Elevating La Cultura Podcast

Today’s conversation is so good! I mean they’re all good in my opinion. But I’m so glad Jess was able to chat with me for this season. She is a certified health and wellness coach based out of LA. We met at the We All Grow conference in 2019 and have kept in touch via social media since. She is a huge advocate for sharing her knowledge and wanting to educate others about holistic living especially...

In this week’s episode, I had the privilege to chat with Patricia Peña, a Licensed marriage and family therapist with her own private practice, Patricia Peña Therapy LLC. where she provides individual and family therapy to children, teens, adults, and families. Paty is employed full time at Children’s Research Triangle as their Senior Bilingual Child and Family Therapist and Early Childhood Adviso...

My conversation with Yesenia was so powerful and healing for me and I’m so excited to share our chat.  My first zoom meeting with her a few months ago felt like it could’ve lasted all day. I felt such a deep connection with her from the beginning. Through her community Her Revolutión she is helping people heal from past experiences, specifically issues that might stem from one’s Mother, so they ca...

This week, I’m excited to share my conversation with Crystal from Verde Wellness Studio. She is an energy holistic practitioner and massage therapist. She shares about how she is continuing her families ancestral legacy by offering practices and massage therapies that have been passed down through generations. She’s also been intentional about serving the community she grew up in. Crystal offers u...

Today’s episode is with Dr. Angie Recendez a pediatric and prenatal chiropractor. She is helping so many families in educating people on chiropractic care as an option for stress and anxiety by taking a look at our kid's nervous system, and finding a way to heal it in a more natural and holistic way.  The whole episode I was in awe of learning about chiropractic care and how she is bringing m...

This week’s episode is filled with lots of wisdom around health and wellness through the lens of entrepreneurship. I interviewed Anabelle about a month ago, and she shares so much wisdom when it comes to building a business with the intention of empowering her staff, equipping them with leadership skills, and forming a strong community. These are all critical things when building a business to mak...

Raquel is a Licensed Clinical professional counselor and I’m thankful that she sat down with me to share her story as an immigrant, and a mom raising bi-cultural kids and to talk about mental health especially in the year 2020. We recorded this episode at the end of last summer 2020, so a little bit ago, but I think everything she shared is still very relatable today. As Latinas or even as immigra...

This season will be focused on health and wellness. As we see on social media and become more vocal about our own metal wellbeing, we’re realizing the traumas and mindsets passed down to us from our family, are not really serving us today.  A big reason why I’m doing all of this and creating this space is because I think about my kids, and how I can do my part to create a better world for them. I...

Oh my goodness, welcome to the last episode of season 1!  I’m muy agradecida a todos who have listened to the first season of Elevating la Cultura.  En serio, you have no idea how much it means to me. To every one I interviewed, to everyone who listened, to everyone who commented. It means so much. I'm sharing the ONE thing, that tipping point that caused me to pivot my business from wedding...

Hola! Buenos Dias!  I am so excited that I was able to get these next guests into this first season of the podcast!  We’ve had such an amazing group of Latinas share their business story and these two are a perfect pair to end Season 1 with.  Mestiza Shop is a staple shop in Pilsen. I feel like if you’re a Latinx creative you know about Mestiza with Lorena and Sugeiri. In the shop you’ll find a un...

Hello! My friend Vanessa is sharing all kinds of inspiration in this episode. I love that the women that I’ve interviewed this season are real with their business journey. This is especially for my aspiring new entrepreneurs.  Yes it’s hard, yes it’s fun, yes you learn, and yes you can pivot and figure it out along the way. And my girl Vanessa’s story is real.  She started her events business VV S...

Hola! And welcome to a new month! We’re making our way cautiously through 2021. Verdad? Bueno… I’m so excited for this episode today. We’ve all heard, “beauty is pain” and many other cliche phrases that have us diminish our own beauty. We have had to navigate from a young age such a narrow focus of what beauty is. In this episode I chat with Veronica, a boudoir photographer. Not only is she a tale...

Hola, welcome back! My guest today is Zenia from Flor del Monte, she’s an amazing florist in Chicago. We also met via instagram and connected because of the wedding industry. I’m so amazed at how social media can really bring people together.  And if there was ever a time where I wish we had scratch and sniff capabilities it’s now. because as a florist you know her studio is always smelling so fre...

We are halfway through season 1, and I’m so agradecida and thankful to these amazing Latinas who have allowed me to share their stories.  My next guest, is Gabriela from Pun Dulce Studio. She is an amazing calligraphy and stationery artist, here in the Chicago area. We met on instagram, and then I reached out to actually meet in person (pre-pandemic of course). We shared our stories over coffee at...

Hello! hola! Welcome back to another story highlighting a Latina working hard to build something amazing. Today’s guest is my friend Mariana. I met her through the wedding industry, and immediately loved her drive and ambition.  She has two businesses, Equisitely Strikeing is a production company based in Chicago. And within a short time, Exquisitely Strikeing went from being a small company lendi...

Hola! I’m so thankful to those who have listened to the first 4 episodes of Elevating La Cultura. As I had to rethink how I was going to record the rest of the season, because Covid obviously wasn’t going away, I shifted to recording our video interviews online. And my first online interview was with Luisa, founder of lifestyle brand, Mexico in My Pocket.  We met through instagram. I had been foll...

Today’s episode is FIRE. This was recorded back in the summer of 2020, with just Jasmine and I and the video team, shout out to Vanessa & Helio from fortyONE films . I wanted to make the most of our time, so we had a more in-depth conversation, and really dove deep into our stories and our work, specifically how we both shifted our perspectives on our worth as Latinas. Jasmine is an amazing or...

I’m excited share the first interview that we did which was recorded 10 months ago in March of 2020. We have had to pivot a little since then. If you watch the video interview you’ll see how my hair is a different color and my makeup is on 100. Shout out to Melissa from 312glam here in Chicago who beat my face and got me ready como una artista, and I walked in the house pretending I was one. Haha!...

This is only episode 2, but before we get into this first season, I wanted to share with you the inspiration behind me launching this podcast. As the podcasts develop, I’ll keep sharing more of my story along with other amazing women. The passion of this podcast comes from desiring to build relationships through sharing our stories, and to encourage people to lean all the way into their cultural l...

Hi! I’m Karina, and this is the Elevating La Cultura podcast.  I created this space as a way to have conversations with other Latinas so we can share our personal stories and experiences. Each season will be centered around a specific theme, like business, mental health and wellness, education and more, but with the Latina perspective.  We will be hearing personal stories that have shaped us to be...