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Amiga Circle
by Latina Professionals Chattanooga
Dive into the minds of local Latinas and get the inspiration and insider knowledge you need to see a measurable growth in your career and life. Each season of Latina Professionals of Chattanooga, Amiga Circle we venture down a new learning path, giving you insights into the most relevant issues Latinas are facing in society today and sharing the go-to resources other Latinas rely on for success.All our conversations are recorded in English or Spanglish. Todas nuestras conversaciones estan en inglés o spanglish. Follow us on social & join the conversation with #AmigaCircle.
Episodes
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Uncolonized Latinas and Transforming Our Mindsets with Author Valeria Aloe
We had a great conversation with Argentinean-born author, Valeria Aloe. In her new book “Uncolonized Latinas: Transforming Our Mindsets and Rising Together”, she helps Latinas to embrace our individual and collective greatness, honor our stories and our ancestry; and become more aware of the...
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Taxes 101: Understanding Deductions, Credits & More with Vivian Barrera
With so many changes in our tax system due to covid, we decided to highlight the topic and discuss the basics of our tax system with local tax guru Vivian Barrera owner of Maya Professional Services. She shares with us tips and resources on how to file individual and business taxes, covers the...
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Why Life Coach Wendy Amara Can Help You Plan Successful Actionable Goals For 2022
With the holidays over and the new year right around the corner, we want to give you tips on how you can plan successful actionable goals to win for the new year. That’s why we reached out to our friend, life and business coach, Wendy Amara. She is a highly accomplished transformational Strategy...
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Amiga Circle Conversation with Velvet Hernandez-Johnson
In this final episode of Season 2, we talk to Velvet Hernandez-Johnson, a native of Guatemala who has lived in Chattanooga for years about her journey of moving to the U.S. to complete her education and finding purpose in helping her community and advocating for girl power with her daughter. If…
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Amiga Circle Latina Equal Pay Day Conversation
The economic status of women in Tennessee has made considerable advances in recent years however women of color still face inequities that often prevent them from reaching their full potential. Unfortunately, Tennessee still ranks in the worst third in the nation for both women’s Employment &...
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Amiga Circle Conversation with Claudia Caballero
Claudia Caballero is President & CEO of Centro Hispano de East Tennessee, a nonprofit that works to empower the Latino community through education, workforce development, youth, and family engagement, and resource referral services. During her five-year tenure at Centro Hispano she has increased...
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Amiga Circle Conversation with Sarah Marquez Berestecky
Born and raised in Texas, Sarah Marquez Berestecky is a third-generation Mexican-American/Chicana who grew up navigating the borderlands of living as a light-skinned Latina in the United States. Her engagement with Be the Bridge to Racial Unity inspired her to develop Anti-Racism and Cultural...
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Amiga Circle Conversation with guests Gisela and Luis Contreras
In this episode, we talk to husband and wife entrepreneur duo Gisela and Luis Contreras, owners of The Local Juicery and Kitchen, Local Paletas, and Squeaky Clean, on how taking a leap in their relationship set the course on taking leaps in their businesses. They share their roadmap to their...
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Amiga Circle Conversation with guest Dominique Brandt
In this episode, our conversation is more relaxed and personal as we talk to Dominique Brandt, originally from Miami, FL, and relocated to Chattanooga in 2013 to work in community engagement and development. She talks about her previous life, as she calls it, as a real estate paralegal, event...
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Amiga Circle Conversation with guest Jimmy Obleda
This is our first episode where we interview a Latino and not a Latina. We wanted to include the men in our lives and in our community who not only support Latinas but who were influenced by them. In this episode, we talk to the head coach of the Chattanooga Red Wolves of the USL League One...
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Amiga Circle Conversation with guest Silvia Ramos
This episode gets real quick as we talk to Silvia Ramos an Afro-Indigenous Peruana about how we can figure out what type of changemaker we "want to be when they realize that many of us have inherited systems of inequities and in order to dismantle those systems, we have to be intentional and...
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Amiga Circle Conversation with guest Jully-Alma Taveras
Let's talk finance with Jully-Alma Taveras, the founder of Investing Latina, an online community for financially powerful women. She is an award-winning money expert, writer, and YouTuber that covers topics around personal finance, investing, and entrepreneurship. She's a speaker and facilitator...
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Amiga Circle: Conversation with guest Jeannette Ceja
Jeannette Ceja is an award-winning seasoned bilingual Travel Journalist, TV Host, Travel Advisor, and Global Public Speaker. Her work and experience has taken her to over 60 countries to date. She also has interviewed countless celebrities, politicians, athletes, and travel experts on the red...
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COVID Edition: Discussing the myths and facts of COVID-19 with Dr. Pablo Perez
This episode is in English. Unfortunately, Covid-19 has hit U.S. Latinos disproportionately hard in many areas of the U.S., making vaccinations a crucial public health mission. That's why we will be discussing all COVID-19 related topics with our special guest, Dr. Pablo Pérez a well-known...
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Edición COVID: Conversacion sobre los mitos y realidades de COVID con el Dr. Pablo Pérez
Este episodio está en español. Desafortunadamente, el Covid-19 ha afectado a los latinos de manera desproporcionada en muchas áreas de los Estados Unidos. Las vacunas se han vuelto una misión crucial de salud pública. Es por eso que hoy estaremos hablando sobre los mitos y realidades del COVID…
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Amiga Circle: Conversation with guest Shadrina Booker
Shadrina Booker is a proud Afro-Latina that strives to break down the stereotypes of what a ‘Latina’ traditionally looks like. As a Dominican-American raised in Miami, FL, the change of moving and adapting to a less diverse city like Chattanooga has brought all sorts of unchartered assumptions…
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Amiga Circle: Conversation with guest Wendy Amara
Wendy Amara started her career in the non-profit industry. She thought that this career path would make her happy but it made her realized that this isn't her type of happiness. Life changed for her when she attended a life coaching seminar. She learned that she can take control of her life, her...
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Amiga Circle: Conversation with guest Arielle Garcia-Hayes
Arielle Garcia-Hayes started as an inner-city schoolteacher and today leads one of the best turnaround schools in the Chattanooga area. Arielle opens up about her path to being a principal and recognizing the strength of her experiences as she tackles educational inequity. Arielle also talks…
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Amiga Circle: Conversation with guest Carolina Calderon
Carolina Calderón is a Latina who 10 years ago left her native Costa Rica to come and live in the U.S. with her family. She, like many other fellow immigrant women, had to learn how to adapt to a new country, a new language, and a new culture. She has adapted to her new home in Chattanooga and…
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Amiga Circle: Conversation with guest Valentina Escobar-Gonzalez
Valentina Escobar-Gonzalez founded Beyond Engagement, a Social Media Solutions company in the Johnson City area in January 2012 a year after relocating from Miami, FL and she has not slowed down since. She has a passion for assisting small businesses in growing their engagement online using…
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Amiga Circle: Conversation with guest Jessica Oliva-Calderin
Jessica Oliva-Calderin is doing amazing work locally and nationally as an attorney and a role model. She has represented numerous individuals in visa matters, adjustment of status, naturalization, and litigated disputes involving removal matters all over the country. She also became the first...
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Amiga Circle: Conversation with guest Vivian Barrera
A native of Guatemala she launched her financial services business with her sister in Chattanooga. Calling Chattanooga home for 25 years, you could say Vivian is a pioneer for the Latino community. Raised by an immigrant family with deep entrepreneurial roots, where money was always dinner...
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Amiga Circle: Conversation with guest Jaime Dixon Kerns
Let's talk about education, traveling, and the Spanish language. Jocelyn talks to Jaime who isn't only an ESL teacher, she also founded Charlanooga, a group where adults gather and talk in Spanish only. And she is quick to provide a plethora of resources for parents with school-aged children.…
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Amiga Circle: Conversation with guest Josselyn Aguilera Nielsen
Josselyn knows how to agitate for change. Her journey would make an awesome movie. From humble beginnings in Honduras to serving the United States Navy to traveling the world. She never stopped innovating. Today she is at Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce and will be starting her own clothing line...
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Amiga Circle: Conversation with guest Francia Portacio
Join us on our first podcast interview with the host and founder of Latina Professionals, Jocelyn Loza. She chats with remarkable Latinas about their accomplishments, how they are coping with staying at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, what projects they are working on, and everything in…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Dive into the minds of local Latinas and get the inspiration and insider knowledge you need to see a measurable growth in your career and life. Each season of Latina Professionals of Chattanooga, Amiga Circle we venture down a new learning path, giving you insights into the most relevant issues Latinas are facing in society today and sharing the go-to resources other Latinas rely on for success.All our conversations are recorded in English or Spanglish. Todas nuestras conversaciones estan en inglés o spanglish. Follow us on social & join the conversation with #AmigaCircle.
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Dive into the minds of local Latinas and get the inspiration and insider knowledge you need to see a measurable growth in your career and life. Each season of Latina Professionals of Chattanooga, Amiga Circle we venture down a new learning path, giving you insights into the most relevant issues...
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