Lori Martinez produced for others for years before she stepped out on her own and founded her Paris-based podcasting company, Studio Ocenta.

Whether you've listened to her award-winning fiction podcast Miha,

or each season explores the story of a different immigrant family,

or La Camina Telephonic, Spotify's first bilingual podcast

starring Fannie Lou and Isabella Gomez,

you know that Lori's commitment to multicultural storytelling runs deep.

Lori shares how she makes audio magic happen,

how living and operating a business in France has shifted her hustle mentality,

and a life-changing moment when she realized that a skill she had long undervalued

was, in fact, her superpower.

Thank you. Lori, thank you so much for doing this.

Thank you for having me.

It's an honor.

Lori, there is a thing that our good friend Juleika says, which is, look, I'm from the Bronx.

And sometimes she'll say, look, I'm Dominican from the Bronx.

If you were to say, look, I'm Colombian from Queens.

What is it you'd be trying to tell me with that revelation?

Anybody who asked me about why I do multicultural things, that would be the answer.

Because Queens is the most diverse place ever. There's 800 languages there. We don't have 800 languages at Ocente, but maybe one day. And so, yeah, it's definitely the context that I grew up in,

and that is who I am, and that's all that we do at Rochente is from there.

What were the earliest indicators that you were a storyteller and that audio was going to be

your preferred medium?

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