Adriana Jimenez shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Adriana, really appreciate you sharing your stories and insights with us. The world would have so much more understanding and empathy if we all were a bit more open about our stories and how they have helped shaped our journey and worldview. Let’s jump in with a fun one: What do you think others are secretly struggling with—but never say?
After working with and training hundreds of conscious, purpose-driven women, I’ve noticed a silent struggle that almost no one admits out loud:
So many women are secretly terrified of their own success.
Not because they don’t want it, or are unmotivated, but because they don’t yet feel safe enough, in their body and nervous system, to fully hold what they’re dreaming of.
I see women rise right to their edges – the moment where everything is about to shift and then retreat. It’s not a lack of desire or commitment; it’s a subtle form of self-protection. Most women were raised for survival, not expansion. We were taught to over-give, perfect, prove ourselves, and stay small – NOT to receive support, be visible, thrive, or take up space. So success, joy, abundance, leadership… can feel unfamiliar, even unsafe.
This is the real work: helping women build the inner capacity to feel grounded, supported, and safe in their power so they stop shrinking at the moment things get real. Because most women aren’t scared of the dream itself – they’re scared of whether they’re ready to hold the magnitude of it and what that looks like when their entire identity shifts to those they love dearly.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hello loves! I’m Adriana Jimenez, a Sacred Business Strategist, Embodied Leadership Guide, and accredited Sound Healer. I live on California’s Central Coast, where I’m a mom, wife, SOULpreneur, and all-around creatrix, fully leaning into the glimmers of life.
For over 20 years, I’ve been immersed in Leadership Development – designing courses, managing projects, facilitating group dynamics, and building communities rooted in legacy and service. Today, I show up through teaching, facilitating, and mentoring these skills in a truly embodied way.
I’m here to guide women beyond survival. Helping them reclaim their power, explore their edges, and lead from within. I facilitate transformative leadership practices where courage, presence, and authenticity aren’t just ideas, they’re living breathing expressions of the women I support. My work is rooted in community over competition – helping women rise together, deeply anchored in self-trust, embracing their multidimensionality, and unmasking their truth for the world to see.
My mission? To transform the way women lead, helping them unlearn old conditioning, break cycles, and step fully into their wildest dreams. By guiding women to embrace both light and shadow and steward their gifts, I’m creating a world where feminine leadership is bold, authentic, and capable of shaping life, community, and legacy.
Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. What relationship most shaped how you see yourself?
The relationship that has most shaped how I see myself? Hands down – it’s been my relationship with myself. And what a wild, beautiful, messy journey it’s been.
Growing up, the way I saw and valued myself was completely shaped by the outside world. It was a time of supermodels, where curves were frowned upon, sexuality was taboo, and girls were growing up way too fast. I grew up in adversity and I didn’t quite fit in – I was a rainbow sheep, always looking outside myself for reassurance, validation, and acceptance. My “enoughness” felt like it was constantly on trial. Like so many girls and women, I was unhappy with my body, constantly judging myself and comparing myself to everyone else. And that didn’t stop, even after marriage and kids, if anything it became even more complicated.
Some of the hardest moments came later in life – my daughter being stillborn was my greatest trial. For years, I felt betrayed by my body, I was angry. But one day, something shifted: I realized I couldn’t punish myself into self-love. No amount of self-loathing would beat me into submission – it only drove me deeper into judgment.
I started to see my relationship with myself as an abusive one. And I thought, I would never let anyone speak to my kids or the people I love this way—so why am I allowing it with myself? That’s when I realized the medicine I truly needed was self-love. I needed to put myself on a pedestal, to honor and worship every curve, scar, and story. I needed to alchemize every negative thought or criticism into gratitude for this life, for this body, and all it has carried me through.
That surrender changed everything. I healed my relationship with my body, made peace with my daughter’s passing, and discovered new depths of self-worth and confidence. I realized that my journey – this work of coming home to ourselves – isn’t unusual. So much of the love we search for outside ourselves is already within us, just waiting to be recognized.
Women are pure magic, but so often we get lost in who we think we should be – carrying the weight of expectations, roles, and labels. The work of self-love and BODY-love is transformative, and it’s what brought me to this career. I want women to know, deeply and undeniably, how beautiful, worthy, and magical they truly are underneath it all.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Suffering taught me something success never could: that the two are deeply entangled and that one should never define the other. As women, we’ve been conditioned to measure our worth through our productivity, how much we give, or how much we sacrifice.
For so many of us, suffering has become a silent badge of honor we wear proudly. We’re taught that to be a “good woman” – a good mother, partner, leader, business owner – we must give our ALL until there’s nothing left to give. We sacrifice our needs for our families, careers, communities, and households, often until we’re depleted and running on empty. And then we compare our exhaustion to others as proof that we’re doing it “right.”
Why do we feel we have to suffer in order to feel worthy of success?
I no longer participate in these beliefs, and I actively discourage the women I work with from doing the same. That approach is rooted in a deeply masculine, patriarchal paradigm – the grind, the hustle, the belief that burnout equals earning or devotion.
Today, I choose a more feminine model of success – one that begins with feeling, nourishment, and embodiment. So instead of asking, “How much can I give?” I ask:
-How do I want success to feel in my body?
-What would a successful day look like for my most empowered self?
-How do I want joy, presence, and self-care to show up in my life?
-What would make success feel sustainable, expansive, and alive?
To me, true success is not about what it costs – it’s about how full you are. It’s about filling yourself so deeply with bliss, pleasure, purpose, and self-honoring that it naturally overflows to everyone around you, starting with the people closest to you.
Suffering taught me that I don’t have to earn success through pain. I get to redefine it by how deeply I am living, loving, and honoring myself along the way.
Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. What’s a belief you used to hold tightly but now think was naive or wrong?
A belief I used to cling to – one that I now see as completely unrealistic and honestly harmful – is the idea that “women can do it all.” I grew up hearing that message over and over, and I’ve watched so many women try to live up to it while silently drowning under the weight of expectation.
We were taught to believe we should be able to:
Give 100% to our partner
Give 100% to our kids
Give 100% to our family
Give 100% to our careers
Give 100% to becoming our highest selves
But my love… that math does not math. This puts us 400% overdrawn before we even factor ourselves into the equation. And for years, I believed that if I couldn’t keep all those plates spinning perfectly, something must be wrong with me. That I lacked discipline, or ambition, or strength.
But now I see the myth that “women can do it all” was never empowering. It was conditioning. An impossible standard that keeps women exhausted, guilty, often dysregulated, and disconnected from their own needs.
So no—I don’t subscribe to “work-life balance” anymore either. Balance suggests everything should be neat and evenly distributed… and that’s just not how real life or womanhood operates. Instead, I’m all about work-life harmony.
Harmony honors the seasons. Some chapters of life require more of us as mothers. Some require more of us as leaders, dreamers, creators. Some seasons are for expansion… some are for rest, healing, re-rooting. And women deserve full permission to show up in whatever capacity feels true, life-giving, and aligned – with no guilt, no shame, and no pressure to perform their worth.
Because, once again – we are redefining success based on how it FEELS – not what it costs. Success should feel like something. It should bring you joy, nourish you, energize you, and support the woman you are becoming – not bury her under an impossible to-do list.
Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. What do you think people will most misunderstand about your legacy?
I think the biggest misunderstanding about my legacy is that some people may see it as something I do – programs, teachings, circles, offerings – when in truth, my legacy is about who I am and how I choose to show up in the world. Legacy, to me, isn’t a checklist or a résumé or certifications. It’s the energy we leave behind in the hearts and lives of others.
My legacy is deeply rooted in community and connection – connection to ourselves, to each other, to our purpose, and to the world around us. And I think that matters now more than ever. We’re living in a time where so many people are lonely, overwhelmed, disconnected from their bodies and intuition, and trying to do life alone. I’m here to change that and inspire women toward collective growth, because women are SO powerful together.
My work isn’t just about leadership, it’s about bringing women together and helping them see themselves the way I see them: powerful, magical, creative, and capable of so much more than they’ve ever been taught to believe. I want to help women unmask their gifts, reclaim their stories, and have the tools and confidence to share their brilliance with the world. At its core, my legacy is about liberation.
Liberating the parts of ourselves we’ve hidden, silenced, or shamed. Coming home to the body. Learning to listen to our intuition. Loving ourselves now, not once we’ve “arrived,” achieved something, or proven we’re worthy – but right now, in this body, in this season of life.
If people misunderstand anything, it might be that this work is about business or strategy. Yes, those things are part of it, but they’re not the point. The point is that when a woman remembers who she is and leads from her wholeness, everything around her changes – her family, her community, her work, her impact, her world.
That’s the legacy I’m here to leave behind.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.moonflowerandsol.com/
- Instagram: @adriana.moonflower.sol
Image Credits
Blaze Braumbaugh Photography
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