Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul: Podcast #8 - Hunger - Nilsa Mariano

“Please tune in and listen to podcast #8, where you will get a chance to have Latino Soul author Nilsa Mariano reach right in and grab your heart with her compelling story “Hunger,” a fantastic story that recounts the hunger of our Latin@ children to be proud of who they are, and where they come from. I remember the first time I read Nilsa’s story, right after she submitted it, and I was in tears. I couldn’t help thinking how much it would have meant to me as a child– getting a lot of negative messages about being Latina–to have had an experience like the one that Nilsa writes about in “Hunger.” And I was crying not because I was feeling sad about the past, but because I was so grateful that there are children in today’s world who are lucky enough to be in the audience when Nilsa tells her stories. God bless you for being in the world Nilsa, and for helping our children to walk tall, and to dream big…

This podcast is very dear to my heart, because it touches on a theme that I think is crucial for Latin@s: how do we work to support our children’s sense of cultural pride and dignity? Especially in a world that so often tries to rob them of it. Is it easy, no! Is it possible? Yes! On podcast #8 we get a lesson from the story “Hunger” by Latino Soul contributing author Nilsa Mariano on how we can reach out to our childrení¢â‚¬”not just our own but any and all latino childrení¢â‚¬”and show them just how beautiful and special they are, and how part of that beauty and specialness comes from being Latino, in all the different ways that being Latino can be expressed. When I interviewed Nilsa for this podcast, I asked her what she wanted people to take away from her story. She said: I want them “to believe in possibilities, to believe in self-respect, to walk with pride, and to be a mentor to those coming up now.”"

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