30 Minutes With Neddy

My next guest is Ana Sheila Victorino. Ana Sheila is the co-host of Tamarindo podcast, Tamarindo is a Latinx empowerment podcast discussing politics, culture, and how to keep your calma with well-being practices and self-love. She is also half of Queer Enamoradas, a space to celebrate queer woman enamoradas. And is a lead coach for LaunchLatinx. Launch Latinx is a movement that aims to provide opportunities and transformation to Latinx leaders, coaches, and entrepreneurs from all over the world. Thank you Ana Sheila for sharing your story with us! Find her on  instagram @ la_anasheila

For this new series, I invited awesome humans who are out in the world accomplishing a goal. I hope these conversations spark some type of fire within you and give you that extra push you may need. We will start with Jocelyn Rivas. Jocelyn is this badass Salvadorian young woman who is out to break the Guinness World Records for being the youngest person, the youngest woman, and the youngest Latina to run 100 marathons. A marathon is a long distance running race of 26.2 miles. By the time the episode is released, she is only 2 marathons away from 100! I discovered her through instagram and only knew of her 100 marathon goal but as we recorded I kept being more and more amazed with her story . Jocelyn, thank you so much for joining me. Follow her journey on IG @ joselinthewarrior [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c8f7f8356fb0ec8c263ced/dc23d3cb-86de-4058-98f6-93a61a568460/SmartSelect_20211026-070737_Instagram.jpg?format=1000w] [https://open.spotify.com/show/50ThS255w9uoZO1Vrj5cj0?si=33c65237ece44cac] [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/30-minutes-with-neddy/id1148305549?mt=2] [https://play.google.com/music/m/Ixkkdzxn3imgkd426bzihslp3ni?t=30_Minutes_With_Neddy]

To end the Latina in LGBTQ+ series, I share my coming out story :) A special thanks to Linda, Valerie, Lupita, Fernanda, Manuela, and Evelyn for helping me bring this series to life. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Joining me is Evelyn Perdomo. Evelyn is funny, smart, and a  family woman who I am lucky to call a  friend. We talk about how she did not come out of the closet, she was dragged out.  We discuss lesbian representation in the media, stereotypes, and same sex parenting.

Joining me is Manuela Vasquez.  She represented Colombia as a professional race car driver for almost a decade and is now a digital creator sharing stories about her number one passion, cars! Manuela came out at 29 and never imagined she would find love, let alone get married and have a wife. Today, she is living her truth, lives in Mexico City with her wife, and works doing what she is passionate about. Listen to this coming of age story and the importance of self love and self acceptance.