Uptown Mamis NYC

In this episode, we sit down with Melissa Fernandez — New York City Dominicana, founder of the KB Movement, and retreat host who has taken women on 21 international retreats across four continents. Now coaching from Sevilla, Spain, Melissa brings the kind of energy our community needs to hear. We get into ALL of it — body image and the pressures Latina women grew up with, why your body is not a pr...

12 years on the anchor desk. The nation's capital. A job everyone respects and she walked away. Jeannette Reyes, news anchor turned creator and co-host of the chart-topping Awf the Record podcast…  joins the cafecito table to talk about the pivot nobody saw coming, what it means to be an Afro-Latina in rooms that did not always recognize her, and why vibes alone will never pay the bills. Plus...

Our first guest is here and she is writing the stories our kids need. Jasdomin Santana is a children's book author, bank executive, and mom of two toddlers who started writing Dominican cultural books because her daughter made a disgusted face at mangú. Now she is 17 books deep and building something real. This week: creativity as therapy, raising bilingual kids outside the culture, women in g...

5 AM wake-up. Lemon water. Journaling. Workout. Green smoothie. Gratitude practice. Then you start your day. Cool. And when exactly does the toddler fit into this? This episode is our love letter to every mami who has reheated the same cup of coffee three times, cried in the car after school drop-off, and is genuinely tired of being told her problem is a lack of discipline. We're digging into...

This isn't a finance lecture. This is the money conversation we actually needed growing up — and nobody had it with us. We're talking about what wealth really means when you're first-gen: the childhood money memories that shaped how you spend, save, and stress. The hustle trap that turned ambition into burnout. The guilt of out-earning your family. And what it actually looks like to build somethin...

¿Y el otro? If you've heard this question more times than you can count — from your tía, your coworker, the stranger in the grocery store — this episode is for you. We're getting honest about the second kid conversation: the body stuff, the money math, the marriage check, the career reset, and all the emotional weight nobody talks about out loud. Including what it feels like to be complete...

Bougie taste, real life money — and zero apologies. 💸 Iran and Franchesca are getting into everything nobody warned you about before you became a mami. From Balenciaga bags to WIC, from Whole Foods compras that somehow hit $600 to press-on nails from Marshalls for $10 — this episode is the financial real talk your group chat has been having on mute. They're covering the things they absolutely...

Grief doesn’t always look like loss. Sometimes it looks like not recognizing yourself in the mirror. Not knowing what to wear because your body has changed. Not remembering the last time you ate a hot meal or did something just for you. In Episode 6, Iran and Franchesca get into the grief nobody prepares you for, the slow quiet mourning of your old self that comes with becoming a mom. Your time. Y...

Did anybody warn you about how lonely motherhood was going to be? In this episode, Iran and Francesca pull back the curtain on the evolution of friendship after baby. From the mourning of our old "party girl" selves to the beauty of the "aunties" who stepped up, we explore how our values and our circles change. We also get transparent about the mental warfare of postpartum depr...

Episode 4 is the one we needed to make. Iran and Franchesca get real about the mental load: the invisible, never-ending list that lives rent-free in every mom's head. The groceries, the tires, the Easter outfits, the oil change, the school drop-off, the meal plan … all of it, running simultaneously, all the time. They talk about what finally helped: grocery delivery, ChatGPT as your personal m...

Welcome back. Today, we’re talking  success on your own terms —corner office or creative freedom. For moms, 'ambitious' always felt like a dirty word. A driven man is a leader; a driven woman is 'selfish.' And for us? It’s that old line:  'You have a family, what more do you want?'

The Mom Guilt Episode: Last-Minute Plans, Social Media Spirals & Learning to Water Yourself  Mom guilt is real, but is it running your life? In Episode 2, Iran and Franchesca get brutally honest about the guilt that comes with being a mom, a partner, a daughter, and a woman doing way too much. From last-minute Saturday night plans (are they fair or nah?) to doomscrolling on the couch after bed...

Guess who’s back?!  After a decade-long 'intermission,' the girls are officially back behind the mic! We’re catching you up on ten years of life, chaos, and everything in between. Trust us, this new chapter is going to be a wild ride—buckle up! Sent from my iPhone