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Listeners, we're back this week with Kelly Lytle Hernández.

Kelly Lytle Hernández is a professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022). Bad Mexicans was recently longlisted for the National Book Award. She also leads Million Dollar Hoods, a big data research initiative documenting the fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. For her historical and contemporary work, Professor Lytle Hernández was named a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. She is also an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Pulitzer Prize Board.

During this episode we talked about:

• 04:15 - Being from a border town and how it informed her work
• 05:34 - Growing up pre- operation gatekeeping
• 09:36 - Conversation with her father
• 15:57 - Deciding to be a historian and her champions
• 16:38 - Importance of writing
• 20:58 - Advice to young students
• 25:34 - Grad school
• 27:46 - Going into the archives
• 30:13 - Her book Bad Mexicans
• 33:36 - ‘I need this story’
• 36:19 - Juana Belén Gutierrez de Mendoza
• 40:13 - History informing the present
• 41:15 - Standing on the shoulders of incredible women

 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Analilia Mejia.

Analilia Mejia is one of the foremost national political leaders in the progressive movement and is the Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy, the nation’s largest multiracial organizing network on the left. Prior, she served as the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau Deputy Director. Previously, Mejia built on her experience of running victorious issue advocacy campaigns to serve as Political Director on Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign, which built a massive rank-and-file union support program and galvanized Latino groups across the country. Analilia is a proud Afro-Latina, Jersey girl, and mom of two.
 
During this episode we talked about:

• 04:40 - Growing up working class
• 05:27 - Thrive and not just survive
• 08:46 - A union job changed everything
• 14:56 - Privileges
• 17:28 - Types of organizations and being a power-building org
• 18:15 - All actions are worthy
• 21:45 - Being afrolatina
• 31:08 - Education
• 36:27 - Her work journey
• 38:04 - Pressures and power
• 41:28 - History of violence
• Y tu abuela dónde está? Poem
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Listeners, we're back this week with Jersey García.

Jersey is a licensed psychotherapist and relationship coach that supports divorced mujxres and couples who experienced divorce in their past relationship, to heal emotional wounds and co-create the love they want to experience. Originally from THE Washington Heights, New York City, she now lives in west central Florida. She is a single mom of two wonderful teenagers; has a serious obsession with astrology; and absolutely loves having conversations around energy healing (I am trained on EFT/tapping), relationships, and spirituality.
 
During this episode we talked about:

• 02:08 - Her family’s story and growing up back and forth
• 20:28 - Navigating those two worlds
• 23:04 - Code switching with friends
• 27:40 - Deciding to go to school
• 31:11 - Honduras
• 35:05 - Shifting careers
• 36:34 - Dating after divorse
• 36:37 - ‘Is this the one?’
• 37:54 - Choosing every day

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Listeners, we're back this week with Aurora Archer. 

An Afro-Latina, Aurora draws on over 25 years of experience leading success in four distinct industries: retail, technology, health & wellness, content publishing & media. She’s built a reputation as a catalyst leader and strategic thinker. Her mission is mighty in execution but simple in philosophy: create a new normal where everyone, of all identities, thrives to their fullest potential and our world includes narratives and solutions that serve all of us. It’s this tenacity — fueled by a love for technology, marketing strategy, and DEI — that led to her company, The Opt-In™.

During this episode we talked about:

• 02:51 - Growing up in San Antonio with a multicultural upbringing
• 04:38 -Lucky to live in between worlds
• 05:54 - There was an incredible love
• 11:48 - Extremely sensitive to hierarchy
• 13:51 - Pivotal moments that changed her life
• 14:01 - Growing up across borders
• 16:16 - Creating a radical different life
• 27:00 - The product of domestics
• 28:59 - Convert in superpower
• 35:11 - Earn the right to be chosen
• 38:00 - Where she gets the strength
• 41:47 - Her entrepreneurship journey

 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Carmen Rosas.

Hoop-wearing, award-winning and stereotype-defying attorney Carmen Rosas is on a mission to help women chase and secure the bag. Drawing on more than 10 years of experience in estate planning, Rosas equips women to protect themselves and their families by protecting their assets. And she’s doing it all in style.

A proud mix of Mexican, French, and Italian, Carmen grew up in the Bay Area, fascinated by her grandmother's stories of living in Mexico, arriving in America, and settling in California. Her curiosity of other cultures and the development of languages and communal systems led her to study Anthropology at Santa Clara University. During her sophomore year, she even interned at the Public Defender’s Office-Juvenile Division in Washington D.C.

Carmen’s comparison studies of the U.S. legal system and tribal systems in New Zealand, as well as her interest in policy change, led her to law school. Following this inspiration, she grew her legal skills and worked with three prominent Bay Area law firms while also volunteering with the Pro Bono Project of Silicon Valley.

Today she is the founder and lead counsel of Carmen Rosas Law where she empowers women to take back control of their money, desires and life. Carmen’s unique approach to estate planning blends personalized, intuitive coaching with trusted legal advice to finally give women, especially Latina women, the chance to be seen and heard by an attorney who looks like them and gets it.
Carmen has been featured inThe Huffington Post, Forbes, Be Latina, Create and Cultivate, The Balance, and Modern Latina where she shares her guidance and legal advice with women around the country. When she’s not plotting a new way to help women win, she’s either hiking, gardening, traveling, shopping at local farmer's markets or experiencing new cultures. More than anything, she loves spending her free time with her beautiful daughter.
 
During this episode we talked about:

• 04:14 - Growing up multicultural
• 10:26 - Being the first
• 13:40 - Going to law school
• 31:57 - Getting to where she is now
• 36:21 - What is estate planning
• And more...

 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Luisa Alberto.

Luisa Alberto is the CEO of People First Finance, a Virtual CFO agency that provides high touch accounting and financial advisory services to women business owners. She has 18 years of Finance and Operations experience working alongside visionary leaders of successful Bay Area startups, such as Blue Bottle Coffee and Good Eggs. Her mission is to ease the financial burden and overwhelm that holds too many extraordinary self employed women back from reaching their fullest potential, and making a wildly successful living as the brilliant creators they were born to be.
 
During this episode we talked about:

• 06:26 - Growing up as an only child
• 08:03 - Leaving New York and choosing her major
• 09:49 - Understanding Social Justice
• 22:30 - There’s not a right and wrong way
• 24:34 - ‘What are you?’ & identity
• 33:30 - Getting into finance
• 35:30 - Getting her financial world thriving
• 37:54 - Filing for bankruptcy
• 39:49 - People First Finance & talking numbers

 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Anna DeShawn.

Anna, pronouns anything respectful, is a Chicago-born social entrepreneur who builds streaming platforms which center & celebrate BIPOC & QTPOC creatives. Media has always been her passion and in 2009 she turned that passion into a reality when she founded E3 Radio, an online radio station playing Queer music & reporting on Queer news with an intersectional lens. Most recently, she co-founded The Qube, a curated app where you discover the best music & podcasts by BIPOC & QTPOC creatives. Anna is determined to ride media into its next era by utilizing digital media streams to tell the stories and play the music that deserves to be heard.Learn more about her work here.In no particular order I’m also a daughter, wife, sister, and friend who loves cooking and running.Favorite Quote: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” –Gandhi

Did you know? Anna has been in love with Robin Roberts all her life. Interviewing her will be the ultimate experience.

During this episode we talked about:

• 02:52 - Being Black American and from the Southside of Chicago
• 09:42 - Ignorance and racism
• 11:48 - Media representation
• 18:22 - Her professional road
• 24:10 - Progress
• 25:13 - Creating change
• 34:01 - The business
• 37:36 - The pandemic and taking the big leap
• 38:43 - Live without regrets
• 44:17 - Releasing control of the when and the how
• 44:44 - Her exit plan
• 49:22 - Self-sabotage
• 50:31 - The Qube
• 52:58 - We deserve visibility

 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Katheryn Vasquez.

In just 4 short weeks, (August 29th) NASA will be launching the test rocket that will soon take humans back to the Moon and then on to Mars: Artemis 1. One of the key engineers on the project is Katheryn Vasquez. Katheryn helps manage the project office that will ensure a steady supply of cargo, experiments, and other station supplies to the lunar station that will orbit the Moon once the rocket proves successful. Born in Miami, Florida, Katheryn is bilingual and uses her position as an engineer at NASA to inspire the next generation of Latinx engineers, scientists and astronauts.

During this episode we talked about:

03:40 - Going back to USA in middle school
07:21 - Deciding to go to college
07:46 - Driving force
12:20 - Struggle through college
15:12 - Her interest in space
18:12 - Navigating engineering as a woman
19:18 - Being underrepresented in college
20:12 - Being vocal
22:46 - How she got into Judo
30:05 - How she started working at NASA
32:11 - Don’t shy away from opportunities
32:52 - It’s ok to struggle
34:00 - Artemis Project
 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Patty Delgado.

Patty Delgado is the 30 year old founder, CEO and designer of Hija De Tu Madre, a Latina lifestyle brand. Hija de tu Madre designs apparel, accessories, and stationary for women that take their culture everywhere.The daughter of two Mexican immigrants, Delgado always had a hunger for culture, belonging and representation. So in 2016, with $500 and a mission to make fashion more inclusive of the modern Latina experience, Delgado launched Hija de tu Madre.The self-taught designer, is committed to incorporating her multicultural identity in every product she creates. Today, the self-funded company has sold to over 30 countries, and continues to prove to the world that Latinx is the new mainstream.

During this episode we talked about:

04:06 - Growing up ‘rockera’
07:27 - Being the oldest child
08:56 - Choosing her college major
15:29 - Wanting to connect with her heritage
15:40 - Graphic design wasn’t fun anymore
19:41 - Freelancing
23:09 - Visiting that younger Patty
26:45 - Being a 'no sabo' kid
29:04 - On Hija De Tu Madre
29:14 - Her first product
33:30 - Still persevering
36:04 - Burnout
39:49 - ‘Keeping our finger on the pulse’
44:10 - Building a lifestyle brand
48:08 - Her parents support
 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Leslie Tagorda.

Leslie is a podcast host, author, astrologer, and designer. She is a Hawaii-born, Filipino Jewish, third career astrologer coming from classical music (institutionalized oppression), branding and design and now astrology focused on the intersection of identiy, how we present and lead in Work. This journey is rooted from exploring her own identity and worthiness as all she had ever heard growing up, that she wasn't enough. She wasn’t Hawaiian enough White enough, Asian enough, thin enough, smart enough, good enough. She has woven in all her experiences and saw how the language of astrology and harmony applies in how we present ourselves in the world and what we need to reframe to dismantle and unlearn societal’s rules of how we see our individual success, Work and leadership. Today her mission is to be a spiritual and strategic teacher helping entrepreneurs and changemakers turn their wounds into wisdom to become the luminary leaders they are born to be. And her purpose is to innovate astrology as a MOVEMENT in leveraging brand and leadership development combining a unique skillset of branding, business and astrology, in what she calls the AstroBrand™ Method.

During this episode we talked about:

• 03:35 - Heritage and colonial mentality
• 07:12 - Being enough
• 08:04 - Becoming a ‘third career astrologer’
• 14:40 - There are no mistakes made
• 19:11 - Pam’s natal chart
• 23:25 - What’s the sun, moon and rising signs in her framework
• 31:09 - Shadow expressions
• 35:23 - Astrology languages
• 45:06 - Using your chart on your business
• 48:03 - New moon and full moon rituals

 
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