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Cafe con Pam

Pam Covarrubias

Cafe con Pam is the weekly podcast featuring fearless Latine/x and People of The Global Majority that break barriers, change lives and make the world a better place while living in the US. Cafe con Pam is the platform where Latine/x are able to share their stories and inspire one another through conversations about mindful productivity, business, and liberation. Of course, while enjoying a fabulous cup of coffee.

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#484
Sunday · 53 min
A Piano in a Broom Closet Built a Nonprofit | Sheila Fortson
If you’ve ever been told that art is nice but not practical, this episode will hit differently. Sheila Fortson talks about starting music lessons in a $30-a-month broom closet, growing them into a nonprofit, and navigating the pressure small...
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#483
September 27 · 23 min
My Group Chat Died When I Started a Business
If you’ve ever looked at your group chat and thought, “I have people, but I don’t know who I can actually tell,” this episode puts language to that feeling. The conversation explores how climbing, changing, and outgrowing old dynamics can leave your...
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#482
September 20 · 1 hr
After 22 Years in Corporate, She Chose Clean Beauty | Oni Auer
The 12-step beauty routine isn’t proof that you’re doing self-care wrong. It’s an industry system built to sell more products, while opaque ingredients, weak regulation, and corporate sustainability theater keep consumers working harder to protect...
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#481
September 13 · 31 min
The Proof Reflex: Why Your Word Never Feels Like Enough Evidence
The urge to prove yourself when someone doubts you isn’t insecurity or people-pleasing. It’s the proof reflex, a survival adaptation shaped by Calladita Culture and the expectation that your word won’t count as sufficient evidence. This episode names...
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#480
September 6 · 1 hr 9 min
When You Reclaim What You Survived, Your People Can Find You
What if the challenges you were taught to hide are actually leadership assets? In this conversation, Leslie Tagorda reframes astrology as a language for change, connecting the Sun, Moon, Rising, and Descendant to how we lead, regulate our nervous...
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#479
August 30 · 19 min
Stop Waiting for a List to Certify What You Already Are
The list you’re waiting for may never arrive because the system taught you to measure your life with someone else’s rubric. This episode of Cafe con Pam recognizes the quieter accomplishments that often go uncounted, from leaving a life that wasn’t...
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#478
August 23 · 1 hr 14 min
When you stop asking for permission, you start leading your own life
Lucy King is back on the show, this time as an author—real evidence that dreams take root in messy, real-life soil, not just positive thinking. This conversation pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to break through old family rules, juggle...
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#477
August 16 · 38 min
What You Call Self-Sabotage Is Actually Your Body Protecting You
Pam opens up about how the things we call self-sabotage or procrastination are actually ways we've learned to protect ourselves in tough environments. Instead of blaming ourselves for holding back, Pam lays out the “Six Doors” framework, showing how...
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#476
August 9 · 1 hr 12 min
Naming What Hurt Us Opens the Door to Power and Belonging
This episode sits with the weird, messy middle that shows up when you finally stop hiding parts of yourself and let old family rules or corporate “shoulds” melt away. Instead of blaming anyone for staying quiet, the conversation looks at how silence...
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#475
August 2 · 22 min
You’re Overloaded Because You’re the Most Capable, Not Because You Lack Boundaries
Pam recognizes the hidden cost of being the “most competent woman in the room”—not as a personal flaw, but as a predictable result of systems that over-rely on reliability. This episode names the ways competence fuels silent overload, unpacking how...
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#474
July 26 · 59 min
Surviving Scarcity Can Teach You to Thrive, Not Just Survive
This episode sits with the quiet ways survival mode shapes generations — not from personal failure, but from the systems that turn scarcity and silence into a way of life. Charly Stoever opens up about navigating identity, money, and belonging as a...
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#473
July 19 · 22 min
The loudest voice in the room still carries silence
Ever notice how even the most confident people suddenly second-guess themselves when it counts? Pam unpacks the sneaky “whisper” that makes us search for proof or outside validation—showing how it’s not about lacking confidence, but about coping with...
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#472
July 12 · 1 hr
Collaboration Isn’t Compromise: How Bridging Political Divides Protects Community Power
Councilmember Imelda Padilla knows the unique pressure—and privilege—of coming home as the leader for her own community. In this episode of Cafe con Pam, she flips the usual story: it’s not just about the challenges of being a Latina in politics, but...
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#471
July 5 · 35 min
You’re Not Failing Your Family: You’re Rebuilding Your Dignidad
This week, Pam gets real about how hard it is to set boundaries with family when our culture tells us those boundaries shouldn’t exist. Instead of blaming ourselves for feeling guilty or overwhelmed, she points out how these pressures are part of a...
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#470
June 28 · 1 hr 6 min
When You Name the System, Agency and Belonging Show Up with Emilia Huerta-Sanchez
In this episode of Cafe con Pam, Pam notices how true freedom feels different when you’ve had to build it for yourself—especially when you grow up balancing family expectations, cultural traditions, and new systems in a new country. Emilia...
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#469
June 21 · 22 min
The Certainty Gap Explained: It’s Not You, It’s the Missing Manual
In this solo episode of Cafe con Pam, Pam gets real about why so many first-gen Latinas feel like they have a “confidence problem”—and flips the script by calling out what it really is: an instruction problem. Through her own stories of navigating...
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#468
June 14 · 1 hr 10 min
The Power of Doing Small Things in the Fight for Reproductive Justice with Zaena Zamora
On this week's episode of Cafe con Pam Zaena Zamora, executive director of Frontera Fund, dig into the critical fight for reproductive justice. Zaena shares her experiences on the frontlines in South Texas, where systemic barriers and aggressive laws...
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#467
June 7 · 35 min
Why Peace Can Feel Threatening and How to Embrace Goodness
This week's episode of Cafe con Pam iss a solo deep dive into what makes leadership feel out of sync, even when everything looks perfect on paper. Centered around first-gen experiences and eldest daughter realities, the episode breaks down why feeling...
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#466
May 31 · 1 hr
The Power of Ancestral Eating with Neha Shah
In this episode of Cafe con Pam, Pam sit down with Neha Shah, a former engineer turned nutritionist, to explore the intersection of heritage, immigrant experience, and traditional nutrition. Neha shares her journey from India to the United States,...
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#465
May 24 · 25 min
Why Achieving Success Might Leave You Feeling Empty
In this solo episode of Cafe con Pam, Pam dives deep into the often unnamed feeling experienced by high-achieving first-gen leaders: the "certainty gap." —that weird in-between space where your mind knows you’ve made it, but you don’t feel it yet....
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