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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 undo...

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...

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.   Follow Cafe con Pam on all things social and share your thoughts with us. Instagram Facebook http://cafeconpam.com/ Join the FREE Cafe con Pam Chal...

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 bod...

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 Unive...

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 recei...

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 l...

Listeners, we're back this week with Ber-Henda. Ber-Henda is a Visionary+Empath Coach. She supports empathic creative visionary empaths to find their voice, embrace feminine power, and create mission-based businesses in service of social transformation, justice and equity. When she is not doing that, she runs a girl’s leadership program, The Power of Girlhood for girls 8-18. Además, ella es una po...

Listeners this week we have a conversation with Marie Claire Vasquez Durán and Maria Victoria Abreu. ~ Este es un episodio en español ~ Marie Claire Vasquez and Maria Victoria Abreu, both born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, studied Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), and as adults emigrated to the United States, each pursuing their own person...

Listeners, we're back this week with Gabriela Ulloa. Gabriela Ulloa is a Cuban-American journalist and mental health advocate. After working at Architectural Digest as the Assistant to the Editor in Chief, Gabriela went off to pursue her passion of sharing stories, focusing primarily on stigmatized topics. She’s been published in publications such as The New York Times, Byrdie, Architectural Diges...

Listeners this week we have a conversation with Linda González. Linda González recently published Breaking Through Your Own Glass Ceiling, based on both hers and her coaching clients’ efforts to live a full-hearted life despite daily inequities. Her award-winning memoir The Cost of Our Lives is a family story of unearthing secrets in search of family and redemption. She has published many essays,...

Listeners this week we have a solo episode with Pam. We talk about the power of investing of yourself and the questions you can ask yourself before making a decision.  Learn more about Align Workshop, head over to  alignyourgoals.com Follow Cafe con Pam on all things social Instagram Facebook http://cafeconpam.com/ Join the FREE Cafe con Pam Challenge Join FREE online Recovering Procrastinator Man...

Listeners this week we have a conversation with Luis Aguilar. Luis Aguilar is the co-founder of Molcajete Dominguero, a monthly pop-up event for Latinx vendors to showcase and sell unique items. Originally from Mexico City, Luis came to the United States when he was 3 years old. During a trip to Seattle, he attended a pop-up event and realized that Latinx vendors did not have a dedicated space to...

Listeners this week we have a conversation with Richard Montañez. Richard Montañez is an inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and business executive whose inspirational journey has taken him from the barrio to the boardroom. A sought-after motivational speaker, he may be best known as the creator of Flamin' Hot Cheetos--the billion-dollar brand and worldwide phenomenon. Hailed as the Godfather o...

Listeners, we're back this week with Juliet Menéndez. Juliet Menéndez is a Guatemalan American author and illustrator living between Guatemala City, Paris, and New York. While working as a bilingual teacher in New York City’s public schools, Juliet noted the need for more books that depicted children like the ones in her classrooms. She studied design and illustration in Paris and now spends her d...

Listeners this week we're back with Kathy Sosa and Jennifer Speed. Kathy Sosa explores the artistic expression of mestizaje, the blending of peoples, races, ethnicities, languages, ideas, habits and cultures that characterizes the Texas-Mexico border region that has been her home since childhood. Dr. Jennifer Speed is a native Texan and a historian with a special interest in biography and storytel...

Listeners this week we have a conversation with Lilliana Vazquez. Emmy-winning host and TV personality Lilliana Vazquez is a trailblazing interviewer, style expert, and author. Capturing the audience’s attention behind the microphone, she earned kudos from Bustle with its headline “NBC's Golden Globes Red Carpet Host Is One to Watch.” The enterprising star has curated a career that began from a sm...

Listeners this week we're back with Manny Padilla. Manny wrote his first short story when he was 8-years-old and has been writing ever since. Despite his parents' protests ("You'll starve to death!"), Manny earned a journalism degree, and has since worked consistently in the media and publishing fields with over 36 years of award-winning writing experience, working as a newspaper reporter and edit...

Listeners this week we have a conversation with Thatiana Diaz. Thatiana Diaz leads editorial strategy, ideation, and execution for Refinery29's first Latinx cross-platform channel, Somos. In addition to serving as the senior editor of Somos, Thatiana is a beauty contributor, producing deeply reported beauty pieces and exclusive celebrity features. She has covered beauty through a wide lens, includ...

Listeners this week we're back with Lincy Ayala. Lincy Ayala is Co-Founder and CEO of BookSloth. Lincy began her career as a biologist, whose love for animals had her working at a Nonprofit Wildlife preserve. Soon after, she re-discovered her passion for design when preparing graphics for the wildlife enclosures. From there she became a freelance UX/UI Designer for Web and Mobile. Lincy has collab...

Listeners, we're back this week with Kim Cordova.  Kim Cordova was elected President of the UFCW Local 7 in 2009 and is currently serving her fourth term. She is the first woman, in its 150-year history, to ever lead Local 7 and serves as Vice President of UFCW International. Cordova believes when there is a strong labor movement, there is a strong middle class – the key to rebuilding the economie...

Listeners, we are back this week with a conversation with Sonia Erika. 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 struc...

Listeners we are back this week with episode 200!  What a milestone! Instead of a celebration, Pam comes in to share a part of her story that catapulted her passion for listening to other's stories. It only took 200 episodes for her to feel safe enough to share this story, and by synchronicity, episode 200 landed during April, Sexual Assault Awareness Month.    TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual Assault.   T...

Listeners, we're back this week with Dania Rivas! As the founder of Inclusively Outdoors, LLC, Dania Rivas specializes in working with organizational leaders who want to cultivate a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture that fosters a sense of belonging among historically underrepresented voices in the environmental and outdoor industries. She focuses on preparing individuals and ins...

Listeners, we're back this week with Kiana Estevez. Kiana is an Afro-Latina founder, who's determined to create inclusive and empathetic solutions through food experiences. She created Aisle Mine, a social food movement, empowering people to step outside of their comfort zones and equalizing cultural differences through community experience. She went to Boston University receiving her Bachelor’s i...