Glorelys Mora and Sasha Merci, two Dominican-American best friends and comedians from New York, co-host the Morir Soñando Podcast — a bilingual, unfiltered, culture-rich comedy podcast built on authenticity, laughter, and community.
The podcast is an extension of their comedy brand Morir Soñando, originally launched as a comedy show in 2019 to uplift Dominican voices in the comedy world and provide space for stories that mainstream platforms often overlook.
The show digs into the Dominican-American and broader Afro-Latino experience, reflecting on cultural nuances, bicultural identity, family expectations, generational differences, and what it means to belong between backgrounds. Hosts talk about experiences growing up in Dominican households in the U.S., navigating expectations around success, family, dating, and culture.
The podcast blends raw humor with candid conversations — nothing is off limits. Glorelys and Sasha riff on everyday life topics like relationships, toxic traits, cringe boyfriends, adulting challenges (e.g., diligencias, life admin), personal growth, spirituality, and more, all while delivering plenty of laughs. Their humor is deeply caught up in real life and the awkwardness, contradictions, and chaos that come with it.
Beyond punchlines, the show creates a space for healing, connection, and shared experience — especially for listeners who feel seen by the anecdotes and cultural reflections. They speak to the immigrant experience, feeling “not enough” of either culture, and finding pride in identity through humor rather than through assimilation.
This week, Sasha and Glory are back in the studio catching up on what adulthood looks like when you’re trying to get your life together, look put together, maximize your time — and somehow manage your family at the same time.
In this episode, Sasha and Glory get into “life maxing,” being high-maintenance so you can actually live low-maintenance, and the realization that getting older means putting a little more effort into looking like you have it all together. They talk about planning outfits ahead of time, finding ways to make everyday chores feel less miserable, and why a trip to the laundromat unexpectedly became a lesson in slowing down and taking care of the things that take care of you.
They also look back at the versions of themselves who could stay out all night, throw on a white T-shirt and jeans, and somehow still make it work. From Sasha’s days navigating New York nightlife to Glory wondering whether she can ever recreate that “bad bitch going to the club” feeling, they reflect on how getting older changes the way you socialize, get dressed and decide where your energy is actually worth spending.
And then there’s family.
After bringing their families along to recent events, Sasha and Glory realize that managing your parents might actually be another full-time job. Sasha shares what happened when a family outing to a major event ended with her uncle getting kicked out, while Glory remembers trying to coordinate her family while she was working. One innocent “What’s your ETA?” somehow turns into a conversation about a terrorist group — in front of everyone.
Underneath the chaos, Sasha and Glory reflect on why sharing these experiences with their families matters in the first place. They talk about wanting the people who raised them to see the lives they’ve built, the strange ways family members show pride and gratitude, and what it means to give them access to experiences they may never have imagined for themselves.
Checkout previous episodes of Morir Soñando w/ Glorelys Mora & Sasha Merci HERE
