Alicia Ramos founded Girls' Night In as a club for women who'd rather stay in tonight.

It started with a weekly email newsletter and quickly ballooned into a media brand and community.

Today we talk about being indoor

kids, owning your content, and steering a business through a time when staying in is as much

necessity as a choice.

Alicia, I'm so happy we found the time to do this.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy we found the time to do this. Thank you so much for having me.

I'm so excited to be here and just such an honor.

Well, about a year ago, I asked you a question that I have to ask when an internet search is inconclusive, which was, are you Latina, do you identify

as Latina? And you wrote back with a resounding yes and dot, dot, dot, it's also complicated.

Yes, definitely very complicated. My dad is Dominican. He immigrated to the U.S. in the 70s. And then my mother is

Korean. She immigrated from South Korea roughly around the same time. And it's complicated because

I grew up with both parents, but my dad was in the army and was deployed for a lot of my childhood.

And then I actually grew up in Seoul, South Korea, from age zero to age seven.

So a lot of those formative years were spent in Korea. My dad was

pretty much always away except every other weekend. He would be home. I was speaking Korean.

My whole Korean family, that was my world. So yeah, I think growing up, I had a very Korean identity, and it wasn't

until I got to college, really, that I began exploring. Well, there's this whole other side of me,

this amazing side of me that I never really got to connect with or explore. And in college,

I kind of shifted my identity mindset into being multiracial and mixed race, which was an

identity that I had never really identified with up until that moment. I always felt very Korean, actually, up until college. And then I get

to college. And I like, you know, you're in college. You're trying to explore your identity and

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