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Listeners, this week we have a conversation with Jen Ruiz.

Jen Ruiz is a lawyer turned travel blogger and author. She is a TEDx speaker and 2018 Readers' Favorite Award winner.

Her book, "The Affordable Flight Guide," is a #1 Amazon Bestseller and 2018 Readers' Favorite Award winner. She was named Top 40 under 40 by the Naples Herald and has been featured as a budget and solo travel expert by The Washington Post, Huffington Post, ABC News to name a few. She aims to help people travel for less and experience more.

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During our conversation, Jen and I discuss the following topics:

• Her life in Puerto Rico
• Growing up in Philadelphia
• Law school
• Not practicing law anymore
• Solo traveling
• The pressure of being 30 and not married
• Letting things be and flow when you’re a planner
• Self-publishing
• Becoming a travel blogger

This episode is definitely packed with a lot of value that will help you make a decision to create the life you want.
 
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Listeners, this week we're back with Cecilia Muñoz.

Cecilia Muñoz is Vice President for Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives at New America. Prior to joining New America in 2017, she served for eight years on President Obama’s senior staff, first as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs followed by five years as Director of the Domestic Policy Council. Before working in government, she was Senior Vice President at the National Council of La Raza (now UNIDOS US), the nation’s largest Hispanic policy and advocacy organization, where she served for 20 years. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000 for her work on immigration and civil rights, and serves on the Boards of the Open Society, MacArthur and Kresge Foundations, as well as the nonprofit Protect Democracy Project. She is the author of More than Ready: Be Strong and Be you....and other lessons for women of color on the rise, to be published in April 2020.

This interview is at the top of my list and I hope it becomes one of your faves too. During our conversation, Cecilia and I cover the following:

• Her Latinx experience.
• The responsibilities that come with being "The first."
• Adopting behaviors to fit in the male-dominated world.
• Conquering fear.
• Mom guilt.
• Womxn supporting womxn.
• Womxn taking on leadership roles.
• And more...

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Listeners, this week we're back with Odilia Rivera-Santos.

Odilia Rivera-Santos was born in Puerto Rico, At the age of five and a half, she migrated to NYC with her family. Rivera-Santos learned English with Mr. Rogers, imagined the future while watching The Jetsons, and saw her purpose in life through reading Abraham Maslow and Viktor Frankl.

Rivera-Santos's mother taught her to appreciate what people do, not what they have, and her father told her to persist regardless of obstacles. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction has appeared in online and print journals. She studied Comparative Literature and Writing at Smith College and Applied Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Listeners, this week we're back with Griselda Beck.

Griselda Beck, MBA. Entrepreneur, Expert Strategist, Motivational Speaker, and #LatinaBossCoach. A proud Chicana and 1st generation American and ON FIRE for the empowerment of young girls and women!

She is dedicated to the empowerment and personal development of Latinas and women of color through speaking engagements, volunteer work, and Latina Boss Coach, where she helps female entrepreneurs and professional career women be authentically aligned and gain freedom through her "MAP-Mindset to Action Plan" workshops, intensives and individual coaching programs.

She is the owner of Beck Consulting Group, a boutique firm specializing in business advisory for small business owners, business and marketing strategic planning and implementation for companies looking to grow, launch new products and reinvigorate their brands.

Serves as Director of Membership on the board of directors for MANA de North County, a national nonprofit organization empowering Latinas through leadership development, Hermanitas(R) mentoring programs, community service, and advocacy.

Griselda and I talk about her career in Corporate America, overworking, and finding alignment. 
 
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Listeners this week we have a conversation wth Maria Elena Perez.

Maria Elena is a bilingual intuitive energy healer that guides women and people to heal the core wounds at the root of their stuckness in business and life. A licensed social worker and certified emotional freedom techniques (eft) practitioner, she uses traditional healing with energetic tools to support folks in their unique healing journey. Her roots are in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and she brings forth generations of spiritual and healing wisdom into her work.

Maria Elena and I talk about: 

• Identity. Finding out your heritage is not what you thought it was.
• Healing and living with ancestral trauma.
• Experiencing racism in college.
• Sprituality
• Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) / Tapping

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Listeners, this week we have a conversation wit Charisse M. Williams.

A lawyer by training, Charisse worked in the nonprofit and social justice sectors for 25 years at organizations focused on human rights, education, criminal and juvenile justice reform issues. In her executive leadership roles, she consistently attained ambitious goals including launching program sites in new cities, raising millions of dollars and recruiting dozens of board members and volunteers.

Over the course of her career, Charisse has taught and facilitated retreats and workshops for adults and teens in settings as diverse as board rooms, juvenile detention centers, alcohol and drug rehab centers, and college and university campuses.

Her first stint as an entrepreneur was as a consultant. She eventually decided to embrace the role of “coach” because coaching is a partnership driven by her clients. She is at her absolute best helping others find their own answers while she offers facilitation, guidance, tools and resources.
In 2015 her personal health and wellness journey led me to become a certified yoga teacher. This began a new chapter in her quest to become a more mindful leader on and off the yoga mat. It is in part because of yoga, meditation, and other mindfulness practices that she has come to create the career and life of her dreams. Charisse no longer needs work/life balance, because she has something even better—alignment. Everything she does personally and professionally is aligned with her values, her gifts and her calling.

Charisse is destined to be a resource to others who are on a similar journey of personal and professional discovery and growth.

I truly enjoyed my conversation with Charisse, she is a fellow coach and we went to the same coaching school. Even though this interview was recorded before the murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd (among all others), Charisse and I still talked about systemic racism and how women of color exist in the workplace. 

Charisse and I cover a lot of things including:

• Growing up in the south side of Chicago
• How Charisse knew Michelle Obama 
• Embracing a non-linear life
• Impostor syndrome
• Systemic racism in the United States
• Asking for help

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Listeners, this week we're back with Jasmine Cepeda.

Jasmine is a licensed psychotherapist and social worker, working in private practice in Brooklyn, NY. She specializes in anxiety disorders, past relational traumas, coping with life transitions, and also does couples therapy.

She is also the author of the book: "12 Ways to cope with your latina mom and her difficulties,"
 
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Manis, during my conversation with Jasmine we talked about all the things New York City, code switching and how she came about writing her book.
 
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Manis, this week we're back with Dr. Anayibe Ramos.

Dr. Anayibe Ramos is a Naturopathic Doctor licensed in the State of California. She is the co-founder of Kyra Kare Health & Wellness, a Naturopathic clinic, where she sees individuals of all ages and practices individualized medicine. Her philosophy involves seeing the body as a whole and looking for the root cause of illness in order to help the individual come back to balance. 

She specializes in endocrine imbalances, women’s health, fertility, thyroid and adrenal imbalances, environmental toxicity, autoimmunity and utilizes Intravenous vitamin therapies and injections to replenish nutrient deficiencies. 

She takes pride in being able to bring Naturopathic Holistic medicine to the latino community. 
Dr. Ramos was born in Cali, Colombia, raised in NYC and attended medical school in Illinois, and currently resides in San Diego, CA. 

In her free time she embraces her other passions of connecting with the energy of nature, being an avid animal lover, painting and exploring the world with her husband and dog, Lucy!

Manis, I had a lot of fun talking to Dr. Ramos because as you know I love natural remedies and ways to heal our body. Her story of healing is pretty amazing.
 
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Manis, this week we had cafecito with Chelsea Rendon.

Born and raised in Montebello, California, Chelsea Rendon has been a working actress since the age of six. Her first role was a lead in the feature film No Turning Back, which won the Alma award for Outstanding Independent Feature Film in 2002. Recipient of a Young Latinos In Hollywood award, Chelsea has been known to portray dominant roles for over a decade. Most recently, she is recognized for her role as a young “woke” activist ‘Mari’ in STARZ’s hit drama Vida. The series premiered to stellar reviews and was named one of the top shows of 2018 and 2019 and received 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. One of the fan favorites, Chelsea’s character is from the Eastside of LA where Chelsea herself grew up.

Chelsea was born for drama on television. At a young age her television work kicked off with guest roles on E.R., The Shield, and Judging Amy. She went on to recur on Freeform’s The Fosters and the hit Showtime series Shameless. Most recently, she guest starred on the brand new CBS series All Rise.

Equally as dedicated to film, Chelsea has brought her talents to Disney’s McFarland, USA, and the Oscar-nominated film A Better Life. She can also be seen in Netflix’s original hit Bright alongside Will Smith and Netflix horror film Thriller. Chelsea recently starred in the immigration drama, The Infiltrators. The film mixed documentary with narrative dramatization premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2019. Directed and produced by Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra, the film centers on a small group of young undocumented immigrants who embark on a high-risk mission inside America’s for-profit detention system in order to set people free. Teaming up again with Bright director, David Ayer, Chelsea stars in the upcoming gritty American crime thriller, The Tax Collector, alongside Shia LaBeouf, Lana Parilla, and George Lopez.

As an actress who is attracted to empowering female roles, Chelsea draws inspiration from the likes of Viola Davis and Mariska Hargitay, and hopes to one day produce her own content and try her hand in directing.

During our conversation, Chelsea and I talked about her story, growing up in Los Angeles, her love for Latinx brands, and how her character Mary in Vida changed her. 

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Manis this week we're back with Bobby Herrera.

Bobby believes that everyone deserves an opportunity to succeed and is an unwavering champion for the underdog. He’s cofounder and CEO of Populus Group—one of the fastest-growing HR services companies in the United States with annual revenue of $500 million and many Fortune 100 customers. As one of thirteen children in a migrant family he learned the value of hard work, rising early and putting in long hours in the fields. After high school, boot camp became his ticket of opportunity. He serves on national community organization boards and is a regular speaker at corporations and service groups. He is a proud Army veteran. Bobby is most proud of his family—his wife Roslyn and their three children Santino, Griffith, and Sofia live in Portland, Oregon.
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During our conversation, Bobby shares his infamous bus story and why that day at 17 years old, his life changed. Bobby talked about his days in the military, being the son of a bracero and how he reframed what happened to him into leadership lessons. 

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