Chatty Carmens: Recent Episodes
Chatty Carmens
The Chatty Carmens podcast is here to facilitate conversations, sharing knowledge, advice, and asking questions about how women of color’s experiences have shaped their careers and viewpoints.
Born in Lima, Peru, Fanny Olaya found a home in Buffalo, NY, where she started Baila Salsa, a dance company rooted in her love of dance and creating a dance family. In this episode, we learn about her story, how she started Buffalo’s “Best Dance Classes in WNY,” and what she does to prepare her students to dance through life.
Everyone has different paths to learning to lead healthy lives. In this episode, we speak with Karyn Borscheid, creator of Sweat Equity & Wellness. Join us as we discuss how she creates a genuinely inclusive environment and serves people who may feel uncomfortable, ignored, or unseen in a traditional fitness atmosphere and why she made the switch from marketing professional to professional training and nutrition coaching.
In this episode, singer/songwriter Michelle Amador shares her career journey as an arts fundraiser while staying true to herself, navigating white spaces in arts and cultural organizations, and sources she has found to help her on her journey during the COVID-19 pandemic. The director of development at the Mark Morris Dance Group is continuously reminded of her passion for the arts and continues to create while working in a job she loves.
In this episode, I am joined by the president and founder of Tender Steps NY: Evelyn Bautista-Miller. A nonprofit whose purpose is to help unite families in Rockland County.
As women of color, we sometimes feel the pressures of entering a field chosen by our parents. Our guest on this episode does the opposite and shares her journey to becoming a dental hygienist and starting a business during the COVID-19 pandemic, targeting dental hygienists of color. And, does dental health lead to infertility?
In this episode, Makayla talks about her journey to creating the Chatty Carmens Podcast and why she felt this work needed to be done.
A discussion surrounding the importance of financial literacy, investing in yourself, leaving a legacy for their child, and connecting it all to mental health within communities of color. In this episode, we meet Ingrid Howell and Cindy Molina-Howell. The wife and wife duo behind the children’s book The Little Lion Club.