07 - Growing Your Career Without Growing Apart: Relationships for Ambitious Women

Описание: Can you grow your career and keep your relationship thriving—or do you have to choose?

For many ambitious women, career growth comes with tension at home. You get the promotion, and your partner feels threatened. You start working longer hours, and they don’t understand why it matters. You prioritize yourself, and suddenly there’s guilt or pushback.

In this episode of The Ambitious Woman of Color Podcast, Jessica Lynn Rojas is joined by Cynthia Flores, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and host of the Heal & Manifest podcast, to talk about what really happens when ambitious women start growing—and how to navigate love and career success without sacrificing either.

If you’re high-achieving, used to handling everything on your own, or wondering why your relationships feel heavy, disconnected, or misaligned, this conversation will resonate.

Jessica and Cynthia unpack how cultural conditioning, first-gen pressure, and survival-based success patterns shape how ambitious women show up in their relationships. They explore why career success doesn’t automatically bring relational fulfillment, why hyper-independence can create distance, and what it takes to co-create partnerships that truly support your life and career.

In this episode, we discuss:
• How hyper-independence impacts relationships for ambitious women
• Why career success doesn’t always equal relationship fulfillment
• Cultural and first-gen conditioning around independence and self-worth
• The cost of always being “the strong one”
• Communication, boundaries, and modern partnership dynamics
• Redefining success beyond productivity and overwork

Chapters
00:00 Career boundaries and creativity
02:52 Ambition and relationships
05:57 Cultural conditioning and independence
08:55 Finding balance in partnership
12:00 Shifting relationship dynamics
14:46 Communicating needs clearly
27:27 Success and relational support
28:40 Self-worth and societal expectations
31:39 Modern vs traditional roles
35:33 Assessing relationship dynamics
46:43 Rapid-fire relationship insights

About Cynthia Flores
Cynthia Flores is a First-Gen Latina, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, speaker, media expert, and host of the Heal & Manifest podcast. She helps First Gen Latinas and women of color heal trauma, build self-worth, break generational cycles, and create healthy, supportive relationships.

Connect with Cynthia:
⁠Website⁠: https://www.cynthiagflores.com/
Instagram: ⁠  / cynthiafloreslmft  
Podcast: ⁠Heal & Manifest with Cynthia Flores:    / @healandmanifestwithcynthia  

Work With Jessica
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I help ambitious women of color increase their income without burning out by changing how they move at work. We focus on promotions, raises, job changes, and career pivots through strategy, identity work, and nervous system awareness so you can earn more while actually having a life.

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