How Josephine Baker Inspired Me to Follow My Own Path

Thirteenth Installment of Writing for Latina Entrepreneurs, written from the POV of Dr. Nutmeg's bisabuela Maria La Gata, a rum-running gangster in 1920s Harlem and Puerto Rico.

Welcome back to Maria La Gata’s Writing & Entrepreneurship User Journey Workshop, aka Brujeria Navigation 101. I’m Maria La Gata, your hostess, aka Dr. Nutmeg’s bisabuela. That’s right. I’m channeling these words from my grave to your inbox. Guauuuu, that’s amazing, verdad??

For those of you who have been subscribing since the launch of this workshop in February, I’m sure you’ve been missing me in your inbox every Thursday this past month. Hopefully my nieta Dr. Nutmeg has been keeping you entertained every Monday night with her interviews of Latinas in Tech and Entrepreneurism. From what I can see from the spirit world, it looks like her little TV series will move forward, as long as she doesn’t let other people’s agendas distract her. We shall see!

Meantime, it’s time to get back to MY story here in 1920s Harlem.

For all the NEW subscribers, welcome! I hope to inspire you in the next four weeks with character interviews of a few of the rule-breaking women that influenced me on my entrepreneurial path from burlesque dancer to rum-running gangster:

• June 6 (today) we’re interviewing Josephine Baker, dancer, singer and actress

• June 13: Cleo Lythgoe, aka the Queen of Rum Row

• June 20: Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan, New York’s most famous female speakeasy owner

• June 27: Angelina Rivera, Boricua jazz violinist

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