Moments with Martha - with Martha Nino Martha Nino

Jalyll Suarez talks to me about life in Cuba in the late 80s as a child under the Fidel Castro leadership, why his mother decided it was time to leave, his experience lost in the ocean for 6 days and his struggle as a gay young man and how he has come to peace with everything ... hint, its LOVE!

Teacher Anna Maria Magallon, a Central Valley Award Winning Teacher talks to me about what its like in the classroom. How kids in the most vulnerable places are affected by lack of reading, lack of guidance. How kids need role models urgently.

Many immigrant kids often believe they have only one path in their lives.  I talked with Khoi Le; founder of ConvoyOP and master coder. He is also a Vietnamese immigrant. He goes deep into his experience as a young child in the U.S. how despite getting in trouble in school he become a developer guru.  Us two troublemakers explored how immigrant children can create an abundant future in fields that are not the traditional path for foreigners and how similar their immigration stories can be, despite my Mexican heritage and Khoi being from the other side of the world.   



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If you are a leader, an educator, person entering the work force or just curious about tech in general - this episode is for you. Did you ever wonder what it’s like to speak to a pioneer you admire so much he leaves you giddy? You will hear this here. What you will also hear is how Ben (from the U.K.) struggled with fitting into school. How he speaks about the being a “hyper kid” but through his self-discovery and with his parents' support has been able to overcome and has been a leader in the tech and educator world for years. He also gives advice on what will make you stand out from others giving you fighting chance for that job! 

Odalys’s passion is to share the different sides of different Latinos from all over the world.  It is this reason she began her amazing podcast Hell@ Latina! She sheds light and with her various amazing guests peels the onion of “latinidad” – we are NOT all the same. I have followed Odalys’s journey and I’ve seen her come into her own. She openly speaks about her parent’s immigrant story from Honduras. She speaks about how she felt like an outsider as kid from Honduran background in a primarily Mexican part of the world. How she was homeless and how even her beautiful name “Odalys” was hidden for many years.  Through all of her life she has been observing, her heart taking note details of struggle and at a very young age makes sense of them. Her podcast helps all of us make sense of so much. Enjoy our talk and here is her podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vcyxUhQ2sg7DJGq1XR0LR?si=KV2Ru_UXRte4mfBNiNJp3A



Peace and Love everyone.

Networking for Hustlers! 

Brett Murray and Mark Aceves both have worked with me in the past at different companies in the Silicon Valley - yet, here we are a couple decades later talking about it. How is it that we can still be part of each others network years later. Enjoy the chat, refelctions and know it boils down to simple things that last. Learn from the good, the bad.