Off The Agenda with TLC Podcast

Leadership is remembered less for the spotlight it stood in and more for the light it gave others.  Leadership is often measured in wins and milestones, but its greatest joy comes from seeing people grow, teams succeed, and lessons endure long after the work is done.   In Episode 8 of Off The Agenda with TLC, Tonichi, Larah, and Claire reflect on the costs of leadership that lingers: the moments o...

Pride isn’t just about the colors we see in June.  In Episode 7 of Off The Agenda with TLC, Tonichi, Larah, and Claire sit with stories and voices from the LGBTQ+ community sharing what visibility, courage, and belonging really look like. Each guest video opens a window into lived experience. They talk about what it means to hold hands in public, to face microaggressions, to find resilience in hig...

In this Father’s Day episode of Off The Agenda, Tonichi, Larah, and Claire reflect on the men who shaped their lives. Not just fathers, but father figures, stepfathers, grandfathers, and the quiet presence of who stepped in when it mattered most. They share honest, personal stories about growing up with very different experiences of fatherhood: presence, absence, rebuilding relationships, and lear...

Maybe the real work is staying yourself after others label you. In Episode 5 of Off The Agenda with TLC , Tonichi, Larah, and Claire are joined by special guest Gladys Reyes for a conversation that goes way beyond the “kontrabida” everyone grew up knowing her for. From her Little Miss Philippines days to becoming one of television’s most iconic kontrabidas, Gladys opens up about growing up in the...

You think you know yourself. And then you become a mom. In Episode 4 of Off The Agenda with TLC, Tonichi, Larah, and Claire set aside their leadership hats and get into the role that changed them most: motherhood. This is their Mother's Day episode, and it is exactly what you would expect from three women who never do anything halfway. They talk about who they were before: the ambitious one,...

Nobody hands you a manual. They just hand you a team and wish you luck. In Episode 3 of Off The Agenda with TLC, Tonichi, Larah, and Claire get into the conversation that every leader has quietly had with themselves at some point, but rarely out loud. What does leadership actually cost? And would you have signed up for it if someone had been honest with you from the start? From the myths they beli...

Nobody handed it to you. You just decided you needed it, and then spent the next two decades running after it. Is it worth it, though? In Episode 2 of Off The Agenda with TLC, Tonichi, Larah, and Claire trace it all the way back: to gold stars on homework, to recitation ribbons, to being the reliable one, the academic one, the entertainer in the family. Before any of them had a title or a corner o...

What does it actually cost to look like you have everything together? Welcome to the very first episode of Off The Agenda with TLC — the podcast where we, Tonichi Achurra-Parekh, Larah Diaz-Sta. Maria, and Claire Sommereux-Alfonso (or TLC!) finally stop performing for the room and start talking to each other (and you) for real. This is the one we've been building to: raw, unscripted, and hone...