Listeners this week we're back with Dario Guerrero. Dario Guerrero was brought to this country when he was two years old and like a true bad hombre overstayed his tourist visa. His story first received national attention in September 2014 when he published an essay in the Washington Post titled “I told Harvard I was an undocumented immigrant. They gave me a full scholarship.” Following up on this story, a Telemundo news crew reached out to Dario and found him living in his grandmother’s home, so...
Aug 14, 2019•59 min•Ep. 119
Listeners we're back this week with Adacelis Perez. Mrs. Perez is an Author, Certified Life Coach and Entrepreneur. She is the CEO and Founder of Breathe Publishing, Inc. A native Puerto Rican, she is a communication expert, with previous experience working for CNN, and for CDC as a consultant. A recipient of two certificates from Peabody Awards for her collaboration in CNN's coverage of the Arab Spring and Hurricane Katrina, Ada has worked as a publicist for internationally renowned news anchor...
Aug 05, 2019•44 min•Ep. 118
Warning for the sensitive ears: This episode will cover sex-related conversations that might not be appropriate for little humans. Listeners, Dr. Brito came back to Cafe con Pam to answer all your questions. Thank you to everyone who submitted anonymous questions, even though it was anonymous it was really brave of you to be vulnerable and ask. This time, Dr. Brito came solely to answer your questions and my favorite tools she shared were: HALT: Hungry/Horny, Angry, Lonely or Tired. How are you ...
Jul 28, 2019•51 min•Ep. 117
Trigger Warning: Domestic Violence. This episode contains some mention of a domestic violence instance. Please check in with yourself if this is a sensitive topic to you Listeners we're back from our much needed summer break. This week we bring you Eddy Gramajo. Eddy was raised by a single Guatemalan mom. Lived in poverty most of his life but made it to the largest public accounting firm in the world. Now Eddy is a CPA and has worked for amazing companies like Pandora and Glassdoor. Eddy finally...
Jul 28, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 116
Listeners we're back this week with a solo episode! We are going to to over our Mid Year Review. If you'd like to download the template, head over to bit.ly/midyearreviewconpam Our Mid Year Review consists on 11 steps: Reflect on your annual intentions. What did you commit to in the beginning of the year? This year's word and/or affirmation. Quarterly intentions. What can you celebrate? Review your life wheel. Reflect on what is working. Evaluate what you need to let go of. Lessons learned. Prog...
Jul 03, 2019•23 min•Ep. 115
Listeners, we're back this week with Anthony Cruz! Anthony grew up a multi-sport athlete. One thing he wanted to achieve was becoming bigger, faster, and stronger (like any other athlete). Anthony began looking up anything and everything about working out and sports performance. When his teammates noticed the increased muscle and quickness on the field, they wanted in on the action so Anthony started training them. Seeing them get similar results, his love and journey for coaching began. Anthony...
Jun 24, 2019•42 min•Ep. 114
Warning: Explicit words on this episode. Listeners, we're back this week with Beto Perez. Beto was born in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in South San Diego. His passion for music started at a young age when his cousins gave him vinyl records to play. This led him to a career as a DJ. He has worked as a producer, an on-air DJ for both Spanish and English markets and has done some voice over work. When Beto is not behind the microphone or DJing, you can find him eating, and most likely his favorite f...
Jun 17, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 113
Listeners, we're back this week with Eva Macias! Eva is a powerful leader and sought-after speaker in the financial industry. Eva’s speciality is helping women create a “simple-to-follow” financial plan in 60 minutes or less. Eva believes that all working families deserve access to the same financial information that few families receive. After learning her parents were retiring with just $1,100 in savings, Eva decided to dedicate her life to teaching women and working families on how to achieve...
Jun 10, 2019•49 min•Ep. 112
Listeners, this week we have a conversation with the one and only Linda Garcia, AKA Luz Warrior! Linda, a California native, born to immigrant parents, double majored in Marketing and International Business. During college she was on air talent for Telemundo and Univision and began to write, produce and direct local TV commercials. Fascinated with storytelling she pursued a career in film and formed part of the startup team that launched the first major Latino Hollywood movie studio, Lionsgate’s...
May 27, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 111
Listers, we're back this episode with Ricky Rosario. A New Jersey native, Ricky Rosario is an independent Producer and Director who resides in Los Angeles, CA. His experience spans across commercials, music videos and films. Ricky got his start in the film industry by working as . Production Assistant on various projects. With a degree in Marketing and Finance from Seton Hall University, Ricky is highly budget conscience when it comes to efficient and powerful storytelling. Before getting into t...
May 20, 2019•48 min•Ep. 110
Listeners, this week we're back with Carolina Burquez! Planning With A Purpose was created from a dream & desire to educate and empower our community through financial & business workshops. Carolina Burquez CEO and Founder, quickly realized that there was a huge need for this in our community after her many years of experience in the industry. Before becoming a business consultant, Carolina was a financial advisor that enjoyed helping her clients create a personalized roadmap that would ...
May 13, 2019•37 min•Ep. 109
Listeners, we're back this week with Isaac Collins! Isaac is a Kansas City entrepreneur passionate about giving back to the community. In addition to his business experience and undergraduate degree in business, Isaac is a certified yoga instructor, and he has previously worked with kids programming at a non-profit and also has taught yoga in Kansas City. Isaac recently joined a startup company, and after 19 months, they launched Serv Nutrition at the end of 2018. We chat about his upbringing as...
May 06, 2019•52 min•Ep. 108
Listeners, this week we're back with Dayhanna Acosta. Dayhanna, is an energetic communication expert, a powerful speaker, and a dynamic educator who helps nonprofit and mid-size businesses scale and reach their target audience. Her clients and students say she can turn mundane, geeky topics into something relevant that people can get excited about! Her company Chase Your Fears manages the marketing and P.R departments of U.S based nonprofit and mid-size businesses. In a world that's divided by o...
Apr 29, 2019•52 min•Ep. 107
Listeners this week we have Adriana Alejandre! Adriana Alejandre, MA, LMFT talks about her journey to mental health and the inspiration to help others break the mental health stigma in the Latinx Community. Adriana, is a relationship therapist and counselor, speaker on sexual assault, sexual violence and trauma. Her specialty is working with women, men and adolescents dealing with relationship issues, identity issues, depression, anxiety and any traumatic event that has occurred in their life. A...
Apr 22, 2019•57 min•Ep. 106
Listeners we're back this week with Candy Calderon! Candy is a certified holistic health & wellness coach, passionate about health & wellness and an avid healthy lifestyle social media influencer. Through her page www.candycalderon.com she shares her popular and outspoken takes on healthy living from the modern, busy woman-entrepreneur's perspective and taboo subjects very few talk about while still having fun, and a few glasses of wine in the process! Candy comes from a business backgro...
Apr 19, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 105
Listeners this week we're back with Kendra Barnes. Kendra is a full-time Real Estate Investor and founder of The Key Resource. Her real estate investments afforded her the ability to retire from the 9-5 life at the age of 32. She created The Key Resource to inspire, empower and educate people about the power of home ownership and Real Estate investment. She currently owns and manages 4 properties (8 rental units total). Her key message to anyone looking to buy a home or a rental property is: “Yo...
Apr 07, 2019•50 min•Ep. 104
Listeners, we're back this week with another episode, this time we have a conversation with Maricela Becerra, AKA Academic Mami. Maricela shares her journey to the United States, how her passion for reading now has become her career, motherhood, life in Academia, and Mari also shares about her dissertation topic: How the younger generations are processing and "translating" the Tlatelolco student massacre of 1968. Follow Maricela on all things social: https://academicmami.com https://www.facebook...
Apr 01, 2019•54 min•Ep. 103
Hello listeners, this week we're back with Manny Gonzalez Manuel "Manny" Gonzalez is the founding father of The Way I Dad: a predominantly visual resource for new parents geared to provide the answers to parenting's everyday decisions from the perspective of a dad of three French-Mexican toddlers. His daytime work helps him provide a unique and thorough perspective on sustainably consensus and gentle parenting. During our conversation, Manny shares how he met his wife, their decision on getting ...
Mar 27, 2019•52 min•Ep. 102
Listeners we are back this week with another solo episode and this time we’re going to talk about all things branding! As a brand strategist committed to serving small business, especially those created by recovering procrastinators, I wanted to create an episode specifically on brand strategy. During this episode, I will share a portion of my brand strategy process. We explore Phase II: Develop and we learn about your Brand Container, your Brand Archetype, and developing your Humans (or Client ...
Mar 18, 2019•20 min•Ep. 101
Listeners we made it to 100 episodes, can you believe it? To celebrate we’re going to go over the 5 steps to get more organized as we also close the #getorganizedchallenge we just hosted. If you have #fomo because you missed the challenge, it’s ok, take a listen to the 5 lessons we went through these last 5 days: Download Prioritize Evaluate Plan Reflect Thank you so so much for these last 100 episodes! I’m so grateful for you! Find Cafe con Pam on all things social www.instagram.com/cafeconpamp...
Feb 25, 2019•17 min•Ep. 100
Hello listeners, we're back this week and we have a conversation with Ed Blunt. Ed is A former Broadway, Television, Film and Voice Over Artist, Ed Blunt has worked with Les Brown, trained for T. Harv Eker’s Peak Potentials and a has been a featured speaker at George Fraser’s International Frasernet. Has also worked with pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Columbia University Medical College, Yale University, the Trinidadian Congress of Insurance Agents, Volunteers of Amer...
Feb 21, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 99
Listeners, we're back this week with Horacio Portillo. Horacio tells us so many stories of resilience, resourcefulness, and strenght. We learn about his company GYV, and his passion for developing a brand that reflected and honored his culture. Find GYV on all things social: https://justgyv.com/ https://www.facebook.com/JUSTGYV/ https://www.instagram.com/justgyv/ Find Cafe con Pam on all things social www.instagram.com/cafeconpampodcast/ www.facebook.com/cafeconpampodcast www.spreadideasmovepeop...
Feb 11, 2019•52 min•Ep. 98
Listeners, we're back this week with another great episode. This time we talked to Jhoselyn Thomas. Jhoselyn is a Licensed Registered Nurse with over 16 years of experience, a Sacred Sexuality Guide, Sexual health advocate, and Certified Tantra Practitioner, a Shaman training with the indigenous Shuar culture, plant medicine retreat facilitator, and intuitive healer. She has worked with clients of all ages and backgrounds in both Spanish (her native tongue), and English. Sharing her medical and ...
Jan 29, 2019•53 min•Ep. 97
Hello listeners, we're back this week with Maritere Rodriguez Bellas. Maritere is an award-winning author, bilingual and bicultural parenting expert, influencer, features writer, and speaker with a master’s degree in communications from Pepperdine University in California. Realizing she could combine her two life passions, writing and motherhood, Maritere became a voice for Latino parents long before the existence of online parenting resources. For twelve years, Maritere wrote a highly regarded ...
Jan 21, 2019•33 min•Ep. 96
Listeners this week we're back with Luis Miranda Luis s a peacebuilding professional specializing in capacity building, youth leadership development, and restorative justice processes with communities affected by armed conflicts and historical harms. Luis has facilitated dialogues and leadership development workshops for youth-oriented initiatives in North America, Europe, East Asia, and Latin America. He has also participated in the efforts of the United Network of Young Peacebuilders in 2014-2...
Jan 14, 2019•50 min•Ep. 95
Happy 2019! Listeners, the first episode of the year is a great one to get you inspired to take action this year. This episode we had a conversation with Linda González Linda is the author of the memoir The Cost of Our Lives. She has published essays in literary journals and books, served as a judge for Latino Books awards and guest editor for aaduna journal, she is a storyteller, and received her MFA from Goddard College. Linda is developing a solo performance piece that draws from the memoir a...
Jan 07, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 94
Listeners we're back this week with Krystal Guerra! Krystal Guerra is a Utah native and first-generation Latina and holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Management with a Marketing Emphasis from Utah Valley University. Krystal has always had a passion for leadership and serving her community both locally and nationally. While attending UVU she worked closely with campus administration as the VP of Clubs and Organizations and advocated for community colleges in Washington DC as the Utah South...
Dec 22, 2018•55 min•Ep. 93
Hello listeners! After a 3 week restoring break Cafe con Pam is back and llego para quedarse! During this episode, we bring back The Humbled Therapist Priscila and we talk about being in this growth stage of the podcast. We keep it pretty casual and simply have a conversation about what has happened in the last two years. Stay tuned for amazing guests coming up in the next weeks and fun things ahead! Follow Cafe con Pam on all things social: https://www.instagram.com/cafeconpampodcast/ https://w...
Dec 10, 2018•51 min•Ep. 92
Listeners, we're back this week with Maydelli Mendoza. Maydelli is the founder of Healing with Self Love and Raw Love by May. She is passionate about healing at all levels, this comes from her own personal struggle with depression after finding out she was undocumented. Her journey to healing came from a variety of places. As she healed at a spiritual, mental, emotional and physical level, she became a Reiki Master and a Soul Synchronicity meditation expert from the Oneness University in India. ...
Nov 12, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 91
Listeners, we're back this week with another episode and this time we have a conversation with Maribel Quezada-Smith. Maribel Maribel is a creative entrepreneur who has spent too much time hopping between cultures, never truly feeling like she fit in anywhere. Until she gave up her ideas of who she thought people wanted her to be and embraced her authentic self. Her passion is to inspire people through meaningful content and stories. And she’s doing it in her work, and through her podcast, Difer...
Nov 05, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 90
