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The episode discusses the transformative impact of global market access on rural indigenous women in Guatemala through the work of Ruth Álvarez-DeGolia and Mercado Global.

Send us Fan Mail What happens when rural indigenous women gain access to global markets? Lives transform, cycles of poverty break, and daughters begin to dream of careers unimaginable to their mothers. This powerful story unfolds as we speak with Ruth Álvarez-DeGolia, who started Mercado Global as an Ivy-League university sophomore selling handcrafted items on campus, and has since built a movement empowering thousands of women across rural Guatemala. The magic happens at the int...

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