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Inner Voice Over Outer Noise - Emmys, Menopause & Breaking Stereotypes with Gaby Natale

Episode Summary

Gaby Natale arrived in the United States with no family, no friends and no connections, and had to wait on a green card before she was even allowed to become an entrepreneur. When she finally pitched her show, every station said no until one offered her a carpet warehouse they were using to store carpet. She took it. That show became SuperLatina, and seven years later she was the first Latina to win three Daytime Emmys back to back to back. She lost six nominations before she won one. Two months after her vow renewals she was diagnosed with breast cancer, went through surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, and came out the other side in medically induced menopause with nowhere bilingual to turn for information. So she built it. She also came out of it done with the superwoman cape, and she explains exactly why.

Episode Notes

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Hosts: Pablo Alsina & Jennie López

EP 034 - Inner Voice Over Outer Noise - Emmys, Menopause & Breaking Stereotypes with Gaby Natale

Summary

Gaby Natale arrived in the United States with no family, no friends and no connections, and had to wait on a green card before she was even allowed to become an entrepreneur. When she finally pitched her show, every station said no until one offered her a carpet warehouse they were using to store carpet. She took it. That show became SuperLatina, and seven years later she was the first Latina to win three Daytime Emmys back to back to back. She lost six nominations before she won one. Two months after her vow renewals she was diagnosed with breast cancer, went through surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, and came out the other side in medically induced menopause with nowhere bilingual to turn for information. So she built it. She also came out of it done with the superwoman cape, and she explains exactly why.

Main Topics

• Earning the right to be an entrepreneur, green card first
• Pitching SuperLatina and being offered a carpet warehouse instead of a studio
• Seven Emmy nominations, six losses, and what each one taught her
• From loca soñadora to cuerda soñadora
• Latinos as the third wealthiest economy on the planet if counted alone
• Telling our own stories before someone else tells them wrong
• The breast cancer diagnosis in the middle of her best year
• Why she is retiring the superwoman cape and building teams instead
• The thin line between the heroine and the martyr
• Why menopause coincides with a woman’s peak earning and leadership years
• Inner voice over outer noise, and stereotypes as ideas not facts

Intriguing Quotes

“Having a TV show, even a TV show made so humbly out of a carpet warehouse, is infinitely better than not having a TV show at all.” - Gaby Natale

“The fact that you start small does not mean that you’re thinking small.” - Gaby Natale

“When we don’t tell our stories, other people tell that story on our behalf, and they are telling it wrong.” - Gaby Natale

“There’s a very thin line between being a hero and a martyr.” - Gaby Natale

“Inner voice over outer noise.” - Gaby Natale

“If you don’t own it, somebody else will.” - Jennie López

Key Moments

• [01:01] Jennie introduces Gaby Natale
• [02:04] No family, no connections, and a surname that isn’t Rockefeller
• [04:06] Pitching SuperLatina and getting offered the carpet warehouse
• [07:41] Larry King, the Daytime Emmys, and going up against the NBCs and CNNs
• [08:27] From loca soñadora to cuerda soñadora
• [10:11] Nominated seven times, lost six, won on the seventh
• [12:35] Latinos as the third wealthiest economy on the planet
• [15:39] The diagnosis, two months after her vow renewals
• [19:15] The thin line between the heroine and the martyr
• [21:56] Jennie on frozen shoulder and piecing it together from TikTok
• [22:44] Menopause and a woman’s peak earning and leadership years
• [25:29] Inner voice over outer noise
• [31:37] Where to find Gaby

Notable Guests / Resources

• Gaby Natale, three time Daytime Emmy winning journalist, international speaker and bestselling author, originally from Argentina
• gabynatale.com, and @gabynatale on Instagram
• menopausia.com, the bilingual menopause and perimenopause platform she founded, and @menopausiacom on Instagram
• SuperLatina, the show she launched out of a carpet warehouse in West Texas
• Susan G. Komen, where Gaby serves as an official ambassador
• Jennie López, speaker, author, and co-host of Very Caliente

Special Announcements

• Menopausia.com is adding telehealth, so women will be able to book virtual consultations and have prescriptions sent straight to their home.
• Gaby is presenting menopausia.com at the first FemTech Innovation Summit in Bogotá, Colombia, with a Las Vegas presentation to follow