Cafe Con Pam Podcast

Listeners, here is this awesome episode with Luis Aguilar, or also known as Luis Octavio.Luis began co-hosting Tamarindo Podcast and his famous "Nos Vemos en el Swap Meet" ending inspired him to create his new podcast Nos Vemos en el Swap Meet, where he interviews people at the Swap Meet and they share their stories of living in the US.Aside from being a podcast host, Luis shares with us his story of coming to the US, how his grandfather played a key part in his career and why he is always so willing to help other people.During this episode, we take some time to acknowledge our brothers and sisters from Mexico and Puerto Rico who were recently hit by natural disasters and we share resources to help these places out. Cada granito de arena cuenta.You can find Luis and all the things he does at:@nosvemosenelswapmeet@mercado_la@gl0bit0s@molcajetedominguero@calchoniesPlease share this episode with a friend or two...Stay Shining!@cafeconpampodcast Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo

Oh my listeners, Maya's story is full of lessons. This week we had a conversation with Maya Miles, a business owner in Houston Texas.WARNING: Maya shares her sexual assault story. Feel free to skip this episode if this is something that may trigger you.We originally planned to talk about DACA and her experience, and then as Maya shared her story with us, we started unpacking different chapters of her life in which her perseverance took her one step further to get to where she is now.The conversation was so full of information, I couldn't interrupt for the coffee break. Thank you Juan (Episode 44) for the delicious Colombian coffee.This episode was recorded before DACA got canceled, so during the introduction, I share the 5 things we need to know about DACA now according to United We Dream (weareheretostay.org)Maya is currently in Houston and she's working on helping survivors of Hurricane Harvey. Sending lots of love to everyone in the world who is going through the effects of a natural disaster.Let me know w

Hello listeners, this week we have a conversation with Juan David Ortiz-Romero.Growing up between Medellin and Massachusetts, Juan David was raised by a hard-working father and a resourceful mother. Soon after high school in 2005 Juan enlisted in the Marines as an option to help pay for college and found himself happily residing in San Diego after 3 deployments and an Honorable discharge in 2010.Recently he has been working as an event planner for the San Diego Mac and Cheese festival, and as the director of marketing for a start-up company, www.LendIt.io, with some friends he met while attending college locally.Juan looks forward to an early retirement like most of us and is hoping to make up lost time with his little brother who is the motivation behind his drive. He shares with us what it was like growing up as a young Colombian immigrant learning about a new culture in America and pursuing his happiness in life.Don't forget to share this episode with someone and stay shining!Connect with Juan David:IG: @e

Hello listeners! This week we get serious about the food that we put in our body. We talked to Yahaira Florentino, she's an actor, holistic coach and best-selling Author and we sat down to have some cafecito and talk about food.During our conversation, Yahaira shares how she cured herself from two auto-immune diseases only by changing her nutrition, how we actually have two brains and the holistic truth about what we eat.Thank you to Revolution Coffee in Oceanside, CA for letting us record this episode.Listeners, let me know if you want to hear from Yahaira, we talked about doing a once a month episode about our relationship with food.Please share this episode with your friends!You can connect with Yahaira on all things social @yariflor29 and @que_te_convieneFull Disclosure: This episode is all in Español. If you understand it great! If not, this is your chance to practice, let me know how much of her Dominican Spanish and my Mexican Spanish confused you. Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock

Hello listeners, here we are another week at Cafe con Pam.This time, we have a conversation with Priscila, The Humbled Therapist. She is back for her last episode before she gives birth. Priscila wanted me to give you a disclaimer that she was dealing with "pregnant brain" while we recorded, in case you notice a difference. She's only four weeks away from her due date!During this episode, we talk about the recent events that happened with Charlottesville, what we can do to keep our mental health in a good place and we stress how we should continue to make our case from a place of love. We definitely encourage everyone to take action though and stay safe, strong and grounded.Aside from touching on this tragic event, we also answer listener questions. Specifically, one question full of layers, we touch on introversion, adult add and staying organized.Send Priscila good vibes for the upcoming weeks and let us know what you think about this episode. What action are you taking after the tragic times we're living i

Hello listeners! Here we are another week and this time we talked to Natalie Torres-Haddad.Natalie is an Award Winning Author of the International Latino Book Awards of 2016, for her published book Financially Savvy in 20 minutes. The first Salvadorian American woman to publish a book dealing with student debt.During our conversation, we talked about how she figured at a young age that she wanted to be smart about her finances which lead her to write her book to help and empower others to restore their relationship with money.Thank you Nancy for the coffee of the day - it came from Hawaii.Connect with Natalie: @financiallysavvylatina on all things social Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo-Johnsen Aida Jarrett Maribel Lara

Hello listeners! Here we are at episode 40! This time we had a conversation at Kathy Cano-Murillo's studio in Phoenix.Kathy is an author, artist & founder of the award-winning brand, CraftyChica. She spreads the gospel of glitter – literally through her DIY projects and figuratively through her speeches, workshops, books, and essays. A former syndicated columnist for The Arizona Republic, she is now a full-time creativepreneur which has led multiple Crafty Chica mass retail product lines, and partnerships with Coca-Cola, HSN, HP, WordPress, Disney & many others. She has authored seven craft books and two novels and has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed+ more. Kathy is Mexican-American, a native Phoenician, mom of two, a wifey, and owner of five Chihuahuas!Kathy’s life’s mission to inspire others to bring out their inner sparkle – and to see the sparkle in others. She believes in paying it forward and setting a positive example. She uses CraftyChica.com to share

Hello listeners! Better late than never, during this week's episode, we had a conversation with Rosalva Patten.Born and raised in Tijuana Baja California Mexico, Rosalva Martha-Patten (a.k.a. Rosalva Vasquez) had the need to heal her own pain after receiving her first baby Noel Vasquez diagnosis with HIV when he received a transfusion with tainted blood. Noel was 4 years old.Since 1996 until now Rosalva has been opening five HIV organizations helping women and children living with HIV in Baja California: In 2010 the new Es Por Los Ninos, A.C. center is dedicated to the memory of Noel and to the Women, to the Children and to the Adolescents whose struggles in the fight against HIV and AIDS.Listen to her incredible journey and wait until the end when she tells me a surprising story about her son Noel and the mother of his kids. Yes, he lived to be old enough to have two beautiful children.Find out more about her organization at https://www.exn.mx in Mexico and please share this episode to someone you may think

Hello listeners! And we are back with a new episode after a two-week vacation. This episode was a challenging one to edit due to the location where we recorded. Thank you for understanding that the audio quality of this episode is not the best.Our guest, on the other hand, is incredible. Maribel Lara has been helping Fortune 500 brands develop and execute marketing strategies that leverage social media and other emerging channels of communication. In her current role as part of the office of the CEO at VaynerMedia, Maribel and her three counterparts help to scale CEO and Founder of the agency, Gary Vaynerchuk.Her incredible story of resilience, patience, and love is worth a sharing. We laughed and cried on this one. Share it with a friend, let me know what you think and stay shining! Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo-Johnsen Aida Jarrett Maribel Lara

Hello listenters! This week we had a conversation with Carolina Rubio MacWright.Carolina was born in Bogota, Colombia, where she lived until age 20, when a need for a safer place to call home was necessary. She went to art school but after graduation, she felt the need to understand the legal system, at which point she moved to Oklahoma City where she became a lawyer. Her time in Oklahoma's legal world opened her eyes to the realities of the broken American legal system as well as the immigration law system.Carolina is currently an activist mixing law and art and engaging her immigrant community by empowering them with knowledge. Since the elections, she has been working harder with different organization like momsrising, chashama arts and her local counsel members.We talked about her life in Colombia, her experience with being a young Latina lawyer, the workshops that she's hosting for immigrant moms and how the current immigration system is breaking families and traumatizing thousands of people, all while d

Hello listeners, here is the special episode with the one and only Tiburcio! He was kind enough to give us some time when Eddie G was in San Diego and we talked about a lot of things.As usual, Tiburcio refused to talk about his family, and we talked about his favorite foods, his strong dislike for smart phones, why he doesn't like the term Latinx and other thingsYou can find Tiburcio athttp://www.omgitseddieg.com/tiburcio/ and https://www.youtube.com/user/ElShowDeTiburcioMusic by La Abeja (live @ The Bell House) Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo-Johnsen Aida Jarrett Maribel Lara

Hi listeners! This week we sat down with Eddie G at a coffee shop in San Diego and we explored his story.Carve out some time for this one as Eddie and Pam dive in to multiple conversations at once, clearly showing what it's like to be in the brain of two people that think really fast (or what doctors say ADD). We talked about leaving Corporate America, the funny story of how we met and multiple lessons that he's learned after he decided to follow his passion to create videos.Because of the length of this episode, Tiburcio will come in a separate episode later this week.Shoutout to Cafe Calabria in San Diego, CA for providing their space for this episode.Find Eddie at http://www.omgitseddieg.com/ Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo-Johnsen Aida Jarrett Maribel Lara

Hello listeners! Here we are at episode 34 and this time we had a conversation with Juana Gallo who is Writer, Actress, and she's pursuing her Graduate Degree in History, Juana is a border-bicultural girl with a global mindset. Juana has contributed to multiple popular social media outlets such as TeleSur English, We Are Mitu and Travel Latina as a writer, talent and producer, and as writer and talent local tv shows in San Diego such as Tonight in san Diego and The Gloria Gold Show. She is also a cotton candy preacher and tamarindo lover.Also, we had a conversation with La Comadre Pansha, a character that Juana performs. Pansha is a “mother, comadre and friend” of anyone who likes to gossip and can handle unasked advice. She believes she should belong to a higher socialite class even though her pink lipstick sometimes brushes her teeth. She sees the wrong in everything that is not traditional and conventional in everyone but herself, and will try to “fix” you in a motherly way if she is not too tipsy. She is

Hello listeners! Here we are at Episode 33 with the one and only Esteban Castillo better known as Chicano Eats.Esteban is a Queer Chicano living in Southern California with his life partner and two dogs. He is a communications professional and graphic designer by day, and avid home cook by night. He is also the author of the food blog, “Chicano Eats” where he gives Mexican food a minimalist and colorful treatment and explores his identity as a Chicano through stories and food.During our conversation, Esteban and I talked about his story, how he started blogging, the importance of having a supportive partner, about him wearing huaraches, and at the end how an innocent joke ended up being a really dirty one.If you don't follow his beautifully curated Instagram feed, do so now at @chicanoeats Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo-Johnsen Aida Jarrett Maribel Lara

Hello listeners, welcome to Episode 32!We sat down with Gustavo and Carmen and talked about being a fit couple, how they met and their story.They both have an incredible story that they share with us. We talk about social media, following your passion and supporting and working together with your partner.Let me know what you think! Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo-Johnsen Aida Jarrett Maribel Lara

Hello listeners! The Humbled Therapist is back!During this episode you'll learn why Priscila has been MIA, we answered some of your questions that you sent and we catch up after a long break of not having her on the show. This is a lengthy one, we talk about a lot of stuff and of course, we enjoyed some coffee. Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo-Johnsen Aida Jarrett Maribel Lara

Hello Episode 30! This time we talked to Vivian Nunez.Vivian the Founder of Too Damn Young, a resource and community for teens and young adults who have lost someone they love. She produces digital content for other creatives and entrepreneurs. Also, Vivian is the creator behind Creating Espacios, a resource for the next generation of trailblazing Latinas.During our conversation we talked about grief, how her life changed when her grandmother (who raised her) passed, mental health, and how important it is to remember our mothers even if they're not here with us, while enjoying a cup of coffee.Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing women who raised us! Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo-Johnsen Aida Jarrett Maribel Lara

Welcome to episode 29! I had an amazing time with Babelito and Favy from Latinos Who Lunch Podcast.Babelito is a PhD candidate in Iberoamerican colonial art history from the University of New Mexico and Favy is an incredible Artist, Curator, and Writer.Join our conversation in which we talk about microagressions, privilege, codeswitching, identity, art and many other things, while enjoying lunch and of course, coffee. Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo-Johnsen Aida Jarrett Maribel Lara

Hello episode 28! During this episode we talked to Christine Gutierrez. Christine is a psychotherapist, love addiction expert, life coach and expert in trauma, abuse, & self-esteem.During our conversation we talked about love addiction, the importance of healing, knowing when it is time to let go, and reclaiming our power while enjoying a cup of coffee. Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo-Johnsen Aida Jarrett Maribel Lara

Welcome to Episode #27! As we were in Long Beach after We All Grow Summit, Lizza and I decided to do her interview at a cafe. Lizza Monet Morales Lizza Monet Morales is one of the top 10 International multi-platform bilingual journalists and social media influencers as designated by The White House in 2014.Lizza shares her story, the reason why she loves Hello Kitty, what it was like to make it to Harvard, gives us news about her upcoming book and more inspiring anecdotes, while enjoying a beautiful cup of coffee. Thanks to our monthly supporters David Haberstock Martha Alonzo-Johnsen Aida Jarrett Maribel Lara