So, as you know, we’re impressed with Marta Spirk Coaching – tell our readers more, for example, what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others. All of this sent me on a deep soul-searching process that ended up with coaching because I needed to sort through my own feelings and emotions myself. To top it off, having triplets added a huge amount of stress, especially when we decided to move back. Not only because I’d already adjusted to American life, but also because my husband didn’t speak Portuguese and had little knowledge of our culture.
Moving back to Brazil wasn’t easy either. Coming from a Christian and Latin family, it is very unusual for us to go far away or even to leave our parents’ home with someone you don’t know very well (long-distance relationship). My mission is to continue to embrace myself and also teach not only other Brazilians but also my kids to do so since they were actually born in Brazil.įirst of all, marrying an American and moving to another country was rough on my family. I have been serving these women with my podcasts both in English and in Portuguese and also via my virtual school: The Empowered Woman School, where I teach weekly classes on personal development and provide resources for English learning as well. I’ve learned we can’t find purpose or pride in ourselves if we don’t embrace all of who we are, and usually the part we reject about ourselves is the very thing that makes us the US. I then decided to shift my coaching to help Brazilian women living in the US adapt to their new life and find their new identity as I started going through the same process but in reverse.Īs I help them, I help myself. Helping my fellow Brazilians opened my eyes to the fact that as much as they were having a hard time adjusting to the new culture and language, I had been rejecting mine. Soon enough, I found myself working for courts, schools, hospitals and then I had a big ‘click.’ For three years I thought my biggest transition in life had been becoming a triplet mom, but there was another transition I’d been taking lightly: I’m not from the US, even though I act like I am. In this process, I connected with other Brazilians in my area and started getting requests to help them with their English as an interpreter. So I started coaching moms online to take time for themselves in order to be more present for their kids – that’s what I was doing myself by coaching them. When we moved back, a stay-at-home mom to three babies, there was little I could do to contribute financially, but I wanted to. My life has been jam packed with emotional rollercoasters, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. In the meantime, we tried living in Brazil for a while, had triplets and moved back. We ended up in Denver and I started a Master’s in Linguistics at UC Denver. In 2005, I met my American husband in church in Tulsa, OK and five years later, we got married I finally got my dream to come true. All the while, we had been coming to the US to attend church conferences and I’d been dreaming of staying for longer, living and even studying here.
To my delight, I found a course that focused on translation and went with that for my Bachelor’s degree. So, when time came to decide what to pursue in college, I had no doubts: I wanted to be an English major. I was volunteered as their interpreter even before finishing high school. At around the same time, my mom, a pastor in Brazil, connected with American ministers and invited them to come speak at our church. And at 14 I started tutoring English and getting paid for it. Soon enough, my friends in school noticed I did well in our English classes and asked me to help them study at home. I remember when I was around 5 in Brazil, early 90’s, I’d follow my older sister and cousin around and listen to New Kids on the Block, longing to understand the words.
My obsession with the English language and American culture started at a young age. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
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