Latina to Latina

Feb 02 2025 367 ep. 22 mins 2k

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In this interview series, host Alicia Menendez talks to remarkable Latinas about making it, faking it, and everything in between. In often-hilarious and always-revealing episodes, Alicia and her guests take on the challenges of existing, and then thriving, as women of color.

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

Feb 02 2025 19 mins

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 The

Remix: Why Diana Flores Believes Flag Football Deserves a Professional League

Jan 26 2025 18 mins

We bring you one of our favorite conversations with inspiring Latinas from the world of sports and fitness. The captain and quarterback of Mexico's National Flag Football Team shares her journey to winning gold at the 2022 World Games, how being a competitive athlete has shaped her relationship to her body (and to dating!), and how a professional league would change the sport she l

Why Jannese Torres Wants You to Become Financially Powerful

Jan 19 2025 20 mins

The host of the acclaimed Yo Quiero Dinero podcast and author of Financially Lit: The Modern Latina’s Guide to Level Up Your Dinero & Become Financially Poderosa shares her own journey to financial freedom, the realities of leveling-up a side-hustle, and her best advice for other Latinas who are just beginning their financial education. You can find The Yo Quiero Dinero® podcast

Remix: Mountaineer Silvia Vasquez-Lavado Knows the Highest Mountain is the One Within

Jan 12 2025 21 mins

We continue with our specially-curated playlist with our favorite interviews with Latinas in sports and fitness. The adventurer, activist, and first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits shares the childhood trauma and self-destructive behavior that brought her to the world’s highest mountain.Follow Silvia on Instagram @silviavasla. You can order her book via the website

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Starting this week, we'll be sharing brand new episodes every other week! Thank you for giving us space to work on other LTL projects (more on that soon). We're excited to bring fresh conversations to your listening rotation.

How Law & Order: SVU’s Juliana Aidén Martinez Learned To Accept the Up and Down Nature of a Creative Life

Jan 05 2025 19 mins

The Miami-born, Yale-trained Colombian-American actress shares the bumpy road between her breakout role in Netflix’s Griselda and her newest role as Detective Kate Silva on Law & Order: SVU; what she has learned working with stars Sofia Vergara and Mariska Hargitay; and the value of being just a little bit delusional.

Remix: How Health Coach Massy Arias Found Her Real Strength

Dec 29 2024 25 mins

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

Top 19: How Peloton's Robin Arzón Found Her True Power

Dec 22 2024 20 mins

Our Top 25 Countdowb continues! The litigator turned ultra-marathoner and fitness instructor shares the personal trauma that helped redirect her from law into fitness, her commitment to showing up fully present and fully committed, and why her new children's book, Strong Mama, is a call to reimagine self-care.Follow Robin @robinnyc on Instagram.

Remix: Julissa Natzely Arce Raya Wants You to Reclaim Your Identity

Dec 15 2024 21 mins

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

Top 20: Why Novelist Xochitl Gonzalez Isn't Done Being Ambitious

Dec 08 2024 19 mins

We continue with our Top 25 Countdown! "Could you just be done being ambitious?" That was the question the Brooklyn native asked herself before she "blew up" her comfortable New York life to move to Iowa, pursue her MFA, and complete her first novel, which would become a New York Times Best-Seller, Olga Dies Dreaming. Follow Xochitl on Instagram @xochitlheg.