In this interview series, host Alicia Menendez talks to remarkable Latinas about making it, faking it, and everything in between. In often-hilarious and always-revealing episodes, Alicia and her guests take on the challenges of existing, and then thriving, as women of color.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 5 days 1 hour 48 minutes
episode 200: 200th Episode! Eva Longoria Always Knew She'd Succeed
The multi-hyphenate power house opens up about motherhood, divorce and finding her purpose.
Follow Eva on Instagram @evalongoria. And listen to her podcast Connections with Eva Longoria.
If you loved this episode, listen to America Ferrera Knows What Real Power Looks Like and Why Living Icon Isabel Allende Has Never Kept Secrets. Show your love and become a Latina to Latina Patreon supporter!
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episode 199: Encanto's Adassa is Guided By Her Why
The reggaeton star reached new levels of global fame playing Dolores Madrigal in Encanto. Adassa shares the health ordeal that threatened her life and career, and the force that drives every decision she makes.
Follow Adassa on Instagram @adassaofficial. If you loved this episode, listen to Ana Villafañe is Still a Supernova and How Artist Latashá Is Mindshifting Music. Show your love and become a Latina to Latina Patreon supporter!
episode 198: Social Impact Strategist Elsa Collins Wants You to Understand the Power of Your Influence
The serial co-founder (This is About Humanity, Poderistas, I Am a Voter) knows how to harness the power of celebrities for everything from political campaigns to direct service for migrant families, but she still believes that you are the most influential person in your own circle. Elsa shares how this ethos applies to everything from civic engagement to raising multiracial kids.
Follow Elsa on Instagram @elsamariecollins...
episode 197: Karla Monterroso is Interrogating the Language of Power
A personal leadership crisis shaped her understanding of how power is built and distributed. Now the leadership coach, strategist, and racial equity advocate shares how others can navigate the unique demands of leaders of color, and the work necessary to eradicate anti-Blackness in Latino communities.
Follow Karla on Twitter @karlitaliliana...
episode 196: Mountaineer Silvia Vasquez-Lavado Knows the Highest Mountain is the One Within
The adventurer, activist, and first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits shares the childhood trauma and self-destructive behavior that brought her to the world’s highest mountain.
Follow Silvia on Instagram @silviavasla. You can order her book via the websites listed here.
If you loved this episode, listen to How Olympic Gymnast Laurie Hernandez Regained Her Strength After Emotional Abuse and How Health Coach Massy Arias Found Her Real Strength...
episode 195: Why Cuyana’s Karla Gallardo Believes in Fewer, Better Things
The CEO and co-founder of the global e-commerce company shares how her upbringing in Ecuador shaped her approach to consumption, the skills she cultivated before diving into entrepreneurship, and how you set boundaries when you’re both a hustler and your own boss.
Follow Karla on Instagram @kggallardo. If you loved this episode, listen to Vanessa Birnbaum Rosler’s Yoga Philosophy Ignited a Booming Business and How Bomba Curls' Lulu Cordero Unfurled Her Natural Hair and Ambition...
episode 194: Why Kat Armas Believes Your Abuela Has the Answers
As a seminary student, she began to question why she hadn’t been trained to recognize the importance of women in the Bible. Now her book, Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us About Wisdom, examines how our lives would be different if religion centered the stories of women’s sacred practice of survival.
Follow Kat on Instagram @kat_armas...
episode 193: What Bianca Kea Learned by Listening to Her Yo Soy Afro Latina Community
Growing up in Detroit, she wondered why her peers recognized her as Black, but not Mexican. Now, the Yo Soy Afro Latina founder is building the community she always yearned for.
Follow Bianca on Instagram @biancakathryn_. If you loved this episode, listen to other Latinas building community: Why Nathalie Huerta Founded the First Queer Gym in the Country and How Girls Night In Founder Alisha Ramos Started a Stay-at-Home Movement...
episode 192: Daisy Auger-Dominguez Knows What it Takes to Build an Inclusive Workplace
The Chief People Officer for VICE Media has spent her career building better workplaces. She’s perfected a model: reflect, visualize, act, and persist. Now she's put everything she's learned into her new book, Inclusion Revolution: The Essential Guide to Dismantling Racial Inequity in the Workplace.
Follow Daisy on Twitter @DaisyAD...
episode 191: Julissa Natzely Arce Raya Wants You to Reclaim Your Identity
As a kid growing up in Texas, she thought that fitting in would keep her safe. Then, as she rose through the Wall Street ranks while harboring a big secret, a life-changing loss made her question everything. In her new book, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation, Julissa shares her personal journey, explores the veiled history of U.S. Latinos, and makes a powerful case for reimagining what it means to belong.
Follow Julissa on Instagram @julissaarce...