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Crystina and Danie are just your everyday black and brown eldest daughters in their early thirties, embracing their cultures and trying to navigate life as the highest versions of themselves while struggling to keep it together and carry everyone else’s shit too.

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Building Intentional Communities with Cat Lantigua

April 30, 2025 • Crystina Rowntree & Danielle Lamadrid • Season 1 • Episode 44

Hi Feelers!

In this week’s EA meeting we are joined by the incredible Cat Lantigua, a first-generation Dominican-American community architect, host of the Chats with Cat podcast, and author of Build It And They Will Come: A Guide to Architecting Intentional Community which we’re so excited to dive into today. She is committed to creating spaces that foster soul-centered conversations and a profound sense of belonging.

In this week’s chat with Cat we discuss…

📚 Attunement with Yourself is a Practice

📚 Answering Creative Calls

📚 Building Community Requires Vulnerability

📚 Everyone is an Artist!

We love Cat’s Book SO much! As mentioned in the episode, it adorns our podcast studio wall and is available for purchase here: https://www.pareastudios.com/books/p/build-it-and-they-will-come-a-guide-to-architecting-intentional-community

Find Cat Online:

Website: https://www.catlantigua.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cat.lantigua/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@awakebook.club

Listen to Chats With Cat: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chats-with-cat/id1273936180

Communities Cat Built:

Awake Book Club — https://awakebookclub.substack.com/

Creative Sprint — https://shorturl.at/fTZoz

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