(Gentle Music) - This country is definitely a country of opportunities.

For a lot of us, it has become the American dream, but it's not easy.

(Gentle Music) I'm originally from Durango, Mexico.

I was 15 years old when I moved to Georgia.

Obviously, what I missed the most was my parents, my sister, my friends, my house, pretty much everything.

It was hard.

I've been in the United States for 15 years.

When I met my husband and we started making a life together, that's when Georgia became my home.

What I like about Georgia, I love the weather.

We're surrounded by nature.

Humidity, that gets annoying.

Georgia is definitely my home.

I don't think I'm ever gonna move somewhere else, but I'm still very engaged with my culture, with my family, my roots, and our food.

The name of La Michoacana, it comes from the state of Michoacan, it's like saying the Georgian.

It's really amazing that I can get to say people from my town are eating my food.

Ice cream can definitely bring people together.

We're like a little family.

This is a small town and everyone knows everybody.

They love what we do.

Most of our customers are Hispanics, but we also have a lot of American customers.

Depending on the ethnicity of customers, they tend to get specific flavors.

Like people from Middle East, they love pistachio.

I think we have a lot of Filipinas and people from Taiwan, I think, they love mango ice cream, and they like to get mangonadas.

It's a mango sherbet with chili powder, spices.

I love making ice cream.

It's like an art for me.

I think this is it for me.

I finally found my passion.

I don't think I'm gonna ever get sick of ice cream.

I can't get tired of it.

That's my thing!

I'm just hoping I don't ever get diabetes because that's going to be (laughs) really, really sad for me.

(Gentle, childlike music) We have had, unfortunately, experiences with people that don't think we deserve to be here, only because we look different, or we speak with an accent, or we don't speak the language at all.

They don't think we deserve to be here.

I don't wanna say that there is “bad people.” I don't even think that term exists.

I feel that there's just some people that's been through a lot, and they just don't know how to handle it, I guess.

We're always working hard.

We are running a business.

We're creating jobs.

We're paying taxes.

And it can be discouraging sometimes that people don't look at the whole picture.

It's been such a journey for me and my husband in this country.

You have to give up on things like spending quality time with your kids because you have to keep pushing forward.

You have to keep working hard to accomplish what you want in life because for some of us, it was difficult in our own country, and being away from the places we grew up, from our family, from our neighbors, from our friends, we really have to make an effort to make it worth it.

We're making an impact in the community.

We bring a little bit of our culture here, and we share it with everyone else.

It makes me want to keep going, keep pushing forward.

(Gentle Music)