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La Vida Más Chévere de Childfree Latinas

Childfree Latinas: you’re not alone. You"re a movement! This podcast is here to make that loud and clear.Hosted by speaker and community builder Paulette Erato, this Spanglish show digs into what it really means to choose a life sin hijos in a culture that treats motherhood like an obligation. But we don’t stop there! LVMC pushes past the surface-level “childfree” conversation and into the messy, cultural beliefs we were all raised with: the silence, the guilt, the constant self-sacrifice, the

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#79 - Joy & Rebellion: A Childfree Latina's Guide to...

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2025/01/07

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Ever wanted to start a band? Then this is your year! In 2025 we're all grabbing our favorite instruments and getting loud! We're also choosing joy—bold, defiant joy—in the face of Project 2025's looming threat.They want to impose so-called "traditional Christian values" on all Americans by stripping women of their autonomy and power, and silencing anyone who refuses to conform. Bottom line: they want us all to shut up and stop being inconvenient.Sounds b...

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#78 - From Burnout to Balance in 2025 with Karenna Soto

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2024/12/16

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Merry Xmas!! This episode drops on Christmas Day—a gift for you. Let’s reset and enter 2025 healthy and restored, together. 🎁Burnout isn’t a trophy to win or a test to pass—it’s a warning sign we need to take seriously. In a society that glorifies overwork and exhaustion, too many of us are running on empty, especially nosotras childfree Latinas.Raised in cultures steeped in resilience, sacrifice, and people-pleasing, we’re often expected to give more simply

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The Media's Biased Gaze with Professor Evelyn...

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2024/12/10

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Ep 77 - In a media landscape that continues to demonstrate its selective empathy, the recent disparate coverage of two tragic and avoidable deaths starkly illustrates Professor Evelyn Alsultany's core argument about media representation. While extensive airtime has been devoted to the death of a white CEO, the death of Black Girl Disney's Dominique Brown has received far less attention—a painful reminder of how media systematically determines whose

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We Failed The Assignment, Now What? - Ep 76

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2024/11/14

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Ep 76 - My dear childfree Latinas, we're obviously in trouble. The assignment everyone seemed so excited to turn in last week was an utter failure. Like most group projects, it sucked.So what do we do now? How do we exist in a world where people voted for both AOC (yay!) and Donald Trump (boo!)? How do we co-exist with people who have effectively told us we mean nothing to them?Well, if we mean nothing then we have nothing to lose. So let's try to

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41:21

Rekindle Your Light: Redefining Success and Breaking...

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2024/10/15

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Ep. 75 - LVMC friend and fellow childfree Latina podcaster Ydaiber Orozco of Rekindle Your Light interviews Paulette for her show. These show notes are from her channel. This is the last "new" episode of 2024. The fun continues with the Latinas In Podcasting Virtual Summit, a free event that includes Ydaiber! It's all about amplifying the voices of Latinas and other marginalized groups that are hard to find in a podcasting space dominated by the

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Why Are We Voting Against Our Best Interests? Angela...

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2024/10/01

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Ep. 74 - As we gear up for another contentious election cycle, it's prudent to ask: why do we keep voting against our own best interests? Angela Chavez, Communications and Public Affairs Director for Courage California and a childfree Latina, explains it very plainly: because you're being manipulated by immensely well-funded propaganda, all day and every day.The 2020 Proposition 22 campaign is a prime example of this!So how do we find out the truth

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The Secret to a Soft Life with Childfree Latina...

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2024/09/24

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!In Part 2 of this series with TikTok sensation and childfree Latina, Yoreim Virella, we continue our deep dive into the complex realities of modern motherhood: the societal neglect of new mothers, the devaluation of women beyond motherhood, and the systemic challenges faced by parents. All of these truths are conveniently obscured by our fast-paced, capitalist culture.We also take a critical look at the trad-wife aesthetic that's currently flooding social

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Is Motherhood a Scam? With Yoreim Virella (Part 1) -...

La Vida Más Chévere de Childfree Latinas ·

2024/09/17

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!In part 1 of a two-part interview, we're diving into an enlightening conversation with Yoreim Virella, a Diásporican, humanitarian, entrepreneur, and content creator. Yoreim shares her personal journey about growing up in a predominantly Catholic town and navigating societal expectations, including wondering if she should have a child to avoid being "left behind." She has keen insights on the religious impact on motherhood and how those beliefs

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Dismantling Diet Culture with Dr. Hortencia Jimenéz...

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2024/09/03

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Dive into the insidious nature of diet culture with Dra. Hortencia Jimenéz, a sociologist, professor, author, and health coach. She highlights the interconnectedness of diet culture with systemic oppression (calling it a spider web) and the importance of dismantling toxic cultural norms.So how do we, like little flies, free ourselves from the web and avoid being devoured? Dra. Jimenéz paves the path to freedom for us, starting with returning to our ancestral

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What is Human Design with Ydaiber Orozco - Ep 70

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2024/08/20

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Dive into Human Design with childfree Latina, actor, and coach Ydaiber Orozco, as we explore some burning questions like: What the heck is Human Design?Is Human Design based on science?Is Human Design a cult?Can I change my Human Design?What kind of tool is Human Design?Whether you're a skeptic or a fan of personality frameworks like Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram, this will probably spark your curiosity. Plus, can your Human Design chart help you decide

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Childless Cat Ladies vs Project 2025 - Ep 69

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2024/08/06

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Misogyny: that's what Project 2025 is advocating for and this Childless Cat Lady isn't having it.For every social media warrior who proudly declares #IUnderstandTheAssignment, there's a counterpart ready to gleefully embrace a wave of Christofascist extremism that threatens to strip women of our hard-earned freedoms. So what is the assignment? It's to prevent Project 2025 from gaining traction in the upcoming election. The solution is

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Hilarious Fails of Childfree Wedding Invitations - Ep 68

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2024/07/23

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!What's the fastest way to offend your potential wedding guests? Commenters on Threads and Instagram posted a million different options for telling people to leave their "trophies" at home. In Part 5 of the childfree wedding series, childfree couple Paulette and Ryan are once again reading through the crudest yet humorous ways to say "come enjoy an adults-only good time at the childfree wedding."Trigger warning: if colorful euphemisms

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Saying "I Do" Without the Diapers: 5 Rules for a...

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2024/07/09

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!What's the "proper" way to tell your guests you want a childfree wedding? From the etiquette of hosting an adult-only affair to the most tactful ways to convey this message to your guests, we're all over this sometimes-taboo topic.Childfree couple Paulette and Ryan Erato have some experience in this arena. And after going viral on Threads for asking the question, "what do YOU think is the classiest way to say “this is a childfree

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Ditch the Flower Girl with Childfree Housewife Vivian...

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2024/06/25

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Part 3 in the childfree wedding series comes to us in the form of an email from Vivian, a now "retired" childfree housewife. Vivian's wedding planning started off as a wild ride navigating family expectations, Catholicism, and even some social shaming, all because she dared to say "I don't want kids." Having now been married for over 20 years, her life's been a winning combination of freedom, happiness, and amazing adventures

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Just Say No to Burnout with Karenna Soto - Ep 65

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2024/06/11

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Burnout isn't a gold medal earned at the Exhaustion Olympics. It's totally avoidable, but in our hustle culture, we often wear exhaustion like a badge of honor. Trust that there's nothing honorable about sacrificing your health. Take it from someone who has suffered the consequences!Us childfree Latinas are especially susceptible to this because we're raised to thrive on resiliency, sacrifice, and people pleasing. For many of us,

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The Loneliest Year: A Health Scare, a Lost Circle,...

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2024/05/28

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!What happens when you’re suddenly abandoned by your pack?Loneliness is a universal human emotion that can often go unaddressed and underestimated in its impact. In a society where the focus is too often on productivity and success, acknowledging feelings of isolation and vulnerability can be perceived as a weakness. In this heartfelt episode, host and childfree Latina Paulette Erato shares her personal journey navigating the complicated emotions around

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Where Do I Belong? Childfree Life on the Margins with...

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2024/05/14

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!"Where are you from?" is a question asked all too often of people who are visibly "not white." So what does it mean to be American in a melting pot of immigrants? Picking up where we left off last time, guest Amanda reflects back on her 5 years in Japan and we touch on certain taboo topics like:race vs ethnicity vs nationalityhow the Koreans are the Irish of Asiagovernments' attacks on low birth ratesthe cult of parenthoodparental

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Cultural Reflections: Adopted & Childfree with Amanda...

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2024/05/07

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Continuing the study of the parallels in various cultures, we're celebrating AAPI month by exploring the world of childfree adulthood with Amanda from Six Degrees of Cats podcast in Part 1 of this two-part episode. Where do Latinidad and East Asian/Midwestern cultures overlap? You'd be surprised! And despite their radically different upbringings, Amanda and Paulette have un chingo in common. Amanda shares her journey as a transracial Korean adoptee,

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Non-Mom May: Celebrating Otherhood by Building...

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2024/04/23

Since host and childfree Latina Paulette Erato was ironically born on Mexican Mother's Day (which is always observed on May 10th), she's turning May into a celebration of The Otherhood, aka Non-Mom May!Non-Mom May is a fiesta dedicated to amplifying the stories of women and non-binary individuals living fulfilled lives without children. It isn't about excluding moms; it’s about creating a space where those who aren't parents can feel seen, heard, and celebrated. As a

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Unlearning Toxic Cultural Brainwashing with Shweta...

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2024/04/09

Self-proclaimed and proud black sheep Shweta Ramkumar sits down with resident childfree Latina Paulette Erato to discuss the parallels between Southern Asian and Latine cultures.And while both cultures can be conservative, sexist, and patriarchal, both women have been fortunate to have supportive families when it comes to their childfree choices. As a staunch antinatalist, Shweta takes her childfree advocacy one step further by championing the idea that having children without consent is an act of

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