Latina Leadership Podcast

Anjelica Cazares
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Established in 2020, the Latina Leadership Podcast is a weekly masterclass bridging the gap between aspiring leaders and powerful underrepresented women at every level. 

 Co-hosted by Anjelica Cazares and Andrea Diaz, we center our conversations around providing actionable frameworks across four key pillars: * Entrepreneurship: Strategies for scaling startups and securing funding. * Education: Navigating academic spaces and first-generation higher education success. * Health & Wellness: Tools for overcoming generational trauma and burnout. * Pay Equity: Expert advice on salary negotiation and building generational wealth. Go beyond the studio with "Las Patronas," an exclusive lifestyle and community segment. Follow hosts Anjelica Cazares, Mary Ann Garcia, and Monica Vallejo as they explore cultural identity and community bonding, showcasing the strength of Latina friendship. Our mission is to remove barriers to access and democratize access to leadership mentorship, making these expert insights available free of cost. Amiga, join the movement redefining our success.
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  1. 2d ago

    How a Latina Built the First Spanish Grip Sock Brand and Ended in Coachella

    A steady paycheck. A $125,000 salary. The kind of job your familia brags about at every carne asada. Michelle Myra had it, and she walked away to make socks. Michelle is a Pilates instructor since 2018 who taught her way across Asia before coming home to California. Today she runs two businesses: Sazón Grip, one of the first Latina-owned grip sock brands with every phrase en español, and Sazón Pilates Studio in Bellflower, open barely a month when we sat down. She built both by reading the room, testing everything herself, and refusing to launch anything she wouldn't wear. In this conversation she breaks down how she went from instructor to product owner, why she used her socks to fund immigrant families during the ICE raids, and the one piece of advice she gives every amiga with a product idea. Share Your Story Your story matters. Have you reclaimed your voice from a difficult experience? Share it with us. DM us on Instagram: @LatinaLeadershipPodcast or email us at info@latinaleadershippodcast.com. Found this powerful? Please like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to join our community of support and storytelling. Prefer audio? Find the full podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/latina-leadership-podcast/id1539009007 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1OD36YHq4caQaCY5iYfMO4 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8755c9e9-bba6-4e6a-9283-9fab5696a017/latina-leadership-podcast Connect With the Community: Don't miss a beat of the Latina Leadership Podcast! Website: latinaleadershippodcast.com Instagram: instagram.com/latinaleadershippodcast Facebook: facebook.com/LatinaLeadershipPodcast LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/latina-leadership-podcast

    How a Latina Built the First Spanish Grip Sock Brand and Ended in Coachella

  2. Jul 14

    Inside Unedo, the Spanish App Built Around Culture with Founder Sonia Salvador

    Your parents spoke it at home. Your abuela still calls to speak it with you. And somewhere between Duolingo streaks and half-remembered conjugation tables, the language still feels just out of reach. That gap between hearing Spanish your whole life and actually feeling fluent in it is one of the most common, least talked-about experiences in our comunidad.   Sonia Salvador spent 20 years in marketing and product design, including as US Communications Director for Ray-Ban. Native French and Spanish, with roots in the Basque Country, she's lived across Spain, France, Italy, and the US. She's the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Unedo, a daily Spanish-language magazine recently named Apple's App of the Day and one of Apple's Best New Apps of 2026.   In this conversation, Sonia breaks down why Unedo skips the grammar drills entirely and builds around culture instead, and what that means for anyone trying to reconnect with a language that was always theirs.   Chapters   00:00 — Why this Spanish app is built entirely around culture 01:52 — Sonia Salvador: "Who are you, and what do you do?" 04:07 — How do you reconnect with a language your parents never taught you? 06:39 — Is Spanish one language, or hundreds? 09:17 — What it's really like building a tech company as a woman 16:15 — Why Sonia stopped studying the competition 24:39 — Do you consider yourself a leader?   Connect with Unedo:   Instagram: instagram.com/unedo_in_spanish Threads: threads.com/@unedo_in_spanish LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/unedo-app Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575621142169   Share Your Story   Your story matters. Have you reclaimed your voice from a difficult experience? Share it with us. DM us on Instagram: @LatinaLeadershipPodcast or email us at info@latinaleadershippodcast.com.   Found this powerful? Please like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to join our community of support and storytelling.   Prefer audio? Find the full podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.   Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/latina-leadership-podcast/id1539009007 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1OD36YHq4caQaCY5iYfMO4 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8755c9e9-bba6-4e6a-9283-9fab5696a017/latina-leadership-podcast   Connect With the Community: Don't miss a beat of the Latina Leadership Podcast!   Website: latinaleadershippodcast.com Instagram: instagram.com/latinaleadershippodcast Facebook: facebook.com/LatinaLeadershipPodcast LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/latina-leadership-podcast

    Inside Unedo, the Spanish App Built Around Culture with Founder Sonia Salvador

  3. Jul 7

    Inside Sports City USA With Kelly Walker

    You drive right past it. Every road trip, every time. A skyline going up north of Dallas, and you tell yourself you will stop next time. Sound familiar, amiga? Kelly Walker is the woman who wants you to pull in. As Communications Manager for Visit Frisco, she is the one who brings media, creators, and podcasters to town and hands them the itinerary that changes their mind. She started as a coordinator, grew into media relations, and she is the partner who brought the Latina Leadership Podcast to the Dallas Cowboys studio at The Star. She also happens to be a lifelong sports obsessive, which is a useful thing to be in a city that made sports its whole identity. In this one, Kelly maps out Sports City USA, what Frisco is building for the 2026 World Cup, and what leadership looks like when your title does not say manager. You walk away with a real plan for a getaway, not a brochure.

    Inside Sports City USA With Kelly Walker

  4. Jun 30

    The Latina Taking Over Women's Soccer: Marisa González, FC Dallas

    A Latina from Puebla now oversees 85 girls teams at one of the top youth soccer clubs in the country. Marisa González breaks down how to build a career in sports when you are not going pro, how to beat imposter syndrome, and why representation is what lets a girl dream at all. In this episode of the Latina Leadership Podcast, recorded at the Dallas Cowboys Podcast Studio in Frisco, Texas, host Claudia Macías sits down with Marisa González, Senior Director of Girls Programming at FC Dallas Youth. Marisa went from playing college soccer in Minnesota to an MBA in Madrid to becoming the first general manager of Club Puebla Femenil in Liga MX Femenil. Now she is shaping the pathway for thousands of young female players in North Texas, just as the World Cup arrives in the region. Share Your Story Your story matters. Have you reclaimed your voice from a difficult experience? Share it with us. DM us on Instagram: @LatinaLeadershipPodcast or email us at info@latinaleadershippodcast.com. Found this powerful? Please like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to join our community of support and storytelling. Prefer audio? Find the full podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/latina-leadership-podcast/id1539009007 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1OD36YHq4caQaCY5iYfMO4 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8755c9e9-bba6-4e6a-9283-9fab5696a017/latina-leadership-podcast Connect With the Community: Don't miss a beat of the Latina Leadership Podcast! Website: latinaleadershippodcast.com Instagram: instagram.com/latinaleadershippodcast Facebook: facebook.com/LatinaLeadershipPodcast LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/latina-leadership-podcast

    The Latina Taking Over Women's Soccer: Marisa González, FC Dallas

  5. Jun 23 ·  Video

    Mexican American History They Skipped in School

    They told us the history books were complete. They were not. Most of us walked through twelve years of school and never heard the names of the people who fought, in courtrooms and city councils and newspaper columns, so that a Latina could vote, run for office, and be counted as a full citizen. That history was here the whole time. We just were not handed it. Dr. Sarah Zenaida Gould is the Executive Director of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, MACRI, the only national museum dedicated to preserving and sharing Mexican American civil rights history. A historian who has spent two decades in museums, she sat down with Anjelica inside MACRI in San Antonio, the city she calls the cradle of the movement, during Fiesta on the Texas Road Trip. In this conversation you learn why San Antonio holds this history, how Mexican Americans fought for the vote, and how to find your voice in a room that was not built to hear it. Share Your Story Your story matters. Have you reclaimed your voice from a difficult experience? Share it with us. DM us on Instagram: @LatinaLeadershipPodcast or email us at info@latinaleadershippodcast.com. Found this powerful? Please like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to join our community of support and storytelling. Prefer audio? Find the full podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/latina-leadership-podcast/id1539009007 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1OD36YHq4caQaCY5iYfMO4 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8755c9e9-bba6-4e6a-9283-9fab5696a017/latina-leadership-podcast Connect With the Community: Don't miss a beat of the Latina Leadership Podcast! Website: latinaleadershippodcast.com Instagram: instagram.com/latinaleadershippodcast Facebook: facebook.com/LatinaLeadershipPodcast LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/latina-leadership-podcast Learn more about our guest: MACRI: somosmacri.org Email MACRI: info@somosmacri.org 2026 MACRI Symposium: May 29 to 30 in San Antonio, livestreamed

    Mexican American History They Skipped in School

  6. Jun 16 ·  Video

    How a Latina Built a Career in Healthcare Tech

    You trained for years to become one thing. Then the path bent somewhere you never planned for. Sound familiar, amiga? Dr. Erika Cavazos started as a physician in Mexico. When she moved to Texas she landed in a public health department, and from there she kept following her curiosity into graduate school, into a hospital administration role, and finally into a field most people cannot even define: biomedical informatics. Today she teaches it as faculty at the same university where she once sat as a student. In this Laredo conversation she explains what biomedical informatics actually is, how it brings specialists to communities that have few, and how she built all of it while raising three kids.

    How a Latina Built a Career in Healthcare Tech

  7. Jun 9

    Choosing the Life You Want with Patty Kirby

    Patty Kirby owns Madison Avenue Marketing Agency, one of the first female owned agencies in Laredo, a city she says won the geographic lottery on the border. She came up through the 2008 crash, opened her doors in 2019, and watched the business grow right through the years everyone told her it should have closed. Seven years in, she has the receipts and the canas to prove it. In this episode she shows you how to lead without treating every deadline like a crisis, why collaboration beats competition for small agencies, and what it actually feels like to start over when your only child leaves home

    Choosing the Life You Want with Patty Kirby

  8. Jun 2

    How McAllen Funds Latina Business

    They tell you the border is something to be afraid of. McAllen tells a completely different story. A festival city. A grant written in the area code. A chamber that opens the door for a hundred dollars. The narrative you have been handed about South Texas was never the whole picture, and one day in the 956 makes that obvious. On this road tour stop, Anjelica Cazares and Monica Vallejo sat down with five of the people who actually run McAllen's events and entrepreneurship machine: Joe Garcia of the McAllen Convention Center, Lee Wooldridge of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, Amy De Laos and Carlin Williams from the McAllen Chamber of Commerce, and Yajayda Flores, who directs the entire convention facilities campus. Between them they touch over 500 events a year and the programs that turn an idea into a registered business. You will walk away knowing how to get funded, how to get on a vendor list, and how a city decides to bet on its own founders. This is the map, amiga.

    How McAllen Funds Latina Business
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Established in 2020, the Latina Leadership Podcast is a weekly masterclass bridging the gap between aspiring leaders and powerful underrepresented women at every level. 

 Co-hosted by Anjelica Cazares and Andrea Diaz, we center our conversations around providing actionable frameworks across four key pillars: * Entrepreneurship: Strategies for scaling startups and securing funding. * Education: Navigating academic spaces and first-generation higher education success. * Health & Wellness: Tools for overcoming generational trauma and burnout. * Pay Equity: Expert advice on salary negotiation and building generational wealth. Go beyond the studio with "Las Patronas," an exclusive lifestyle and community segment. Follow hosts Anjelica Cazares, Mary Ann Garcia, and Monica Vallejo as they explore cultural identity and community bonding, showcasing the strength of Latina friendship. Our mission is to remove barriers to access and democratize access to leadership mentorship, making these expert insights available free of cost. Amiga, join the movement redefining our success.
 Follow now to join our community!

Information

  • Creator
    Anjelica Cazares
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    180
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Latina Leadership Podcast
  • Provider
    Juan M Alanis

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