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Laura Padilla, senior vice president of global partners and alliances at Okta Okta is rebuilding its partner program from the ground up. Speaking to In The Channel at Oktane 2026 in Las Vegas the day after the event’s Partner Day, Laura Padilla, head of partners at Okta, confirmed the company has unveiled the Okta Partner Accelerator, a re-architecture of its Elevate program that goes live in early 2027. The headline change is structure. Where Elevate leaned on revenue and transactions, the Accelerator offers three tracks – sales, services, and technology – that partners can join individually or in combination, with a referral option available across all three. MSPs and MSSPs land in the services track, which will now distinguish between different types of service offerings. Each track has three tiers – membership, advanced, and elite – and gating varies by track: net new logos for sales, deployments, go-lives, and CSAT for services, integrations for technology. Most current Apex partners will be grandfathered into elite, Padilla said, though some will map into the middle tier. The philosophy shift runs deeper. Elite-tier status will require a customer experience process, as Okta weights retention, adoption, and churn alongside acquisition. Okta is also expanding its services priming motion – previously applied to deals over $100,000 – to every deal, with account executives required to engage a specialized services partner early in the cycle, and new-logo and deployment incentives added. Padilla cited 2-3x services revenue on top of license for partners attaching governance, Auth0, and AI. On agentic AI, Padilla pointed to the Blueprint Alliance – which Okta formed with AWS, CrowdStrike, Google Cloud, Salesforce, and ServiceNow to standardize AI agent security – as a coming delivery opportunity, with a partner certification and specialization rolling out shortly, and agent registry and kill switch capabilities demoed on the keynote stage. Read Full Transcript Robert Dutt: Hello and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca, and your host for the show. My guest today came to the top job at Okta’s partner organization earlier this year, and spent her first seven months doing what good channel chiefs do: listening. What she heard was that Okta’s Elevate program was forcing partners of very different shapes – resellers, MSPs, boutiques, global SIs – through the same revenue-shaped keyhole. So last week at Oktane in Las Vegas, on its Partner Day, Okta unveiled its answer: the Okta Partner Accelerator, a rebuilt program with three distinct tracks, new customer outcome metrics, and a much bigger bet on partners delivering – and profiting from – professional services. We also get into the Blueprint Alliance, securing AI agents, and where she sees the biggest untapped opportunities in identity. Let’s get right into it, my chat with Laura Padilla. Robert Dutt: Laura, thanks for taking the time. I’m sure it’s been a busy week. Laura Padilla: Thank you so much for having me, Robert. I’m excited to talk to you today. Robert Dutt: Yesterday was Partner Day here at Oktane. Can you give me the elevator pitch? What was the message? What were you taking to partners for that? Laura Padilla: There has never been a better time to be an Okta partner than there is now. The company is all in on supporting our partners to really take us to the five and ten billion dollar level. We know we will not scale without partners. And so we announced several investments in areas where we’re going to support partners even further next year. The first is we announced our new partner program, called the Okta Partner Accelerator. What we’ve done is re-architected our previous program, Elevate, to align closer with the way that partners have their businesses and their business models. There are three distinct tracks now: you can be in the sales track, the services track, or the technology track – or you can be in two or three of those; you don’t have to just be in one. What this does is allow us to support partners even better in the way that they want to do business with us and our customers. We know that partners want to support our customers in different ways, and we felt that the previous program didn’t allow us to go to that next level of depth in supporting partners through enablement and programs and demand gen, in the ways they wanted to approach our customers. Robert Dutt: So that’s the individual level, it sounds like, the sales, services, that kind of split. Is there any recognition of a split for reseller versus managed services type partner, versus folks who influence a deal but don’t necessarily take paper themselves? Laura Padilla: We have a referral track across all three. So if a partner wants to just refer a deal in, they could actually even be a sales partner and just send in the referral if they don’t want to paper it. Referral is for all three tracks; anybody can refer a deal in. In regards to MSSP or MSP partners, that would be part of the services track. We are going to start distinguishing within the services track the different types of services that partners may offer our customers as well. Robert Dutt: What’s the timeline for the rollout of the new program? Laura Padilla: Early next year. We announced it yesterday, so that gives us six months to further define it and also grandfather partners into the right level, and give partners a timeframe to be able to get into the tier that they want. There’ll be three different tiers within each track: the membership tier, the basic entry tier; kind of an advanced or specialized tier; then an elite tier. Just three different levels within each track. Robert Dutt: And what’s the gating there? Is it revenue? Is it certifications, specializations? How does one move up? Laura Padilla: It varies by the track, which is why we split them out. Sales will be heavily weighted towards sales revenue – net new logos, also just book of business, growth of the book of business. We’re also going to focus on our different product sets, as well as competency and skill set. The services track will be heavily weighted on customer deployments, specializations, go lives, CSAT and delivery – those will be the main things we’ll be looking at, and revenue and the book of business that they’re supporting in delivery as well. And the technology track, we’ll be focusing on integrations and working with things that matter to us, like Cross App Access. Robert Dutt: Have you done any modeling on where your current partners are and where that projects to? Any feeling for how the tiers are going to shake out – current tier versus future tier? Laura Padilla: We do have preliminary mappings. A good majority of our Apex partners today in our current program would probably align into our new elite level. Some might even fall into the second tier, because we do have three distinct different categories of what we’re looking at to reach the elite level. But the majority of partners that are Apex will probably be able to be grandfathered into the elite level of the new track. Robert Dutt: I imagine this has been the big project of your first seven months or so at Okta. It must feel good to get it out there in front of the partners. What’s the early feedback been from the folks you’re talking to? What have the questions been? What’s the commentary been? Laura Padilla: Partners are really excited, because they feel that we were putting every partner type into just one type of program – really, we were just looking at revenue and transactions before, which we know in the new world doesn’t really fit what all partners are doing, their specializations. We also want to be more focused on customer outcomes moving forward, versus just transactions at the beginning of the lifecycle of a customer. The new program aligns to that, because there are other metrics – minimizing churn, customer retention, customer adoption – that we’re going to care a lot more about moving forward. Bottom line is we want our customers to be happy, and we know that partners are going to be at the heart of making sure those customers are satisfied and want to stay on Okta as their key platform for identity. Robert Dutt: And that’s all captured via a CX process, I’d imagine? Laura Padilla: Yes. We’re going to have a process both in our CRM and in the portal, and we’ll be able to track those metrics and data points as well. Robert Dutt: Do you have a feel for where your channel is at in their own journey towards CX and doing that sort of thing themselves? Is this going to be a lift and shift for some, or a lot of partners saying yeah, this maps with what we’re doing? Laura Padilla: It’s a mix. Some partners already naturally have kind of a CX or CSM type group that already looks at post-sale metrics. And then we have some partners that don’t. I think it’s going to be up to us to develop a standard – really define what we expect good to look like – and then work with partners to make sure we get them there, especially partners that really want to invest with us at the elite tier. That will be a requirement for them. Robert Dutt: What are you really looking at with this program? If we were to get together at Oktane next year, you’ll have had roughly six months to formalize the program and get it out there, and it’ll have been in market for about six months at that point. What will be the metric or two that you look back at and say, yes, this means that the launch of this program was a success? Laura Padilla: A few things. One, we want Okta to be introduced to new customers – new logos are really important to us. Second is services delivery. We want more partners who are specialized and trained on Okta globally. As we think about scaling the company, this is really important, especially in international markets, where we will not have really any delivery people. Getting them trained and specialized, and having awesome CSAT – customers really happy with the experience – we’re going to look at that extremely closely. And then the third is product adoption. We think about Okta expanding to Auth0 – our governance product has become even stronger – and then AI. Those three areas are really key. We want partners to help us expand into existing accounts and also introduce those products into new accounts. Those are the three things I’d be looking at. Robert Dutt: To what degree is this program global versus fine tuned for the peculiarities or scales of local markets, especially as you’re looking internationally? Laura Padilla: It will be a global program, and we are going to have different zones for different markets. Smaller markets or emerging markets – if you look at Europe or Asia – will probably have different needs, especially around client size, and logos and go lives will be very different than the US, which is the majority of our business, and where we’re extremely strong. Growth percentage-wise, we expect our international markets to grow faster than the US, just because we aren’t as penetrated. But if you think about the depth of installations of customers, the US is definitely where we would see product adoption grow within our install base. Robert Dutt: Just wanted to make sure there was some recognition of that, because something that Canadian partners run into frequently, depending on the nature of the program, is if things are looked at through a US lens. Obviously a much smaller market and a much more SMB-heavy market. Laura Padilla: Of course, yes. And the thing is – we had our professional services leader, Joe Castro, with us, and he and I have been spending a ton of time re-imagining what services for our customers looks like with partners. His team is going to evolve into becoming more Okta PS experts and product experts to support our partners in their delivery experience. And we’ll be pushing partners to be at the forefront, prime with the customer, as we support that experience and their educational needs moving forward. Robert Dutt: That was something you guys threw out in – I want to say March-ish, but spring – the move towards partners managing more of the professional services side of things than in the past. How has that landed, and how have you seen partners react and fill the needs that created? Laura Padilla: Excited – they want more of it. That piece landed extremely well yesterday. Partners were really excited, because we already started that about a year ago. At Oktane last year, we talked about every deal over $100K moving towards a partner to deliver that deal. Now we’re doubling down even more and saying every deal – early on, we’re going to have a flag within the account to have our AEs work with a specialized services partner early in the deal cycle, so they can partner together and make sure they’re scoping the right amount of work that a customer needs to effectively deploy Okta. We’re leaning in even more, and we are asking partners to make sure we have enough partner capacity globally to fulfill those needs. We will be handing leads to those partners proactively, versus our professional services team taking that on themselves. Robert Dutt: Who have been the partners who’ve stepped up and filled those spaces? I’m curious about the balance between the big SIs and those types of guys versus the more boutique-focused, deep-expertise, smaller shops. Who’s been picking it up? Laura Padilla: We’ve had a mix of both, and both have been awesome. Large partners like Deloitte – who really was our global delivery partner of the year – have really leaned in and been super innovative, working with us on AI assessments and labs and on the governance side. They’ve been really training their teams and becoming super competent on Okta and the complete suite of products. Then we have awesome regional SIs too that have leaned in – in the US, Active Cyber, AppEvents and BeyondID are three great partners that work with us really closely that are more regional partners. Then there are our award winners yesterday in Latin America – Livok, Intergen – awesome partners in that region that know us in and out and have really dedicated their businesses to working with Okta. And in APJ – if you think about Japan, partners like NEC and CTC are really great partners, and then we have partners like Versent and Knowledge On Tap in Sydney. So we have awesome regional as well as global GSIs that have really leaned in. Robert Dutt: How have the margin models worked for that switch to professional services? Especially when you’ve got both larger and smaller partners involved, what’s the feedback been there? Laura Padilla: It’s been good. Since we’re now moving to partners priming, they will scope their own work and obviously determine their own margin for what that looks like. But if we look at a governance deal, or Auth0, or AI, partners can look at anywhere from two to three X revenue more on top of the license revenue if they’re adding on our other products. That was my big message yesterday: you really need to look at us as a platform story. You can land with MFA, SSO or core Okta products that everyone’s familiar with. But the key part of how partners are going to make money is if they add on to that, and make sure customers can really realize the full Okta platform – governance, PAM, IAM, and then AI on top of all that – so customers don’t need other disparate products to do all those things. Then the partner can really own that full customer lifecycle experience. Robert Dutt: Obviously one of the big announcements this week is the Blueprint Alliance. That’s more on the product roadmap and strategy side of things. How does that fit into go to market and partners? What does it give your partners, and how does that play out in a multi-vendor environment? Laura Padilla: The Blueprint Alliance concept started with the need to have a standards-neutral base to define what AI agent security should look like. Todd and the product leaders went with other technology companies and said we should have a consortium to be able to define this for our customers, to relieve some of this confusion. It started with the product. However, what you’re going to see is a lot of our delivery partners are going to join the Alliance as well, and that’s coming. We’re talking to our GSIs and some of our strong regional SIs as well, who would join this Alliance of technology partners to define what delivery looks like as part of that. It will go hand in hand. We will also be training our delivery partners on the Blueprint Alliance and what that standards and framework looks like, because they’ll need to know that when they do their delivery with Okta. Robert Dutt: Any timeline on when we can expect that? Laura Padilla: I don’t have that ready off the top of my head. As you saw, we just announced the white paper today with the QR code, and we’ll be working on what those training modules look like moving forward. Robert Dutt: I wanted to get into the whole AI agents thing. Especially with Gartner predicting that the average Fortune 500 will have 150,000 or more agents in a couple of years – and a little over 10 percent, I think they said, feel they have proper governance today. That speaks to a pretty big services opportunity. Are you building a specialization around that, similar to what some of your partners have done internally across the program? Laura Padilla: Yes, we are. Absolutely. We already have some trainings today for our partners, and we’re in the middle of finalizing a formal certification and specialization around that as well. That’ll be rolling out shortly for our partners to get trained and specialized on how to secure these AI agents in an effective way, according to – well, the Alliance, but also just our product roadmap and platform. That should be coming shortly. Robert Dutt: On the product side of things, from talking to a couple of partners, the idea of the kill switch has resonated large – the comment being, this is the kind of thing that customers have been looking for. Can you talk about the opportunity you see around that, and getting that fourth layer – the “what do I do, how do I respond”, as the language was used? Laura Padilla: The four questions around the Blueprint Alliance are all interrelated and necessary, but the first thing is actually knowing you have these agents. You first have to be able to identify them and then put them in a registry – so you have an agent registry. Once you know where they are and what they’re doing, then if they’re doing bad things, you can deactivate them. We had a demo today on the keynote stage showing how you could do that in a pretty simple way: your IT admin, within a console, can look at what these agents are doing once you identify them and they’re in the registry, and just quickly deactivate them if necessary. It’s pretty mind-boggling how simple we’ve made it. Robert Dutt: What do you see as the big services opportunities to wrap around the next generation of agentic security? Laura Padilla: What we’re hearing from our partners is that customers are coming to them and asking them to first build their agents for them. So they’re working with Anthropic or OpenAI, building the agents and then securing them at the same time – and that’s probably best practice, instead of having rogue employees say, “Hey, go have some fun, here’s Lovable, go ahead and get some” – and then your token usage is going nuts and all this stuff is going crazy, which is unfortunately what a lot of people are doing now. What our partners can do is come in with a plan and say, look, let’s do this the right way. I’ll build your agents for you, we can define what they should do, and I’ll secure them at the creation point as well. Then we can put them into a registry, we can manage them, and we can also define what we give them access to. That way, if they’re not doing good things, we can deactivate them. Partners are already telling me that they’re doing that now. I also think it’s a big opportunity for us to partner even deeper with the Anthropics and the OpenAIs of the world. That’s something we’re already talking to them about, because on the services side, we want the same partners who are building those agents to work with Okta as well. Robert Dutt: I was just going to say – how does that change the focus, and give even more prominence to the development side of things in the channel? Does it change who gets invited to the party – who is the ideal Okta partner going forward? Laura Padilla: Look, there are partners that are more development-forward, and they have that arm and are embracing it. I talked to one of our advisory councils; he was telling me that he was doing just exactly that. And then we have partners who maybe aren’t doing the development work, but they have a slew of customers saying, I just need your help figuring out how do I do this – how do I actually embrace AI, but in the right way? So they’re coming in a little bit later, or maybe they’ve already rolled out a bunch of agents and they’re already rogue, and they’re using Okta to identify those agents and put them into a registry, and do it that way, which is a little bit tougher. We’re seeing both sides of it – partners who do have a developer arm, and some that don’t. Robert Dutt: I think that speaks to an ecosystem opportunity for the multi-headed partner kind of arrangement. Laura Padilla: Absolutely. I do think this whole channel area is evolving even faster. You heard me talk about the $350 billion AI services market for channel partners. The partners that evolve and know how to actually code and work with the LLM providers, as well as the application providers and the security providers, and can provide that full lifecycle for their customer, are probably going to be able to capture the most aligned share of this market. And I’m seeing partners really figuring that out now and evolving their businesses. Robert Dutt: Is there a strong indicator for success there, in terms of coming at it from the coding side of things versus coming at it from the security side of things? Because either way, you kind of have to add something to round the story out. Laura Padilla: I guess I’m a little bit of an operationally minded person, so I would say a customer is smarter if they start off with: someone to build my agents and secure them at the creation stage, then manage them, and then roll it out in a systematic way – versus saying, hey, here’s tokens for Anthropic, go to town. I know a lot of companies that are doing that, and employees – some are more adept at doing that and much more curious, and some that aren’t. Then you kind of run into issues with data – we see in the news whether there’s data leaks, or rogue agents doing things they shouldn’t have been doing. So I would advise companies to start off by engaging a partner to help them do an assessment, define the right strategy, and build that out for them. Robert Dutt: How are you seeing or thinking about agent security, especially as you start introducing things like the kill switch as a managed service from your partners? What kind of opportunity do you see there, and what does that look like? Laura Padilla: I don’t know about just the kill switch piece being an opportunity from a management perspective. I think what customers are looking for is the whole thing – managing my agents in general as a managed service. There’s a huge opportunity around that. That way, they can actually present a business case: hey, maybe I need a few more agents for this specific use case, whether it’s for HR or marketing or product or whatever that may be. A service provider could create those, manage those, put them in the registry, and if needed deactivate them if they see anything bad going on. And they could probably produce dashboards around monitoring what they’re each doing, so we can get a signal right away if they’re not doing what they should be. Robert Dutt: It feels like there are some partners who are a fair ways along to that vision. But looking broadly across your channel community, how realized is it today? Laura Padilla: Very beginning. We’re not there yet. Some of these things are just ideas, or things that I’m hearing people talk about. But the good thing is there are a lot of conversations about it, and everyone has pieces that I see they’re starting. There’s just such a huge opportunity for someone to be able to really build a practice around this. Robert Dutt: Things will continue to evolve. Laura Padilla: They will. They will for all of us. Robert Dutt: Should be very interesting, needless to say. As you’ve had this time to look at the partner base, acknowledging there are different strengths and different skills across the channel – what’s the one thing where you’d like to see partners step up, do more, support more? Where do you think Okta would benefit from getting more support or help from partners than you do today? Laura Padilla: I do think there is a bigger opportunity for partners to look at us as a platform. They’ve kind of looked at it as Okta Workforce, and then Auth0 kind of separately, and not really looked at the other features and products we have. We’ve pulled data to kind of see this. That’s why my big message yesterday was: there’s so much more that you can help your customers realize when you look at us as a platform. Adding on different features, making sure they’ve moved from Okta Workforce Classic to the latest version, do they have governance and are they using it, have they embraced Auth0, and now the AI products. There’s just so much opportunity also in our existing install base, and partners at the forefront to do that – and then they’ll get services revenue when they do that as well. We have 20,000 customers, and I think a majority of them could use a lot more pieces of Okta. Robert Dutt: That’s kind of a classic channel chief problem, or want, in a multi-product or multi-platform organization – getting that cross-sell going. What do you feel unlocks that? Laura Padilla: I’m hoping the story we told them this week – the incentives we’re rolling out, more enablement, saying hey, we’re now going to look for you to do this delivery, we’re not going to take any of this in house, we reorganized our team to support this motion, all of the investments we’ve made, and the new program rewarding that as well – I hope it gives them a light bulb moment to go, oh wow, now is the time for me to really look at this further, in a different way than I’ve looked at the Okta business in the past. Robert Dutt: Can you elaborate a bit on how the rewards and incentives change with the partner program, and specifically how they support that cross-selling motion? Laura Padilla: We talked yesterday about a new logo incentive – customers that bring in new logos, and also migrations from a different vendor to us, will be rewarded for that; we have an incentive around that. Then we’re going to lean in with deployment incentives as well – we’ll be looking at partners who are able to deliver services and deploy and go live with certain products and certain customers, and rewarding that behavior as well. We’re also going to be giving leads to partners that are specialized even more so than we have in the past – partners that are specialized with certain product and delivery specializations will be actively given leads, and our AEs are now required to bring in a specialized services partner at an earlier stage in the deal cycle. That is now embedded within our CRM. There are a ton of opportunities for partners to really take advantage of now that weren’t there before. Robert Dutt: Other than getting the program finalized and out the door, what’s on your list? What are your priorities for the back half of 2026 and into 2027? Laura Padilla: I spent my first seven months or so here really evaluating the business, spending time with my leadership – John, the CRO, and Todd and Eric and everyone – understanding where the company is going, what our company strategy is, how partners can really help amplify that. We took a ton of feedback from partners too, and that was the result of where we came up with the program. So now that I feel that structure is there – there’s still a lot of work to get it out the door – what I want to spend the second half of this year on is now with the partners, getting them to really lean in and understand why this is important, why it’s different, why there’s never been a better time to be an Okta partner than now, and really go all in. I talked about that in my presentation. So the second half will be spending more time with the partners to make sure they understand all the investments we’re making. Robert Dutt: Whether it’s something we’ve touched on or otherwise, my last question for you: what’s the biggest untapped or under-realized opportunity for Okta partners now? The kind of thing that maybe isn’t burning down the world today, but you’d bet that if we’re coming back and talking next year at Oktane, it’s going to be a big opportunity. Laura Padilla: I really think there’s a huge opportunity in governance for us. That isn’t an area that we’ve pushed on too much as a company – there are other competitors, much smaller than us, that have pushed harder in this area. We think that’s a huge opportunity for our partners: to lean into existing customers, or to migrate from those siloed, one-off companies where customers have bought those products. Those products aren’t really platforms; they’re just kind of one-off solutions. We can do much better with what Okta is providing. So governance is a huge opportunity, and we’re going to be spending a lot more time with our partners on training and specialization around that. And then Auth0, and AI. Those three are the things we’re talking a lot to our partners about. Robert Dutt: All right. A lot going on. I appreciate you taking the time to explain the new program and where things are going. Laura Padilla: It’s been great spending time with you. Thank you so much. Robert Dutt: There you have it – Laura Padilla, head of partners at Okta. I’d like to thank Laura for her time, and of course, thank you for listening. Three things worth taking away from this one for me. One: if you’re an Okta partner, the grandfathering window matters. Apex partners mostly map to elite, but some will land in the middle tier, and the tracks let you opt into the one that fits your business rather than the one Okta’s revenue spreadsheet favors. Two: the services priming move is now program-wide. If you have delivery capability on identity, the flag Okta’s AEs are required to pull early in the deal cycle is your pipeline. And three: she flagged governance as the biggest under-realized opportunity in the portfolio, with an AI agent security specialization coming. Early positioning there looks like the smart money. If you’re finding value in the show, please do follow or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You’ll find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, most of the major directories. And if you’re feeling generous, a rating or review genuinely helps other folks in the channel find us. Til next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.

Sin Miedo - El exgobernador Alejandro García Padilla y el senador Carmelo Ríos analizan Sin Miedo la política local e internacional.

A diez años de PROMESA, el exgobernador Aníbal Acevedo Vilá reconstruye la ruta hacia la Junta desde adentro: la deuda heredada sin fuente de pago, el cierre de gobierno de 2006, el origen de COFINA, la reunión en Washington donde trató de detener la Junta junto a Rafael Hernández Colón, y por qué hoy está convencido de que ninguna crisis va a mover a Washington en el tema de estatus. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá fue gobernador de Puerto Rico (2005-2009) y comisionado residente en Washington (2001-2005). Es autor de «En primera fila». En este episodio: 00:00:00 Introducción: diez años de PROMESA 00:05:01 Bienvenida al episodio 67 00:06:21 La Ventana PR en Substack y YouTube 00:08:00 Entrevista: gobernador Aníbal Acevedo Vilá 00:08:52 ¿Comenzó la crisis fiscal en su administración? 00:10:06 El final de la Sección 936 00:10:32 El cierre de gobierno de 2006: un tranque político 00:12:34 El préstamo de $650 millones que no le aprobaron 00:13:47 Dos semanas después, el mismo préstamo 00:14:44 La deuda extraconstitucional y el origen de COFINA 00:15:19 El Centro de Convenciones y el Choliseo 00:17:35 Fortuño, «Mr. Fiscal Responsibility» 00:18:23 El préstamo del Banco de Fomento para bajar la luz 00:19:16 García Padilla y la deuda impagable 00:21:00 Por qué Puerto Rico no tenía mecanismo de quiebra 00:22:22 La quiebra criolla y el Tribunal Supremo 00:24:05 Cabildear en Washington en contra de la Junta 00:25:38 La reunión con Antonio Weiss 00:27:00 «Van a convertir a Puerto Rico en ingobernable» 00:28:21 Lo que sí tuvieron Detroit y Nueva York 00:28:58 ¿Pidió Puerto Rico la Junta? 00:30:19 «Ni pa'l cará»: el rumor sobre PROMESA 00:31:10 El ELA en la papeleta 00:33:54 ¿Hace falta una crisis para mover el estatus? 00:34:32 «El Congreso está feliz con el territorio» 00:35:29 Un Congreso sin una sola movida de estatus 00:36:17 Kamala Harris y los dos senadores demócratas 00:37:28 ¿Hay salida para la Junta? 00:38:34 Las reformas que nadie está planteando 00:40:13 Qué aprendimos en diez años de PROMESA 00:42:10 Libros: Isabel Allende y «The Women» 00:43:28 Despedida Parte de nuestra serie por los diez años de PROMESA.

El exgobernador Alejandro García Padilla y el senador Carmelo Ríosanalizan Sin Miedo la política local e internacional.

En el episodio de hoy nos metemos de lleno en el nuevo capítulo de la Selección Mexicana con Rafa Márquez al frente. Abordaremos la polémica convocatoria de Álex Padilla, su papel como suplente en el Athletic y la eterna pregunta: ¿por qué llamarlo si tiene tan pocos minutos? También pondremos bajo la lupa a los porteros que buscan quedarse con el arco del Tri, desde Tala Rangel y Óscar García hasta Malagón, Moreno y Acevedo. Y ojo, porque aparece un tema que puede encender el debate: ¿Tala realmente es el titular indiscutible o tiene competencia? Para cerrar, conoceremos el lado más mexicano de Padilla, sus tatuajes, sus raíces y lo que significa representar al país. Mantente actualizado con lo último de 'TUDN Podcast'. ¡Suscríbete para no perderte ningún episodio!Ayúdanos a crecer dejándonos un review ¡Tu opinión es muy importante para nosotros!¿Conoces a alguien que amaría este episodio? ¡Compárteselo por WhatsApp, por texto, por Facebook, y ayúdanos a correr la voz!Escúchanos en Uforia App, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, y el canal de YouTube de Uforia Podcasts, o donde sea que escuchas tus podcasts.'TUDN Podcast' es un podcast de Uforia Podcasts, la plataforma de audio de TelevisaUnivision.

El exgobernador Alejandro García Padilla y el senador Carmelo Ríosanalizan Sin Miedo la política local e internacional.

El exgobernador Alejandro García Padilla y el senador Carmelo Ríosanalizan Sin Miedo la política local e internacional.

El exgobernador Alejandro García Padilla y el senador Carmelo Ríosanalizan Sin Miedo la política local e internacional.

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In this episode of Man vs Marriage it is time to hear from a guy who is in the game.Rick Padilla has been a guest before. This time the assignment is simpler: let men hear a brother who actually walked it. Podcasters do not have it all together. Neither do the men listening. Over 400 episodes later, Quincy puts a man on the mic who has been in the work with him — so listeners can see the journey is real.Rick is a husband to Danielle, married about 26 years (anniversary 6/7/8), together since 2001. They have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly — twice over. He says they are now in the healthiest place they have ever been. That did not happen by accident.He was in a dark place around 2020–2022. Quincy had reached out years earlier. It was not time yet. When it was time, Quincy was there. They started working heavily in 2022. Danielle is the one who initiated it. Give her the credit. She prayed. She pushed. She even cut hair in the Moran house in the middle of autism and chaos.Rick's foundation is two things: love and accountability. Love shown and love given. Accountability to the man you said you would be. Most men think they know who they are being until they have real conversations with real people and stay in those conversations long enough to hear the truth.Later in the episode the talk goes where adult kids live: impact vs intention, apology without excuse, and becoming a lighthouse. When children become adults you may look at them and think, who are you? Look back at who you were at twenty. Then build the kind of trust that gives them a true north — so when they lose their way they know where to look.Rick's close: It does not matter what stage you are in. If you are ready to make a change, make a change. Be intentional. Come from love. You do not have to be right. It is okay to feel. It is okay to talk to someone. Men need to hold each other up. Change is hard. Change is possible. You get out of it what you put into it.Quincy closes with the gospel invitation and the next era: this program is transforming into Family Famous. Your family is your first ministry. Be famous where it matters most.Book: Becoming Family Famous — November 6, 2026 (27th wedding anniversary)ORDER THE BOOK HERE! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ76X1SC Email: quincy@mvsmpodcast.com Web: quincymoran.com X: @quincywmoranQuestionnaireAm I the man I promised — or only the man I explain?Who is allowed to tell me the truth in love?Have I been waiting for “the right time” the way Rick did?What would change if I approached tomorrow from love instead of being right?Do my kids know where true north is in this house?

El exgobernador Alejandro García Padilla y el senador Carmelo Ríosanalizan Sin Miedo la política local e internacional.

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