We begin by discussing what podcasting is all about. It is not just a trend, it is communication between humans. Podcasts can be general or very niche where people get to learn a lot from them. With the right strategy, podcasts can work for any type of business including B2B and B2C.

Daxy shares with us that podcasting is more of a journey of discovery. What you like talking about, your audience and what they like, these things you’ll discover on your own, nobody can teach you.

We talk about consistency and differentiating your podcast from the rest in the market. What is it that you promise your audience. What is the value that you give to them? You achieve this by building a good foundation and using your podcast to amplify your offering.  

We discuss about having a valuable message for your audience and giving them solutions to solve their problems. This is the way to grow your podcast audience. By serving them and helping them get results.

Key Takeaways

• Podcasting isn’t just a trend but it is a form of communication (4:15)
• Being passionate about what you talk about and having integrity and responsibility towards it (5:55)
• Building your podcast muscles ( 8:43)
• Podcasting is more of a discovery journey, learning stuff along the way (9:58)
• Podcasting is all about amplifying something that already has a good foundation (22:50)
• Helping your podcast audience overcome their problems and get results (32:35)

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Additional Resources:

• Valeria on Instagram
• Podcast Success stories

Listen in as we talk about building financial fitness, being organized, and managing your finances. Financial fitness and physical fitness are very important aspects of our life and they go hand in hand. 

Lyann takes us through how to be financially organized during this time. Capital and cash preservation is critical. We also need to make lists of the most important things and taking care of the basics such as food and medicine. We don’t know how long this crisis will last. Therefore we need to be smart about what we spend money on. 

We talk about how to be productive during this time when there isn’t much going on. Now you have all the time you need. Make use of this time to do something productive like taking control of your financial situation by having an in-depth look at your credit situation, calling your bank, and negotiating payment periods. 

Even though we are in a crisis, we should remain proactive and study all options open to us. This will help us not ruin our credit because the pandemic will eventually pass. We need to preserve our credit. 

Key Takeaways

• Capital preservation and cash management strategies to help you get through this crisis (3:43)
• Prioritizing the most basic stuff by making lists of urgent items and those that can wait (4:33)
• How to take control of your financial situation (7:02)
• Finding out what options you have in terms of significant expenses such as mortgage and credit card repayment  (9:12)
• Why zero interest credit cards are important in a crisis and how to apply for them (14:17)
• Being proactive in taking care not to ruin your credit during this time (15:32)
• Why avoid store credit cards and go for big banks credit cards (19:25)

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Additional Resources:

• Valeria on Instagram
• https://www.instagram.com/creditninja/
• http://uscreditguide.com/

The mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez takes us through his experience with contracting the Coronavirus and how he came to know if it. He held a council meeting and in the meeting, an infected person was present. He was in close contact with him and even shook hands. Once this fact was brought to his attention by the medical staff, he immediately self-quarantined, later took a test and it turned our positive.

He explains why it is important to self-quarantine once you have come in to contact with an infected person because he didn’t exhibit any symptoms even when taking the test. This way, he kept his family, his close staff and other people from contracting the virus.

The mayor goes ahead and advises people that the only way to beat this virus is to reduce social contact and staying at home. Even though it is a big ask for people to stay at home, we have to do it or avoid overwhelming our hospitals. Francis explains to us that they are opening up a testing site in the market park.

He further explains to us how they are helping people cope with the economic realities of this pandemic. Miami has suspended evictions and together with other mayors, he has requested the Governor to implement a statewide suspension of evictions for anybody unable to pay rent and suspension of mortgage payments. The mayor has received assurances that electricity and the internet are not going to be cut off during this time. 

Key takeaways

• Quarantine immediately you become aware that you have come into contact with an infected person (2:38)
• How testing prevents transmitting the virus to people close to you (3:16)
• If you test positive, don’t panic, chances are that your symptoms will not be as bad (5:56)
• The only way to prevent the virus from spreading is staying at home (7:13)
• Even young people can get affected and end up hospitalized or even lose their life (8:05)
• Play your part not to overwhelm the hospitals (8:21)
• Suspension of evictions due to economic hardships in Miami Dade (12:30)
• Avoid being outside in large groups  (20:25)

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Additional Resources:

• Valeria on Instagram
• @MiamiMayor
• Mayor Francis Suarez 

Queen energy is all about how to position your sexual self with value. It is about protecting your energy by making it less accessible and more desirable. In this episode, we discuss issues revolving around choices when it comes to love and having sex.

How can you like me if you don't know what kind of female I am? And I think that people just pretend, like this is super superficial. 

That's why you have a bunch of brokenness, and a bunch of women and a bunch of men that are having sex with people, and they still have so much brokenness inside of them. In this episode, we discuss issues revolving around choices when it comes to love and having sex.

Why would I give myself to somebody that does not care about me? To please them?

You need to put yourself in a position of value. And the way that you do that is by becoming something that is to be desired and valued.

And what are things that are desired and valued things that everybody can have? You cannot be very accessible in a sense.

Women, nowadays, are very empowered. But at the end of the day, you have to know that the fabric of who you are is not a man, and that you do operate a little bit differently, and that your goals and some of your desires might not be the same as every other guy. So you want to line up your goals and desires with somebody that values a woman in the way that you would want to be valued. 

How can you be sleeping with somebody you don't even know? And then you expect him to value you the way that you want to be valued. When you don't even know who this person is. You don't even know what his morals values are, his moral compass, the way he thinks of women, where his family is like, what is the way his father treats his mother, or the way that he's seen women being treated. How does he treat women? How would you know these things without knowing someone right?

Stay tuned as I come up with food for thought that’s relevant to both guys and gals.

Key Takeaways:

• I reserve myself for myself. Not even for you but for myself (4:08)
• You need to put yourself in a position of value (5:00)
• Lining up your goals and desires with one who values a woman… (6:27)
• Your body is your business. You just can't let anybody in there (8:14)
• How can you like me if you don't know what I think? (9:03)
• You’ve got to have a clear definition of what you want in your life (11:53)
• These men out here are putting pressure on girls to have sex too soon (13:52)
• If you cared for her, you’d allow her to have value for yourself. You’d wait (14:00)
• Why do you want to have sex with somebody you're not proud of? (14:54)
• If you're not loving yourself, how’s that person supposed to love you? (15:57)
• You are what you settle for (18:54)
• Love is the key; love is power; love is the healer (20:35)
• Respect yourself, love yourself (21:26)
• Be the kind of person that you're even looking for (23:35)
• Guys, if you had a daughter, sister or any woman that you love… (30:41)
• When you start loving yourself in a high way, people treat you differently (31:40)

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Additional Resources:

• Valeria on Instagram

In this episode, I talk all about my personal journey with anxiety - how I overcame it by accepting it and looking back into the root. I also talk about how I went about understanding anxiety and the fact it couldn't kill me.

While I struggled with anxiety, there was a point when I found myself very vulnerable. I didn't want people to see me the way I was when there was a panic attack. And at the same time, being able to emotionally regulate your life is really important because people are not always going to come through for you.

People do not always have the right things to say, and they don't really have a lot of the answers. So that's what I encountered.

I went home from an experience, feeling shaken, feeling scared, and then I had the fear of fears, which, you know, once you have one of these experiences that are, you know, traumatic because you just don't even understand what happened to you.

You don't even have the right information and you're just trying to figure things out, but you start to develop a fear of fears, not knowing whether it will happen again and when it can happen again.

And then, gathering information from different quarters, I realized that people had harrowing experiences like the one I had, on a regular basis. I dived into information, I started listening to different psychiatrists, different psychologists, Christian doctors, people that were brain specialists, people that worshipped the brain. And I really started to understand that a lot of it had to do with this emotional part of your brain, which collects data from your body.

Get the help that is right for you and I'm telling you like you don't have to be trapped. Stay tuned to know more.

Key Takeaways:

• It was stronger than any attack that I've ever experienced… (1:05)
• People do not always have the right things to say… (4:28)
• This data was being collected from my body to my emotional brain… (5:15)
• I started listening to psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors… (6:43)
• Lots of depression & anxiety and things coming out are trauma symptoms (8:39)
• Basically, an anxiety attack is an adrenaline rush (10:13)
• You really have to understand that anxiety will not kill you (14:55)
• Look back at some of the trauma and see what’s the root (19:08)
• Coming out of that survivor mentality and then thriving (22:04)
• I grew up with lots of fear as a child and then I became my own protector (22:56)
• You really need to make sure that you have the right information (23:58)
• We're not all at the same level, and we don't all have the same injuries (31:33)
• There's hope and that's the good news. You can overcome your anxiety (38:18)

Additional Resources:

• "Dr.Claire Weekes - How to overcome Anxiety" on YouTube
• Mastin Kipp's website
• Valeria on Instagram

In this episode, we have a conversation on healthy habits. Healthy habits are about taking control of your day starting from the moment you wake up. Simple disciplines that you choose will become your habits. Healthy habits will form your life. We are what we repeatedly do.

I think that the healthiest habit you can start to form is creating a daily routine for yourself.

Create a schedule that would be for your dream life and start seeing how you can actually form that. So mine might look like the first hour of the day is for prayer, meditation, writing, and reading. Then the next hour of my day is for breakfast. I'll jump into social media, answer my emails, and the following hour from that would be something like training and so on and so forth.

So, what I'm doing is I'm creating a time for myself that's realistic because when you don't write things down and you don't put them on pen and paper or even in your phone and your notepad and you don't see it physically, it's very hard.

The way you start developing a beautiful relationship with yourself is by keeping little promises. So maybe you create this healthy habit list and you create this new daily routine. When you start sticking to it, you're going to start respecting yourself.

And when you start respecting yourself, it really creates a beautiful loving relationship with yourself and you care less about what's happening around you because you're zoned in. Focus on what's important to you and what your priorities are like. Don't let this world confuse you or distract you.

Stay tuned to know more.

Key Takeaways:

• It can take up to a year to form a new habit; it takes discipline (1:26)
• Healthy habits start with an individual; we're not all the same (2:13)
• Creating a daily routine for yourself; let's call this the dream daily routine (2:44)
• You wake up and you take your time for yourself (5:02)
• Don't just be unintentional with your mornings (8:01)
• You can choose who you want to be now (12:01)
• You need to really start putting the right things into yourself (19:58)
• Following through with your habits, so they can become habits (23:59)
• You could fool the world, but you can't fool yourself (24:13)
• Your whole day, you are the parental guide advisory for your own self (24:49)
• You are what you do daily (26:54)
• It starts from the inside out (27:44)
• Start by keeping little promises (28:30)
• If you change your habits, you change your life completely (30:17)

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Additional Resources:

• Valeria on Instagram

In this episode, we talk about training your intuition. We're all born with our intuition. It is not something that you have to train for or that you have to go out and buy. It's not like getting a six-pack, a pack of abs. This is something that is inside of us, but yet, some of us have very strong intuitions and others are lost and we need to ask a million people a million questions.

Training your intuition is about rediscovering the natural gift that you might have ignored, taken for granted, or stopped believing in. In a world filled with suggestions, opinions, and options, how do you choose what is right for you? How do some of us know what is right for ourselves and others just don't?

Have you ever met someone and give them the benefit of the doubt, only to realize that your first impression of them, your gut instinct that was talking to you and you chose to ignore it? Ignoring your natural intelligence, the instincts that have kept you alive or kept us alive for centuries? 

Why are you losing your intuition? How are we losing our intuition? And more importantly, how do we get it back?

Stay tuned to get to the answers.

Key Takeaways:

• By not listening to your intuition, you train yourself to not trust yourself (2:52)
• You can either enhance your intuition or ignore it. It's a gift from God (6:54)
• Energy and intuition are intertwined (7:28)
• You have to be in tune with your discernment, intuition, and goals (7:59)
• We can create whatever we want (9:21)
• You shouldn't be depending on other people (9:35)
• You can’t outsource your intuition and your purpose to other people (11:17)
• You need to take some time alone with yourself… (12:57)
• How do we start listening to ourselves again? (13:20)
• Have time by yourself. Ask yourself those real questions (13:54)
• Please stop listening to all the noise and quiet the noise (15:44)
• Trusting your intuition, trusting your light, and trusting what you feel like (17:26)
• Now is a great time to start (20:26)
• Don't be afraid of displeasing people; you have to do what's right for you (20:56)

Additional Resources:

• Valeria on Instagram

In this episode, I interview the billion-dollar couple, Bobby and Castro. They started at the ages of 18 and 22, and they’ve been together for 30 years now. Their marriage is an ideal example of how relationships take work and consistency to grow. 

They use the term fertilize to refer to the work you do as a couple to understand and empower each other continuously to grow together. Today, Bobby and Sofia are giving us their insights on cash flow in the real state business, some of the essential concepts to starting your own company, and, of course, the indispensable formula for succeeding alongside with your partner.

They’re a combination of Jewish, Irish, Puerto Rican, and Cuban, and they certainly bring the best of each culture to their family with two offsprings and two grandchildren. Naturally, with that much responsibility came to a lot of challenges, and Bobby and Sofia are going to tell us how they manage to face those challenges and learn from their mistakes. 

Tune in as in this new episode, Bobby and Sofia open up to teach us a lesson on love and respect that will create a high impact on our lives and make us grow to success.

Key points discussed:

• The billion-dollar couple tells their story and the challenges of starting young (01:18)
• Fertilizing your relationship and overcoming the hard moments (05:55)
• Starting as a business couple and some essential concepts in the real state (11:54)
• Learning from your mistakes and maintaining a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) (17:34)
• Empowering your spouse and involving into each other’s world (22:53)
• Overpaying, overleveraging and other mistakes that can jeopardize any business (29:17)
• Learning to leave nonbeneficial things behind (33:32)
• The power of not giving up and letting your relationships grow (38:03)
• The ability to adapt and why is it so important to grow (44:08)
• Sofia and Bobby’s tips and recommendations to succeed (45:54) 

Additional Resources:

• Sofia on Instagram
• Bobby on Instagram
• Valeria on Instagram