Latina to Latina

The Executive Producer and Showrunner of NBC’s hit sitcom Lopez vs. Lopez knew she had something special when she watched Mayan Lopez call out her famous father, George Lopez, on TikTok. That inspiration, combined with Debby’s decade working in television (credits: ABC’s “The Conners,”  Freevee’s “Primo,” Hulu’s “Love, Victor,” Netflix’s “One Day at a Time”) has made Lopez vs. Lopez a multi-season success. Debby describes her pract...

This week, we bring you another one of our most beloved conversations since the start of our show. Film director and activist Paola Mendoza embodies today's political resistance. As Creative Director of the Women's March, her visionary work helped galvanize millions around the world, and continues with the "I Am a Child" campaign and efforts to stop the latest Supreme Court nominee. Paola was raised by a single mother, and, as a re...

How Brown Badass Bonita Founder Kim Guerra Learned to Practice Radical Self-Love
 

Like so many Latinas, she grew up being told, "calladita te ves más bonita.” But once Kim decided she didn't want to be quiet, she decided to help other Latinas find their voice too. Now, she is sharing her personal experience of healing her inner niña and her practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist in her new book, Badass Bonita: Break the Silen...

This week, we share another one of our favorite interviews with Latinas in the world of sports and fitness. A decade ago, she began sharing her fitness trials and triumphs online after experiencing the dark side of the industry. Since then, she has motivated millions to find their motivation, strengthening techniques, and focus—and built a wellness empire that includes an app and the TRU Supplements line. In this episode, Massy get...

This week, we bring you one of our favorite conversations featuring some of the most inspiring Latinas we've had on the show. As a kid growing up in Texas, she thought that fitting in would keep her safe. Then, as she rose through the Wall Street ranks while harboring a big secret, a life-changing loss made her question everything. In her new book, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation, Julissa shares her...

Today we bring you another one of our most well-loved conversations with Latina artists. The iconic Mexican folk singer didn’t know if she would keep working in music, so she lost herself in Canada and started paying attention to signs from the universe. In this episode, she shares how she found her way back home and the rituals she relies on to bring new projects to life.

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We bring you one of our favorite conversations featuring some of the most inspiring Latina writers we've had on the show. When her parents’ tourists visas expired, and they were no longer allowed entry into the United States, Elizabeth, an American citizen, persuaded her parents to allow her to stay in Arizona solo. She was only 15 years-old. Even as she contended with housing and food insecurity, Elizabeth managed to graduate vale...

Caress has provided more than 2.5 million dollars to support and elevate founders in our communities. One of the alums of the Caress Dream Fund, Naibe Reynoso, is an Emmy award-winning journalist and founder of Con Todo Press, a bilingual children's book publishing company. Naibe shares how she applied her journalism skills to entrepreneurship, the realities of publishing, and how to find big money for your big idea. (Sponsored)

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This week, we continue with one of our most beloved conversations with members of the new literary canon. As if setting out to write a book about the undocumented immigrant experience across the country wasn’t hard enough, Karla Cornejo Villavivencio set a much higher bar for The Undocumented Americans. “I promised everyone in the book, all of my subjects, that I would get Americans to care. And that's a promise that I couldn't gua...