Maribel Quezada Smith: Hola Pulso fam, this is Maribel. What does it mean to “be” something, to have an identity? And what is it that gets to decide that identity? Is it our parents, our language, our blood, or the world around us? This can be a complex…

Maribel Quezada Smith: What are you willing to do in the name of beauty? Valentina Agosti: Botox. Christie Lazo: Surgery. Katia Reguero Lindor: Wake up at like 4:00 AM to go work out. Maribel Quezada Smith: If I interviewed every Latina about this, I truly believe this list…

Liz Alarcón: We’re back. Welcome to season four of the Pulso Podcast.  Maribel Quezada Smith: Hola, hola. Bienvenidos y bienvenidas, ya estamos de regreso. Liz Alarcón: We’re so excited. We’ve been hard at work with our heads down, producing really interesting episodes that will continue to share the…

Liz Alarcón: Maribel, can you believe it’s already December? Didn’t this year fly by? Maribel Quezada Smith: Absolutely, I feel like once we hit June, it was over. Liz Alarcón: I know, it’s probably because of the post-pandemic life that we’ve actually been more out there this year.…

Liz Alarcón: It’s August 1951, in a little town called Edna, Texas, and a crime is about to take place. Maribel Quezada Smith: A young Mexican American farmhand named Pete Hernandez walks into Chinco Sanchez’s Tavern with a rifle. He points it at a man named Joe Espinoza,…

Liz Alarcón: Maribel, have you ever been embarrassed about the music you like? Maribel Quezada Smith: Yeah, especially growing up in the United States as an immigrant. I could never listen to my música en español like Mana and Shakira, which I loved. I never felt like I…

Maribel Quezada Smith: I’m staring at my midwife as she’s giving me instructions, my husband’s to my right and there’s an oxygen mask on my face. Midwife: Push, push, push. That’s it. That’s it. That’s the push. That’s it. Right there. That’s it, Maribel. Good job. Maribel Quezada…

Liz Alarcón: Today we are going to talk about something that means a lot to a whole lot of people, all around the world. Maribel Quezada Smith: And that is? Liz Alarcón: Borders. No matter who you are or where you live, if you want to move around…

Liz Alarcón: So here we are, again, Maribel it’s another Hispanic Heritage Month or Latino Heritage Month, or Latine Heritage Month, or Latinx Heritage Month, or what else? Maribel Quezada Smith: Or all the other things that define us. Liz Alarcón: Exactly. We’re here again, as we know…

Maribel Quezada Smith: I remember as a kid, you would leave me at school very late. I would be the last one to be picked up. You wouldn’t come to my assemblies a lot when I was growing up. Do you regret working so hard that you couldn’t…