Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Maria Fern, and I want to invite you
Speaker 1: to check out my podcast, When You're Invisible. I'm a
Speaker 1: first gen daughter of Mexican immigrants who started off on
Speaker 1: food stamps and got to the ivy leagues. I've always
Speaker 1: felt like an in between her. I have roots everywhere
Speaker 1: and nowhere. Because of my experiences and my families, I've
Speaker 1: become a lover of people and stories that don't get told,
Speaker 1: and that's what this podcast is for. I want to
Speaker 1: share stories not of those with cloud wealth or power,
Speaker 1: but of working class people and those who are mothered
Speaker 1: by society. When You're Invisible is my love letter to
Speaker 1: the people who make the world run and go unnoticed.
Speaker 1: How would you define being invisible? Being looked over? It's
Speaker 1: kind of people see a silhouette of a person and
Speaker 1: not the actual person. I talked to people who have
Speaker 1: helped me get through my years at Columbia University. They
Speaker 1: would never respect us as they should have. When I'm
Speaker 1: stuck in I'm still thinking about what had happened, so
Speaker 1: I would brush it off. Who is it hurting that person?
Speaker 1: Who isn't hurting you? Those who have helped me grow
Speaker 1: and mature in the years since you go onto survival
Speaker 1: mode and you're like, Okay, how do I just get
Speaker 1: through the next hour? Am I going to need this
Speaker 1: money for the next four or six weeks? There is
Speaker 1: a story behind each person, and that if we are
Speaker 1: able to embrace those people and just recognize that much
Speaker 1: a person, what a difference that will make and chat
Speaker 1: with those whose work has gone unnoticed. I don't think
Speaker 1: I feel seen ever, to be honest, don't these group
Speaker 1: of people who sacrifice so much they remember on nine
Speaker 1: eleven for those days and then we go back to
Speaker 1: our minds. I hope to build a community here that
Speaker 1: will inspire you to have generous conversations with others that
Speaker 1: are different from you, conversations that might help you see
Speaker 1: life in an entirely different way. The golden rule, right,
Speaker 1: if we treating each other the way we want to
Speaker 1: be treated. If you're going through our hard time, you
Speaker 1: want somebody to be empathetic, and we should do that.
Speaker 1: Back Listen to when You're Invisible on the I Heart
Speaker 1: radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.