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Listeners, we're back this week with Eleshia Harris.

Eleshia Harris, is a Holistic Business and Implementation Coach. She helps female business owners get clear on their goals, stay focused and on track to turn their desires into growth and revenue.

Eleshia absolutely loves helping individuals bring their amazingness into the world, whether that's through digital products, challenges, online courses, books, websites, podcasts, workshops, coaching programs, memberships, speaking gigs and more.

Simply put, she helps you build the wealth & lifestyle you want, without the overwhelm and burnout.
 
During this episode we talked about:

• 03:30 - Her mom’s immigration story and the immigrant experience in the UK
• 10:45 - Giving permission to go
• 11:56 - Cultural differences building relationships
• 15:41 - "It’s just cultural"
• 16:14 - Having her daughter
• 16:42 - My daughter would not be here
• 26:25 - I was living in distraction
• 35:23 - Grieving process
• 36:49 - The transition to what she does now
• 38:10 - Leaving her corporate job
• 38:51 - Somebody was being paid more than me + bet on myself
• 41:26 - Making ourselves busy
• 44:50 - Break cycles

 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Corina Hierro.

Growing up, Corina had big dreams of creating an impact in her community. As a Mexican immigrant, she knew her purpose was to use her talents to amplify Latinx voices to serve others who shared similar backgrounds.

She graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. She went on to work for the biggest Spanish TV networks in the country, Univision and Telemundo, as a bilingual multimedia journalist covering stories that directly affected the Latinx population.

Shortly after the pandemic began, she joined a mission to help the Latinx community in the USA find jobs through technology. Growing up in a low-income household, she knew the importance of access to employment for underserved communities.

During this episode we talked about:

• 03:14 - Coming to the US as a child
• 08:28 - Deciding to go to college and deciding a major
• 09:29 - Picking a major
• 10:30 - Watching the news as a kid
• 11:23 - ‘El que busca encuentra’
• 11:45 - Entering the TV industry
• 13:15 - Self-doubt and keep trying
• 18:31 - Truly magical things happen
• 19:19 - Her professional journey, Burnout, and the pandemic
• 19:45 - Burnout
• 24:44 - Chamba
• 29:33 - Her first steps in Chamba
• 29:45 - No funding but a huge mission
• 31:08 - The hardest part

 
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Listeners, we're back this week with N. Chloé Nwangwu. 

Chloé Nwangwu is the brand scientist and the director of NobiWorks a brand visibility consultancy rooted in Behavioral Science. She unabashedly believes brands not built with power dynamics and biases in mind should consider the old Thanos snap treatment. That means disappearing it from this plane of existence for the non nerds. She is in the business of equipping underrecognized brands with choices scientifically formulated to make them as noticeable as possible to the right people. Everything you do to be better seen heard and understood should work. And it is her personal mission to make that so. Most recently, she advised the first refugee delegation to the UN.
 
During this episode we talked about:

• 04:26 - Catching up since episode 237
• 10:15 - Stress of revenue drop and recession fear
• 11:00 - "Just because people are thrifty"
• 11:48 - "One woman war against niching"
• 13:05 - "The tree things"
• 17:25 - Attention overload
• 20:50 - "The visibility game is rigged"
• 22:32 - Static profiles
• 23:22 - Security
• 27:55 - RChange their behavior
• 28:53 - "The niching lense"
• 29:32 - Stakeholder Awareness
• 30:50 - "You don’t need to niche"
• 33:15 - Niching as a vicious cycle
• 36:08 - Market to the motivation
• 37:05 - Positioning
• 46:17 - Matter Most Analysis
• 49:04 - A chain of motivations

 
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Mentioned studies and articles:

1.  The recent study on brains
2.  Rewrote the Democratic Platform
3.  The exercise
4.  The Market Lens Consult

 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Marta Tellado.

Marta L. Tellado is president and CEO of Consumer Reports (CR), an independent nonprofit that works side-by-side with consumers to create a fair and just marketplace. She is a mission-driven leader with a passion for innovation, public service, philanthropy, and helping organizations maximize their ability to improve the world.

Marta is the author of “Buyer Aware: Harnessing Our Consumer Power for a Safe, Fair, and Transparent Marketplace,” published in 2022 by Public Affairs. It chronicles the scale of challenges consumers face today, especially in the digital marketplace, and what we must do to ensure consumer rights in the modern economy to strengthen democracy and promote economic equity.
 
During this episode we talked about:

• 03:02 - Her family’s immigration story
• 05:26 - Women's Expectations in Latino culture
• 07:01 - First lesson on courage
• 09:11 - Deciding what to study
• 10:36 - ‘An internship changed my life’
• 12:23 - ‘People are judging’
• 13:39 - Changes in culture and Latine perception
• 14:22 - ‘I can be that bridge’
• 14:53 - Marketplace power
• 15:44 - Her journey to Consumer Reports
• 17:24 - ‘Changemaker’
• 18:49 - ‘Know what you don’t know’
• 24:03 - Joining an iconic organization
• 24:54 - ‘Standing on the shoulders…’
• 25:33 - Running a business with a social mission
• 26:57 - Organizations need to be renewed
• 27:26 - Fear of innovation and innovator’s dilemma
• 27:43 - Fear of innovation
• 30:55 - ‘We’re in a consumer rights free fall’
• 31:16 - Her book
• 36:21 - ‘Be a part of the change making
• 38:06 - Democratic freedom quote

 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Edgar Carreon.

Edgar is the CEO and Founder of dree, a tech-enabled peer-to-peer marketplace looking to disrupt the laundry industry. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 10, and at the age of 22, he launched his first business in food/retail. "I'm on a mission to change the way communities help each other focus on what matters most." 

During this episode we talked about:

• 03:30 - What happened since his last visit to Café con Pam
• 04:17 - “This is going to be the best year”
• 07:06 - Talking numbers: coffee shops & the pandemic
• 08:45 - “Standing in the storm”
• 10:49 - 2008 recession teachings
• 11:23 - “Know my north star”
• 11:41 - “Worst case scenario”
• 13:01 - His ‘North Star’
• 13:35 - Being passionate about community
• 18:43 - Talking numbers: initial investment to open a coffee shop
• 19:07 - “Where the magic happens today”
• 29:05 - Getting depressed and working with his inner child
• 29:22 - The inner kid came up
• 31:37 - Starting Dree
• 34:44 - Getting partners
• 36:05 - Cultural intelligence & female co-founder
• 42:46 - Raising venture capital
• 44:06 - Work with your inner child

 
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This week Pam shares about seasonal planning and why you could be feeling underwhelmed about planning during this time.

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Listeners, we're back this week with Leslie Priscilla.

Leslie Priscilla is a first generation non-Black Xicana with Rarámuri lineage. She is a mother to three bicultural children and a certified Parent Coach with over 14 years of experience. Leslie shares her medicine by offering coaching, workshops, support and advocacy for Latinx/Chicanx families locally, nationally and internationally via Latinx Parenting. Leslie’s vision is of a movement rooted in children's rights, social and racial justice, the individual and collective practice of nonviolence and reparenting, intergenerational and ancestral healing, cultural sustenance, and the active decolonization of oppressive practices in our families towards liberation.

During this episode we talked about:

• 03:37 - Her heritage and her family’s story
• 06:46 - Ho-gramps and the father wound
• 12:26 - Think about how we embodied the system
• 14:29 - “I need my identity in a partner to be felt”
• 16:46 - Re-mothering
• 17:25 - Release expectation and embrace inner mother
• 22:36 - The inner niñas of our mothers
• 26:01 - Tend to my inner niña and it’s not my job to tend to my mother wound
• 31:40 - Boundaries with family
• 35:45 - Boundaries with family
• 43:26 - Her book Chancla and the chancla culture
• 44:55 - Chancla culture
• 46:23 - Stereotyping parents

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During this solo episode, Pam shares a short reflection and she leaves you with some pondering questions to welcome the new year on purpose.

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This week Brand Astrologer Leslie Tagorda shares her 2023 in the Stars Masterclass with us. 

Leslie Tagorda helps spiritual entrepreneurs become the luminary leaders they were born to be. As a Hawaii-born, Filipino, Jewish brand astrologer, designer, podcast host and author, Leslie revealed her calling when a crisis in her business identity led her to her natal chart where the AstroBrand™ method revealed itself combining business astrology, branding and leadership. Today she shares this method to visionary entrepreneurs and changemakers globally to help them affirm, embrace and amplify their Star-Powered Purpose.

During this masterclass, Leslie invites us to:

• Reflect on the astro events of 2022 on the world stage and in their own personal changemaking
• See the celestial highlights of planetary shifts in 2023
• Asses the cosmic energies ripe for changemaking Work in 2023

 
Timestamps:
04:17 - The themes for 2023
04:42 - The unofficial theme
08:11 - Embrace the changes
11:04 - Looking back at the last 3 years
15:03 - 2022 reflections
16:36 - Purpose
20:33 - How did you harness your power
24:51 - 2023 cosmic meet-ups
28:40 - Choosing your work next year
30:21 - 2023 energy shifts
34:04 - Our long term success
40:03 - Polarities
40:50 - Lunations
43:19 - Retrogrades
45:18 - Monthly energies
 
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To watch the video version of this masterclass, click here.
 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Susie Jaramillo. 

Susie Jaramillo is an acclaimed Latina artist and storyteller. She creates magical worlds that build bridges of understanding and inspire children to be the fearless, creative, and kind human beings we all have the potential to be.

She is the Chief Executive Officer of Encantos, an award-winning family entertainment company she co-founded with the mission to tell stories with purpose inspired by a world of culture.
Susie is the creator of the Emmy-nominated and 2x Kidscreen award-winning bilingual preschool brand Canticos. A prolific author and much-lauded illustrator, she also created the beautiful new series Skeletina, which introduces children to the magic of the in-between world. Susie is also the co-creator of Tiny Travelers, a series designed to introduce children to the countries and cultures of the world.

The creative heart of Encantos, Susie sets the bar for brilliant stories with captivating, diverse characters brought to life in books, toys, on screens, and wherever else children like to spend their time.
 
During this episode we talked about:

• 03:57 - Going to New York
• 06:45 - Her ‘identity journey’
• 07:36 - “Understanding who you are in this country”
• 09:48 - Latino herritage
• 10:10 - Art School
• 11:13 - “Art school is too risky”
• 13:49 - Doing everything with style
• 14:45 - Control your career
• 15:49 - Her career after college
• 19:06 - Networking
• 19:52 - "A creative is valuable if they’re solving a business problem”
• 20:55 - Her first agency
• 21:27 - Not getting a salary for two years
• 23:45 - Corporate America and the Hispanic market
• 24:25 - Fear to alienate the general market
• 31:12 - Selling the agency
• 32:09 - How are you truly serving
• 33:50 - Incubate the ideas
• 39:42 - Her roles in Encantos
• 46:36 - The problem with the entertainment industry

 
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