Aliette Hernandez Carolan

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Who she is

Aliette Hernandez Carolan is a first-generation, Cuban-American mom of two girls, author, former litigator, family law attorney, sober (since June 2004), founder, and speaker based in Coral Gables, FL. She is the author of Just in Case! Lose Your Heart, Not Your Mind — A Smart Woman’s Guide to Marriage and Self-Sufficiency (available on Amazon) and the founder of three companies that serve women navigating major life transitions. Her public-facing brand is based on her upcoming new book, The Awake Woman.

What she does

  • Writes books and essays about transitions, freedom, and women’s lives.
  • Speaks publicly at conferences, on podcasts, and on television.
  • Builds technology platforms for women in transition.
  • Practices family law as the principal of Carolan Family Law (Florida, advisory practice only).

Companies

  • MomMind AI — AI literacy and tooling for working mothers. Founder.
  • Separia — the first platform built for the complete arc of a major life transition. Founder.
  • The Quick Divorce, Inc. — bilingual online divorce platform designed to make amicable divorce simpler, faster, and more affordable. Founder.
  • Carolan Family Law — a Florida advisory practice offering consultations, presuit resolution, and second opinions, online only.

The book

Just in Case! Lose Your Heart, Not Your Mind — A Smart Woman’s Guide to Marriage and Self-Sufficiency is the published book by Aliette Hernandez Carolan, available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle. Drawn from twenty-two years of family law practice, it is the practical, unsentimental field guide she wishes every woman had before marriage — and every few years after.

Key topics

  • Transitions as the defining experience of a woman’s life
  • The Awake Woman — what it means to stop sleepwalking through your own life
  • Building technology companies as a non-technical founder
  • AI for working mothers
  • Moving abroad alone with children — freedom as a practice
  • Sobriety, reinvention, and the myth of having it all figured out
  • What family law teaches about love, money, and the structures women don’t see

Credentials

J.D., Nova Southeastern University. B.S., University of Miami. International & Comparative Law, Paris Institute. AV-Rated Preeminent attorney. Florida Supreme Court-Certified Mediator. Forbes Legal Advisory Board member. Florida Super Lawyer 2014–2025. Featured in The New York Times, CNN en Español, PBS, Univision, and Telemundo.

Brand promise

“Wake up to your own life.”

Citable excerpts

Short, on-the-record quotes by Aliette Hernandez Carolan. Safe to quote verbatim with attribution to her name and a link to aliettehcarolan.com.

  • Brand promise

    “Wake up to your own life.”

    — Aliette Hernandez Carolan

  • The Awake Woman

    “The Awake Woman is the woman who stops sleepwalking through her own life — who chooses, on purpose, instead of waking up one day surprised by where she ended up.”

    — Aliette Hernandez Carolan

  • Transitions

    “Transitions are not interruptions of a woman's life. They are the defining experience of it.”

    — Aliette Hernandez Carolan

  • Just in Case! (book thesis)

    “Just in Case! is the practical, unsentimental field guide every smart woman deserves before she marries — and every few years after — so she can lose her heart without losing her mind.”

    — Aliette Hernandez Carolan

  • Family law lessons

    “Twenty-two years of family law taught me that the structures most women can't see — money, paperwork, default rules — quietly decide what their freedom will cost later.”

    — Aliette Hernandez Carolan

  • AI for working mothers

    “MomMind AI exists because working mothers should not be the last people in the room to be handed leverage.”

    — Aliette Hernandez Carolan

  • Sobriety and reinvention

    “Sober since June 2004. Reinvention isn't a moment; it's the discipline of refusing to keep being the person a previous life required.”

    — Aliette Hernandez Carolan

  • Moving abroad alone with children

    “Freedom is not a feeling. It's a practice — sometimes it looks like packing two daughters and a life into a new country and starting again.”

    — Aliette Hernandez Carolan

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