Podcasts have become the leading storytelling medium due to how accessible they are, but it’s more than that: it’s thanks to their storytelling superpower.
Podcasts not only help create an intimate experience between the host and the listener, but they also invite the audience to keep listening and to stay curious for more knowledge. In some cases, even inspire them to make fundamental changes within their lives.
HerCampus is happy to share four podcasts of different themes and niches, all hosted and produced by Puerto Rican women:
- Film Posers by Josie Meléndez and Gabriela Burgos
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Film Posers is a weekly podcast run by two of our HerCampus at UPR Chapter alumni, Josie Meléndez and Gabriela Burgos, alongside their friends, Juan Mojica and Sofía Cintrón. If you’re looking for a podcast that revolves around all things film and TV, you are sure to enjoy this group of cinephiles’ ramblings.
- The Deep Lifestyle Podcast by Paula Landrón
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Puerto Rican entrepreneur Paula Landrón believes that working out is more than just completing a setlist of exercises and reps. She endorses her philosophy of living as a deep and meaningful life with fitness as an expression of self-love. Landrón hosts guests on her show The Deep Lifestyle Podcast, where she expands on the topics of physical, mental, and emotional wellness.
- En qué quedó by Valeria Collazo Cañizares and Adriana de Jesús Salamán
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Two Bori journalists, Valeria Collazo Cañizares and Adriana de Jesús Salamán, host the bi-monthly, follow-up journalism podcast En qué quedó. After extensive research, interviews and analysis, they update the audience on past events that took place on the island of Puerto Rico that were once considered frontline news.
- Talkeshi by Kiara Gómez
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Makeup influencer Kiara Gómez is the founder and host of Talkeshi, a podcast with commentary and critiques towards Puerto Rican culture, social media, news, and inevitable papelones.
Inclusion is essential for growth; as more women enter the podcasting network, more are invited to listen, learn, and be inspired to join. As Latina women, we have the tools at our disposal to change the way we’re seen by others and display our narratives like never before.
That’s why it’s so important to invite women into the field. A profession that denied women from talking on the radio not so long ago, now only requires a microphone and a laptop as broadcasting equipment.