Americans speak Spanish: The story of an AMERICAN family with roots in Mexico and the unexpected legacy it created. Stories told and real interviews with the people who ultimately define what America is and how it transformed both cultures.
Imagine falling in love and having your relationship a secret. In a small town secrets don't last long. Herminio and Tere were an item celebrated by their friends and denied open face to face communication. In a time when no social media or even telecommunication access existed the only way for two young love birds to exist was mainly through letters. For three years they wrote to each other while Herminio worked in California and Tere waited for him in Mexico. A new letter arrived every week.....until it did not. In fact the letters stopped for three months without explanation or reason. On the brink of a break up as it was common for those out of the country to form new relationships in their new habitat it was assumed that one of them had given up. Until a creative idea saved the day....The mystery of the lost letters in this series of Soulmates.
17 Aug 2025
Viajes y Despedidas
Poema del Dia
Que alegria celebrar tu presecia en esta vida
Compartir un tiempo y darte lo que pidas
Sonreir or plear pero siempre contigo
Encontrar mi paz en tu voz tan seguido
Te encantaba vestir a tu nina y jugar con tu mona viva
Con vetidos de holanes y mi cabello en colitas apretadas sin compasion
Sin necesidad de usar hair spray pues habia limon.
En el norte en esos dias Sin internet
Sin telefono
Con pura oracion te contectabas con tu madre
Recuerdo cuando me llevaste contigo para visitar a tus padres
Crusabamos los cielos de un mundo nuevo a un mundo del pasado
Sentia tu alegria y tu tristeza entorcida como un bolero amado
Recuerdo como lloraste al aterrizar el avion
En silencio te observaba sin entender tu dolor
Juntas llegamos al lugar donde creciste
El lugar donde te enamoraste
Y de donde al final de donde te escapaste
Te observe en silencio.
Siempre lloravas al llegar y otra vez al despedirte.
Planchando tu ropa en tu cuarto viejo preparandote para irte
Mientras tu madre escondia sus lagrimas detras de un reboso obscuro
Y las dos bailaban este danse triste y complicado.
Aprendi que para crecer aveces tenemos que soltar lo que mas amamos
Que cualquier sacrificio hecho por amor es como nos salvamos
Seguir nuestro destino y luchar por un futuro desconocido
Tener fe y recordar de donde venimos
Porque el amor nunca desaparese, sigue vivo fuera del tiempo o distancia
No vive en un pueblo ni en el pasado
Nos sigue siempre en donde estamos.
Pero estoy agradesida por haberme intreducido a tu mundo
Este mundo viejo esta borrandose sin poder parar el cambio
Serenatas, primas y primos, rodeos, y birria
Serpentinas, y flores de papel, churros frescos, y los Bukis
El catillo con buscapies
Y la banda con el eco de los cuetes al tronar sacuden todo el pueblo.
El vivir bajo las regas de "que diran la gente"
Con la libertad de escapar esas limitaciones.
Gracias.
21 Jun 2025
What things in this world remind you of your parents?
The host reflects on how everyday occurrences and objects evoke memories of their parents and grandmother, creating a sense of eternal connection and nostalgic appreciation.
24 Apr 2025
Inv Adv: Gal Lost in the Dude Rat Race: Finding Purpose - My Why
This is a story like many others except it discusses my entry into the investment world when women were trying to make inroads in an industry that clearly did not appreciate them there quite yet. The private stories: how isolating that experience was. There are so many stories to share about it. I kept it to a couple and found myself breaking down. Why am I sharing this? My father retired last month. Years of entrepreneurship. Years of hard physical work. Came to an official end. My heart broke. I don't know why. My father has the foresight to know he is not his work but yet a lifetime in his field creates a sense of identity....I'm glad he gets more time off and spends it less stressed. It's just quite a change. I always thought I would be my father's retirement plan. Here is the genesis: My Why.
4 Mar 2025
53
Reflections on my mother’s experience versus mine. Birthday poem and gratitude
21 Oct 2024
As I Slowly Disappear w Your Passing
We have recently experienced the loss of family members. This chapter is not so much to tell a story, but rather to share some thoughts, as I’m getting prepared to create the next chapter and the next stories. I’d love your feedback on this podcast you can push the button to provide it and share it, these are scrambled thoughts and ramblings really trying to make sense of the loss and incorporate these beautiful stories. Thank you for listening.
Éste no es un capítulo te cuento todavía estoy tratando de completar el siguiente historia. Por el momento comparto un poco sobre la pérdida de nuestros seres queridos y como cambia la realidad de y como afecta nuestra historia.
8 Jul 2024
Farewell and Rodeos
Recorded in Spanish:
What is it like to wait for your father only to see him 2-3 months out of the year? What was it like to see him leave every time? Herminio was 4th in birth order but the first male and therefore inherited the role as the man of the house. My grandfather would spend 9 to 10 months working in California and the remainder at home in Zacatecas with his family. This went on for over 10 years. Herminio at age 16 left La Tetilla to work with his father al Norte but left his mother's side for the first time.
Jump to small town Rodeos.
Herminio loved to colear los toros as traditional rodeos provided la banda with music, the queens to hand out ribbons to the successful charros, and the men who competed in this sport.
Here is a link to an actual rodeo in Garcia de la Cadena showing how it is done. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ON7Oig0bA&list=PPSV)Enjoy!
7 Jul 2024
2024 Trailer - Larios
New stories:
Romance
Culture
Traditions
Travel
Rediscovery
Stories
28 Apr 2024
Dos Poemas
The undertone is about time.
Hope you enjoy.
This is in Spanish.
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18 Nov 2023
Enferma pero agradecida
A short blurb about aging and watching my mom deal with this sudden illness that has us all adjusting and reflecting on her warrior spirit.
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26 Jun 2023
La muñeca de Julia
Julia’s dolls
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26 May 2023
A Sacred Loss: When Gravity stops pulling
what brings a Family together? A name? A place? And experience? the one minute version of when Leocadio and Chicho became each other‘s keepers.
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29 Apr 2023
AS AN IMMIGRANT: WHAT WAS ONE OF THE HARDEST LESSONS IN THIS COUNTRY
If you would like to collaborate I will be sharing between episodes a series in your voice and your parent's voice. Hear me out...
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5 Feb 2023
Let's Run Away
Leocadio and Julia were two kids in the heart of southern Zacatecas Mexico growing up during the great depression born toward the end of the great Mexican Revolution. Needless to say it was a terribly difficult time for most in that region. Intro to their love story as it pertains to a beautiful legacy that they could never have imagined back then. Join me in their journey as we understand how love really can change the world or at least a family.
Leocadio eventually was able to get approval for his family's green cards and in 1971 they left La Tetilla to venture out into a new world together. For most of them they never looked back. They don't know where this place is anymore as decades have escaped.
Only Leocadio and once in a while Julia returned to this humble but beautiful place in Zacatecas. Home was no longer there for them. Home became Southern California in a fine little home on La Rosa Drive. With the family finally together this became the safe haven for so many travelers as well as the family.
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27 Jan 2020
Tortilla Crackers: mid week short story
Food. 5 minute short story: so what do you do when you’re craving Mexican food in a predominantly white neighborhood in the 50s and there are no MEX cuisine close by?
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25 Jan 2020
Paying it forward - Bilingual Style
The Bracero Program was the largest guest worker experiment in American history with over 4.2 Million mostly men brought in from Mexico to work the fields while the US was at war. This created links and life lines that are present to this day and families affected on both sides of the border. My grandfathers both participated and were braceros. Once the program ended in the 60's all men were given a ticket to go back to Mexico. Both went home but only one of my grandfathers decided to take the chance and migrate to the USA again with hopes of eventually migrating the entire family out here. "Paying it forward - Bilingual Style" talks about Leocadio Larios' story where he started that journey. As children of migrants we have the gift of being bilingual and this allows us to live and morph two different cultures, while embracing these creates greater compassion for the newer arrivals.
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16 Jan 2020
Intro: Larios
An introduction to this podcast. A series of interviews and stories of a beautiful love story, incredible sacrifice, and the commonality of it all in many immigrant families. This is the story of an All-American girl first generation Mexican American child of actual soulmates, child of immigrants. Live interviews from the people who lived it taken from the child who is observed with incredible privilege throughout her life.
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Reach and audience
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YouTube views
38
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
3 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
Quality
21
Social presence
0
YouTube
63
Engagement
60
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