It started, like most things that actually matter, without a plan.

It was early 2020. Panama was in lockdown, people were disoriented, and the usual ways of connecting — events, networking, just running into someone — were gone. I’d been doing content around communication and personal brand for a while, and somewhere in that strange stillness, I had a thought: what if we just talked? Every Monday night. On Instagram Live. For whoever wanted to show up.

That was Lunes en Positivo. No budget. No team. No roadmap.

What I did have was a genuine curiosity about the people around me — the small business owners, the freelancers figuring it out, the young professionals who were hungry for real conversations that didn’t cost $300 in registration fees. I wanted to bring those conversations to them. So I started making calls.

Over the next two years, what began as a Monday night experiment became Power Talks — a consistent, structured live interview series that ran close to 100 episodes between reels, long-form interviews, and guest appearances on other podcasts and platforms. We brought in lawyers, financial advisors, marketing strategists, content creators, influencers, a professional fashion stylist — and yes, at one point, the woman who is now Panama’s Minister of Education sat across from me to talk about something that mattered to the people watching.

Not bad for a Monday night.

The guests were good. But honestly? The community was better. Week after week, the same faces kept showing up in the comments. People who were building something, or trying to, or just needed to hear that someone else was figuring it out too. Some of them eventually became clients. Most of them just became part of something — which was the whole point.

What this project taught me wasn’t really about content. It was about what happens when you decide to consistently hold space for people. You have to be organized enough that guests trust you with their time. You have to be structured enough that the audience knows what they’re getting. And you have to care enough to keep going on the Mondays when nobody feels like it — including you.

Power Talks ended in late 2022. The community it built didn’t.