Episodes

  • Weekend Ways: Parenting a Native-Born Immigrant

    Weekend Ways: Parenting a Native-Born Immigrant
    Nov 19 2024
    In this episode Twena discusses the cultural, emotional, and linguistic distance that children of immigrants’ face inside their homes when raised in a country that’s distinct from their parents’ country of origin, disrupting the lineage and yes, the values, as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    16 mins
  • Vianni Lubus Media Exec Interview

    Vianni Lubus Media Exec Interview
    Nov 12 2024
    Join us as Lubus shares her challenging childhood experiences moving from Puerto Rico to Michigan, as well as how her cultural duality has shaped her in adulthood, empowering her to adapt to anything and avoid attachment to material things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    21 mins
  • Media Executive Stephen Paez Interview

    Media Executive Stephen Paez Interview
    Nov 5 2024
    Join us as Paez shares his life story including his childhood in Miami as a Cuban American, the culture clash when he started working for an American company, and the need to embrace one’s cultural duality. Paez’s funny account of being told he has an accent, not a lisp, is priceless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 mins
  • Latina Approved’s Tania Torres Interview

    Latina Approved’s Tania Torres Interview
    Oct 29 2024
    Join us as Twena interviews Torres about her childhood experiences as a U.S. born daughter of immigrants from El Salvador, and how her name change at school impacted her life, motivating her to reclaim herself with a new name and purpose in adulthood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 mins
  • School Crossing, Food & Accidentes

    School Crossing, Food & Accidentes
    Oct 22 2024
    In this episode, Twena shares MariVi’s first day of school: her unwelcome name change, isolating lunch experience and el accidente. She provides an in-depth analysis of the struggles of being an outsider – universal truths shared by many children of immigrants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    16 mins
  • The Seas Across Generations

    The Seas Across Generations
    Oct 15 2024
    In this episode, Twena dives deeper into the conflicting values of collectivism and individualism, and brings them to life across Hispanic generations, while sharing excerpts and character insights from her first book: School Crossing, and its key character: MariVi, the Master Navigator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    20 mins
  • Navigating dos Mares: Collectivism vs. Self-Reliance

    Navigating dos Mares: Collectivism vs. Self-Reliance
    Oct 15 2024
    In the flagship episode of Navigating dos Mares, Twena explains the core differences between the two seas- the American and Latino cultures- and how they inform our lives from early childhood, creating choppy waters and inclement weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    16 mins
  • Trailer - Navigating dos Mares

    Trailer - Navigating dos Mares
    Oct 8 2024
    Navigating dos Mares is a podcast that has been created to shed light and meaning surrounding the bicultural life experiences – from childhood to adulthood – faced by most children of immigrants. From the universal truths that impact our coming of age, to the distinct events that shape our life experiences – including our role in the family as navigator - the bicultural community will find a home, a haven, a respite from their travels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    3 mins