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Our mission is to redefine the word "professionalism" by empowering Latino/ Latina/ Latinx communities to be their authentic selves. When we are told to be professional, in many ways we are told to not be ourselves.
On this podcast, we have candid conversations and explore the conflict that we often face between being our authentic selves & "professionalism". The podcast is named ¿Quién Tú Eres? because that’s the question that we want each guest to answer. Listen to find out who we really are...when we stop code-switching. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/quientueres/support
Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Mag Rodriguez.
Mag is the founder of EVEN. It's a creative platform that enables artists to sell their music directly to fans. In the first month on EVEN LaRussell generated $100K in revenue with the support of 4,000 fans. Artists on EVEN include French Montana, Jidenna, Omarion, LaRussell, Kota the Friend, Ransom, 38 Spesh, and many others.
Mag founded the platform last year to help black and brown artists retain equity in their creative work. EVEN is a way for fans to connect directly with their favorite artists, and it’s also an opportunity for the artists to monetize to take a bit more control over the monetization strategy compared to streaming - which is often criticized for not giving artists a quality cut of the revenue.
This week Mag Rodriguez tells us all about his journey through the music industry and his experience as an entrepreneur. Having started his music management career while he was still in high school, he has learned a ton of lessons on the way. And while he feels like he’s gotten wiser as he’s gotten older, he still takes tips from his younger, more rebellious self.
Follow Mag on: Website: https://www.even.biz/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magisformagic/ Instagram: @magisformagic
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Juliana Londoño.
Juliana Londoño is a proud Latina, bilingual, and licensed mental health therapist in NJ. Her business focuses on the intersectionality of mental health and the Latino/BIPOC communities. Her mission is to bring awareness, education, and resources through various outlets. Juliana has served as a thought leader, keynote speaker, and podcast guest. In this week's episode, Juliana shares her experiences as a Latina woman in mental health spaces. At the beginning of her career, she felt pressured to give in to respectability politics. Now as a licensed therapist, she focuses on representing authenticity within herself so that her clients can feel comfortable working with her. Considering that only 10% of therapists can speak Spanish, she is often a beacon of light for Latine clients.
Follow Juliana on: Website: www.juliana-londono.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliana-londono18/ Instagram: @julianalondono18_ TikTok: @julianalondono18
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Juliana Londoño is a proud Latina, bilingual, and licensed mental health therapist in NJ. Her business focuses on the intersectionality of mental health and the Latino/BIPOC communities. Her mission is to bring awareness, education, and resources through various outlets. Juliana has served as a thought leader, keynote speaker, and podcast guest. She has collaborated with #WeAllGrow Latina & LinkedIn News and has been featured on NY Pix11 News. Juliana is currently enrolled in the Bank of America Women's Entrepreneurship Program at Cornell University. She is a community advocate and volunteers with America Needs You-NJ and Leading Young Women. During her free time, she enjoys figure skating, completing jigsaw puzzles, and spending time in nature.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Manny Valentin.
Manny Valentin was named Skidmore College's head men's and women's crew coach in May 2021. Valentin was previously the Saratoga Rowing Association (SRA) head varsity boys coach and the Advanced Rowing Initiative of the Northeast (ARION) men's coach. Valentin's athletes have had success on the national and international levels, with a men's lightweight quad winning the 2018 USRowing trials and then competing in the 2018 World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Valentin was one of 13 coaches across all three divisions, including just one of just four coaches in Division III, to be recognized with the award. He represented the New York region under Division III. In this week's episode, Manny shares how he leads by example and creates positive representation for his athletes. He makes sure to present himself as a man of color in professional spaces so that he can encourage other athletes of color to present themselves as authentically as they can. This kind of representation was not there for Manny when he first started so he ensures that the next generation will have that in him.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Rachel Lowenstein.
Rachel is the Global Head of Inclusive Innovation at Mindshare, leading strategy and innovation for how brands use marketing, media, and technology to reshape society for good. A respected industry thought leader, Rachel has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, including Unilever and Booking.com. As an autistic woman, Rachel is a content creator on TikTok, LinkedIn, and Instagram to educate and advocate for neuroinclusion. Rachel has over 90,000 people in her community across platforms because of her unique perspectives as a creative leader who is autistic.
In this eye-opening episode, we dive into Rachel's incredible journey of self-discovery, as she shares how her autism diagnosis became a catalyst for improving her mental well-being and unleashing her creativity in the workplace. Before receiving her diagnosis, Rachel grappled with a challenging concept known as "masking," commonly experienced by autistic individuals. She felt compelled to hide her true traits or behaviors to fit into society's mold of being "neurotypical," leading to feelings of being misunderstood and overstimulated by societal pressures to be constantly available.
However, everything changed after her diagnosis. Armed with the knowledge of her condition, Rachel realized that she wasn't "crazy" for feeling the way she did. This newfound understanding empowered her to embrace her authentic self and unapologetically express her unique qualities. Now, she passionately helps others in the workplace and their daily lives to embrace their true selves, fostering a culture of acceptance and inclusivity.
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Rachel is the Global Head of Inclusive Innovation at Mindshare, leading strategy and innovation for how brands use marketing, media, and technology to reshape society for good. A respected industry thought leader, Rachel has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, including Unilever and Booking.com. As an autistic woman, Rachel is a content creator on TikTok, LinkedIn, and Instagram to educate and advocate for neuroinclusion. Rachel has over 90,000 people in her community across platforms because of her unique perspectives as a creative leader who is autistic.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week’s solo episode is an update from our host, Pabel Martinez
With the launch of our new app, you’ll be noticing a few changes around the Plurawl brand. Without giving too much away, the app will continue what the podcast started. As a collective, we’ll be focusing on our mental health and connecting with our most authentic selves. We are so excited to get the app out and start letting people in. If you want to be one of the first people to use the app, sign up for the waitlist using the link below!
On this week's episode, Pabel is reckoning with the knowledge that his life is about to change for the better. And even though this is a huge success on paper, his body is terrified. Well, he’s excited and joyful and hopeful, but also terrified. Listen to this week's episode to hear exactly how his body reacted, both physically and mentally, and how he’s dealing with these very intense emotions.
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TW: There is a short conversation about bowel movements within the first five minutes of the episode
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Oscar Montes de Oca.
Celebrity fashion stylist and Creative Director Oscar Montes de Oca has made a name for himself in the styling world for his chic, timeless, conceptual, and body-flattering styling. A native New Yorker, he has more than 12 years of experience, which includes extensive work in the international and Latin markets. He has worked on numerous editorial, TV, ad campaigns, videos, and films, and his styling has been featured in some of the world's top publications. Oscar has enjoyed styling numerous celebrities who have graced the best-dressed list.
This week Oscar tells our host, Pabel Martinez, all about his journey to becoming a celebrity fashion stylist and creative Director. As someone who was raised in “the Southernmost Part of the Bronx” and had to build his own career from the ground up, Oscar has had a long journey to success. He’s had to break stereotypes in every job he’s worked and prove himself over and over again, just to get a seat at the table. But in the last few years, Oscar has felt as if he’s met his own expectations. Tune in to hear how Oscar kept his head up in such a polarizing industry.
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Celebrity fashion stylist and Creative Director Oscar Montes de Oca has made a name for himself in the styling world for his chic, timeless, conceptual, and body-flattering styling. A native New Yorker, he has more than 12 years of experience, which includes extensive work in the international and Latin markets. He has worked on numerous editorial, TV, ad campaigns, videos, and films, and his styling has been featured in some of the world's top publications, including, Elle, Marie Claire, Vanidades, and Vogue. Oscar has enjoyed styling numerous celebrities who have graced the best-dressed list, always focused on helping his clients find their true style. Some of his clients include; M.A.C., Ashley Graham, Cocoon, Formula X, Sephora, Color Club Laquer, Diane Guerrero, Hampton Junior, Republic Trading Optical, Eden BodyWorks, Don Omar, Ashanti, Revlon, Laura Gomez, and Gerber Life among many others.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Barney Abramson.
Barney Abramson’s creative journey began in the Dominican Republic staying indoors and drawing his favorite 80s cartoons all day long. That creative passion grew into a fruitful career and he went on to become an award-winning designer. In addition to his day job, Barney consults as a creative director, strategist, and manager. He helps businesses and individuals with their creative problems. When he’s not designing, he’s writing about his experiences as an Afro-Latino creative in corporate America. He uses social media to connect, mentor, teach, and inspire the next generation of designers.
This week, Barney discusses his life after immigrating to the US as a child, attempting to assimilate into mostly white neighborhoods, and how that affected his confidence as a young professional. Barney admits that he would take on a Funny Guy persona to seem more palatable to his white coworkers. However, even though he was accepted as the funny guy, he still felt a distance between himself and his peers. It wasn’t until he started undoing past traumas that he became more comfortable in his own skin - even at work.
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Instagram - @barneyabramson01
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Barney’s creative journey began on a little island in the Caribbean. While the other kids were flying kites and playing baseball, he was alone in his room drawing his favorite 80s cartoons. That creative passion grew into a fruitful career and he went on to become an award-winning designer. In many ways, Barney is living proof that, despite its shortcomings, the American dream is still alive and well.
Barney Abramson was born in the Dominican Republic and was raised there until the age of ten. His family migrated to the United States in the late 80s, eventually settling in Lawrence, MA, a small immigrant town located a few miles north of Boston.
In 2002, Barney graduated from Bridgewater State University with a dual Bachelor of Fine Arts and Corporate Communication degree. Since then, he’s worked as a graphic designer and, most recently, as a creative manager in the wonderful city of Las Vegas.
In addition to his day job, he consults as a creative director, strategist, and manager. He helps businesses and individuals with creative problems. When he’s not designing, he’s writing about his experiences as an Afro-Latino creative in corporate America. Barney uses social media to connect, mentor, teach, and inspire the next generation of designers.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is joMi.
joMi is an independent artist, songwriter, and poet from Northern California. He burst onto the music scene in late 2017 with the release of his mixtape, "Behind The Curtain.” His music is a fusion of acid hip-hop jazz-inspired beats with socially conscious lyrics that offer a glimpse into the struggles faced by minorities.
Due to his rough childhood, joMi has had to fight for everything he has, which includes his career in construction management. However, not one to be caught slipping, joMi promotes his music under his stage name. This way he can create music about his upbringing and validate his own experiences without being found out by his company or coworkers. This week joMi dives deep into his personal life and explains how he maintains a balance between his career in construction and his passion for music.
Follow joMi: Instagram: jomidlr YouTube: https://youtube.com/@OfficialjoMi
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Victor Alfonso.
Victor Alfonso Cabral, LSW (He/Him) is a collaborative and strategic Afro-Latinx leader who is committed to making an impact in his community and beyond. Victor serves as the Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs for Fluence Training. Victor works to center BIPOC voices in the field of psychedelics by highlighting BIPOC stories in policy & advocacy efforts, art, and science.
He is currently working on a documentary film titled We Are The Medicine which explores the re-emergence of psychedelics from the perspective of Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Victor is listed on Students for Sensible Drug Policy’s list of “40 Under 40 Outstanding BIPOC Leaders in Drug Policy in the United States” for his work in psychedelic policy and received the 2022 Emerging Social Work Leader Award from the National Association of Social Workers.
Because of Victor’s ADHD, he struggled to pay attention in class and absorb the knowledge he was reading. As he got older, he learned the tips and tricks that he needed to work the educational system and continue his education on his terms. This week on the podcast, Victor tells us how working with his diagnosis, rather than against it, encouraged him to pursue a future he’d only dreamed of.
Keep up with Victor:
Instagram - https://instagram.com/awondrousmind
40 Under 40 Outstanding BIPOC Leaders in Drug Policy in the United States - https://ssdp.org/blog/40-under-40-outstanding-bipoc-leaders-in-drug-policy/
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“You’re never gonna get a job if you're an entrepreneur.”
That’s what this week’s guest said on the podcast and I have to admit, I was shocked. That’s a very bold statement. But I was even more shocked when I realized that he was right.
We’ve seen it too many times. We are told to quiet our voices and make ourselves smaller. Even if we know what we’re talking about and we are the best person on the team, some people will do anything they can to keep us in “our place.”
So what happens when you become bigger than your job?
That’s the question that we tackle on this week's episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast. And this week’s guest is none other than the incredible Jonathan J. Mentor.
Jonathan J. Mentor is a revenue growth expert that provokes the economic growth and visibility of disadvantaged humans in B2B tech. He is proud to be a Latinx, Black, Queer father. He is the Founder & CEO of Successment, a revenue growth partner for diverse tech startups where he developed BOOM®, a 4-step growth process that uncomplicates RevOps Science®. His inspiration for Successment is his commitment to the success of disadvantaged humans. Success + Commitment = Successment.
When he went from being a cashier to a corporate broker, the culture shock was overwhelming. However, Jonathan was able to listen and learn from his peers. His ability to adapt and excel at his work made him way bigger than career as a broker. He very quickly became LinkedIn famous and started moonlighting on his own.
And even though Jonathan was earning the company millions of dollars in revenue, his co-workers felt threatened by his success outside of his corporate job. In the end, they offered him a severance package and told him it was his last day. From there he decided to invest in himself and start his own business. This was the birth of Successment.
This week we talk about
- How Jonathan was able to excel at his career without a degree
- How he was able to battle imposter syndrome during his time as a broker
- Why Jonathan works with the clients that he does
- Why he now refuses to code switch or hide his tattoos during meetings
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Vanessa Correa.
Vanessa Correa recently took the role of Vice President and DEI Marketing Strategy Lead at JPMorgan Chase & Co. after five years at Freddie Mac, where she was the marketing lead for equitable housing initiatives handling content strategy, brand development, paid media, and marketing events. Vanessa hails from The Bronx, was born to two Puerto Ricans, and is a quintessential 80s baby.
This week on the podcast, Vanessa shares how her upbringing shaped her self-confidence as an adult. Her childhood prepared her to stand her ground and enforce her boundaries the first time they’re breached. Which happened a lot, considering how often people in majority white spaces felt entitled to her intelligence.
Listen to Vanessa’s episode to hear how she let her haters know that her middle fingers still work.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Adam Gabornitz, who currently serves as a Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion for a large insurance and wealth management company that's headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.
His role includes creating and driving execution of D&I talent attraction and retention strategies, and consulting across the enterprise to retain, develop and advance diverse talent. Adam has over 17 years of experience in sales, marketing, entrepreneurship, tech, workforce development, talent acquisition and talent development.
Adam holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and currently serves on the board of Impact in Milwaukee. He was a 2020 recipient of the Milwaukee Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award.
A few mantras he lives by:
Give more than you take
Say yes more than you say no
Leave things better than you found it
Look good, feel good, do good
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Eddy Hiraldo.
Eddy Hiraldo is an experienced strategist, creative, and storyteller seasoned with 1 cup of the Bronx, NY; a 1/2 cup of Florida; and 3 tbsp of both Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico respectively. He’s a recent alumn of ONE School Atlanta (2022) and both the AAF’s Most Promising Multicultural Student program (2018) and the 4A’s Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (2017). Currently he works as a Social Strategist at Wieden+Kennedy NY and spends most of his time being a student of internet culture. When he’s not, he’s a creative strategist for 14th and Market and the Brand Manager for Black Visionaries™.
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Your two favorites (Odalys & Pabel) are back with another live episode of Unfiltered! This is the monthly series that we do live on YouTube and LinkedIn each month.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so we discussed Mental Health & Emotional Intelligence and the impact it's had on our careers.
More specifically, we discussed:
- Different ways to think about mental health/ therapy.
- Have you ever tried talking to yourself? Pabel started live journaling and having self conversations
- The study of "human design"; energy management
- Are Personality Tests helpful for self awareness? What best helped describe you; how often do you get to know yourself. What tests have best described you?
- What’s the "weirdest" thing that you’ve done, in your mental health journey
- Lack of emotional intelligence within teams and managers.
- Trauma dumping
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Nancy Pineda.
Nancy is a first generation Dominican-American Latina, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.
She started her career in the corporate financial industry in 2003 after interning at American Express while in high school and later getting hired as an executive assistant. In her 20 years at American Express, she held different roles including business analyst, chief of staff, business strategy manager and project manager. In 2021, she transitioned to JP Morgan Chase & Co. where she is currently a Project Manager in the Corporate Investment Banking organization.
Aside from her day job, Nancy freelances for her best friend’s interior design business, Lucia Genao Interiors, where she provides strategic and operational support. Then, during install period, you’ll find her rolling up her sleeves building furniture and fluffing pillows!
Nancy earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration and her MBA in managerial analytics from Mercy College in New York City, graduating summa cum laude in both fields. She was part of the Delta Mu Delta society, graduating with honors.
In her personal time, you can find Nancy trying out new eats, at the gym powerlifting, or dancing merengue, merengue típico and bachata with her friends and family. She has a heart for mentoring and has partnered with various business resource groups to mentor junior professionals and MBA students. She also volunteers for external organizations, such as Junior Achievement of New York, to teach financial literacy to low-income elementary schools in the Bronx.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Kayla Castañeda, who is the founder of Agua Bonita. Here's a quick bio...in Kayla's own words...
Much like the aguas frescas we make, my family history starts in Mexico and settles in the fruit fields of the Central Valley of California. My ancestors immigrated to the states pursuing the opportunity for a better life and following the migrant farm work as field workers, which led us here – where we grow 60% of the nation’s produce!
Growing up here, my grandpa would bring us home super ripe fruit from the fields that he couldn’t just stand to let go to waste. This fruit would be sprinkled with chile powder or made into aguas frescas for the whole family to enjoy.
When I lost my job mid-pandemic, I took it as “when life gives you lemons, make aguas frescas.” I decided to create something that is reflective of my culture, my family, and my grandpa’s teachings of never letting food go to waste (and not too much sugar – he was diabetic), and Agua Bonita was born. We’ve carried on the tradition of taking real fruit from the fields and creating a delicious drink to share with everyone, from our home to your hands.
Resources & Links
1) Agua Bonita website
2) Quick video highlighting the unfortunate business practices from Coca-cola. It's an experience that's highlighted towards the end of the episode.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest is Walter Geer, who's currently the Chief Experience Design Officer at VMLY&R HEALTH.
As Chief Experience Design Officer at VMLY&R HEALTH, Walter Geer is responsible for creating innovative design solutions to health. His role is to bridge technology, storytelling, design and user experience together to create meaningful health experiences.
With an 80 percent focus on health and pharma he also maintains a broader range of clients like Dell Technologies, Coke and Walgreens.
Walter was honored in Adweek’s ‘50 Most Important People in Marketing, Media and Tech’ and Savoy Magazine recognized Walter in their ‘Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America’. He is not only known for re-inventing and revitalizing the way brands and advertisers connect with consumers, but also for being a passionate and vocal advocate. As the co-founder of Diverse Creatives, he has been outspoken in the charge for creating a diverse and inclusive culture for Black and brown creatives in advertising.
A veteran of the digital advertising space, Walter holds a total of six U.S. patents for digital ad formats and has implemented creative products and strategies for a variety of publishers and leading technology and media companies including Google, Viacom, NYTimes and MySpace. One of his most famous inventions was Skippable Pre-Roll (5,4,3,2,1 Skip video ad format). Walter has been an architect of market-first usability labs, applying biometric research to the development of creative executions while minimizing risk by understanding how consumer emotions and demographics impact brand engagement.
Prior to VMLY&R, Walter was SVP, Group Creative Director at TBWA\Worldhealth, where he ran Digital, Innovation and creative production.
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April is Financial Literacy Month, so this week… @samaraconnects and @pabiceps discussed how knowledge (or lack of it) impacted life and career decisions.
$ isn’t a requirement to be your most authentic self at work. It sure does give you a boost of confidence knowing that when your savings account is stacked. If you’re disrespected at work, you can quit and let that savings account and investments hold you down for a while.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves.
Antonio Morales is a licensed clinical social worker and the founder of The Liberated Self Therapeutic Services, LLC, a private practice dedicated to serving the mental health needs of Black and Brown folk, across communities. Our mission is “to disrupt and dismantle the psychological chaos and confusion of white supremacy, as we facilitate a transformative healing process that will allow Black and Brown folk to transcend the adverse impact of our current and historical, intergenerational, complex racial trauma.”
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Antonio identifies as a mixed race Afro Boricua and honors his indigenous African and Taino ancestors through his work, while grappling with the dilemma of knowing that European blood runs through his veins. As a product of the European colonization of the Western Hemisphere, Antonio understands the importance of addressing the historical, intergenerational, complex racial trauma that exists within him, as well as the communities he serves.
Antonio believes that healing from and transcending the adverse impact of white supremacy is, by default, revolutionary. The process of Black and Brown folk becoming self-actualized, whole and complete human beings, while giving ourselves permission to express our divine greatness, in the face of white supremacy, is the ultimate act of rebellion and a radicalized expression of liberation.
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Illianna Acosta is no stranger to community-building and her leadership with ERG’s, with a focus on Diversity,Equity, and Inclusion, goes hand in hand to help people and organizations amplify their connection to community,leadership and belonging. With an infectious positive perspective, confidence, compassion and layered highenergy, Illianna draws inspiration from humble beginnings that taught her a great deal about choosing a futureoutside of what she saw in front of her.
With 20 years of experience in AdTech, partnerships, and sales, Illianna is a Senior Manager at LinkedIn,managing Global AdTech Partnerships. Her work focuses on accelerating innovation, revenue, and customergrowth.
As a speaker and subject matter expert in the art of showing up, she not only knows how to connect with a crowd,but she also elevates them to visualize their potential. With crowd pleasing topics such as “No longer a seatwarmer” and “You’re an ERG Leader, Now What?”, she captivates audiences and takes them on a journey toowning their voice, embracing their superpower, and building a positive, inclusive motivated ERG team.
“I engage willingly in the work that it takes to create long term, sustainable change so that future generations ofLatinos never have to feel or go through the same things I experienced in life and in my career. “
Though grateful to have the opportunity to work in corporate America, she faced challenges and at times feltalienated, tokenized, or excluded. It was imperative to find her way, voice, and the support that would lead herto feel empowered enough to show up as herself. Joining LinkedIn was the first corporate experience whereIllianna saw others that looked like her and spoke her language. A master in the art of making something out ofnothing, she saw opportunities to make a difference. “I saw that I could help create safe spaces - places wherepeople felt a sense of community and belonging, and where someone could feel empowered to do good work andbe a part of something bigger than we could imagine.”
Today, she is the Global Co-Chair of LinkedIn’s Hispanic ERG. Illianna is on the National Board of the 100 HispanicWomen Organization, the Co-President of the Cornell Johnson School NY Alumni Organization and author of LostIn Translation, a newsletter focused on highlighting challenges and limitations for historically excluded groups,with experiences that have shaped who they are on how they show up in their personal and professional lives.She’s also joined the Chief network, where is continuing to invest in her own development and working with fellowwomen executives who are paving the way for more diversity in leadership.
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This week, we hit the streets of NYC to see what people think of professionalism. Listen to the interesting conversations that we started.
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Your two favorites (Odalys & Pabel) are back with another live episode of Unfiltered. For this episode, we will be discussing mentorship and the impact it's had on our careers.
More specifically, we will be discussing:
- How to find a mentor?
- What's the difference between someone you look up to and a mentor?
- Apparently people are building their own personal board of directors? WTF is that?
- Should your mentor look like you? Same culture/ ethnicity/ gender/ "insert other identity qualifier"?
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The LSU championship game has everyone talking. Ironically, this historic basketball game is tied directly to our mission of Redefining Professionalism.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves.
The first episode (from years ago) was so good, we had to run it back with Hector Castillo Carvajal, who's founder of Don Carvajal Café. He's actually the first guest that has been featured twice on this podcast.
Hector is an Afro-Latino entrepreneur on a mission to reimagine the specialty coffee market. He was born on a small farm in the Dominican Republic and returned there often while growing up in the Bronx, an experience that gave him a unique perspective on the coffee supply chain. After pursuing his education at CUNY-Guttman and the University of Rochester, Hector has returned to the Bronx to build a coffee business model that is both fair to producers and inclusive to consumers. In just two years, he’s taken the brand from operating out of a dorm room to a city-wide distribution network that roasts 500 pounds of beans each week.
Here's the link to our first conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXLW_Bz8A8s
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On July 7, 2022 Arielle Egozi posted “sex work” as a work experience on her LinkedIn. It went viral on the platform and across world news, sparking global debate about what is considered “professional” for a professional platform.
On the heels of the Great Resignation, this session will explore and unpack what “professionalism” really means, why code-switching and assimilation is bad for mental health and for business, and how creating work environments that are inclusive and celebratory of all identities is not only the future, but is the right now.
From neurodivergence to the politics of hair and code-switching body language, this conversation will be real, unapologetic, and demand a new perspective from its audience (but, like, in a fun way).
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week, we have the pleasure of speaking with Lynsey Ayala, who is a NuYorican, Sacred Earth Medicine Curandera.
She's known for working with the energetics of entheogenic medicines and indigenous healing practices. Lynsey is a Soundscape Artist, land steward, educator and currently pursuing her masters in psychedelic assisted therapy. Lynsey is also the creator of BreadxButta, where all of these offerings intersect and manifest as living experiences.
BreadxButta is a platform that creates community surrounding plant medicine education, connecting to and healing with the land through various workshops, ceremonies and BreadxButta's product line, Botanica. You can visit Lynsey's in person studio in Sunset Park Brooklyn where she offers one on one sessions, group workshops and where the full BxB Botanica and Apothecary live.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breadxbutta/
Website: https://www.breadxbutta.com/
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This week Pabel & Samara discuss a recent trip to Austin, TX for SXSW. Pabel was selected to speak on a panel that was titled..."Sex Work to Cornrows: It’s Not Unprofessional".
Next week, we will publish the full panel conversation. For now, here's a first hand experience of what it's like to be in Austin during SXSW.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week, we have the pleasure of speaking with Daniella Sladen.
When Daniella Sladen co-founded Zulu Pods with her husband Rob, she decided to build a company to revolutionize aerospace engineering and build a culture that was inclusive and family-friendly in hopes of transforming the industry entirely.
As one of few Latina women in the aerospace engineering field, Daniella knew changes in the industry would only happen if she initiated them herself. Her deep appreciation for diversity is reflected today in an accepting company culture she fosters that embraces people from different backgrounds and supports new mothers in the workplace—a theme of critical importance to her.
As the company's Co-Founder and CTO, Daniella comes to Zulu Pods with cross-functional experience in structures, thermals, and design engineering. With expertise in the gas turbine engine field, she has worked on the design of bearing compartments and external lubrication systems of various advanced military engines.
Her superpower? Radical creativity in solving problems that others may not have even known were there. Daniella earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Central Florida. Before the inception of Zulu Pods, Daniella worked at a leading American aerospace manufacturer.
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If you needed a reminder to take time off...here you go.
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This week Pabel & Samara dream about upcoming podcasts guests...in the form of a draft.
To celebrate Women's History Month, they manifest names of guests that they'd love to have on the show.
There are some familiar names that we are sure you know...and others that you are likely hearing for the first time.
You're welcome for putting you on.
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Thatiana Roman was born and raised in the Bayside area of Queens, New York to parents from the Dominican Republic. She graduated magna cum laude from Pace University with a Bachelor of arts in communication studies.
These days, she's the Editor In Chief at REMEZCLA.
Fun Fact - She also competed in the Miss New York USA 2015 pageant and won the contest.
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Dove co-founded the CROWN Coalition to advance anti-hair discrimination legislation called The CROWN Act. The CROWN Act, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, is a law that prohibits racial discrimination based on natural textures and protective hairstyles including braids, locs, twists, and bantu knots.
According to their research, Black women’s hair is 2.5x more likely to be perceived as unprofessional. Read that again.
Race-based hair bias and discrimination remains a systemic problem in the workplace, disproportionately impacting
Black women’s deserved employment opportunities and professional advancement – and it has to stop.
This week, we discuss the impact that the CROWN Act has had within the future of work..and we highlight some stats that stood out to us in this research.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves.
This week, we have the pleasure of speaking with Joshua Encarnacion. Joshua is a 1.5 generation Dominican-American, and a proud Afro-Latino…with his heart set on growing and helping people grow into their full potential. He's helped build 3 tech-industry startups and worked in training & recruiting roles for big tech companies Uber & Google. Born in Manhattan, NY, and raised in Lawrence & Springfield, MA, Joshua has nothing but love for his folks and the people he's met along his journey as a lifelong learner consisting of a lot of sports, math, reading, perreo, bachata, y cafe bustelo.
Throughout his career, he’s serviced the following organizations: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, UBER, Airbnb, Netflix, Pandora, Slack, Twitter, Pinterest, Earnest, Gusto, Affirm, Abstract, Simply Business, Thumbtack, Yelp, Asana, Lyft, Atlassian, Tinder, First Round Capital, Kapor Center, General Assembly, Hackbright, Latinas in Tech, NextPlay, CODE2040, Hack The Hood, CODE Tenderloin, The Justice Collective, Change Catalyst, Techqueria, Big Nerd Ranch, and MANY more unlisted.
He’s coached people through various challenges by helping them grow the emotional intelligence and high-performance habits necessary to create their own professional success, which is a passion of his.
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Every Tuesday, we will continue bringing you a new guest to join us for a candid conversation around the conflict they've experienced between professionalism and authenticity.
Now, we have launching a new weekly series called Thursday Thoughts. During each conversation, we will share a current event that's impacting the culture as well as thoughts on how it's related to professionalism & authenticity. To close each episode, we will even leave you with thought starters that will help you reflect and continue your career growth.
This week we discussed the unexpected benefits that therapy has on our personal and professional lives.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves.
This week, we have the pleasure of speaking with Pedro Martinez. He is a Dominican-American raised in Washington Heights, NY. Raised by a single mother, Pedro was the first in his family to graduate from college, and first and only in his family to work in the tech world.
In his own words, "I have a strong background in customer experience and experiential engagement. I have a proven track record of success in managing and executing executive briefings, driving customer satisfaction and creating a positive work culture at Salesforce (current employer). I operate in a kindness-first mindset with every engagement. If you’re up for an in person or virtual authentic coffee chat or just to learn about Salesforce or what it’s like to work in tech - hit me up!"
For Pedro, family comes first before anything. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with family, trying new restaurants, and traveling.
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Every Tuesday, we will continue bringing you a new guest to join us for a candid conversation around the conflict they've experienced between professionalism and authenticity.
Now, we have launching a new weekly series called Thursday Thoughts. During each conversation, we will share a current event that's impacting the culture as well as thoughts on how it's related to professionalism & authenticity. To close each episode, we will even leave you with thought starters that will help you reflect and continue your career growth.
This week we discussed Mental Health within the Latino/a/x/e community.
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Lexie Perez - Global Planning Director
Here's a quick bio...in her own words.
As an Afro-Latinx Bronx-raised woman - I bring the intersections of gender, class, and race to my strategic and marketing practice. My specialties include: Advocate for unheard voices, speak truth to power, interrogate binary ideas and assumptions, identify humanity beyond data, translate insights into actions, look inward and outward for fresh perspectives. As a natural outsider, I bring the outside in. I help brands see the world through the eyes of real people and real-world culture - not only consumers, not only data points, not only users. I bring an entrepreneur mindset & spirit to every project.
Before diving into agency planning 12 + years ago, I was a TV producer in broadcasting, telecommunications marketer, entrepreneur, and hip hop music writer. These experiences shaped my passion for human behavior, storytelling, technology, and culture. They also helped me translate my non-strategy skills into strategy skills. Today my credentials span across CPG, B2B, consumer tech, retail, and entertainment, fintech - at both global and regional levels.
I started out my career as a content creator, specialized into social /digital, and now live in the worlds of brand strategy and research. As a partner and t-shaped strategist, I bring a new perspective on helping brands move with the culture. I help them identify new opportunities for solving business problems beyond advertising and marketing. My specialties include high-level brand strategies, integrated creative strategies, people / cultural research, and granular digital/social programs. I think holistically, not in channels.
If you’re a dreamer, a rule breaker and view the impossible as a dare, or just a good human - let’s connect.
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Every Tuesday, we will continue bringing you a new guest to join us for a candid conversation around the conflict they've experienced between professionalism and authenticity.
Now, we have launching a new weekly series called Thursday Thoughts. During each conversation, we will share a current event that's impacting the culture as well as thoughts on how it's related to professionalism & authenticity. To close each episode, we will even leave you with thought starters that will help you reflect and continue your career growth.
This week we discussed Black History Month in the US.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves.
This week, we have the pleasure of speaking with Jason Rosario...who is the Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer at BBDO Worldwide.
An Afro-Latino native New Yorker, Jason Rosario has spent most of his life breaking down barriers and building up inclusive cultures. He is passionate about innovation and the power of creativity to drive change.
Jason is Global Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer and sits on the BBDO Worldwide Board of Directors. In this role, he impacts agency diversity policy, influences the agency’s creative to ensure it reflects inclusive principles, and counsels clients on inclusive marketing best practices. As part of the OPEN Leadership team, he partners with other Omnicom agencies to help execute the holding company’s diversity and inclusion strategy.
Jason is an expert at helping brands identify and implement inclusive practices at the enterprise level, having worked with top clients including Netflix, Yahoo!, Spotify, and Huffington Post. Prior to joining BBDO, Jason worked for Verizon Media Group as Manager of Global Diversity & Inclusion and was the Executive Producer and Host of the Yahoo! News original web series “Dear Men.”
In 2017, he founded The Lives of Men, a social impact creative agency that explores themes around masculinity, mental health and culture. And in 2022 was recognized by ADCOLOR as the first ever DE&I Executive of the Year. He is a MBA graduate of NYU’s Stern School of Business and sits on the board of Made of Millions, a non-profit organization changing the negative stigmas around mental health.
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Every Tuesday, we will continue bringing you a new guest to join us for a candid conversation around the conflict they've experienced between professionalism and authenticity.
Now, we're launching a new weekly series called Thursday Thoughts. During each conversation, we will share a current event that's impacting the culture as well as thoughts on how it's related to professionalism & authenticity. To close each episode, we will even leave you with thought starters that will help you reflect and continue your career growth.
This week we discussed the a news of recent layoffs...specifically within the Tech industry.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves.
Today we have the pleasure of speaking with Joel Duran, who was born in Dominican Republic raised in East New York, Brooklyn. Today he is a Product Manager at Microsoft working on Windows but his journey was filled with adversity. Growing up on section 8 he held different jobs and entrepreneurial endeavors in his journey to americanize and fit in socially.
Joel currently uses the title Corporate Hussla as you will learn it was always about hustling in his house. Outside of corporate he gives back working with non profits to Black and Hispanic youth on how to break into tech. He hopes to continue spreading his impact through his story of perseverance and sharing what he’s learned along the way!
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2023...New Year...and we're bringing your some new content.
Every Tuesday, we will continue bringing you a new guest to join us for a candid conversation around the conflict they've experienced between professionalism and authenticity.
Now, we're launching a new weekly series called Thursday Thoughts. During each conversation, we will share a current event that's impacting the culture as well as thoughts on how it's related to professionalism & authenticity. To close each episode, we will even leave you with thought starters that will help you reflect and continue your career growth.
This week we discussed the a news of Missouri State lawmakers revising their dress code for Women. The updated dress code requires female legislators and staff members in the State House of Representatives to wear a jacket, such as a blazer or a cardigan. Here's the link to the article.
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Yovy Daniels, Panamanian born with Afrocaribeña -West Indian Afro-descendant. Her maternal grandmother and aunt raised her. A by-product of generational inheritance from relatives that worked on the railroad and for the canal brought up in a middle-working-class family. She is the first grandchild of nine grandchildren and her mother's only child. Her single mother came to the US for better opportunities, working two jobs and even three to support her mother and Yovy in Panama. Inevitably, she can't escape the immigrant narrative story of sacrifice.
Moving forward, Yovy landed in Miami. She's the second in her family to complete college and earn a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and a Minor in Television Production. However, it took her ten years to do so because she worked full-time and paid her way through college. Thus, she exceeded herself in being the first family to achieve a master's degree specializing in organizational management. She couldn't see herself not having one.
Professionally she's known as a former tv corporate broadcast media planner who worked in the US Spanish-speaking/LATAM division for networks like Fox, Sony, RCNTV, and Univision.
Her avid curiosity and accent became her assets. She knew that being a Spanish speaker Latina, Black, College educated, and exposed to unseen educational ladders and different career spaces. Based on that, Chombita chronicles podcast was born, mainly a story-telling format podcast advocating and mapping Afrolatinx individuals' personal stories on self-identity, self-awareness, and the global multicultural experience.
The good news, she's back in broadcast, working full-time. After hours she's either doing media consulting under her firm Alkiria Media Branding Consulting (AMBC), or freelancing on Other podcast projects under her production company: Alkiria Media Productions, LLC. She loves podcasting and is currently a virtual panel ambassador speaker. She's happy, and life is getting exciting.
Her social media handles are IG @yovy_d and Twitter @YWDaniels - people can find me at https://linktr.ee/yovyd for all my featured press articles.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves.
Today we have the pleasure of speaking with Anthony De La Rosa. Anthony has over a decade of experience and has played a key role in many of the financial institution transformations across US, Canada and Japan. He'll be sharing insight on how he's been able to navigate the first-generation challenges of excelling financial services, management consulting and now tech. Anthony was born in Brooklyn to a single mother and raised in the South Bronx, in this episode he speaks about the lessons he’s carried from home into the workplace.
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2023...New Year...and we're bringing your some new content.
Every Tuesday, we will continue bringing you a new guest to join us for a candid conversation around the conflict they've experienced between professionalism and authenticity.
Now, we're launching a new weekly series called Thursday Thoughts. During each conversation, we will share a current event that's impacting the culture as well as thoughts on how it's related to professionalism & authenticity. To close each episode, we will even leave you with thought starters that will help you reflect and continue your career growth.
This we we discussed the infamous new Year's Resolutions...and how we think about setting goals.
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On February 25, 2022...Pabel Martinez quit his high paying job at TikTok to follow his dreams. He decided to dedicate himself full time to Plurawl.
In this episode you'll hear about what he has learned, as well as what's next for the company.
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2023...New Year...and we're bringing your some new content.
Every Tuesday, we will continue bringing you a new guest to join us for a candid conversation around the conflict they've experienced between professionalism and authenticity.
Now, we're launching a new weekly series called Thursday Thoughts. During each conversation, we will share a current event that's impacting the culture as well as thoughts on how it's related to professionalism & authenticity. To close each episode, we will even leave you with thought starters that will help you reflect and continue your career growth.
After hearing the intro in the episode, you could tell that this isn't the type of current events that anyone else is covering lol.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves.
This week's guest is Justin Johnson, who's a proud Mexican American and a native Texan. He has over a decade of Professional experience in business development, creator and content partnerships, creator economy, and influencer marketing strategy.
In April 2022, Justin was featured as One of the 15 Power Players at Instagram Leading Its Creator Economy Efforts. Justin has even been published as a thought leader in Forbes, Digital Marketer, HuffPost, Business Insider and many other notable publications.
Currently, Justin works at MoonPay, where he is responsible for partnering with brands, organizations, creators, celebrities, and high-net worth individuals entering web3.
Johnson resides in his hometown, San Antonio,Texas, with his wife, daughter and dog.
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This week's episode features Kenneth Jeremiah Gomez aka Cloud Kent, who is a Contemporary POP artist who grew up in the streets of New York City. His rough beginnings as a kid enabled him to survive the concrete jungle.
His creative spark came in the form of art that his father would send from jail. Through an innocent mind, he channeled his empathy for his father as fuel to power and grow his love for art.
Although art was always a part of his life, he was put down and bullied for his passions growing up. In 2015, at the age of 25, Kennth underwent life saving open heart surgery.
After this rebirth, his heart illustrations gained new meaning … vulnerability … the expression of a child-like self. Calling on the imagery of a superhero's flight, Cloud Kent emerged as an alter ego to save him from himself - his fears, depression, and emotional incarceration.
These days, his work embodies the freedom and child-like innocence that connects the audience back to that pure part of themselves.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves.
This week's guest is Judge Victoria Pratt.
Driven. Innovative. Inspiring. These are a few of the words used to describe Judge Victoria Pratt who has gained national and international acclaim for her commitment to reforming the criminal justice system. During her tenure as the Chief Judge in Newark Municipal Court in Newark, New Jersey, she spent years gaining a deep understanding of how justice could be delivered to court participants in a manner that increased their trust in the legal system and changed their behavior. While presiding over Newark Community Solutions, the Community Court Program, she used creative problem solving to provide alternatives to jail to low-level offenders. These alternatives included community service, individual and group counseling sessions, and her signature assignment of introspective essays. Called a pioneer in procedural justice, her respectful approach, and treating individuals with dignity has had a positive effect on court participants’ court experience, how the community viewed the court and how court players viewed their roles. Her TED Talk, How Judges Can Show Respect, has gone viral. It has been translated into 11 languages, received over one million views and the Facebook clip has received an astounding 21 million views.
A fierce advocate committed to reform, Pratt has worked with jurisdictions across the nation, and as far as Ukraine, England, Trinidad and Tobago, and Mexico. In that role she facilitates workshops and presentations on alternative sentencing for juveniles and adults, as well as procedural justice.
As a nationally recognized expert in procedural justice and alternative sentencing, Judge Pratt has been asked by numerous professional organizations to share her story and philosophy. Pratt’s work has been featured in The Guardian newspaper, The Simple Idea that Could Transform U.S. Criminal Justice, and Rutgers Magazine, Asking for a Little Respect, both written by Pulitzer prize winning author Tina Rosenberg. She has also appeared on MSNBC’s the Melissa Harris Perry Show, the Emmy-award winning PBS show Due Process- Community Court: A Kinder, Gentler Way?and National Public Radio’s WBGO: Conversations with Allan Wolper.
Now, a Professor at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey, she teaches Problem Solving Justice and Restorative Justice. She also continues to champion criminal justice reform through her consulting firm Pratt Lucien Consultants, LLC, by sharing her skills and approach with others. As well as speaking to leaders of institutions and organizations about how to heighten and restore respect into their day-to-day operations so that their mission can be better achieved.
Pratt is licensed to practice law in both New Jersey and New York, and is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court. She also facilitates Mountain Movers empowerment sessions to help individuals live their best lives.
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During this episode, we are sharing the monthly live streamed conversation that we host on LinkedIn and YouTube.
You'll be hearing our observations and thoughts on all things Salary Transparency including the below
Let's keep it a buck, most companies are not in favor of Salary Transparency. If they were, then they wouldn't have waited for a Law to be passed. - That said...as of 11/1, the new Salary Transparency law is now active in NYC.
So far...I’m not seeing these ranges on the LinkedIn job posts…but I am seeing them on the company website though. Go on any company career page…search for a job that’s located in NYC…and you’ll see a range for the annual base salary.
During the episode, Odalys and Pabel will explore this and...
- What does all this mean for us?
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How to have productive & healthy Salary transparency conversations
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Personal experiences when these conversations have been awkward
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What do we want to see companies do next?
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest, AJ Polanco, is currently a Director of UX Design.
He brings 12 years of UX & product management experience and has executed strategic visions across education, pharma, hospitality, mixed-reality, fintech, e-commerce, real estate, sales, and marketing.
For ETS, he secured their first NAEP Platform Development contract, valued at $101.7 million over 5.5 years. At Verizon Wireless, his product portfolio was greater than $320 million in new sales and call-in reduction, impacting an end-user base of 35 million customers. Despite his senior role and responsibility at these companies, AJ is capable and comfortable with getting into the weeds to create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and to review final assets for accuracy and quality.
There is more to AJ than work, though! He recently passed his preliminary exam and was bestowed the status of Doctor of Design (ABD) at North Carolina State University. His academic focus is on Digital Accessibility, and his research is on equity for Deaf and Hard of Hearing U.S. students in the space of academic assessment. In this same spirit, he loves mentoring and has a passion for teaching. At Rutgers University, he led a Masters of Business and Science concentration of User Experience.
On the fun side of things, he also has a black belt in Taekwondo, is a World Taekwondo Federation recognized referee, and has dabbled in Aikido, Budokai, Shindō Yōshin-ryū, and Kung-fu. On a final-final sidenote, he hopes to complete his dissertation by 2023, so that when he walks the aisle with his beautiful fiancé, she will have to say her vows to Dr. Polanco. All in good fun, of course!
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This week's episode is featuring an interview that our host Pabel Martinez had on the Sound Judgement podcast.
Sound Judgment has become a quest to identify the universal qualities and skills of "hostiness." If I’m on a quest, Pabel Martinez is on a mission—in his case, to redefine professionalism and to empower members of Latinx community to be their authentic selves 100% of the time. He’s sharing stories of Latinx professionals who are tired of playing the assimilation game in corporate America. Like him, they are rebelling against it, after lifetimes of pretending to be other than who they actually are. And we discover a new hostiness quality: That who we are as human beings has everything to do with how we show up on the mic, and whether—or not—we connect to our audiences.
Takeaways from Pabel Martinez, host of ¿Quién Tú Eres?1. Interrupting is often helpful and we need to learn how to do it deftly. Interrupting is cultural – it’s governed by what we consider polite, which is different everywhere. My husband, from Ohio where everyone is awfully nice, used to be horrified by what I see as my enthusiasm, which means I interrupt far more often than he does. I grew up in Boston and, later, New York.
The skill of interrupting may seem pretty small, inconsequential, even, but it’s not – it’s about being a host who can create a good flow to a conversation, and stay in control of it so you can serve your listeners. 2. Is there an injustice you see, one that isn’t being addressed? You can use a podcast to fill that need, both by having the courage to share your own difficult story, and by encouraging guests to share their untold stories on your show. Representation matters. We know this, but Pabel is showing it. Listeners tell Pabel that because of ¿Quién Tú Eres?, they no longer feel alone. And that gives them strength to make changes they didn’t have the courage to do before.
That response says a lot about the connection a host on a mission can create with their audience. Could you help your audience know they’re not alone? 3. While I believe there are universal qualities and skills to hostiness – I’m on that quest to uncover them – I also believe there is no single definition of a “great” or “best” host. Because, like my mother used to always say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That said, we can certainly know when a host is beloved. Not everyone will love you. But your ideal audience will, if: you understand who you’re talking to.
Are you serving that person? Do you know what they need to hear, and are you willing to go there? Pabel admitted that it’s hard for him to share episodes like the one he did about his salary, and the one he did about quitting his job at TikTok – but that they were among the most popular of all of his episodes. So get to know your ideal listeners very well. Care for them. Let your work speak to them. And, depending on your goals, speak out FOR them.
4. Who we are as a human has everything to with who we are on the mic.
And what I realized is that who we are as human beings has everything to do with who we are on the mic.If we are courageous, it shows.If we know who our listeners are and love them, it shows.If we are ashamed of something in our lives and that holds us back from expressing our full selves as hosts, it shows.If we are making our podcast (or giving our speech or writing our story) solely to support our business and make money – purely for our own ends – it shows.It doesn’t matter if we’re actually sharing personal stories or not: listeners hear and respond to our character in our voices, regardless of the format.So Pabel’s question — Quién Tú Eres? — applies to all of us.
Before you turn on the mic, spend some time with his question.
Who are you?
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest, Jorge Alvarez, is a creator, advocate, and social impact strategist. He destigmatizes mental health and encourages challenging conversations on TikTok (@ijorgealvarez) by creating content that cultivates space for collective reflection, unlearning limiting beliefs, and breaking generational cycles. Through sharing his lived experiences as a Latinx man, he sparks dialogue that is both vulnerable and thought-provoking.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest, Giovanna “Gigi” Gonzalez, teaches financial literacy and career readiness to first-generation Latinas. Through educational workshops and her TikTok account (@thefirstgenmentor), she's built a community of over 195,000+. She holds a BA in Economics, a certificate in investment performance measurement, and 10 years of experience in financial services.
Here's a bit more about her...in her own words..."As a first-gen Latina myself, I’ve experienced the discomfort and overwhelm that comes from attempting to manage, invest, and grow my income as the first in the family to enter these spaces. I’ve experienced reaching the level of success my family dreamed of me and having the desire to give back and uplift the same people who sacrificed so much to help get me here. I remember how it felt to be lost and want guidance on how to support my loved ones and while planning my financial future and not find it. I set out to change that by paving the way for those who come behind me through guidance, mentorship, and financial education."
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where our mission is to redefine professionalism. Each week, we have a new guest join us for a candid conversation around the conflict they have experienced between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. This week's guest, Roberto "Beto" Rizo, is a US born Mexican that moved to the US at the age of 17 from Jalisco, Mexico. He is an advocate of multiculturalism and a believer that we can transcend cultural barriers through communication and compassion.
Beto produces and hosts ¿Qué te tomas? Podcast - a show created to offer a space for latinx immigrants and first-gen to share their stories of adversity, success, growth, and realization and explore the idea of identity. The two goals of the show are to change the perception of the “forever suffering immigrant” by showing that we can make it big and thrive in the US, and to help listeners discover a deeper love for their cultures, their background, and themselves.
Today, Roberto is the Northern California Field Representative for U.S. Senator Alex Padilla—the first ever Latino elected to represent CA in the US Senate—where he oversees government relations strategy for half of California's geographic area. He is responsible for developing key relationships and fostering collaboration across all levels of government, business, community groups, and the general public.
Most recently, at the CA Secretary of State he managed outreach campaigns engaging over ten million people in different target markets, including Latinx, Black, Asian and other underrepresented communities.
In his spare time he does stand-up comedy as an artistic outlet. Through his comedy, he shares his experience as an immigrant navigating US culture and laughs at the inequalities in society that are hidden in plain sight. As an actor he is currently signed to perform in the 2022-2023 season with the Sacramento Theater Company.
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Let's keep it a buck, most companies are not in favor of Salary Transparency. If they were, then they wouldn't have waited for a Law to be passed.
Starting today (11/1) the new Salary Transparency law is now active in NYC.
On this episode, Pabel will share his thoughts/ insights into how companies are reacting and the changes they've already implemented.
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Victoria Morales is a first generation Puerto Rican/Honduran Latina living as a transplant on the West Coast and pursuing her ancestors’ dreams of thriving in “corporate” America. She’s been described as a fierce champion, connector, and advocate for people in underserved communities.
Currently, she serves as a Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Project Manager at Facebook. Victoria has spent the bulk of her career focused on scaling teams and programs aimed at hiring and developing diverse talent – everywhere from promising startups with just 10 employees to companies operating at scale at 50K+.
Most often, she can be found at the nearest local coffee shop, spending time exploring nature with her partner and dogs, or deep conditioning her crown of curls.
Driven by the dream that Latinos will one day soon truly belong to themselves – even in the workplace, she joins us to cover what authenticity really means to her.
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Ayanna is a proud Afro-Latina residing in the DMV area with her family where she earned her masters degree in Human Resource Management after serving 8 years in the military. Ayanna is an advocate for DEIB and mental well-being for people in the workplace. She uses her lived experiences as an Afro-Latina, mother, and disabled veteran to breath life into her HR, DEIB, and advocacy work. She teaches organizations how to create psychologically safe workplaces that foster belonging.
Ayanna is an active Poderistas Power Squad member where she helps uplift the Latina community through civic engagement, social justice initiatives, and mental health roundtables.
Ayanna is an MTV Mental Health Youth Action Forum leader where she curates mental health campaigns to address the inequities which limit BIPOC youth from accessing mental health services. She has pitched campaigns to the Biden-Harris Administration, mental health non-profit partners, and industry leaders at the White House.
“I didn’t know I could heal myself until I learned mental health impacts millions and I’m not alone. I’m doing this for the black and brown kids who don’t know where they can go or who they can turn to.” ~ Ayanna on mental health advocacy
Ayanna truly believes in the inter connectivity of mental health, anti-racist practices, and true belonging in the workplace and in society.
In her spare time, you'll catch her at the soccer field with her first born, tending to her quarantine bought houseplants, walking her dogs, and reading as many books as possible.
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Dr. Marisol Capellan is the Founder and Director of Transformational Coaching Certifications at The Capellan Institute. Dr. Capellan is an internationally recognized and award-winning educator, coach and TEDx speaker. She is a former lecturer at the University of Miami, Miami Herbert Business School, a leadership and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion speaker and trainer, and a certified executive coach. She graduated with a Masters in in Leadership and a doctoral degree in Higher Education Leadership from the University of Miami. Her dissertation focus was on the trajectory of women to leadership positions.
As an Afro-Latina, mother, and immigrant she has faced and witnessed many of the institutional and systemic barriers and biases that Black women face in their career trajectory to leadership roles, which sparked her passion in women’s empowerment and the need to increase the representation of women in positions of power. She is currently writing a book, Leadership is a Responsibility, about her career journey experience as a Black Hispanic woman in Academia, the stories of Black women in the workplace and the need of responsible leaders to create a more equitable society where minority can belong and thrive.
In addition, her personal story of resilience has been featured on CNN where she discussed how her mindset helped her overcome homelessness at 17 years of age while highlighting the systemic inequalities that minorities go through in order to succeed.
She is available to conduct trainings, speaking engagements and coaching in both English and Spanish.
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We're bringing you another special episode of our Unfiltered Series, which we host live every month on LinkedIn and YouTube.
This month, we will be discussed Latin/ Hispanic Heritage Month. Specifically, we walked through the below topics.
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How did you land ERG gigs?
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How is HHM this month vs past ones?
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Power of personal branding/ leveraging social media
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What are companies asking for?
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How to leverage HHM and use this time to get booked for paid opportunities?
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RSVP for the Live Podcast Recording on October 6th at Samsung 837 in NYC. You will not want to miss the live podcast recording of the
After a great deal of success (ranking in the top 2% of podcasts globally) and much demand, we’re bringing the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast to a live audience. This platform was created to empower Latino/a/x communities to be their most authentic selves at work by redefining what professionalism means and looks like in the workplace. This unique live podcast experience will feature three dope professionals, who will explore the conflict that they have experienced between authenticity & "professionalism".
This week's guest is Esther Mireya Tejeda, who is the CMO of Anywhere Real Estate Inc. She was actually tapped to build Anywhere Real Estate Inc.'s first enterprise-wide marketing practice, dealing with its portfolio of leading brands like: Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, CENTURY 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Coldwell Banker Commercial®, Corcoran®, ERA®, and Sotheby's International Realty®. Before this role, she has had various executive & leadership positions at SoundExchange, @Audacy, @Univision, and @PepsiCo.
Throughout her career, she's been recognized with various awards including...but not limited to the below.
‘Woman to Watch’ by PRWeek and a ‘Top Woman in PR’ by PR News; ‘Media Relations Professional of the Year’ by Ragan’s; ‘Maverick of the Year’ by the Stevie Awards; and a ‘Power Woman in Business’ by the Walker’s Legacy Foundation.
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Best part is that the event is free and open to the public. All you need to do is register.
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Ana’s career has always been deliberately diverse and multi-disciplinary (journalist, agency, client VP, media, PR, bilingual). Her goal was to become a senior global marketer with expertise in creating diverse, magnetically forward leaning, unexpected go-to-market efforts for brands that drive sales growth ---from any seat at the table. Her deep consumer/business curiosity, plus the intersectionality of sector experience (luxury, CPG, financial, tech, healthcare, multicultural) has shaped her approach to brand/corporate communications. Ana has a deep reputation for equitably leading collaborative, elastic, and high performing fluid teams (in 22 countries and 17 languages). She thrives in discovering frictionless coherence in complex assignments; clarity and elegance to ambitious missions; and unbiased business imperatives for future proofing growth. Ana’s reputation among CMO/CCO’s: generating “Purposeful Profits” and a “Factivism” rooted in modernizing consumer insights to existing products; products to untapped consumers; and consumers to incremental revenue by coalescing cross functional leaders (internal and industry) to trailblaze.
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Amaurys Grullon is an Artist and entrepreneur based in the Bronx. While wondering why there wasn’t good or enough apparel about the Bronx, Amaurys & his sister Roselyn began developing what is now Bronx Native. Together they (both raised in the Longwood section of the Bronx) formed and created the brand that brings into perspective the good the Bronx has and what it means to be a true Bronx Native.
Follow them on Instagram and shop on their website.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast, where we explore the conflict we often face between "professionalism" & being our authentic selves. On this week's episode Pabel Martinez is joined by host of the Hella Latin@ podcast Odalys Jasmine Garcia Arce. We typically share other people's stories & experiences each week...but once a month we go live with Odalys on YouTube and LinkedIn to share our experience. This week, the focus of the conversation was Quiet Quitting. We went through what we thought it meant, what it actually means, personal stories around quiet quitting, and how this will impact the future of work.
Here's the link to the episode on YouTube.
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Emmy de la Cruz is the Director of Talent at Newco: An IAC Incubator. She has built teams across media and tech under the most influential leaders. A native New Yorker who immigrated from the Dominican Republic, she's passionate about DEI in tech (and all parts of life, really). She wants the community to know that there are different paths toward success and that it's a personal definition. We can back the power from labels and that it's okay to be ambitious while being true to your roots - no matter your gender or race. If you're at the table, you deserve to be there because there is space for everyone.
Connect with Emmy on LinkedIn. She is hiring.
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Michael Lopez is a graphic designer whose work can be found at www.postlopez.com. Originally from San Diego, now living in Los Angeles with their cartoonist spouse Rachel Dukes and 2 cats. They are Chicanx and non-binary.
Michael Lopez also shared the below post on LinkedIn and it went viral. This is his first and only interview about the situation and we are proud that he decided to share his story on our platform.
I'm a queer brown person and I was fired during Pride month for speaking up in defense of abortion rights at Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) (a subsidiary of Universal Music Group).
Last Friday, like countless other folks, I was devastated by the news of the supreme court's attack on abortion rights. Paired with the flood of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation, it's been hard to process how company's expect us to be productive while our rights are being stripped away. Especially when our company has been donating to several of these politicians (link in comments).
Every Friday, one of my tasks was to process reports for upcoming releases. This is an email list that goes out to 275 people. I don't know who's on it, I just knew it was the email list with the most people that I had access to. So I sent the following message:
Subject line: UMe Schedules
Message:
I didn't do them today.
I'm in mourning due to the attack on people with uteruses in the US. Federally guaranteed access to abortion is gone.
Vivendi and Universal Music Group must stop donating to anti-abortion, anti-queer and anti-trans politicians. Politicians like Marsha Blackburn, Ken Buck, Victoria Spartz, etc. Or expect more unproductive days.
Yours in fury,
-Michael Lopez
The immediate aftermath was several supportive emails from other co-workers and a manager calling to tell me to take the rest of the day off. I appreciate the love from my coworkers, and I figured, based on management's response, there was a good possibility I might be fired as a result. But I was proud of letting allies know that our company has been donating to these politicians.
Around 9:30-ish today, I got a surprise Zoom video chat with HR. I was being let go for (paraphrasing) "Not doing your job, disrupting the day of 275 people and poor judgement." I was told to log out and that a courier would be there to pick up my laptop from my apartment within the hour.
Anticipating that I'd get shut out of my computer very soon, I sent a follow up to the email list:
Hey ya’ll,
Just got fired for this email from Friday, so they’re letting you know where they stand on employees speaking out on politicians that support marginalization for folks like me.
A brown queer person terminated during Pride month speaking in support of abortion rights. Seems like that’s exactly what America is all about right now.
Peace out,
-Michael Lopez
I don't speak for my former company. I speak for myself and employees that will suffer under these discriminatory laws.
Their actions today, their silence on Friday are indicative of their motivations. Profit at all costs. Solidarity, only if it's profitable. And above all of that is maintaining the status quo and saying fuck you to the working class.
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Vanessa Toro is Vice President of Brand Strategy. She writes about communication, culture, and identity. Vanessa has built a career leading branding and marketing for industries ranging from Airlines to Fintech to Chocolate. Her multi-hyphenate background includes extensive practice in behavioral economics, semiotics, and real talk.
Throughout the episode, Vanessa dropped some gems. Here are some of our favorite quotes that Vanessa said during the conversation.
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"If you don’t have a certain level of self awareness, then how do you know if you’re betraying that [authenticity]?"
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"I find it very easy to stand up for others."
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"I don’t save things for a special occasion because life is the occasion."
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Add Pabel on LinkedIn & Plurawl on YouTube.
"We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us." — Ken Levine
Our families have sacrificed and worked too hard for us to not do well in life. It's pressure that we constantly feel and it impacts the daily decisions that we make. What is doing "well" though? Should we even be feeling this pressure?
This month's topic, Odalys and Pabel will be diving deep into decision making and the impact that recent decisions has had on our lives. Example questions and topics below.
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Did you ever regret any of your decisions, did it always open a new door etc.?
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How has therapy helped with decision making
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Am I making decisions for myself or others?
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Navigating the big decisions and the small ones throughout the day
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Jose Abreu (here he is on LinkedIn) is Vice President of Digital Strategies for Sony Music Entertainment’s US Hispanic, Latin American, and Iberian region. He has worked with some of the largest digital services providers in the world including, Spotify, Youtube, Facebook and Apple. His expertise revolves in the world of digital media, content distribution and audience development. Jose also holds an M.B.A. from New York University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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A native of the Gage Park community on the South Side of Chicago, Micaela is a high-impact coalition-builder and social entrepreneur. She has over ten years of experience in public policy, political strategy, business development and operations.
Through her company, MAV Consulting, Micaela serves clients by performing external relations, enterprise sales and community impact development. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Chicago Latino Caucus Foundation where leads the organization’s charitable initiatives to support and mobilize the next generation of Latino leaders as well as manages the Caucus’ legislative agenda.
Other clients have included a startup women’s leadership development company where she directly supported the CEO in the company’s first round of sales and a technology company where she developed a social impact plan to bridge the digital divide specifically on the West Side of Chicago.
Micaela has served in a variety of leadership roles supporting senior-level executives and top government officials. She previously served as Chief of Staff in Cook County government where she analyzed a $5 billion budget and served as lead on legislation that positively impacted thousands of individuals and families in Illinois. Legislation drafted by Micaela has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business and the New York Times.
She is a member of the Global Shapers World Economic Forum Chicago Chapter and previously served for five years on the board of directors for Mujeres Latinas En Accion, in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, and the National Diversity Advisory Council for the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. Micaela received her Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies and Business Administration from DePaul University in Chicago and received the Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University.
Micaela’s favorite quote:
“Do it for your last name.” -Richard Montañez, Inventor of the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, former janitor, and now VP of Multicultural Sales at PepsiCo
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Anne is an accidental marketer, corporate executive, and multipotentialite with a smart mouth and a willingness to shout what most will only quietly think.
She has spent much of the last two decades working in marketing for startups and large organizations and, based largely on her prior experiences in those spaces, is on a mission to get the business world to focus on the humanity of their teams and put people over profits.
She partners with new, emerging leaders and seasoned execs, empowering them to build a humancentric future of work for themselves and their teams, and speaks to audiences on how to embrace and embody lucid leadership, create a humancentric workplace, and become an agent of authenticity.
She is loud, proud, heavily caffeinated and tattooed, and usually not safe for work.
To follow Anne, please use any of the following links: Website, LinkedIn, Tiktok, Instagram, and Twitter.
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For over ten years, Eric has worked with corporations and nonprofit organizations in the Washington DC area in order to ensure fair and equitable access to resources and opportunities for historically underrepresented populations. He is an experienced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) champion who has collected and analyzed DEI data in order to understand trends in the advancement of inclusion. Through his work, Eric supports the efforts of organizations that seek to ensure the voices of diverse stakeholders are heard.
Prior to joining Coqual, Eric was a Managing Analyst at Ballast Research where he led the analysis, development, and presentation of research-based consulting engagements meant to inform the investments and strategy of major corporations. Prior to that, he was the Director of Corporate Accountability at the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) leading the organization's Research Institute and their flagship project the HACR Corporate Inclusion Index. Eric is also the Founder and Principal of GlobeServe Consulting where he manages the analytical, fundraising, and event needs for nonprofit and for-profit clients.
Eric has utilized his research and communication skills to help propel the missions and work of nationally recognized organizations like the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), UnidosUS, and the Equal Rights Center (ERC). He has also served on several non-profit boards including Be Free Global, Jai Bhim International, and Prospanica DC.
Eric received both his bachelor’s degree in philosophy, history, and psychology and his master’s degree in applied social science and policy analysis from Hofstra University in New York. He is also a recipient of a Fulbright research grant to Hungary which was awarded to him in 2008. Eric's Fulbright focused on the discrimination of the Roma from public education institutions, the Decade of Roma Inclusion outcomes in Hungary, and parallels that could be drawn between the discrimination of the Roma and Post Brown v Board of Ed educational policy in the U.S.
Interested in DEI Research? Check out Coqual the HACR Corporate Inclusion Index
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Selena Rezvani is an award-winning author of two books and an expert on leadership and self-advocacy. She consults with leading organizations such as Microsoft, J&J, The World Bank and many others. Her TEDx talk on gender bias was recognized with a Croly Journalism Award, she wrote an award-winning column on women in leadership for the Washington Post, and she’s served as a commentator on NPR's nationally syndicated "The 51% Perspective." Today, she continues to be a regular contributor to NBC News’ Know Your Value.
Links: Website, TikTok, and Instagram.
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Alex Montas is an Executive VP of Marketing, Entrepreneur, Husband and Father from New York City via Dominican Republic. He has held leadership roles for places such as Verizon, Bloomberg, CITI, and now BEN - Branded Entertainment Network. Throughout his career he has executed campaigns with brands like the NFL, NBA, Warner Brothers among others. He enjoys a good mangu, marketing chats and saying "de lo mio" as much as humanly possible.
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Nancy Reyes is a 24 year veteran of the Marketing Industry. She is currently the CEO of TBWA\Chiat\Day NY, an award-winning advertising agency based in NY. During the course of her career Nancy has specialized in partnering with dozens of companies to develop their brands, create meaningful relationship with their consumers/customers and ultimately drive a more purposeful and profitable future.
Nancy’s experience spans a wide range of industries such as technology, healthcare, consumer goods, automotive, travel and financial services. Companies include IBM, HP, Adobe, Google, Facebook, Procter & Gamble, Henkel, Abbott. Throughout her career Nancy has devoted her attention to pushing a robust Diversity, Equity and Inclusion agenda in the marketing industry. In 2018, she founded a program called Circle of Women which provides executive coaching to women on the cusp of leadership to build a pipeline of future female leaders—and more than half of the participants are women of color. She is a founding member of Times UP and is in her fifth year of establishing a summer internship program for aspiring advertising young people of color which includes Prep for Prep students. Nancy is also on the board of the Ad Council and Prep for Prep.
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That opportunity to interact directly with the community that supports you...makes the conversation even more fun. The Unfiltered series, with Odalys Jasmine Garcia Arce and Pabel Martinez (add them on LinkedIn), is back...and the event will be live on the last Friday of each month. This podcast episode is a replay of our conversation for those that weren’t able to attend the event.
Excited for you to join us next time.
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Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, Claudia has been in the states for 20 years. She's lived everywhere from Maryland to Miami to Austin and most recently Minnesota. After living in various cities, Claudia became a melting pot of cultures that made her fluent in Spanglish.
Throughout her career, she has developed a passion in Multicultural marketing. Despite the success, her annual reviews have been flooded with feedback such as "you are too passionate" or "you have an attitude". That said, the same feedback made her who she is today. Navigating small agencies and big fortune 500 companies with her most authentic self has made it easier for Claudia to ensure her voice has been heard.
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Eric Toda is an award winning Marketing Executive currently at Meta (Head of Meta Prosper & Global Head of Social Marketing) and formerly of Nike, Airbnb, Snapchat. Sits on the board of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, The Asian American Foundation, and Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change. Is an active advocate for the AAPI community but more-so for DEI in totality as a proud father of mixed-race children. His fight, much like all of ours, is to impact the future positively by breaking stereotypes, biases, and misconceptions.
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Mark Travis Rivera is an award-winning professional storyteller––telling stories is at the core of Mark’s purpose in life. A graduate of William Paterson University of New Jersey, Rivera earned a bachelor’s in women’s & gender studies with a minor in public relations.
In 2013, Rivera received the Student Government Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his commitment to the William Paterson community. In the same year, he was honored with the Campus Pride Voice & Action Award for his work with the LGBTQ community. More recently, he won the Audre Lorde Award for Social Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. Rivera is the youngest person to found an integrated dance company in the United States, marked dance project, a contemporary company for dancers with and without disabilities, established in March 2009, made its debut at Rutgers University. After ten years of remarkable dancing, Rivera decided to dissolve the marked dance project and continue working as an independent disabled choreographer. Rivera’s writing has also been published in The Bergen Record, Herald News, The Star-Ledger, Fox News Latino, and The Huffington Post. As a speaker, he has spoken in front of crowds at various institutions of higher learning including Harvard, MIT, and NYU. His TEDxTalk, “Embracing Yourself, Embracing Your Potential” was a smash in 2014 at Bergen Community College. His debut collection, Drafts: An Imperfect Collection of Writing was published in August of 2017 through Amazon. In 2020, Rivera launched his wellness podcast, Marking The Path, which is available on Apple Podcast and Spotify.
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Our mission is to redefine professionalism. We will achieve this mission by scaling the representation that we wish we had earlier in our careers. Every episode is an opportunity to explore the journey between professionalism and authenticity with a different guest. Each guests should serve as examples of people thriving in their careers while bringing their most authentic self into their work.
This week's guest is Michelle Freyre, who grew up in Puerto Rico and now resides with her family in Princeton, New Jersey.
Professionally, Michelle is currently the Global Brand President, Clinique, at The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC), where she is responsible for guiding the brand’s overall strategic vision and driving global growth. Under Michelle’s leadership to evolve and modernize the iconic brand, Clinique continues to be introduced to new and diverse audiences across generations, and has entered new territories most notably and recently, the Metaverse.
Michelle has a proven track for fostering workplace inclusivity receiving several awards and honors in recognition of her outstanding contributions, including being named to Fortune’s 2018 “50 Most Powerful Latinas in Business”, and named one of ALPFA’s “50 Most Powerful Latinas – 2021 Corporate Trailblazer”. Additionally, she sits on the Board of Directors of Cynosure, LLC, is a founding member of CHIEF, a private network designed to accelerate women in business and support women leaders. She is also a member of the PCPC Board.
Following her passion to develop future leaders, Michelle actively participates in corporate mentorship and sponsorship programs. She is the Executive Sponsor of ELC’s Hispanic Connections (HiC) ERG, serves in ELC’s Reverse Mentorship Program and actively mentors diverse talent across the organization. Together with fellow top ELC leaders, Michelle is a sponsor for ELC’s Open Doors Women’s Leadership Program, focused on her commitment to women’s empowerment and advancement.
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Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Julissa Prado is the Founder &CEO of Rizos Curls, a clean hair care line aimed at embracing and celebrating the beauty of curls, coils and waves everywhere!After years of making her own curly cocktail and being the “curl whisperer” within her community, Julissa decided to launch her own haircare line Rizos Curls.The result is a line of products made with quality natural ingredients that works across a variety of curly hair textures. The brand has amassed a global following of #RizosReinas, becoming a favorite among the curly hair community, shipped to over 57 countries and available at Target, Ulta Beauty and Sally Beauty Mexico!Julissa is a leading force in the beauty industry with award wins as one ofCosmopolitan’s 2021 The New C-Suite Winner and named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2020 by Beauty Independent. Julissa is also an active national speaker with speaking roles at Harvard University, The Girlboss Rally, Create& Cultivate, the U.S. Department of State for The United Nations, TED, among others. She also proudly organizes curated events and resources centered on entrepreneurship, including the Rizos Curls Small BusinessSummit and JEFACON, a collaboration with Smashbox Cosmetics.Julissa holds a Masters in Business from Wake Forest University, is an alumniof UCLA, and has held corporate leadership positions at Nestlé.
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DJ EFN is an American record label executive and DJ, based in Miami, who specializes in hip-hop. Since the early 1990s, operating most often under the banner of Crazy Hood Productions, EFN has worked in the hip-hop industry in a variety of capacities, including as a mixtape producer, album producer and A&R consultant, radio host, marketing and promotions specialist, clothing retailer, artist manager, and film producer. In the fall of 2004, Boston’s t.r.u.e. magazine noted, “Crazy Hood Productions remains a pillar in Miami, as it has been for the better part of ten years.”
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During her career, Yoselin, or "Yos", has focused her career on building a sustainable pathway to socioeconomic mobility, through access to higher education and professional careers. She believes that when systems are focused on those they serve, profound changes can happen for the better. She began her career in higher education at Brandeis and NYU, where she developed a passion for building access to education and pathways to social mobility. At EY, she focused on building inclusive recruiting practices across the recruiting teams, and worked with 50+ universities and organizations on their recruiting and retention strategies for diverse talent. Over the years, she's worked with higher ed institutions, corporations, and non-profit organizations to define and develop their recruiting strategies to attract top diverse talent.
Yos is currently the Senior Director of MBA Admissions at the Stern School of Business, and is a graduate of Brandeis University. When not shaping the next generation of business leaders, she's spending time with her family, likely on the beach.
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Rick Morales (@rickdiddy78) has been in Music and Radio production since 2000. Throughout his career he's had various titles/ job functions including Recording Engineer, Talent Manager, Agent, A&R, and Consultant. These days, he now produces artist lead programs for Apple Music in Culver City, California.
On Instagram, you could find him chillin with some of your favorite artists including J. Balvin, Karol G, Bad Bunny...among many others.
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Live experiences just hit different.
That opportunity to interact directly with the community that supports you...makes the conversation even more fun. Shoutout to the almost 800 unique people that tuned into the first episode of our Unfiltered (with my cohost Odalys Jasmine Garcia Arce).
I was humbled by the amount of people that joined...and the level of engagement(reactions and comments) that flooded the screen. I think the participation was strong because of the topics that were discussed during the conversation. These experiences often either go untold or told anonymously. We are scared to be open about certain topics because of retaliation, judgement, and isolation.
Below are a few of the topics we discussed:
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The Original Big Papi (IYKYK lol)
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Hella Latin@ Girls (IYKYK lol)
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Making enough $ to spoil our families
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401K...I mean 401Pabel
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Diversity in Tech
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Power of our voice
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Relationships with your manager
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As a proud first-generation American and member of the LatinX and LGBTQ+ communities, Ariana Vergara-Johnson believes that story-telling whether being told through your headphones or being seen on a pocket-sized screen can move the needle. Images on-screen whether the big ones or the small ones in our pockets have the power to spark curiosity and move people of all ages to action. She is presently a Product Marketing Manager at Disney Streaming and proud co-writer of the "Disney Letter."
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Luis Baez is an entrepreneur, sales executive, and unwavering optimist.
Surprising (to us)…the spotlight isn't his thing thing though. He’s one of those people who likes to work hard behind the scenes to make talented people look really good in front of audiences.
His ability to build genuine trust and help people around him shine is why he has been recruited to work at some of the most influential companies in history — including LinkedIn, Google, Uber, and Tesla.
Not bad for a “boy from the Bronx who's first generation”.
See, no one taught him how to sell — putting him out there is just what he has had to do to create the life he wanted.
You could find Luis on LinkedIn (by clicking this link)
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This week, the host (Pabel Martinez) shared why he quit his job as a Global Account Director at TikTok.
Exciting news to come, as Pabel will now be a full time business owner.
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Justice Shannon Frison was appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court in March of 2013 at age 42. She is the youngest judge on that court. Justice Frison took that seat after serving for more than 3 years on the Boston Municipal Court in from 2009-2013, beginning her tenure on
the bench at age 39. She is a jurist, a Major of Marines, and a mentor to new trial lawyers.
Before appointment, Justice Frison practiced locally and abroad as owner of Frison Law Firm, P.C. Her practice focused on “blue collar” criminal law and military justice. She tried several high profile murder, rape, and conspiracy cases in the Boston area and in the military courts of
North Carolina, Pensacola, Florida, and Okinawa, Japan. Her final case before taking the bench was a tragic and complex quadruple murder that occurred in Dorchester and was tried in Suffolk Superior Court. In that matter, she defended the man accused of all four murders of four young
men in a basement music studio. The trial lasted over a month and included more than 60 witnesses.
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Eliana Murillo a Mexican American, originally from Oxnard, California.
She graduated from Harvard College in 2010, was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in 2017 and was listed as one of the top 50 Most Powerful Latinas by ALPFA in 2018.
She is the founder and CEO of Eliment & Co. She partners with diverse founders to consult their marketing strategies and product design, in addition to consulting corporate clients on their diversity and multicultural marketing strategies. She also founded Latinas Who Brunch, a national organization of badass Latinas that serves as a platform to support local small businesses, philanthropic causes and mental health awareness. She co-founded her family's award-winning organic Alquimia Tequila and the Latinos in Tech Giving Circle.
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Eliana Murillo a Mexican American, originally from Oxnard, California.
She graduated from Harvard College in 2010, was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in 2017 and was listed as one of the top 50 Most Powerful Latinas by ALPFA in 2018.
She is the founder and CEO of Eliment & Co. She partners with diverse founders to consult their marketing strategies and product design, in addition to consulting corporate clients on their diversity and multicultural marketing strategies. She also founded Latinas Who Brunch, a national organization of badass Latinas that serves as a platform to support local small businesses, philanthropic causes and mental health awareness. She co-founded her family's award-winning organic Alquimia Tequila and the Latinos in Tech Giving Circle.
Episode Sponsor: Dominicans En Tech
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Dania Matos began her tenure as the 4th Vice Chancellor for the Division of Equity & Inclusion (VCEI) at the University of California, Berkeley, in August 2021. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was the inaugural associate chancellor and chief diversity officer at the University of California, Merced.
In 2021, Dania was awarded the Top DEI Advocate by the National Diversity Council. In 2020, she was selected as a Leadership Academy Fellow by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, and in 2018, she was named one of the Top 25 Women in Higher Education byDiverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine.
Over the past decade, Dania has led equity and inclusion work in the private, nonprofit, and government sectors. She was the inaugural deputy chief diversity officer at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and served in Virginia’s public defender’s office.
Dania holds a J.D. from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, and a BA from Brown University.
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Kayla Santalla is a DEI and growth marketing expert with a 15+ year track record of driving business results and social impact for world-class brands.
Committed to dismantling systemic racism, Kayla pivoted her career at the start of 2021 to focus on building diversity, equity, and inclusion into the foundation of brands. Kayla takes an intersectional approach to brand marketing and community-building work proven to fuel social impact and deliver on the bottom line. Her strategies center diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) accelerate growth, expose brands to larger markets, and catalyze loyalty.
Kayla earned a dual degree in Media Management and Sociology from the University of Miami, as well as an M.A. in Sociology with a concentration in Race & Ethnic Relations and Medical Sociology. Kayla proudly served as a founding member of Girl Scouts of the USA’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Racial Justice Steering Committee to transform the 108-year-old nonprofit into an antiracist organization. A lover of art and activism, she currently serves on Street Wise’s board of directors, working to amplify artist voices and unleash the power of public art to spark change and build empathy within communities.
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Alma’s passion for sports can be traced back to her school yard days. She’s been a sports aficionado from the start and now she’s made a career of it.
As a marketer with over 15 years of experience in the areas of sport, entertainment and culture, she has mastered the in’s and out’s of commercial revenue growth. She’s honed and executed these specialties to reach her current role as Vice President of Partnerships for the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets. To date, one of the more prominent Latina women on the NBA’s business side (currently the only to hold such a title league wide).
Her path to today has been a fun and decorated one. She has led global teams, her work has broken two Guinness World Records, won a Telly Award, negotiated countless groundbreaking deals with Fortune 100 brands, secured one of the largest WNBA jersey sponsorships at the time and had the high honor of servicing as a liaison for the Mexican National Soccer Team within the U.S. commercial space. All huge dreams come true for this first generation Mexican-American, California native.
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Hector Martinez grew up in Queens, New York...with his Mexican parents/ family. He's thankful to have grown up his whole life speaking Spanish and learning about my Mexican heritage.
He briefly left Queens to attend BYU (in Utah), where he studied Communications. After graduation in 2019, Hector started his career in advertising in Brand Management. These days, he is currently working at Wieden + Kennedy as a Brand Executive.
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Iván Markman, Chief Business Officer at Yahoo, oversees the unit’s B2B business. He leads the unit’s efforts to create more meaningful and valuable relationships between consumers, publishers, and marketers. Iván brings over 20 years of strategic and operational experience in Ad & Marketing technology, and a strong passion for transforming businesses.
In addition to his executive leadership role at Yahoo, Ivan also holds Board of Director positions with DPAA, the leading global trade marketing association connecting digital out-of-home media with the advertising community, and Alliance for SoCal Innovation, a non-profit organization that supports the growth and development of SoCal innovation ecosystem leaders and stakeholders.
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Jomayra Herrera is a Partner at Reach Capital, an ed tech and future of work focused ventured fund. She was born in Orlando, Florida to two parents who always believed that education was not only important to prioritize, but it was one of the few things that no one could ever take from you. With that mindset, Jomayra devoted herself to her studies and eventually became the first person in her family to go to college. At Stanford, she fell in love with education and ended up getting a MA in education policy, organization, and leadership studies. She started her career as an operator at an ed tech startup called BloomBoard and eventually started a career in venture capital first at Emerson Collective, Laurene Powell Jobs’ family office. Before Reach Capital, she was at Cowboy Ventures, where spent a lot of her time working with consumer internet and marketplace companies.
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Our host Pabel Martinez welcomes new listeners and opens up and takes us on a journey through the various negative experiences in corporate that led to the launch of this podcast.
Social media: Pabel on LinkedIn, Pabel on TikTok, Plurawl on Instagram
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Hady Mendez likes to see people succeed and connects with others through trusted relationships. Over her 25+ year career, Hady has worked in multiple customer-facing roles at tech companies and financial services firms, as an international volunteer working with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women, and at an elementary school in the South Bronx, where she served as Community School Director. A graduate of Manhattan College, Hady holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems. She also holds eBusiness and eCommerce graduate certificates from NYU and NJIT, respectively, and a Family Development Credential from the University of Connecticut. Hady is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion and currently serves as Co-President for Latinoforce NYC, a Salesforce employee equality group. In her free time, Hady is an amateur street art photographer and loves to travel.
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In this episode, Pabel Martinez (host of this podcast), opens up about his viral LinkedIn post about Latina Equal Pay day. Pabel shares 3 lessons that he learned and challenges the audience to do some self reflection around our relationship with money and salary transparency.
Find him on LinkedIn with this link and find his viral post by clicking this link. Below, we've included an excerpt from his post.
How many people know how much money you make?
Up until this post...only my accountant knew...and that's because he does my taxes. Not even my Mom was privy to this information! I haven't shared this information with my family, girlfriend, or friends.
Like many others, I've been trained (at work & home) to believe that this information should NEVER be shared.
1) Work: We are often encouraged to not share our job level as well as our compensation packages. Sharing this information would likely force companies to pay equal wages (across the same roles & levels). This behavior doesn't help individuals though. Employees are often lowballed and accept for offers well below what their counterparts were offered.
2) Home: I was told that it will create jealousy, envy, among other emotions. I was warned people will aim to take advantage of my situation. These situations are real and happen often. That said, I'm ready for the pocket watchers.
With #LatinaEqualPayDay being last week, I couldn't help to think about how this secrecy impacts the discrepancy in wages. Imagine the power of going into salary negotiations for a role...and you already know how much someone on that team makes.
Transparency is how I'm helping to close the gap.
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Growing up in a military family, Carlos Sanchez has lived in several locales, both stateside and abroad, such as California, Alabama, Florida, and the Dominican Republic. Having spent 14 years between Tampa and Miami, Carlos calls Florida home – where he graduated with a BA, specializing in Global Media Communication and Anthropology, from Florida International University. He has lived in Chicago for the last 8 years and has truly fallen in love with the city (but not the winters). Carlos has a passion for sports (with football being his favorite), music, and is a serious history buff. For fun he spends his time coaching youth football, playing softball, and sampling different cuisines.
Currently, Carlos is an Associate Media Director, the Diversity and Inclusion lead at and presides as the Starcom Belonging Advisory Board (BAB) leader...at Starcom US. This BAB board is a working board, committed to action regarding Diversity and Opportunity Creation, and is the agency's guiding force, striving to drive measurable D&I outcomes and weave our culture of Belonging into the fabric of our agency’s DNA, and allowing everyone to be their most authentic self.
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Monique Manso
PEOPLE en español, Publisher
Monique Manso serves as Publisher of PEOPLE en Español, the largest selling Hispanic magazine in the U.S., reaching an audience of 7 million each month. She is charged with overseeing all advertising and marketing operations for the magazine and its website, PeopleEnEspanol.com, as well as the brand’s live event platform, which includes Los 50 Más Bellos, Las 25 Mujeres Mas Influyentes (25 Most Influential Women), and the annual Festival PEOPLE en Español.
Under Manso’s leadership, PEOPLE en Español has achieved tremendous growth including expanded red-carpet experiences and large scale live events for advertisers and consumers; heightened consumer engagement across mobile and social platforms; and record-breaking issues and business wins.
Prior to joining PEOPLE en Español in 2011, Manso was Vice President of Time Inc. Corporate Sales where she was responsible for Time Inc.’s largest advertising contracts. Managing a team of corporate sales directors and working closely with the company’s world-class brands, she developed large-scale integrated corporate advertising programs and fostered new sales and marketing relationships. Under her management, the number of clients working with Corporate Sales & Marketing more than doubled, and she helped increase Time Inc.’s print market share significantly.
Previously, Manso was an account director at Condé Nast’s Bon Appétit, where she managed a range of retail, consumer electronics, and fashion accounts.
She also held several senior positions at the Condé Nast Corporate Media Group, including Executive Corporate Business Director, where she oversaw a team of ten media planning and buying professionals, and Corporate Sales Director, spearheading dozens of accounts in the food, liquor and home categories.
Before entering the publishing world, Manso managed the IBM business at Ogilvy & Mather, where she negotiated and maintained all global corporate contracts that included print, broadcast, online, custom publishing, research, and conference components. She was also responsible for the successful transition of the agency’s Latin America media department from Miami to New York.
Manso began her career at Ammirati Puris Lintas Worldwide, where she worked on the Sara Lee Corp., Elizabeth Arden, Unilever, MasterCard and Wrangler business.
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Ivan Heredia was born and raised in Brooklyn where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from New York University. He sits on the Adweek Brand Innovators Council.
Ivan is the Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of National 4-H Council.
Ivan is responsible for driving brand recognition, revenue, and innovation to advance National 4-H Council and the Cooperative Extension System’s mission of creating opportunity for all kids.
Celebrated as a leading brand innovator by Adweek, Ivan has spent more than two decades in marketing, building some of the most iconic youth-focused brands in the entertainment world. He was previously vice president of brand engagement and revenue at Walt Disney Co., where he oversaw all brand engagement on behalf of Disney Channels Worldwide, leading the revitalization of the iconic Radio Disney brand, including the Radio Disney Music Awards—music’s biggest event for families.
While at Walt Disney Co., Ivan served as an advisor and executive mentor on Disney Channel’s Leader & Learning Advisory Board, which fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as professional development across the organization.
Previously, Ivan served as Nickelodeon’s Director of Marketing and Talent Relations, where he created programs and synergies across ViacomCBS and the music industry at large to deliver culturally relevant content such as iCarly, Big Time Rush, and multiple Kids’ Choice Awards.
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Nancy Reyes is a 24 year veteran of the Marketing Industry. She is currently the CEO of TBWA\Chiat\Day NY, an award-winning advertising agency based in NY. During the course of her career Nancy has specialized in partnering with dozens of companies to develop their brands, create meaningful relationship with their consumers/customers and ultimately drive a more purposeful and profitable future.
Nancy’s experience spans a wide range of industries such as technology, healthcare, consumer goods, automotive, travel and financial services. Companies include IBM, HP, Adobe, Google, Facebook, Procter & Gamble, Henkel, Abbott. Throughout her career Nancy has devoted her attention to pushing a robust Diversity, Equity and Inclusion agenda in the marketing industry. In 2018, she founded a program called Circle of Women which provides executive coaching to women on the cusp of leadership to build a pipeline of future female leaders—and more than half of the participants are women of color. She is a founding member of Times UP and is in her fifth year of establishing a summer internship program for aspiring advertising young people of color which includes Prep for Prep students. Nancy is also on the board of the Ad Council and Prep for Prep.
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JOSE ANTONIO TIJERINO is president and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation is a national nonprofit focused on education, workforce, social impact, and culture through innovation and leadership.
As a proud immigrant from Nicaragua, who currently resides in Washington, DC. Tijerino’s blogs and media presence have made him a national voice on various issues including diversity, immigration, creativity and youth empowerment. He earned a BS degree from the University of Maryland’s school of journalism, and was honored with a Doctorate of Humane Letters from The Chicago School.
HHF under Tijerino’s leadership is recognized as a creative, agile, impact-focused organization recognized by The White House, US Congress, Fortune 500 companies, other nonprofits and the Government of Mexico. Tijerino also serves as executive producer of the Hispanic Heritage Awards at the Kennedy Center, which are broadcast on PBS. Tijerino also founded the LOFT (Latinos On Fast Track) Institute.
Prior to HHF, Tijerino was an executive at Fannie Mae Foundation, Nike, Burson Marsteller, and Cohn & Wolfe.
Tijerino has been honored with the Ohtli Award, Lifetime Achievement Award by National PTA, Vision Award by Silicon Valley Latino Leadership, MALDEF Award for Human Rights, Community Service Award from Telemundo, Civilian Impact Award by US Army, Brillante Award by National Society of Hispanic MBAs, Digital Hero Award by MMTC, among others.
Tijerino has served on various boards and committees inlcuding Harvard’s Latino Leadership Initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School, University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, University System of Maryland Foundation, Hispanic Technology and Telecommunications Partnership, National Girls Collaborative, Games for Change, KID Museum, and Nielsen’s Latino Advisory Counsel, among others.
As a proud immigrant from Nicaragua, Tijerino help found the Hispanic Leaders Alliance with the NFL, the American Project, #WeDreamAmerica campaign, #Masks4Farmworkers which provided nearly 2 million masks for farmworkers during pandemic, READ (Refugee Education And Development), DREAM LEAD Institute for DACA recipients, and helped produce the Oyeme! Project with Imagination Stage. He was recognized by FWD.US for his work with migrant families on the border, and is a Salinas Fellow at Aspen Institute.
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Joshua Cruz is a transformational coach specifically helping queer men of color to reignite their self-worth and build meaningful relationships. Through raw and relatable storytelling, Joshua brings to life his experiences for others to relate to and feel part of. Additionally, Joshua has worked in HR and recruitment for 5 years with a focus on Underrepresented Minorities. In his coaching work he aspires to speak to those who are tired of living life afraid, want to find their community and accomplish their life goals. Joshua truly believes that owning your story and experiences brings freedom and he hopes to lend his voice to help you find that!
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This week's episode is with Heather Conneely!
Here's a quick bio on Heather
Heather is a bilingual/ bi-cultural Marketing Professional with over 20 years of experience in Multicultural and General Market Advertising and Marketing. She joined Facebook Inc. in 2014 to lead the firm's first Multicultural Team in New York. her primary role was educating clients, agencies, and internal teams on the power of Multicultural audiences to grow their business. She is currently leading a team as an Industry Manager, in CPG, focusing on digital and mobile transformation journeys for large Beauty, Personal, and Home Care Global Corporations. Prior to joining Facebook, Heather worked as a television industry executive...holding positions at Discovery Communications and Univision Communications.
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Samara Christhina is a first-gen Brazilian-American, and was the first in her family to go to (let alone graduate) college.
She started her first business running a marketing agency for local restaurants to help pay for school. She neverrrr considered sales as a career path, but is currently an Enterprise Account Manager at Forrester.
Her main focus is building generational wealth through real estate, stocks, crypto, business ventures, etc. If I can find a way to make my money work for her, rather than me working for money, she’s going to do it!
However, her greatest passion is taking all of the above and making it accessible to Latin@s so we can do what I mentioned earlier: build up our community.
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Jesse Marmolejo identifies as a Queer Mexican-American. Born and doing the damn thing in H-Town. He has learned to lead his life by striving to live his truth.
He takes pride in dedicating himself to doing work where his passion for social change and his purpose for building better relationships intersect. He is a huge proponent of mental health and sharing our experiences. He believes that having the conversation is how we grow. “Our authenticity is what continues to push us forward.”
Follow him as he grows in the work of social change and empoderamiento. (IG: @jesslohizo)
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Clara Torres-Jamison (Instagram: @claramazing) ... Proud Puertoriquena y Dominicana with a mission to help & teach 1MM women to find their voice, get visible & increase their economic power without giving up their health.
- Former Fortune 100 Sales & Marketing Executive
- Founder of Resiliency Group LLC
- Author of Camila and the Rain & The Financial Divas Bullet Journal
- Certified Yoga Teacher and Wellness Coach
- Host of InspirationaLatinos & Questions to Ask Podcasts
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This episode includes the first feature/ interview on TV, for Plurawl. Local news station, BronxNet, interviewed the Founder/ CEO (and host of this podcast!) on their OpenTuesday segment. We discussed into why Plurawl launched and why it's needed now more than ever.
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This week's episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast is with @projectenye. The episode is dropping Tuesday morning. For now, here's a quick bio...
After going from a stay-at-home-mom to award-winning activist filmmaker, Top 100 podcaster and to sought-after Fortune 500 speaker, Denise Soler Cox uses her experience to transform lives through storytelling.
In 2014 she Co-Founded Project Eñye a multimedia production company whose purpose is to transform how we think about culture, identity and what it means to belong.
NBC Latino calls Denise “A Voice For 1st-Gen Latinos.”
In September 2020 Denise was recognized as a “Featured Host” by Apple Podcast North America for her podcast “The Self-ish Latina'' which has listeners in 32 countries. Denise has been invited to speak on over 150 stages including two TEDx talks and has worked with some of the world's most recognized brands like Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, JP Morgan Chase, Salesforce, Procter & Gamble, Dow Jones, Eli Lilly, Starbucks and VaynerMedia to name a few.
Renowned Harvard Professor Marshall Ganz uses Denise’s film “being eñye” as part of his Public Narrative course as an example of “The story of us.”
Denise has a combined audience of 97,000 followers across all platforms. Currently she is a semifinalist in Forbes 50 over 50 list. Her work has been published as a contributor in Huffington Post and Denise has been featured in Forbes as a “Trailblazing Latina”, on CNN, CNN Money, Chicago Tribune, Fox News Latino, HOLA, ABC, CBS and NBC.
She is currently in production with her second feature-length documentary about secret-keeping in the Latinx community (2022) and also working on a forthcoming book about Belonging (2021).
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This week's episode of the ¿Quién Tú Eres? podcast is with Felix A. Navarro Jr.
Felix Anthony Navarro Jr. is Product Manager within Facebook Reality Labs's Core Software Team, where he focuses on building system-level UX and apps for the Oculus Quest 1 and Quest 2 Virtual Reality Headsets. Felix is also the founder of Facebook’s Afro-Latinx group and is a co-founder of “Level Up by Facebook,” (now known as Elevate) which is a program at Facebook dedicated to growing minority-owned small businesses through training and 1:1 mentorship. Prior to Facebook, Felix spent five years at Goldman Sachs, and prior to Goldman Sachs, Felix graduated from the City College of New York as Valedictorian of the Division of Social Sciences. Outside of Facebook, Felix is the founder of FN Speaks LLC, which is a motivational speaking and coaching company specializing in helping businesses and individuals drive meaningful community impact. On his down time, Felix can be found in VR, on road trips across the U.S., or visiting family in FL.
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Bianca Kea is a Detroit-made creative, entrepreneur and founder of Yo Soy AfroLatina, the first e-commerce store to highlight the people, culture, and experiences of Afro Latinas.Bianca juggles her 9 to 5 of working in Social Media Marketing while managing her lifestyle brand that she launched back In 2017. With her passion, industry knowledge and supportive social community. Bianca was able to turn her passion project into a scalable business with a variety of apparel and home good products. Bianca's drive, passion and warmth is what makes her relatable, and her deep knowledge in social media and building a brand Is what leaves audiences feeling inspired and empowered.
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Gus Moreno is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in various publications and anthologies (Aurealis, Pseudopod, Bluestem Magazine, Litro NY, and the Burnt Tongues anthology).
In October 2021, he will be releasing his his debut novel, This Thing Between Us, which is about a young widower being haunted by a supernatural entity possessing his smart speaker. It's currently available for pre-order and will be released October 12th wherever books are sold.
Currently, he lives in the suburbs with his wife and dogs, but never think that he's not from Chicago for one second.
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Victoria is a first generation Puerto Rican/Honduran Latina living as a transplant on the West Coast and pursuing her ancestors’ dreams of thriving in “corporate” America. She’s been described as a fierce champion, connector, and advocate for people in underserved communities.
Currently, she serves as a Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Project Manager at Facebook. Victoria has spent the bulk of her career focused on scaling teams and programs aimed at hiring and developing diverse talent – everywhere from promising startups with just 10 employees to companies operating at scale at 50K+.
Most often, she can be found at the nearest local coffee shop, spending time exploring nature with her partner and dogs, or deep conditioning her crown of curls.
Driven by the dream that Latinos will one day soon truly belong to themselves – even in the workplace, she joins us to cover what authenticity really means to her.
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Hector Castillo Carvajal, founder of Don Carvajal Café, is a 23-year old Afro-Latino entrepreneur on a mission to reimagine the specialty coffee market. He was born on a small farm in the Dominican Republic and returned there often while growing up in the Bronx, an experience that gave him a unique perspective on the coffee supply chain. After pursuing his education at CUNY-Guttman and the University of Rochester, Hector has returned to the Bronx to build a coffee business model that is both fair to producers and inclusive to consumers. In just two years, he’s taken the brand from operating out of a dorm room to a city-wide distribution network that roasts 500 pounds of beans each week.
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A San Diego native with a laugh as big as her hair. These are just a few things we would use to describe our Founder and Host of The Wine & Chisme Podcast, Jessica Yañez. But that’s just the beginning.
Jessica grew up in the suburbs of San Diego and has always had a curiosity for other people and their stories. As far back as she can remember, she would be the first to approach a new student at school, introduce herself, and want to know all about them. Not much has changed as her curiosity has lent itself well to learning more about the world around her.
She specifically created the podcast to amplify the voices of those from the BIPOC community to share their stories on career, love, life and more. All while sipping on a glass of wine.
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Ruben Harris is a Bay Area transplant from Atlanta, Georgia. As he mentioned in the clip, he bought a one-way ticket from Atlanta…moved to San Francisco without a job or any experience in tech and landed a position (in Partnerships and Sales) 3 weeks later. He documented this whole experience in viral blog post called Breaking Into Startups.
After receiving thousands of e-mails asking how to break into tech, Ruben Co-Founded the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to demystify the process, resulting in a social media reach of ~3 million people, 200,000+ downloads, 10,000+ website visits per month, over 100+ reviews on iTunes, a Facebook Community of 10,000+ people, and invitations to be a Contributor for TechCrunch and Black Enterprise.
These days, he’s the CEO of Career Karma…which is the easiest way to find a job training program online. Career Karma helps over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching. By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession. They already closed a $10M Series A funding round, and this is clearly just the beginning.
Fun fact: Ruben has been playing the cello for ~25 years. He has taught music, performed in venues all over the world - including Carnegie Hall, and landed placements from Def Jam.
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Michael Diaz is a producer, writer, and actor based in New York City. His award-winning short films and sketches have generated over 30 million views on YouTube and Facebook. He founded comedy troupe ROOM 28, which was
featured on NBC’s BRING THE FUNNY in 2019. As a branded content creator, he
has worked with brands such as Brisk, Verizon, Pepsi and PGA Tour in creating
Latino-driven, comedy content. He is also a former host the Award-Winning Podcast LATINOS OUT LOUD and has interviewed guests such as John Leguizamo, Lin Manuel Miranda, and Kid Mero. — He is a proud member of a dysfunctional family.
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Lissarette Nisnevich was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. Growing up in poverty and with little resources she focused on her studies from a young age. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in developmental psychology and with a Masters in early childhood education. With this, she aims to bring parents resources she believes are critical for their children's development.
After living in 30 different countries, she decided to settle down and start a family of her own. With the birth of her son, the idea of starting her own Daycare, Preschool and Kindergarten was born as well. Her aspirations are to help the future generations reach their maximum potential, as she began by servicing the "El Barrio" community that’s given her so much. With the Daycare, Preschool, Kindergarten, Children Books, and several TEDx talks already in circulation..her mission has just begun.
Find Lissarette on Instagram @lissarette
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Claudio E. Cabrera (Instagram: @claudio.e.cabrera) is an award-winning audience development expert [SEO], journalist and future author.
Cabrera began his journalism career in 2004 while in his second year at Brooklyn College. He landed an internship at the historic black newspaper, the New York Amsterdam News. At the Amsterdam News, he covered the 2005 mayoral campaign and the likes of former president Barack Obama, Rev. Al Sharpton and Shaquille O'Neal to name a few.
In 2006, he won an award from the Independent Press Association for his work uncovering the law that allowed phone companies in NY state to charge families of inmates exorbitant rates for phone calls. Over a decade later, NY state passed a law to make all prison phone calls free.
With his success in this space, Folio Magazine named him one of the top audience development managers in the country in 2013.
In 2016, he joined the New York Times as a Senior Digital Strategist and is now their Deputy Off-Platform Director of News SEO. In his 4 years at the Times, he's been able to grow the company's traffic by over 40% and lead them to record years on search and in total audience.
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Ximena (Mena) Martinez is a Mexican American #STEMinist, techie, and PhD student. Through her social media (@latinapowerpuff) and website (latinapowerpuff.com) she shares her experience as a Latina in tech and academia and provides resources for students interested in STEM.
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Armando "Tito" Tam has spent his life achieving his personal and professional goals using what he calls the "Achieving Dopeness" mindset.
Armando, of Chinese Nicaraguan heritage, immigrated to United States at a young age. He watched his mother and father sacrifice and work tirelessly to ensure their 3 sons were given an opportunity for a better quality of life. Armando credits his mother and father for instilling in him at a young age, the values of God, humility, and hard work - no free handouts. Armando's parents sparked in him the idea that it is OK to dream big as long as you understand the dedication and commitment needed to make your dreams come true.
Armando's passions have always centered around business and cultural identity. His relentless pursuit of his dreams have allowed him to own his own real estate brokerage firm, perform with Will Smith, collaborate with celebrity chefs like Douglas Rodriguez, become a part of the leadership at the National Association Of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals(NAHREP) as well as partner in other joint ventures such as L'attitude.
Armando is currently working on launching Comidazo, a business platform showcasing his love and passion for food & wine, culture and business.
Armando credits his value of mentorship and unwillingness to compromise his goals as the primary drivers of his success.
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Monserrat Moreno aka ‘Monse’ is a passionate marketing and advertising professional with expertise in multicultural audiences. She has worked across various companies like Publicis Groupe, Pandora, and Facebook.
In 2018, she was named “Top 40 Under 40 Latinos in Chicago” by Negocios Now and was a Chicago Latino Networks 2017 “Latina Professional Award” finalist. Today, Monse serves as the Global Diversity Employment Brand Marketing Manager at Facebook where she leads global strategy and activation development across the recruiting function. She drives the scaled, innovative and culturally-relevant brand building programs that enable a global recruiting organization to attract the world’s top, diverse talent.
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Alejandra Gonzales is a very outgoing and proud Boliviana that’s absolutely obsessed with skincare!
Her passion for skincare drives her desire to educate Black and Latino communities on skin health, and is working on starting her own skincare line that caters to darker skin tones.
When she’s not researching skincare ingredients and taking bomb pics of products for Instagram (@glazed.skin), she’s a full-time marketing professional at a large tech company, who loves the outdoors and getting lost in a book, but loves her dog Jakey even more.
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Enrique Lopez is an LA native currently residing in Seattle…where he works at Microsoft as an Engineer. He attended UC Berkeley with the hopes of breaking into the tech industry as a software engineer. In a world and industry where authenticity is not necessarily valued nor authentically accepted, he has worked on himself to develop an unapologetic spirit.
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Patty Delgado is the 29 year old founder, CEO and designer of Hija de tu Madre, a Latina lifestyle brand. Hija de tu Madre designs apparel, accessories, and stationary for women that take their culture everywhere.
The daughter of two Mexican immigrants, Delgado always had a hunger for culture, belonging and representation. So in 2016, with $500 and a mission to make fashion more inclusive of the modern Latina experience, Delgado launched Hija de tu Madre.
The self-taught designer, is committed to incorporating her multicultural identity in every product she creates. Today, the self-funded company has sold to over 30 countries, and continues to prove to the world that Latinx is the new mainstream.
Delgado strives to empower women and future entrepreneurs through her story and company.
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ANGELA ABREU - FOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF DWA
Angela "Angy" Abreu is a Dominican-American mom, writer and community organizer. Angy firmly believes that “if it does not exist then you must create it.” In 2015, feeling dismissed as a Dominican American writer in many literary spaces, she decided to create the Dominican Writers Association a 501 c3 non-profit organization solely dedicated to highlighting content that not only promotes the works of Dominican Writers but also provides them with the tools and resources necessary for their development. Angy is the Creative Director of Dominican Writers, and along with the Board, she manages and creates content that serves the Dominican Writers community.
In the Spring of 2019 Angy and the Dominican Writers Association organized the First Annual Dominican Writers Conference in honor of Josefina Baez, a one-day event that offered 15 writing workshops and 13 discussion panels.
Learn more about everything DWA has to offer on Instagram (@dominicanwriters) and on their website dominicanwriters.com.
Also, follow Angy on Instagram - @angysgotit
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Lizette’s love of all things “culture” comes from being a born-and-raised New Yorker (and proud “Afro-Latina.”). At home, Lizette is a proud mother of two children who keep her filled with laughter and purpose. At work, she has a long list of accomplishments that I would need the whole episode to list. For now, I’ll highlight a few.
- 2020 Ad Woman of the Year, by Chicago Advertising Federation
- “Top 25 Influential Black Women in Business” by The Network Journal.
- Inducted into the American Advertising Federation Advertising Hall of Achievement
- Crain’s Chicago Business “40 under 40,”
- Advertising Age “Women to Watch,”
- Black Enterprise “Top Women Executives in Advertising and Marketing.”
Currently, Lizette serves as the Global Head of Vertical Solutions Marketing at Facebook where she leads a global marketing team tasked with developing the business marketing strategy and approach across 7 industries including Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail, Gaming, and eCommerce. This combination of platform and digital work allows her to continue to drive cultural relevance and impact on a broader scale. She has consistently remained at the cutting-edge of driving innovative approaches that bring brand, culture and tech together.
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Minué Yoshida is half Mexican- half Japanese multilingual entrepreneur whose mission is to help people discover who they are, and what they are capable of. She has been called disrupter, non-fit, crazy, intense, and inappropriate. This fueled her desire...
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Yai Vargas is a career & diversity strategist that helps organizations develop engaging programming focused on career and leadership development. With a background in multicultural marketing and communications, Yai is a natural born community...
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Angelica Ogando aka "The People Whisperer” is an Afro-Latina born in the Dominican Republic and a proud product of Newark "Brick City", NJ. Angie is on a mission to help women embrace their power and step into purpose. These days, she has her hands in...
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Samanda Brown is a Dominican immigrant, raised in the South Bronx and now residing in Harlem. Growing up in and “making it out” of one of New York City’s most impoverished neighborhoods, has empowered her to work toward closing the racial wealth gap....
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Guerrero Anónimo is a proud product of diligent immigrant parents from Latin America. A disruptor and world traveler, he is trying to break through the cultural barriers in corporate America. He has decided to remain anonymous because he is in a pivotal...
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CLOUD KENT (Instagram: @cloudkent) is an up and coming (street) POP artist who grew up in the streets of New York City. His rough beginnings as a kid enabled him to survive the concrete jungle. Although art was always a part of his life, he was put down...
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Odalys Jasmine is a proud Hondureña/Catracha from Southeast San Diego. She's passionate about creating spaces for her community and amplifying their stories in the most authentic way possible. Which is why she created and now hosts Hella Latin@, a...
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Natalia Lara is a proud El Salvadorian, who is passionate about diversity, inclusion, and equality. Currently, Natalia works at at Opportunity@Work, who’s mission is to rewire the labor market so that all STARs (Skilled Through Alternative Routes) can...
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Corey (Instagram: beautifulcorey) is a tech/marketing professional who’s passionate about inspiring his community through mentorship, art, and media.
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Sasha Paulino is a proud New Yorker and Dominicana. As a 2011 graduate of the College of Mount Saint Vincent’s accelerated master’s degree program, Sasha Paulino earned both a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Master of Science in Urban and...
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José Cruz (IG: @_therealmozo) is a proud Brooklyn born Afro Latino of Dominican descent. He is on a mission to heal masculinity by addressing his own toxic behaviors and starting that conversation with others. He believes that talking to each other...
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Carmery is a proud hoop-wearing, curly-haired Dominicana from the Bronx. Okurrrr. From her days as an on-air radio personality to her work for major movie studios, Carmery lives for media and entertainment – specifically content that targets Latinos....
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Currently, Sarah Politis (Instagram: @sarahpolitis) is the VP of Business Development & Creative at Wayfarer. She believes the key to success is kindness, hard work, and dry shampoo.“Always love each other.” These are the four words Sarah’s mother...
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Gardelyn Bonilla is a proud Dominicana, Harlem native, who empowers people to live authentically and speak their truth through therapy.
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Jhon Carlos Barrera is a proud Queer Caribeño-Latino (Dominican & Colombian) and a first-generation college graduate. He is a Program Specialist for a nonprofit and nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization in Washington, D.C.Jhon contributes to the...
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Guest: Catalina Peña (Instagram: @curiouscata)...AfroColombian Recruiting Professional who emigrated to the US at age 9 and found herself in the Tech industry by complete accident. Since establishing her own business in 2019, she has helped her clients...
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Guest: Darilyss Moreno is a proud Boriqua, Bronx Native, and Entrepreneur...who inspires authenticity through style with her Instagram page @outfitbuilders.
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Guest: Carla Gualdron (Instagram: @carla_lisette_) ...Journalist | El Mundo Boston Latino 30 under 30 | Program Director of WriteBoston | Proud Colombiana y Dominicana.
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