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Executive Producer and Host, Theresa E. Gonzales, former Silicon Valley Tech executive, speaks with guests to elevate the experiences, accomplishment and research achievements, dedicated to Latina women in STEM, BIPOC Entrepreneurship & Community advocates. Together, our intergenerational conversations are changing the dominant narrative through technology for reimagined leadership and innovation from the Block To The Boardroom. Special thanks to sound engineer, Robert Lopez and Latinasb2b.m ...
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In a world where diversity and inclusion are at the forefront of transformative business practices, our latest episode offers an inspiring narrative of empowerment, leadership, and the indispensable role of Latinas in reshaping the corporate landscape. In this episode, Natalie Molina Niño, President and Co-Founder of Known, a distinguished investor…
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Our 6th season opens up a deeper conversation, regarding higher education, community and resources for the next generation of workforce for our Latine Youth. Our guest is Dr. Antonia O. Franco, COO and President of DigitalNest.org. Dr. Antonia O. Franco’s career spans nearly thirty years of executive and management experience in the nonprofit, phil…
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Our special guest, Mony Ruiz Velasco- Deputy Director of Equality Illionios, and proud queer Latina, wife and mother who shares her extensive experience as a human rights advocate and attorney, emphasizing the importance of continued advocacy and visibility for LGBTQ+ communities. In this episode we reflect on her personal journey growing up in Mex…
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Fatima Espinoza Vasquez. Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information School of Information Science will share with us her dedication to leveraging Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for positive social change, which originated from a panel conversation from the Latina Futures Symposium cr…
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We are incredibly honored to host Marlene Sanchez, the Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. As the Executive Director of theElla Baker Center for Human Rights, Marlene is a proud San Francisco native, and Chicana, where she has spent more than 20 years building power with youth and formerly incarcerated people. Through her …
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Join us as we welcome the remarkable Valerie De La Garza, a trailblazing Latina and the pioneering CEO of Fenton, a social justice and impact PR agency. Valerie shares her compelling journey from the working-class neighborhoods of Southeast Los Angeles to becoming a beacon of leadership in the communications field. Her narrative, deeply rooted in h…
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Today, we're joined by the creative and innovative founder of Nopalera, Sandra Lilia Velazquez. Sandra takes us on a journey through a powerful narrative of embracing Chicana identity, to her band Pistolera, to crafting beauty products with the Mexican cactus, the Nopal, that encapsulates Mexican heritage. The Nopal cactus isn't just a plant; it's …
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We continue to celebrate Black History month with multi-award winner and Ambie award-winning host Anna DeShawn, as she pioneers the media landscape with a blend of rhythm and revolution from E3 Radio, to The Queer News Podcast and now, The Qube app that curates the best music and podcasts by BIPOC and QTPOC creators. Recently inducted into the Chic…
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Talib Jasir is a lifelong creator and storyteller and his journey has been one of evolution and resilience. He takes us on a journey of how he was captivated by audio storytelling in the back of his mother’s car and from listening to audiobooks through the library dial up telephone. YES, it was a thing back in the day! His narration of storytelling…
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Tatiana Quaife is a purpose-driven leader using her authentic voice and experiences to inspire and empower other Corporate America professionals to turn inwards and unleash their authentic magic within. With fifteen years of leadership experience as a Latina executive at Airbnb, The Walt Disney Company and Procter & Gamble, Tatiana experienced firs…
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Nancy Flores, former journalist of the American Austin Statesman, founder of Cultura Media and Editor and Publisher of Austin Vida, and I discuss how do Latinos find trusted news sources within our communites especially after Covid-19 and the election of 2020. Before the pandemic hit and the elections of 2016, local news resources began to disappea…
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How do you build a technology platform from the ground up with music as your first passion? Once that is done, how do you distribute that content with all the digital platforms that are available and how do you get paid or set your price? Getting to point A to point B is what Patrick Hill is doing with his new engagement platform, Disctopia, for co…
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Veronica Colon Rosairio. Executive director of Fundacion de mujeres en Puerto Rico was founded by women in the Diaspora and within Puerto Rico, which promotes social justice and supports the economic security, safety, health, reproductive autonomy and general empowerment of women, girls and gender-fluid individuals in Puerto Rico. Why is this so im…
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Welcome Karina Martinez, Co-Founder of the first platform for Latina & women's sports, called DRAFTED, where she is harnessing the power of the Latina Sports FANDOM, where more people feel seen and heard in the world of sports, by the heartbeat that pounds throughout stadiums, arenas, muddy fields, and playground courts with no nets. She is helping…
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Kayla Castenada, of Agua Bonita who has broken into the Beverage industry with her Agua Bonita drinks, a non-alcoholic beverage, saw an opportunity in the Non-Alcoholic Drinks market with Agua Frescas being something viable within a large industry, but wasn't recognized as an option by global brands. The market opportunity for 2023 amounts to US$49…
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In this podcast episode, We discuss the 369 Billion Dollar Inflation Reduction Act, from the Biden Administration… for climate change investments, solutions to reduce the high costs of living, which can help with lowering costs for households that may not otherwise know they have access to such opportunities. Who is this green economy really for? W…
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Welcome to Season 5 with Beatrice (Bia) Vieira, CEO of The Women’s Foundation California, a publicly supported foundation dedicated to achieving racial, economic, and gender justice by centering the experience and expertise of communities most impacted by systemic injustice. Their vision is to build a feminist future for California by investing in,…
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Closing out our season 4 with Elsie Escobar from She Podcast and Libsyn's "The Feed" podcast! Elsie is a podcasting pioneer with 17 plus years as a podcaster, El Salvadoran immigrant, Co-Founder of She Podcasts with 20K members and the Director of Community and Content at Libsyn- a hosting, distribution, and monetization podcasting platform. Howeve…
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Streaming platforms have created a whole new avenue, and revenue, for new content to be distributed, promoted and accessed. Covid shut down gave us a whole new avenue to search for our narratives, and our cultural dialogue. Meet John Murillo, Founder of Chicano Hollywood, a media and film streaming platform based out of Los Angeles California, that…
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Did you know California is the largest producer of almonds and dairy here in California and largest exporter of fresh fruits and vegetables in the nation? The United States is fortunate to have fresh foods grown here in California. 90% of workers that support the industry are Latino farm workers, with the highest poverty and live disproportionately…
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The journey to being an entrepreneur to a multi-million dollar company can be challenging when you don't have an uncle that's a banker. Jennifer Garcia, COO at LBAN, Latino Business Action Network, a Silicon Valley based non profit, discusses how we can move beyond just the side hustle, to entrepreneur, to multi-million dollar business with convers…
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Marilyn Alverio, a corporate marketing strategist and community advocate who has spent decades dedicated to empowering women. Over the course of the past 19 years, the Latinas and Power Symposium, an annual event held in June, has created a network upwards of 10,000 women throughout the United States and in several countries around the world. The L…
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Latinas wanna talk money! Time to level up with Olga Camargo and the Shenix.app! Latinas influence money, but we want to build our own money, save our money and learn how to invest our money! How can we see our dream of wealth when bills are on the table today? However, it's important to realize, a little saved today, grows into financial accessibi…
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In this episode, Karen Maldonado CPIO from Latinos for Education.org and the producer of Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom, Theresa E. Gonzales, discuss the necessary conversations and leadership opportunities we have in education as a Latino community. Today, across the United States classrooms, there is only 8% representation of Latino educ…
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As Latinas who are multi-generational and indigenous, who continue to live in the Southwest in what was Mexico before 1849, our stories are steeped in survival and strength. Angela Salazar is a rising Arizona Phoenician leader who came from the block and found her ancestral light to break generational poverty. As she describes the “risk vs. reward”…
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What happens when you bring three fierce Latinas who are inspired by the power of technology and their passion for building digital equity for their communities? Women Tech Makers of Modesto are championing the next generation of tech literacy, confidence and digital community to an area that is least seen as the next technology hub of technology s…
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Have you ever “googled” yourself? Have you ever googled yourself as a person of color? There is a dominant narrative that has been encoded into the largest search platforms in the world and they have all made their money off the backs of our identities. Our stories and our histories are being written and often rewritten due to the lack of represent…
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Let's talk about the power of networks within our global communities. Maricella Herrera Avila, CEO of the Ellevate Network is creating new leadership in a global community of professional women+. Maricella is the first Latina to be the CEO of this global organization and she brings with her the financial tenacity and leadership to build strength in…
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This episode was recorded in the late summer of 2022, before the release of the recorded racist comments and frustrations on redistricting certain Latino communities in Los Angeles from City Council President, Nury Martinez and her council colleagues, Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo. Our guest, Nicole López was running for a district-42 in the past J…
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In this episode, Vanessa Vigil shares with us her journey of advertising media experience between the agency and publishing side, to her new leadership role as the Chief Brand Officer of Mitu, now partnered with the NGL Collective under the leadership team of John Leguizamo and David Chitel. As a first generation Latina out of Southern California, …
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Today, we are going to hear from CiCi Rojas, 1st Latina in the ​171-year history of YMCA of the USA to serve as Chair, National Board of Directors​!! Congratulations! CiCi shares her DYI experience as a mother of 4 children, and college graduate, that by leveraging her Spanish, gave her the confidence to build alliances to work within Kanas City as…
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In this episode, we discuss the power of healing the belief systems that we have grown up with as Latinas to help us pursue our dreams without guilt. Denise Soler Cox, a first generation talking to a third generation, Theresa E. Gonzales, who both grew up in the United States, discuss the guilt and shame that is often tied to our cultural norms if …
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Noelle Silver has been in the tech ecosystem for over 20 years and an AI executive at IBM. We discuss how technology companies are reaching new AI based product designs but still not being inclusive of communities that make up a third of the population that uses all technology products. How do you build for the future when the door is not open wide…
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Gael and I connected at Podcast Movement Evolutions in Los Angeles, March 2022, and talked about how podcasting has been making an impact into our communities. I wanted to learn more about his podcast, Teenager Therapy and the collaboration began. Gael Aitor, host of Teenager Therapy started his podcast before Covid-19 at the age of 15, with his fr…
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Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom podcast is very excited to share this Small Business Week 2022 collaboration podcast, with Proactive Network Consulting. As a Latina from New York City, Michelle Londoño, wife, mother of 3 children and principal of Proactive Network Consulting services of San Francisco, shares with us how her entrepreneurial …
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Monica Ramirez, Activist Organizer, Founder of Justice For Migrant Women, and Co-Founder of Poderistas, The Latinx House and Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, talks to us through her journey that inspired her to ask questions at a very young age to her migrant farm working parents, “why are farm workers not celebrated when it's time to work in the fi…
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We are moving into more tech job opportunities for 2022 as the online experience of purchasing goods and services has exploded during Covid-19. Liliana Aide Monge, CEO and Co-Founder of Sabio.la says, "We can't go back to how we were engaging online before the pandemic." It's true, we are now using more technology to manage our lives, our education…
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Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom is not holding back in 2022! There was a lot of chatter late last year about the great resignation, and what that mean for people quitting their jobs in record numbers! Why were brown and black folks mostly impacted by economic fall out from Covid? What will be the impact for future generations and why are we…
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Women in Business is a stat that most large enterprise organizations are trying to understand in their Business Strategy and they should. However, when you don't hire enough women or women of color to mentor into the C-Suite or put on strategic product teams, they will never get it right. So, we move on and create our own boardroom tables, yes plur…
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Everyday is Native American Heritage Day and Andrea Delgado Olson, Executive Director of Natives In Tech, is unapologetically native within the digital platforms where Indigenous communities are the least scene or heard. Her mission is to help bring indigenous languages and story into the design and preservation within these new technology platform…
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Raquel Velez, Puerto Rico born and 1st generation CEO & Founder of AlpineParrot.com, is changing the outdoor fashion industry for women of color, one pair of Trekking pants at a time. She knew she wanted to create something amazing from the moment she saw a women show her classroom how she built a robot. Her journey from mechanical and software eng…
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Representation matters in all industries and building a global community is how Diana Iracheta is changing the mechanical engineering game! She started LatinaEngineer.com as an international Latina Engineering community through her social media, one pink post at a time! The stereotypes of engineering and STEM fields are being broken with Diana's te…
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Latinas are one of the largest market segments with an influencing power that is inspiring. Tech and VC's need to wake up and smell the cafecito! We are a market force to be reckoned with as we build brand loyalty and trust. Ana Consuelo Matiella and her daughter, Sada Naegelin, of De Las Mias, decided to take the health issue of Diabetes within th…
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How do you build a Latinx Tech bay area meet-up group into a global organization of 15,000 Latinx/a/o BIPOC/LGBTQ members in 3 years? Techqueria was born from the need to have safe conversations in tech, safe networking and leadership discussions that would hold technology companies accountable to their DEI policies and recruitment transparency. Th…
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When you grow up in the Bronx and decide that your food sources are coming to you through fast food or liquor stores, you get activated. Destiny DeJesus tells us how she found Veggie Mijas as a way to get involved with activistas de la tierra, by creating a local chapter as her way to help folks learn about food justice and creating healthy meals. …
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During Covid-19, California farm workers kept our tables full, the doordash deliveries coming and yet, they are paid below wages, and pay taxes and have limited access to healthy foods, healthcare and parks. Genoveva Islas, the Executive Director of Cultiva La Salud is a champion and voice of change for the central valley essential workers and for …
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The fellas analyze and discuss some of the latest stories which meet at the intersection of Race & Sports. - NCAA Name Image & Likeness ruling - Sha'carri Richardson, Should Marijuana still be a banned substance in athletics?- Soul Cap under review for Olympic Swimming & Diving- England’s Black Players and the disgusting behavior White fans display…
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How does an Afro-Latina who went to USC film school create the most social justice AI data platform for small black and brown businesses? Marie had vision, determination and resilience! Marie Smith CIO and CoFounder of Data360Networks.com brings us the realities of coming from the Mid-West to USC film school knowing she's on her own team. By buildi…
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