After 4 years, 6 seasons and over 50 episodes... In Confianza (formerly The Pulso Podcast) is wrapping up! In this final episode, we have a short chat with the producers of the show & the Pulso team to say thanks and learn where we can find their work going forward. You can follow our producer, Charlie Garcia on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/charlie_alive/ You can find our Producer, Mark Pagan on IG & Substack here: https://markpagan.substack.com/ https://www.instagram.com/markpagan...
Mar 11, 2025•5 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Pregnancy is filled with dreams of the future, but what happens when those dreams are suddenly gone? Today, we explore the quiet pain of miscarriage, the isolation it brings, and the silence that surrounds it. Through honesty and reflection, we uncover the power of sharing, healing, and making space for grief in all its forms. This episode was produced and edited by Charlie Garcia. Liz Rebecca Alarcón is the host. If you like what you heard, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify,...
Mar 05, 2025•38 min•Season 6Ep. 7
After losing her home in the Altadena wildfires, Daisy grapples with grief, guilt, and the challenge of rebuilding from nothing. She shares the heartbreak of displacement, the resilience of community, and the struggle to find hope in the aftermath of devastation. This episode was produced and edited by Charlie Garcia. Liz Rebecca Alarcón is the host. If you like what you heard, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and, hey, tell a friend, too. Follow & continue the conversa...
Feb 26, 2025•33 min•Season 6Ep. 6
After years of hardship with his father, Anthony found the courage to offer forgiveness, leaving behind pain and embracing the beautiful life he built for himself and his family. Today, we explore the complexities of the father-son relationship, grief, and finding peace in the most unexpected ways. This episode was produced and edited by Mark Pagán. Audio engineering, scoring, and mixing by Charlie Garcia and Mark Pagán. Liz Rebecca Alarcón is the host. If you like what you heard, please leave u...
Feb 19, 2025•22 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Weddings are supposed to be joyous occasions, but for Joe Alarcón, they come with a unique anxiety. As he prepares for his big day, Joe is grappling with the fact that his divorced parents will be in the same room for the first time in over a decade. Today, Joe and his brother, Joshua, reflect on their bond as siblings raised by their father and share how they plan to navigate the emotions and complexities of family dynamics on Joe’s wedding day. This episode was produced and edited by Mark Pagá...
Feb 12, 2025•22 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Antoinette and her mother, Rosa, share their journey of forgiveness, healing, and rebuilding a mother-daughter relationship shaped by pain and resilience. This episode was produced and edited by Charlie Garcia. Audio engineering, scoring, and mixing by Charlie Garcia and Mark Pagán. Liz Rebecca Alarcón is the host. If you like what you heard, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and, hey, tell a friend, too. Follow & continue the conversation with us on social media; @Proje...
Feb 05, 2025•38 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Curly Velasquez reflects on losing his grandmother, a woman who became a beloved presence on his feed, showing us the beauty of their best friend bond. At the same time, Andrés Acosta shares the heartbreak of losing their best friend to alcohol addiction. Join us as we unpack what it means to grieve, to love deeply, and to find our way forward after loss. This episode was produced and edited by Charlie Garcia. Audio engineering, scoring, and mixing by Charlie Garcia and Mark Pagán. Liz Rebecca A...
Jan 29, 2025•43 min•Season 6Ep. 2
In Confianza returns, and we’ve got a lot on our minds. In this intro episode to our newest season, about the ways Latinos deal with grief, the Pulso team convenes to discuss their worries, hopes, and predictions about the incoming presidential administration. This episode was produced and edited by Charlie Garcia. Audio engineering, scoring, and mixing by Charlie Garcia and Mark Pagán. Liz Rebecca Alarcón is the host. If you like what you heard, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spo...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Grief is something we all experience but rarely talk about. This season on In Confianza , we’re breaking the silence and exploring how Latinos in the U.S. navigate the complexities of loss and healing. Over six episodes, we’ll dive into stories of resilience, forgiveness, and love—from a mother and daughter rebuilding their relationship after years of pain to a groom confronting his parents’ divorce on his wedding day to a man finding peace after decades of hardship with his father. These are th...
Jan 21, 2025•2 min
During a trip to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, Liz finds her way to the traditionally Mexican neighborhood of Pilsen to eat her way through two fabulous establishments. It’s a tasty mission to discover what stories these restaurants tell about food, community, identity, and how their owners would stage their version of TV’s “The Bear.” This episode was produced and edited by Mark Pagán. Audio engineering, scoring, and mixing by Charlie Garcia. I’m your host, Liz Rebecca Alarcón...
Aug 28, 2024•32 min
Liz speaks with Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, author of Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us , about the complex archetypes/identities of our family’s matriarchs, and the routes we have to embracing and breaking these sometimes restrictive roles. This episode was produced and edited by Mark Pagán. Audio engineering, scoring, and mixing by Charlie Garcia and Mark Pagán. Additional audio editing by Julian Blackmore. I’m your host, Liz Rebecca Alarcón. Follow & contin...
Aug 14, 2024•23 min
Whether it’s working in a corporate world, hiding your accent, or styling your hair in a certain way, what’s been your journey to assimilate as a Latine person in the United States? Referencing the part memoir, part manifesto book You Sound Like a White Girl , we speak with speaker, social justice advocate, and author Julissa Arce about her journey in recognizing the ways she’s hidden her identity in the pursuit of an American dream and the empowering road in learning about reclaiming her Latini...
Aug 07, 2024•18 min
This year marks a first — the inclusion of breakdancing as a competitive category in the 2024 Olympics. It’s been a long road for a dance style built by young Black and brown teens in New York in the 1970s. But how should we approach mainstream acceptance with artforms that were once underground and marginalized? Liz speaks with B-girl Ana “Rokafella” Garcia and Borivogue founder Edrimaelle “Edrit” Delgado to find out about the history of breaking and ballroom culture and how we should approach ...
Jul 31, 2024•29 min
When more Latin Americans became residents of Miami in the 1970s, the city seemed to calmly welcome the influx of Spanish-speaking newcomers — prompting a city ordinance to create bilingual options throughout the municipality. But following the massive influx of Cuban citizens, via the Mariela Boatlift in 1980, an English-only antagonism grew, setting off a decade-long struggle to acknowledge the multilingual identity of the city. We revisit this fight and how it speaks to ongoing tensions to ac...
Jul 24, 2024•24 min
Yvonne grew up in a tightly knit Latino community in California before moving to a less culturally familiar Nashville, Tennessee in her adolescence. She found strength and culture in the home with the introduction of a long lost brother and in watching her mother modeling compassion and inclusion. Years later, when forced with a move that would present the same cultural challenges for her daughter, Yvonne decided to follow the lessons of her upbringing and open her doors to bring vulnerable chil...
Jul 17, 2024•23 min
We know this one might be controversial, but hey we’re gonna do it — Liz and former co-host Maribel give us the top five moments in Latino pop culture from 1990 to today. We know you’ll have opinions. This episode was hosted by Maribel Quezada Smith and Liz Rebecca Alarcón. It was produced by Maribel Quezada Smith. Our supervising producer is Mark Pagán. Editing by Charlie Garcia and Mark Pagán. Sound engineering and scoring by Charlie Garcia. Follow & continue the conversation with us on so...
Jul 10, 2024•22 min
When it comes to baseball talent, Venezuela certainly can compete on the world’s stage. But what happens to the nation’s talent when they’re forced to move to countries where the sport and Venezuelan citizens aren’t warmly welcomed? Reporter Anthony Wallace takes us to Lima, Perú, where a group of Venezuelan (baseball) players have built a thriving community to keep their sport and culture alive. This episode was produced and narrated by Anthony Wallace with editing by Mark Pagán and Charlie Gar...
Jul 03, 2024•31 min
It’s an American right, but how many Latinos own guns and how many want nothing to do with them? Liz puts the issue in her hands as she takes us to a shooting range and holds a gun — for the first time. This episode was produced and hosted by Liz Rebecca Alarcón. Editing by Charlie Garcia, Mark Pagán, and Jackie Nowak. Audio engineering, scoring, and mixing by Charlie Garcia. Additional audio editing by Julian Blackmore & Additional narration from Maribel Quezada Smith. Follow & continue...
Jun 26, 2024•26 min
After experiencing early family tragedy and witnessing the vulnerable position between patients who don’t speak English and medical staff who don’t speak Spanish, a physician and policy expert team up for a decades-long fight to bring Spanish-speaking doctors to California. This story was made in collaboration with WHYY’s health and science show The Pulse, and supported by The Commonwealth Fund. It was reported & produced by Charlie Garcia. Story Editing & Production Support from Maiken ...
Jun 19, 2024•27 min
There’s one word that ignites feelings and passionate opinions in any family — abortion. Have reproductive rights been too private to talk about at home? Reflecting on the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Liz speaks with two people who chose to have abortions for different reasons and levels of openness. This episode was produced by Liz Rebecca Alarcón. Script editing by Charlie Garcia and Mark Pagán. Audio Engineering by Charlie Garcia. and Julian Blackmore. Voiceover...
Jun 12, 2024•31 min
The Pulso Podcast is back and we’ve made some changes — including our name. Welcome to IN Confianza (with Pulso)! Being Latino in the U.S. is complicated. We all know this, but there’s often so much that we don’t talk about. What if WE could be that space for those complex, sometimes private, conversations? Join us as we explore the ways Latinos live out our heritage. That messiness of being de aqui y de alla that only we understand. We’re excited to be back and THRILLED to share more with you…I...
Jun 05, 2024•2 min
In 2010, Arizona Republicans passed a law to ban a wildly successful Mexican-American Studies program at Tucson High School. Administrators came into schools and pulled beloved books written by Latino authors off of the classroom shelves, but what they didn’t expect was just how far the Latino community would go to defend the right to learn about their history. From students chaining themselves to desks, to secret underground libraries, and even banned book smugglers. Hear what yesterday's fight...
Oct 10, 2023•23 min
Is it possible that many of us are stuck with the erroneous idea that poetry is boring or hard to understand? As we learn in this episode, poetry doesn't have to be dull or confusing. It can be funny and it can transcend stereotypes. Join me as we enjoy a poetry 101 refresher and an enlightening reading from Gabriel Dozal, a Latino poet you definitely didn't learn about in history class. This episode was produced and written by Maribel Quezada-Smith. Editing by Jackie Noack. Audio engineering an...
Sep 26, 2023•20 min
Since the last presidential election, there’s been countless commentary about what’s going on with some of our beloved Latino men and their swing to the right. In light of the Republican candidates filling the airwaves after the first debate, we invited two Latinos to the podcast for their take on why this trend is happening and what we can do to counter it. This episode was produced by Liz Alarcón. Editing by Jackie Noack and Charlie Garcia. Audio engineering, scoring, and mixing by Charlie Gar...
Sep 12, 2023•29 min
Today’s episode is from our friends at Immigrantly. Pulso host Liz Alarcón guests on this episode to discuss the nuances of “Missing White Girl Syndrome”, and why white women are overrepresented in missing person cases, when the majority of missing people are people of color. You can find this episode on The Immigrantly Podcast "Ep-235 Missing Kids and The Media: Breaking the Biases"
Aug 29, 2023•29 min
When Colombian-American producer Charlie Garcia moved to France, he faced a big challenge... his favorite food, The Taco, was nowhere to be found. But while accidentally stumbling on a small shop called O'Tacos, he discovered that the French had put their own radical twist on his beloved Taco. What followed would forever change his view on the meaning of Authenticity, Cultural Appropriation, and whether there can be such a thing as an "Authentic French Taco" This Episode was produced & writt...
Aug 15, 2023•24 min
A growing number of Latino expats are seeking to rediscover their roots and forge new lives in Latin American and Caribbean countries. In this episode, we talk to three people about their life-changing decision to move away and leave the American dream behind. This episode was Produced by Maribel Quezada Smith, it was edited by Charlie Garcia & Liz Alarcon. Audio engineering, scoring & mixing, by Charlie Garcia. Original Music composed by Julian Blackmore. The Hosts of the Pulso Podcast ...
Aug 01, 2023•15 min
In this episode, we're in reflection mode. Maribel flips the mic on Liz to dig into the untold story about how Pulso was founded, the mission of the content, and the bigger vision for Pulso's impact in the Latino community. This Episode was produced by Liz Alarcón, audio engineering & scoring by Charlie Garcia & Julian Blackmore, original music by Julian Blackmore. Our hosts are Liz Alarcón & Maribel Quezada Smith. Follow & continue the conversation with us on social media; @Proj...
Jul 18, 2023•22 min
A global crisis formed a new bond between the United States and Latin America. How a presidential decree, a Peruvian immigrant, and a campaign to showcase Hispanic Stars uncovered El Pendón Estrellado, an almost forgotten piece of American history. This episode was produced by Charlie Garcia & Liz Alarcón, Audio Engineering by Charlie Garcia. Original music by Julian Blackmore, and additional support from Lisanne Ramos. Follow & continue the conversation with us on social media; @Project...
Jul 04, 2023•12 min
Thania Betancourt Alcazar, a member of the art group “The Phoenix Fridas” discovered a lifeline in the art of Frida Kahlo. By embracing Frida's spirit of resilience Thania found the inner strength to confront her own tragedies and transform her pain into a cathartic artistic journey. This episode was produced by Anthony Wallace with editorial support and guidance from Charlie Garcia. Audio Engineering and scoring by Anthony Wallace & Charlie Garcia. Mixing by Charlie Garcia, original music c...
Jun 20, 2023•39 min
