Grieving, Growing, & Glowing with Gisela (and Friends)

It's been a little while since I released an episode but I decided that pouring into my baby makes me feel good and being able to talk through my experiences. My frontal lobe is fully developed (yay 25!) and so I had a lot of time to reflect leading up to 25 and the ending of 24. I recognize the vulnerability in sharing so much of my life and my experiences and it is a little scary but I genuinely...

It has been a little over 5 months since my return and I have yet to post another episode so here I am to say I am back..for good (I think). I am trying to accept and understand that pouring into my podcast takes a lot especially as a navigate everything in my life but I love to talk. I love to talk about my experiences, my thought processes, the state of the world, the connections about everythin...

WE ARE SO BACK! Using this picture because it is how I feel about posting after nearly TWO years. It's been a while, a long while. So much has occurred in my life over the past two years. I have spent a lot of time navigating the next stage of my life while also navigating the new roles and responsibilities that come with this new stage. Throughout the episode, I tried to highlight or pinpoint cer...

The next stage of my life has required me to do a lot of grieving. This episode is talking about the transition and the thoughts that have been coming up for me in regard to what is coming. A lot of it is being scared of the unknown but super excited for new experiences, new places, new friendships, new relationships, new everything. Realizing it is essential to take it with a grain of salt, but w...

In honor of papi's 65th birthday, I decided to talk about our relationship and what that looked like for me. I cried a lot in this episode because it was me expressing my thoughts and feelings about our father-daughter relationship. I talk about the absent parent, questioning how can I miss someone who was not even present. It is hard. This was hard. But it was important for me to talk about somet...

This episode is part two AND three, of the mini-series I started with Jay. We talk about what it is like to grieve in both relationships and friendships even when those people are still here but those experiences/moments in our life die. How they made us feel, the parts that hurt, and whether are we willing to give those relationships/friendships a second chance. We went into this episode not so s...

HIIIIIIIII...it has been quite a while (almost two months). This episode is dedicated to what my thought process has been like over this period of time. I try to be as honest as possible about moments and things that have changed me from being in my own world and enjoying my solitude. Some days are better than others, some days are harder than others. Bad days, moments, and experiences do not mean...

This episode is the Gisela blues part 3, I wanted to talk about what it meant for me to reach 22, to be 22. To everything I have accomplished before 22. To all the things that are yet to come. To the people in my life who inspire me and are chasing their dreams and do everything they said they wanted to do. I honestly felt this episode was me rambling and saying a whole lotta nothing but I felt my...

This episode is with someone I consider one of my best friends, hold close to my heart, is very important to me, has watched me grow tremendously, smokes A LOT of weed, is funny, a great cook, and super loving. This someone is Jayson aka Jay. This episode is about Grieving Death in our lives and what that has looked liked, shaped us, made us feel, etc. We went into this episode talking about the d...

This episode is the Gisela blues part 2, I wanted to make this a little series because I felt the first part was me being in my own head and this headspace where I was super deep in my thoughts and feelings about what has happened and the changes occurring in my life that I was not ready for. That no one ever talked to me about such as post-grad depression of some sort or even this idea of selfish...

This episode is alongside someone I hold close to my heart, met my senior year of college, she's 19, a sophomore in college, a babysitter, a dancer, and someone who has started tapping into her creative side and wanting to share the world through her lens with photography. This someone is Jasmine! This episode is about Growth. Growing. Slow. Fast. Steady. Eager. Ease. How slow it can feel, how fas...

This episode is alongside my not so lil cousin Isabel, who's 16, a junior in high school and navigating the world as a teenage girl. This episode is about Moms. Mami. Tia, My mom. Her mom. When we first recorded it, we went into it with the topic someone suggested of 'Dominican moms and their old school mentality' until we realized a lot of Black + Latinx moms are exactly the same. We talked about...

In honor of his 30th birthday, I decided to release the first EVER episode I recorded alongside someone. This someone happens to be my older brother, Briant. This episode was a conversation of all sorts where I asked him questions about growing up in NYC, being raised by two parents to then one parent, trauma, school experiences, the block experiences, etc. I wanted this episode to be/feel like a...

This first episode happens to be way different than what I imagined. (Things change, plans change). Because I had been in such a different headspace and super deep in my thoughts and feelings, I felt like this episode needed to be out first. I found myself wanting to talk about my thought process and feelings these last couple months more specifically after graduating college. Part of it was think...

This is just the beginning, an intro, a preamble, whatever we, you, want to call it. Introducing the purpose and reasoning behind this podcast and a little bit about myself. I even decided to explain why I chose to call it 'Grieving, Growing, & Glowing.' To my podcast Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela (and Friends). I can’t wait to share this with y’all + have amazing features and jus...