Childfree Latinas, you are not alone! End the generational trauma and create the best life for YOU—your vida más chévere. Join host Paulette Erato and amigues every other Tuesday as we look beyond the stifling constructs and lies the “American Dream” is built on, and choose our own dreams. Liberate yourself from the toxic cultural brainwashing we all grew up with so we can design our best lives instead—and thrive!
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Welcome to the world of $LA we talk on all things $ports, LIFE, ART & Chill. We partnered up kinda like a Voltron🤖 2 build the best podcast, blogging, streaming & gaming network in the Galaxy☄ ... So come chill ❄as we network with other lovers of $LA(Sports, Life, Art) from all over the 🌍. We pretty much got you covered when it comes to the Network. Tune in as we spotlight people from all walks of Life. We appreciate you all for tuning in as we grow our net worth One Pod at a time and actin' ...
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This podcast is dedicated to reciting poetry of mine that deal with all aspects of life, from love, mental health, and a broad range of poetic expressionism. Join my e-mail list by emailing [email protected] August 16th, 2024 Update: My official Patreon will be opening soon with Access to Bonus Podcast Episodes, and much more, through subscription tiers. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! It’s Day 10 of the LVMC Podcast Block Party! Let's end week two on a powerful note with Nuances: Our Asian Stories, hosted by musician and storyteller Lazou. Like Latin America, Asia is home to a rich tapestry of cultures and a vibrant diaspora—including here in the U.S. And Lazou brings those stories to life…
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Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! It’s Day 9 and we’re continuing with a podcast that goes a little deeper. Today’s LVMC Podcast Block Party feature is Navigating Cancer TOGETHER, hosted by cancer thriver and patient advocate Talaya Dendy, BCPA. With nearly 40% of people facing a cancer diagnosis at some point in their lives, chances are you …
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Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! It’s Day 8 of the LVMC Podcast Block Party, and today’s feature is Of Black Wombhood, a show that shares and preserves oral histories about wombs and the experiences tied to them. But wait, my childfree friends, there's something for you here too! Don’t be fooled by the title: this podcast isn’t about motherh…
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Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! It’s Day 7 of the LVMC Podcast Block Party, and today we’re tuning into Gold Hoops & God with Dr. Lauren Guerra. This podcast explores the intersection of culture, Latinidad, and faith as a jumping off point for conversation. Dr. G's thoughtful conversations on these topics are both beautiful and challenging—…
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Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Welcome back to the second week of the LVMC Podcast Block Party! Let's keep it calm, cool, and collected with the soothing voice of Dr. Cassandre Dunbar of Be Well, Sis. What is Be Well, Sis? Something we all need: "Be Well, Sis is where science meets sisterhood—a wellness podcast created for Black millennial…
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Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Welcome to Day 5 of the LVMC Podcast Block Party! Let's ease into the weekend with one of the most calming voices in podcasting: Molly Mamaril of the show Heartbeat Narratives. Molly brings the aloha vibes to our party! Here's how she describes her podcast: "Welcome to Heartbeat Narratives, a podcast celebrat…
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Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Welcome to Day 4 of the LVMC Podcast Block Party! Today's feature is The Gay Podcast for Everyone one of two podcasts hosted by Angela Briones. Here's how Angela describes this show: "When I came out to my family, I was essentially asking them to come on this new journey with me. They were now the family of a…
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Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Day 3 of the LVMC Podcast Block Party features noseyAF: conversations about art, activism, and social change. If you don't know host and lens-based artist Stephanie Graham, here's how she describes her podcast: "noseyAF is a podcast where I talk to passionate, creative people who are doing cool, meaningful th…
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Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Day 2 of the LVMC Podcast Block Party features a recent guest's podcast: Sex in Spanglish! You heard host and fellow childfree Latina talking about her work as a sexologist, sex coach, and smut consultant on LVMC. Now, check out her podcast trailer: Learn about sex from your favorite Latina, sexpert and Certi…
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Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! May has officially hit our calendars which means it's also host Paulette's birthday month! To celebrate, we're shaking things up by shining a spotlight on some of her all-time favorite podcasts. Instead of the usual LVMC episodes, this month you'll get daily mini-episodes each featuring a trailer for a differ…
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How to Have Sex Sin Vergüenza with Ana Lopez
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40:04Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #87 - What's it like to have sex sin vergüenza? Sex without shame...is that even possible? Yes!! It is, and it's exactly what we should all experience—if only to spite the patriarchy! Guest Ana Lopez is a sexologist, sex coach, smut consultant (and future PhD) on a mission to have us all experience pleasur…
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Conferencing While Latina: Invisible on the Floor and Behind the Mic
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22:53Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #86 - Freshly back from speaking in Chicago at Podcast Movement Evolutions, one thing is unmistakable: the same problems that exist in a patriarchal society are equally present in male-dominated spaces. For example, at a podcasting conference. In fact, they're magnified. From getting run over like a speed …
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Latinas In Podcasting: Community Over Competition
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26:57Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #85 - How do you build an active and engaged community? You already know community is important, but finding or even building one...how is that done? Building Latinas In Podcasting (or LIP) has been one of the most gratifying parts about this podcasting journey. This episode serves as a mini case study on …
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No Kid Hungry: A Childfree Latina’s Mission for Podcasthon
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15:45Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #84 - Why should a childfree Latina care about starving children? Because empathy is free! And if you're someone who pays attention, you know that a well-educated public is the foundation of a strong society. But here’s the hard truth: hungry kids struggle to learn. We’re far from being the strong, well-ed…
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Moving Beyond The Blame Game
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26:26Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #83 - Tired of getting sucked into unproductive arguments online and in real life? Then you might be ready to break free from The Blame Game. The unproductive nature of blame hinders our growth and relationships. While it feels good to blame others, this primal instinct is not conducive to problem-solving …
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Your Inner Cheerleader Can Overcome Imposter Syndrome
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23:30Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #82 - If you had a negative friend who always brought down the group hang, you'd eventually stop inviting them out, right? So why do you put up with this dismal friend inside your own head?? Imposter syndrome and its champion, your inner critic, will keep you feeling small, scared, and accomplishing nothin…
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Tom Brady Sucks at His Job
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27:13Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #81 - What can we learn from Tom Brady, a rich white guy with 7 Super Bowl rings, aka the GOAT of football? First of all, despite what you may have heard, he's not perfect. Surprisingly, he's been underestimated and he probably also suffers from imposter syndrome, especially right now as he's currently the…
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Community: A Softer Approach to "Good Trouble"
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24:10Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #80 - What do we do when systems fail us? We lean on each other in community. Amidst the noise during this transition in power, let's pause and reflect on the power of community to rise up, make “good trouble,” and create real change. From neighbors organizing mutual aid to therapists offering pro bono sup…
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Joy & Rebellion: A Childfree Latina's Guide to 2025
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16:29Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #79 -Ever wanted to start a band? Then this is your year! In 2025 we're all grabbing our favorite instruments and getting loud! We're also choosing joy—bold, defiant joy—in the face of Project 2025's looming threat. They want to impose so-called "traditional Christian values" on all Americans by stripping …
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From Burnout to Balance in 2025 with Karenna Soto
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41:25Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #78 - Merry Xmas!! This episode drops on Christmas Day—a gift for you. Let’s reset and enter 2025 healthy and restored, together. 🎁 Burnout isn’t a trophy to win or a test to pass—it’s a warning sign we need to take seriously. In a society that glorifies overwork and exhaustion, too many of us are running …
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The Media's Biased Gaze with Professor Evelyn Alsultany {Re-Release}
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41:54Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #77 - In a media landscape that continues to demonstrate its selective empathy, the recent disparate coverage of two tragic and avoidable deaths starkly illustrates Professor Evelyn Alsultany's core argument about media representation. While extensive airtime has been devoted to the death of a white CEO, t…
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We Failed The Assignment, Now What?
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16:21Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #76 - My dear childfree Latinas, we're obviously in trouble. The assignment everyone seemed so excited to turn in last week was an utter failure. Like most group projects, it sucked. So what do we do now? How do we exist in a world where people voted for both AOC (yay!) and Donald Trump (boo!)? How do we c…
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Rekindle Your Light: Redefining Success and Breaking Cultural Expectations with Paulette Erato
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41:21Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #75 - LVMC friend and fellow childfree Latina podcaster Ydaiber Orozco of Rekindle Your Light interviews Paulette for her show. These show notes are from her channel. This is the last "new" episode of 2024. The fun continues with the Latinas In Podcasting Virtual Summit, a free event that includes Ydaiber!…
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Why Are We Voting Against Our Best Interests? Angela Chavez on Manipulation and Political Power
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56:05Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #74 - As we gear up for another contentious election cycle, it's prudent to ask: why do we keep voting against our own best interests? Angela Chavez, Communications and Public Affairs Director for Courage California and a childfree Latina, explains it very plainly: because you're being manipulated by immen…
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The Secret to a Soft Life with Childfree Latina Yoreim Virella (Part 2)
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32:25Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #73 - In Part 2 of this series with TikTok sensation and childfree Latina, Yoreim Virella, we continue our deep dive into the complex realities of modern motherhood: the societal neglect of new mothers, the devaluation of women beyond motherhood, and the systemic challenges faced by parents. All of these t…
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Is Motherhood a Scam? With Yoreim Virella (Part 1)
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36:50Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #72 - In part 1 of a two-part interview, we're diving into an enlightening conversation with Yoreim Virella, a Diásporican, humanitarian, entrepreneur, and content creator. Yoreim shares her personal journey about growing up in a predominantly Catholic town and navigating societal expectations, including w…
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Dismantling Diet Culture with Dr. Hortencia Jimenéz
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49:38Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #71 - Dive into the insidious nature of diet culture with Dra. Hortencia Jimenéz, a sociologist, professor, author, and health coach. She highlights the interconnectedness of diet culture with systemic oppression (calling it a spider web) and the importance of dismantling toxic cultural norms. So how do we…
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What is Human Design with Ydaiber Orozco
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53:49Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #70 - Dive into Human Design with childfree Latina, actor, and coach Ydaiber Orozco, as we explore some burning questions like: What the heck is Human Design? Is Human Design based on science? Is Human Design a cult? Can I change my Human Design? What kind of tool is Human Design? Whether you're a skeptic …
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Childless Cat Ladies vs Project 2025
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27:17Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! #69 - Misogyny: that's what Project 2025 is advocating for and this Childless Cat Lady isn't having it. For every social media warrior who proudly declares #IUnderstandTheAssignment, there's a counterpart ready to gleefully embrace a wave of Christofascist extremism that threatens to strip women of our hard-e…
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Hilarious Fails of Childfree Wedding Invitations
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39:53Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #68 - What's the fastest way to offend your potential wedding guests? Commenters on Threads and Instagram posted a million different options for telling people to leave their "trophies" at home. In Part 5 of the childfree wedding series, childfree couple Paulette and Ryan are once again reading through the…
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Saying "I Do" Without the Diapers: 5 Rules for a Childfree Wedding
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26:44Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #67 - What's the "proper" way to tell your guests you want a childfree wedding? From the etiquette of hosting an adult-only affair to the most tactful ways to convey this message to your guests, we're all over this sometimes-taboo topic. Childfree couple Paulette and Ryan Erato have some experience in this…
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Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #66 - Part 3 in the childfree wedding series comes to us in the form of an email from Vivian, a now "retired" childfree housewife. Vivian's wedding planning started off as a wild ride navigating family expectations, Catholicism, and even some social shaming, all because she dared to say "I don't want kids.…
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Just Say No to Burnout with Karenna Soto
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40:25Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #65 - Burnout isn't a gold medal earned at the Exhaustion Olympics. It's totally avoidable, but in our hustle culture, we often wear exhaustion like a badge of honor. Trust that there's nothing honorable about sacrificing your health. Take it from someone who has suffered the consequences! Us childfree Lat…
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The Loneliest Year: A Health Scare, a Lost Circle, and the Power of Rebuilding
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23:31Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #64 - What happens when you’re suddenly abandoned by your pack? Loneliness is a universal human emotion that can often go unaddressed and underestimated in its impact. In a society where the focus is too often on productivity and success, acknowledging feelings of isolation and vulnerability can be perceiv…
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Where Do I Belong? Childfree Life on the Margins with Amanda B. (Part 2)
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28:28Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #63 - "Where are you from?" is a question asked all too often of people who are visibly "not white." So what does it mean to be American in a melting pot of immigrants? Picking up where we left off last time, guest Amanda reflects back on her 5 years in Japan and we touch on certain taboo topics like: race…
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Cultural Reflections: Adopted & Childfree with Amanda B. (Part 1)
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32:54Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #62 - Continuing the study of the parallels in various cultures, we're celebrating AAPI month by exploring the world of childfree adulthood with Amanda from Six Degrees of Cats podcast in Part 1 of this two-part episode. Where do Latinidad and East Asian/Midwestern cultures overlap? You'd be surprised! And…
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Non-Mom May: Celebrating Otherhood by Building Community
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13:26Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #61 - Since host and childfree Latina Paulette Erato was ironically born on Mexican Mother's Day (which is always observed on May 10th), she's turning May into a celebration of The Otherhood, aka Non-Mom May! Non-Mom May is a fiesta dedicated to amplifying the stories of women and non-binary individuals li…
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Unlearning Toxic Cultural Brainwashing with Shweta Ramkumar
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42:10Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #60 - Self-proclaimed and proud black sheep Shweta Ramkumar sits down with resident childfree Latina Paulette Erato to discuss the parallels between Southern Asian and Latine cultures. And while both cultures can be conservative, sexist, and patriarchal, both women have been fortunate to have supportive fa…
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Candid Childfree Chat with Latino Dad & Batman Expert Erik Fontanez
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37:12Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #59 - What's it like to have a sibling that doesn't want kids? Batman enthusiast, professional marketer, sports/pop culture podcaster, and baby brother Erik Fontanez joins his childfree sister Paulette Erato to discuss this question. It's a candid and lighthearted discussion about the dynamics of being a c…
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EP. 06 Unloading Poetry by DeLaSoulChild. A podcast under the umbrella of DeLaSoulArt Studios.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unloadingpoetry/support Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Planting Roots in Puerto Rico: The Harsh Truth about Financial, Health, and Cultural Challenges
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27:21Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #58 - Ever fantasize about moving abroad, and what that could look like in your life? Childfree couple Paulette and Ryan did just that, trading their Los Angeles-based routine for a new adventure in Puerto Rico. But moving to a tropical paradise wasn't all sausages and rainbows. The couple gets real about …
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EP. 05 Unloading Poetry ‘In The Midst of Waters’ by DeLaSoulChild. A podcast under the umbrella DeLaSoulArt Studios.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unloadingpoetry/support Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Repercussions of Media Bias on Arabs, Muslims, & the Childfree with Professor Evelyn Alsultany
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37:50Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #57 - What does media bias have to do with how marginalized groups are perceived? EVERYTHING. Media bias—the way we see certain groups on TV and in movies—has a massive impact on how we view people in real life. And whether or not we see them as real human beings, or merely caricatures we don't have to car…
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Self-Love Essentials for Smashing The Patriarchy this Valentine's Day
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29:49Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #56 - This special Valentine's week episode is dedicated to smashing The Patriarchy by tapping deep into the well of your self-love. Because if you want to live your vida mas chévere, if you want to design your best childfree Latina life, you need to have a healthy relationship with yourself. How do you ge…
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You Wanna Do What?! Creating a Childfree Legacy with Monica Rivera (Part 2)
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24:23Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #55 - Following up from the last episode about how Monica Rivera became her own best friend, this time Monica tells us how her inner critic inspired her to start her own business coaching enterprise for women of color aptly named YOU WANNA DO WHAT?! There's also the question many childfree Latinas grapple …
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Grief Rides Shotgun: A Unique Journey through Loneliness with Monica Rivera (Part 1)
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33:13Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #54 - Monica Rivera had to learn to become her own best friend. But how do you do that when you’ve lost everyone you’ve ever loved? In this two-part episode, business coach and TEDx speaker Monica shares how losing her entire biological family in a short period of time afflicted her not only with a deep gr…
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The Word of the Year: Setting Your Intentions for 2024
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14:26Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #53 - If you hate new year's resolutions, or the idea of "new year, new me" then you might like a Word of the Year better. This episode guides you through setting an intention for your year ahead (as opposed to concrete SMART goals) via a seven-step method for finding the perfect word. It's a unique approa…
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The Happiness Hit: Why Celebrating "Wins" is Essential for Confidence and More {Re-Release}
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16:34Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #52 - Want more confidence? Hack your brain! While brain hacking sounds mysterious (if not illegal—and painful!), it's simply the latest way to describe an effective neuroscientific method that rewards you with a “hit” of the happiness (or pleasure) hormone, dopamine. You can harness this to increase your …
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The Healing Power of Storytelling and Reframing Motherhood with Talia Molé {Re-Release}
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39:12Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #51 - Storyteller Talia Molé, an activist, anthropologist, and artist, shares her journey confronting societal pressures, the impact of language on reproductive rights, and her mission to redefine motherhood. From fighting for a hysterectomy to battling for debt forgiveness, Talia is a powerhouse. In this …
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Living Your Best Life: 6 Tips for Achieving La Vida Más Chévere
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35:13Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text! Ep #50 - It's celebration time! Having achieved 50 episodes, it's a great time to use this milestone moment to look back on where we've been, how we got here, and where we're going to continue this journey of living our best lives—la vida más chévere! With that are 6 recurrent themes that guide the essence of…
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