Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom

 During Covid-19, California farm workers kept our tables full, the doordash deliveries coming and yet, they are paid below wages, and pay taxes and have limited access to healthy foods, healthcare and parks. Genoveva Islas, the Executive Director of Cultiva La Salud is a champion and voice of change for the central valley essential workers and for healthy communities, by giving us hope and advoca...

How does an Afro-Latina who went to USC film school create the most social justice AI data platform for small black and brown businesses? Marie had vision, determination and resilience!  Marie Smith CIO and CoFounder of Data360Networks.com   brings us the realities of coming from the Mid-West to USC film school knowing she's on her own team. By building her technology arsenal early on from the mid...

The end of 2020 closes with this inspiring conversation with Geetha Vallabhaneni, Technology CEO and Founder. She has 18 years of computer science engineering and built her own software company, Luminix Inc., here in Silicon Valley, on her own dime! Her life lessons and experience growing up on a farm in rural India and coming to college here in America with only $500 in her pocket, is the all abo...

Let’s talk about the power of mentoring POC within the ranks of corporate America to bring about change. Women of color can’t stand in line to be picked for leadership roles, we have to ask for the opportunities and not be afraid to take that step. Elaine Montilla has put that power into her  TEDx Talk, The Value of Mentoring Women and Minorities in Tech. and also stating that staying feisty in te...

Why is podcasting growing at such a phenomenal rate in the last 3 years? It's the intimate environment between your ears, that we can captivate your attention, one on one, and people want it. In this episode, Zachariah Moreno, CEO and Co-Founder of Squadcast.fm, tells us why his love of story and art, helped him create a recording studio audio experience for the global internet podcasting communit...

You can knock us down 9, but we get gotta get up TEN! As the small business community has been crushed by COVID-19, which has left many communities wondering about their future, it's time to get back into the online business game, level up and become a phoenix from the ashes!  How? By putting a game plan together, aka... business plan, and use legal contracts, get some strong online marketing and...

"If all we had to do was to make girls feel empowered, that’d be a piece of cake!!"- CEO Laura Donnelly states in this podcast. The social justice energy is strong with these Latinas who are holding it down by supporting Texas's most marginalized communities with STEM innovation and a creative mindset. Latinitasonline.org was founded back in 2002, to change the narrative around Latinas in media AN...

There are pivotal moments in your life when the fork in the road of life can take you down a dark path, or you "Get Ish Done!" Ish Verduzco, Latino in Tech and Author,  tells us how after losing his father at age 12, and growing up in South Central Los Angeles, he was guided by the matriarchal women in his life. The realities for some young Latino men, with no father, can end up in the pipeline to...

The band aid has been ripped off Corporate America in their hiring practices and they need to be held accountable. This episode of business equity was recorded just after the first week of rioting in the United States. I have been in tears, traumatized and pissed off, to get my strength up to talk about the systemic racism that is Silicon Valley and how it's literally running the world outside of...

Listen up y'all! We are the most valuable thing to tech companies. Why? Our engagement with these platforms make their money, tells us what to buy, what to look at and it starts with our consent, “ I Agree” with the terms of Service. Why do you think its always “Free?” Can you trust Google and TikTok? How does Covid-19 tracking impact me and my family? Many questions, that we have the right to ask...

Nathalie Molina Nino and I discuss the Cares Act for PPP, Payroll Protection Plan,  and how it has exposed the financial systemic racism that funneled our small business stimulus dollars through the big banks to big companies. WE had no voice in the Cares Act PPP to understand how to distribute the funds into the communities businesses, smaller banks and WOC businesses. Communities of color are ha...

Terry Solis-VP of Bitwise Industries in Fresno, California gives us the story of courage for Latinx communities within the COVID-19 pandemic. Terry comes from farm working background and is part of the Bitwise Industries leadership team that rallied together with the Oakland Kapor Center, to create a job platform, OnwardCA.org . This was completed in less than 6 weeks to employers and workers affe...

COVID-19 will live forever in our minds and for generations to come. Now is the time to change our business marketing to "how can I serve?"Our legacy of products and services will be impacted, and remembered,  by this impossible time of loss and community struggle unless we change our purpose by marketing with listening to this moment. Now is the time to build those products that help our communit...

Have you heard the heartbreaking percentage of Latinas representing only 2% in STEM fields?? Yeah, SMH! How does this work, when we use so many manufactured products for our monthly hygiene, make-up, and medicine? I found out from Carly Tompkins, STEM Molecular Biology and BioInformatics student at San Jose State , that "precision medicine" is becoming a thing! Not only that, but she is helping ot...

Welcome to the business mini podcast that will help get your mind on the path to success. I've created and discuss the 5Es to Leadership success in this business mini: Education, Empowerment, Economic Vision, Entrepreneurial mind set, and Equity. These are the 5 keys to Leadership success that will help guide you to community trust and business success with your side hustle or ramping up your busi...

I want to thank Wendy Ramirez, Founder of SpanishSinPena.com , who brought me to a calm space of why we were on this Podcast regarding speaking Spanish or how we discriminate those that don't.  I understand this language is not our own, unless your 100% from Spain. However, this podcast touched a very sensitive and personal aspect of me to reclaim the Spanish language, as my Mexican culture is dee...

Family and community is the bonding force for Latinx to thrive. As we listen to the Amelia and Dalia Ceja, the matriarch and daughter of the Cejavineyards.com Wine business, Amelia talks about her early journey from Jalisco to Sonoma. Amelia and Dalia share what’s most important for women, to empower one another in these male dominated industries, to hold each other up and pursue higher education...

Halloween myths and legends are stories from beyond the graves of ancestors and folklore. However, October is also national domestic violence awareness month and we decided to dive deep into the roots of La Llorona's origins. Why is La Llorona so scary to our community? My special guest this week, Maritza Caldes of the international podcast, "Terror en Los Bordes" helps dissect the story of La Llo...

Our guest speaker: Oscar Garcia, Chief Empowerment Officer from Silicon Valley Aspira , brings us into the conversation of being real, relatable and respectful to one another and how to stand out in our business community with our stories. We are a trillion dollar buying marketing and we have business ideas and opportunities all around us to be our own powerhouse and attract opportunities to us. L...

Guest speaker, Rosy Arroyo, juvenile justice reform speaker. Rosy and Theresa discuss how the juvenile justice system needs a better strategy for healing our schools from punishment policies. Social issues of mass incarceration of people of color starts when kids are profiled as criminals in middle and high school. Latinasb2b.com talk recovering with restorative justice policies through school adm...

Guest Speakers: Nicole Rivera-Civic Engagement Activist & Daisy Ozim-Resilient Wellness, Sound mixing & edits by Robert Lopez-MixedbyCrates. Latinasb2b.com , and guests, discuss how the tech industry is perpetrated by white male toxicity due to the lack of historical knowledge and having a colonial mindset, that keeps economic disparity alive and well. As people of color, we all want to ta...

Ethnic studies prove we excel in safe spaces to achieve our educational goals. Yet, many programs are still left out of our high schools and leads to the miseducation of our peoples history and lack of understanding our true power of strength and wisdom. Special guests, Gen Z, McKena Zamorano, Sophomore at Fresno State. Intergenerational conversations for shared wisdom. 

This introductory reel is comprised of podcast episodes that will be released in the coming weeks. We highlight the empowerment Latinas and people of color strive for through job equity, politics, local communities and representation within the internet. Thanks to our special guests and sound engineer, Robert Lopez .