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Unfiltered & Unapologetic: Sanando el dinero, la identidad y el sistema nervioso — incluso las partes que la cultura nos enseñó a ignorar.
Unfiltered & Unapologetic blends money, nervous system regulation, faith, and cultural healing — especially for first-gen and children of immigrants who learned survival before stability.
Hosted by Caitlin Gil-Soto (MSF candidate), this is where we rewrite narratives around money, rest, boundaries, relationships, and self-worth with emotional depth, cultural context, and practical tools.
You’ll hear conversations on:
• Faith and identity
• Nervous system patterns and emotional trauma
• Money guilt, abundance, and financial healing
• Boundaries without fear
• Rest and softness as generational repair
• What it means to break cycles with compassion, not aggression
If you’re healing yourself while honoring where you come from — this podcast was made for you.
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Unfiltered & Unapologetic mezcla dinero, regulación del sistema nervioso, fe y sanación cultural — especialmente para los que crecimos aprendiendo a sobrevivir antes de sentirnos seguros.
Dirigido por Caitlin Gil-Soto (candidata a Maestría en Finanzas), este es el espacio donde reescribimos narrativas sobre el dinero, el descanso, los límites, las relaciones y el merecimiento — con profundidad emocional, contexto cultural y herramientas prácticas.
Aquí hablamos de:
• Fe e identidad
• Patrones emocionales y trauma generacional
• Culpa financiera, abundancia y sanación con el dinero
• Límites sin miedo
• Descanso y suavidad como reparación ancestral
• Cómo sanar sin desconectarnos de nuestra cultura ni de quienes vinieron antes
Si estás sanando y creciendo, honrando tus raíces sin repetir las mismas heridas — este podcast es para ti.
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Unfiltered & Unapologetic: Sanando el dinero, la identidad y el sistema nervioso — incluso las partes que la cultura nos enseñó a ignorar.
28. Dominican Men & The Freeze Response: Raised Strong, Silent, and Emotionally Alone
In this episode, we step into a conversation that’s rarely held with depth or tenderness:
the emotional freeze response in Dominican men.
This isn’t about blame. It’s about understanding survival patterns shaped by culture, masculinity, and generational trauma.
We explore how silence, emotional shutdown, and financial avoidance are not signs of coldness —
but protective responses learned early in life.
This is Part 1 of a two-part series.
Next week, we continue with Dominican women.
⭐ INTRO — Why This Conversation Matters
Why Dominican men weren’t raised to be emotionally unavailable —
they were raised to protect themselves from emotional danger.
🔹 SEGMENT 1 — What Freeze Really Is
What the freeze response looks like, why it’s common in Dominican men,
and why shutdown is often overwhelm — not rejection.
📝 Journal Prompt:
When have I mistaken silence for rejection instead of overwhelm?
✨ Affirmation:
“Silence is not absence — it’s a wound that hasn’t learned how to speak.”
🔹 SEGMENT 2 — Machismo as Armor
Machismo beyond the stereotype — as emotional conditioning and survival armor.
📝 Journal Prompt:
What did the men in my family teach me about masculinity?
✨ Affirmation:
“I release the belief that emotional silence is strength.”
🔹 SEGMENT 3 — Emotional Starvation
How Dominican men feel deeply but were never taught emotional language.
📝 Journal Prompt:
Which men in my life were emotionally starved, even if they looked strong?
✨ Affirmation:
“Anger is unprocessed emotion seeking release.”
🔹 SEGMENT 4 — Freeze in Love
How emotional freeze shows up in relationships and creates painful misunderstandings.
📝 Journal Prompt:
Am I expecting emotional fluency from someone who was never taught emotional language?
✨ Affirmation:
“I can love deeply without abandoning my emotional needs.”
⭐ SEGMENT 5 — Financial Freeze
How the same shutdown pattern appears around money: shame, avoidance, and silence.
📝 Journal Prompt:
How did the men in my family relate to money, and how does that shape me today?
✨ Affirmation:
“Money conversations are safe. Vulnerability is allowed here.”
🔹 SEGMENT 6 — What Dominican Men Need to Heal
Emotional vocabulary, safety, softness, and permission to unlearn survival.
📝 Journal Prompt:
What emotional legacy am I ready to rewrite?
✨ Affirmation:
“I am changing the emotional patterns I inherited.”
🙏 CLOSING PRAYER
A short prayer for emotional and financial healing in our homes,
for men who shut down, women who overgave,
and generations ready to live differently.
🎧 OUTRO / CTA
If this episode resonated, share it with someone who needs it.
Finance Fridays drops every other Friday.
We heal money the same way we heal everything else here —
with culture, nervous system awareness, and truth.
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