"Come Back to Softness" with Alfredo

I was excited to talk with Alfredo for a lot of reasons. He’s Mexican like me, from a neighborhood that’s similar to mine, and most importantly, he seemed like someone who could add nuance to our perception of the Latinx experience. The emotional lives of Latinos are rarely ever represented as having depth and dimension, and so we’re rarely represented as whole, complex people. My conversation with Alfredo doesn’t follow that norm. When we talked, Alfredo was working with a therapist to nurture his inner child and recover an emotional tenderness that feels more authentic to who he is and wants to be. Our conversation is centered on the events that led Alfredo to build an emotional wall as a kid and teenager, and what led to him slowly taking that wall down as an adult. Full transcripts of each episode are available on substack: hotguypod.substack.com Want to be interviewed for the show? Fill out an interest form here! Or, you can also nominate someone to be on the show using this form!