AHORITA is one of my favorite Spanish words, because depending on the culture and context, it can mean “10 seconds ago”, “right now”, or “2 weeks from now”. Time can be weird in Spanish, and it’s a good practice to look at your own expectations within the cultural constraints. While the overall Spanish culture has a slower way of life and accompanying stereotype *eye roll*, there’s something to be said of savoring moments, meals, comunidad, and people. Especially with the continuation of hustle culture and then impending burnout, it’d be a good practice to take a page from el mundo hispanohablante’s page and slow down… enseguida.

Work and hustle has been part of my DNA from the beginning (seriously; I have the body type of an underground miner) and as an adult, I struggle with knowing how and how much to play… but play goes further than normal life, eh?

I had been indecisive about starting a podcast for months. “The Internet doesn’t need ANOTHER white woman’s opinion”, I thought. “There are so many people more qualified, whose stories need to be shared.” But it turns out… no one’s quite doing it like this. We learn Spanish one word at a time, and the first one was one that had been percolating in my head for a long while: la identidad, or identity.