What does Miami taste like?

In this episode of Fluent AF, I sit down with Alex Klumpp of Beyond South Beach to talk about the city that raised us: the food, the neighborhoods, the Spanglish, the culture, and the versions of Miami that still live in our heads.

We talk Old Miami vs. New Miami, what's been lost, what still feels real, and why growing up in Miami means understanding culture through food, language, and code-switching before you even have words for it.

This one is for the locals, the transplants, the nostalgics, and everyone who's ever loved a city while watching it change.

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What did success sound like in your house?

For my partner, it was “trabajé y estudié.”

For me, it was “eso no da plata.”

Same word. Different accents.

In this episode of Fluent AF, we unpack how the language we inherit shapes the way we measure ourselves.

Success. Stability. Risk. Security. Dream.

These words are not neutral. They come loaded with family history, immigrant pressure, survival mode, and sometimes fear disguised as love.

Why does your voice change at work?

Why does corporate English feel like a different dialect?

Why does comparison feel so violent?

Maybe you’re not behind.

Maybe you’re just bilingual in expectations.

This episode explores code-switching, workplace identity, inherited definitions of “making it,” and the quiet exhaustion of translating yourself in rooms that weren’t built with your accent in mind.

Success has an accent.

The question is: whose pronunciation are you using?

Listen. Reflect. Redefine.

Stay Fluent AF.

Frankenstein was never really about a monster. It was about misunderstanding.

In this episode, we pull Mary Shelley into the kitchen and ask what happens when taste, emotion, language, and identity collide.

From avocado toast in Miami to aguacate at the finca.

From papaya smoothies, to abuela's medicine.

From "Como Agua Para Chocolate" to neurodivergent sensory intelligence.

We explore how food carries memory, how stereotypes are born from misinterpretation, and how one sentence without context can ignite havoc.

Taste is a dialect.

Sensory data is a mother tongue.

And when language is misunderstood.

Monsters are made.

Welcome to Episode 25: Frankenstein's table.

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