Becky Loto, is an International Speaker, Certified Business Strategist, Mentor, and entrepreneur with 30+ years of international business experience. She has founded five businesses across Mexico and the UK, in varied sectors including property, hospitality and tourism. With her tough love, practical strategies, and high-energy and fun approach, Becky supports ambitious women, entrepreneurs and senior executives, to be boldly brilliant, losing the self-doubt so the results are less stress, more money, more impact and a life they love. Becky loves connecting with interesting people, having adventures, is a property investor, a lover of surfing, being at the beach and all things Latino. When she was 21, Rebecca Loto left the UK for what should have been six months to learn French. That six months became 21 years and she returned to the UK with an Argentinian husband and a Mexican daughter. After a year in France, working as an au pair and a waitress she learnt French. This enabled her to work as a travel rep and spent three winters in French ski resorts and two summers in Spain, before being sent to the Dominican Republic, where she met her now husband whilst having a waterski lesson. Becky and her husband worked in Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Grand Cayman and Mexico, France and Italy. Becky worked in the tourism, property and legal industries before becoming a dive instructor and later set up an underwater videography and photography business in Mexico, which grew to have a team of 10 women. She worked from motorhome as an office, running solely off solar power. The success of that business enabled them to buy a plot of land and built a home but in 2007, when category five Hurricane Dean hit the town, it sadly flattened almost everything in its path. Whilst their home was one of the few still left standing, their livelihoods disappeared overnight. Becky started managing beach houses, which were second homes for foreigners and Mexicans. This grew to include holiday home rentals and Becky opened a launderette and ended up selling homes and properties, worth hundreds of thousands of US dollars. When her daughter was three, they left Mexico and headed back to the UK to start again. For six months, as her husband wasn’t able to live in the UK, he returned to work in Mexico, andRebecca was a single mum. She landed a role working for a global engineering company manufacturing a marine safety product. This role, as Business Manager for the Americas, involved travel from Canada to Argentina, where Becky used her Spanish and learned Portuguese. She liaised with the Mexican and Brazilian navies so they would incorporate their safety products and attended a lot of trade shows and consulate parties! With the global pandemic, Becky wasn't happy without the in person work with clients, so she took a couple of bold moves. One was to leave her well paid corporate role for a role which was a contract for 5 months with the Growth Hub. Here is where she fell in love with business mentoring, using her experience of having founded 3 businesses in Mexico. She also learned about property investing in the UK, remortgaged her home to buy an empty run down property which her husband and her converted to a 5 bed house share in Cornwall. Becky continued to work as a Business Mentor at Falmouth University, supporting start ups. Now through Tides Business, as a Business Strategist, Mentor and Inspirational Speaker, she helps women get clarity on what they want and how to make it happen so they can step into their own brilliance. She has a part time contract at Cornwall Innovation Centres helping business owners there too. On a mission to cement change in other women’s lives and with a proven track record of successfully running two six figure businesses, Rebecca wants to show others just what is possible when you do things on your own t You have been listening to The Sisterhood....In Session Podcast - thank you so much for joining us! The Sisterhood Networking Group is an award winning franchise with branches in many locations across the UK. We are passionate about changing the face of in person networking, our goal being to make it as accessible and affordable for as many as possible. Nothing local for you to attend? Why not consider becoming a franchisee and host your own groups?! Just like our meetings, the opportunity is affordable and no experience is necessary. Plus you get to promote the day job at the same time. What’s not to love?!! Fancy adding some online networking into the mix?! You can join me Sarah Ridge for my FREE sessions twice a month. For more information on everything I’ve just mentioned just head to our website HERE. Thanks for listening!!
