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Listeners, we're back this week with Eduardo Vilaro.

Eduardo Vilaro is the Artistic Director & CEO of Ballet Hispánico (BH). He was named BH's Artistic Director in 2009, becoming only the second person to head the company since its founding in 1970, and in 2015 was also named Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Vilaro has infused Ballet Hispánico’s legacy with a bold brand of contemporary dance that reflects America’s changing cultural landscape.
 
During our conversation, we talked about:

• Coming from Cuba as a 5 year old
• Growing up in the Bronx
• Figuring out he wanted to be a performer
• Focusing on his ultimate goal despite the opportunities that presented themselves
• The power of dance
• Machismo
• And so much more!

 
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Relevant Timestamps:
06:55 - New York in the 60s and 70s
09:08 - Going to catholic school
10:33 - Assimilation
12:49 - Machismo
14:03 - The importance of building a platform for young people
19:37 - Bullying
26:45 - Studying dance and starting his career
28:33 - The 'superhero power' of being an immigrant
31:40 - Being quieted
32:35 - A message to younger generations
36:54 - Finding family at Ballet Hispanico
43:42 - Being the artistic director and CEO at the same time
 
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Listeners, we are back this week with Esperanza Teasdale.

Esperanza Teasdale is currently the VP/GM Hispanic Business Unit for PBNA responsible for the overall Hispanic strategy, engagement and sales for our +$2 Billion Hispanic business in North America.

Esperanza has an extensive history at Pepsi Beverages Company and began her career as a Brand Manager. Over the past 18 years she has demonstrated excellence in a range of roles driving business results across brands including Pepsi, Propel, Aquafina and Lipton to name a few. Prior to the HBU she led the shopper marketing agenda for 7-Eleven and Circle K where she successfully led Joint Business Planning, delivered innovative shopper marketing solutions and accelerated business results. She is a proud founder of the PepsiCo Demand Accelerator where she helped build the shopper marketing capability and drive our brand must win battles with retailers. Under the leadership of Esperanza, our core brands have accelerated revenue growth while transforming the marketing experience. She has a legacy of growing talent and recognized as a leader in driving Diversity and Engagement. She is the executive sponsor to the Adelante ERG for PBNA.

Esperanza started her career as an Industrial Engineer at Unilever where she worked for 5 years in manufacturing/operations in a bakery for Arnold bread. She then moved to a district sales manager role selling bakery products which led to her first regional marketing role. From there she continued her career in marketing across various brands and innovations.

Esperanza was born in Long Island, NY and is a first-generation Ecuadorian/Colombian daughter to Pablo and Esperanza Escobar. She is married to Jeff Teasdale and has two children. She enjoys yoga, traveling and spending time with family. She is a graduate from Rutgers University, College of Engineering and The University of Connecticut, MBA.

She is a board member for two non-profits that are focused on youth higher education and leadership development: AMBYESE and Kids Helping Kids. She is also a member of the Bennett Cancer Center Hope In Motion Executive Committee.

She was recently named to the 2021 People en Español’s 25 Most Powerful Women Poderosa list.
 
During our conversation, we talked about:

• Her experience working at Pepsico.
• The juntos crecemos program and the commitment to support the Latinx / Hispanic community.
• How she felt when she realized her Latinidad was fading away.

 
Relevant Timestamps
3:44 - Her role in PepsiCo
4:58 - Her latinidad fading away
8:08 - the nuances of the latino culture
8:41 - Juntos crecemos
11:42 - The marketing machine of big corporations
16:27 - getting the word out
 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez.

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez was born in Managua, Nicaragua but calls Nashville, Tennessee home. She got her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt University in the Spring of 2015. The bulk of her work is around making accessible, through storytelling and curating content, the theories and heavy material that is oftentimes only taught in the racist/classist institutions known as academia. To date she has published over 200 articles online and participated in the Young Adult anthology "Nevertheless, We Persisted." Recently Prisca also participated in an anthology edited by Lynda Lopez titled, "The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez."

She started the platform Latina Rebels in 2013, and currently it boasts over 300k organic followers online. She has been featured in Telemundo, Univision, Mitú, Huffington Post Latino Voices, Guerrilla Feminism, Latina Mag, Cosmopolitan, Everyday Feminism, and was invited to the White House in the Fall of 2016. She is unapologetic, angry, and uncompromising about protecting and upholding the stories of Latinx communities. Que viva la gente!Currently Prisca is writing her first full length book with Seal Press a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, and due to be out September 7, 2021.

During our conversation, we talked about:

• The process of writing her book
• An unpublished interview that never aired at Cafe con Pam
• Her experience of living in Tennessee
• Her college experience
• Impostor syndrome
• Starting Latina Rebels
• And more

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Listeners, we are back this week with Sonia Espinoza.

Sonia Erika is a serial entrepreneur focused on solidarity economics who is currently making music for the revolution. She currently spends her time traveling during the pandemic, recording music with “Death is a Business,” collaborating with local communities, and coaching female executives to create cooperative business structures.As an undocumented entrepreneur, worker, and musician, her work has been all about creating systems that work to eliminate violent systems. Sonia's life work has focused on building and creating systems that pay people equitably for their time and labor. Before graduating from Harvard, Sonia, co-founded 3 weed organizations, the Cannabis Cultural Association, the Massachusetts Recreational Consumer Council, and EatMe.Land. She is ready to build this world with you!
 
This episode is brought to you by JustGYV

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The sophistication and strength of the Mesoamerican culture are infused into every luxurious fragrance and personal care product designed by GYV Mesoamerican Beauty. JustGYV’s mission is to celebrate the rich history of the land, spanning from Central America to Mexico, by showcasing the voices, scents, flavors, and places of this historic region. Mesoamerica is the cradle of civilization in the Americas, and the rich culture continues to flourish in the 21st century. The deeply rooted knowledge of the ingredients that define Mesoamerica has flourished for centuries, and GYV is here to share that beautiful story with the rest of the world through our diverse line of proprietary formulas.
 
During our conversation, we talked about:

• Her experience making music in Mexico and Peru
• Creating an NFT
• Sonia's take on investing
• How she's navigated traveling and existing during the pandemic

 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Sandra Cisneros.

Sandra is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist whose work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, several honorary doctorates, and national and international book awards, including Chicago's Fifth Star Award, the PEN America Literary Award, and the National Medal of Arts. Most recently, she received the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized among the Frederick Douglass 200, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two nonprofits she founded: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. She is also the organizer of Los MacArturos, Latino MacArthur fellows who are community activists.

During our conversation, we talked about:

• Mental health
• Becoming a writer
• Her new book Martita, I Remember You
• What she does when she finishes a project

 
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Listeners, this week we're back with a solo episode. Pam shares her perspective on what finding your purpose means.

This is more of an exploration and invitation for you to think about what your purpose is, rather than a lecture on how to find yours.
 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Sandra Velasquez.

Founder of Nopalera, a Mexican Botanical bath & body line. Sandra’s main ingredient, the nopal (cactus) is more than an ingredient; it is an ancient symbol of Mexican culture: strong, resilient, beautiful, and has always been here. Just like us. She founded Nopalera to elevate and celebrate Latin@ culture and remove cultural stigmas in body care. Her core mission is to fight racial injustice by showing up in the face of racism and anti-immigrant mentality and helping immigrants at the non-profit, Casa Cornelia.

During our conversation, we talked about:

• Making a decision early on about her brand being a luxury brand.
• Her experience working in the CPG industry.
• Getting pushback from people in the community calling her brand "too expensive."
• How to know when your brand is ready for a retailer.

 
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Listeners this week we have a conversation with Charisse M. Williams.

Charisse M. Williams is a certified leadership coach, speaker and mindfulness teacher who has dedicated her career to advancing social justice and well-being for all.In launching her coaching practice she truly found her dream job by aligning her passions, strengths and values.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and Juris Doctorate from Northwestern University School of Law. As a certified yoga instructor, she brings a mindfulness lens to all of her work. 

A travel enthusiast, Charisse once traveled across Europe with no itinerary, starting in Amsterdam and ending in Marrakech five weeks later. She is insatiably curious about the mind and loves nerdy podcasts like The Hidden Brain on NPR Radio. Charisse lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

During our conversation we talked about:

• How she decided to write a book in the middle of a global pandemic, after the murder of George Floyd.
• Writing her first draft.
• The power of accountability.
• Mental Health.

Relevant Timestamps
7:38 Why she started writing this book
12:30 Doubts & fears
13:57 Yoga Nidra and Sankalpas
17:56 Being guided by what you're hearing
19:57 The 'revision mode' anxiety
25:02 Balance effort and ease
27:19 Interviewees selection
36:06 Average book sells
38:13 Supporting the successful
40:51 Her experience with COVID-19
42:03 The line between structure and rigidity
44:22 Depression
51:09 Safe spaces
 
This episode is brought to you by JustGYV
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The sophistication and strength of the Mesoamerican culture are infused into every luxurious fragrance and personal care product designed by GYV Mesoamerican Beauty. JustGYV’s mission is to celebrate the rich history of the land, spanning from Central America to Mexico, by showcasing the voices, scents, flavors, and places of this historic region. Mesoamerica is the cradle of civilization in the Americas, and the rich culture continues to flourish in the 21st century. The deeply rooted knowledge of the ingredients that define Mesoamerica has flourished for centuries, and GYV is here to share that beautiful story with the rest of the world through our diverse line of proprietary formulas.
 
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Listeners, we're back this week with Lisbeth Garces.

Since 2007, Lisbeth Garces has sought to provide dance therapy exercise for people with disabilities in memory of her late son, Juan Carlos Garces, who suffered from Muscular Dystrophy. Lisbeth was born in Venezuela, the youngest in a family of seven siblings. At the age of twenty she gave birth to her son Juan Carlos. After five years she received the devastating diagnosis of Muscular Dystrophy. At this point Lisbeth decided to devote all her time and energy to improving her son's quality of life. Lisbeth is not without personal experience in living with people with disabilities. 
Lisbeth's sister lives with cerebral palsy, her mother suffered with Parkinson's before she passed away and her brother was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at age 60 and passed away at 68 in 2020. Her sister did not receive any medical support or an education, and had no social interaction outside of the immediate family. She witnessed the slow decline in her mother's health while caring for her daughter. 

Having seen the disturbing way in which people with disabilities live in Venezuela, Lisbeth made a vow to give her son a life full of physical and social activities that would enrich his life. She made the courageous decision to leave her native country and come to the U.S. 

The totality of Lisbeth's life experiences began to merge after Juan Carlos' death. Returning to her love of dancing and Latin musical roots, Lisbeth became certified as a Zumba® instructor. As a natural trajectory, she began to teach low- income special needs students about the joy that can be achieved through joyful dance therapy exercise. Her repertoire expanded to people living with Down's syndrome, Parkinson's, Autism, Muscular Dystrophy, even people in wheelchairs. She envisioned a program that would provide regular classes for people with disabilities. 

With drive, inspiration, and a gift for dance, she recruited a Board of Directors to form a new non-profit, Juan Carlos Organization, in May of 2012 www.jcorg.org. Lisbeth learned about the Parkinson’s Network, which certified her to teach physical exercise to people with Parkinson’s. Not ready to stop there, in 2019 Lisbeth received a scholarship from the Mohammed Ali Foundation to learn how to reach out to the nonEnglish speaking Latino community so they could receive help. 
 
During our conversation, we talked about:

• The process of leaving her country to help her son
• Finding out his diagnosis
• Dealing with the pain of the diagnosis
• Talking about death
• The birth of her non-profit

 
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Relevant timestamps:
07:50 Her son's diagnosis in Caracas
09:09 What is Muscular Dystrophy
10:42 Juan Carlos' first symptoms
18:44 Accessing medical attention in the US
25:49 Her mother's Parkinson diagnosis
25:49 Feeling guilty
27:31 Learning to deal
31:19 Juan Carlos' personality
34:46 Death conversation
36:41 Starting her non-profit
43:54 'The miracle child'
45:10 Acknowledge them
 
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Listeners this week we have a conversation with Guillermo Chacón.

Guillermo is the President of the Latino Commission on AIDS and founder of the Hispanic Health Network.

Since 2010, Guillermo Chacón has served as President of the Latino Commission on AIDS, where he is a vocal advocate on the impact of HIV, viral hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Infections in Hispanic/Latinx communities. Under his leadership, the Commission has invested in national community mobilization programs to promote HIV testing and linkage to care and capacity building programing nationwide and special investment in our regional work in the South of the United States.

Guillermo's work focuses on developing agendas on health policy issues affecting the health of Hispanics. Chacón was appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to serve in the NYC Commissioner of Human Right in November 2019, to the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) community advisory board and the Committee on New York City Healthcare Services. Governor Cuomo appointed Chacón to the New York State AIDS Advisory Council and re-nominated him for the New York State Minority Health Council, where the New York State Senate later confirmed him in July 2020. Guillermo Chacon also serves on various Boards and Committees, NYS COVID 19 Vaccination Equity Taskforce, NYC COVID19 Vaccine, Test & Tracing (T2) program as part of Community Advisory Committee (CAB T2), the National Hispanic/Latinx Health Leadership Network, New York Immigration Coalition, the New York City AIDS Memorial, advisor for Alianza Americas, AIDSVu.org, and co-chairs the Latino Jewish Coalition in New York.

During our conversation we talked about:

• Him growing up in El Salvador and we briefly touch on the civil war. If this is triggering for you, please fast forward the conversation.
• Intergenerational trauma
• Mental health and the stigma in our community
• His process to reaching and helping people with HIV
• And more

This episode is brought to you by Apotheosis Art|
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RELEVANT TIMESTAMPS:
07:23 - Living through the war
10:14 - His faith-based background
11:18 - The transition to peace
12:32 - The mental health stigma
13:50 - The do's & don'ts for genders
14:37 - How he starting working in NY when he came back
19:10 - HIV Virus
20:16 - Faith-based communities in El Salvador
28:31 - Immigration system
32:33 - Sexual education in the world
42:08 - Power of listening
43:50 - The task ahead of us
47:02 - Life is a one way ticket
47:55 - The power of love
50:34 - Wisdom & experience
 
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