Hey Pulso Fam, last season here on the Pulso Podcast, Maribel — who’s happily on vacation in Mexico right now — and I, went into it on “Mom to Mom.” If you haven’t heard that episode, it’s a candid conversation about how we’re raising Colombian-Venezuelan-Mexican-African American children in…
Liz AlarcĂłn: Dear Mexican. Why is it that when you invite Mexicans to a party, they feel compelled to bring along 30 of their relatives. mean, bringing along two or three people would be no problem, but we don’t expect the number of people at our party to…
Maribel Quezada Smith: Manuel Jamines Xum, an Indigenous Maya-K’iche’ man moved to the United States in 2003, leaving his wife and three children back in the town of Xexac in Guatemala. He wanted to work hard, save money, and eventually return home to make a better life for…
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 AlarcĂłn: We’re back. Welcome to season four of the Pulso Podcast. Maribel Quezada Smith: Hola, hola. Bienvenidos y bienvenidas, ya estamos de regreso. Liz AlarcĂłn: 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 AlarcĂłn: 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 AlarcĂłn: I know, it’s probably because of the post-pandemic life that we’ve actually been more out there this year.…
Liz AlarcĂłn: 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 AlarcĂłn: 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 mĂşsica 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…
