Episode : An Interview With Lourdes Murias de Alba

00:00:00 - Hi everyone! In this podcast, I did an interview with one of the people that I most admire in my family, my aunt, Lourdes Mures de Alba, or simple as I call her, Lulis.

00:00:11 - She's one of the smartest people that I know. Every time I talk to her, the conversation turns into a super interesting talk, and she always had a good advice to give me to help me or to make me reflect. She studied mechanical engineering, and for several years she worked for very important companies, but today she runs her own busines, a toy store called El Arte de la Ratona in which each toy is made of wood by hand and each toy is unique and special. So let's hear what she told us with some questions that I prepared from her. How can you define your childhood? My childhood was a little hard because I needed my parents and I needed our own home. However, I had and always I have three sisters who saved me.

00:01:00 - On the other hand, I was a girl who wanted to eat the world, so it had some things good and others bad. The reason why Lulis tells us this is because when she was a girl, the house where they lived was her grandfather's house, not her house as such. Her father died when she was a baby and her mother that is my grandmother was quite busy because this house was a meeting place for all the uncles and others. She tells me that on several occasions she had some bad experience for sharing the same space with a not very close family. What was your dream when you were a girl? I had many dreams when I was a girl. One of them was to have my own home. Another important dream was to travel to the poles of the air and to watch Aurora Borealis.

00:01:55 - And you will be glad to know that she accomplished it too. What is your level of study?

00:02:00 - My level of study is bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.

00:02:06 - How many jobs did you have? I have had five jobs. I worked in Volantes Especiales

00:02:13 - General Motors Company bodegas Liverpool and Grupo Modelo and now in el arte de la ratona.

00:02:20 - How was the treatment for you? In Volantes Especiales and General Motors was very well experienced but in Liverpool it was very difficult. I got to have six bosses at the same time and they gave me a lot of job instructions that were in opposition to each other.

00:02:49 - Grupo Modelo sometimes it was good and sometimes it was bad. In general, how did you live with sexism? 20 years ago, even since university, there was sexism among classmates. Then, when I started looking for a job, it was difficult because the companies preferred men or they offer a better salary to men than women for the same job in my jobs there was many awful comments because my sex but now I can see that there is a big change in the society now the companies begin to prefer her women she also told me that harassment was terrible on the street

00:03:34 - She lived through very disgusting situations since elementary school, but only on the street.

00:03:40 - Ironically, behind at work, she told me.

00:03:43 - In all my professional life, I have never been cursed by men. The only once it was from a woman.

00:03:52 - Luis soon became a person who couldn't be treated as a fool or behind a woman,

00:03:57 - Depsided tried. She earned the respect of her peers and managed to shut up those who looked down on her.

00:04:04 - What was her secret to achieve it and meet her goals?

00:04:08 - I have and to have to work and to work and to work forever and ever.

00:04:15 - And yes, that's true. Thank you very much. Goodbye.