Raise Your Glass, Not Your Blood Pressure: Toastmaster Tricks for Short Impromptu Speeches in Spanish
I discovered the terror of spontaneous speaking on a Dominican beach at sunset. A friend’s cousin was proposing to his girlfriend and, minutes befor
Rails, Rieles & Renfe: Spanish Vocabulary for Train-Station Survival in Spain and Mexico
The last time I swapped Caribbean palms for European platforms, I landed in Madrid’s Atocha station at 6 a.m. with a jet-lag brain and a Dominican h
Presenting in Spanish: Vocabulary for Slides & Q &A
Coffee, Projectors, and the First Time My Slide Deck Spoke Spanish The first time I presented in Spanish, I stood before a dozen executives in Santiag
Power Suits, Guayaberas & Casual Fridays: Dress Codes Decoded in Corporate Latin America
The linen-shirt fiasco that nearly tanked my pitch My first week consulting in Bogotá, I strutted into a boardroom wearing a crisp white linen guayab
Portafolios & Pásalos: Navigating Investment Talks with a Spanish-Speaking Broker
I nearly turned my emergency fund into sandwich vouchers the day I sat across from Don Héctor, a silver-haired broker in Santiago de los Caballeros.