Sound Pathways, May 27, 2026
Sound Pathways with Dr. Karen Olson
Guest, Fior Bromley
Flor Bromley on Her Story, Bilingual Music, Women’s Voices, and the Power of Cultural Song
A Sound Pathways Conversation on Music, Culture, and Healing
This episode of Sound Pathways opens by inviting listeners into the healing power of sound, creativity, and connection. Host Dr. Karen Olson welcomes Grammy-nominated bilingual singer-songwriter Flor Bromley, describing her as an artist who moves between worlds, languages, generations, traditions, and dreams. Karen frames the conversation around the way music can shape reality, heal wounds, and help people manifest the lives they are meant to live. From the beginning, she emphasizes Flor’s joy, cultural depth, and ability to express imagination and story through music.
Flor Bromley’s Creative Beginnings and Peruvian Roots
Flor shares that she was singing before she could speak and describes herself as the artistic “black sheep” in a family of doctors, professors, and lawyers. She remembers writing songs on a toy piano as a young girl by using numbered notes, showing how naturally creativity emerged in her life. Growing up in Peru gave her access to an abundance of sounds, including traditional Peruvian music, Latin American styles, Latin pop, and American artists like Green Day and Nirvana. Flor explains that all of these influences live inside her and continue to shape the variety, rhythm, and emotional range of her music.
Her Story and the Power of Women’s Voices
The conversation turns to Flor’s Grammy-nominated album Her Story, which grew from her awareness that music and festival spaces have often favored men and overlooked women. During the pandemic, she helped form a women-centered kindie music group, and the idea eventually became an album honoring women from every continent. Flor describes the project as a search for women’s stories, role models, courage, and creative leadership. She also reflects on misogyny in music, theater, and media, explaining how experiences in Peru and the United States inspired her to create stories that show women as more than stereotypes or symbols.
Bilingual Songwriting and the Spanish Release
Flor discusses the Spanish release of Her Story, explaining that while it is the same album, the change of language opens the work to new audiences and gives it a different emotional life. Because she learned English at age four and has always moved between English and Spanish, she can translate and perform in both languages, but she explains that translating songs is not literal. The rhythm, meaning, and emotional sense must all be preserved. She also describes how Spanish gives gender to words, including “la historia,” which brings new layers to the meaning of “her story” and makes the Spanish version especially powerful for her.
Children’s Music, Dreams, and Listening to the Universe
Flor explains that although she originally came to the United States to pursue musical theater, her path gradually brought her back to children’s music, storytelling, and performance for young audiences. She had worked with children even in Peru, and after performing in a children’s concert in New York, she realized that the joy, singing, dancing, and theatrical energy of children’s music brought together everything she loved. Karen and Flor discuss dreams, creative courage, and the importance of listening to the body, the environment, and the universe. Flor encourages people to give their creative dreams a try, put their intentions into the universe, and believe that seemingly impossible things can happen.
Music as a Living Story Across Worlds
The episode closes with Flor explaining how people can find her music, website, social media, and upcoming tour dates. Karen reflects on the larger message of the conversation: music can hold memory, culture, language, identity, dreams, ancestry, and becoming all at once. She invites listeners to think of a story, song, or tradition from their own lives that deserves to be remembered and shared. Flor then introduces the title song from Her Story, describing it as a hip-hop fusion about making history and honoring women’s stories, with the Spanish version Estrellas releasing the next day. The closing announcement reminds listeners that Sound Pathways continues every other Wednesday and encourages them to stay aligned, inspired, and guided by sound.
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Sound Pathways is an inspiring and groundbreaking journey into the healing power of sound, creativity, and connection, exploring the profound link between Mind, Body, and Spirit. Hosted by Karen Olson, Ph.D., the show features captivating conversations with composers, musicians, sound healers, and inspirational thought leaders who share pioneering insights into how creativity and vibration shape our lives.
Each episode invites you to explore the magic of sound and energy as powerful tools for healing, self-discovery, and achieving your dreams. With special guests, uplifting stories, live call-ins for personalized sound healings, and unique teachings, Sound Pathways inspires you to tune in, align with your inner self, and elevate your life.
Speaker Identification
Speaker 1 – Announcer / Prerecorded Intro Voice
This speaker introduces Sound Pathways, describes the show’s purpose, and presents the broadcast framing before the live conversation begins.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson / Host
The host is identified in the opening announcement as Dr. Karen Olson. She welcomes the guest, asks the interview questions, and closes the episode.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley / Guest
The guest is introduced as a Grammy-nominated bilingual singer-songwriter from Peru who now lives and creates music in the United States. The transcript renders her first name inconsistently as “Flora,” “Flour,” and “Flor.” “Flor Bromley” is used here as the most likely intended spelling because the guest spells it later as “FLOR B-R-O-M-L-E-Y.”
Speaker 4 – Prerecorded Song / Music Video Voice
This speaker represents the song played near the end of the episode, identified by the guest as the title song from her album Her Story.
Speaker 5 – Announcer / Prerecorded Outro Voice
This speaker closes the program with a general Sound Pathways outro and broadcast information.
Speaker 1 – Announcer / Prerecorded Intro Voice:
Have you ever wondered how sound can heal, inspire, and transform your life? What if the vibrations around you could unlock your true potential and guide you to a deeper sense of harmony?
Welcome to Sound Pathways, the groundbreaking journey into the healing power of sound, creativity, and connection with your host, Dr. Karen Olson.
In each episode, she explores the profound link between your mind, body, and spirit. From composers and musicians to sound healers and visionary leaders, she dives into captivating conversations that reveal how sound shapes your reality, heals our wounds, and helps us manifest our dreams.
And guess what? You are part of the conversation. So call in, ask questions, experience personalized sound healing live, and let your sound be your guide to the life you have always dreamed of.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Hello, and welcome to Sound Pathways, where we explore music and sound and creativity.
I am so, so excited to have Flor Bromley with us today. It is going to be such a treat. She knows how to live in different worlds and combine them, live between them, and create and express culture and the stories that travel through song.
Flor is a Grammy-nominated bilingual singer-songwriter whose music brings together rhythm, storytelling, culture, and imagination with a deep sense of heart. She was born in Peru and now lives and creates music in the United States. Her work moves between languages, generations, traditions, and the dreams that we carry forward.
Thank you so much, Flor. I am so excited. We are going to talk about so many great things. Welcome, welcome.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Thank you so much for having me here. I am really excited to be here with you and to share this wonderful space.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Wow. I really want to learn more.
First, I want to say how much joy I feel whenever I am around you. That is just what you express. You are joy, and that is such a beautiful and special gift you have, especially how you express it with the music as well, and how you are able to live in the intersection of the music, your different cultures, and your imagination.
I want to ask you where you feel your creative path began. I know you come from Peru and now live here, but how did you know that you wanted to express yourself in this way? I would love to know who influenced you and all of it.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
I would say since I was able to speak. I was singing before I could speak.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
I always like to call myself the black sheep of the family because nobody else in my family is an artist. They are all doctors, college professors, and lawyers.
I guess it is somewhere embedded in me, and I am sure probably if my ancestors had been able to follow this career path, they would have. I think I am one of the first ones in my family who has been able to follow this career path, make it a successful one, try to make ends meet, and live off my art. I am very proud of that.
It started when I was a young girl. I always knew I wanted to be in the arts. I just did not know what kind of arts. I would write songs on my little toy piano without even knowing what I was doing, writing the numbers because every note had a number. So it would be like, two, two, four, six.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
That is so cute. That is how the children’s singing began, right? As a child, that is very authentic. I love that so much.
How did music come into your life in terms of what you heard or listened to, or teachers? What influenced you in addition to the rhythms, the culture, and the sounds you heard?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
I am very lucky to have lived in and come from a country that has so much variety of music playing all over. I was able to hear the authentic music of Peru and be influenced by that. I was able to hear all the other sounds from Latin America and Latin pop on the radio. At the same time, I was also able to listen to American music.
I loved Green Day when I was a teenager, and Nirvana and all the things. So whenever I put on Spotify, there is such a different variety of sounds, but that is all inside of me. I try to express and connect with all those different sounds and bring them into my music.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Wow. When you close your eyes and imagine your music, do you have images of Peru that come through you in that way, or is it just part of you?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
It depends on what the song is about. Sometimes I write stuff in the moment. I wrote a song while waiting for the subway in New York once. Just the sound of the train cars moving started giving me this song that I called “The Zoo,” which was on my first album. “The Zoo” has a little bit of a rock-and-roll kind of vibe.
So it depends on the vibe that I have in that moment and the song I am writing. Now that I have been able to write several albums, I am more focused on what I want the song to sound like.
With Pachamama, which was my third album, I was like, “I want this to be very authentic to my roots and my Latin American roots. I want to put all the stuff and songs that create a tribute to Mother Earth.” That was kind of the first one where I was like, “Oh, I am going to be very Peruvian.”
My previous one had a lot of Latin American sounds. But yes, the Peruvian-ness is inside me, and it will never go away.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
It is so beautiful.
I want to learn more about your amazing Grammy-nominated album Her Story, and just about that creative journey, the process, the dream, and how long you had the dream to create that. All of us would really love to learn and be inspired when listeners and viewers have a dream and wonder how it might unfold.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Right. Just to hear that is pretty crazy. I am trying to get used to the term “Grammy nominated.” I try to own it as a woman. Sometimes we are very modest, but I try to say it as many times as I can because I am very proud of it, and it took a lot of work.
The whole idea started basically because the music world has always been kind of a man’s land in a way. The boys get together and jam. I had a band in Peru, but I felt very unsafe when I was on that stage. Like I always say, I do not really like performing for adults. So I said, “I do not want to do this,” and I went into theater.
That whole concept of misogyny kind of stayed in my heart. In 2021, during the pandemic, we created a group of women in kindie. We kind of called it “kindie pandemusic,” because it amazed us how many men were always put on festivals and how not many women were.
I think that is how Her Story started: the idea of where our stories were, women’s stories, and where the role models were that would inspire all these other girls. I started looking for women’s stories, and then at some point—I do not remember exactly who it was—someone said, “Oh, you can do one from each continent.” I was like, “Wait, that is an amazing idea. Yes, let us do that.”
So I started finding a woman per continent to write a song about. That is how it all came. I tried different women at some point, and if it was not there, it was not there. I moved on, and it ended up being this amazing group of women from every part of the world, making their own her story.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
This is amazing. So it was a lot of listening and trusting and shaping, and just letting it come to you and evolving. How long was the process?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
The process from idea to being concrete kind of started in 2023. That was my first Grammys that I went to, after being nominated for Avantoures for the Latin Grammys. I did the whole thing in November. After that, my brain started working.
I went with Lucy to the Grammys. That was my first Grammys in 2024. I told her, “I have an idea. I would love to do it with you.” Lucy is a two-time Grammy winner, producer, and artist. She loved the idea, and I started creating some songs and doing some demos.
She had the idea of doing one song in Dolby Atmos, which I loved. That is when it all started. It was a couple of years.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
That is beautiful. It is now being released in Spanish, which feels like perfect timing for this conversation. I would love to know if it feels any different in Spanish, or what the whole process of translation was like for you.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Yes. Tomorrow it will be released in Spanish. I feel like I am cheating a little bit because it is not a new album, but it is. You know what I mean? The language in itself is new, and it opens the road for other people who have not been able to listen to it, especially where I am from, especially in America, and a lot of my fan base as well.
I feel like it is a little extra treat. If you were able to completely understand it in this language, here is the version of it.
Writing songs, my brain is very bilingual. I learned English when I was four years old, so it has always been. I can do shows in English and in Spanish and translate in real time, which is not something that a lot of people can do. I do not know. My mom was an English professor.
When translating songs, you have to be very careful about the rhythm and not making a literal translation, but still being able to encapsulate the sense of the song. I feel like me and the production team, because they are all bilingual women, were able to figure it out. Some things that I could not figure out, we did in the studio. We changed a couple of words here and there. It was fun because it is very different to hear them in my actual language. It makes me more emotional.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
That is really exciting. So you just recorded the voice over the rest of the tracks?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
We had the mix, and we just had to do voices, different voices, and different harmonies. I had to bring different featured artists for one of the songs, for “Her Story,” the title song. Since the artists who collaborated with me on the first one did not speak Spanish, I had to find new collaborators, and that was fun for us.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Did you have that in mind when you wrote it? Did you always want to do this version as well?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Yes. My first two albums were bilingual, so in a song you will hear both languages. Then my third album, Pachamama, was a dual-language album. It was pretty much 20 songs in English and then in Spanish.
Then I thought, “Wait, why do I not do two albums, one in English and one in Spanish?” I feel like I will have more time to focus on the audience that this album and music are for. That is how it happened this time. I decided to do it with Her Story, first in English and then in Spanish.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Wow, that is really great. I love how you think big. You do not have obstacles.
Why do you think it is so important for children and adults to hear about women’s courage and creativity, leadership, and dreams?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Because like I say in my song, we are the ones to be respected. Some people forget us. We are the path to life.
In my language, it goes in sex with the weak gender. We are not weak. We might not be as strong or have strong muscles because of biology—some do, though—but we are the path of life, and our stories have not been told.
I remember a while ago, there was one video that I saw about Einstein and his wife and how his wife helped him do all those things, but she is never mentioned in the history books. Same thing with the woman who invented or started the invention of Wi-Fi. She is never really mentioned, and she was an actress as well.
Because the world, for the longest time, has been a man’s world. They were the ones going to battles. They were the ones being the kings. But the women have always been there, and it is time for our stories to be heard.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
It is beautiful. It is inspiring, and it really just opens up the world in more and more ways. Yes, women are so powerful, especially when we can support each other, and for girls to see their own possibilities and really pursue the dreams that they have, that there are no limits, that it is limitless.
It is really beautiful. Music really even goes beyond languages. It is about what we feel. You did mention that, for you, it feels different. I guess it has a slightly different emotional feeling in English or in Spanish. Would you be able to explain that difference?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Yes. You know how some words are the same in both languages? Like papaya. Papaya is papaya in Spanish and papaya in English. Panda is the same animal in Spanish and English. Those words interweave with each other.
But in Spanish, and this is very interesting, we have gender for things. For example, there is a duck. The duck is male: el pato. If we have a nose, the nose is female: la nariz. So we have genders for every word. When it comes to translating, history is female. It is la historia.
That is something that I say in the title song that I was not able to say in the English version.
There was also something I wanted to put in the song, but then I thought, “This is not very children’s music.” It was more for me, about how in America, for example, grandmothers would say to my mother, “Ladies do not do this,” or “By being quiet, you look prettier.” They would say stuff like that. In my country, there is a lot of macho culture, macho men. So I think this idea of focusing on women’s stories and talking about it is going to be a little bit more powerful.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
That is beautiful. It seems like you should have a whole movement growing out of this.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
There are plenty of movements.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Yes. If you look at current events and all the things that are going on, it really is a transition from women being treated however, and not having a voice, to now coming together. It has been starting to happen.
Sometimes it is even hard to hear the stories of what has gone on, but being an artist, you can imagine that it is true that these things have happened. So it is beautiful to be able to make those statements.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Yes. I do not know why I started to remember this story. I finished my bachelor’s in acting in Peru, and the first role I was offered in a movie was the role of a lady of the streets. I got the role, and then I went to the costume fitting. I did not like what I was going to wear.
They were like, “But this will catapult you into fame, and this will be a very published movie in Peru, and you will get other jobs from it.” I said, “I do not want to do it.” No disrespect to the women who do this, but I did not want my first role to be that, because there are other stories to be told.
As a Latina living in the United States, I was also offered roles where they wanted me to be like Sofía Vergara, to act all sexy and wear my push-up bra and do all those things that are kind of the Latin style for something like that. That also stayed with me and inspired me to create these stories of other women who can do much more than just be a sex symbol.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Oh, I love that you have the strength to stand up for your authenticity and your voice.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
It was hard. It was also like going into the arts from a family of doctors. I remember a very specific conversation I had with my family. My mom and my dad supported me, but my uncle, who is my dad’s twin, was intrigued. He was able to kind of not manipulate my dad, but tell him, “You should not let her do this. You should not let her do this.”
My parents were like, “Are you going to be a hippie? What? Are you going to be like this actress?” I said, “I do not want to be like that actress. I want to be me. I want to have my own name.” It was hard to make them understand, but I did get their full support. My mom came with me to New York to do my musical theater auditions, which brought me to New York. I was very lucky to have supportive parents in a career that they had no idea what I was getting into. They had no experience about it.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
They must be so proud of you.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
They are. I am the only child, too. But yes, every time I talk to them, I am very thankful to have supportive parents.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
That is beautiful. How long have you been in the U.S.?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
I was talking to my daughter and my daughter’s friend today. I have been in the U.S. almost as long as I was in Peru. I moved when I was in my twenties. This is my home, and I am going to get my citizenship. I am scheduled for my oath on June 18.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Oh, being a citizen. Celebrate.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Yes. I will be able to vote, finally.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
I really love that. I am sure that was a journey in itself.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
It was a journey that I knew was down the path. I just tried to delay it as much as possible because I do not like to do documents and stuff like that. But I come from a foolish place, so I am very grateful to be able to do that.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
That is beautiful, to really create who you are in every way.
The title is like between worlds, and you work in bringing all these cultures and everything together, and the traditions. You must have your own identity of bringing those two cultures together, so it does not always have to even be separate, because it is you. You show us how beautifully they can be combined and how we can experience it through you.
I wish I knew Spanish. Maybe that will be on my list. That is on my list. I would really love to be able to communicate with more people. I guess in knowing a language, there are certain feelings or words you cannot really translate. Is that true?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Yes. For example, there is a song in my album called “Trailblazer” or “Trailblazing.” That is a verb. We do not have one word for what it means. It is about two words that kind of make that concept or feel like that. But that is an American word: trailblazing.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
That is what you are.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
It would be like opening a road. “Trailblazer” would be the literal translation in Spanish: to open a road that has never been there before. It is interesting that we do not have that word in Spanish as a verb or even as a noun.
It is the joining of the cultures. I feel like I see them in my children every day. The United States right now is a melting pot. Everybody comes from all different places, and we have so many different ancestries that nobody can be just one thing. We are many different things.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Yes, and it is really beautiful when we can take all our many different things and create from them, and go forward with our dreams.
I keep mentioning the word dream, but to me, it is really tapping in to find that clarity, to listen, to really know why we are here, and to pursue that.
One thing I love to do in my work is help people use music and sound vibrations to clear those pathways that might have been blocked by something they were told when they were little, or all these different things that are subconscious. Really, the music goes into those places in our brains, and we are limitless. We can do anything we put our minds to.
Sometimes we are told that it is not the right direction, and then we have to reset or recalibrate. I think then it is like embracing those messages.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
I go back and forth with what is meant to be and what you can make happen, because I believe you have to be so keen within your own body and your own mind to understand and listen to yourself. Listen to the environment to see if that is the right path to take.
Coming here to do musical theater, I understood that that was not the actual path. Falling into children’s music kind of by chance, I realized that was it, and everything just came together. You kind of have to fall into that feeling. It is hard to listen to your own body sometimes when you are like, “Well, no, but I came to do this, and I am going to be stubborn, and I am going to make it happen.” Probably I could have, but who knows? It is the decisions that you make in life that have to work for you. You have to learn and listen to your own body.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Yes, like the Robert Frost poem, where the road diverges and you have to choose which way, and then those become your possibilities.
Children are so honest. You can just see it on their faces. They feel things immediately. I would love to know how you said it just happened, because there is so much joy in that path you have. How did it happen?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
It has always been that I was teaching kids. When I was a kid myself, I was doing plays for kids in Peru. I was working with the Ministry of Education, doing storytelling for kids and music. Then I decided I wanted to do musical theater, and that pretty much turned my back to everything. I was like, “I am going to do this myself.”
When I came here, I started falling again into doing theater and music for kids, and plays for kids. I was like, “Wait, maybe the universe is trying to tell me something.” Then I had a concert with a company I was working with, a concert for kids. They asked me to be part of their band. We did it at a venue in New York, and singing for the kids, I was like, “This is amazing. I am like a little rock star for kids.”
This brings the performance aspect, the singing, the dancing, everything that brought me to musical theater. That was it. That was it for me. I fell into it, but it had always been there. I just did not want to listen to the universe.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
That is so beautiful.
What do you hope that people from different backgrounds hear in your music, and what can they feel together?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
I want people to connect and also be curious. Like you said, children are so honest. At the same time, children will give you that energy because they are so open to receiving things. When I perform for kids, they are watching you, and if you find a way to engage them, it is great.
When it comes to performing for adults, you see some adults who are like, “Yes, this is awesome,” or, “Yeah, I am listening.” Then you see other adults who have a wall, and I am trying to break it. It is not that they are not listening, but they have kind of a judgment. It is probably all in my head in many ways, but I do feel like there is some part of growing up that makes you believe, “Oh, I am the adult. I should not be enjoying things. I should be so professional and quiet.”
In the meantime, working for children is marvelous. They give you everything.
I hope that with my music, they are getting curious about other rhythms from other countries and realizing that where we live is not a bubble. It is a big, big world. It is a beautiful big world, and you can pretty much go wherever you want if you have the means and the will, and do your life and live where you want to live.
I hope to open people to other cultures by giving them rhythms and themes of other cultures, so they can go, “Oh, maybe I heard this at some point in my life. Maybe I should go to Africa.” It is about making them global citizens.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
I love that so much. All of your inspiration is so authentic. I think as artists, and just as the people that we are, we carry these songs and memories and family traditions and stories. They really shape who we are. We can also kind of move that shape around. We can create it. If it is not here, we can become it.
There is so much more that I would love to learn, but just the beauty that you bring to life—what would you say to someone who has a creative dream that they feel afraid or unsure about, or do not think they could do it?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
I do not know, because I want to tell them to follow their path and leave everything behind, but at the same time, it depends on every situation. I feel like, yes, the dreamer part of you has to overcome everything.
I think people from Peru who come from nothing are able to be successful, able to get scholarships, and able to get the education they need in order to succeed. I have seen the impossible happen, so I do not think many things are impossible. Actually, my quote for my yearbook was, “Nothing is impossible. Follow your dream.”
So yes, I am an optimist. I know every situation is different, but at least give it a try. People think it is too unachievable, and it is never going to happen. I say to people that I am delulu, which is delusional. I am delusional because I think something is just going to happen, and then it happens because I was delusional.
People are like, “How do you get to collaborate with this person?” I am like, “Well, I call them, and then I call them again.” “How did you get to be friends with this super-famous person?” I am like, “Well, I treat them like normal people, because they are people.” We just click.
It is not unachievable. I think if you really want it, you have to put it out in the universe. One of my friends has a vision board thing that she told me to do, and I should do it. I think everybody should do it. I think it does help to put it in your mind and send it out to the universe. I have done that several times, and I think it works if you believe that the universe starts cooperating with you.
So I think that would be what I would say to somebody who wants to follow something or do a career that they are not sure about: listen to the universe and make the universe work for you.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Oh, thank you. That is really perfect.
How can people learn more about you, maybe hear you live or online, and connect? How can they find you?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
My name is Flor in Spanish, and Bromley, like the mountain in Vermont. There is also a tea called Bromley. That is my last name from Peru. People think that is my married name. I say, “No, I did marry an American, but that is my name from Peru. That is my father’s last name.” It is not usual in Peru. It is very unusual, but that is my name.
I love it because it combines both cultures, right? Bromley is very British and American, and Flor is very Spanish. My name combines both dualities that I am.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Could you spell that?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Yes. It is F-L-O-R, B-R-O-M-L-E-Y. You can Google me. My website is FlorBromleyMusic.com. I am on Instagram. My music is on Spotify and all the platforms, YouTube.
If you just Google me, I will come up with my face. I would love to connect.
I will be touring this summer. I am going to Portland, Chicago, Los Angeles, Virginia, and Delaware. So I am traveling, and there is excitement. If anybody is listening from those cities, they can find my schedule, which I will be posting soon on my website and on my Instagram.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
So exciting.
I love so many parts of this conversation, and the reminder that music can hold many worlds at once: the memories, the culture, the language, identity, and our dreams. They do not have to be separate pieces. They can be part of the same living story and the same living song. We can carry where we came from, where we are going, who we are becoming, and who we really are.
I just love sharing all of this.
For everyone watching or listening, think of a story, a song, or a tradition from your own life that deserves to be remembered and shared. Let it become more a part of who you are and what you create, how you can connect, and what you can pass forward.
The stories shape us, and they are meant to be preserved. They are meant to be lived and sung and carried into the future with courage, beauty, and heart.
Flor, we have a treat. You are going to be sharing a video of your beautiful cover song. Can you tell us a little about that?
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Yes. “Her Story” is the title song of the album, and that is what we have been talking about. It is a hip-hop fusion that has some amazing guest artists, like the Alphabet Rockers. Caitlin McGawhis is in there, and Caitlin Becker, who is from the children’s show Blippi, and Charlie Cariarti, and Oravi, who won the children’s Grammy this year. She is on the song, and she is excellent at it.
It is about making our own history. Tomorrow, the Spanish version of the first record, Estrellas, which means “stars,” releases everywhere online.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
So exciting. I am wishing you everything great about tomorrow, and that it opens up a world of even more people being able to enjoy and be inspired and be part of your story.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Thank you.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Thank you so much. You are really, really, really special. Thank you for all the ways you inspire us. Create the life that you are born to live, and enjoy it.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Yes.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Thank you. Blessings and love. Bye for now.
Speaker 3 – Flor Bromley:
Thank you so much. Thank you.
Speaker 2 – Dr. Karen Olson:
Happy birthday.
Speaker 4 – Prerecorded Song / Music Video Voice:
Women are told to be passive and caring,
Seen for their beauty, not for what they are sharing.
History is full of stories of power,
The kings, the battles, a new one every hour.
For women, power was not easy to obtain,
So there are very few role models that remain.
Things that women did were not really recorded.
Only those brave souls stood up to male order.
Her story, her story,
I want to hear their story.
Her story, her story,
I want to hear my story.
Her story, her story,
I want to hear our story.
I want to hear her story.
Let them get it done.
Women get it done.
Women get it done.
Women get it done.
It is only the centuries of learning about women.
They take a lot of time to find the stories hidden.
So we should really focus on what is in front of us,
Because women have the future, and we should give our trust.
Her story, her story,
I want to hear their story.
Her story, her story,
I want to hear my story.
Her story, her story,
I want to hear our story.
I want to hear our story.
Speaker 5 – Announcer / Prerecorded Outro Voice:
Thank you so very much for joining us on today’s transformative journey. We are honored to have shared this space with you, and we hope you are feeling inspired and aligned with your highest self.
For more insights, resources, and to continue your path of healing, be sure to visit KarenOlson.com, your gateway to deeper sound healing, music, and wisdom.
Remember, Sound Pathways is here every other Wednesday at 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific, on BBS Radio TV, Station 1.
Until next time, stay aligned, stay inspired, and let the magic of sound guide you.






