Rewriting the Narrative: Childfree Latinas, Joy, and Cultural Liberation
Let's dismantle all these cultural lies
It’s a two-fer kind of week! Not only was there a new LVMC episode yesterday with Ana Lopez, but I’m also a guest on a fellow Latina podcaster’s show, Welcome to Dismantling Diet Culture: F*ck Being Calladita.
You might remember Dr. Hortencia Jiménez from the episode she did on La Vida Más Chévere de Childfree Latinas last year. Even though she isn’t childfree, we have the same mission of dismantling the toxic cultural bullshit we all grew up in so we can design our best lives instead.
She does it through the lens of diet culture while I do it through the lens of being childfree. Same mission, two different tactics.
I’d love for you to enjoy this episode yourself!
Episode Description
La Vida Más Chévere de Childfree Latinas creator and host Paulette Erato joins me for a powerful conversation about choosing your own path—even when it goes against cultural expectations.
As the founder of Latinas In Podcasting and a proud Spanglish podcaster, Paulette is no stranger to challenging the narratives we’ve been fed. In this episode, we talk about what it means to reject motherhood not out of lack, but out of self-knowing. Paulette reminds us that there’s nothing wrong with designing a life outside the traditional blueprint—and that being different doesn’t mean being broken.
We also get into:
✨ Why not wanting kids isn’t selfish—it’s sovereign
✨ How joy and community are radical acts of resistance for Latinas
✨ Dismantling toxic cultural scripts and rewriting them in our own voice
From sunsets and Belgian ales to deep conversations on liberation, Paulette brings wisdom, wit, and a refreshing perspective you won’t want to miss.
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