Hello listeners! This week we're back with an espresso episode because the first week of 2018 went by too quick and I didn't want to start the second week without checking in. How are you doing with your intention setting for 2018? I have been focusing on what is going to happen this year and as I got a bit inpatient, the Universe put this quote in front of me and I felt compelled to share it with you this week. It is a Christian quote and even if you're not religious (I am not at all, but I bel...
Jan 08, 2018•7 min•Ep. 59
Hello listeners! Last episode of 2017 and I wanted to bring you an episode to help you end the end right: a goal setting episode! As a recovering procrastinator, I have researched many ways of goal setting and I have found a formula that works for me. First, we start with a 2017 review. We must acknowledge the year and be prepared to let it go. If you were to name 2017. What would that name be? 2017 Review: What did you accomplish? What can you celebrate? What lessons did you learn? If you can c...
Dec 30, 2017•37 min•Ep. 58
Hello listeners, here we are at the last episode of 2017! This year flew by and I'm glad soon we will be able to say adios to this year. This week, we have a conversation with Martha Rañon. Martha, is the Director of Education & Programs for Southern Caregiver Resource Center. Martha first became a caregiver to her great aunt who was 93 and had Dementia. With little knowledge on how to be a Caregiver, Martha reached out to Southern Caregiver Resource Center and became a client they taught he...
Dec 23, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 57
Hi listeners! This week you sit down with me, listen to me make a cup of coffee (literally) and I tell you a story about the beginning of Cafe con Pam. I tell you about the time nobody wanted to hear from me and the irony that now I'm part of a team that is developing a platform to help other's voices be heard. This one is raw and personal. I almost didn't post it. Let me know what you think, share this episode with someone you love. Remember the butter and stay shining! @cafeconpampodcast Music...
Dec 15, 2017•13 min•Ep. 56
Hello listeners, We're back another week and this time we had a conversation with Susanna Peredo Swap. Susanna has over twenty years of experience as an arts administrator, actor, jazz vocalist, arts advocate, and public relations specialist. While working for the San Diego International Airport Art Program she curated over eighty exhibitions with some of San Diego’s best museums, artists and galleries; as well as a fantastic roster of talent for its performing arts series. She currently serves ...
Dec 08, 2017•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 55
Hello listeners, here we are with another episode and this time we had a conversation with Fernando Lopez! Fernando, is a restaurateur and entrepreneur. Alongside his three siblings, he owns LA’s iconic Guelaguetza restaurant and in 2014 branded and launched the delicious michelada mix, I Love Micheladas. The mix is available online and in over 150 retailers throughout the US and has been covered nationally by Vice, Los Angeles Magazine, GQ, Urban Daddy, and the LA Times. Fernando was born in Oa...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 54
Hello listeners! We're back this week with another episode of Cafe con Pam and this time we had a conversation with Sylvia Banderas Coffinet. Sylvia is the Publisher and VP of Integrated Sales and Marketing at HOLA! USA, the latest magazine launch from HELLO & ¡HOLA! Media Inc., which publishes more than 31 international editions of HELLO and ¡HOLA! each week and reaches an audience of more than 25 million in print, 20 million online, and 14 million via its broadcast channel, ¡HOLA! TV. Sylv...
Nov 23, 2017•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 53
Hello listeners! We made it! Cafe con Pam turned 1 last week and this is the episode I released live. This episode is raw and real, I get emotional about the transitions and growth I've had in the last 12 months and I also release the #cafeconpamchallenge Also, we are happy to announce that La Carmencita Restaurant in LA has sponsored Podcasterio and because of that, we are going to have an after party! Tickets are $25 only! The party ticket gets you access to the party, two drinks and an awesom...
Nov 13, 2017•1 hr•Ep. 52
Hello listeners, we are back another week and this time we had a conversation with Ashley Nell Tipton. You may have heard of Ashley when she made history after becoming the first designer to win Project Runway with a final collection designed for plus-size women. Ashley was born and raised in San Diego, California. The youngest of four children she had an early passion for fashion. Ashley learned to sew on her grandmother’s sewing machine when she was just seven years old. One of her goals is to...
Nov 04, 2017•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 51
Hello listeners, during this episode we have a conversation with Fernando Laposse. Fernando is a London based Mexican designer with a BA in product design from Central Saint Martins. He was born in Paris, France and his work is deeply rooted in material experimentation and craft with a great emphasis on self-production and the DIY culture. Fernando strives to transform materials which are cheap, readily available, and often waste or perishable matter, enabling him to make crossovers between prod...
Oct 27, 2017•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 50
Hello listeners! This week we have a conversation with Blanca Diaz. Blanca is the creatrix of Mama Maiz, and serves the community as a sacred element protector, activist, hierberx, and traditional birthworker located in Long Beach, CA. Blanca was called to this work after healing her body of trauma and abuse. On her personal path of healing, she felt the call to hold circles and classes that encourage all people to return to the sacred ways, to decolonize our medicine. Blanca holds space and sha...
Oct 20, 2017•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 49
Hello listeners! Episode 48 is out and this time we talked to nada mas y nada menos que con Danny Hastings. Danny is a Photographer, Movie Maker, Content Creator, Music Video Director, Producer, Actor, Visual Artist, Husband, Father, Family Man, Business Man. Through his lens, Danny documented one of the most iconic eras in hip-hop music: the 1990’s. The 90’s was an era of transformation that created an incredible variety of styles and sounds and images, giving birth to some of the greatest rap ...
Oct 13, 2017•57 min•Ep. 48
Hello listeners! This week we had a conversation with Gloria Lucas, also known as Nalgona Positivity Pride. Gloria is a Xicana womxn and the person behind Nalgona Positivity Pride. Straight from the Inland Empire, the DIY punk community in Riverside taught her to organize and since the age of 18 she has helped form Ladyfest IE, IE Riot Grrrls, and Women of Color for Decolonization. In 2014, she founded Nalgona Positivity Pride from years of dealing with the violent lack of women of color represe...
Oct 05, 2017•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 47
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 ...
Sep 23, 2017•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 46
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 conve...
Sep 14, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 45
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 ...
Sep 01, 2017•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 44
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 thi...
Aug 24, 2017•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 43
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 heal...
Aug 17, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 42
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 rest...
Aug 11, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 41
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, a...
Aug 03, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 40
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 ...
Jul 28, 2017•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 39
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 th...
Jul 19, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 38
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 immigrati...
Jun 28, 2017•57 min•Ep. 37
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 things You can find Tiburcio at http://www.omgitseddieg.com/tiburcio/ and https://www.youtube.com/user/ElShowDeTiburcio Music by La Abeja (l...
Jun 26, 2017•21 min•Ep. 36
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 len...
Jun 21, 2017•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 35
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 ...
Jun 07, 2017•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 34
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 conver...
May 31, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 33
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! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/cafe-con-pam--6348411/support ....
May 24, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 32
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. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/cafe-con-pam--6348411/support ....
May 17, 2017•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 31
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 imp...
May 10, 2017•44 min•Ep. 30
