The Para Siempre Podcast

Hermano Angel-Ariel Casas (Alpha Chapter, Spring '12) joins us on the Para Siempre Podcast to talk about his journey in defeating cancer. He also talks about his passion for transforming people's lives through diet and and training, and why he chose that over becoming a doctor. 

Hermano Manu Smadja shares his story on how he has raised $250M to date all from friends, family, and Hermanos to VCs, Wall St. funds, and family offices, this all started with an hermano who reached out saying he was thinking of dropping out of college. 

Hermano David Soler is one of the founders of the Alpha Zeta Chapter Spring 2000 at DePaul University in Chicago.  In this episode Hermano David talks about going in and out of the hospital and dealing with years of asthma and bronchitis  to finally taking control of his life and losing 130 lbs within a year.   An inspiring story for hermanos who are looking to make a drastic change in their life.

Hermano Dr. John Hernandez is the new president of Irvine Valley College in California which leads all Orange County community colleges in transfers to UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Davis and UC Riverside.  He previously served as president of Santiago Canyon College in Orange, California.  He is a first-generation Cuban immigrant and pledged the Alpha Line at the Gamma Epsilon Graduate Chapter in Washington, D.C. at 38 years old when he was a PhD student at The University of Maryland College Park.    In this episode Hermano Dr. John Hernandez discusses his journey in becoming president of Irvine Valley College and why he decided to pledge La Unidad Latina at 38 years old as a graduate student.

In this episode, Founding Father Hermano Henry Villareal talks about how he went from being kicked out from Arizona State University as an undergraduate, to then having to go back to community college, and eventually making his way to Cornell University as the first Latinx Administrator.  Henry then goes onto talk about being shamed for speaking Spanish in elementary school, and finally coming out to his hermanos 35 years later at the 35th Year Anniversary Gala held in New York.  Hermano Henry was one of two administrators who helped establish La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc., at Cornell University.    He is a retired dean of students and currently lives with his husband in Northern California.