Los hombres no lloran: Healing Machismo and Empowering Youth on Buford Highway
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In this episode, Natalia Garzón sits down with Luis Andrés Andino, a Honduran-American educator who empowers students to seek higher education through his job at the Latin American Association. Luis talks about his childhood along Buford Highway, about his background in Criminal Justice, his desire to empower young students, and how he tackles generational beliefs about machismo and mental health in his own life in order to become a better mentor to young adults in the area.  If you want to better understand how mental health, toxic masculinity, and COVID has impacted mentoring and youth empowerment, this is an episode for you. If you like this episode, don't forget to share and rate this podcast. 
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