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Most people think professionalism is about fitting in, but what if it’s actually the reason we feel disconnected from ourselves? This podcast explores the tension between who we are and who we feel pressured to be at work, in relationships, and in everyday life.

Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Most people think professionalism is about fitting in, but what if it’s actually the reason we feel disconnected from ourselves? This podcast explores the tension between who we are and who we feel pressured to be at work, in relationships, and in everyday life.

Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Ana’s career has always been deliberately diverse and multi-disciplinary (journalist, agency, client VP, media, PR, bilingual). Her goal was to become a senior global marketer with expertise in creating diverse, magnetically forward leaning, unexpected go-to-market efforts for brands that drive sales growth ---from any seat at the table. Her deep consumer/business curiosity, plus the intersectionality of sector experience (luxury, CPG, financial, tech, healthcare, multicultural) has shaped her approach to brand/corporate communications. Ana has a deep reputation for equitably leading collaborative, elastic, and high performing fluid teams (in 22 countries and 17 languages). She thrives in discovering frictionless coherence in complex assignments; clarity and elegance to ambitious missions; and unbiased business imperatives for future proofing growth. Ana’s reputation among CMO/CCO’s: generating “Purposeful Profits” and a “Factivism” rooted in modernizing consumer insights to existing products; products to untapped consumers; and consumers to incremental revenue by coalescing cross functional leaders (internal and industry) to trailblaze.

Most people think professionalism is about fitting in, but what if it’s actually the reason we feel disconnected from ourselves? This podcast explores the tension between who we are and who we feel pressured to be at work, in relationships, and in everyday life.

Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Amaurys Grullon is an Artist and entrepreneur based in the Bronx. While wondering why there wasn’t good or enough apparel about the Bronx, Amaurys & his sister Roselyn began developing what is now Bronx Native. Together they (both raised in the Longwood section of the Bronx) formed and created the brand that brings into perspective the good the Bronx has and what it means to be a true Bronx Native.

Follow them on Instagram and shop on their website. 

Most people think professionalism is about fitting in, but what if it’s actually the reason we feel disconnected from ourselves? This podcast explores the tension between who we are and who we feel pressured to be at work, in relationships, and in everyday life.

Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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On this week's episode Pabel Martinez is joined by host of the Hella Latin@ podcast Odalys Jasmine Garcia Arce. We typically share other people's stories & experiences each week...but once a month we go live with Odalys on YouTube and LinkedIn to share our experience.   This week, the focus of the conversation was Quiet Quitting. We went through what we thought it meant, what it actually means, personal stories around quiet quitting, and how this will impact the future of work.

Here's the link to the episode on YouTube. 

Most people think professionalism is about fitting in, but what if it’s actually the reason we feel disconnected from ourselves? This podcast explores the tension between who we are and who we feel pressured to be at work, in relationships, and in everyday life.

Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Emmy Cruz is the Director of Talent at Newco: An IAC Incubator. She has built teams across media and tech under the most influential leaders. A native New Yorker who immigrated from the Dominican Republic, she's passionate about DEI in tech (and all parts of life, really). She wants the community to know that there are different paths toward success and that it's a personal definition. We can take the power back from labels and that it's okay to be ambitious while being true to your roots - no matter your gender or race. If you're at the table, you deserve to be there because there is space for everyone. 

Connect with Emmy on LinkedIn. She is hiring.

Most people think professionalism is about fitting in, but what if it’s actually the reason we feel disconnected from ourselves? This podcast explores the tension between who we are and who we feel pressured to be at work, in relationships, and in everyday life.

Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Michael Lopez is a graphic designer whose work can be found at www.postlopez.com. Originally from San Diego, now living in Los Angeles with their cartoonist spouse Rachel Dukes and 2 cats. They are Chicanx and non-binary.

Michael Lopez also shared the below post on LinkedIn and it went viral. This is his first and only interview about the situation and we are proud that he decided to share his story on our platform. 

I'm a queer brown person and I was fired during Pride month for speaking up in defense of abortion rights at Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) (a subsidiary of Universal Music Group).

Last Friday, like countless other folks, I was devastated by the news of the supreme court's attack on abortion rights. Paired with the flood of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation, it's been hard to process how company's expect us to be productive while our rights are being stripped away. Especially when our company has been donating to several of these politicians (link in comments).

Every Friday, one of my tasks was to process reports for upcoming releases. This is an email list that goes out to 275 people. I don't know who's on it, I just knew it was the email list with the most people that I had access to. So I sent the following message:

Subject line: UMe Schedules
Message:

I didn't do them today.

I'm in mourning due to the attack on people with uteruses in the US. Federally guaranteed access to abortion is gone.

Vivendi and Universal Music Group must stop donating to anti-abortion, anti-queer and anti-trans politicians. Politicians like Marsha Blackburn, Ken Buck, Victoria Spartz, etc. Or expect more unproductive days.

Yours in fury,
-Michael Lopez

The immediate aftermath was several supportive emails from other co-workers and a manager calling to tell me to take the rest of the day off. I appreciate the love from my coworkers, and I figured, based on management's response, there was a good possibility I might be fired as a result. But I was proud of letting allies know that our company has been donating to these politicians.

Around 9:30-ish today, I got a surprise Zoom video chat with HR. I was being let go for (paraphrasing) "Not doing your job, disrupting the day of 275 people and poor judgement." I was told to log out and that a courier would be there to pick up my laptop from my apartment within the hour.

Anticipating that I'd get shut out of my computer very soon, I sent a follow up to the email list:

Hey ya’ll,

Just got fired for this email from Friday, so they’re letting you know where they stand on employees speaking out on politicians that support marginalization for folks like me.

A brown queer person terminated during Pride month speaking in support of abortion rights. Seems like that’s exactly what America is all about right now.

Peace out,
-Michael Lopez

I don't speak for my former company. I speak for myself and employees that will suffer under these discriminatory laws.

Their actions today, their silence on Friday are indicative of their motivations. Profit at all costs. Solidarity, only if it's profitable. And above all of that is maintaining the status quo and saying fuck you to the working class.

Most people think professionalism is about fitting in, but what if it’s actually the reason we feel disconnected from ourselves? This podcast explores the tension between who we are and who we feel pressured to be at work, in relationships, and in everyday life.

Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Vanessa Toro is Vice President of Brand Strategy. She writes about communication, culture, and identity. Vanessa has built a career leading branding and marketing for industries ranging from Airlines to Fintech to Chocolate. Her multi-hyphenate background includes extensive practice in behavioral economics, semiotics, and real talk.

Throughout the episode, Vanessa dropped some gems. Here are some of our favorite quotes that Vanessa said during the conversation. 

- "If you don’t have a certain level of self awareness, then how do you know if you’re betraying that [authenticity]?"

- "I find it very easy to stand up for others."

- "I don’t save things for a special occasion because life is the occasion."

Most people think professionalism is about fitting in, but what if it’s actually the reason we feel disconnected from ourselves? This podcast explores the tension between who we are and who we feel pressured to be at work, in relationships, and in everyday life.

Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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"We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us." — Ken Levine

Our families have sacrificed and worked too hard for us to not do well in life. It's pressure that we constantly feel and it impacts the daily decisions that we make. What is doing "well" though? Should we even be feeling this pressure?

This month's topic, Odalys and Pabel will be diving deep into decision making and the impact that recent decisions has had on our lives. Example questions and topics below.
- Did you ever regret any of your decisions, did it always open a new door etc.?
- How has therapy helped with decision making
- Am I making decisions for myself or others?
- Navigating the big decisions and the small ones throughout the day

Most people think professionalism is about fitting in, but what if it’s actually the reason we feel disconnected from ourselves? This podcast explores the tension between who we are and who we feel pressured to be at work, in relationships, and in everyday life.

Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Jose Abreu (here he is on LinkedIn) is Vice President of Digital Strategies for Sony Music Entertainment’s US Hispanic, Latin American, and Iberian region.  He has worked with some of the largest digital services providers in the world including, Spotify, Youtube, Facebook and Apple.  His expertise revolves in the world of digital media, content distribution and audience development. Jose also holds an M.B.A. from New York University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Most people think professionalism is about fitting in, but what if it’s actually the reason we feel disconnected from ourselves? This podcast explores the tension between who we are and who we feel pressured to be at work, in relationships, and in everyday life.

Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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A native of the Gage Park community on the South Side of Chicago, Micaela is a high-impact coalition-builder and social entrepreneur. She has over ten years of experience in public policy, political strategy, business development and operations.

Through her company, MAV Consulting, Micaela serves clients by performing external relations, enterprise sales and community impact development. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Chicago Latino Caucus Foundation where leads the organization’s charitable initiatives to support and mobilize the next generation of Latino leaders as well as manages the Caucus’ legislative agenda.

Other clients have included a startup women’s leadership development company where she directly supported the CEO in the company’s first round of sales and a technology company where she developed a social impact plan to bridge the digital divide specifically on the West Side of Chicago.

Micaela has served in a variety of leadership roles supporting senior-level executives and top government officials. She previously served as Chief of Staff in Cook County government where she analyzed a $5 billion budget and served as lead on legislation that positively impacted thousands of individuals and families in Illinois. Legislation drafted by Micaela has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business and the New York Times.

She is a member of the Global Shapers World Economic Forum Chicago Chapter and previously served for five years on the board of directors for Mujeres Latinas En Accion, in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, and the National Diversity Advisory Council for the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. Micaela received her Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies and Business Administration from DePaul University in Chicago and received the Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University.

Micaela’s favorite quote:

“Do it for your last name.” -Richard Montañez, Inventor of the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, former janitor, and now VP of Multicultural Sales at PepsiCo