Nely Galan

About Nely

• My parents and I immigrated to the United States from Cuba when I was five years old; we settled in New Jersey.
• I was a good student and my parents wanted me to be protected, so they sent me to an all-girls Catholic school—however, I would overhear my parents at night, worrying about paying for my schooling.
• I sold makeup out of my locker at school to help pay for my tuition—it was my first self-empowerment experience.
• After taking advantage of a publicized conflict in high school, I ended up receiving a guest editorship at Seventeen Magazine.
• I transitioned into television and eventually worked my way up to running Telemundo—I also used my experience in television to create my own multimedia company.
• When NBC bought Telemundo, they gave me a huge deal to produce 700 TV shows.
• I wanted to empower other women to take charge of their lives and become entrepreneurs, so I wrote a book called “SELF MADE: Becoming Empowered, Self-Reliant, and Rich in Every Way.”
• I then founded The Adelante Movement to empower multicultural women economically and entrepreneurially, and created the Becoming Self Made platform to teach women how to become entrepreneurs.