--- title: Gina Rodriguez and Her Sisters On Their Path to Success description: Ivelisse is a partner at a private-equity firm, Rebecca is a physician, and Gina Rodriguez stars in Jane the Virgin. canonical: https://time.com/4464753/gina-ivelisse-rebecca-rodriguez-paths-to-success/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-26T01:01:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:44.541Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Gina Rodriguez and Her Sisters Describe Growing Up og:description: They all went on to success in different fields og:url: https://time.com/4464753/gina-ivelisse-rebecca-rodriguez-paths-to-success/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt706c94a50c6abde7/6988a38f524fc0015fdf9451/rodriguez-facebook.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:image:alt: rodriguez-facebook og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Gina Rodriguez and Her Sisters Describe Growing Up twitter:description: They all went on to success in different fields twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt706c94a50c6abde7/6988a38f524fc0015fdf9451/rodriguez-facebook.jpg?branch=production ---  # Ivelisse, Rebecca and Gina Rodriguez Talk About Their Paths to Success > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/) and [Diane Tsai](https://time.com/author/diane-tsai/) Aug 26, 2016 1:01 AM UTC  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/) and [Diane Tsai](https://time.com/author/diane-tsai/) Aug 26, 2016 1:01 AM UTC In the [Sept. 5 issue of TIME,](http://time.com/superfamilies/) we looked at what makes for [successful siblings.](http://time.com/superfamilies/) It is a story about nine [American families,](http://time.com/superfamilies/) including the Rodriguez family, who all saw their children go onto extraordinary success in different fields. Every night for 20 years, Gino Rodriguez knelt beside his three daughters’ beds and whispered an incantation. As rats the size of footballs skittered along the floor of the basement apartment on the South Side of Chicago, he repeated the same five words into each girl’s ear as she slept: “I can and I will.” The message was always the same, and the [audience was always asleep.](http://time.com/superfamilies/) “You talk to the subconscious. You don’t talk to the conscious,” Rodriguez says. “That’s the one that really listens.” The girls slept “hot-dog style,” cocooned in tightly wrapped sheets to keep out the vermin. They occasionally woke up during their father’s nightly pep talks, rolled their eyes and then went back to sleep. But each morning, they did a series of jumping jacks, looked in the mirror and said, “Today is going to be a great day. I can and I will.” Not all days were great—the family moved from the rat-infested apartment only after a woman was murdered in front of their home. But the three daughters of Puerto Rican parents were kept safe, spending most of their time in school or at the boxing gym where their father refereed. [They learned how to block a punch and throw a right hook.](http://time.com/superfamilies/) They bickered over clothes and went to dance class and dressed up for quinceañeras. And one by one, they proved their father right: they could and they did. Ivelisse Rodriguez Simon graduated from Harvard Business School and is now a partner at a private-equity firm. Rebecca Rodriguez is the medical director of one of the best family-health clinics in the country. And Gina Rodriguez won a Best Actress Golden Globe for her starring role on Jane the Virgin. “We lived the idea of the American Dream,” Gina says. “And they made an environment where that was possible.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4464753/gina-ivelisse-rebecca-rodriguez-paths-to-success/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4464753/gina-ivelisse-rebecca-rodriguez-paths-to-success/"},"headline":"Ivelisse, Rebecca and Gina Rodriguez Talk About Their Paths to Success","datePublished":"2016-08-26T01:01:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:44.541Z","description":"\"I can and I will\"","url":"https://time.com/4464753/gina-ivelisse-rebecca-rodriguez-paths-to-success/","keywords":["families","Living","american dream"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt706c94a50c6abde7/6988a38f524fc0015fdf9451/rodriguez-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Diane Tsai","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/diane-tsai/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt706c94a50c6abde7/6988a38f524fc0015fdf9451/rodriguez-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"rodriguez-facebook","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/families/","name":"families"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4464753/gina-ivelisse-rebecca-rodriguez-paths-to-success/","name":"Ivelisse, Rebecca and Gina Rodriguez Talk About Their Paths to Success"}}]}] ```