meet the founder
hi, i’m angie
Mom. Retired U.S. Air Force Major, registered nurse, and founder of Angelica Maria Enterprises.
For ten years in the Air Force, I watched the same thing happen over and over. I’d tell someone, “You’re really good at this.” And almost immediately, they’d brush it off. It was nothing. The whole team did it. Anybody could’ve done that. Except anybody couldn’t.
I could see the person everyone trusted when something went wrong. The one who could explain the complicated thing so it finally made sense. The one quietly doing something better than everyone around them. Until eventually, they started seeing what I had been seeing all along.
Finding someone’s skill was never the hard part. Getting them to recognize the value of it was.
Turns out, I would eventually have to learn that lesson myself.
THE TITLE STAYED WITH THE JOB. THE SKILL CAME WITH ME
I spent years figuring things out and executing someone else’s mission. In hospitals. In boardrooms. In high-pressure operations.
Different environments. Different responsibilities. But my role was often the same: understand the mission, figure out what needed to happen, and make it happen.
I was a registered nurse, an Air Force officer, and a leader responsible for developing people, solving problems, building systems, leading operations, and making decisions where getting it wrong was not an option. I knew how to execute a mission. I just hadn’t built one of my own yet.
Then life changed. My daughter’s father passed away unexpectedly, and as her only parent, I knew being present for her could not be something I tried to fit around everything else.
She is my why. And in that moment, being there for her became the most important mission of my life. So after ten years, I stepped away from the military.
And suddenly, the person who had spent years helping other people recognize what they brought to the table had to answer that question for herself.
Who am I when the title stays with the job?
What I eventually realized was that while the title stayed behind, everything those years taught me came with me.
this time, i built from my own skills and experience
The more I built this next chapter, the more I realized my previous careers had prepared me for it in ways I hadn’t recognized.
Nursing taught me how to assess what’s actually happening instead of getting distracted by the noise. Leadership taught me how to recognize strengths in people, identify what needed development, and help them grow. The military taught me how to take what I had, identify what was missing, build a plan, and execute. When I stepped into business, I approached it the same way. I figured out what I already brought with me, identified what I still needed to learn, and went after it. I wasn’t starting from nothing.
I was building from everything I had already become.
THAT’S HOW ANGELICA MARIA ENTERPRISES WAS BORN.
AME exists because we know what it feels like to look at years of experience and still wonder: What do I actually do with all of this now?
I also know what it feels like to want something of your own without wanting your business to become another thing that owns all of you.
That’s why we start differently here.
We start with the person. What do you know? What are you really good at? What have your years of experience taught you? What do people already trust you to help them with? What do you actually want your life to look like?
Then we look at the market, find where your knowledge can solve a real problem, and build from there. Because your next chapter doesn’t require you to erase the ones that came before it. It gives you the chance to build from them.
my why
My faith and my family sit at the center of how I make decisions and how I build. I’ve carried the responsibility. I know what it feels like to be the person everyone depends on.
And I’ve learned that success means very little if achieving it costs you time with the people you love or you begin to lose yourself in the process.
Having the ability to choose matters to me. To decide what gets my time, what deserves my energy, when I need to be present, and what I’m no longer willing to sacrifice just to keep up.
I want you to have that ability too.
You can be ambitious and still want peace. You can build something meaningful and still be present for your family. You can want more without wanting more on your plate. Because at the end of the day, the business should support the life you’re trying to build. Not become the life.
READY TO SEE WHAT YOU COULD BUILD FROM WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW?
Let’s uncover your Overlooked Asset™ and start there.
EXPERIENCE & TRAINING
Leadership & Operations
U.S. AIR FORCE MAJOR, RETIRED
10 Years of Military Leadership & Operations
REGISTERED NURSE, BSN
13+ Years in Healthcare & Leadership
BUSINESS, SALES & FUNNEL DEVELOPMENT
CLICKFUNNELS CERTIFIED FUNNEL BUILDER
Russell Brunson’s Funnel Builder Certification
Russell Brunson’s Prime Mover Foundation
One-to-Many Mastery
AI & BUSINESS STRATEGY
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
AI Business Strategy Certification
No-Code Generative AI & Agentic AI Certification
coaching
THE AI IN COACHING CERTIFICATION
ICF Accredited
Lara Young | ICF Master Trainer
Marketing
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Digital Marketing 360 Certification
Communication & Leadership Training
COMMUNICATE TO LEAD
Jessica Rivera | Executive Business Coach
storytelling
STORYTELLING TRAINING
Jun Yuh | Personal Branding & Content Strategy
PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
eWomenNetwork
Member & Central New Jersey Leadership Team
Contributing to the leadership and growth of a local community within eWomenNetwork’s global network of women entrepreneurs.
The American Legion
Member
Continuing my connection to and involvement in the veteran community beyond my military service.
Welcome to your
next chapter.
Let's build.
💖 Angie
