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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Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa is a podcast from The Phi Beta Kappa Society's Visiting Scholars program, featuring leading scholars across multiple disciplines in conversation with Fred Lawrence, PBK's Secretary and CEO.
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An original documentary series from LWC Studios that investigates the health and lifetime outcomes of Latinas in the United States from birth to age 100.
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This 14-part original series from LWC Studios explores how reparations should be paid and to whom. For all episodes, transcripts and supplemental materials visit StillPayingThePricePod.com. This series was funded by a grant from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Cover art: "Gemini" by Fitgi Saint-Louis
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Feeling My Flo is a reported podcast where menstruation is an event that happens to all types of bodies.
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This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter with jails and to chronicle the progress ground-up efforts have made in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, adoption of technology and other crucial aspects of the move toward decarceration at local levels.
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The humanities played an important role during the pandemic and in the ongoing recovery. Host Sydney Boyd introduces stories and leaders from the country's humanities councils that highlight just how pivotal the humanities are to our society. (From the Federation of State Humanities Councils.)
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Black and brown strivers achieving on our own terms.
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In-depth profiles of outstanding individuals among the 22% of college students who are also parents. Created by Ascend at Aspen Institute, this narrative documentary collection celebrates the scores of students who are pursuing their educations while raising children, working, and also leading in their families and communities.
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"My two sons' godmother, who is a first-generation Dominican in New York City, was having a really, really hard time getting through to her mother about taking extra precautions during the start of the COVID pandemic," says Juleyka Lantigua, host and creator of How to Talk to [Mamí & Papí] about Anything, Apple Podcasts' Spotlight show for January 2023. "It was like they were speaking to each other in two different languages. The cultural and generational differences between them seemed to p ...
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The Get Sh!t Done Podcast teaches entrepreneurs & visionary business leaders how to successfully grow game-changing businesses. We're revolutionizing the rules of business success by featuring real talk from visionary entrepreneurs who’ve scaled $1M+ businesses on their terms. Hosted by Alex Batdorf, 3X entrepreneur & CEO of Get Sh!t Done, each episode reveals the stories, steps, & tools that powered badass business growth. This is a movement designing businesses that energize & empower you ...
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#106: How She Turned Driving Lyft & $40,000 Into $2 Million With Big Clients like Marvel (Juleyka Lantigua, LWC Studios)
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1:11:18Meet Juleyka Lantigua, the founder of a powerhouse media company that transformed a $40K investment from her 401k into a multi-million dollar empire. Juleyka didn’t wait for permission—she created her own lane, securing nearly $2 million in philanthropic grants, building a dream team from scratch, and becoming an authority in the media industry tha…
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#107: How to Use Referrals to Drive 75% of Revenues of a Multi-Million Dollar Empire (Michelle Penczak, Squared Away)
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1:00:47Meet Michelle Penczak, the founder of Squared Away, a virtual assistant powerhouse that scaled from a one-woman operation to a 300+ person team, all while leveraging a referral engine that now drives 75% of the company’s revenue. Michelle didn’t follow the traditional path—after losing her remote job while three months pregnant, she took matters in…
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How Joy Huerta Learned to Embrace Life's Curves
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25:46The Grammy-award winning artist, half of the Mexican sibling pop duo Jesse & Joy, is taking on a new role: as co-composer and lyricist for the Broadway musical Real Women Have Curves. Joy shares how music “literally saved her life,” the complexity of being raised by a machismo father who wanted her to be independent, and reflects on the curves life…
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Remix: How Philanthropic CEO Carmen Rojas Learned to Lead as Her Full Self
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26:27Today we bring you another one of our favorite conversations since the start of our show. Raised by Nicaraguan and Venezuelan parents who immigrated to the U.S. in the middle of the Civil Rights and labor movements, she grew up determined to uphold the ideals of justice and equality. After being the first in her family to go to college, she set to …
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#105: How Grassroots Grew a $4 Million Community-Driven Business (Sloane Davidson, Hello Neighbor)
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1:04:34Meet Sloane, Founder of Hello Neighbor, Who Scaled Community Impact to $4M in Revenue Sloane didn’t just build a nonprofit—she created a movement that took Hello Neighbor from a grassroots initiative with $130K in funding to a $4M powerhouse making a tangible impact in communities across 36 states. Sloane shares the exact strategies and frameworks …
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How Alejandra Hernandez Styled SZA for the Super Bowl Halftime Show
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17:57The fashion stylist and designer shares how she develops her clients’ style profiles, and details the choices that went into creating SZA’s iconic Super Bowl halftime look.By LWC, Juleyka Lantigua, Alicia Menendez, Tren Lightburn
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Exploring the Evolution of Animal Weapons and How it Relates to Arms Races in Military Technologies With Professor Doug Emlen
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23:54In this episode, evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen joins Fred Lawrence in a conversation about his research on extreme animal weapons— from the horns of a rhinoceros beetle to elk antlers. He discusses his family's scientific legacy, his early reluctance to follow in their footsteps, and how his childhood experiences in Kenya influenced his path…
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#104: How She Turned A Service Business Into a Tech Platform & Gained 30,000 Users (Virginia Frischkorn, Partytrick & Bluebird Productions)
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1:03:53Meet Virginia Frischkorn, founder of PartyTrick, who built a multi-million-dollar luxury event planning business and successfully transitioned it into a scalable SaaS platform—without raising VC funding or spending a dime on ads. Instead of sinking money into software too early, Virginia validated her idea manually, leveraged referrals for 80%+ of …
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Top 18: Why Living Icon Isabel Allende Has Never Kept Secrets
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34:42We continue with our Top 25 Countdown! She believes the secrets you keep make you vulnerable. And she is sharing plenty of them in her new book, The Soul of a Woman. Isabel joins Alicia from her cozy writing room in her attic for an intimate chat that touches on infidelity, maternal grief, and the process of becoming "a woman on her own terms." Fol…
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#103: How to Grow 50–100% Annually Bootstrapped: Big Clients, Sales Systems & Recurring Revenue (Sharon Nouh, ProSpend)
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1:06:38Meet Sharon Nouh, founder of ProSpend, who scaled her company 50–100% year-over-year—all without raising VC funding. Instead of chasing investors, she focused on landing major clients like KFC, leveraging ERP integrations & reseller partnerships, and building a sustainable revenue engine. In this episode, Sharon breaks down her growth playbook for …
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Why Debby Wolfe Believes That Real Life is Funnier Than Fiction
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20:01The Executive Producer and Showrunner of NBC’s hit sitcom Lopez vs. Lopez knew she had something special when she watched Mayan Lopez call out her famous father, George Lopez, on TikTok. That inspiration, combined with Debby’s decade working in television (credits: ABC’s “The Conners,” Freevee’s “Primo,” Hulu’s “Love, Victor,” Netflix’s “One Day at…
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#102: From DEI to Dollars: How to Position Your Brand for Impact & ROI (Crystal Foote, Digital Culture Group)
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1:00:13MeetCrystal Foot, founder ofDigital Culture Group, the only Black woman-owned and minority-owned ad tech company in the country. Crystal isn’t just talking about change—she’sbuilding it. With a96% Fortune 500 client retention rate, she’s proving that investing in diverse audiences (now reframed as “growth audiences”) isn’t just theright thing to do…
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Remix: Paola Mendoza Teaches Us That Joy Is an Act of Resistance
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25:00This week, we bring you another one of our most beloved conversations since the start of our show. Film director and activist Paola Mendoza embodies today's political resistance. As Creative Director of the Women's March, her visionary work helped galvanize millions around the world, and continues with the "I Am a Child" campaign and efforts to sto…
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#101: How She Built Scalable Partnerships with Government (Clementine Jacoby, Recidiviz)
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58:10Meet Clementine Jacoby, co-founder of Recidiviz, the GovTech company revolutionizing criminal justice reform. Clementine didn’t just talk about change—she and her team built a scalable platform that’s transforming how states manage incarceration, leading to partnerships across 11 states and impacting 75,000+ lives. In this episode, Clementine break…
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Unearthing the Voices of the Marginalized Through Medieval Studies with Professor Kristina Richardson
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25:29In this episode, Professor Kristina Richardson, a distinguished historian and Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, joins Fred Lawrence for a compelling conversation about her groundbreaking research on marginalized communities in medieval Islamic societies. Professor Richardson sheds light on the lives of disabled individuals, Romani crafts people, and…
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How Brown Badass Bonita Founder Kim Guerra Learned to Practice Radical Self-Love
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19:55How 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…
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#100: How to Raise $50 Million+ & Scale Your Business by Starting Small (Laurel Taylor, Candidly)
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1:00:37Meet Laurel Taylor, the visionary founder and CEO of Candidly, the fintech company transforming how we tackle student debt while driving financial inclusion and empowerment. Laurel didn’t just raise $50M+ in funding—she’s leveraging policy changes, scrappy beginnings, and a mission-driven approach to scale a business that’s reshaping lives and indu…
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Remix: Why Diana Flores Believes Flag Football Deserves a Professional League
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18:17We 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 l…
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#99: How to Build Big Vision Energy & Tap Into A $30 Trillion Opportunity (Kelly Ann Winget, Alternative Wealth Partners)
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1:15:42Meet Kelly Ann Wingate, the powerhouse founder of Alternative Wealth Partners, a private equity firm that’s redefining wealth-building and breaking barriers in an industry dominated by old money and old rules. Kelly didn’t just overcome obstacles—she turned them into opportunities. After being let go from her previous fund, she took the ultimate BV…
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Why Jannese Torres Wants You to Become Financially Powerful
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20:20The 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 fin…
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#98: From Kickstarter to $1 Million: How To Turn Pre-orders into Profits (Charisse & Vicky Pasche, Dapper Boi)
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51:39Meet Vicky and Charisse, the powerhouse duo behind Dapper Boi, a fashion brand that's rewriting the rules of inclusivity, gender-neutral clothing, and business. From crowdfunding on Kickstarter to generating over $1M in sales, they’ve built a brand that resonates deeply with their audience. But here's the kicker—they didn’t get there by "faking it …
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Remix: Mountaineer Silvia Vasquez-Lavado Knows the Highest Mountain is the One Within
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21:35We 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 c…
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The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards are presented annually to three outstanding scholarly books published in the United States. The 2024 winners are Gregg Hecimovich for his book The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative; Jeremy Eichler for his book Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of…
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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.By LWC Studios
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#97: How to Scale & Sell a Service-Based Business for 8-figures (Carrie Kerpen, The Exit Whisperer)
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1:03:34Meet Carrie Kerpen—a visionary who scaled a service-based business from the ground up, bootstrapped it, and sold it for 8 figures. Yep, you read that right. 8 figures—and she did it without outside investors. How? Well, today, Carrie’s here to break down exactly how she made it happen. In this episode, Carrie gives us the real talk on how to build …
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How Law & Order: SVU’s Juliana Aidén Martinez Learned To Accept the Up and Down Nature of a Creative Life
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19:04The 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.…
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Remix: How Health Coach Massy Arias Found Her Real Strength
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25:29This 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…
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Top 19: How Peloton's Robin Arzón Found Her True Power
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20:54Our 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.…
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Essential and Overlooked: The Silent Struggles of Latinas in the Workforce
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43:20From healthcare to home care, education to service industries, Latinas are at the forefront of essential labor—but their contributions come at a steep cost. With one of the highest labor market participation rates in the U.S.—even surpassing pre-pandemic levels—Latinas are critical to the workforce, but their stories are often left unheard. How do …
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Remix: Julissa Natzely Arce Raya Wants You to Reclaim Your Identity
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21:46This 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,…
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Living in Survival Mode: Why Latinas Facing Homelessness Experience Simultaneous Health Crises, Part 2
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24:09Between 2015 to 2019, unsheltered homelessness increased among two populations: women and Latinos. Homelessness carries a social stigma, and getting help is difficult because people do not disclose how much they’re struggling. But housing insecurity—overcrowding, doubling up, and moving often—can be traumatizing and have life-long impacts on a pers…
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Top 20: Why Novelist Xochitl Gonzalez Isn't Done Being Ambitious
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Living in Survival Mode: Why Latinas Facing Homelessness Experience Simultaneous Health Crises, Part 1
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26:48Between 2015 to 2019, unsheltered homelessness increased among two populations: women and Latinos. Homelessness carries a social stigma, and getting help is difficult because people do not disclose how much they’re struggling. But housing insecurity—overcrowding, doubling up, and moving often—can be traumatizing and have life-long impacts on a pers…
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Welcome back to The Get Sh!t Done Podcast! I’m your host, Alex Batdorf, aka Chief Get Sh!t Done Officer—and let me tell you, it feels so damn good to be back. This isn’t just another season; it’s a reawakening. Growth isn’t all breakthroughs—it’s messy, uncomfortable, and, yes, painful. Over the past year, I’ve learned that transformation requires …
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