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Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom

Theresa E. Gonzales

Executive Producer and Host, Theresa E. Gonzales, former Silicon Valley Tech executive, speaks with guests to elevate the experiences, accomplishment and research achievements, dedicated to Latina women in STEM, BIPOC Entrepreneurship & Community advocates. Together, our intergenerational conversations are changing the dominant narrative through technology for reimagined leadership and innovation from the Block To The Boardroom. Special thanks to sound engineer, Robert Lopez and

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S5 Ep52: Advancing Racial, Economic and Gender...

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2023/09/11

Welcome to Season 5 with Beatrice (Bia) Vieira, CEO of The Women’s Foundation California, a publicly supported foundation dedicated to achieving racial, economic, and gender justice by centering the experience and expertise of communities most impacted by systemic injustice. Their vision is to build a feminist future for California by investing in, training, and connecting community leaders to advance gender, racial, and economic justice. In this episode, we discuss heading into the 2024 elections

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S4 Ep51: Elsie Escobar Latina Podcasting Pioneer and...

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2023/08/29

Closing out our season 4 with Elsie Escobar from She Podcast and Libsyn's "The Feed" podcast! Elsie is a podcasting pioneer with 17 plus years as a podcaster, El Salvadoran immigrant, Co-Founder of She Podcasts with 20K members and the Director of Community and Content at Libsyn- a hosting, distribution, and monetization podcasting platform. However, she did not start out in podcasting, it came to her after being denied multiple times in Hollywood for not looking like what should be a “traditional

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S4 Ep50: Chicano Hollywood Founder, Johnny Murillo,...

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2023/08/09

Streaming platforms have created a whole new avenue, and revenue, for new content to be distributed, promoted and accessed. Covid shut down gave us a whole new avenue to search for our narratives, and our cultural dialogue. Meet John Murillo, Founder of Chicano Hollywood, a media and film streaming platform based out of Los Angeles California, that brings their own narratives of the barrio and Chicano culture through their Chicano Hollywood App, ROKU, Amazonfire TV, AmazonTV, and through their

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S4 Ep49: Bianca Lopez Co-Director of Valley...

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2023/06/27

Did you know California is the largest producer of almonds and dairy here in California and largest exporter of fresh fruits and vegetables in the nation? The United States is fortunate to have fresh foods grown here in California. 90% of workers that support the industry are Latino farm workers, with the highest poverty and live disproportionately in housing that is in the poorest conditions. The Agricultural Industry could not survive without the Latino farm workers that have been supporting this

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S4 Ep48: The State of Latino Entrepreneurship with...

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2023/05/29

The journey to being an entrepreneur to a multi-million dollar company can be challenging when you don't have an uncle that's a banker. Jennifer Garcia, COO at LBAN, Latino Business Action Network, a Silicon Valley based non profit, discusses how we can move beyond just the side hustle, to entrepreneur, to multi-million dollar business with conversations when we can build stronger networks. Latinos are the fastest growing entrepreneurial group and yet, we lack the financial backing to scale our

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S4 Ep47: "Latina Leadership is our future" says...

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2023/05/19

Marilyn Alverio, a corporate marketing strategist and community advocate who has spent decades dedicated to empowering women. Over the course of the past 19 years, the Latinas and Power Symposium, an annual event held in June, has created a network upwards of 10,000 women throughout the United States and in several countries around the world. The Latinas & Power Symposium has now grown to become a global platform offering multiple hybrid virtual and in-person learning experiences for Latinas

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S4 Ep46: Olga Camargo CEO of Shenix Financial...

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2023/04/28

Latinas wanna talk money! Time to level up with Olga Camargo and the Shenix.app! Latinas influence money, but we want to build our own money, save our money and learn how to invest our money! How can we see our dream of wealth when bills are on the table today? However, it's important to realize, a little saved today, grows into financial accessibility later, especially building that financial future with that special someone! We are closing out financial literacy month and heading into graduations

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S4 Ep45: Karen Maldonado Chief Program and Innovation...

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2023/04/18

In this episode, Karen Maldonado CPIO from Latinos for Education.org and the producer of Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom, Theresa E. Gonzales, discuss the necessary conversations and leadership opportunities we have in education as a Latino community. Today, across the United States classrooms, there is only 8% representation of Latino educators and only 4% of Latinos on education boards. Yet, in the year 2025, classrooms will be 33% of students will be Latino, and that is not due to

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S4 Ep44: Angela Salazar Equity Programs Director and...

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2023/03/26

As Latinas who are multi-generational and indigenous, who continue to live in the Southwest in what was Mexico before 1849, our stories are steeped in survival and strength. Angela Salazar is a rising Arizona Phoenician leader who came from the block and found her ancestral light to break generational poverty. As she describes the “risk vs. reward” mentally, in her pursuit of leadership in a job for 20 years, she took a leap of faith into a new role that would put her onto a leadership path for her

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S4 Ep43: Central Valley Latinas of Modesto Building...

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2023/03/09

What happens when you bring three fierce Latinas who are inspired by the power of technology and their passion for building digital equity for their communities? Women Tech Makers of Modesto are championing the next generation of tech literacy, confidence and digital community to an area that is least seen as the next technology hub of technology skilled labor, the Central Valley of California. Women Tech Makers of Modesto: Daisy Mayorga-Fuentes, Karlha Arias-Davies, and Roxanne Finks, share their

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S4 Ep42: Theresa E. Gonzales CEO of Latinas From The...

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2023/03/01

Have you ever “googled” yourself? Have you ever googled yourself as a person of color? There is a dominant narrative that has been encoded into the largest search platforms in the world and they have all made their money off the backs of our identities. Our stories and our histories are being written and often rewritten due to the lack of representation in the technology industry. We are less than 4% across the board in the technology industry. Latinas, and other marginalized communities are too

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S4 Ep41: Maricella Herrera Avila CEO of Ellevate...

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2022/11/22

Let's talk about the power of networks within our global communities. Maricella Herrera Avila, CEO of the Ellevate Network is creating new leadership in a global community of professional women+. Maricella is the first Latina to be the CEO of this global organization and she brings with her the financial tenacity and leadership to build strength in numbers for a new diverse community. We open with her journey from El Salvador to Mexico, where she worked in corporate real estate banking, and worked

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S4 Ep40: Nicole Lopez for Congress Starts A New...

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2022/10/21

This episode was recorded in the late summer of 2022, before the release of the recorded racist comments and frustrations on redistricting certain Latino communities in Los Angeles from City Council President, Nury Martinez and her council colleagues, Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo. Our guest, Nicole López was running for a district-42 in the past June primaries, and the youngest Latina on the ballot to run in her District 42. She only lost by a few hundred votes. But that is not stopping her from

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S4 Ep39: Chief Brand Officer Vanessa Vigil of Mitú...

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2022/09/23

In this episode, Vanessa Vigil shares with us her journey of advertising media experience between the agency and publishing side, to her new leadership role as the Chief Brand Officer of Mitu, now partnered with the NGL Collective under the leadership team of John Leguizamo and David Chitel. As a first generation Latina out of Southern California, Vanessa discusses with us how multicultural media is a now a technology media strategy for many brands, who are challenged with understanding how to

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S3 Ep38: CiCi Rojas 1st Latina National Board Chair...

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2022/08/23

Today, we are going to hear from CiCi Rojas, 1st Latina in the 171-year history of YMCA of the USA to serve as Chair, National Board of Directors!! Congratulations! CiCi shares her DYI experience as a mother of 4 children, and college graduate, that by leveraging her Spanish, gave her the confidence to build alliances to work within Kanas City as a car salesman, to becoming the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President in Dallas, Texas! The work into the boardroom she says, " was building my

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S3 Ep37: Letting Go of Our Past To Pursue Our Dreams...

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2022/07/20

In this episode, we discuss the power of healing the belief systems that we have grown up with as Latinas to help us pursue our dreams without guilt. Denise Soler Cox, a first generation talking to a third generation, Theresa E. Gonzales, who both grew up in the United States, discuss the guilt and shame that is often tied to our cultural norms if we don't speak fluent Spanish or we want bigger career opportunities to leave our home and cities. Our identities to our Latinidad culture is everything

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S3 Ep36: Noelle Silver, AI Executive and Founder of...

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2022/06/15

Noelle Silver has been in the tech ecosystem for over 20 years and an AI executive at IBM. We discuss how technology companies are reaching new AI based product designs but still not being inclusive of communities that make up a third of the population that uses all technology products. How do you build for the future when the door is not open wide enough for community members to be on the product teams or when the C-Suite layers of leadership are not diverse to be considered inclusionary on

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S3 Ep35: Gael Aitor, Host of Teenager Therapy...

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2022/05/27

Gael and I connected at Podcast Movement Evolutions in Los Angeles, March 2022, and talked about how podcasting has been making an impact into our communities. I wanted to learn more about his podcast, Teenager Therapy and the collaboration began. Gael Aitor, host of Teenager Therapy started his podcast before Covid-19 at the age of 15, with his friends, because he saw the power of social media technology at a very young age to leverage connection for teenagers who needed to talk about what they

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S3 Ep34: 25 years as a Latino Owned IT Services...

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2022/05/05

Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom podcast is very excited to share this Small Business Week 2022 collaboration podcast, with Proactive Network Consulting. As a Latina from New York City, Michelle Londoño, wife, mother of 3 children and principal of Proactive Network Consulting services of San Francisco, shares with us how her entrepreneurial journey started by her grandmother immigrating from Colombia. She tell us the unexpected journey of transferring her nursing skills that she acquired

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S3 Ep33: Founder and Social Justice Attorney, Monica...

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2022/04/29

Monica Ramirez, Activist Organizer, Founder of Justice For Migrant Women, and Co-Founder of Poderistas, The Latinx House and Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, talks to us through her journey that inspired her to ask questions at a very young age to her migrant farm working parents, “why are farm workers not celebrated when it's time to work in the fields, but fisherman in our town are welcomed back with celebration?” She pursued that question to become “ The Voice of The People” in her hometown

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