Latina to Latina

LWC Studios

In this interview series, host Alicia Menendez talks to remarkable Latinas about making it, faking it, and everything in between. In often-hilarious and always-revealing episodes, Alicia and her guests take on the challenges of existing, and then thriving, as women of color.

  • 18 minutes 17 seconds
    Remix: Why Diana Flores Believes Flag Football Deserves a Professional League

    We bring you one of our favorite conversations with inspiring Latinas from the world of sports and fitness. The captain and quarterback of Mexico's National Flag Football Team shares her journey to winning gold at the 2022 World Games, how being a competitive athlete has shaped her relationship to her body (and to dating!), and how a professional league would change the sport she loves.

    Follow Diana on Instagram @dianaflres33.

    27 January 2025, 5:00 am
  • 20 minutes 20 seconds
    Why Jannese Torres Wants You to Become Financially Powerful

    The host of the acclaimed Yo Quiero Dinero podcast and author of Financially Lit: The Modern Latina’s Guide to Level Up Your Dinero & Become Financially Poderosa shares her own journey to financial freedom, the realities of leveling-up a side-hustle, and her best advice for other Latinas who are just beginning their financial education.

     

    You can find The Yo Quiero Dinero® podcast here and her book, "Financially Lit!" here. 

    20 January 2025, 5:00 am
  • 21 minutes 35 seconds
    Remix: Mountaineer Silvia Vasquez-Lavado Knows the Highest Mountain is the One Within

    We continue with our specially-curated playlist with our favorite interviews with Latinas in sports and fitness. The adventurer, activist, and first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits shares the childhood trauma and self-destructive behavior that brought her to the world’s highest mountain.

    Follow  Silvia on Instagram @silviavasla. You can order her book via the websites listed here.

    13 January 2025, 5:00 am
  • 49 seconds
    We're back!
    Starting this week, we'll be sharing brand new episodes every other week! Thank you for giving us space to work on other LTL projects (more on that soon). We're excited to bring fresh conversations to your listening rotation.
    10 January 2025, 7:09 pm
  • 19 minutes 4 seconds
    How Law & Order: SVU’s Juliana Aidén Martinez Learned To Accept the Up and Down Nature of a Creative Life

    The Miami-born, Yale-trained Colombian-American actress shares the bumpy road between her breakout role in Netflix’s Griselda and her newest role as Detective Kate Silva on Law & Order: SVU; what she has learned working with stars Sofia Vergara and Mariska Hargitay; and the value of being just a little bit delusional.

    6 January 2025, 5:00 am
  • 25 minutes 29 seconds
    Remix: How Health Coach Massy Arias Found Her Real Strength

    This week, we share another one of our favorite interviews with Latinas in the world of sports and fitness. A decade ago, she began sharing her fitness trials and triumphs online after experiencing the dark side of the industry. Since then, she has motivated millions to find their motivation, strengthening techniques, and focus—and built a wellness empire that includes an app and the TRU Supplements line. In this episode, Massy gets candid about her recent divorce, and all the things we don’t see on Instagram.

    Follow Massy on Instagram @massy.arias.

    30 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 20 minutes 54 seconds
    Top 19: How Peloton's Robin ArzĂłn Found Her True Power

    Our Top 25 Countdowb continues! The litigator turned ultra-marathoner and fitness instructor shares the personal trauma that helped redirect her from law into fitness, her commitment to showing up fully present and fully committed, and why her new children's book, Strong Mama, is a call to reimagine self-care.

    Follow Robin @robinnyc on Instagram.

    23 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 21 minutes 46 seconds
    Remix: Julissa Natzely Arce Raya Wants You to Reclaim Your Identity

    This week, we bring you one of our favorite conversations featuring some of the most inspiring Latinas we've had on the show. As a kid growing up in Texas, she thought that fitting in would keep her safe. Then, as she rose through the Wall Street ranks while harboring a big secret, a life-changing loss made her question everything. In her new book, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation, Julissa shares her personal journey, explores the veiled history of U.S. Latinos, and makes a powerful case for reimagining what it means to belong.

    Follow Julissa on Instagram @julissaarce.

    16 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 19 minutes 24 seconds
    Top 20: Why Novelist Xochitl Gonzalez Isn't Done Being Ambitious

    We continue with our Top 25 Countdown! "Could you just be done being ambitious?" That was the question the Brooklyn native asked herself before she "blew up" her comfortable New York life to move to Iowa, pursue her MFA, and complete her first novel, which would become a New York Times Best-Seller, Olga Dies Dreaming. 

    Follow Xochitl on Instagram @xochitlheg.

    9 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 21 minutes 2 seconds
    Remix: How Mysticism Fuels Natalia Lafourcade's Musical Process

    Today we bring you another one of our most well-loved conversations with Latina artists. The iconic Mexican folk singer didn’t know if she would keep working in music, so she lost herself in Canada and started paying attention to signs from the universe. In this episode, she shares how she found her way back home and the rituals she relies on to bring new projects to life.

    Follow Natalia Lafourcade on Instagram @natalialafourcade. If you loved this episode, listen to What Medium Tatianna Morales Sees in Her Own Future and What Singer Aymée Nuviola Left Behind for Her Art. 

    2 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 18 minutes 54 seconds
    Remix: How Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez is Complicating the Immigrant Narrative

    We bring you one of our favorite conversations featuring some of the most inspiring Latina writers we've had on the show. When her parents’ tourists visas expired, and they were no longer allowed entry into the United States, Elizabeth, an American citizen, persuaded her parents to allow her to stay in Arizona solo. She was only 15 years-old. Even as she contended with housing and food insecurity, Elizabeth managed to graduate valedictorian of her high school class, before going on to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania. In this episode, we talk about the values tension in wanting to change the world and needing to pay rent, why the responsibilities she carried never allowed her to “let loose” like her peers, and her decision to share her story in her new memoir, “My Side of the River.”

    Follow Elizabeth on instagram @lizzycancu and find her book My Side of the River here.  

    25 November 2024, 5:00 am
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