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. Third Spaces, Real Talk, and Hitting the Road with Monica Vallejo

    2D AGO

    Third Spaces, Real Talk, and Hitting the Road with Monica Vallejo

    Third spaces are becoming a luxury and Latina communities are feeling it most. Monica Vallejo and Anjelica Cazares get into why gathering together is getting harder, what it costs us when it does, and what one road trip through Texas has to do with all of it. Our Monica, community leader and co-founder of the Cristina Project, gets real about reinventing yourself after your kids leave, choosing joy when the world is heavy, and why 53 feels like 25 when you refuse to let regret run the show.

    29 min
  2. Salary Negotiation for Latinas: How to Ask for More with Maria del Pilar Casal

    APR 21

    Salary Negotiation for Latinas: How to Ask for More with Maria del Pilar Casal

    Latinas don't negotiate because we lack confidence, that's the myth. María del Pilar Casal, who oversaw a $400M brand portfolio at Televisa Univision before leaving at 37 to start her own business, breaks down the one salary negotiation tactic that changes everything, and why building your own table is not a backup plan but a power move. This conversation covers the real reason Latinas leave money on the table (hint: it's not mindset), what 15 years in influencer marketing taught her about power and authenticity, and what she is learning in her first year of founding her own business while raising a newborn. 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

    48 min
  3. How A First-Gen Latina Built the Community She Always Needed - With Lucia Mercado

    APR 14

    How A First-Gen Latina Built the Community She Always Needed - With Lucia Mercado

    Lucia Mercado knows that room. Born and raised in Riverside, California, she became one of the first — if not the only — person in her family to earn a college degree. She navigated financial aid alone, weathered a CPA internship that ended without warning, and eventually found her footing not in a corporate office but at a Chico pop-up market with five handmade necklaces and a borrowed booth space. Today she runs Mercado Productions, producing 15+ events a year including the Lunar Market, Divine Sundays, and the Día de los Muertos festival that grew from 500 attendees to over 3,000 in three years. 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

    41 min
  4. Silencing Imposter Syndrome: How to Lead Authentically with Creativity with Cynthia Platero

    APR 7

    Silencing Imposter Syndrome: How to Lead Authentically with Creativity with Cynthia Platero

    You built the resume. You showed up. And still that voice follows you into every room: Who do you think you are? It tells you you're too much. Or not enough. Or that the real you the dancer, the writer, the one who wanted to major in something that actually lit you up doesn't belong here. That voice has a name. And Cynthia Platero has been working with it for years. Cynthia Platero is an executive coach and the founder of Coaching Creatives, a practice built on one belief: everyone is creative, and that creative self is the key to doing the work you're actually here to do. With over a decade in human resources, a background in finance and compensation analytics, and a first-generation college experience that cost her a dance major, Cynthia brings the full picture the corporate, the cultural, and the deeply personal into every coaching session.  In this conversation, you'll learn how to recognize when imposter syndrome is trying to protect you versus hold you back, and what it actually looks like to make decisions aligned with your thoughts, your heart, and your gut. Two sentences. Real tools. 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

    37 min
  5. Ian Córdova's Musical Journey: From Michoacán to Billboard Success

    APR 6

    Ian Córdova's Musical Journey: From Michoacán to Billboard Success

    Ian Córdova grew up in a small pueblo in Michoacán with nine million streams on Spotify and a Billboard credit—and he's still more himself when he's making regional music. Hear how authenticity, family influence, and the courage to blend genres became his path. In this conversation, Ian shares: Why regional music feels like home, even as his career expands into reggaeton and hip-hop How family became his first creative collaborators (especially his brothers) The artists who shaped his sound: Gerardo Ortiz, Alfredo Olivas, Javier Rosas The moment he chose music over a conventional job What's coming this year: a blend of regional and urban releases Why staying true to yourself is the long-term commercial strategy 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

    8 min
  6. Winning a Grammy and Building Spaces for Latinas ft. Poe Leos - Las Patronas Ep 9

    APR 3

    Winning a Grammy and Building Spaces for Latinas ft. Poe Leos - Las Patronas Ep 9

    Episode 9: How a Mexican-American Grammy Winner Builds the Stage She Never Had Las Patronas: SXSW Edition — Sounds of Musica Mexicana Presented by Sony Music Latin Mexican pop, bilingual identity, self-belief, and building platforms for the next generation Las Patronas took their microphone to South by Southwest as part of their Sounds of Musica Mexicana coverage, presented by Sony Music Latin. And one of the most interesting brains they sat with was a Grammy winning Mexican-American producer and pop artist who grew up in Rockford, Illinois, thinking she'd spend her life behind a computer. She didn't. She built something that didn't exist for her when she started and now she's building it for the girls behind her. In this conversation: what it actually takes to believe in yourself before anyone else does, how music works like a math equation (and why that makes complete sense), and what it looks like to use your platform to kick a door open for someone else. 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

    13 min
  7. La Nueva Ola Del Regional Mexicano ft. Oscar Ortiz - Las Patronas Ep.8

    APR 1

    La Nueva Ola Del Regional Mexicano ft. Oscar Ortiz - Las Patronas Ep.8

    Have you ever felt like your toughest, saddest moments are just holding you back? We've all been right there, feeling stuck in our emotions, especially when navigating the heavy pressures of our careers and cultural expectations. Today, we are changing that narrative completely with Oscar Ortiz, one of the most exciting new players in Música Regional Mexicana. He is a gifted singer-songwriter born in Tijuana who knows exactly how to channel deep feelings into massive, tangible success. In this special episode recorded live at SXSW, you will learn how to turn your sadness into your greatest creative superpower. We also dive into the real art of manifestation and what it takes to build a career that feels less like work and more like living your ultimate purpose. 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@latinaleadershipodcast.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! Head over to our website and follow our socials to keep updated, join the conversation: Website: latinaleadershippodcast.com Instagram: instagram.com/latinaleadershippodcast Facebook: facebook.com/LatinaLeadershipPodcast LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/latina-leadership-podcast

    7 min
  8. Healing Burnout From the Inside Out │With Desiree Vazquez

    MAR 31

    Healing Burnout From the Inside Out │With Desiree Vazquez

    Healing burnout isn't about taking a week off  it's about finally listening to what your body has been signaling for years. Desiree Vazquez left a decade in television after an autoimmune diagnosis, moved to Madrid, and built a mindfulness practice now reaching Levi's, Chipotle, public school students, and women's healing circles across the country. This episode covers nervous system regulation, sound healing, Latina ancestral wisdom, the guilt around resting, how to talk to older generations about mental health, and why community might be the most underrated wellness tool right now. 00:00 — Why Latinas struggle to rest without guilt 00:51 — Who is Desiree Vazquez and what shifted her path 01:40 — What was really happening beneath the surface during her TV years 07:46 — How do you start exiting survival mode when you don't know where to begin? 10:55 — Why Latinos need to blend ancestral wisdom with neuroscience 14:35 — From Levi's to first graders: how mindfulness works across every space 17:04 — Losing both grandmothers to mental health disorders and what that mission became 22:25 — How to talk to older generations about healing without losing them 27:04 — What does it mean to be a new-generation Latina healer? 31:56 — Why community is the most underrated wellness tool right now 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

    39 min
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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
    168
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Latina Leadership Podcast
  • Provider
    Juan M Alanis

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