{"podcast":{"title":"Yo Quiero Dinero","slug":"yo-quiero-dinero-245869","podcast_index_feed_id":245869,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/61df3c8f051a2f001272041d","website_url":"https://yoquierodineropodcast.com","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/61df3c8f051a2f001272041d/1744890191857-cad6e991-8108-4ead-87e0-73ffad831553.jpeg","author":"Jannese Torres","episode_count":386,"summary":"\"This podcast will leave you feeling inspired to take a more proactive approach to your savings, earnings, & expenses.\" - BuzzFeed | Yo Quiero Dinero is an award-winning personal finance podcast that empowers listeners on topics like entrepreneurship, investing, financial independence & money mindset. Hosted by Jannese Torres, Latina money expert, award-winning author and serial entrepreneur. Known as “the swaggiest personal finance podcast\", each week we drop episodes brimming with POC-friendly personal finance knowledge, served with sazón! Tune in for all the money lessons you never learned. Visit us at YoQuieroDineroPodcast.com . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yo-quiero-dinero-245869"},"episode":{"title":"How Chef Mia Castro Built a Career from Her Borinquen Culture","slug":"how-chef-mia-castro-built-a-career-from-her-borinquen-culture","published_at":"2026-05-25T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yo-quiero-dinero-245869/how-chef-mia-castro-built-a-career-from-her-borinquen-culture","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yo-quiero-dinero-245869","url":"https://yoquierodineropodcast.com/","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/61df3c8f051a2f001272041d/e/6a0c8a10b23d275dcea446db/media.mp3","summary":"She beat Bobby Flay with her Abuela's Arroz con Pollo. She trained under Wolfgang Puck, Thomas Keller, and José Andrés. She was a Hell's Kitchen finalist. And then she walked away from all of it to build a career entirely on her own terms. Chef Mia Castro is a Puerto Rican chef, cookbook author, food influencer, and TV personality, and her debut cookbook, Cocina Puerto Rico: Recipes from My Abuela's Kitchen to Yours, is already making waves. We're sitting down to talk about her full journey: from her Abuela's kitchen in San Juan to elite restaurant kitchens across Vegas, Miami, and New York, to the 6-year road it took to get this book published. We're talking about first-gen pressure, being the only woman in the room, hiding your identity to fit in, COVID FaceTime calls that accidentally created a cookbook, building a personal brand as a chef, what success actually looks like when you stop chasing the dream someone else gave you — and the dish that beat Bobby Flay.This one hit close to home for me. You know I started my whole digital career as a Puerto Rican food blogger. Having Chef Mia in this conversation was a full circle moment. WE GET INTO: 00:01 — Intro + Chef Mia Castro 00:50 — What makes Puerto Rican cuisine one of a kind 01:57 — The responsibility of writing Cocina Puerto Rico 03:32 — What Abuela taught her that had nothing to do with food 04:26 — Growing up in la cocina (homework could wait) 07:21 — First-gen pressure and choosing passion over the \"safe\" path 08:06 — Starting as a prep cook: the real culinary hustle 10:27 — Being the only woman in elite kitchens 13:07 — Feeling pressure to hide her Boricua identity in professional spaces 14:51 — Reclaiming Puerto Rican food — all the way to fine dining 16:25 — Leaving restaurants and carving her own lane 18:…","meta_description":"She beat Bobby Flay with her Abuela's Arroz con Pollo. She trained under Wolfgang Puck, Thomas Keller, and José Andrés. She was a Hell's Kitchen finalist.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3445,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yo-quiero-dinero-245869/episodes/how-chef-mia-castro-built-a-career-from-her-borinquen-culture/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yo-quiero-dinero-245869/how-chef-mia-castro-built-a-career-from-her-borinquen-culture.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}