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Black Mexican banda music star Sarah “La Morena” Palafox spent her whole life deflecting racism. Then suddenly found herself giving birth to a beautiful Black boy in the middle of a civil rights uprising. That's when she started to fight back.

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Episode 1
When the Pandemic chases Daisy Figueroa back to her childhood home, she decides to transform it. In the process, she creates her own business and redefines the standard of living for people in her community. 

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Episode 3

Comedian Chris Garcia didn’t plan on having children. Then he became a dad in the middle of the pandemic, opening his heart in ways he never imagined and helping to heal the loss of his own father. 

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Episode 4

This is what the pandemic looked like to children of different ages, from different communities and even different countries.

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Episode 5

With the comedy clubs shut down across the country, comedian Jenny Yang reinvents the venue by hosting stand-up in one of her favorite online gaming worlds: Animal Crossing.

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Episode 6

Linda Yvette Chávez co-created a hit Netflix show called Gentefied and is writing a major motion picture, but none of that helped with her imposter syndrome. But when she had to run a show and direct for the first-time in the middle of the pandemic, she found her voice and is now sharing her best practices for dealing with insecurity in the professional world. 

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Episode 7

We made a rom-com! Falling in love during a pandemic unexpectedly distorts time to an exponential degree. In a fiction meets non-fiction romantic comedy, Megan Tan explains. 

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Episode 8

Aida Rodriguez began her comedy career while living in a car with her two kids and working a full time job on the side. Now she is one of the funniest standup comics on the planet and she learned how to do that as a way of coping with the feeling of despair, something that’s helped her get through the pandemic. 

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Episode 9

Baltimore-born photographer Shan Wallace talks about why we’re not ready for the world to re-open. And how she found new ways to capture the world through her lens.

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Episode 10

As the vaccines arrive, writer Erick Galindo's entire family gets COVID. Except his favorite person, a dog named Blanca, who teaches Erick a valuable lesson about moving on and letting go on a very special TV-style episode of WILD.

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This season, Erick Galindo is going tell you a fictional love story. It was inspired by his life. It's about a road trip adventure across America. Erick, the woman he loved, and for some reason her mom and her best friend, all in one car. On the road for weeks. He was steeped in love and in one of the most confusing relationships of his life. The kind of love that forces you to confront parts of yourself in a way you never have bef...

Erick Galindo tells Megan Tan a fictional story about the wildest thing he did for love. It's inspired by his life. It all goes back to meeting Luna, a woman from Southeast Los Angeles. She could be the one. 

This is part one of a nine-part serialized rom-com for your ears.

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Erick is excited about a trip to Mt. Rushmore, but he’s upset when one of Luna’s exes crashes the party. 

This is part two of a nine-part serialized rom-com for your ears. 

The scenes and characters in this episode are inspired by Erick Galindo's life, but it's a fictional story. 

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After the biggest fight of their relationship, things get increasingly awkward between Erick and Luna. Especially when they wake up in bed together the morning after the fight.

This is part three of a nine-part serialized rom-com for your ears. 

The scenes and characters in this episode are inspired by Erick Galindo's life, but it's a fictional story. 

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Erick and Luna each have epiphanies at Mount Rushmore ... but they aren't necessarily the good kind.

This is part four of a nine-part serialized rom-com for your ears. 

The scenes and characters in this episode are inspired by Erick Galindo's life, but it's a fictional story. 

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Erick and Luna finally arrive in Milwaukee, but time is running out to save their relationship.

This is part five of a nine-part serialized rom-com for your ears. 

The scenes and characters in this episode are inspired by Erick Galindo's life, but it's a fictional story. 

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Erick finally learns the shocking truth about Luna’s dad.

This is part six of a nine-part serialized rom-com for your ears. 

The scenes and characters in this episode are inspired by Erick Galindo's life, but it's a fictional story. 

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Luna and Erick go to a party in the Hollywood Hills but you won’t believe who is throwing it.

This is part seven of a nine-part serialized rom-com for your ears. 

The scenes and characters in this episode are inspired by Erick Galindo's life, but it's a fictional story. 

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