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Understanding Our Differences with Liz Alarcón and Maribel Quezada Smith

Listeners, we are back this week with Liz Alarcón and Maribel Quezada Smith

Liz Rebecca Alarcón is a social entrepreneur and political analyst. She's the Founder & Executive Director of Pulso, a non-profit media outlet reaching more than 1 million Latinos across the United States through history and culture content by, for and about Latinos. Liz's writing and commentary on Latin America and Latinos in the US has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Miami Herald & El Nuevo Herald, among others. She is a former Fulbright Scholar to Costa Rica and an alum of the University of Miami and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. When not working at the intersection of media and politics, Liz Rebecca can be found dancing, reading good books, cooking and eating with family and friends, and getting to know her baby daughter Eva.

Maribel is a bilingual video and podcast producer, as well as a host and speaker, with over 16 years of expertise developing meaningful content. Her TV credits include producing on shows for the Discovery family of networks, Netflix, Oxygen and A&E (among others). She's currently a Producer and Co-host of the popular Pulso podcast. Maribel is the Co-founder of BIPOC Podcast Creators, an organization devoted to amplifying the voices and stories of people of color. She regularly shares her expertise on topics like this around global stages. Today, she helps entrepreneurs, startups and growing brands build deeper connections with their ideal customers through meaningful video and audio content.

During our conversation we talked about:
03:38 - Maribel’s heritage and being a recent American citizen
04:55 - Liz’s heritage and growing up “in two different worlds”
05:59 - “I really never felt at home in the United States until I moved to Phoenix, Arizona”
09:12 - Divides between communities growing up
15:54 - How they met
17:53 - “We need those different perspectives to make stories more interesting and more complete”
19:04 - Why they make a good team
21:31 - Beauty Standards
26:29 - “You are allowed to have your own standards”
31:05 - “Who is my presence bothering?”
31:46 - “It’s so much better when you make the space effortless”
40:49 - Pulso Podcast
42:33 - “There’s a lot of power behind the voices and stories of latinos”
45:46 - “Do we help each other?”
46:22 - What’s Next for them

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