A special episode announcing bilingual transcripts and new English‑language conversations!
For the last couple of months, Frecuencia Narrativa: Cultural Stories, has lived entirely in Spanish; authors, historians, musicians, a sustainability manager who made me fall in love with eucalyptus trees (yes, really). But enough of you asked for English episodes that I finally listened.
So episode 10 is a full recap, in English, of everyone who's shaped this project so far:
📚 An HR executive and leadership program director at Universitas Telefónica who argues that a sense of humor is the hardest KPI to measure — and one of the most important
🎬 The co-founder of the studio bringing Mafalda to Netflix
🎸 A singer-songwriter who writes from images, not words in a magical town in Colombia 📖 Two different book fair directors, because apparently, I like books - LéaLA & FIL NYC
♻️ A sustainability manager at Penguin Random House Latin America who can trace a book back to a literal eucalyptus sapling in Brazil
🎓 A multicultural marketing professor at the University of Miami who explains the real difference between "multicultural" and "Hispanic" marketing. And, why getting it wrong costs brands millions
🕊️ An Uruguayan historian living in Buenos Aires who took me through love, censorship, and Mafalda under Argentina's last dictatorship
🏔️ A singer-songwriter from Ireland who grew up in a self-sustaining community in the Colombian Andes; no electricity, just mountains, before it shaped her into the artist she is today
Oh, and starting August 31st, every episode gets bilingual transcripts. So now you have zero excuses not to listen — "no hablo español" no longer works on you. I see you.
If you've ever wanted a cultural bridge between you and the Spanish-language world that occasionally involves me mispronouncing an Argentine writer's name three separate times on record (I did, I own it, it's in the transcript) , this is your show!
And for every other episode, all still in Spanish, the bilingual transcripts mean you can listen in Spanish and follow along in English, or vice versa.
💬 Follow the conversation more easily
🕰️ Learn at your own pace
👨👩👧👦 Share episodes with students, colleagues, or family
🎓 Use the show as a cultural or educational resource
These transcripts are part of our mission to make culture accessible, portable, and alive.
I'd love your feedback, please comment below, or DM me directly. If this resonates, please share it with someone who'd love it, and follow along so you don't miss what's next.
🎙️ Thank you for joining me on this cultural journey.
We also preview three upcoming episodes:
Dr. Laura Beltrán Rubio: a fashion archaeologist and storyteller of colonialism, and how aesthetics encode power.
Carlos Martínez & Carlos Vásquez — creators of The Sento Showdown, a Mortal Kombat tournament designed for blind and low‑vision players.
Alexandra Chiara — on the Spanish‑language book club that has lasted more than twenty years in the middle of Orange County, CaliforniaLINKS
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📄 Lee la transcripción completa en español
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