Some conversations ask more of us than others. This is one of them.
In this episode of Amiga Handle Your Shit, Jackie Tapia and co-host Marisela Arechiga sit down with Angela, a Valley girl, a proud Latina of Cuban and Colombian roots, and a woman who has carried a story for decades that most women carry in silence. This is Part One of a two-part conversation, and it is entirely about choice; not the political version, not the cultural performance of it, but the real, lived, human weight of the choices women make when they feel they have no other options. What Angela shares is raw, personal, and deeply necessary.
What makes this conversation so important is not just what Angela chose; it is what no one ever told her the choosing would cost. That it would settle into her body and stay there. That it would quietly reshape the way she experienced love, motherhood, and her own femininity. She had no guidance, no counseling, and almost no one to turn to. And yet life kept moving, and she kept showing up for it.
Marisela, who has known Angela for years, brings a rare depth to this conversation; not as an interviewer, but as a witness. She names the shame that fills the rooms where these decisions are made. She names the cultural pressure that tells women there is only one acceptable way to feel about any of this. And she challenges the idea that silence equals healing.
Tune in to episode 276 of Amiga Handle Your Shit for a conversation about womanhood, survival, and the stories we carry when no one gives us permission to put them down.
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