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Speaking

Stories that open the room up.

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I bring editorial precision, cultural fluency, and earned candor to every stage.

 

My talks are conversation starters, grounded in real experience, and built for audiences who are ready to think differently about identity, storytelling, and what it means to communicate with intention.

 

I speak to anyone invested in the idea that honest narrative is not soft work; it is strategic.

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Talking Points

Mental Health

  • Healing is not linear: why the straight-path narrative fails Latino communities

  • The language of struggle: how to talk about mental health when your culture doesn't have the words

  • When strength becomes a burden: redefining resilience for Latine women

  • Therapy, storytelling, and the spaces in between: finding what actually helps

  • What we carry without knowing: inherited trauma and the body's quiet memory

  • Showing up for yourself when you were raised to show up for everyone else

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Storytelling & Culture

  • What gets lost in translation, and what doesn't have to

  • The stories our abuelas never told us: memory, silence, and cultural inheritance

  • Authenticity vs. palatability: the pressure to make Latino stories "accessible"

  • When representation isn't enough: the difference between visibility and voice

  • Food, memory, and belonging: how the smallest stories carry the most weight

  • Writing your community without flattening it

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Storytelling + Entrepreneurship

  • The founder who can't explain what they do: a story problem, not a strategy problem

  • Vulnerability as a brand asset: how much of yourself to put in the work

  • Before the pitch deck: why your origin story is your most underused tool

  • Building in public without losing your voice

  • Clarity is kindness: what good communication does for your team, not just your audience

  • Why the founders who write well tend to lead well

What to Expect:

Prepared, not scripted

Every engagement is shaped to fit the audience, the moment, and what the room actually needs, not a recycled deck.

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Culturally grounded

Mirtle brings over a decade of journalism and editorial experience, with deep roots in Latino and Latine communities and media.

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Candid, not performative

She speaks from lived experience, including her own mental health journey, without turning it into a spectacle.

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A conversation, not a lecture

Her style is warm, direct, and inviting. Audiences leave with questions they didn't know they had.

Book Me.

Available for keynotes, panels, fireside chats, workshops, and podcast appearances (virtual + in-person). Engagements tailored to your audience, format, and goals.

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