Podcast Guest · Bilingual Tax Expert & Author
Taxes in plain English. Y en español.
Nayeli Castillo is a bilingual tax expert and author who turns 1099s, quarterly payments, and write-offs into a conversation your listeners actually finish.
Book Nayeli on your show →15-minute fit call · Audio only — no video needed · English or Spanish
Or email directly →- Bilingual EN/ES
- Certified translator
- Trains tax preparers
- Author, forthcoming guide to 1099s
Your listeners will know exactly what to do before their next quarterly deadline.
- 1099s decoded — what freelancers and gig workers get wrong
- The quarterly-tax system that prevents April panic
- Write-offs the self-employed miss, and the ones that trigger audits
A founder story about building a business in two languages and two cultures.
- Arriving in New York with $300 and building from nothing
- Turning financial confusion into a mission to educate
- Serving the Latino and immigrant founders most advisors overlook
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The 1099 trap
Why freelancers, contractors, and gig workers overpay year after year, and the handful of moves that keep more of what they earn without raising a flag.
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Quarterly taxes without the panic
How four intimidating deadlines become a routine anyone can run, so April is a non-event instead of a scramble.
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Write-offs: the real list
What actually counts — home office, mileage, equipment, retirement — what people leave on the table, and the deductions that quietly invite an audit.
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Money in two languages
What gets lost when financial advice is translated instead of taught, and why Spanish-speaking founders are so often handed guidance never written for them.
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Your first year self-employed
The setup nobody explains: choosing a business structure, separating business from personal, and the records that make next April painless.
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Building from $300
A founder’s-eye view of turning financial confusion into a business, and serving a community most advisors quietly overlook.
A few places to start — or bring your own.
No prep required on either side. These tend to open up a great episode — and Nayeli is just as happy following wherever the conversation goes.
- What’s the one tax mistake you see self-employed people make every single year?
- If someone has never paid quarterly taxes, where do they even begin?
- What’s a write-off people are afraid to take — but really shouldn’t be?
- What does mainstream money advice get wrong about immigrant and Latino business owners?
- How do you make something as dry as taxes actually land with an audience?
- What made you write the book — and who is it for?
Book me in English. O en español. Same expertise, two audiences.
Full interviews in English or Spanish — plain English, y en español claro. A fit for shows serving Latino founders, immigrant entrepreneurs, and the self-employed.
Built to be the easiest yes on your calendar.
- Audio only — no video, no studio, no lighting setup
- 30–45 minutes, recorded remotely
- English, Spanish, or a mix — tú decides.
- No prep required — send questions ahead, or go off the cuff
- Flexible scheduling around a Central-time workday
Nayeli Castillo is a bilingual tax expert, business owner, and certified translator who has spent her career making the U.S. tax code make sense — in English and Spanish. She arrived in New York with about $300, spent seventeen years building from nothing, and now runs her own tax practice and trains other tax preparers. She is writing a plain-English guide to 1099s and self-employed taxes, out this year. Roughly seventy percent of the network she serves is Hispanic, and she has become a trusted voice for immigrant and Latino small-business owners who have been handed financial advice that was never written for them. She lives in Kansas with her husband and two children.
Author of the forthcoming plain-English guide to 1099s and self-employed taxes.
Book Nayeli on your show.
Audio interviews, 30–45 minutes, English or Spanish. No prep required — send your questions or don’t.