Cafe con Pam
Cafe con Pam is the weekly podcast featuring fearless Latine/x and People of The Global Majority that break barriers, change lives and make the world a better place while living in the US. Cafe con Pam is the platform where Latine/x are able to share their stories and inspire one another through conversations about mindful productivity, business, and liberation. Of course, while enjoying a fabulous cup of coffee. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/cafe-con-pam--6348411/support.
Episodes
October 18, 2026 • 68 mins
If you’ve ever changed how you speak, dressed extra carefully, or stayed hyperaware of your surroundings just to move through the world safely, this episode with Dr. Ally will feel very familiar.
The conversation looks at code-switching, beauty standards, inherited trauma, and perception, while naming the systems that turn survival adaptations into personal flaws, and what happens when beauty and self-presentation beco...
The conversation looks at code-switching, beauty standards, inherited trauma, and perception, while naming the systems that turn survival adaptations into personal flaws, and what happens when beauty and self-presentation beco...
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October 11, 2026 • 32 mins
Ever get criticized and suddenly feel your jaw tighten, your shoulders rise, and your old “peleonera” self show up? That pullback doesn’t mean your healing failed. It’s your body returning to an operating system built around familiar patterns, old authority, and survival.
This episode breaks down how to pause, find the facts, and let your mind remind your body: we don’t live there anymore.
This episode breaks down how to pause, find the facts, and let your mind remind your body: we don’t live there anymore.
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October 4, 2026 • 53 mins
If you’ve ever been told that art is nice but not practical, this episode will hit differently.
Sheila Fortson talks about starting music lessons in a $30-a-month broom closet, growing them into a nonprofit, and navigating the pressure small organizations face when the need keeps growing but the funding doesn’t always keep up.
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Sheila Fortson talks about starting music lessons in a $30-a-month broom closet, growing them into a nonprofit, and navigating the pressure small organizations face when the need keeps growing but the funding doesn’t always keep up.
Thank you to Savvy Ladies for supporting Cafe con Pam. Savvy Ladies is a non-pro...
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September 27, 2026 • 23 mins
If you’ve ever looked at your group chat and thought, “I have people, but I don’t know who I can actually tell,” this episode puts language to that feeling.
The conversation explores how climbing, changing, and outgrowing old dynamics can leave your walls thinner, and why moving someone to a different seat in your life isn’t the same as cutting them off.
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The conversation explores how climbing, changing, and outgrowing old dynamics can leave your walls thinner, and why moving someone to a different seat in your life isn’t the same as cutting them off.
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September 20, 2026 • 60 mins
The 12-step beauty routine isn’t proof that you’re doing self-care wrong. It’s an industry system built to sell more products, while opaque ingredients, weak regulation, and corporate sustainability theater keep consumers working harder to protect themselves.
This conversation follows the decision to leave work that no longer felt meaningful, build a simpler clean beauty brand, and question why speaking pla...
This conversation follows the decision to leave work that no longer felt meaningful, build a simpler clean beauty brand, and question why speaking pla...
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September 13, 2026 • 31 mins
The urge to prove yourself when someone doubts you isn’t insecurity or people-pleasing. It’s the proof reflex, a survival adaptation shaped by Calladita Culture and the expectation that your word won’t count as sufficient evidence.
This episode names how the same system can make you over-document grief, underclaim achievement, and mistake self-erasure for humility.
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This episode names how the same system can make you over-document grief, underclaim achievement, and mistake self-erasure for humility.
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September 6, 2026 • 69 mins
What if the challenges you were taught to hide are actually leadership assets? In this conversation, Leslie Tagorda reframes astrology as a language for change, connecting the Sun, Moon, Rising, and Descendant to how we lead, regulate our nervous systems, and find the people we’re here to serve.
Together, Pam and Leslie also name calladita culture, people-pleasing, overgiving, and the inherited pressure to handle every...
Together, Pam and Leslie also name calladita culture, people-pleasing, overgiving, and the inherited pressure to handle every...
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August 30, 2026 • 19 mins
The list you’re waiting for may never arrive because the system taught you to measure your life with someone else’s rubric.
This episode of Cafe con Pam recognizes the quieter accomplishments that often go uncounted, from leaving a life that wasn’t yours to building something over ten years, and names calladita culture as the system that turns quiet labor into invisible labor.
Thank you to Savvy Ladi...
This episode of Cafe con Pam recognizes the quieter accomplishments that often go uncounted, from leaving a life that wasn’t yours to building something over ten years, and names calladita culture as the system that turns quiet labor into invisible labor.
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August 23, 2026 • 74 mins
Lucy King is back on the show, this time as an author—real evidence that dreams take root in messy, real-life soil, not just positive thinking.
This conversation pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to break through old family rules, juggle privilege and guilt, and find a writing voice that feels both honest and whole. The old system keeps telling us there’s one “right” way, but community, b...
This conversation pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to break through old family rules, juggle privilege and guilt, and find a writing voice that feels both honest and whole. The old system keeps telling us there’s one “right” way, but community, b...
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August 16, 2026 • 38 mins
Pam opens up about how the things we call self-sabotage or procrastination are actually ways we've learned to protect ourselves in tough environments.
Instead of blaming ourselves for holding back, Pam lays out the “Six Doors” framework, showing how our habits and hesitations are shaped by bigger systems—and how our bodies are simply trying to keep us safe.
Thank you to Savvy Ladies for supporting Ca...
Instead of blaming ourselves for holding back, Pam lays out the “Six Doors” framework, showing how our habits and hesitations are shaped by bigger systems—and how our bodies are simply trying to keep us safe.
Thank you to Savvy Ladies for supporting Ca...
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August 9, 2026 • 72 mins
This episode sits with the weird, messy middle that shows up when you finally stop hiding parts of yourself and let old family rules or corporate “shoulds” melt away. Instead of blaming anyone for staying quiet, the conversation looks at how silence and keeping things in are baked into culture—not something we randomly choose.
Denise Soler Cox shares how writing her book pushed her to break through the old ...
Denise Soler Cox shares how writing her book pushed her to break through the old ...
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August 2, 2026 • 22 mins
Pam recognizes the hidden cost of being the “most competent woman in the room”—not as a personal flaw, but as a predictable result of systems that over-rely on reliability.
This episode names the ways competence fuels silent overload, unpacking how workplace cultures reward self-sacrifice and disguise overwork as virtue. The true problem isn’t boundaries—it’s unpaid, unseen labor expected ...
This episode names the ways competence fuels silent overload, unpacking how workplace cultures reward self-sacrifice and disguise overwork as virtue. The true problem isn’t boundaries—it’s unpaid, unseen labor expected ...
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July 26, 2026 • 59 mins
This episode sits with the quiet ways survival mode shapes generations — not from personal failure, but from the systems that turn scarcity and silence into a way of life. Charly Stoever opens up about navigating identity, money, and belonging as a queer, formerly undocumented kid, noticing how the body holds it all.
Together, we trace how communal care, rest, and joy can interrupt what we’ve been taught about gr...
Together, we trace how communal care, rest, and joy can interrupt what we’ve been taught about gr...
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July 19, 2026 • 22 mins
Ever notice how even the most confident people suddenly second-guess themselves when it counts? Pam unpacks the sneaky “whisper” that makes us search for proof or outside validation—showing how it’s not about lacking confidence, but about coping with systems that taught us to doubt. It’s not your flaw; it’s the world you had to adapt to.
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Thank you to Savvy Ladies for supporting Cafe con Pa...
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July 12, 2026 • 60 mins
Councilmember Imelda Padilla knows the unique pressure—and privilege—of coming home as the leader for her own community. In this episode of Cafe con Pam, she flips the usual story: it’s not just about the challenges of being a Latina in politics, but about how hard it is for whole neighborhoods to feel like they actually belong in city systems built without them.
Bring your cafecito and learn how for Imelda...
Bring your cafecito and learn how for Imelda...
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July 5, 2026 • 35 mins
This week, Pam gets real about how hard it is to set boundaries with family when our culture tells us those boundaries shouldn’t exist.
Instead of blaming ourselves for feeling guilty or overwhelmed, she points out how these pressures are part of a bigger system—a system that expects us to always show up, even if it means erasing parts of who we are. This is an honest look at how we can start to protect our own e...
Instead of blaming ourselves for feeling guilty or overwhelmed, she points out how these pressures are part of a bigger system—a system that expects us to always show up, even if it means erasing parts of who we are. This is an honest look at how we can start to protect our own e...
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June 28, 2026 • 66 mins
In this episode of Cafe con Pam, Pam notices how true freedom feels different when you’ve had to build it for yourself—especially when you grow up balancing family expectations, cultural traditions, and new systems in a new country.
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez shares what it’s like to find independence as a first-gen Mexican immigrant, navigate old-school ideas of respect and silence, and eventually decode ...
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez shares what it’s like to find independence as a first-gen Mexican immigrant, navigate old-school ideas of respect and silence, and eventually decode ...
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June 21, 2026 • 22 mins
In this solo episode of Cafe con Pam, Pam gets real about why so many first-gen Latinas feel like they have a “confidence problem”—and flips the script by calling out what it really is: an instruction problem.
Through her own stories of navigating life in the U.S., writing essays without a roadmap, and learning from the women in her family who always cooked “al tanteo” (by feel), Pam shows how m...
Through her own stories of navigating life in the U.S., writing essays without a roadmap, and learning from the women in her family who always cooked “al tanteo” (by feel), Pam shows how m...
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June 14, 2026 • 70 mins
On this week's episode of Cafe con Pam Zaena Zamora, executive director of Frontera Fund, dig into the critical fight for reproductive justice.
Zaena shares her experiences on the frontlines in South Texas, where systemic barriers and aggressive laws challenge access to healthcare. Discover how border politics uniquely impact communities and why small, resilient actions can lead to significant change.
This conversatio...
Zaena shares her experiences on the frontlines in South Texas, where systemic barriers and aggressive laws challenge access to healthcare. Discover how border politics uniquely impact communities and why small, resilient actions can lead to significant change.
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June 7, 2026 • 35 mins
This week's episode of Cafe con Pam iss a solo deep dive into what makes leadership feel out of sync, even when everything looks perfect on paper. Centered around first-gen experiences and eldest daughter realities, the episode breaks down why feeling disconnected isn’t a leadership fail—it’s a nervous system story.
With real-life client moments, and practical somatic tips, you'll learn how to move from jus...
With real-life client moments, and practical somatic tips, you'll learn how to move from jus...
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