Career Switch Podcast: Expert advice for your career change · Lixandra Urresta

58: Making a career change your own (Hispanic Heritage Month)

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Zyda says Eckhart Tolle helped her see that even 1,000 listeners out of 8 billion matters.

Alexandra Uresta opens Career Switch Podcast by framing the show as a space for people who are trying to make a change and need a little push to act. She reminds listeners that the show follows both people who have switched paths and experts who can offer practical guidance. She says switching takes guts. The episode is released for Hispanic Heritage Month and features Zyda Rivera, a Reiki master and the founder of Mindful Living with Z. Alexandra says she met Zyda during a Reiki session for a friend's birthday celebration at a wellness center. She remembers the session as calm and re-energizing. The conversation then moves into Zyda's family background. Zyda talks about a grandmother in Puerto Rico who was devout in her religion and also kept home rituals alive. One of those rituals was bowls of water placed above the refrigerator and changed every week or two. She also describes seasonal practices that involved changing curtains, sheets, and bedding, cleansing the rooms, and opening the windows so the air could move through the home. Zyda says nobody in the family would have used words like bruja or spiritual practitioner. To her, it was simply part of how they lived. Alexandra responds by connecting that story to her own background. She says her family is from Ecuador. In her twenties, she spent time there getting to know extended family. During that visit, she says she became sick with vomiting and an upset stomach after what she describes as el mal aire. She says she had a limpieza and that it worked. The symptoms went away. That exchange gives the episode a grounded, lived-in sense of how cultural practices travel, change, and stay useful across generations. Alexandra then asks where listeners can find the information and learn how to practice some of the rituals. The close points people to Zyda's website, social media, the show notes, and CareerswitchPod.com. It also includes Alexandra's encouragement to keep moving through what you are creating and to trust that each step is building something good.

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A reflective look at how inherited rituals can shape work, identity, and the stories people carry.

Hispanic Heritage Month gives the conversation its frame, but the episode is really about how family rituals can shape work and identity. Zyda Rivera, a Reiki master and the founder of Mindful Living with Z, comes into view through Puerto Rican practices: bowls of water above…

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