Posted in Post-Race by Michelle Euperio on 7/26/2011
Hello Beautiful People!! I have been putting off blogging in hopes to come up with something profound and deep and wow everyone with my words and wisdom... but i have nothing quite yet... so here is my heart.
 It has been about since 8 months since I returned from the World Race. It has been 1 month since I have returned from G42.
Both experiences have radically changed me and I wouldn't have it any other way. I am thankful and blessed for the experiences and people that I have been able to meet along the way.
So pre-World Race what was I doing? Well since you asked... my jobs included being an after school teacher for inner city kids, an assistant matchmaker, bra specialist at Victoria's Secret, bridal consultant and the one that makes everyone laugh the most... A DEBT COLLECTOR. Unfortunately, I was the worst debt collector known to man because I was probably the nicest one ever. hahah
After the race, I went to G42 Leadership Academy. It was the beginning phases of starting my own ministry and it was a time of intense but beautiful and loving community and discipleship. The Race allowed me to get rid of my junk to find out who I am while G42 allowed me to really settle into being the woman I am destined to be.
So after all these amazing experiences of love, community, fighting human trafficking, saving orphans, building homes- where am I at now? Does one go back to being a debt collector and to a random slew of jobs?
No- but I am in good ole' MESQUITE, TX! I find that in the past two years I have learned who I am in completely different parts of the world and now I am learning to still be that woman right here where I grew up. This place is my past. It makes it just a tad bit harder because I don't have people who are constantly speaking life and being of encouragement. I am not surrounded by people who slightly get me.But I have a Daddy who gave me life and bursts forth his love daily. I have to choose HIM. It is no longer the environment. I am not completely immersed in it 24/7.
It can be lonely and sometimes it sucks to think that a year ago I was in a Ugandan jungle speaking at a wedding or just a couple of months ago-prophesying overlooking the coast and seeing Morocco....
But I know that I am NOT circumstantial. I am a child of God. I am his royal daughter. I am not defined by what happens around me. I am a joyful person because I have a God who deeply and personally loves and chooses me not only daily but every single second..
 This is not a survival period. I am not just living this next phase and flying by in Mesquite so I can go back to Spain for 3 months and intern with a shoe designer. No this period is vital. Sink or swim. I'm diving into the Lord. This is the period where things start becoming reality.
This is the research/gain knowledge period. This is design/sketching shoes become like breathing. This is the work hard to pay off some bills phase (I'm a nanny and a caregiver for old people- haha different blog on that later.) This is seeing the beauty amidst the dry and barren times. This is seeing and being a light in the darkness. This is knowing that greatness is coming. This is me seeing the almond tree.
Jeremiah 1: 9-11-Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant." The word of the LORD came to me: "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I replied, "I see the branch of an almond tree,"
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Posted in Post-Race by Michelle Euperio on 5/8/2011
Peacocks are extradorinary animals.
 They are unlike any creature I have ever seen.
They are beautiful.
They are bold.
They are unique.
They're birds... which means I am sure they can be silly animals at times.
In India, they are a symbol of beauty, prosperity, royalty, love, compassion, soul and peace.
Early belief held that the Gates of Paradise are guarded by a pair of peacocks.
The peacock naturally replaces his feathers annually, so the peacock is also a symbol of renewal.
Click Here to see why the Peacock is so important to me.... or check outwww.michelleeuperio.com to read the rest of this posting.
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Posted in Post-Race by Michelle Euperio on 5/8/2011
Me and Mom... This was TCU Homecoming 2007.. wow long time ago.
Lena Suarez Euperio.
Awww that's my mommy. I love her. She is a beautiful woman who has 3 children, 2 in laws and 1 grandchild.
To read the rest of the blog about my beautiful mom, click on http://michelleeuperio.com/2011/05/08/i-get-it-from-my-momma/
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Posted in Post-Race by Michelle Euperio on 5/8/2011
 Hey Beautiful people! So I am one of the newest blog writers for Shoe Revolt! I am so excited! It is an organization that collects gently used shoes, resells them and all the money that comes in goes toward different anti-trafficking groups and safe homes for women!
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Posted in Post-Race by Michelle Euperio on 4/18/2011
My 25th Birthday
 25...
It just sounds so much older than 24... I am a quarter of a century old... I
am half of 50. I am excited though. I know that it can only get better.
I like looking into the mirror and I don't look so young anymore. Don't
get me wrong... those asian genes... make me look a little bit younger but I
am not 12 anymore.
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Posted in G42-Guadalhorce by Michelle Euperio on 4/17/2011
There's a train stop to Guadalhorce and I can't help but slightly wonder what do people think of when they see us get off this stop...
After exiting the train station, one can choose the left or the right. LEFT-are where mainly Romanian and some other women from different countries have staked their ground while the Nigerian women have claimed the RIGHT side as their territory.
Denisa can be found to the left by the first round about.
She is Romanian with dirty-blonde medium length hair. She wears a leopard cardigan with a black mini-skirt and some ankle high stiletto boots.
She is part of a trio of Romanian women that approached me and asked us to leave saying that this is their life, they have to do this, they don't care what we have to say but they don't want us here...
check out the rest of the blog here......
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Posted in G42 by Michelle Euperio on 4/12/2011
Hey Beautiful People!! I have a new blog site.. Check out
If you are already subscribed to this World Race blog, I have already
added you to the subscription and updates list and you will be getting a confirmation
e-mail. Click on the following link and you will still get my updates!!! I hope that you continue journeying alongside me.. but just on the new blog. It will be a mixture of some of my favorite blogs from the Race and more about what is currently going on in my life...Thanks for all the support.
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On another note.... I still need to raise support to continue my
ministry here at G42. If you believe in the ministry that I am doing
here and the ministry calling that I have on my life please donate here.
I need $3,382 left in my support account or I will have to go back
home by the end of the month. Please consider partnering with me in this ministry and helping bring the Kingdom to Earth.
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Posted in G42-Guadalhorce by Michelle Euperio on 4/10/2011
 I went to Guadalhorce Friday night. This time it was different. It was different in the sense that I was able to go out at night time with Joyce, Steph Fisk and Kate Williams. It was "primetime" for the women to be out waiting for "johns" to come and purchase them for an amount of time.
Usually the group that goes to Guadalhorce goes on Saturday afternoons because of train/ bus schedules and safety reasons as well.
Joyce is a woman who has ministered to many of these women for a while and attends church with several of them. Steph met her during her time as an intern. She offered to take us in her green mini-van- type-car.
As we pulled up to the abandoned factory boulevard and area-darkness began to swallow us. Normally, walking into Guadalhorce we ease ourselves into the darkness but this time it was almost overwhelming and heavier than normal. Dark-physically but dark-spiritually.
The night began with Romanian women yelling in Spanish at Joyce and I to  get away from their corner. They were telling us that we weren't welcome, that this was their work and this is what they had to do.
Joyce said that she had talked to them on previous nights and they were more than willing to talk to her but tonight-they wanted nothing to do with her... and me for that matter.
In my times of doing such ministry to women... I have never felt hostility like this. In that second, I froze. One of the women began answering my questions only to be followed by. "Why? Why do you care? There's nothing you can do."
I froze because I let the language barrier get to me. I froze because the impact of her statement pierced my heart. I froze and felt helpless in that moment.
The night progressively got better. We talked to many different women and because we were in Joyce's car we were able to talk to 5 times more women that we would normally be able to talk to.
When I froze, I wanted to say that she had a story. She was worth more than any price any man would pay to be with her. That even if she didn't believe it-there were people fighting for her, who believe in her and love her. That she has a mighty Father that has nothing but admiration and unconditional love for her.
God gave me different opportunities to say such things to different women that night but my eyes have been opened that-these women-every single one of them have such a beautiful story and it needs to be heard.
Growing up, I always wanted to be a news reporter because I had a special interest in people. I find that even though I no longer desire to be a reporter that I still want to know everyone's story. 
Since being here in Spain, I have kept a journal of the different women I have met in Guadalhorce, their story-or at least what they told me, what they were wearing, what their dreams are and even what shoes they were wearing. :)
Everyone has a story... so with that said- I'm going to commit to posting up a blog about every woman I have met and talked to in Guadalhorce. You'll find that you might have more in common with these women than you think and knowing their story makes it a harsh reality that women are being bought and seen only as objects.
So here's to Denisa. Denisa, who told me that nothing can be done. She has value. She has a story. So not only will I know her story.... But so will the rest of the world.
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Posted in G42 by Michelle Euperio on 4/10/2011
... I am learning humility and letting go of my pride, asking for help and asking God specifically for things....
I
am currently at G42 Leadership Academy and still in need of $3,382. I
miscalculated on my last blog and wrote the amount that I currently have
in my support account.
So exactly... what is it that I do here?
I
am in the process of beginning my own ministry and business.
This has been a place where people have and are currently helping me
toward making my kingdom dream of shoes and saving women a reality. G42
has helped me get in touch with various like-minded people interested in changing the
fashion world for a good cause and along with others who have tried
numerous times to create their own business-failed and succeeded...
helping us learn from their mistakes.
Another part of my ministry
while being here in Spain is ministering to prostitutes on the street.
As many of you know that-that is where my heart is. A couple of times a month, I go to Guadalhorce
offer some food and listen to women about their stories, experiences
and anything they want to share with me. I've heard stories from awful
experiences with the men that pay to be with them to personal stories of
their families back home. I am here ministering
to those women and helping them realize
their worth and making sure that they never lose hope.
Guadalhorce
has provided some inspiration for my future business/ministry and keeps
on feeding the fire to fight for these women, women I have met
elsewhere and women I have yet to meet.
I am not here in Spain
taking a vacation. I am literally in the middle of running toward what
God is calling me to do with my life.
So yes, I am asking you to
prayerfully consider and support my ministry to prostitutes in
Guadalhorce and invest in the beginning stages of my future ministry that will
help women get off the streets and out of a life of shame and into who
they were made to be.
I am in danger of going home and need
$3,382 to be fully supported.
No amount is too small... or too big for that matter. :) $10 helps me
pay for my train ticket weekly to go to Guadalhorce... while the $1,000
each month pays for all the daily and monthly expenses
including food, lodging, supplies, rent. etc.
I pray that you consider
investing in me to help change the world or at least the world for one
woman. Thanks for all the love, prayers and support. Please let me know
how I can be there for you in the same way that you have been there for
me. If you have any questions about human trafficking, prostitution or my vision... please feel free to ask, I would love to chat with you!
Thanks again. God bless!!
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G42
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Posted in G42 by Michelle Euperio on 3/15/2011
 I got beat up. I am lying on the ground bleeding forth from the mouth. Drop-kicked and broken-crying my eyes out and no energy left.
So not really, but spiritually and emotionally that's how I feel. Minus the crying part-that's real.
In the past month, I feel like my dreams of shoes, women and fashion have been beat up, drop-kicked and broken.
In the past several weeks, I have heard numerous times:
"Your dream is near impossible."
"Do you realize how hard your dream is going to be?"
"You don't have a degree in fashion. Why would a company need specifically need you?"
Majority of the time, I let it roll off me. I never doubt the voice of God and when you know-you know. I'm chasing after what He says to do and who I am.
Yesterday we presented our vision projects to the class. As many of you know, my dream combines stilettos and human trafficking. You can check out those blogs here(My Destiny, Passion and Future) or here (Shoes for the Savior).
Again, I heard that the dream would be difficult followed by how it's a tough world and I needed to not get eaten alive there.
I went home to eat lunch and it was just more "you need to be careful" type conversations. I checked my email and one of my dear brothers that I live with wrote me an email saying that he knew my dreams had been kicked around a lot lately but to know that I was a "pillar of strength and many will be supported by my strength." 
In that moment, I crumbled. I felt the weight of the words that people had said to me that I had been storing in for weeks. I felt the weight of what I was walking into and I didn't realize how tired I was of hearing that I can't or couldn't do something.
I ran to my room and I wept. I asked God why he made me so different. I asked God why couldn't he just tell me to love children in the Philippines. I asked why me. I have no skill in the fashion industry. Why me? Why me of all people to do something almost completely unheard of?
And in my own voice the words I so often speak to others was heard.
You are Chosen.
"Because I have called you to greatness and it will be worth it. Because you are my daughter. Because you can handle it. Because I take great joy in who I have made you to be. Because you are the light. Greatness doesn't come easy. Walk forward. "
I am literally walking into this knowing a glimpse of how hard this is all going to be. I am literally asking God to show up every single step of the way.
We had been reading Gladys Aylward's story and we discussed it in class today. Bec said that people need to stop saying that "God said to do this" to sound super spiritual, unless He really says it. As humans we can be so indecisive.. Yet we say "God said to do this" changing again. God doesn't make mistakes. We need to stop putting the blame on the King who never makes a mistake and be more aware of what God is really saying and hold true to what he says. With that said....
I know that I know God told me to make shoes. I heard that clear as day.
My confidence was shaken for the first time in a long and yesterday I questioned; "God, did I really hear that?"
Simply said, yes.
This is just the beginning.
 Gladys Aylward had a clear-cut God given vision that she was supposed to go to China. She was kicked out of bible school and told that she wasn't smart enough. She thrived in China and lead many people to Christ by her actions and how she loved.
Joseph had brothers who tried to kill him. He was accused of being a liar. He was in prison but he knew the greatness that lied ahead of him. From the time he knew of his greatness to the time of his first step on the throne... it took 13 years.
God used Esther... a beauty queen... to save an entire nation.
God used David, a 17-year old boy with nothing but 5 stones and slingshot to kill a giant.
I know and believe that God will use me... a woman with determination, joy of the Lord and a fire that cannot be extinguished.
In class, we talk about how Christians should not be sweetly nice but dangerous...We are living sons and daughters of GOD. We are equipped with all the weapons from above and even hell. We trample over the lies of Satan. The demons of lust, vanity, pride, fear try to taunt us with such sins but we have authority to cast them back to the pits of hell. We bear the image of God wherever we walk. Our words can bring life or death.. We choose life. . Our light breaks forth the darkness. We bring structure to the chaos and we fill the emptiness.
There came a time in Jesus' life where he realized he was Jesus, the son of God and realized the calling and purpose of his life. At that time, He hung up his carpentry apron, hung it up on the wall and said goodbye to his family and former life. He walked forward fearlessly knowing full well what had to be done. Hell shuddered knowing that the Savior of mankind realized his purpose and that He was coming to take back the keys of Heaven.
Someone has to go and change a world. God is choosing me to change the
world of fashion/entertainment. He's going to change the world of
selfishness, vanity and addictions to a world of selflessness, real
beauty and love. He's the word... I am the voice. I will be obedient to
what He is calling me to. I will walk forward.
...This is me hanging up my apron and walking fearlessly forward...
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With that said.... I still need to raise support to continue my
ministry here at G42. If you believe in the ministry that I am doing
here and the ministry calling that I have on my life please donate here.
I need $2,618 left in my support account or I will have to go back
home. Please consider partnering with me in this ministry and help bring
the Kingdom here to Earth.
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