Podcast Guest · Bilingual Tax Expert & Author
Taxes in plain English. Y en español.
Nayeli Castillo turns 1099s, quarterly payments, and write-offs into a conversation your listeners actually finish.
Book Nayeli on your show →30-minute fit call · Audio only — no video needed · English or Spanish
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- Trains tax preparers
- Author, forthcoming guide to 1099s
- 17 years in U.S. tax
- ~70% Hispanic client base
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 and business owner who has spent her career making the U.S. tax code make sense in both languages. She arrived in New York with about $300 and no plan beyond work. Seventeen years later, she leads her own tax and business-services office, ATAX Olathe, in Kansas.
Her day-to-day is 1099 earners, self-employed founders, and small-business owners — tax preparation and planning, bookkeeping that keeps them ready year-round, and plain business advice for owners who want to grow the right way. She also teaches. She runs her own classes for new tax preparers and hires out of them, so a good share of the next bilingual preparers in her market come up through her.
Roughly seventy percent of the network she serves is Hispanic, and that is the part she is most direct about: most financial advice was never written for immigrant and Latino business owners, so it arrives translated instead of taught. She teaches it. Y en español.
She is writing a plain-English guide to 1099s and self-employed taxes, out this year. She lives in Kansas with her husband and their two children.
Author of the forthcoming plain-English guide to 1099s and self-employed taxes.
Her office is ATAX Olathe — personal and small-business tax preparation, bookkeeping, payroll, and ITIN help, in English and Spanish, serving the Kansas City metro from Olathe, Kansas.
Connect with Nayeli on LinkedIn → Visit ATAX Olathe →
Book Nayeli on your show.
Audio interviews, 30–45 minutes, English or Spanish. No prep required — send your questions or don’t.