The Awakened Journalist: Recent Episodes
Emiliana Molina Fajardo
At The Awakened Journalist we do journalism for the good of humankind. We tell stories to empower you in your journey through self healing. Our intention is to inspire, empower and enrich your life while guiding you to stay connected to your essence, the best version of yourself and your higher self. We tell stories in English and Spanish. (ENG/SPA)
Our intention with our special project, Media Healers, is to allow journalists a safe space to speak their truth about their experiences inside newsrooms and to help improve the news industry for journalists and our audience.
Meet Keysel, singer/songwriter with a multi-instrumental tendency, human connection facilitator, medicine & folk musician, visual artist, model, and poet.
In this interview we speak about surrender, the circle of truth and singing and songwriting in moments of pain and solitude.
Originally born in the seaside town of Barahona, Dominican Republic, you’ll find the landscape of his music just as varied as the folk influences of lands he’s walked, weaving through melody, rhythm, and sound to produce a colorful sonic tapestry that pays ode to beauty, nature, and the human condition.
He is deeply influenced by a belief that everyone has a song and that music has the inexplicable power to heal the mind, body, and soul.
He is guided by the lessons of his teachers, and ultimately hopes to spread compassion and joy through his art, helping individuals discover a life lived in greater authenticity, unity, and purpose.
You can come check him out performing on April 21st at 4 p.m. at the Manuel Artime Theater in Miami. Tickets here: https://www.ayalaweya.com/event-details-registration/caminantes-de-la-nueva-tierra?fbclid=PAAaZ8EdijCT3PnMejhCdNEsIhtmm71fRQaEhgIL2xO9g8lf_mxuoa8OZxNPY_aem_AS50X3dwUSmY-2p4Xd0WEDJ7HEu2oIsVRXq7PgRVFLSmKYFZ8ZY1vWUVj4qj7Fag0ZUOr link for tickets on the IG @Newconsciousproductions bio.
Drumming to your heart, with Katie Berns Lee, the founder of Drum Temple LLC, where she helps women open their hearts, ground in, and express through deep activation, ancestral remembrance, and primal drumming ceremonies.Her dad knew she would be a percussionist when he saw her making rhythms by tapping on her crib when she was a newborn.
We spoke about drumming to birth, our heartbeats and any transformations you're going through in life. Ancient Egyptian wisdom and how to embrace a higher calling from within and from our ancestors.
Katie plays a “world drum set” anchored in by the West African djembe drum, bongos, kpanlogo and bata drums. She adds the flavors of the marimba, banjo, native flute, kalimba, and her voice to weave together soundscapes infused with powerful rhythm and song.
You can come check her out performing on April 21st at 4 p.m. at the Manuel Artime Theater in Miami.
Tickets here: https://www.ayalaweya.com/event-details-registration/caminantes-de-la-nueva-tierra?fbclid=PAAaZ8EdijCT3PnMejhCdNEsIhtmm71fRQaEhgIL2xO9g8lf_mxuoa8OZxNPY_aem_AS50X3dwUSmY-2p4Xd0WEDJ7HEu2oIsVRXq7PgRVFLSmKYFZ8ZY1vWUVj4qj7Fag0ZU
Or link for tickets on the IG @Newconsciousproductions bio.
"Nature provides everything for us."
Natures Guidance, with 10 year-old, Grace Santana a singer and songwriter, member of the Children's Voice Chorus of Miami and a member of Sony Music's Next Generation of Artists Program.
In this short interview, Grace guides us with her wisdom showing us the consciousness, clarity and strength of our future leaders, her generation.
She speaks about her most recent performance where Shakira's son, Milan also performed at the Hard Rock in Fort Lauderdale and what it was like to know Shakira was watching.
Listen to her song here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3nqEq8zmi1gxOXlZ3czW8a?si=05f56c8fae364cf5
You can come check her out performing on April 21st at 4 p.m. at the Manuel Artime Theater.
Tickets here: https://www.ayalaweya.com/event-details-registration/caminantes-de-la-nueva-tierra?fbclid=PAAaZ8EdijCT3PnMejhCdNEsIhtmm71fRQaEhgIL2xO9g8lf_mxuoa8OZxNPY_aem_AS50X3dwUSmY-2p4Xd0WEDJ7HEu2oIsVRXq7PgRVFLSmKYFZ8ZY1vWUVj4qj7Fag0ZU
Or on IG @Newconsciousproductions bio.
- Siempre somos guiados, con Jeannine Gaslonde (ESP)
Jeannine Gaslonde una venezolana que llegó a Estados Unidos sin papeles y comenzó a vender velas en un mall sin saber inglés. Hoy, Jeannine es la fundadora y presidenta de New Conscience Productions Corp., una organización sin fines de lucro que apoya a artistas emergentes en música medicina o música consciente para que compartan su voz y sus talentos.
En esta entrevista hablamos de:
- La misión de los artistas que comparten la música medicina
- Seguir el corazón que nos dice lo que nos corresponde hacer
- Confiar en un misión por un bien mayor
El 21 de abril, New Conscious Productions y Salva y La Salve están lanzando su primer concierto: Caminantes de la Nueva Tierra.
Donde: Teatro Manuel Artime en Miami a las 4 p.m.
The Awakened Journalist, es uno de los patrocinadores de este evento.
Jeannine también se desempeña como Directora de Implementación y Gestión de Movilidad de la Organización de Planificación del Transporte (TPO) del condado de Miami-Dade. Tiene más de 17 años de experiencia en la industria de planificación y transporte.
Emilia Garth is a musician and songwriter of Native Hawaiian heritage, she sings in Spanish, Hawaiian, Portuguese, English, Yoruba and Gurmukhi. Her musical performances take us on meditative journeys and upbeat chants from Indigenous tribes of the Americas.
She specializes in meditation concerts and her ethereal voice effortlessly grounds serenity, enveloping audiences in a cocoon of calmness and relaxation. Guiding the mind to find solace and the body to reclaim its peace in a sacred sanctuary.
In this episode we explore the full spectrum of our voice, where we’re holding back and how we can give ourselves full permission to our inner exploration through the power of our voice.
What can you give yourself permission for today?
Remember, you don’t need permission from anyone else besides yourself to dive deep into the waters of your self exploration.
We dare you to take a signing class and start exploring the depths of your voice today.
IG: @Emilia_garth
Nicolas Pauccar Calcina, es un Sacerdote y Oráculo, nacido en la nación Q’ero, la ultima comunidad de los Incas, en Cuzco, Perú. Nicolas, llego caminando a Cuzco, Perú cuando tenia 11 años y fue el primer Q'ero en aprender a hablar español. Hoy se dedica a compartir el legado de la sabiduría ancestral Andina Inca.
Conversamos sobre:
Los códigos y propósitos que han establecido los pueblos indigenas para la humanidad:
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Que las aguas regresen a ser cristalinas
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Que la tierra sea fértil
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Que el aire se pueda respirar sin contaminación
“Somos una sola raza”
“Los códigos y entendimientos que un ser humano debe tener como principios”, que si se incumplen, estamos incurriendo a la humanidad entera.
Los nueve niveles de consciencia.
Que significan los tejidos sagrados en la forma de vestir de los Q’eros y mucho más.
"We all have access to the cosmic WiFi and the password is: I am."
Salva Alba is a singer, songwriter, music producer and founder of Light Frequency Productions.
He was born in the Dominican Republic, his music journey started when he picked up the bass guitar for the first time at 13 years old.
He chose to answer an inner calling, exploring the medicine music world which led to the creation of his first solo project, Salva y La Salve.
Stay until the end to hear Salva's song, Puentes.
Caminantes De La Nueva Tierra
Sunday, Apr 21, 2024, 4:00 PM
Manuel Artime Theater, 900 SW 1st St, Miami, FL 33130, USA
Caminantes De La Nueva Tierra is the exhibition of a collective of emerging artists who are united by their divinely inspired intentions: to sing for the awakening of consciousness, to remind us all of the essential values of life and to raise the vibrations of all those who listen.
Links:
www.salvaalba.rocks
IG: @salva_alba
Music: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WHgvzIMDxC4FmLtZGajbQ?si=43f39ef154ed432f
https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayalaweya.com%2Fevent-details-registration%2Fcaminantes-de-la-nueva-tierra&e=AT2BUzzrxq80SntIHU1tn8NGOOT0Oe7O8frtV0KQ8cDOoFFlS18ariZE5K3gyAluzYukIPXBPv5pPujTMxXptSisbSN22rIqHE1I_YNm9irn2Pu10fY7
newconscienceproductions
Fue muy difícil "decirle a mis papas que quería ser artista".
En este episodio desnudamos el alma de Mariana Restrepo, o Mareah, es cantante, ingeniera de sonido, productora y música Summa Cum Laude de Berkeley College of Music.
Hablamos de la demisexualidad, la autenticidad, la vulnerabilidad, la telepatía y quitarnos las etiquetas. Quédate hasta el final, Mareah le canto una canción a todas las Margaritas.
"Todos tenemos Margaritas por ahí".
Para toda mi familia era un hobby ser artista y yo lo quería hacer de forma profesional. Hoy en día, Mareah logro su primer album Miel com mas de 1,000,000 de reproducciones en Spotify y Youtube, fue la artista invitada para abrir los conciertos de Kany Garcia en Colombia, también de Andres Cepeda, Daniela Spalla y Elsa Elmer
Fue cantante y directora vocal en el soundtrack de la película de Disney ganadora de un Oscar, "Encanto".
IG: @Mareah
Escucha a Mareah aquí:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/30fNLnUSmzaRkYy9ygsBpf
“My whole life, when I unpack it, I don't have any shame around it. It’s so juicy and good.”
After working in local politics, being high-functioning and on drugs, to landing in the sex industry for ten years, Vannessa Spiva, now runs her own company, Sacred Souls. It’s an Alternative & Holistic Health Service where she supports and guides conscious leaders to emotionally heal and expand into their highest purpose through Energetic & subconscious modalities.
Some of my favorite moments speaking to Vanessa that I think you'll enjoy:
“I stumbled across a craigslist ad that said massages, and I thought “oh cool,” I can give massages…When I showed up it was a whole different story.”
“I remember being in the strip club one night, and I was one of the top girls there and I don’t brag about that...It was stressful and I was people pleasing on another level…and I realized I had hit rock bottom.”
“Our life experiences are sacred…we’re all sacred souls and we’re just coming back to that sacredness one day at a time.”
“Anything we experience in our life physically, starts in our energy field…and energetics have the highest impact in our subconscious.”
“When the pain of staying the same is more than the pain of changing, we go for it…I have nothing to lose and I’m tired of it.”
“Me today as a 36 year old, I am thanking younger Vannessa for launching herself into so much growth without knowing.”
She also launched her own podcast: Sacred Souls
You can listen to it here: https://open.spotify.com/show/7itutYtXv9lVJQZcjcdg7C
IG: @sacred__soul____
"Ese rezo surgió el día que mi mamita trascendió," así nace la canción de Tere de Jesús, Como debe Ser.
Así es la música medicina que comparten Jesús Hidalgo y Teresa de Jesus, cantos sagrados que surgen del vacío de la creación cuando se van seres queridos o simplemente cuando estamos atravesando procesos en la vida, sean tristes o alegres.
Hablamos del concierto 'Todo el mundo dice AHO'.
La música como medicina sagrada
Estar en armonía con todas nuestras relaciones
El duelo de una madre y la creación de una canción para transformar el dolor
Jesús Hidalgo es cantautor y ha sido nominado al Latin Grammy Award 2013 como Mejor Artista Nuevo. En 2013, participó en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en la celebración del Día de la Tierra…Tambien ha viajado ciudades como el Valle Sagrado de Perú, a Putumayo, Colombia y Ciudad de México México entre otros abogando por el cuidado de la madre tierra.
Teresa de Jesús es cantautora venezolana, dedicada a facilitar Danzas Circulares Ancestrales, Círculos Sagrados; y es Bailarina de la Luna…A través de su canto y sus danzas activa la memoria en los cuerpos Conectando la voz y el movimiento con el Corazón…Es una práctica que nos lleva a estados de paz y reconocimiento del SER.
Juntos son los organizadores y fundadores del Festival Internacional de música Medicina: "Todo El Mundo Dice Aho", una iniciativa que ya va por su décima edición y que se celebrará el 18 de noviembre en este 2023.
"Todos podemos hacer un compromiso con expandir la conciencia."
Concierto: Todo el Mundo dice AHO!
Cuando: 18 de Noviembre
Donde: Banyan Bowl Theater. Miami Florida
Tiquetes aquí:
https://www.todoelmundodiceaho.com/
IG:
@jesushidalgomusic
@teresadejesusart
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WwroOa31zl76CdEzMnUoI
https://open.spotify.com/artist/59oHzV9cDhehs54J6l6Dc1
“The globalized food system is what’s causing us to be so sick…We can’t change this individually and we can start with individual change.” Nathalie Kelley’s mission is to connect people with a true and pure source of food. The Peruvian-Australian actress known for her role as Neela in the 2006 action film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and for her roles in various television series including The Vampire Diaries, Dynasty and The Baker and the Beauty, is here to remind us of the importance of reclaiming wisdom through our locally sourced foods, indigenous tribes, wisdom keepers of the forest and sacred plants. One way to do this is to “buy local and from local farmers to bypass the globalized food system and ensure the farmers receive 100% of the proceeds…Right now, toxins that are killing the bugs are eventually making it to us…and bigger isn’t better when it comes to food.”Another way to start is to grow a garden in your backyard, create a community garden or nurture plants at home.We also spoke about the future of Indigenous tribes and BILL PL2903 which was threatening the rights of Indigenous tribes to own their their lands in Brazil.
Update: This interview was pre-recorded and post-recording; on September 27th, the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil reached a decision on Bill PL 2903 ruling in favor of indigenous tribes. Another 12 conditions were ruled in favor of the wisdom keepers, some of them include compensation for the exploitation of their natural assets amongst other benefits.
In this interview we speak to Zoe Olivia about:
Grief and finding meaning in your grieving process.
✨Personal experiences getting past the chaos.
❤️Divine mind, body and soul alignment.
💆🏻♀️Speaking to your emotions.
🚩The rescuer and the victim is not love.
💖Love honors where you are and invites you to the highest and best version of yourself.
Zoe is a coach, expert leader of full life transformations, mind, body and soul alignments and she guides you to feel safe and free in your own skin.
Zoe also has her own podcast on Spotify, you can find her on The Zoe Olivia Mindset and IG: @thezoeolivia
My IG: @EmilianaMolinaFajardo
🤭“Screw it, let’s do it.”
"I help amazing humans and businesses tell their story to the world.”
🥵“The fastest way to success is slow.”
🤓Jose, a former administration official under the presidency of Barack Obama, shares his life story, his personal struggles and how he left Washington D.C., to begin his own media and marketing empire.
👼🏼He lost his twin sister at birth and says he now “lives and succeeds” for the both of them.
✨It’s written in the stars, his full name is José María Aristimuño.
🤩In this interview we’ll touch on personal and professional growth as well as knowing when it’s time to leave your current job to follow your SOUL’S mission.
🔥The ups and downs of being an entrepreneur.
📺IG LIVE via my personal account: @emilianamolinafajardo
🎬Interview: @josearistimuno
❤️El Amor incondicional es el presente y el futuro.
🧠Crear desde el amor incondicional que habita en ti por tu pasión, tu misión, tu vocación y tu profesión en la vida.
🫀Lo puedes hacer guiándote por los cuatro principios del IKIGAI:
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Lo que amas
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En lo que eres bueno
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Lo que necesita el mundo
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Por lo que te pueden pagar.
🌟Tú IKIGAI es un motivo para existir. Algunos ya lo tienen consciente y lo están creando o viviendo. Otros siguen trabajando 8 horas diarias o más sintiéndose vacíos e infelices.
🌈Parte de mi misión es guiarte a encontrar la verdad de tu ALMA. Acompañarte a expresar tu verdad y lo hago a través de los talleres que estoy creando, de las entrevistas que comparto en este espacio y de la libre expresión de MI VERDAD a través de plataformas como IG, Spotify, Apple podcast, Google podcast y YouTube y en mi vida cotidiana.
💌Si quieres un acompañamiento 1:1 escríbeme por DM.
🤓Gracias a mi maestra en este taller de encontrar mi IKIGAI.
🫀Aquí estoy, profe. Cumpliendo con mi parte y mi papel en el mundo. Te quiero un montón, Patri. GRACIAS a ti por acompañarme en mi proceso. Se las recomiendo. Es un nivel de MUJER y te acompañará a encontrar tu IKIGAI.
🔥¡Renuncia ya a todo lo que te hace infeliz!
Taller: Encuentra tu IKIGAI @patriecheverri_coach
Evento en Miami: VIP MASTERMIND
@josearistimuno
Taller: La libre expresión del ALMA
Escríbeme por DM a mi A @EMILIANAMOLINAFAJARDO🫀
❤️El Amor incondicional es el presente y el futuro.
🧠Crear desde el amor incondicional que habita en ti por tu pasión, tu misión, tu vocación y tu profesión en la vida.
🫀Lo puedes hacer guiándote por los cuatro principios del IKIGAI:
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Lo que amas
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En lo que eres bueno
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Lo que necesita el mundo
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Por lo que te pueden pagar.
🌟Tú IKIGAI es un motivo para existir. Algunos ya lo tienen consciente y lo están creando o viviendo. Otros siguen trabajando 8 horas diarias o más sintiéndose vacíos e infelices.
🌈Parte de mi misión es guiarte a encontrar la verdad de tu ALMA. Acompañarte a expresar tu verdad y lo hago a través de los talleres que estoy creando, de las entrevistas que comparto en este espacio y de la libre expresión de MI VERDAD a través de plataformas como IG, Spotify, Apple podcast, Google podcast y YouTube y en mi vida cotidiana.
💌Si quieres un acompañamiento 1:1 escríbeme por DM.
🤓Gracias a mi maestra en este taller de encontrar mi IKIGAI.
🫀Aquí estoy, profe. Cumpliendo con mi parte y mi papel en el mundo. Te quiero un montón, Patri. GRACIAS a ti por acompañarme en mi proceso. Se las recomiendo. Es un nivel de MUJER y te acompañará a encontrar tu IKIGAI.
🔥¡Renuncia ya a todo lo que te hace infeliz!
Taller: Encuentra tu IKIGAI @patriecheverri_coach
Evento en Miami: VIP MASTERMIND
@josearistimuno
Taller: La libre expresión del ALMA
Escríbeme por DM a mi 🫀
🎤Tema: Constelaciones Familiares
📽Entrevistado: @diegoyarawy
🙃Hablaremos sobre:
🤓¿Que son las constelaciones familiares?
❤️Tres formas de amor desde constelaciones familiares: la pertenencia, la jerarquía y el orden, el dar y recibir. 🫢Lealtades invisibles
🫀¿Cómo me pueden ayudar identificando mis patrones y el papel que juego en mi familia?
🔥¿Cómo transmutar el resentimiento, la irá u otras emociones para perdonar a mis hermanos, mis papás u otros familiares a través de las constelaciones?
✨Y vamos a dejar que la magia fluya en la entrevista.
🫀Curso: Expresa la voz de tu ALMA
📺 ¿Te quieres sentir vistx?
🎙¿Te quieres sentir escuchadx?
🤓 ¡Este curso es para ti!
🎥 Te acompañó a través de entrenamientos en cámara y prácticas holísticas.
🌟Vas a liberar tus miedos, la pena y la vergüenza a expresar la voz de tu ALMA en cámara y en tu vida cotidiana.
🌈Te sostengo en el proceso y en un espacio seguro para que logres verte, escucharte y aceptarte tal y como eres. Siente el amor incondicional que habita en ti para que logres compartir lo más puro de tu SER y brilles en tu libre expresión.
👩🏻💼Yo soy Emiliana Molina Fajardo, trabaje como corresponsal de La Casa Blanca para RCN y NTN24 desde Washington D.C., EE.UU.
🫀¿Que es el amor incondicional? Parte 2.
📺En esta entrevista hablamos de:
Nuestras experiencias personales y les dejamos una meditación guiada al final para aliviar la tensión con algún ser querido.
Lo que aprendimos y la aceptación
Amor incondicional como lo entendemos cada una hoy y basado en nuestras experiencias personales.
Gratitud
🌻Siempre tendré más preguntas que respuestas.
🥰Está en ti buscar que significa el amor incondicional para ti y que tipo de relaciones quieres en tu vida.
🤍Esperamos que nuestras experiencias te guíen a encontrar tu verdad y eso que anhela tu alma.
🫀¿Que es el amor incondicional? Con Margarita de La Hoz.
📺En esta entrevista hablamos de:
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Nuestras experiencias personales
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Lo que aprendimos
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Perdonar para perdonarnos
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Aceptación 5. Amor incondicional
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Gratitud
🌻Siempre tendré más preguntas que respuestas.
🥰Está en ti buscar que significa el amor incondicional para ti y que tipo de relaciones quieres en tu vida.
🤍Esperamos que nuestras experiencias te guíen a encontrar tu verdad y eso que anhela tu alma.
✨Mimi Zambrano, terapeuta en sanación ancestral y coach en programación neurolingüística, nos habla sobre como sanar la herida del padre.
👨🦳La herida de un padre ausente, el abandono emocional, o el abandono físico, ya sea porque papá falleció o se marchó.
🤍La importancia de perdonarlo y no rechazarlo.
🤯Evadir trabajar la herida te llevará a atraer a parejas tóxicas donde la relación se rige desde las inseguridades, los celos compulsivos, el control, la obsesión y la desconfianza.
👭👫👬La conexión se generará desde un miedo del inconsciente a sentirse solx o desprotegidx.
🤬Si vives con rabia, ira o dolor hacia tu padre, no te estás permitiendo tomar su energía y fluir por la vida para vivir en plenitud.
🫂Sanar la herida de papá evitará que conectes con tu pareja, jefe, amistades etc. desde la carencia o la falta de amor.
🏆Reconocer la herida y sanarla te permitirá conectar con tu pareja respetando la libre individualidad y desde la abundancia. Sanarla significa salir del nido y avanzar en tu vida, tomar la energía del mundo e ir hacia afuera, con autoridad, firmeza decisión y poniendo límites sanos.
👨🦳Sanar a papá es tomar fuerza para conseguir tus objetivos. ¿Estás dispuesto a ir adentro a sanar esa energía?
Esta entrevista es en español.
🎤“Cuando nos unimos a crear, cuando vibramos en la misma frecuencia, el silencio despierta, se llena de luz y magia y te lleva a la quietud, a la gratitud, a sentirte más viva que nunca”, nos cuenta Manuela Mejía, cantante y compositora de música para el alma, o Kirtan.
🎼A travez de su voz y sus canciones, Manuela se está dedicando a “llevar la música como el vehículo más directo que he conocido para conectar con esta consciencia universal, para recordar que SOMOS UNO, que somos un solo vibrar”.
🪘Manuela dice que “la música no es de nadie, es el lenguaje del amor, la vibración pura que sostiene el universo. Mi misión es escuchar con humildad para transmitir lo que percibo a través de la intuición, esa antenita invisible que nos mantiene conectados con la sabiduría que reside más allá de los sentidos”.
😍La verdad de tu ALMA.
🥹Cuando tu camino está escrito, ni aunque te pongan, ni aunque te quiten— la oportunidad es tuya.
🤯Ejemplos de una vida de riesgos sin mesura y las consecuencias de mis decisiones y mis actos.
🙌🏼Abrazar tus miedos para darle la bienvenida a la expansión con estrategias.
🤓Abraza la incertidumbre y tu autoconocimiento se convierte en tu guía. No lo que los demás dicen o quieren de ti.
❤️El amor es una decisión.
🥺En los ojos se refleja todo el dolor y todo lo que está faltando. Las miradas dicen más que mil palabras. Mira profundamente para reconocer las almas.
🤍El silencio es juntar el ALMA con tu cabeza.
🌟Tips para hablar en cámara.
Los espero en:
📹El Taller: La Verdad de tu ALMA
🗓HOY: 6:30 pm - 9 pm hora Miami / Sept. 8, 2022
💸$44
🖥Experiencia virtual
🌟Evento presencial: Aurea Leaders: Sept. 9 - 11
Miami: Faena
More info on: https://aurealeaders.com/
Link in my stories in IG @EMILIANAMOLINAFAJARDO
Honoring the past and securing the future.
In October 2020 Emiliana Molina was invited to give a speech to the Navy Region Southwest (California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah).
In this speech she speaks about:
Doing journalism for the good of humankind.
Voicing your truth from your heart.
Emiliana shares some of her vulnerabilities to let you know you're not alone in your journey to leave behind all self-sabotaging behaviors and embracing your self love.
The times she didn't feel like she was enough even though she was at the highest point in her career.
The times she didn't believe in herself and used to measure her self worth through external validation.
Doing conscious journalism.
Being true to your heart.
Past, present and future. Honoring your past, enjoying your present and planing big dreams for your future.
The importance of diversity and celebrating our hispanic heritage and our roots.
Honoring our ancestors and where we come from.
Truth, transparency and accountability.
🇲🇽Rafael Bernal, has been a journalist for more than a decade. He’s currently a staff writer at The Hill in Washington D.C., where he covers the latest news catering to the latino community, politics in the nation's capital and immigration news.
🎙In this interview we talk about:
😬“There’s a lot of abuse in the visa field…you do as you’re told…Abuse long hours.”
🥰Creating community and a collaborative environment to support each other.
😰Anxiety in the news and in newsrooms.
📜‘Title 42’ under Donald Trump’s administration and the justification the White House used to expel people under COVID concerns without due process and hence in violation of inmigration laws: “it’s a pandemic and we can do whatever we want.” The Biden administration continued to follow this policy.
🎉Rafael graduated with a Master’s degree from Northwestern University in Medill’s School of Science in Journalism, among the best Universities in the United States to study journalism.
🌞En este episodio me doy el permiso de compartirles algunas vulnerabilidades que me han fortalecido como SER humano y que me han invitado a SER una Emiliana que me hace sentir orgullosa de mí misma. No saben lo difícil que fue llegar hasta aquí.
🤓Encontrando mi IKIGAI y una gran maestra en mi vida, Patrícia Echeverry.
🫀Talleres la libre expresión del ALMA
🥰Yo soy eso que digo SER, o por lo menos hago mi mejor esfuerzo por serlo.
🤩Atravieso mis experiencias por mi propio filtro para después enseñarlas. Eso significa CREAR desde el ALMA.
💔Primero siento mi dolor yo para después SER capaz de acompañar a otros en su dolor y lograr la libre expresión del ALMA.
🔥Me doy el permiso de desordenarme para ordenarme. Me doy el permiso de cometer errores y SER imperfecta.
🙂Yo soy coherente con mi palabra y mi acción, así me empodero.
Encuentra tu IKIGAI: Con Patricia Echeverry @Patriecheverri_coach
This interview is in spanish. 🇨🇴Juan Eduardo Jaramillo, es la imagen principal del informativo de Noticias RCN, un canal nacional Colombiano y de los más influyentes del periodismo en el país. El presentador y periodista cuenta con más de 20 años en la industria de medios de comunicación. Inició su carrera como jefe de emisión de fin de semana en RCN y hoy es considerado uno de los periodistas con más credibilidad a nivel nacional. Juan Eduardo es catedrático Colombiano y ha recibido decenas de galardones entre estos, mejor presentador del país.
📺En esta entrevista hablamos de:
😂El miedo a los ataques de risa al aire en vivo y en directo, eso pasa.
😌Un defecto que tienen los medios de comunicación en Colombia: “Yo pienso que es el afán por salir primero”. En un esfuerzo por competir y no ser “chiviados”, cuando la intención debería estar en co-crear o co-informar por el bien del país.
🤓La responsabilidad que tenemos los periodistas de “informar, formar y denunciar”.
🥺Historias que Juan Eduardo ha reportado y aún recuerda con dolor: “en el 2004 una máquina excavadora aplastó a un autobús escolar —21 niños y un adulto fallecieron en Bogotá”.
👩🎓Las ‘Hazañas Maestras’ de una profesora que hace toda una odisea para darle clase a un solo alumno.
🌻“La autenticidad es lo que vale en esto”.
🤩Janet Rodriguez, a multiple Emmy-award winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience in the news industry.
🇨🇺Janet, a Cuban-native, resigned from Univision after more than five years as the network’s first White House correspondent in December 2021.
📺In this interview we speak about:
🫀“I wish somebody throughout my career asked me: are you ok?”
🥹“I started crying on air…We were living in a city that was completely militarized at the time and we had just gone through the January 6th insurrection” on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. “We had to go through checkpoints to go into our office, which you would think was a safe place…it did not resemble D.C. my home and I have a small child.”
🎥“In the 15 years that I was on TV no job I ever held was held by anyone before me.”
🤓Janet rarely had in person visits from news directors or managers to offer guidance or support.
🤯“In the middle of the craziness I guess it gets lost that we’re still human…and we get burned out and we exit the business.”
🥵“Something has to change in the way our companies and our managers are supporting the work that we do.”
👶🏻“One thing I loved was covering kids…anything that has to do with profiling the future and that these are the people that are going to make our country bigger and better..that's very inspiring.”
👩🏻Throughout her career, she has been a pioneer in paving the way for many female journalists. She worked in Phoenix, Chicago and Washington D.C. for both major hispanic news platforms in the United States, Telemundo and Univision. She’s now the Internal Communications Manager for Whatsapp and works directly with
🎥This interview is in spanish.
🇲🇽Marcos Martínez Chacón, is a journalist with almost a decade of experience in news. He has excelled in the digital and broadcast media industry working for organizations like The Associated Press, Univision Communications, and The BBC. He has covered major political news stories, and human rights violations in Mexico.
🤩In this interview we talk about:
📺How Marcos got Jorge Ramos to be his commencement speaker at Berkley while he was a fellow at Univision in Miami– His first week on the job.
🤓Geeking out about when we both attended the White House Correspondents dinner in 2016 and spoke to the Obamas, Emma Watson, Will Smith, Kerry Washington and more.
🎤Journalism and ethical boundaries around the dinner and getting ‘cozy’ around politicians.
🤬Human rights violations against journalists, specially in Mexico.
🥇Marcos graduated with a Master’s Degree in Investigative Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.
🇦🇷Rafael Mathus Ruiz is an economist and the US Correspondent for Argentina’s newspaper, ‘La Nacion.’ Rafael began his career as a Foreign Correspondent in New York, in 2010, after completing his studies in journalism and economics at Columbia University.
📺In this interview we talk about:
🎞️News coverage of Sandy Hook, 911, Osama bin Laden’s assassination and presidential campaigns from the point of view of a journalist.
🚔“I’d been basically charged by the police. I was there in the front lines with the protesters.”
🥺“There were alot of conflicting emotions.”
😌”There’s no protocol on how to deal with these situations. Every thing we’ve talked about…I’ve dealt with on my own…No one has taught me how to handle specific reporting situations that could be harmful or stressful.”
🤓“I never pause and think, what is the damage that working on this story or this coverage has created? I think I just move on to the next news story and just keep going.”
📽After a few years in Washington and after covering the Trump presidency, which was a very complicated and challenging time, I felt a level of exhaustion that I never felt before to disengage and to disengage completely.”
🎤Rafael has worked in Buenos Aires as a finance and economics reporter, covering three presidential campaigns in the United States and the 2018 presidential campaign in Mexico.
📝His work has been featured in more than 20 countries across the world. He is the co-author of “Los Legalizadores,” a book about the legalization of cannabis in the United States, published by Editorial Planeta, the largest Spanish publisher.
✨Lori Montenegro is currently the Bureau Chief at Telemundo Network Group in Washington D.C. where she oversees a team correspondents. Lori was a National Correspondent herself in the nation's capital for more than 20 years covering the White House, Capitol Hill and more. Her stories have aired nationally and internationally on politics, immigration, health care, the economy and she’s highlighted the important role latinos play nationwide. 📺In this interview we talk about: 📽“I was on the 14th st bridge coming in from Virginia…when the plane hit the pentagon…I saw the plane when it hit the pentagon…The bridge shook.” 😷“It stuck with me for weeks, that stench…everything was in slow motion…I didn’t have time to process anything.” 🥺Post traumatic stress: Lori to this day can’t look up at a plane. 💸“We all pay our dues.” 😒“You can’t just let them bully you because if you allow that anywhere else you go…you’re going to think it’s alright and the fact of the matter is, it’s not right.” 🤓We’re doing “a lot more than we were doing two decades ago…A lot of colleagues have left the business; they’re burned out.” 😔“I’m not enjoying my child. I know at what time I have to be at work I never know when im going to come home.” 🥇Lori’s a multiple time Emmy award winner and has been recognized for her work by The Radio Television Digital News Foundation after receiving the “First Amendment Clarity Award,” among other recognitions along her career.
👩🏻Pilar Pedraza has been in the news industry for two decades playing almost every single role there is in a broadcast newsroom. She’s been a production assistant, a newsroom manager, photographer, anchor and she’s currently an anchor and a senior political reporter at KAKE TV in Wichita, Kansas.
🎬In this interview we talk about:
🥹“This business is very very emotionally heavy.”
😰“Pay sucks, the hours suck we all know that. But the emotional difficulties that go with this job are a huge part of it.”
🚑“Journalists are first responders too and oftentimes we’re not even trained merely enough to cope with the trauma that comes with being on this job.”
🥀The death of news reporters: Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward. Pilar traveled to help their newsroom in the middle of the crisis. We all felt the pain, even if we didn’t know them. #WestandwithWDBJ
🚨Safety in news rooms: the urgent need for more training.
🚍Live ban accidents: “My stomach just caved in…I was scrolling through that video with tears rolling down my face and I will never forget that video.”
🙇🏻♀️“That was the first time things got heavy for me in this business.”
📺Some of the major news stories throughout her career in news have been covering 9/11 from Wichita, the 2000’s presidential elections in the U.S., the explosion of the Shuttle Columbia, as well as the arrest of BTK Killer, who took the 10 innocent lives in the area of Wichita, Kansas.
🎥She’s been awarded with Iowa Broadcast News Association (IBNA) for Best Election Coverage, IBNA for Best Newscast and an Edward R. Murrow award for team reporting breaking news among other awards.
📚She’s also a certified high school teacher with endorsements to teach Spanish, Journalism, History and Government and a total of seven years classroom teaching experience.
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🇲🇽"You're hungry, you're willing to sacrifice many things to put your job first and it could be fair. But How long can you take it? Who knows? At first it was ok, but then slowly it starts to take a toll on you."
⚽Hugo Bernal, a former sports commentator and news producer for ESPN, was in the news industry for more than a decade before deciding to leave the world of sports news in 2020.
🏆For almost 8 years he covered major sporting events like the FIFA World Cup, The Olympic Games, the UEFA Champions League, NFL Championships, MLS Cup Playoffs, major league baseball and much more.
📺He was the first person in ESPN Español’s history to move up the ladder from the producer role to become an anchor.
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📹When I asked Scott Monaghan, former news photographer, what his last straw was when he decided to quit news, he said: “Newtown was a big trigger, I still tear up over that, it still resonates with me… I’m expending all this energy, for me it’s like a deflated balloon. We roll in as journalists with this huge: how are you doing? We gotta get the interview with the mom, we gotta get the interview with the dad and three days later everybody is gone and those people have just had the worst thing…the media has come in and hammered them and we leave. It sounds weird to me. It became in my mind like this weird game and I didn't want to play it anymore.”
🥇Scott Monaghan is a Peabody Award winning photographer and a two-time Emmy award winner with more than 30 years of experience in videography, lighting and editing. He worked for Univision network for more than 20 years as a videographer and director of photography for the news magazine ‘Aqui y Ahora’ among other news shows in the National Television Network.
🥹He decided to quit news in 2018 after covering major national and international stories like the Sandy Hook School Shooting in 2012, the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 and natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey in Texas in 2017.
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👩🏻Vicky Nguyen, was in the news industry for a decade working as a crime reporter, investigative reporter, enterprise storyteller, field producer and more. She did it all, a skill us journalists know well. In march 2022 she decided to quit the news industry, like many of us have chosen to do in the last two years.
📺During her time at one of the news stations, as she was getting ready to re-negotiate her contract, she had a conversation with a colleague –whom she’s friends with– and they realized this person was earning $27,000 more doing the same job as her and taking on less responsibilities than she was. For example, this person was not doing live shots and Vicky was.
📹Vicky was the vice president of the LA chapter of AAJA (Asian American Journalist Association), Before leaving news, Vicky earned the Best Television News Reporting award issued by Radio & Television News Association of Southern California, and she earned an Emmy award for the Best Evening Newscast in 2015.
🗣She is now a communications manager at the Orange county department of education.
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✨"I am feeling the shame and if the vibration is alive in my body, I don't judge it. I fully accept and love myself as I am and I release this emotion back to source." - A powerful mantra Jackson shared with us in the interview that released shame instantaneously.
🎩Jackson Strong is a men’s work leader, mindset coach, and marketing consultant from Miami, Florida.
🌬He is on a mission “to shift shame and restore the sexual spiritual wellness by getting past this soul crushing emotion.”
✨He guides you to get to the root of this emotion, to see it, to heal it and eventually guiding you to “own the fullness” of who you really are to embrace the magic of who you can become.
📚He has worked with Fortune 100 brands and premier coaches across the country. He is the founder of Strongrowth.com
📺Interview: @jackson.mac.strong
🎞Editing: @luiscavideo
This interview is in English. 👩🏻💼Catalina Villegas is currently a News Anchor and Reporter at Spectrum News 1 in Los Angeles, California. Her work airs across Los Angeles, market size two in the United States, according to the Nielsen DMA rankings. She's also on the Board of Directors at the LA Press Club. 🇨🇴Catalina was born in Colombia and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 90’s. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, earning a degree in Political Science. 📺She’s been in the news industry for almost a decade and has worked at the local, national, and international level for CNN, CBS, NBC and Univision. 📹She has also done every single job in the newsroom: from anchoring to producing to reporting. She’s passionate about shedding light on immigration and social justice stories. 💃🏻Her bilingual and bicultural skills give her a deep understanding of the growing Latino community in the U.S., providing her with the unique ability to share those untold stories with an English-speaking audience. ⏰April 21st at 7 a.m. ET. 🎥Interview: @catalinaoffcl 🎞Editing: @luiscavideo
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🙎🏻♀️Carolina Valladares is a prominent news anchor and broadcast journalist with 15 years of experience in news. She’s currently an anchor at Voice of America (VOA), the state-owned international radio broadcaster of the United States of America.
🎙“I think this is our duty as journalists…Sometimes we put the microphone on people who have suffered a lot –really suffered– and when bad things happen to [us] and we don’t share it, I ask myself: who am I to later on ask someone else to share their story?”
📺Carolina focuses on high-profile one-on-one interviews, like the Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Store, and the Vicepresident of El Salvador, Félix Ulloa.
🥇She’s extremely skilled in Middle East and Latin American Politics. She’s been a war correspondent in the Middle East, she’s covered terrorist attacks, natural disasters and terrorist organizations such as the Islamic state or Al-Qaeda and the war in Syria.
📑Carolina is part of seven journalists who sued VOA for wrongful dismissal under former President Donald Trump’s administration.
📰The journalists allege the U.S. The Agency for Global Media fired them based on vague and false accusations of disloyalty to America. Three of the journalists who sued were forced to leave the country.
🎥“In our lives we have to speak out too, that's what we have to do.”
🎞 Editing: @Luiscavideo
📽Interview: @Carovperez
This episode is in English. 🧔🏻♂️Alejandro Rincón Agudelo has been following diplomatic conversations and emergency meetings at the security council in the United Nations with the war in Ukraine.
📺He is an international news correspondent for the national news organization in Colombia, Noticias RCN and its sister station, NTN24. His work airs across national television news stations in more than 20 countries worldwide.
🌎His reporting focuses on geopolitics in Latin American and coverage of events in the United Nations such as the political crisis in Venezuela, peace talks in Colombia, natural disasters in Chile and presidential elections throughout the Western Hemisphere.
📽 Interview: @alejorincon 🎞 Editing: @luiscavideo
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This interview is in spanish.
“Nunca hay que dejar de intentarlo”.
👨🏽💼Carlos Arturo Albino, es un periodista Venezolano, con más de 20 años de experiencia en la industria de medios de comunicación.
🎥Durante su carrera, Carlos formó parte del equipo de noticias de Globovisión, cuando el presidente fallecido Hugo Chávez había declarado como “enemigo” al canal. También trabajó en NTN24 y Noticias RCN televisión y ahora es el corresponsal en Washington D.C., la capital de EE.UU, para Blu Radio donde se destaca por su cobertura en política estadounidense con la lupa bajo la relación bilateral con Colombia.
📰Lo mueven las historias humanas; como los migrantes cubanos en Colombia, el fallido paso de la ayuda humanitaria a Venezuela, “Los Caminantes: la travesía de los venezolanos'', este último fue parte de los nominados a mejor crónica en TV por los premios CPB.
📲Carlos se ha destacado en sus redes sociales por sus trabajos en los medios de comunicación siendo reconocido por la revista Semana, como uno de los influenciadores sobre el tema de Venezuela en el año 2019.
🥇Dos años después, fue galardonado por el concejo de Bogotá con la orden Álvaro Gómez Hurtado por mejor cubrimiento de noticias.
⏰ 31 de Marzo a las 7 a.m. hora Miami.
📽 Entrevista: @carlosarturoalbino
🎞 Edición: @luiscavideo
👩🏻Eileen Cardet, es una periodista con más de dos décadas de experiencia en la industria de medios de comunicación y que ha sido galardonada con dos premios Emmy’s.
📰Eileen se ha destacado por sus investigaciones en temas sociales, políticos y económicos. La puertorriqueña, hija de padres cubanos, ha conducido el programa de Noticias 23 ‘Al Amanecer’ durante 22 años y ha entrevistado a las figuras públicas y políticas más destacadas de nuestra sociedad.
📚La presentadora obtuvo su maestría en Periodismo de Televisión de la Universidad de Miami, con honores Magna Cum Laude. Es novelista y escribió su primer libro de ficción, Urano. Una pieza de literatura erótica donde desencadena una denuncia social con mucha influencia de hechos de la vida real. Es el primer libro de una trilogía.
🎞Editing: @luiscavideo
🎥 Interview: @Eileencardet
🧔🏻♂️Bricio Segovia is a White House correspondent for MVS noticias in Mexico, and he collaborates with multiple news outlets. He’s an award-winning international news anchor and reporter who has worked in the news industry for 20 years and has reported the news from more than 30 countries.
🏛He was a White House Correspondent for the Spanish service of the international broadcaster Voice of America, where he was wrongfully terminated under former President, Donald Trump's administration, according to a lawsuit.
📺Bricio is a member of the White House Correspondents' Association. He has interviewed some of the most relevant political figures, including heads of State.
🇨🇴He also interviewed the president of Colombia, Ivan Duque in 2019 which went viral after Bricio exposed the president for avoiding answering his questions.
🇧🇴Bricio was the first journalist to get an exclusive interview with Bolivia's President, Evo Morales in 2013 after his plane was denied access to airspace in several European countries.
📽He also led the investigation of Bolivia: presos de la corrupción (Bolivia: prisoners of corruption), which resulted in the dismissal of the corrupted head of the Bolivian jail system in 2013.
🎥 Interview: @briciosegovia
🎞 Editing: @luiscavideo
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"The environment I had been in for almost two years had really torn me."
👩🏻Daniela Garrido, a creative storyteller and former news reporter, graduated with a bachelors in broadcast journalism from the University of Florida. She began her career in the news industry in Bakersfield, California, market size 125, according to the Nielsen DMA’s ranking.
📺She left the news industry after 22 months of working for a TV station with a salary of $35,000. “This wasn’t enough to pay for groceries or minor mishaps,” according to Daniela.
🏠The average rent price in Bakersfield, CA is $1,294. If Daniela spent 25% of her salary’s monthly net income, –what experts recommend you spend on rent– she could only afford a mid-range apartment between $600 to $800. This would be a rent price that would better allow her to have enough cash left for other expenses, debt and savings.
📽Interview: @danigarrido_
🎞Editing: @luiscavideo
👩🏼Sarah French is a three-time Emmy Award winning journalist who has turned her pain into her purpose.
🎥She’s been in the news industry for almost 15 years and after covering the Boston Marathon bombing and the death of her friend and colleague, Alice Morrin, due to domestic violence, Sarah began to research how to help journalists who cover traumatic events.
📺She’s a broadcast news anchor for the NBC affiliate, WCNC Charlotte, in market size 22 according to the Nielsen DMA rankings. She previously worked at WHDH in Boston, MA, and at WTIC in Hartford, CT, where she had to share –from the news desk– the news of Alice’s death. After this, Sarah worked side by side with Connecticut legislators to pass a 911 texting bill in honor of her friend's life and to offer more tools to support domestic violence survivors.
☎️Thanks to Sarah’s initiative, Text-to-911 is currently available in multiple locations. “The FCC encourages emergency call centers to begin accepting texts, but it is up to each call center to decide the particular method in which to implement and deploy text-to-911 technology,” according to the federal communications commission website.
🎞Editing: @luiscavideo
📽Interview: @sarahsfrench
👩🏻Kirstin Marriaga, a two time Emmy award nominee, has been in the news industry for more than a decade. She’s the author of “Be A journalist, they said,” and has covered local, national and international news across five different television stations.
📺During her career, she’s covered tragedies like hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub and more.
📘Her book talks about:
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How to navigate the news industry
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How to negotiate your first contract
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How to survive news
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How to jump to your next market
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How to approach news stories with humanity
And more.
✏️A truly neeeded guide to what to expect before your first job in the media.
🫂Before you choose to hear this interview, I trust you will honor the courage of every single colleague who has decided to voice their truth.
🙋🏻♂️Cesar Flores, was in the news industry for almost 15 years. While working on television, Cesar struggled with his mental, physical and emotional health. He made the decision– like many of us– to quit news in June 2020.
🥇He voices his very personal battles within broadcast journalism, how he overcame depression and chose to live.
🎤Cesar’s story marks the beginning of our third season of Media Healers. Our intention is to continue shedding light on the injustices within newsrooms across the US and the world and how we can help improve the industry.
😢If you or a colleague you may know are struggling with depression and are having thoughts of ending your life, please know you’re not alone.
🏋🏻♀️Our intention at Media Healers is to give you strength, courage and the support you need as you navigate the news environment— or choose to leave.
☎️SAMHSA’s National Helpline, 1-800-662-HELP (4357), (also known as the Treatment Referral Routing Service), is a confidential, free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, information service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and family members facing mental and/or substance use disorders. Cesar graduated from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where he began his career as an intern in McAllen, Texas. He worked his way up in the industry and became a reporter, weekend news anchor, and a weather forecaster across different news stations in Washington D.C., market size 7, according to the Nielsen DMA’s ranking, and in Austin, Texas, market size 39.
“From the space of your heart, you master the universe,” says Igor Galibov, a Higher Self Channeler. Igor had a very sharp spiritual awakening in 2004 with a healer who he says “opened my heart in a spiritual surgery to change my life forever.” After this energetic healing, Igor says his “senses were heightened as well as my abilities to see and feel into different dimensional realities.”
We will be talking about Igor’s spiritual awakening and this:
💁🏻♂️1. What is a “Higher Self Channeler,” and how it can benefit you.
🌬2. The power of breath work…Did you know that just by mastering your breath you can lead yourself to orgasm? Yes. You read that right.
😨3. Fears and learning to identify them so they don’t paralyze you.
🎥Interview: @igor_galibov
🎞Editing: @luiscavideo
🧑🏻🦱Luis Moros, migrated to the US in 2016 from Venezuela due to the political instability in his country.
🥇He was recognized as one of the most influential students of the year in Miami Dade County Public Schools and has been acknowledged by influential political figures like the former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama and Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott for his resilience.
🎓As a full-time student, he is pursuing two Bachelor’s Degrees in Political Science and Criminal Justice. He’s a certified paralegal and student leader who already has his own non-profit organization, ‘Immigrants building the future.’
🧑🏻💻Luis just finished an internship with the Florida House of Representatives and is working as a policy intern on Capitol Hill.
🌟He is the second male in the history of Florida International University to be accepted into the United Nations Academic Impact as a research fellow.
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🧍🏻♀️Liz Fuhrmann, is a former Multimedia Producer who left the news industry in 2020 to tend to her mental health among other things.
📹She was in the news industry for five years and worked as a News Producer with WROC in Rochester, NY and as a Multimedia Producer at WGRZ in Buffalo, NY.
💵Her first salary in the business was $21,000. The total required income to live comfortably in New York before taxes is $29,992, according to MIT’s Living Wage Calculator. To make ends meet, her partner paid for rent and she would commute almost three hours round trip, daily.
😰Liz tells us she used to produce up to three news shows daily. The workload she was expected to take on eventually led to burnout and that’s when she decided to leave the industry.
🎞Editing: @luiscavideo
👩🏻Eragdi Adriana Macías, is a four time Emmy-award winning news anchor and reporter. She was recognized by the “Colorado Broadcasters Association” on two occasions for her excellent news coverage.
👩🏻🧔🏻♂️Eragdi, along with a former colleague, Miguel Bedoy are suing NBCUniversal Media, LLC and it’s affiliate Telemundo of Denver LLC (KDEN-TV).
📹This is now the third interview —with Media Healers— where former employees of KDEN-TV speak their truth and alledge conducts of “discrimination, harrasment and a hostile environment from upper management within that newsroom in Denver, Colorado. This interview is in spanish.
📑NBCUniversal has not responded to our request for comment.
👩🏻Eragdi Adriana Macías, ha sido galardonada con cuatro premios Emmy y dos reconocimientos de excelencia por parte de la asociación de ‘Colorado Broadcasters Association’.
👩🏻🧔🏻♂️Eragdi, junto a su colega, Miguel Bedoy están demandando a NBCUniversal Media LLC y su afiliada Telemundo Denver LLC (KDEN-TV).
📹Esta es la tercera entrevista —con Media Healers— donde ex empleados de KDEN-TV alzan su voz y denuncian presuntas situaciones de “discriminación, acoso y un ambiente hostil desde los niveles mas altos de la gerencia dentro de esa sala de redacción en Denver, Colorado. Esta entrevista es en español.
📑NBCUniversal no ha respondido a nuestra petición de una declaración.
Corina Hierro is a former bilingual emmy-award winning TV reporter, who worked for almost five years at Telemundo, Denver (KDEN-TV) as a multimedia journalist and production assistant. She quit the news industry in December 2019 and she now helps connect companies with the Latino workforce through a startup called ‘Chamba’. She’s been awarded on multiple occasions with the Colorado Broadcast Association awards. Corina, a former colleague of Miguel Bedoy —whose interview we published on Tuesday, October 12th– corroborates some of the allegations Bedoy is alleging occurred within KDEN-TV while they were employed under the NBCUniversal affiliate.
Corina says she would call in sick when she had her period because of severe pain. When Corina called in sick one time, she alleges her former News Director asked her why, grabbed a calendar and then asked Corina to give her the dates of her time of the month.
Please remember this is a safe space for journalists to speak their truth. Let’s be mindful of how difficult it was for Corina to voice publicly some of the incidents she endured during her time in KDEN-TV.
We have not heard back from NBCUniversal after our request for comment on Miguel Bedoy’s lawsuit. Corina is not part of the lawsuit.
This interview is in English.
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🧔🏻♂️Miguel Bedoy is a three-time Emmy award winning bilingual journalist, anchor and weather anchor with more than 15 years of experience. He has covered social justice, public safety, politics and environmental sustainability. He was Recognized as the best news anchor by the Colorado Broadcasters Association.
🧔🏻♂️👩🏻Miguel, along with a former colleague, Eragdi Adriana Macías, are suing NBCUniversal Media, LLC and it’s affiliate Telemundo of Denver LLC (KDEN-TV).
📺In this interview, Miguel alleges the following:
🚫Incidents of sexual harassment by his former News Director (ND) where she told him: “I want to see a macho man not a sissy” on the news desk. This occurred after she invited him out and realized Miguel had a male partner.
🗄He states his ND once told him: “Before somebody wants me out of here, I will make them to be out.”
🚔 “She asked me to violate security measures in place while I was at the jail covering el Chapo.” This led to police pointing guns at him to remove him from the restricted area.
🎥 The ND ``asked me to lie in my story saying el Chapo was already in [the Colorado] jail when he wasn’t. I’m not proud of this, and I had to do it if I didn’t want to lose my job.”
🇲🇽 ND “called the Mexican audience ‘juanitas.’” This term is used in a denigrating manner to refer to the lower income Mexican communities and Mexicans in general. Mexicans are KDEN-TV’s main audience.
🎙”Nobody wants to give me a job because I’m suing NBCUniversal and Telemundo. The media doesn’t want that, they don’t want us to talk.”
📜”Plaintiffs’ employment came to an end with Telemundo after they made
complaints regarding a hostile work environment and various discriminatory actions by their supervisor, News Director, Ms. Grisella Sierra,” according to the lawsuit.
📃The lawsuit adds: ”Throughout their employment, Plaintiffs were subjected to
discrimination and a hostile work environment from Telemundo/NBC executives, Ms. Olga Holschbach, VP of juman resources and Ms. Tatiana Arguello, General Manager.”
💵”They [NBCUniversal] offered me $4,900 to not sue them. I didn’t accept. I don’t want $4,900 to be quiet. All #journalists need to talk. They need to stop being quiet and #scared.”
📝We reached out to NBCUniversal for comment on Sunday, October 10th. We have not heard back, yet.
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Ciro Valiente, a two time Emmy-award winning producer, who has worked for companies such as Entravision, in Washington, D.C. and Telemundo in Boston, resigned from television in November 2020. He is one of the alternate storytellers in Spanish for the Boston Red Sox and a digital media editor at Mundo Boston. Ciro currently works as a marketing and communications manager for ‘Latinos for education’, a national organization that promotes the inclusion of Latinos in influential positions at the educational level. This interview is in Spanish.
Ciro Valiente, es un periodista destacado en el mundo de la televisión y en los deportes. Durante su trayectoria en la industria de medios de comunicación, Ciro, quien ha sido galardonado con dos premios Emmy, ha producido los noticieros de Entravision en Washington D.C. y Telemundo en Nueva Inglaterra. Ciro es uno de los narradores suplentes en español para los Red Sox de Boston y editor de medios digitales en el Mundo Boston. Renunció a la televisión en noviembre del año pasado y ahora es el gerente de mercadeo y comunicaciones para ‘Latinos for education’, una organización nacional que promueve la inclusión de latinos en cargos influyentes a nivel educativo. Esta entrevista es en español.
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Danny Freeman, is an emmy-award winning anchor and reporter. He began his career as a political journalist for Colombia Reports around 2013 after graduating from Dartmouth College with a Cum Laude distinction and a bachelor's degree in government. Danny has worked with NBCUniversal since 2014 in multiple roles like hosting his own political show and working as a multimedia journalist. "They don't tell you how much of a toll [journalism] takes on you as a person." This interview is in English.
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🎥This demand for reaction and SOTs to dramatic incidents, we don't always have to bring back sound.
📺“We have to be advocates for us to represent ourselves and our truest forms. We have to be advocates for higher pay,” says Hannah Joy Gebresilassie, a journalist, community advocate and motivational speaker based out of Atlanta who adds that we need to ask “for more benefits and be able to negotiate at the table and not just accept what they give us right off the jump.”
📝Hannah is also the Executive Director for Protect the Vote, a voting rights organization. In 2018 she transitioned from the news industry to pursue her dream of creating her own media platform to highlight positive, cultural and uplifting stories, HannahJoyTV. She was a TV Reporter at an ABC station in Southern Illinois and prior to that she worked at FOX 5 Atlanta. She’s a first generation Ethiopian Eritrean American who encourages us to “see how you can support or advocate for [yourself] and your colleagues.” This interview is in English.
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During his time as an education investigative reporter in South Bend, Indiana, Tolly Taylor, an award-winning journalist, managed to shed light on a local story that points to a nationwide issue. Kids attending Benton Harbor Public Schools district in Michigan and “30 minutes down the road, [in the same county] kids get almost three times the funding per student.” Tolly, who is now an investigative reporter in Providence, Rhode Island for WPRI, adds that “students from the wealthiest areas get more money. That's not how it should be.” Tolly says one of the “darkest times” for him in the industry was trying to find a job and he also believes news outlets can do better when it comes to hiring people of color in higher level jobs. This interview is in English. Editing: @luiscavideo
After covering first hand the deepening border crisis between Colombia and Venezuela, Genis Gabriela Alvarado, a National Emmy Award-nominated bilingual storyteller, says “the impact and the effect was so challenging that it really blocked me...and I was not registering things.” Genis, also known as Gabby, decided to quit the news industry in 2019 to tend to her health, among other reasons. She worked for NBC Universal Media under Telemundo Networks’ umbrella in south Florida for four years. Prior to that, she worked at iHeart Radio for almost two years. Gabby adds that the stress that comes with being a journalist also impacted her relationship with loved ones. This interview is in English.
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In one of his latest stories, José Guarnizo, chronicler and director of Vorágine, investigated the Colombian military after the death of a FARC former combatant, Dimar Torres. His story led to the confession of a Colombian army general who later acknowledged that soldiers had murdered Torres. Vorágine is a non-profit organization based in Colombia that focuses on investigative reporting to bring awareness to diverse violations of human rights. The organization believes in independent journalism that responds to no political or economic interests to guarantee transparent and truthful journalism. Guarnizo has won multiple prestigious awards for his reporting. This interview is in spanish.
“Lo último que le puede pasar a un periodista es que la muerte se vuelva paisaje”.
En una de sus últimas historias, José Guarnizo, cronista y director de Vorágine, investigó al ejército Colombiano tras la muerte de un excombatiente de las FARC, Dimar Torres. Su historia llevó a la confesión de un general del ejército colombiano quien reconoció que los soldados habían asesinado a Torres. Vorágine es una fundación sin fines de lucro con sede en Colombia que se enfoca en reportajes de investigación relacionados con la vulneración de los derechos humanos y la corrupción en Colombia y el mundo. La fundación cree en un periodismo independiente que no responde a intereses políticos ni económicos para “garantizar el derecho fundamental a la información de los ciudadanos”. Guarnizo ha sido galardonado en varias ocasiones por sus reportajes. Esta entrevista es en español.
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Model and Health Coach, Deborah Mace, speaks about her inspiring healing journey
🙏🏼“I went through a very difficult year and couldn’t find my way out of what I didn’t want to call a “depression”. When I started seeking help, I quickly realized the major health care problem in the USA,” says Deborah Mace, model and Health Coach.
👩🏻We speak to Deborah about her trip to Barnes and Noble, to the self-help section to find answers to her feelings during that time. This is where her inner journey began.
🧘🏻♀️ “Looking back, this decision has consequently changed the course of my life. I started questioning everything in my life, every area, every relationship, every thought, every belief, everything I thought I was and defined myself by,” says Deborah, adding that she felt like she had been wearing a mask her whole life. This interview is in English.
Media Healers: Melissa Fajardo is an award winning producer at The New Yorker. She’s an Edward R. Murrow award recipient. She worked at ‘Now This’ and later moved on to a documentary style show on Netflix. Melissa quit the news industry in October 2020 to tend to her health after her cousin flew to New York and witnessed one of her panic attacks. On that trip, her cousin encouraged Melissa to quit and take a few months off to recover. She did, and shortly after, Melissa landed a new job as a producer in New York Magazine. We speak to Melissa about her healing journey, how she dealt with feelings of shame after quitting and how she’s handling stress now that she’s back in the news industry. "The amount of anxiety...and nonstop working hours...it wasn't sustainable…You feel like your world starts crashing and like no one understands what you’re going through.” This interview is in English.
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"What was the purpose of this girl's death? I still don't know but I just know that her story made an impact in my life...that story did something to my faith as well."
Media Healers: Karla Flores is a former news anchor and multimedia journalist in the nation's capital with six years of experience. She decided to quit the news industry in April 2021 right after giving birth to her daughter, Emma. Karla speaks to us about how difficult it was to come back to work from maternity leave, the lasting impact one particular story had in her life and her decision to leave the industry. "What was the purpose of this girl's death? I still don't know but I just know that her story made an impact in my life...that story did something to my faith as well,” says Karla. This interview is in english.
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We’re always telling your stories and it’s time someone tells ours.This is mine. I post this feeling a little scared, a little vulnerable and questioning whether it’ll be well received. If I’m telling you the stories of other journalists, it’s only fair I speak of mine. If I’m speaking of holding the news industry accountable and improving journalism, it’s only fair I hold myself accountable first. I invite you to tune in to my many failures as a journalist before I felt like I succeeded...a few things I feel I could’ve done better, moments of guilt, shame and depression and also the many blessings that came with being in the news industry. I hope this brave post can inspire positive change in individual journalists and newsrooms across the world. This is my story.
Emiliana Molina is the founder of The Awakened Journalist and Media Healers. She’s a former bilingual news anchor, correspondent and multimedia journalist. Emiliana graduated with a master’s degree in the science of journalism from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In 2016 Emiliana was awarded a scholarship from the White House Correspondents Association for her coverage in politics as a student. She’s worked in Washington D.C., for a local news station covering gang violence, homicides, and immigration. In her next job she was a political correspondent covering the White House, Capitol Hill, State Department, and more. Her work aired on national television across 23 different countries in Latin America, the US and Europe. And she worked for a local station in San Diego, California to crossover from spanish speaking news to english. In 2020 she quit to tend to her mental and physical health after being hospitalized in March 2020.
This interview is guided by: Melissa Sandoval. Melissa is an emmy-award winning journalist and a six time emmy-award nominee. The Florida International University graduate has a bachelors in broadcast journalism, and a minor in photography. She’s worked at Univision Network as a social media manager, she’s reported for Mundomax 8, a local news station in Miami and she was a Multimedia journalist, in Denver, Colorado. In 2018 Melissa moved to San Diego, California where she’s currently an anchor and reporter for Telemundo 20 and NBC7. Here she covers local stories, immigration and crime.
“Journalists are getting exposed to the emotional distress of other people in a very very intense way and that can be difficult to deal with and difficult to cope with,” says Dr. Anthony Feinstein, Associate scientist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Feinstein was the first to begin studying mental health in frontline journalists almost two decades ago, a pioneer in his field. He’s published three books on war reporting and their hazards and is currently based out of Toronto, Canada where he is a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a neuropsychiatrist. “Domestic journalism can be very difficult. There's a lot of violence in society,” Dr. Feinstein tells us, adding that “you don't have a direct threat like in a war zone but it can still be emotionally challenging work to do this because of the nature of the content that you’re dealing with.” He tells us “this kind of exposure, in theory, can lead to post traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and all kinds of mental health challenges that you see in response to trauma.” This interview is in English.
“Los periodistas se exponen a la angustia emocional de otras personas de una forma muy intensa y eso puede ser difícil de manejar”, dice el Dr. Anthony Feinstein, científico asociado de Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center. El Dr. Feinstein fue el primero en comenzar a estudiar la salud mental en periodistas de guerra hace casi dos décadas. Ha publicado tres libros sobre informes bélicos y sus peligros y actualmente reside en Toronto, Canadá, donde es profesor de psiquiatría en la Universidad de Toronto y neuropsiquiatra. “El periodismo doméstico puede ser muy difícil. Hay mucha violencia en la sociedad", nos dice el Dr. Feinstein, y agrega que "no tienes una amenaza directa como en una zona de guerra, pero aún así puede ser un trabajo emocionalmente desafiante debido a la naturaleza del contenido con el que estás lidiando". Agrega que "este tipo de exposición, en teoría, puede conducir a un trastorno de estrés postraumático, depresión, ansiedad, abuso de sustancias y todo tipo de desafíos de salud mental en respuesta al trauma". Esta entrevista es en Inglés.
Leslie Rangel, has been in the news industry for almost a decade and she’s currently a morning news anchor in Austin, Texas. Leslie began her career in market size 142 where she says things “were not always easy.” She says she often used to cope with the heaviness that comes with being in the news industry with alcohol until she began doing yoga and mindfulness practices. “It’s easy to forget that people are humans and that we are humans...instead of news robots,” says Leslie adding that “a lot of times you’re meeting people on their worst days and it’s this weird energy exchange. And are you then keeping that weird energy without really healing?” She invites other journalists to look within if we want to help improve the news industry and she leaves us with words of wisdom to “remember to say no. I was always eager to say yes,” adding that part of it was rooted in advancing her career and another part of it in a self limiting belief of “am i doing enough? I’ve gotta do more, I’ve gotta do more!” This interview is in english.
Leslie Rangel, lleva casi una década trabajando en noticias y actualmente es presentadora de un noticiero matutino en Austin, Texas. Leslie comenzó su carrera en el mercado número 142, donde dice que las cosas "no siempre fueron fáciles". En ocasiones solía lidiar con la pesadez que conlleva trabajar en la industria de las noticias con el alcohol hasta que comenzó a hacer yoga y prácticas de mindfulness. "Es fácil olvidar que las personas son humanos y que nosotros somos humanos y no robots de noticias", dice Leslie mientras agrega que "muchas veces te encuentras con personas que están pasando por su peor momento y hay un intercambio de energía muy extraño. ¿Y entonces, te estás quedando con esa energía sin sanarlo”? Leslie invita a otros periodistas a trabajar en sí mismos si queremos ayudar a mejorar la industria de las noticias y nos deja con estas palabras de sabiduría: “debemos recordar decir no. Siempre estaba ansiosa por decir que sí”, y agregó que parte de esas ansias se basaban en la motivación por avanzar en su carrera y otra parte en una creencia autolimitante de “¿estoy haciendo lo suficiente? ¡Tengo que hacer más, tengo que hacer más"! Esta entrevista está en inglés.
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Jesús Marín is an Emmy award winning anchor in the nation's capital with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist. He has also been awarded with the Frank Amador award sponsored by the Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the US Embassy in Caracas. He has covered human rights violations and the escalation of the political situation in his country. One of the stories that has left the biggest impact in his life was when he entered a Venezuelan prison “at his own risk” after a fire broke out. Here, he witnessed human rights violations and the death of dozens of inmates. “I was so disoriented I couldn’t find my way out of the prison,” says Jesús. This interview is in spanish.
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Jesús Marín es presentador de noticias con 25 años de experiencia como periodista. Ha sido galardonado con un premio Emmy en Washington D.C y un premio Frank Amador otorgado por la Cámara Venezolano-Americana de Comercio e Industria y la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Venezuela. Ha cubierto violaciones de derechos humanos y la escalada de la situación política venezolana. Una de las coberturas que más lo ha impactado fue un incendio en una prisión venezolana que dejó decenas de muertos. “Entra bajo su propio riesgo” le habían advertido los guardias: “Yo estaba tan desorientado que no sabía cómo salir de la prisión”, nos comentó Jesús. Esta entrevista es en español.
Media Healers: “Underpaid.” After graduating from the best journalism school in the nation, she Ubered — while reporting— to make ends meet. Haydee Clotter, former multimedia journalist, quit the news industry after almost five years in the business. She Graduated from the best journalism school in the nation, Medill School of Journalism, at Northwestern University, and earned a degree in the masters of science in journalism. She worked in mid and large size markets. She says she was “underpaid, underpaid, underpaid,” and had to Uber and deliver groceries on her days off from the newsroom to make ends meet. Haydee also shares how she struggled with her mental health in the industry, she says “I used to look forward to doing my makeup and doing my hair and I just felt drained. I felt defeated.” That’s when she decided to give up her dream career, in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic in September 2020, like many other journalists have done in this past year. This interview is in English.
Haydee Clotter, ex periodista multimedia, abandonó la industria de las noticias después de casi cinco años en el negocio. Se graduó de la mejor escuela de periodismo de la nación, 'Medill School of Journalism', en la Universidad de Northwestern donde obtuvo una maestría en ciencias de periodismo. Haydee dice que la industria es muy “mal paga,” y que tenía que recurrir a hacer Uber y domicilios de mercados en sus fines de semana. “Solía hacerme ilusión maquillarme y peinarme hasta que simplemente me sentía agotada. Llegue a un punto donde me sentí derrotada", agrega Haydee, quien admite que su salud mental se vio afectada en la industria. Decidió renunciar a la carrera de sus sueños en medio de la pandemia de COVID19 en septiembre de 2020, como lo han hecho muchos otros periodistas durante este último año. Esta entrevista es en inglés.
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Media Healers: After being in the news industry for almost five years, Haley O'brien, reporter and multimedia journalist, decided to quit in March 2021 to take care of her mental health. She began her career in market size 58 and quickly moved up to market size four. “The pandemic made things more difficult for us,” says Haley, who states COVID19 coverage is one of the many reasons she decided to leave. She’s currently working as a waitress until she figures out her next move and she’s reconsidering going back into news after being able to take a break. Her advice to other journalists: “take care of yourselves,” she adds that it took her a while to recognize she had anxiety, that she wasn’t okay and she needed help. This interview is in English.
According to Nielsen, “A DMA is a “Designated Market Area” — each DMA is a geographical area where Nielsen measures media consumption, ranked by local television homes. There are 210 DMAs in the United States. New York City is the largest DMA (market size 1), and Glendive, MT is the smallest DMA, (market size 210).
"Existe una fórmula anticuada, una mentalidad anticuada" en las noticias y tiene que cambiar.
Después de estar en la industria de las noticias durante casi cinco años, Haley O'brien periodista multimedia, decidió renunciar en marzo de 2021 para cuidar su salud mental. Comenzó su carrera en un mercado calificado como 58 y ascendió con facilidad al mercado número cuatro, según la tabla de Nielsen que mide los mercados de televisión en EE.UU por el número de hogares que consumen TV en cada región. “La pandemia nos hizo las cosas más difíciles”, dice Haley, quien afirma que la cobertura de COVID19 es una de las muchas razones por las que decidió irse. Actualmente trabaja como mesera hasta que se dé cuenta de su próximo movimiento y está reconsiderando volver a las noticias después de poder tomar un descanso y relajarse. Su consejo para otros periodistas: "cuídense", agrega que le tomó un tiempo reconocer su ansiedad y darse cuenta de que no estaba bien. Esta entrevista es en inglés.
Media Healers: Jamie Ostroff is an Emmy award-winning anchor and investigative reporter in market size 33. She’s been in the industry for more than a decade after graduating from the University of Miami. One experience that triggered her anxiety was when she was sent to cover Hurricane Laura, a category 4 that slammed Louisiana in 2020. “The first time I saw the worst of the damage — exactly where I was the day before — was on the newscast that I was anchoring, and it gutted me, I almost cried on air,” says Jamie, who adds anxiety kicked in because they “weren’t prepared” and she went to work for the next couple of days shaking. That’s when she realized she needed help and began taking anxiety medication. This interview is in english.
"La primera vez que vi lo peor del daño — exactamente donde estaba el día anterior — fue en el noticiero que estaba presentando. Me conmovió".
Jamie Ostroff es una presentadora y reportera de investigación que ha sido galardonada con un premio Emmy. Jamie trabaja en el mercado de televisión local número 33 y ha estado en la industria durante más de una década tras graduarse de la Universidad de Miami. Una de las experiencias que provocó su ansiedad fue cuando la enviaron a una cobertura especial durante el huracán Laura, de categoría 4 que azotó a Louisiana en el 2020. "La primera vez que vi lo peor del daño — exactamente donde estaba el día anterior — fue en el noticiero que estaba presentando. Me conmovió y casi lloré al aire", dice Jamie, quien agrega que la ansiedad comenzó porque “no estaban preparados”. Jamie continuó yendo al trabajo durante los siguientes días temblando hasta que decidió buscar ayuda y comenzó a tomar pastillas para la ansiedad. Esta entrevista está en inglés.
Media Healers: Paulina Sodi, presentadora de noticias de fin de semana en la cadena nacional de Univision en EE.UU, comparte con nosotros lo más gratificante de ser periodista, algunas de sus batallas de salud mental durante su carrera y las historias que han dejado una huella en su vida. Una historia inspiradora de una de las voces más influyentes en la televisión estadounidense para los hispanos. Esta entrevista es en español.
“You spend your whole life building your credibility and you can destroy it in a minute.”
Paulina Sodi, weekend news anchor at Univision Network, shares with us the most rewarding parts of being a journalist, the mental health struggles and the stories that have touched her life. A truly inspiring journey to becoming one of the most influential voices for hispanics in the US. This interview is in spanish.
Media Healers: Chloe Kiple, is a former anchor and reporter who quit the news industry in 2020 to start her own business, “Chloe marie media LLC” because she didn’t feel like her stories were making a difference anymore. She graduated from Michigan State University in 2018 and began her career in market size 121 where she worked for two and a half years. While there, she was awarded best reporter in the region, although she tells us she never “felt good enough.” Chloe says she didn’t like who she was becoming in the industry and she feels that COVID19 reporting wasn't good for the viewers or for her. After she quit, she developed a fear of large numbers and “it would trigger a panic reaction” in her. Through therapy she realized that being aware of COVID19 totals developed this fear in her. She was also diagnosed with Lupus and after quitting the news she’s been on a journey to heal and boost her self esteem after losing all her hair.
Media Healers: Vic Micolucci is a three time Emmy award winner, news anchor and investigative reporter who covers crime, justice, public safety, government and the arts. Vic has also been awarded with the national William Hearst Award, 2 Edward R. Murrow awards and a dozen Associated Press Awards. He has covered Hurricanes Matthew, Irma, Michael, Maria and Harvey. Vic says before leaving any natural disaster, or domestic terrorism events like the mass school shooting in Parkland or Pulse nightclub he takes off the reporter hat to sit, pray and reflect on the site of the tragedies. He’s been in the industry for more than a decade and adds that taking the time and space to honor any trauma-related story is “humbling and in a way I think it's healing.” This interview is in English.
Vic Micolucci ha ganado tres premios Emmy, es presentador de noticias y reportero de investigación cubriendo delitos, justicia, seguridad pública, el gobierno y las artes. Vic también ha sido galardonado con el premio nacional William Hearst, dos premios Edward R. Murrow y una docena de premios de Associated Press. Ha estado en coberturas de los huracanes Matthew, Irma, Michael, Maria y Harvey. Vic dice que antes de salir de cualquier desastre natural, o eventos de terrorismo doméstico como el tiroteo masivo en una escuela en Parkland o el club nocturno Pulse, se quita el sombrero de reportero para sentarse, orar y reflexionar sobre las tragedias, lo vivido y su cobertura. Ha estado en la industria durante más de una década y agrega que tomarse el tiempo y el espacio para honrar cualquier historia relacionada con el trauma te hace más "humilde y, de cierto modo, creo que es sanador". Esta entrevista está en inglés.
Media Healers: Lori Lizarraga, Emmy and Murrow-Award-winning journalist and TV reporter, stumbled into journalism by happy accident in college, but her passion grew when she realized how valuable journalism is within our communities. Being in the industry, she learned of the effectiveness of journalists and the role we play to hold powerful institutions and officials accountable. This includes holding news outlets accountable – something she chose to do after her 2-year contract at 9NEWS in Denver, Colorado was not renewed, making her the third Latina reporter to be let go from the station within one year. Lori advocated for the empowerment of journalists of color in the newsroom and often voiced her concerns, especially around stories of diverse, low-income, Spanish-speaking and immigrant communities. Like all reporters at 9NEWS, she was instructed to refer to undocumented immigrants as “here illegally” or “illegally in the country” — despite the use of “undocumented” as the AP Style standard in immigration coverage in the U.S. since 2013. Lori wrote about that issue, among others, in an editorial describing her experience at 9NEWS in Westword earlier this year. Tegna has since changed its immigration guidelines at its 64 television stations across the country, including 9NEWS. Lori has gone on to receive several awards for her courage and advocacy after writing the piece and is becoming a voice for #MoreRepresentationInNews. This interview is in English.
“Hubo un esfuerzo por contratar a personas de diferentes nacionalidades, pero no un esfuerzo por crear un ambiente en el que nos apoyaran, animaran, o nos incentivaran a quedarnos en el canal o incluso tener una oportunidad real de ser exitosos”, dice Lori Lizarraga, ex reportera de televisión de 9NEWS en Denver, Colorado.
Lori Lizarraga, periodista y reportera de televisión ganadora del premio Emmy y Murrow, se tropezó con el periodismo por accidente en su universidad. Su pasión creció cuando se dio cuenta lo valioso que es el periodismo dentro de nuestras comunidades. Al estar en la industria, aprendió sobre la eficacia de los periodistas y el papel que desempeñamos para responsabilizar a las instituciones y los funcionarios poderosos. Esto incluye responsabilizar a los medios de comunicación, algo que eligió hacer después de que su contrato de 2 años en 9NEWS en Denver, Colorado no fuera renovado, convirtiéndose en la tercera reportera latina en ser despedida de la estación en un año. Lori abogó por el empoderamiento de los periodistas de color en la sala de redacción y con frecuencia expresó sus preocupaciones, especialmente en torno a historias de comunidades diversas, de bajos ingresos, de habla hispana e inmigrantes. Como todos los reporteros de 9NEWS, recibió instrucciones de referirse a los inmigrantes indocumentados como "aquí ilegalmente" o "ilegalmente en el país", a pesar del uso de "indocumentados" como el estándar de AP Style en la cobertura de inmigración en los EE. UU. Desde 2013. Lori escribió sobre ese tema, entre otros, en un editorial que describe su experiencia en 9NEWS en Westword a principios de este año. Desde entonces, Tegna ha cambiado sus pautas de inmigración en sus 64 estaciones de televisión en todo el país, incluido 9NEWS. Lori ha recibido varios premios por su valentía y defensa después de escribir el artículo y se está convirtiendo en la voz de #MoreRepresentationInNews. Esta entrevista es en inglés.
“Todo desencadena desde nuestro hogar, nuestra familia y nuestros ancestros”, dice Alyz Heinrich, la fundadora de Here2Flow, ambientalista, humanitaria, modelo venezolana y Miss Tierra 2013. Alyz nos comparte que es una mujer sensible y creció reprimiendo muchos de sus sentimientos en casa porque simplemente no habían espacios para expresar esas emociones. Después de varias depresiones, una profunda tristeza, momentos de soledad y decisiones que la llevaron a evadir sus vacíos utilizando las drogas o el alcohol, su vida dio un giro de 360 grados al terminar en coma en el hospital. Hoy Alyz habla de esa etapa de su vida desde el amor, con mucho entendimiento, con mucha luz y enviando mensajes de empoderamiento para alentar a otros a levantarse, romper patrones y acabar con los ciclos que tanto pide el alma.
Mario Ramos, ganador de cuatro premios Emmy y fundador de Cabezahueca Films, habla hoy sobre los retos laborales y personales como cineasta y productor de televisión. Ramos acaba de lanzar “La Condesa” una película que finalizó su rodaje en un tiempo récord de dos semanas justo antes del confinamiento preventivo. Para el proceso de posproducción se unieron al proyecto un grupo de artistas de mucha experiencia como Mikel Z. Castells, diseñador de sonido de la reconocida producción de Netflix, La casa de papel, serie que se ha convertido en el show en español más visto en la historia de Netflix.
Cuando identificamos que los vacíos internos no los llenan ni los títulos, ni los logros, ni tu familia, ni tu pareja reconocemos que somos nosotros mismos quienes debemos hacernos cargo de nuestra felicidad. Esta es la historia de Sebastián Fajardo, un piloto que ha volado el avión más grande del mundo pero no sin antes tropezar y “fracasar” en el intento. Estamos viviendo en la era del emprendimiento siguiendo los propósitos del alma pero no sin antes tropezar unas cuantas veces. A travez de su historia de superación personal, Sebastián nos enseña que el miedo al fracaso no te define. Lo que tú consideras como tú “fracaso” en realidad es el regalo más lindo que el universo te puede dar para reinventarte.
“Un líder con auto conocimiento de sus propios miedos, sus fallas y las trampas de su propia mente es un líder que puede llevar a su equipo a un alto rendimiento. Liderando desde la esencia, con empatía y compasión y al servicio de otros seres humanos”, dice Benito Hernández, ex gerente general y Vice presidente de Motorola en conversaciones con The Awakened Journalist. Un liderazgo ejemplar comienza desde el auto conocimiento y la voluntad de querer inspirar a otros a hacer aquello que creían imposible.
A través de GroWin, Laura Herrera busca promover herramientas que el sistema educativo tradicional carece. Esa conexión con nuestro SER superior, con nuestra esencia y nuestra autenticidad que nunca nos enseñaron pues estamos educados para seguir estructuras, políticas y patrones inculcados desde la infancia. Cuando logramos conectarnos con nuestra esencia entendemos que cada uno de nosotros tiene un propósito en la vida y una enseñanza para entregarle a la humanidad. Es ahí cuando logras SER tu mejor versión y una plenitud inigualable.
"Tenemos casi 80,000 pensamientos diarios", nos cuenta Ana María Echeverry, coach de Mindfulness. Somos conscientes de 7,000 a 8,000 de estos pensamientos. ¿Cómo practicar Mindfulness para convertirte en tu propio observador? En este episodio de The Awakened Journalist te regalamos unos cuatro minutos de meditación al inicio del podcast para enseñarte a poner en práctica el Mindfulness. Siéntate cómodo en un espacio en silencio para que disfrutes de estos minutos de plenitud contigo mismo. Regalate este privilegio de conocerte y de interactuar con tu SER y con tu esencia. Hablamos sobre el Mindfulness y cómo convertirte en tu propio observador. Al entender lo que nos detona en los demás, sanamos nosotros mismos y aprendemos a responder y a observarnos en vez de reaccionar.
El Ikigai’ es un concepto japonés y es la razón por la que nos levantamos cada día. Es aquello que le da sentido a la vida y que te permite experimentar la alegría de la cotidianidad. ‘Iki’, que significa vida y ‘gai’, valor o mérito. Hoy hablamos con Patricia Echeverry, coach del curso encuentra tu Ikigai.
DOSHA Kapha: Los alimentos son energía sagrada y sanadora que no solo tienen un impacto en tu cuerpo físico sino también en tu mente y tus emociones. Ya sabemos que existen TRES tipos de DOSHAS: Vata, Pitta y Kapha. Hoy la Naturópata y coach Ayurvédico, Nancy Posada, nos explica más sobre el Dosha Kapha.
🌎💧Kapha: Es como la tierra y el agua. Regula la estructura y es pesado, estable, frío, lento y suave. Es de personalidad tranquila y relajada con tendencia a ser posesiva y complaciente. Kapha está pendiente de todo y de todos. Pregunta por el clima, las actividades que van a realizar y lleva en su equipaje lo que necesita el/ella y lo que puedan necesitar los demás.
DOSHA Pitta: Los alimentos son energía sagrada y sanadora que no solo tienen un impacto en tu cuerpo físico sino también en tu mente y tus emociones. Hoy la Naturópata y coach Ayurvédico, Nancy Posada, nos explica que el resentimiento te engorda, la ira te nubla la visión y el miedo te paralizan. Ya sabemos que existen TRES tipos de DOSHAS en la Medicina Ayurvédica. Hoy hablamos de Pitta.
🔥💧Pitta: es como el fuego y el agua. Regula el metabolismo, no soporta la pérdida de tiempo, es de carácter emprendedor y le gustan los desafíos. Si está en desequilibrio puede sufrir de acidez estomacal, náuseas, ira intensa, agitación como respuesta al estrés entre otros.
DOSHA Vata: Los alimentos son energía sagrada y sanadora que no solo tienen un impacto en tu cuerpo físico sino también en tu mente y tus emociones. Hoy la Naturópata y coach Ayurvédico, Nancy Posada, nos explica que el resentimiento te engorda, la ira te nubla la visión y el miedo te paralizan. Ya sabemos que existen TRES tipos de DOSHAS en la Medicina Ayurvédica. Hoy hablamos de Vata.
💨 🧬Vata: es como el viento y el éter. Regula el movimiento y tiende a ser rápido, frio, seco, violento y suave. Se cansa con facilidad al esforzarse más de la cuenta.
¿Sabias que el resentimiento te engorda, la ira te nubla la visión y el miedo te paraliza? Esto nos explica hoy la Naturópata, Nancy Posada. La coach Ayurvédico nos explica que los alimentos son energía sagrada y sanadora que no solo tienen un impacto en tu cuerpo físico sino también en tu mente y tus emociones.
Por ejemplo:
🔥 Alimentos de energía fuego: calientes, picantes, salados y ácidos (todas las especies, jengibre, picante). En equilibrio transforman y en desequilibrio queman o destruyen.
💨 Alimentos de energía aire: fríos, picantes, amargos y astringentes (frutos secos, lechuga). En equilibrio da creatividad y en desequilibrio incrementan miedo.
💧Alimentos de energía agua: fríos, dulces y salados (tomates, piña, coco). En equilibrio sostienen y en desequilibrio ahogan.
🌎Alimentos de energía tierra: fríos, ácidos, dulces, astringentes (semillas, arroz integral, papas). En equilibrio nutren, dan estabilidad y en desequilibrio nos hacen pesados o lentos.
🧬Alimentos de energía éter: fríos y amargos (vegetales frescos). En equilibrio permiten manifestar y en desequilibrio no ponen límites.