About me
The Woman Behind the Guides
In 2023, I packed eight bags, shipped 36 boxes, moved both my cats, and made the move to Spain alone to live out a dream I’d been carrying for years.
I have roots here — I was born in Nicaragua, knew people already living in Spain. I thought that would be enough. It wasn’t. The people I knew were busy. The Spanish I spoke was Latin American, and Castilian felt like a different rhythm. I made wrong decisions about where to stay, spent more money than I needed to, and spent months confused, lonely, and — if I’m honest — easy prey for people who saw that.
It took a year and a half to find my footing. Nobody warned me how long that would take, or how much it would cost me to get there.
What got me through was finally finding one person who knew the landscape. I kept thinking: what if I’d had this before I left?
That’s why I built Her Own Compass. I’m not an attorney or an immigration expert. I’m a relocation coach who went through it — the journals, the whiteboards, the same question asked five times hoping one answer would stick. These guides are what I wish I’d had. Practical, honest, written like your most informed friend telling you exactly what she knows.
You’ll still make some mistakes. But you’ll make fewer, and from a more solid place.
