What does it take to choose who you become in another language?

José is a golf coach from Texas who speaks English, Spanish, and German, and reads Latin. In this episode, he shares the story of how he decided to fully commit to the Rioplatense variety of Spanish, and what it meant to build not just an accent, but a whole identity around that choice.

We talk about performance pressure and why what you can do in practice rarely shows up the way you want it to when it counts, in golf and in language. We talk about confidence as something that can be acquired, not just possessed. And we talk about what it felt like the first time a stranger in Chile mistook him for Argentine.

The first half of the conversation is in Spanish. The second is in English. What stays the same across both is José himself, with a different facet of who he is finding its way to the surface in each one.