305 - Finding Your Voice with Valentina Izarra
305 - Finding Your Voice with Valentina Izarra
Listeners, we are back this week with Valentina Izarra
Valentina Izarra is an award-winning actress, dancer and podcaster. She speaks English, Spanish and French fluently. She is also conversational in Italian and German. Valentina is host and producer of the Mamas Con Ganas Podcast, a bilingual self-improvement podcast for Latinas. The podcast won the Latin Podcast Award for best Bilingual Podcast of 2022. Valentina was named Best Actress (New Times 2014), was awarded the Silver Palm Award and nominated for a Carbonell Award. She also co-authored an Amazon Bestseller book titled Ignite Love.
During our conversation we talked about:
02:11 - The fear when she started her podcast and being persistent
06:08 - “There’s a reason we keep hearing that voice”
06:25 - Tuning in to that inner voice
09:53 - “What you believe is what you end up making happen”
10:37 - Her heritage and moving during her childhood
15:31 - Moving to Miami
23:02 - Choosing her career
24:12 - “There’s a mentality that there’s only about four careers that will get you out of poverty”
26:04 - Losing her voice - literally - and pursuing acting
29:11 - The voice of doubt
32:17 - How Mamas con Ganas came to be
39:07 - “Everybody has an inspirational story within them”
41:07 - “Align to the synchronicity”
42:39 - Perfectionism
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