I grew up with every advantage—loving parents, educational resources, spiritual foundation. But there was one thing no one taught me: how to think about money.
For years, I was a trained practitioner. I could help clients reprogram their limiting beliefs, transform their relationships, heal their trauma. But when it came to my own wealth, I was blocked. I'd grown up in scarcity, and no amount of intellectual understanding could override the subconscious programming that ran beneath the surface.
Then I turned my tools on myself. I used the same hypnotic techniques, the same NLP patterns, the same coaching frameworks that had changed thousands of lives. And something shifted.
"The story you tell yourself about money isn't the truth."
Within six months, my income doubled. Within a year, it had tripled. But more importantly, I stopped living in scarcity. The constant anxiety about money faded. I stopped making decisions from fear. I started making them from abundance.
I realized I wasn't broken. I was just running an old program. And once I rewrote the code, everything changed.
That's when I knew: I had to build this for women like me. Women who are intelligent, ambitious, and capable—but trapped in a subconscious pattern around money that no amount of willpower can fix. Women who needed a tool that met them where they were: in their subconscious mind.
TinaMaria was born from this obsession. It's the app I wished existed 15 years ago. It's the voice of a trusted older sister who happens to know neuroscience.