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, and this week, they’re talking about pregnancy scares, breaking generational cycles, the things their parents never taught them, and somehow, the zodiac signs of NYC subway trains.
What starts as Glory questioning Sasha’s mysterious glow and sudden lack of interest in drinking quickly turns into a pregnancy investigation. With pregnancy tests on standby and some questionable Dominican pregnancy-detection methods, the two begin imagining what motherhood might look like. But the conversation gets deeper as Sasha and Glory reflect on the lessons they wish they’d learned growing up. From financial literacy and emotional regulation to the difference between protecting your children and sheltering them, they discuss how parenting shapes the adults we become.
Even Gilmore Girls makes its way into the conversation as they unpack generational differences in raising children. They also revisit the ridiculous things their families taught them about sex and pregnancy (apparently sperm can jump?!), the consequences of growing up without honest conversations, and how family secrets and strict parenting can affect relationships well into adulthood.
Glory opens up about wanting to become a mother while accepting that it might not be in her future. She reflects on the emotional labor women take on in relationships, the pressure to find the right partner, and why she’s no longer interested in raising a grown man. And then, because it’s Morir Soñando, things take a completely different turn.
Sasha and Glory debate NYC’s best and worst subway trains, from defending the A train to questioning the reliability of the G, F, and J lines. They even attempt to assign zodiac signs to the MTA, leading to a heated disagreement over whether the F train is a Pisces or a Gemini.
Checkout previous episodes of Morir Soñando w/ Glorelys Mora & Sasha Merci HERE
