Mid Year Solo Episode: Arely Lagunas, Dropping Gems Con Muchos Colores Host
Dropping Gems con Muchos Colores
Release Date: 07/08/2023
Dropping Gems con Muchos Colores
Jessica Cuevas, is the Founder and Creator of Viva la Mami, LLC, is a podcaster, coach, and community builder. Once Jessica became a mom in 2021, she noticed that there was a lack of representation of Latinas in the motherhood space. She created this platform after seeing negative stereotypes of the Latina mom online and on social media. Coming from an educational background, Jessica felt the need for Latina moms to share their stories and for Latina professionals to share their expertise so that moms can be better informed about the nuances of Latina motherhood. Since 2022, Jessica has...
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Meet Luz Canino-Baker is the founder and President of Latinas On The Plaza, a non-profit organization that helps girls and women of color, with a strong target for Latina women, find their power so that they can be strong and confident at work, at home, and in the communities they serve. Luz is also a international certified coach and author. Her first book Designing Your Life Plan helps one to intentionally plan life with a five year forecast in mind. She is also an author in the volume series Today’s Inspired Latina. Luz is a proven business leader with experiences in corporate and...
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Welcome, beautiful souls, to the first episode of 2024, new season, on Dropping Gems Con Muchos Colores Podcast, celebrating the resilience, strength, and wisdom of Latina mothers. Hosted by yours truly Arely Lagunas, join me on this episode as I discuss the importance of rest, especially when venturing into new spaces in 2024, my special trip to Guerrero, Mexico to honor and celebrate my dear abuelitas anniversary this month of January. My personal connections to my birthplace, and the significance of my grandparents. My personal reflection of personal growth and development over the past...
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info_outline Mid Year Solo Episode: Arely Lagunas, Dropping Gems Con Muchos Colores HostDropping Gems con Muchos Colores
We are at the midpoint of the year and also my birthday month! I took this opportunity to do a solo episode to share and spill the beans on personal goals and milestones I have reached. Symbolizing stretching my comfort zone, acquiring personal growth, relentless work, and placing my heart on my sleeve. Frankly, this episode took me a couple of weeks to finalize between recording, editing, and production and sailing parenthood and work life with my 3 summer breakers. But I believe in a mantra that has helped me navigate my personal aspirations and motherhood: Our life comes in segments,...
info_outline Meet Kia Ferrer, MS, CCLS, GC-C Mental and Behavioral Health SpecialistDropping Gems con Muchos Colores
Kia is a born-and-bred-Chicago-Puerto Rican who grew up in Humboldt Park/Logan Square neighborhoods. She is a single parent of two children (boys ages 8 and 10) and has worked in various pediatric settings across Chicagoland for the past 12 years. Currently, she is the mental and behavioral health specialist at Donohoe Pediatrics in Chicago’s north center neighborhood. Kia is currently in the last stretch of her doctoral studies to obtain a Ph.D. in Child Development through Erikson Institute and Loyola University Chicago. Kia is also the daughter of two retired Chicago Public School...
info_outlineWe are at the midpoint of the year and also my birthday month!
I took this opportunity to do a solo episode to share and spill the beans on personal goals and milestones I have reached. Symbolizing stretching my comfort zone, acquiring personal growth, relentless work, and placing my heart on my sleeve.
Frankly, this episode took me a couple of weeks to finalize between recording, editing, and production and sailing parenthood and work life with my 3 summer breakers. But I believe in a mantra that has helped me navigate my personal aspirations and motherhood: Our life comes in segments, we can have it all if we’re not trying to do it all at once. Taking action one day at a time. Consistency over perfection.
The experience and exposure as a proud immigrant, first gen Latina, WOC, and working mom allowed me to recalibrate obstacles into opportunities and scale!
Last year, I had tremendous growth in my Career Coaching and HR Consulting journey but also on a personal level. I share in this episode my career journey of 16 years in Human Resources and 5 years in career coaching. Overcoming a lot of self-limiting beliefs and working relentlessly on mindset and systems to grow, scale and thrive. It was not an overnight achievement. What I value the most is the impact it has created.
What started as a vision with a lot of unknowns and fears but a warrior spirit to create a more fulfilling life and time freedom that matched my family priorities. Helping individuals go from “untapped potential” to being the driver of their career journey. Using every talent, skill and unique gift to build the life we all deserve.
This year in March, I launched Evolve HR Leadership & Consulting. I founded Evolve HR to cultivate a new landscape of workplace cultures that reflects the values and priorities of the new generation of leaders. Growing leadership capabilities transforming business into the employer of choice.
The world is contantly changing women leaders are more prominent than ever in redefining the workforce of tomorrow. I know this because once I found my voice I was able to rise to leadership roles where I directly impacted the culture of the company. I did this by leading with empathy and showing up a as a thought leader. Developing policies and programs that were applicable to working moms. I used by voice to create family friendly policies and make changes in topics that matter the most to us working moms.
I am driven by making an impact to make an equitable workplace for our future generations that includes my children and specifically daughters as data shows WOC, mothers have been severaly underrepresented and have faced systematic challenges to reach leadership roles and equitable pay.