About Dear Babygurl: Notes on Life, Leadership, and Liberation
Dear Babygurl: Notes on Life, Leadership, & Liberation is what happens when your therapist tia, your coach bestie, and your higher self start a group chat. This is a love letter—for my niece, and for every mujer, daughter of immigrant, queer, BIPOC, first-gen soul learning to live and lead on their own terms. Hosted by Carmen Aceves Iñiguez—licensed therapist, leadership coach, queer Xicana. This bi-weekly podcast serves up stories, side-eyes, and soul work. If you're tired of the “shoulds,” burnt out by hustle culture, and ready to laugh-cry your way to liberation, you’re in the right place.
Our boys are growing up. Their bodies are changing, their worlds are expanding, and increasingly, they’re entering rooms their moms won’t be in.
In this episode, I’m thinking about what it means to raise boys in a culture that still teaches them so much about who they’re supposed to be. From smelly middle-school armpits and video-game negotiations to masculinity, belonging, consent, the manosphere, and the courage to interrupt harm.
Because I don’t just want to raise boys who won’t hurt women. That bar is too low. I want to raise boys who will speak up when other boys and men do.
We can’t control who our children become. But we can help them build something inside themselves that they can carry into the rooms we won’t be in.
A tender one about raising boys, letting go, and hoping the values we practice around the dinner table travel with them into the world.
Content note: This episode discusses sexual assault and violence against women without graphic detail.
16 Sept 2026
031 - The Language of Your Knowing
What if your knowing has been speaking to you all along, and the work isn’t to make it louder, but to learn its language?
Fresh off my 49th birthday, a beautiful facilitation experience, a new professional chapter, and a perfectly timed Wheel of Fortune card, I’ve been thinking about the breadcrumbs our bodies give us. Not just the ones that warn us when something feels off, but the ones that whisper, this way.
A shiver. Warmth moving through your body. A burst of energy. A sense of expansion. Or maybe, surprisingly, calm.
In this episode, I’m exploring nervous system regulation, intuition, energetic and ancestral resourcing, and what it means to become more fluent in the ways we already know.
Come listen, babygurl. And maybe get curious about the language of your own knowing. What does a yes feel like in your body?
2 Sept 2026
030 - Breadcrumbs Before Blueprints
What if you didn’t need a five-year plan? What if you just needed… a breadcrumb?
In this episode, I’m talking about our urge to turn every curiosity into a decision, a degree, a career pivot, or some other Very Important Life Choice™.
What if curiosity could just be curiosity? What if you wandered a little, followed what lights you up, and let the next thing reveal itself?
Less pressure. More play. Breadcrumbs before blueprints.
Come listen, follow a breadcrumb or two, and see where they take you. 🍞✨
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