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Feeling like you have to change who you are in scenarios lacking representation? Not sure how to handle difficult situations? Self doubt creeping in and blocking your success? You're not alone! Fortunately, there are steps towards a happier, more welcoming life doing what you love. This week's guest, Carol Umanzor, a First-gen Salvadoran Scientist, Teacher, Founder, NSF Grant recipient and Emotion...

Tired of playing by the rules and feeling invisible for who you truly are? Yes, we hear you! This is a Pod Club episode that gives us insight to what we listened to last week with our featured guest, Victoria Blumenfeld, Latina artist , whose immense talent in colored pencil technique will blow your mind. But, it doesn't end there. We dive into the gems that Victoria brought out into the light to...

Drawing inner strength is literally what Victoria Blumenfeld relied on to escape a traumatic cult and heal her inner niña through art. Victoria is an immensely talented colored pencil artist who turned to her innate artistic talent to create her own beautiful life. Her Mexican and Salvadoran culture were whitewashed from the blanket of cult conformity. Even so, she was burdened with keeping the fa...

Remember last week, how excited Claudia Valenzuela described her true success by going out in the world? How taking the risk into the unknown turned her life into something she had never even imagined? Good thing this is a Pod Club episode that draws on everything we learned last week and bring it all forward to affect our lives today. Claudia must have manifested the same for the Life Lnxx Podcas...

Listening to Claudia Valenzuela makes you feel like she lives in another universe, one where joy is endless, beauty is everywhere and there are no limits in life. Her vivacious personality is infectious and perfect as a Latina Business Coach guiding Latinas to break down limiting mindset block to achieve their dreams. Coming from Durango, MX to a small agricultural town in Eastern Washington wasn'...

Starting Season 5 today and our 100th episode with a reintroduction and a spoiler alert of the amazing Latinas coming up! This is the Latina podcast for the modern cultura. Find out who escaped a cult and uses art to heal past trauma, and who is changing how Latinas and women of color are received (Not!) in the science fields based on her Masters thesis and next week, who is breaking cultural narr...

This is the last of our summer refresh of highlights from our brilliant amigas of Season 2 from last year. These amazing guests are just what you need to live your best self. Today's episode is based on the full length interview in Ep. 70, Get To The Root Cause and Yank It Out, with Brenda Amiel, a master certified N L P, Hypnosis and Timeline therapy coach. Brenda is the founder of High Vibes Con...

We are on our summer refresh, taking some time to chill with highlights from past episodes, giving our new listeners a cool intro to the podcast and our long time subscribers a refresh on the amazing amigas we have had on the show. Today's highlight will add the chill vibes into your summertime because that is what our fab guest, Dawn Toledo Walsh is all about: taking time away from the intensity...

Catch a refresh of highlights from Ep 62, Transformation Travel for First Gen Latinas, with Latina Founders, Ana Gaona and Sandy Correa, of Two Peacocks Travel to carry you over our summer break. These brilliant Latinas first came on the podcast in October 2022, just as they were starting their business. And now you can find them all over the world, leading Latinas through exciting, first time tra...

Catch a refresh of highlights from Ep 52, with Olga Espíritu, Financial Planning for Latinas, by Latinas , to carry you over our summer break. Soul sister, telling it like it is and still creating a "spa experience" for Latinas to learn how to navigate their financial security. Women may experience life stages much differently. Divorce, economic instability, single parenting have affected women's...

On this first day of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, we celebrate everything simple and ordinary beyond other's expectations of us! This is a Pod Club episode that gives us insight to what we listened to last week with our featured guest, Valeria Aloe, Author of 'Uncolonized Latinas: Transforming Our Mindsets and Rising Together. We take time to really sit in the valuable gems that she brought...

Get your tissues out because this episode strikes to the heart and opens you up to all the difficulties of living the #FirstGenVida. You will feel all the feels of struggle, isolation, and overworked but wait for it.... by the end you will be jumping out of your cushy sofa and cheering! Today's fabulous Latina shares her journey from her beloved Argentina to Dartmouth for an MBA, distraught from t...

It's Pod Club time when we dive into last week's episode and focus on the real gems of what we learned from Stephanie De La Cruz, Founder of De La Creamery ice cream, with flavors inspired by her Mexican heritage. Just like your favorite book club, you'll want to sit back, grab your favorite bevvie and join in the discussion. If you missed last week's episode with Stephanie De La Cruz, no worries!...

Sweet, sweet Summertime is just around the corner and what's the #1 go to? Ice cream! Today's fabulous Latina ice cream maker has you grabbing some scoops all year long with her unique, Mexican inspired flavors, like Elote with Spicy Habanero ripple or Horchata, her very first flavor! In this episode, we do a deep dive into sassy Latina, Stephanie De La Cruz, the brilliant creator behind De La Cre...

Do you ever feel that something is missing in your life? Or, even, the life you are living feels foreign? Consider that you are may be carrying generations of trauma in your DNA that has yet to be healed. Emotional blockage can interfere with you living your true self! It may sound heavy and discouraging but truly, it's exciting! This Pod Club Episode has more sound bytes from last week's episode...

As First Gen Latinas, we often feel disconnected from our ancestral culture and family. But, wounds from the past may be showing up in our current life without any explanation where they come from. This void can even disrupt our most important relationship ~ the one with ourselves! Find a super comfy couch for this episode and a box of tissues because, woof!, listening to Carina Ponce, Intentional...

Wouldn't it be great if beauty companies were focused on raising our self confidence and self love? Well, if you listened to last week's episode with Melissa Polanco, Founder of Ring of Color beauty brand, you know that this dream really came true. If you missed it, now worries! This episode stands on its own. This is a Pod Club episode that gives us insight to what we listened to last week with o...

Feeling unseen in the beauty industry as a women of color? Are you using beauty products intended to change your appearance rather than accentuate natural beauty? Most likely they were based on a model that didn't look like you. That all changes today as Melissa Polanco, Founder of Ring of Color beauty brand, shares her passion for celebrating diversity with products that bring out the best of you...

It takes a village... We hear those word often but don't always see the outcome. With the support of just 1 or 2 people, your life can change in ways you never would imagine. Find out how today's guest, Amayrani MaryLeen Villegas Parra, a cell and molecular biology grad student, did just that. Amayrani speaks of the support of her family, the cultura and her professors to rise above the feeling of...

Calling all Latinas who thought they were just shy or didn't fit into their world! It's probably not you but the cultural rules you were raised in that muted your true personality. What's a great way to find out who you really are? By solo traveling, even a few hours away from home, to step out from the expectations and live freely. This Pod Club episode gives insight to last week's awesome episod...

Have you always thought it takes lots of money to travel so you stayed home? Or, have the resources but no one to go with? Or, the worst, not allowed to go because what will the parents say? Trust me, they always have a say.... Don't let that stop you from visiting the 197 countries of the World! Today's episode highlights Flavia Cornejo, a solo travel expert who has gone to 35 countries, plus 32...

Are you one of those take your coffee and run people? Using coffee as a pick me up rather than a slow me down? This Pod Club episode is for you! Get the insights on last week's episode, with our featured guest, Gardenia Rosales , Founder of Cipota Coffee as we dive into the valuable gems she brought forward. Today's episode changes the American way of slamming coffee into the Salvadoran way of app...

Yes, you guessed it! This episode is all about the cafecito, your favorite beverage! This episode will blow you away, have you near to tears and full belly laughing at the end. All the feelz! Our featured guest, Gardenia Rosales, Founder of Cipota Coffee in Los Angeles, brings us through her early days with café. Her love of coffee started with both her parents, her father teaching her how to craf...

It's Pod Club episode time! Listen to insights of what we learned last week with our featured guest, Damaly Gonzalez . We take time to really sit in the valuable gems that she brought forward and what it means in living the #FirstGenVida. It's all about the history this week. But not just any history! The valuable history of your ancestors that make you who you are and may not have even discovered...

Talk about Puerto Rican pride! Being born in New York, or let's get real, Brooklyn/Williamsburg, couldn't keep the DNA from thriving in our featured guest, Damaly Gonzalez. Love of the Isla, love of culture, love of ancestors all came to the surface. And yet, her true identity called her to another country. Listen to Damaly share her life journey and immense knowledge of Puerto Rico, its history a...