May 19, 2023 • 55 mins
Hola mi gente! Welcome to Siempre Pa’lante! Always Forward. I’m your host, Giraldo Luis Alvaré. Gracias for listening.
As we wrap up Season 2, Episode 28 is not just a recap but the 50th episode overall for Siempre Pa’lante. To celebrate this amazing milestone, I invited someone special whose faith and energy alone move mountains. This Afro-Latina is no stranger to uplifting the community by repping her culture and empowering the next generation of leaders.
Lah Tere is a humanitarian, organizer, activist, emcee, songstress, proud BBW, and visionary speaker for the 21st Century. That’s only scratching the surface of what she brings to the table. Get ready to be inspired mi gente.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Damas y Caballeros, welcome to see and
brain always forward.
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I'm your host here at Listen, buddy, gracias for listening, as
we wrap up season 2. Episode 28 is not just a recap
of the 50th episode overall 4cm.Propellant, a to celebrate this
amazing Milestone. I invited someone special whose
faith in energy alone, move mountains, decipher Latinas.
No, stranger to uplifting the community by wrapping her
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culture and empowering the next generation of leaders.
Lot, 80 is a humanitarian. Organizer activist MC songstress
proud, BBW and Visionaries. Eager for the 21st century,
that's only scratching the surface of what she brings to
the table. Get ready to be inspired me
Hindi, for more info on this episode and our guests, check
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the show notes. Remember, don't forget to rate
review, follow, like, subscribe and share it only takes a few
minutes and goes a long way in contributing to the shows
growth. So sit back, relax and enjoy the
season finale. Hey, they printed on the western
beautiful, love you. So thankful.
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For all is well, on my end, you know, just moving through.
So happy to be here to be able to be on this.
Doing the recap for the previousepisodes and just getting into
the flow of your work and your ministry and how and just you
know it's just nice to be in thesame space with someone who's
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passionate and enthusiastic about life.
So thank you for having me here which I can I say about the know
what you what you have done and continue to do.
His Monumental, it's important, it's important that we are
seeing heard respected and you make sure you check off all
those things and more and more, you know, you bring that song,
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you bring that size song to the table.
And that's what we need. That's what we need.
Tell us a little bit. What you've been up to because I
mean, I know you from the music days from Latinos Latinas and
Hip-Hop. You know, you were tearing those
mics down and From NYC to shot down to LA International.
I mean you internationally knownon a microphone.
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So let's be very well. I am currently in a really cool
space which is why I have the time to actually like show up,
right? And be fully present.
I'm in a, you know, sabbatical right now.
So this is like me getting off. Mathematical, but this is where
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I'm supposed to be. So I'm good.
I'm aligned. With the work has been really
teaching children how to use hip-hop as a healing tool
globally, just being a global global archivist, right?
Social emotional learning specifically, with children that
live like under bridges and in refugee camps and in some of the
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darkest spaces that you can imagine, but being able to use
hip-hop as that tool to get themto tell their story.
So And and then that right just that emotional release work,
that's super critical. So that's what I've been doing.
Then covid kind of head. So I was like okay God it's time
for me to rest and recharge. So this is now I am I do some
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behind-the-scenes work for a nonprofit organizations making
sure that they're executing, whatever it is that they need to
execute when it comes to the grant part and which is nice and
it's behind the scenes and it's not don't have to be performed.
Arming or anything like that. I just get to get into the
nitty-gritty and stay connected with Community the way that I
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like to say is this my own revolutionary way of doing
things right now, while I'm quiet.
So CCAA, Anthony your library. Do you know, she gave you the
appetizer, she gave you a littlebit.
Little bit little sign. She get a little more phone go.
Like we talked a little more fungal, a a moon you don't block
the needle like the who say you know she put a little bit on
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there and just like here they will throw.
Okay. That's it.
That's it, that's it, that's it,that's it.
She's like, that's it, Bobby yougotta wait for the main course.
All right? That's how she does.
And also, I got to give you yourflowers.
Did you mention the activism? Because I think, System is
always been in your blood. I mean, you know, after already
qua representing La, Cultura 24/7, but activism is in your
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DNA from an early age and it's grown into so many different
facets that you've inspired the community but there's also a
piece with music and people, it's interesting because some
people might know you from you know you advocating in your
schooling, people educating the masses.
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Nonprofits. But that music side.
Tell us a little snippet of thatbecause you got to give us a
little bit of that song and thatin that realm, come on little
bit. And I'm so proud to have been a
part of such an important part of the history of immigration.
Like the of the migration into this country and the 2000s right
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the early 2000s, what a what a way to just be what a moment to
be alive. So I was blessed enough to be
has a street journalists like a hood journalist and use hip-hop
as the way to tell the stories of the people that were actually
experiencing. Some things not necessarily
telling just my story or a made-up story about myself
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because hip-hop also gives you that opportunity to imbue lie a
little bit. So, real challenge, right?
Or? Or create, create a story for
yourself, where you get to your manifesting, let's put it like
that battle. Um, you know, having to have
this deep Integrity around the work of around, what's going on
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with the people and telling their story from a space of
like, this is really what's going on.
There is this, these are the details of what's going on and
you know, being about saddle using hip-hop to be avoided.
Like the Bose do that part of mylife, that part of being an
activist. It came from you know just being
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a boutique or that understands that we're still a Colony of the
United States of America, you know, and doing that work since
I was I feel like since I was born but you know, since a very
young age I'm having that consciousness of what Liberation
what is Liberation and like, howI don't, how can I be a part of
it? So that's what That's what the
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music gave me a an opportunity to tell the stories of other
people and in that same frame where the family taneous.
Lee start telling myself the truth about my own story and get
healing up for myself, really cool stuff, man.
Really cool stuff not as beautiful.
Thank you for sharing that and again, she gave you another
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little updated, evil, another appetizer.
And this one, this one, this onewas a little bit, let's say this
one's like what? Yeah, so this is a little sign
there. So but now we're going to get
into going to shift a little bitshift, the energy into this
recap and give our guests, the flowers.
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It's been an amazing season to 30 episodes is 28, if you look
on the dial, but it's technically 30, because I did a
part 1 and 2 for some of the Recaps.
So 30 episodes this week, this marks the 50th episode, right?
So it's, it's been a beautiful journey and it's only going to
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get better. It's only going to elevate.
More is only going to reach more, the millions and millions
of people are gonna share it to more, millions of people, that's
how it is, you know? And and, and all willing through
the ancestors through the gods, you know?
Bobby DeLeo big shout out to theancestors.
I always find time to give them their flowers within the
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episode. So Now's the Time.
So peace and blessings to the ancestors episode, 25, episode
25. And we're talking about food and
it's funny were talking about food.
This episode is all about food and the journey of these two
Cuban, brothers and sisters alecky.
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Vicky those croquettas. If you haven't been to those
croquettas in Miami, they're theonly craft croquette that bar.
Let that sink in for a little bit.
Oh, croquettas. Now, I do have other things and
they do mashups and things, and they got whooping, yah,
slushies. And I'm going to stop because
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they were going to go through the menu, either, like,
intimately coronavirus gonna be really upset that, you know,
Daddy, and he died or like, hey,we talkin about fool.
You got no middle name? Give me so this episode is
called da me. Those croquettas in cafecito,
give me to croquettas. A Coquette Coquette, Uncle
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croquettes and a coffee. And this clip right here.
The interesting Journey. These folks got in a big
shout-out to them. I was well, received, I got to
visit them last year. I mean, put out a spread for me
it was serious. Like, Buffalo crack, chicken,
croquette croquettas, medianoche, crooked, as Cinnamon
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Toast Crunch, I believe croquettas over your eye.
Played a clip. It's a when in Miami like I
said, what am I a me? Check them out.
Very clean, very professional. You walking, you feel like
you're part of the family tropical Vibe.
It's just the place to be and they're building something very
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special. So let's play this clip and then
we can Vibe out to it and give our perspectives.
My mom was always whatever you wanted to do.
You can do they always push thisforward, you It's funny because
my parents are a little bit of astraight-laced kind of people,
but that's really that integrity.
And that honesty is really what is instilled in us.
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And in the restaurant having that kind of honesty with people
and having that kind of integrity and our food and in
the warmth that we give to people and I know that people
can go anywhere they want to in a restaurant.
And so what we want to do and wehope to always do is provide
that kind of warmth and that Experience.
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Just what I said building on thelittle introduction about who
they are, what's the vibe you got right off the bat?
I can, I can feel it in her voice.
I can feel her. The warmth of her family in her
voice, which is so beautiful, which means like imagine how
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that translates into the food, like that there's actually that
piece that she said, Integrity like, Like that piece.
That that's it. That's the math, right?
Is like, I can I want to show upand represent my what I was
raised inside of like I want to give it to other people because
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it was abundant. So it says, do by like that.
I'm going when I get some hairy weird.
You heard it? I like Vicki, you got another
customer coming your way. Another customer or two or three
because listen that it rolls deep.
Don't get it twisted. She has a network that is
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international. Like she lands.
It's like people know she's coming and then you know like a
photographer's and everybody's waiting at the airport.
It's like she got put on her Shades.
She's like, I gotta duck out of here, she got a duck out of
here. You listen, she knows people.
I mean it's the power of it. Work.
And and that is something that II seen that firsthand years ago
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when I met her after the shows and then her production Mama's
hip-hop kitchen for the soul, right?
That was serious. So when seeing those movements
grow in the power of that, that's narrative me, Hindi.
It's it's real quick. I will Rea, it's really it just
connects exactly to what the sister said which is Agra T,
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that that's what gives people the put people in a position to
trust you. When they're like, oh you're
consistent. Oh man, you coming through with
like the realness every single time.
Oh wow. You know, if I'm keeping tabs on
the your how you're showing up every time I arrived I wrote you
know, run into you. Wow, this is pretty.
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It's pretty consistent. Okay, this feels solid.
Okay, this feels more like a pillar.
Okay, I'm honest. I know that I can stand.
Here, because this ain't wavering.
You know, and we just don't wantto be out here, just unstable
like we can afford to be unstable, we need people to
depend on that we could depend on.
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I mean, in that are consistent and sustainable like all those
words are powerful and when you see the other you hurt you said
the word integrity and today's age, I mean, everybody's trying
to be someone that they're not. They're doing filters, they're
just listen, be you. There's only one.
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Oh, one like, when you were created is 11.
That's it, bro, dude. They might Hina.
And then two young male, how enthusiastic our creator was
every single with every little want to put this on, to give her
these eyes. I'm gonna give her these curves
foggy. Think she's gonna be able to
walk into a room and, you know, Captivate people with just this
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essence I'm going to give her. I want to give her a little, put
it up a little bit man that enthusiasm think of the Creator
and the enthusiasm that was there.
Like man it's cool to think thatbeyond what I think about myself
that my Creator. It was sees me really for
realize the Masterpiece. Thank you.
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How else am I supposed to show up then with integrity?
That's right man. For real, you know I get hyped
up about this stuff out of a I know I know you do I know you do
I know you two are late. I'm late.
I'm let you go because it's important that people hear this
because there's a lot of young girls out there that are
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listening to the show. Women out there, Elders out
there that are women, women of color all women.
And we need to hear with Man that are doing their thing like
lot 80 and inspiring. So that's important.
Big shout-out to Vicki, yeah. Legality Vicky, the dynamic duo,
do anything for those croquettas.
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I'll be there soon this year. I know I got a trip coming up.
So be ready because I'm about toorder everything off the menu
That's facts because you guys are building something so
special and the community loves you there.
Adore. You.
So giving you your flowers and we're going to be connecting
soon. Episode.
Right? That was episode 25.
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So if you haven't heard that one, you got a chance to catch
up episode 26, inspiring you to live artfully and beautifully
featuring creatress side, IE Maura she is a VR sculptor
performing, artists, and speaker.
So she's done so much with the black team.
And if T's are performing art, Imean, she does VR.
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Performing art, like, performance artist with VR.
It's insane. This conversation was very
beautiful, very just calming andthe message.
I mean, so many messages in thatconversation, but this one's,
this one's a pretty cool one. So let's check it out.
Sometimes it's not that you can't do something, it's just
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gonna have to put a little bit more patience than to it and it
can happen. Just sometimes not on the
timeline that you set for yourself.
And I think that has also taughtme to just be flexible with
myself and some things in life. He just can't control.
So having faith in the journey and in myself that even if it's
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not happening right now or tomorrow, it will happen.
Just got to kind of stay with it.
Not despair. I figure I saw you.
I saw you were ready. You were like ready to let it's
so, I ever made are going to sentimiento, you know?
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Because this year, how cool is this?
Thank you for that because this year my my conversation with
myself or my Mantra has been I fully trust my ever unfolding
path. And I don't like anybody but I
trusted, you know, a delay is isnot denial.
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You know, steam a low C IU, not Balsa, maybe that's for
protection because that's not where I'm supposed to be right
now, right? So this is the spirit of
discernment is really activated when you're in this place.
Like I have to be patient. It's like, okay, your spirit is
telling you slow down just to allow, do you trust me?
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Do you not referring to rock outbut it's going to be when it's
going to be perfect because you deserve that because you're
worth that. So like I won.
Yeah, see a beautiful or they she's beautiful.
What a cool Spirit. No I see.
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It was amazing. I got connected with her through
my man. Suleiman on Quay he is another
amazing muralist artist designer.
This brother Suleiman I met him at 2016 Comic Con and the funny
thing is our story is so wild. Like I get out the train, you
know, I got Penn Station. Boom, boom, get up.
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Walk up and I'm, you know, waiting for my Uber and I see
this brother next to me and I asked him, hey, you going to
Comic-Con and I'm all excited like a little kid.
This is my first comic con, I'm a big geek so I was like ahh,
I'm so excited. Like I was like my 10 year old
self was like wow, I got money in my pocket, I'm like 10, but I
got money in my pocket. I can buy stuff and like see me
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people and whatever so I see himand start talking.
So what do you do you know? I'm an artist.
Oh cool. Cool.
It was you going to Comic-Con? He's like, yeah, I got he has
his stuff with him as I said, because, you know how, to get
those again. It's been a week.
I got an Uber. Oh, it's right here.
You want to come? And he just kind of looked at me
like, You sure? I was like, why not?
I was like sorry page for. Don't worry about it man.
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Come on, let's go. Let's do it.
So we so it was while we sat in there and I said well you got
and then he's showing me his work and it was like a five
minute ride but I was like I didn't feel like walking I
wanted to get there. I said what do you got?
Oh this is so much like how muchis this?
And he's looking at me. Like this guy is not even
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questioning and supporting and showing love.
And it was, it was dope. It was like so cool.
It's like you go inside it. You gotta sign it though.
And he said, he signed his work and I put on my backpack and I
so let's go. He goes, let me give you a
warning, a fair warning when youwalk in, is going to be a lot.
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And it was so true as I walked inside.
And he stood next to me goes howI feel How's it feel?
He's like, how does that feel? I was like his feels amazing.
It's like there's so many peoplehere.
Just chilling. Everybody's just geeking out and
smiling and having fun. And he goes.
Listen, I'll be with you throughout the day.
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Here's my number, just hit me upwherever you're at, and we can
just link up wherever, and he introduced me to so many artists
and people and just a really cool brother and it didn't stop.
So we maintain Action. He's been on the show season
one, and I started getting involved, you know, in the
digital space, with learning about different entity, things
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and creatress, and him knew eachother.
And he's like, hey, you gotta have her on the show.
I was like, absolutely. And here we are, I want to give
him his flowers because it's important that when we connect
with people, there's people thatconnect us to and the
interesting piece is I'm a lead it too.
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Ooh, how we connected with Sano and give him his flowers right
now. Sino in Sun.
Oh man we miss you. We love you.
I know you still making moves because you still connecting
people from from from up top. You know, I know you are near
your spirit form is really moving and shaking but yes, I
know connected me to Rebel Diaz which Daddy was the key member
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of Rebel Diaz? I knew that, because when I saw
her perform, I was like, yep. Got to be on.
She's got to be all my all my work like Connor I gotta get on
the mixtape and yeah, I mean, it's also again, giving flowers
to people and now we were talking about creatress
creatress. The name alone creatress side,
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IE, Maura creatress, inside out.I see you and I'm Somali.
You dropping, you know, taking the opportunity to be in phases
and like, and, and share your wisdom.
Man, we need that. That's where we're at.
We need people not gatekeeping. We need people sharing the
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information so that our young people can have more access, you
know, more access than what we had more more.
That's a wonderful. So, thank you for sharing and
how critical patients is in about faith word.
And I think about how we reconnected because when I
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started This new platform and building this media Empire and a
positive influence and culture and Familia, and good things for
the world. I reached out to her daddy and I
remember like we kept missing each other.
The time wasn't right? All right, we talked about how
sometimes we get fresh man, I work.
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But I always kept you on that list like this master list that
I have. I was like, I'm gonna get her on
the show not today. Tomorrow, we're here right now
and, and just a little, little little, little little like leak.
She going to be part of season 3.
It's just, it's official. So just let you know that me
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Gente. She's gonna be coming at you
non-stop. It's like it's like that saying
you you can't stop or you could only hope to contain her group,
hope hope hope. This is fun.
I appreciate it's nice to have people that love you, you know,
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as I want to nurture you and that are feel like you're
important in the world and, you know, sometimes we don't feel
like that for ourselves. So it always takes people
outside that see us to remind us.
And, you know, and also just like the ancestor component,
right? Just also having those behind us
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and then having those in the present moment and then those
that are in the The future that our, you know, our future selves
is still doing the work in the present.
Isn't that crazy? That's true.
That is just crazy. So where our ancestors wildest
dreams? For sure, for sure, I really,
really am is so wild and I'm seeing it and I'm living in, but
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people like side IE is she, you know with the end of teeth and
all that stuff it's like there'sthat futuristic energy that also
Comes from from her spirit, which is nice, you know, to see
lobbying and women of color within that world and feeling
powerful within it and confidentas dope as he's repping Mexico.
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She's rubbing Mexico. So today, yeah, that's right.
Big shout out to Mexico. So, the next episode, which is
Really a special one because this is a brother.
I read his book Brown enough today Cindy from bodies of
culture featuring. Christopher Reeve has he's an
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actor author podcaster storyteller Yes, let's listen to
this clip. My version of spirituality now
is so many things, but the basisof it, is that every human being
desires to be seen and to know that they belong.
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I believe that is true. So much of what we do is to
know. We are enough, we are worthy of
being singing. Heard we are in safe spaces of
belonging powerful, as powerful.And that's only a clip of the
episode that's only a clip. Mmm-hmm, that's a deep one
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that's like an Awakening that creates this spirit is like
creating Awakening for people and giving um, permission.
Sometimes we need people to giveus permission because we're so
broken right now that our spiritis broken, but just the
exhaustion that from experiencing like, Harmful
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people like is so you know that's what makes us feel like.
We don't balloon is being aroundpeople that harm us, right?
He's like you can never find that space.
So Chris says that piece about being worthy of belonging like
that were worth belonging somewhere being seen and that's
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a part of the work that I've been doing.
Myself is just like telling myself.
I told you at the beginning thatI'm resting.
So this resonates with me on an another Littles in another
space, in my spirit because it'slike this concept of, I'm worthy
of recovery. Man, bro.
Like with the amount of the things that I feel like I've
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done in what has been 40 years of my life, at least a good 3735
of it, because I know I've been since I've been conscious
conscious that five I've been working Like I'm I was woke and
then I was like, oh my got things to do I got to be a good
friend. I got to be a good daughter to
my parent. I have to do good in school like
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I we all start working at a really young age and whatever
that's not brought into the mix as much but I am 43 years old at
really are for when covid. Hit is when I was like, oh, I
could die. I need to the whole slow down
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and I have been seen, how can I see myself, right?
And like where do I belong in all of this?
Do I belong out in the world taking care of everybody or do I
belong inside of the, my household taking care of my
elderly parents that need the support.
I can't wait for, I can't expectthe caretaker to do, what it is
that I would do for my parents. And so that concept of we as a
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family are worthy of recovery has Has been at the Forefront of
my life with the Within These last, for sure, two-and-a-half
three years. So I'm thankful for Chris and
you know, the color of my skin is one thing but the I know how
vibrant my spirit is like how much of a rainbow it really is,
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and how Prismatic it is, and howmuch, right?
So figuring out where all those little colors fit and this
spectrum of life is a Is necessary.
But you got to tell yourself thetruth.
You got to tell yourself the real story, so him being a
Storyteller and being confident enough and courageous enough to
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talk about this kind of stuff isjust changes the world.
This is what changes the world. You're the uncomfortable
conversations. And you gotta get comfortable to
being uncomfortable to getting uncomfortable.
And that's very important, that's very important.
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And what, what the most uncomfortable thing is, telling
your story because you're putting everything on the table,
good bad, ugly and different whatever.
Maybe but embracing that embracing the perfect
imperfections. That's very important in what
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But you know what he does with Chris does its I mean, just the
book is Broad enough and then the subtitle here is the two
stories about or true stories. True stories about love
violence, the student, loan crisis, Hollywood Race, Familia,
and making it in America. I mean this is a big shout out.
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There we go, there we go. Give him a little plug right
there. He hinted go out.
Buy a book or to give one to someone and keep one for
yourself. It's very important.
That we support are brown, blackindigenous, Asian storytellers
that are telling narratives thatare that we can relate to.
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Because if we don't support them, like you go out, you need
a phone. You're going to support apple.
Or you need, you know, some sneakers, you go.
Some Port Nike is support these big corporations.
Are you need to buy something onAmazon?
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Just buy the book word, you don't do that for any other
product so why do you do that toyour own people?
Like pretty John but but but Chris is cool because he also
before Brown enough, he had thispodcast called rubirosa or feet.
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You're rubirosa is the real James Bond.
I'm Elite that out there and people will be like, what are
you talking about? Listen to the show, you'll see
what I'm talking, but it's Dominican James Bond.
So, James Bond was based off a Dominican diplomat.
So we will be xhosa rubirosa rubirosa.
Check it out. Me and day and he's an actor.
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So giving him his flowers. Thank you.
My friends for being on, thank you for Carlos.
His management team ikigai management.
Thank you. Appreciate you.
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We're going to round out this amazing recap with you, talk a
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little bit about what you were doing but I want to get into
more of what your work is and helping inspire a positive
narrative and Positive Solutions.
Because what happens is, we hearwhat the problem is.
And we discussed this that there's a panel discussion.
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There's a conference there, An event, everybody's excited and
you're sitting there and it's almost like you hear those
words? Wait for it and you're
constantly sitting there waitingfor it.
What's the solution? Because we know what the problem
is. We time and time again, it's
just so share with us a little bit about what you're doing.
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That helps provide solutions to counter this negativity to
counter this false narrative. Wow, that's a really that's
wonderful. I'm glad that that is where your
mind is at. And that's what, that's where
you want to go in these conversations with folk and that
you pull that out of them, because it is very easy to get
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caught up in the everyday negativity, 100%, whether it's
what we're watching on TV or within our own families Right.
That are our become, we become our own oppressor in a sense,
right? Which is so heartbreaking
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battle. I can give an example of a
sudden how I created a solution,or what, what, what my Solutions
driven Spirit kind of was able to create.
So, you know, I was in all I wasin a hip-hop group.
It was me, and two men being a part of as of as a woman, that
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is a bit of a bigger body, right?
In the early 2000s. Being a part of hip-hop, meant
that I was supposed to look a particular way.
And not only was I supposed to look a particular way.
I was supposed to act the particular way and so But it
wasn't the way it was and who I naturally was there was nothing
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of that attracted me. I just appreciated that hip-hop
gave me an opportunity to kind of tell my story which I really
wanted to tell and we can share at another point.
But what what happened was that being the thighs that I was, I
ended up being in this group right with with a killer flow,
but when people initially saw me, they thought a few things
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about me, they assumed that I was either.
The manager of the group of the guys, I was either the girl who
was going to sing the hooks. Or I was the girlfriend of one
of the guys never in their wildest dreams that.
I think that that they think that I was the one of the MCS.
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And so this became an issue because I also started finding
myself being backstage of spacesthat in the backstage of, you
know, clubs and auditoriums and being in spaces with so many
men, because they were so LittleWomen and most of the women,
When we were just were just workers.
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We work, we were the worker beesor the girlfriends or all the
things people thought that I wasright.
And I started finding myself andlosing the part of my femininity
Because I started wearing biggerhoodies and more things to cover
my body. I mean, hey I'm voluptuous, this
is what it is, you know, I'm notout here throwing it all out
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there but I'm still a woman, right?
There's just kind of ways that you want to flow and you feel
beautiful. And and so I found myself really
losing a part of like such a bigpart of myself within this
hip-hop because of how people saw me and that I knew that I
was not in safe spaces, so What happens is?
I'm like okay I'm a woman in hip-hop.
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There is no safe space for me. Like there is no safe place for
me. I could be with the guys but
they can only do so much. Right.
And what's with the amount of violence that hip-hop still kind
of has behind it, right? There's like this weird violence
that we get down if we need to get down.
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I never wanted to put the guys in a situation where we could
end up dead or somebody else. In the dead.
And so all off of just meeting this woman within this space,
right and feeling unsafe. So I was like, I don't want to
do this anymore, I really do notwant to participate in and what
that feels like, and if it's me and I'm pretty strong, I can't
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even know. There aren't other women doing
the work doing what they love todo, which is rhyming and telling
their story because who really wants to be able to that have
already been. And you don't Bigger warning
have already been molested in our hole in our neighborhoods
and our homes raved. I mean, who really wants to keep
putting themselves in a situation where you just don't
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know what is going to happen. If somebody can violate you your
app, your body. So anyways um when I was able to
step out of that and come to this realization, I was like
what are we gonna do about the name that are now?
Have been watching me perform. I am a part of the If I do not
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do something. So then I create I created mom
and Hip-Hop kitchen with Kathleen Adams and it was really
based off of creating a safe space.
So mama said, pop kitchen is an all-women's hip-hop event that
happens once a year in the SouthBronx, the birthplace of the
Bronx and the height to highlight obviously women in
hip-hop or also giving us a space to talk about reproductive
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Justice to talk about domestic violence to talk about all of
those things that are happening to us and that our hip hop the
way we decide to use it. The way, we decide to tell our
story, our narrative it is our narrative, it's not water down,
it's not played around with it. Is it is an inter General a
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generation of use me intergenerational.
It's a community thing. So everyone gets to witness
sisters telling her those that identify as women telling their
story and it's just a that warmth of okay, like my
community knows that this is what I want.
This is what I'm talking about right now.
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So it's like a really cool, sexy, sweet medicine, you know?
So using hip-hop from what my story was that I wasn't safe.
So then having being like, I need to create something.
So it's 15 years later and we'restill doing, you know Mama
Tip-Up kitchenware on a pause right now, covid.
Ha Ben but we're gonna pause right now but we did it for 15
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years Street and we're able to create give young people the
opportunity to again, tell theirstory.
But it's beyond just telling your story.
It's what are the things that what are the Lessons Learned?
What are you learning about yourself and how can you share
that with other people? So we had folk young women that
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were with us since they were like, 82.
There were 18, you know that we're with US every year that
went from being a performer thenpoets to then doing
behind-the-scenes stuff and being the command the host.
And so for me that is a Solutions that's a creating a
solution out of a pretty negative situation.
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And really it was it's about hergreatest power is believing in
herself, right? And being like I have on my
shirt like being a giant glass, So that work and I'll make it
really quick. That work has afforded me the
opportunity to be an expert in in social, emotional learning
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ultimately, right? Because I was the one picking
the folk and supporting them with their stories and placing
them in the timeline where it where it went perfectly.
So there could be a flow. So like this cultural curation
like curating this this The culture of women in hip hop, on
a stage to present to others. Became something that now, you
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know, I do my work around the world doing that, but also other
people are doing Mama's, hip-hop, Kitchen in their own
way. They took something from it and
we're like, I need to do this inmy community.
I need to do this in my so it's been really beautiful to see how
it's grown and how it has been preserved and taken care of by
the people who are the stakeholders themselves.
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That's powerful and you've planted so many seeds across the
world to not just in the US. And like you said, they take
something from it. Get inspired and motivated and
create something unique and special to celebrate culture,
curating culture. You know, curating Positive
Vibes, a positive narrative, that there is hope, and that's
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very important. Yeah, that's and it's I one more
thing, really, Italy is I reallylearned that I it's not about
confronting situations, it's about care fronting situations.
So not that aggressive, which iswhat I was used to.
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I'm going to confront the situation far, right?
Um I learned with my own stuff that I couldn't confront myself
cuz all I was going to keep doing was harming myself.
I didn't have anything positive to add to myself.
I had to care for myself and askmyself.
A place of like Mamita to Sarah,Kay, some of the that doesn't
feel good. Like so in what ways can we
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support you, you know, in havinga better experience in this life
and so that's that's the energy that I like care front
situations, instead of confront here.
Francine just allows you the space to be empathetic and to
have compassion and to be well, within yourself as the person
that's asking the questions to write and know you're not a
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harmer but you're just you really want to support.
Port, whatever. The situation is so Amen.
Amen. And and that's and, and I know
we're going to be doing some more conversations, having some
more conversations, but I feel like this set you up now for
what you're doing now, which is even more powerful.
(43:37):
More impactful, not to say that that wasn't, but it's not a
bigger scale, right? You're, you're reaching even
more people and you're showing people, Casey said boilie she
said with it, Out. She said, way I love that when I
first heard like I heard see step with.
I love SI SE puede obviously, but she said where they wound
(43:59):
being a girl, dad, that, that tome is like she's gonna have a
couple shirts like that. And she's always going to hear
that, right? She's always gonna hear that.
What's what some words of wisdomthings, you can share to, to
round out. This, this mini interview
because we hinted, like I said, this is the a petty Thief who
you only getting a little bit, alittle bit of Mofongo a house
(44:23):
phone call just a little bit, you know?
But what's some words of wisdom,you can leave to the community
that when they are encounter with all these crazy narratives.
Again thrown Adam what can they do to learn about a narrative?
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They can relate to but also one They can learn about themselves
because there's different things, right?
Because learning about yourself,I feel you and your able to
shift, but what are some things,a hundred percent?
It's not. I think you're on E 100% like we
have to stop pretending that theinner work and healing the inner
(45:11):
child and doing, I'm telling yourself the truth about your
story and Care fronting yourselfand figuring out the details.
Feels like about yourself. That that, that, that is the
key. I like their can't, we are
running around having expectations of people as people
(45:34):
ourselves who have not done the work, you learned that you can't
really have expectations of people.
Once you really do the work of, it's like, how much of yourself
can you expect can people expectfrom you, right?
And so, I would say that what I am liquid, I've lived on is to
be able to produce the way that I produce and to be able to show
up in a way that's positive and have been through this at length
(45:58):
Uzi, hasn't that I have for lifeis really like I am who I've
been waiting for Period. Like I, there is, I can hope and
he have out, but like, what is it that I can do?
What is within my capacity? What can I do to get closer to
that desire? That I have?
So that thing that I see that that I'm visualizing that.
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So that Divine, download that pops into my heart.
And I'm like, oh my God, there'sa snow and I'm inspired.
There's this new thing I want todo.
Like I am who I've been waiting for.
Yes, the we have a support system and a group that
hopefully that Support, but really digging and putting the
seed in and putting this, you know, whatever you have to put
(46:40):
on top and then put back and Biggie and watering it and
making sure that it has a no sun.
And like, that's my job, that's my responsibility.
So what I would say what I wouldoffer up operate, is that the
concept of self Justice before Seeking Justice for everybody
else, seek Justice for yourself.By telling you being brave
(47:04):
enough and being courageous enough to ask yourself the tough
questions. So you could get that monkey out
of the way. So you can have a clear path
because you deserve it because you're worth it.
All of the trauma. It's going from the work is
really to go from a trauma trauma and Trauma.
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From a trauma traumatic space togoing into a heating centered
space. Your work is to transform to
transform your life to be in a healing space.
You don't have to stay in traumaforever, that's like not really
necessary especially if it's abstract after a while.
You can't even go back and grab it would, they're allowed to
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talk about about that. You know, I love this is the
stuff that I love. So I'm really just that
transformation. Giving yourself the opportunity
of telling yourself that Ruth believing that you are who you
been waiting for and starting tosee your life from a heating
centered lens like having healing centered engagement,
that's how you're engaging with your life as from a Healing
(48:09):
Center place, you got to do thatwork before, you got to figure
out that trauma. Why are you showing up the way
that you're showing love? And so, that's what I can offer
before doing all this other stuff like you're still going to
be judgmental and all of these things, if you don't, if you
don't Don't have the language within yourself about yourself.
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Yeah I creating safe language for yourself.
What you're telling yourself. It's a lot of work but it's so
worth it and it's a lifelong journey but you have way more
rewards. You feel way more full in life,
less miserable less grumpy when you take care of yourself.
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So your self-care is really Collective care.
Yeah, so the positive spin is take care of yourself, right?
And it's not be selfish and whatever if that's what people
want to consider it fine but take care of yourself.
Like what are the things that you need in order to be well?
And, and that? And after that, everybody else
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will benefit from like having a positive energy around them and
we could do more things than we can build because things like
trust and like that, you need Integrity that you need in order
to build a safe community. Unity, if you're not that in
your own life, you're never going to be able to be that in a
and our community and you because you are a harming agent
(49:38):
and I was a farmer in my own wayand I had to discover some
things about myself and make that shift because I didn't want
to live like that. We all have something so but
it's worth working on and you'reworth recovering a man and I
love you. Amen.
Were the words from the worst from Le TT.
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And this is again as I say and Ibet edu, that's what we're
probably gonna call. We're going to rename the show
and I bet he do love it. I appreciate before we get off.
I just want to say that contribution, your contribution
to humanity, your contributions to my Humanity, like me as an
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individual, like it was really nice.
To move to New York from Chicagoand experience the quality of
person that you are. Thank you, right?
And that was a really cool because there's so many
different characters. But you're so even Keel, and
your, and your flow is even Q. It's cool.
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And I know you have a lot of energy, but I know, you know how
to balance that and but your consistency that piece like your
integrity really created a space.
For a lot of people to trust youand you've kept it up and you've
been awesome and I'm so excited for your family that you, your
daughter will be able to hear from your heard father's friends
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of what an influence and what a positive impact he has had as
someone who documents has been documenting.
Just so many parts of our Latinolife's are thicker.
They don't lifelike just gratitude for the type of
journalists that you are. You know, that's how I see you
(51:30):
even through your music and all like just what a great way to
capture people's stories. And so I feel honored to have
been able to be a part of this recap and be chosen for the next
season and I just did you a lot of a lot more positivity and a
lot more abundance because you deserve it.
You know, I see a manner that that means a lot.
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That means a lot. It doesn't, it doesn't take care
of them in controlling Corazon. They get older gravity as well
man. They so allow for no car you in.
Yo, I couldn't finish the show without giving them a shout-out
day. So my brother beat iy Art Space,
if you have not been there, me in to check it out.
And also his single hang here, ahas laced this season because
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the instrumental has been playedthroughout every episode in
PSAs. So me and that's a fun fact and
the song itself has won countless Awards, the video
Melvin, Aldous has been just a blessing today so and they still
to him. They've done so many things and
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Angie Hernandez. Big shout-out to day, Souls mom,
you know to so many people, you know, all the guests.
Everybody me Gente, all the 30 guests have been on.
Thank you. You have made me a better
person, a better human being a force to be reckoned with now
(52:58):
more than ever because I always believed that I was.
But each episode you build and you grow and you learn every
story, you hear from every word of wisdom, you learn from, and
that's the power of Storytelling.
That's The Power of inclusive storytelling.
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Culture, Familia, overcoming adversity, and Legacy at
approximately a too-sami Gente happy 50th, man.
That's right, that's right. You have to sorry, did you know
Savvy a ski season 2 featured 30guests and episodes doubling the
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cultural content for season one that's quite impressive.
If you ask me, the audience, continue to grow in the US and
internationally new countries toA propellant a where Aaron Tina?
Colombia, Guatemala La, república, Dominicana Venezuela,
India France, Pakistan, Sweden, New Zealand, Netherlands,
(54:01):
Trinidad, and Tobago to my International audience.
Thank you for listening and don't be shy to request a show
live. I got my bags packed and ready
to go to all my guests. Thank you for believing in my
vision. Investing your time and trusting
me to share your story. You are part of something
special, that continues. To inspire listeners around the
world. I'm so grateful honored and
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blessed to build a platform thatcelebrates culture through story
telling stories Unitas, by learning about our differences,
which are much more similar thanthey see stories are therapeutic
for the soul and connect us to give us hope and we are
searching for inspiration stories.
Create a narrative that is fires, positive change.
Now more than ever real stories need to be told and shared so
that false narratives don't become the norm.
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Thank you for your support. Me Andy own deals.
Do a specific Santi. Ramona's, gracias for working
your magic on the edits, and even being a special guest on
the show, this season. The Best Is Yet To Come, at my,
to my little being a TV. Anime, I loving wife, I'm there,
Amelia, the sangria spiritually,Amigos, your love and support
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drive me to be a better. Father, husband, and human
being. This is why I continue to make
the impossible possible to my ancestors and guardian angels,
thank you for your sacrifices, so I can be here.
Lucy Progreso, Para Siempre, none of this will Be possible,
if a young family, never left Cuba more than 50 years ago for
swing America. The American dream gracias Mami
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Papi e te Te Quiero Mucho. See you in season 3, me Gente.
Hasta la próxima Blondie. Be possible, if a young family,
never left Cuba more than 50 years ago for swing America.
The American dream gracias Mami Papi e te Te Quiero Mucho.
See you in season 3, me Gente. Hasta la próxima Blondie.
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I'm your host here at Listen, buddy, gracias for listening, as
we wrap up season 2. Episode 28 is not just a recap
of the 50th episode overall 4cm.Propellant, a to celebrate this
amazing Milestone. I invited someone special whose
faith in energy alone, move mountains, decipher Latinas.
No, stranger to uplifting the community by wrapping her
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culture and empowering the next generation of leaders.
Lot, 80 is a humanitarian. Organizer activist MC songstress
proud, BBW and Visionaries. Eager for the 21st century,
that's only scratching the surface of what she brings to
the table. Get ready to be inspired me
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beautiful, love you. So thankful.
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For all is well, on my end, you know, just moving through.
So happy to be here to be able to be on this.
Doing the recap for the previousepisodes and just getting into
the flow of your work and your ministry and how and just you
know it's just nice to be in thesame space with someone who's
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passionate and enthusiastic about life.
So thank you for having me here which I can I say about the know
what you what you have done and continue to do.
His Monumental, it's important, it's important that we are
seeing heard respected and you make sure you check off all
those things and more and more, you know, you bring that song,
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you bring that size song to the table.
And that's what we need. That's what we need.
Tell us a little bit. What you've been up to because I
mean, I know you from the music days from Latinos Latinas and
Hip-Hop. You know, you were tearing those
mics down and From NYC to shot down to LA International.
I mean you internationally knownon a microphone.
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So let's be very well. I am currently in a really cool
space which is why I have the time to actually like show up,
right? And be fully present.
I'm in a, you know, sabbatical right now.
So this is like me getting off. Mathematical, but this is where
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I'm supposed to be. So I'm good.
I'm aligned. With the work has been really
teaching children how to use hip-hop as a healing tool
globally, just being a global global archivist, right?
Social emotional learning specifically, with children that
live like under bridges and in refugee camps and in some of the
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darkest spaces that you can imagine, but being able to use
hip-hop as that tool to get themto tell their story.
So And and then that right just that emotional release work,
that's super critical. So that's what I've been doing.
Then covid kind of head. So I was like okay God it's time
for me to rest and recharge. So this is now I am I do some
(03:45):
behind-the-scenes work for a nonprofit organizations making
sure that they're executing, whatever it is that they need to
execute when it comes to the grant part and which is nice and
it's behind the scenes and it's not don't have to be performed.
Arming or anything like that. I just get to get into the
nitty-gritty and stay connected with Community the way that I
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like to say is this my own revolutionary way of doing
things right now, while I'm quiet.
So CCAA, Anthony your library. Do you know, she gave you the
appetizer, she gave you a littlebit.
Little bit little sign. She get a little more phone go.
Like we talked a little more fungal, a a moon you don't block
the needle like the who say you know she put a little bit on
(04:28):
there and just like here they will throw.
Okay. That's it.
That's it, that's it, that's it,that's it.
She's like, that's it, Bobby yougotta wait for the main course.
All right? That's how she does.
And also, I got to give you yourflowers.
Did you mention the activism? Because I think, System is
always been in your blood. I mean, you know, after already
qua representing La, Cultura 24/7, but activism is in your
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DNA from an early age and it's grown into so many different
facets that you've inspired the community but there's also a
piece with music and people, it's interesting because some
people might know you from you know you advocating in your
schooling, people educating the masses.
(05:13):
Nonprofits. But that music side.
Tell us a little snippet of thatbecause you got to give us a
little bit of that song and thatin that realm, come on little
bit. And I'm so proud to have been a
part of such an important part of the history of immigration.
Like the of the migration into this country and the 2000s right
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the early 2000s, what a what a way to just be what a moment to
be alive. So I was blessed enough to be
has a street journalists like a hood journalist and use hip-hop
as the way to tell the stories of the people that were actually
experiencing. Some things not necessarily
telling just my story or a made-up story about myself
(05:57):
because hip-hop also gives you that opportunity to imbue lie a
little bit. So, real challenge, right?
Or? Or create, create a story for
yourself, where you get to your manifesting, let's put it like
that battle. Um, you know, having to have
this deep Integrity around the work of around, what's going on
(06:18):
with the people and telling their story from a space of
like, this is really what's going on.
There is this, these are the details of what's going on and
you know, being about saddle using hip-hop to be avoided.
Like the Bose do that part of mylife, that part of being an
activist. It came from you know just being
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a boutique or that understands that we're still a Colony of the
United States of America, you know, and doing that work since
I was I feel like since I was born but you know, since a very
young age I'm having that consciousness of what Liberation
what is Liberation and like, howI don't, how can I be a part of
it? So that's what That's what the
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music gave me a an opportunity to tell the stories of other
people and in that same frame where the family taneous.
Lee start telling myself the truth about my own story and get
healing up for myself, really cool stuff, man.
Really cool stuff not as beautiful.
Thank you for sharing that and again, she gave you another
(07:23):
little updated, evil, another appetizer.
And this one, this one, this onewas a little bit, let's say this
one's like what? Yeah, so this is a little sign
there. So but now we're going to get
into going to shift a little bitshift, the energy into this
recap and give our guests, the flowers.
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It's been an amazing season to 30 episodes is 28, if you look
on the dial, but it's technically 30, because I did a
part 1 and 2 for some of the Recaps.
So 30 episodes this week, this marks the 50th episode, right?
So it's, it's been a beautiful journey and it's only going to
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get better. It's only going to elevate.
More is only going to reach more, the millions and millions
of people are gonna share it to more, millions of people, that's
how it is, you know? And and, and all willing through
the ancestors through the gods, you know?
Bobby DeLeo big shout out to theancestors.
I always find time to give them their flowers within the
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episode. So Now's the Time.
So peace and blessings to the ancestors episode, 25, episode
25. And we're talking about food and
it's funny were talking about food.
This episode is all about food and the journey of these two
Cuban, brothers and sisters alecky.
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Vicky those croquettas. If you haven't been to those
croquettas in Miami, they're theonly craft croquette that bar.
Let that sink in for a little bit.
Oh, croquettas. Now, I do have other things and
they do mashups and things, and they got whooping, yah,
slushies. And I'm going to stop because
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they were going to go through the menu, either, like,
intimately coronavirus gonna be really upset that, you know,
Daddy, and he died or like, hey,we talkin about fool.
You got no middle name? Give me so this episode is
called da me. Those croquettas in cafecito,
give me to croquettas. A Coquette Coquette, Uncle
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croquettes and a coffee. And this clip right here.
The interesting Journey. These folks got in a big
shout-out to them. I was well, received, I got to
visit them last year. I mean, put out a spread for me
it was serious. Like, Buffalo crack, chicken,
croquette croquettas, medianoche, crooked, as Cinnamon
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Toast Crunch, I believe croquettas over your eye.
Played a clip. It's a when in Miami like I
said, what am I a me? Check them out.
Very clean, very professional. You walking, you feel like
you're part of the family tropical Vibe.
It's just the place to be and they're building something very
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special. So let's play this clip and then
we can Vibe out to it and give our perspectives.
My mom was always whatever you wanted to do.
You can do they always push thisforward, you It's funny because
my parents are a little bit of astraight-laced kind of people,
but that's really that integrity.
And that honesty is really what is instilled in us.
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And in the restaurant having that kind of honesty with people
and having that kind of integrity and our food and in
the warmth that we give to people and I know that people
can go anywhere they want to in a restaurant.
And so what we want to do and wehope to always do is provide
that kind of warmth and that Experience.
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Just what I said building on thelittle introduction about who
they are, what's the vibe you got right off the bat?
I can, I can feel it in her voice.
I can feel her. The warmth of her family in her
voice, which is so beautiful, which means like imagine how
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that translates into the food, like that there's actually that
piece that she said, Integrity like, Like that piece.
That that's it. That's the math, right?
Is like, I can I want to show upand represent my what I was
raised inside of like I want to give it to other people because
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it was abundant. So it says, do by like that.
I'm going when I get some hairy weird.
You heard it? I like Vicki, you got another
customer coming your way. Another customer or two or three
because listen that it rolls deep.
Don't get it twisted. She has a network that is
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international. Like she lands.
It's like people know she's coming and then you know like a
photographer's and everybody's waiting at the airport.
It's like she got put on her Shades.
She's like, I gotta duck out of here, she got a duck out of
here. You listen, she knows people.
I mean it's the power of it. Work.
And and that is something that II seen that firsthand years ago
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when I met her after the shows and then her production Mama's
hip-hop kitchen for the soul, right?
That was serious. So when seeing those movements
grow in the power of that, that's narrative me, Hindi.
It's it's real quick. I will Rea, it's really it just
connects exactly to what the sister said which is Agra T,
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that that's what gives people the put people in a position to
trust you. When they're like, oh you're
consistent. Oh man, you coming through with
like the realness every single time.
Oh wow. You know, if I'm keeping tabs on
the your how you're showing up every time I arrived I wrote you
know, run into you. Wow, this is pretty.
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It's pretty consistent. Okay, this feels solid.
Okay, this feels more like a pillar.
Okay, I'm honest. I know that I can stand.
Here, because this ain't wavering.
You know, and we just don't wantto be out here, just unstable
like we can afford to be unstable, we need people to
depend on that we could depend on.
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I mean, in that are consistent and sustainable like all those
words are powerful and when you see the other you hurt you said
the word integrity and today's age, I mean, everybody's trying
to be someone that they're not. They're doing filters, they're
just listen, be you. There's only one.
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Oh, one like, when you were created is 11.
That's it, bro, dude. They might Hina.
And then two young male, how enthusiastic our creator was
every single with every little want to put this on, to give her
these eyes. I'm gonna give her these curves
foggy. Think she's gonna be able to
walk into a room and, you know, Captivate people with just this
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essence I'm going to give her. I want to give her a little, put
it up a little bit man that enthusiasm think of the Creator
and the enthusiasm that was there.
Like man it's cool to think thatbeyond what I think about myself
that my Creator. It was sees me really for
realize the Masterpiece. Thank you.
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How else am I supposed to show up then with integrity?
That's right man. For real, you know I get hyped
up about this stuff out of a I know I know you do I know you do
I know you two are late. I'm late.
I'm let you go because it's important that people hear this
because there's a lot of young girls out there that are
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listening to the show. Women out there, Elders out
there that are women, women of color all women.
And we need to hear with Man that are doing their thing like
lot 80 and inspiring. So that's important.
Big shout-out to Vicki, yeah. Legality Vicky, the dynamic duo,
do anything for those croquettas.
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I'll be there soon this year. I know I got a trip coming up.
So be ready because I'm about toorder everything off the menu
That's facts because you guys are building something so
special and the community loves you there.
Adore. You.
So giving you your flowers and we're going to be connecting
soon. Episode.
Right? That was episode 25.
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So if you haven't heard that one, you got a chance to catch
up episode 26, inspiring you to live artfully and beautifully
featuring creatress side, IE Maura she is a VR sculptor
performing, artists, and speaker.
So she's done so much with the black team.
And if T's are performing art, Imean, she does VR.
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Performing art, like, performance artist with VR.
It's insane. This conversation was very
beautiful, very just calming andthe message.
I mean, so many messages in thatconversation, but this one's,
this one's a pretty cool one. So let's check it out.
Sometimes it's not that you can't do something, it's just
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gonna have to put a little bit more patience than to it and it
can happen. Just sometimes not on the
timeline that you set for yourself.
And I think that has also taughtme to just be flexible with
myself and some things in life. He just can't control.
So having faith in the journey and in myself that even if it's
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not happening right now or tomorrow, it will happen.
Just got to kind of stay with it.
Not despair. I figure I saw you.
I saw you were ready. You were like ready to let it's
so, I ever made are going to sentimiento, you know?
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Because this year, how cool is this?
Thank you for that because this year my my conversation with
myself or my Mantra has been I fully trust my ever unfolding
path. And I don't like anybody but I
trusted, you know, a delay is isnot denial.
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You know, steam a low C IU, not Balsa, maybe that's for
protection because that's not where I'm supposed to be right
now, right? So this is the spirit of
discernment is really activated when you're in this place.
Like I have to be patient. It's like, okay, your spirit is
telling you slow down just to allow, do you trust me?
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Do you not referring to rock outbut it's going to be when it's
going to be perfect because you deserve that because you're
worth that. So like I won.
Yeah, see a beautiful or they she's beautiful.
What a cool Spirit. No I see.
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It was amazing. I got connected with her through
my man. Suleiman on Quay he is another
amazing muralist artist designer.
This brother Suleiman I met him at 2016 Comic Con and the funny
thing is our story is so wild. Like I get out the train, you
know, I got Penn Station. Boom, boom, get up.
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Walk up and I'm, you know, waiting for my Uber and I see
this brother next to me and I asked him, hey, you going to
Comic-Con and I'm all excited like a little kid.
This is my first comic con, I'm a big geek so I was like ahh,
I'm so excited. Like I was like my 10 year old
self was like wow, I got money in my pocket, I'm like 10, but I
got money in my pocket. I can buy stuff and like see me
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people and whatever so I see himand start talking.
So what do you do you know? I'm an artist.
Oh cool. Cool.
It was you going to Comic-Con? He's like, yeah, I got he has
his stuff with him as I said, because, you know how, to get
those again. It's been a week.
I got an Uber. Oh, it's right here.
You want to come? And he just kind of looked at me
like, You sure? I was like, why not?
I was like sorry page for. Don't worry about it man.
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Come on, let's go. Let's do it.
So we so it was while we sat in there and I said well you got
and then he's showing me his work and it was like a five
minute ride but I was like I didn't feel like walking I
wanted to get there. I said what do you got?
Oh this is so much like how muchis this?
And he's looking at me. Like this guy is not even
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questioning and supporting and showing love.
And it was, it was dope. It was like so cool.
It's like you go inside it. You gotta sign it though.
And he said, he signed his work and I put on my backpack and I
so let's go. He goes, let me give you a
warning, a fair warning when youwalk in, is going to be a lot.
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And it was so true as I walked inside.
And he stood next to me goes howI feel How's it feel?
He's like, how does that feel? I was like his feels amazing.
It's like there's so many peoplehere.
Just chilling. Everybody's just geeking out and
smiling and having fun. And he goes.
Listen, I'll be with you throughout the day.
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Here's my number, just hit me upwherever you're at, and we can
just link up wherever, and he introduced me to so many artists
and people and just a really cool brother and it didn't stop.
So we maintain Action. He's been on the show season
one, and I started getting involved, you know, in the
digital space, with learning about different entity, things
(20:56):
and creatress, and him knew eachother.
And he's like, hey, you gotta have her on the show.
I was like, absolutely. And here we are, I want to give
him his flowers because it's important that when we connect
with people, there's people thatconnect us to and the
interesting piece is I'm a lead it too.
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Ooh, how we connected with Sano and give him his flowers right
now. Sino in Sun.
Oh man we miss you. We love you.
I know you still making moves because you still connecting
people from from from up top. You know, I know you are near
your spirit form is really moving and shaking but yes, I
know connected me to Rebel Diaz which Daddy was the key member
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of Rebel Diaz? I knew that, because when I saw
her perform, I was like, yep. Got to be on.
She's got to be all my all my work like Connor I gotta get on
the mixtape and yeah, I mean, it's also again, giving flowers
to people and now we were talking about creatress
creatress. The name alone creatress side,
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IE, Maura creatress, inside out.I see you and I'm Somali.
You dropping, you know, taking the opportunity to be in phases
and like, and, and share your wisdom.
Man, we need that. That's where we're at.
We need people not gatekeeping. We need people sharing the
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information so that our young people can have more access, you
know, more access than what we had more more.
That's a wonderful. So, thank you for sharing and
how critical patients is in about faith word.
And I think about how we reconnected because when I
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started This new platform and building this media Empire and a
positive influence and culture and Familia, and good things for
the world. I reached out to her daddy and I
remember like we kept missing each other.
The time wasn't right? All right, we talked about how
sometimes we get fresh man, I work.
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But I always kept you on that list like this master list that
I have. I was like, I'm gonna get her on
the show not today. Tomorrow, we're here right now
and, and just a little, little little, little little like leak.
She going to be part of season 3.
It's just, it's official. So just let you know that me
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Gente. She's gonna be coming at you
non-stop. It's like it's like that saying
you you can't stop or you could only hope to contain her group,
hope hope hope. This is fun.
I appreciate it's nice to have people that love you, you know,
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as I want to nurture you and that are feel like you're
important in the world and, you know, sometimes we don't feel
like that for ourselves. So it always takes people
outside that see us to remind us.
And, you know, and also just like the ancestor component,
right? Just also having those behind us
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and then having those in the present moment and then those
that are in the The future that our, you know, our future selves
is still doing the work in the present.
Isn't that crazy? That's true.
That is just crazy. So where our ancestors wildest
dreams? For sure, for sure, I really,
really am is so wild and I'm seeing it and I'm living in, but
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people like side IE is she, you know with the end of teeth and
all that stuff it's like there'sthat futuristic energy that also
Comes from from her spirit, which is nice, you know, to see
lobbying and women of color within that world and feeling
powerful within it and confidentas dope as he's repping Mexico.
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She's rubbing Mexico. So today, yeah, that's right.
Big shout out to Mexico. So, the next episode, which is
Really a special one because this is a brother.
I read his book Brown enough today Cindy from bodies of
culture featuring. Christopher Reeve has he's an
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actor author podcaster storyteller Yes, let's listen to
this clip. My version of spirituality now
is so many things, but the basisof it, is that every human being
desires to be seen and to know that they belong.
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I believe that is true. So much of what we do is to
know. We are enough, we are worthy of
being singing. Heard we are in safe spaces of
belonging powerful, as powerful.And that's only a clip of the
episode that's only a clip. Mmm-hmm, that's a deep one
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that's like an Awakening that creates this spirit is like
creating Awakening for people and giving um, permission.
Sometimes we need people to giveus permission because we're so
broken right now that our spiritis broken, but just the
exhaustion that from experiencing like, Harmful
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people like is so you know that's what makes us feel like.
We don't balloon is being aroundpeople that harm us, right?
He's like you can never find that space.
So Chris says that piece about being worthy of belonging like
that were worth belonging somewhere being seen and that's
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a part of the work that I've been doing.
Myself is just like telling myself.
I told you at the beginning thatI'm resting.
So this resonates with me on an another Littles in another
space, in my spirit because it'slike this concept of, I'm worthy
of recovery. Man, bro.
Like with the amount of the things that I feel like I've
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done in what has been 40 years of my life, at least a good 3735
of it, because I know I've been since I've been conscious
conscious that five I've been working Like I'm I was woke and
then I was like, oh my got things to do I got to be a good
friend. I got to be a good daughter to
my parent. I have to do good in school like
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I we all start working at a really young age and whatever
that's not brought into the mix as much but I am 43 years old at
really are for when covid. Hit is when I was like, oh, I
could die. I need to the whole slow down
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and I have been seen, how can I see myself, right?
And like where do I belong in all of this?
Do I belong out in the world taking care of everybody or do I
belong inside of the, my household taking care of my
elderly parents that need the support.
I can't wait for, I can't expectthe caretaker to do, what it is
that I would do for my parents. And so that concept of we as a
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family are worthy of recovery has Has been at the Forefront of
my life with the Within These last, for sure, two-and-a-half
three years. So I'm thankful for Chris and
you know, the color of my skin is one thing but the I know how
vibrant my spirit is like how much of a rainbow it really is,
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and how Prismatic it is, and howmuch, right?
So figuring out where all those little colors fit and this
spectrum of life is a Is necessary.
But you got to tell yourself thetruth.
You got to tell yourself the real story, so him being a
Storyteller and being confident enough and courageous enough to
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talk about this kind of stuff isjust changes the world.
This is what changes the world. You're the uncomfortable
conversations. And you gotta get comfortable to
being uncomfortable to getting uncomfortable.
And that's very important, that's very important.
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And what, what the most uncomfortable thing is, telling
your story because you're putting everything on the table,
good bad, ugly and different whatever.
Maybe but embracing that embracing the perfect
imperfections. That's very important in what
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But you know what he does with Chris does its I mean, just the
book is Broad enough and then the subtitle here is the two
stories about or true stories. True stories about love
violence, the student, loan crisis, Hollywood Race, Familia,
and making it in America. I mean this is a big shout out.
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There we go, there we go. Give him a little plug right
there. He hinted go out.
Buy a book or to give one to someone and keep one for
yourself. It's very important.
That we support are brown, blackindigenous, Asian storytellers
that are telling narratives thatare that we can relate to.
(30:34):
Because if we don't support them, like you go out, you need
a phone. You're going to support apple.
Or you need, you know, some sneakers, you go.
Some Port Nike is support these big corporations.
Are you need to buy something onAmazon?
Why don't you support authors that are telling real stories
(30:57):
from the book comes out? You know, stop saying, I need a
hook-up. Stop saying, I need a discount.
Just buy the book word, you don't do that for any other
product so why do you do that toyour own people?
Like pretty John but but but Chris is cool because he also
before Brown enough, he had thispodcast called rubirosa or feet.
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You're rubirosa is the real James Bond.
I'm Elite that out there and people will be like, what are
you talking about? Listen to the show, you'll see
what I'm talking, but it's Dominican James Bond.
So, James Bond was based off a Dominican diplomat.
So we will be xhosa rubirosa rubirosa.
Check it out. Me and day and he's an actor.
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I mean Storyteller. He's what doesn't he do?
So giving him his flowers. Thank you.
My friends for being on, thank you for Carlos.
His management team ikigai management.
Thank you. Appreciate you.
Let's continue to work together.And that is for all the guests
that we just talked about. Let's continue to build as
continue to do things. Things, it doesn't stop.
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Here you are part of this year. But if I want a violent, a
simply pa'lante, family McGinty.When you get a chance, take it a
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We're going to round out this amazing recap with you, talk a
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little bit about what you were doing but I want to get into
more of what your work is and helping inspire a positive
narrative and Positive Solutions.
Because what happens is, we hearwhat the problem is.
And we discussed this that there's a panel discussion.
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There's a conference there, An event, everybody's excited and
you're sitting there and it's almost like you hear those
words? Wait for it and you're
constantly sitting there waitingfor it.
What's the solution? Because we know what the problem
is. We time and time again, it's
just so share with us a little bit about what you're doing.
(33:36):
That helps provide solutions to counter this negativity to
counter this false narrative. Wow, that's a really that's
wonderful. I'm glad that that is where your
mind is at. And that's what, that's where
you want to go in these conversations with folk and that
you pull that out of them, because it is very easy to get
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caught up in the everyday negativity, 100%, whether it's
what we're watching on TV or within our own families Right.
That are our become, we become our own oppressor in a sense,
right? Which is so heartbreaking
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battle. I can give an example of a
sudden how I created a solution,or what, what, what my Solutions
driven Spirit kind of was able to create.
So, you know, I was in all I wasin a hip-hop group.
It was me, and two men being a part of as of as a woman, that
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is a bit of a bigger body, right?
In the early 2000s. Being a part of hip-hop, meant
that I was supposed to look a particular way.
And not only was I supposed to look a particular way.
I was supposed to act the particular way and so But it
wasn't the way it was and who I naturally was there was nothing
(35:05):
of that attracted me. I just appreciated that hip-hop
gave me an opportunity to kind of tell my story which I really
wanted to tell and we can share at another point.
But what what happened was that being the thighs that I was, I
ended up being in this group right with with a killer flow,
but when people initially saw me, they thought a few things
(35:29):
about me, they assumed that I was either.
The manager of the group of the guys, I was either the girl who
was going to sing the hooks. Or I was the girlfriend of one
of the guys never in their wildest dreams that.
I think that that they think that I was the one of the MCS.
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And so this became an issue because I also started finding
myself being backstage of spacesthat in the backstage of, you
know, clubs and auditoriums and being in spaces with so many
men, because they were so LittleWomen and most of the women,
When we were just were just workers.
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We work, we were the worker beesor the girlfriends or all the
things people thought that I wasright.
And I started finding myself andlosing the part of my femininity
Because I started wearing biggerhoodies and more things to cover
my body. I mean, hey I'm voluptuous, this
is what it is, you know, I'm notout here throwing it all out
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there but I'm still a woman, right?
There's just kind of ways that you want to flow and you feel
beautiful. And and so I found myself really
losing a part of like such a bigpart of myself within this
hip-hop because of how people saw me and that I knew that I
was not in safe spaces, so What happens is?
I'm like okay I'm a woman in hip-hop.
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There is no safe space for me. Like there is no safe place for
me. I could be with the guys but
they can only do so much. Right.
And what's with the amount of violence that hip-hop still kind
of has behind it, right? There's like this weird violence
that we get down if we need to get down.
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I never wanted to put the guys in a situation where we could
end up dead or somebody else. In the dead.
And so all off of just meeting this woman within this space,
right and feeling unsafe. So I was like, I don't want to
do this anymore, I really do notwant to participate in and what
that feels like, and if it's me and I'm pretty strong, I can't
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even know. There aren't other women doing
the work doing what they love todo, which is rhyming and telling
their story because who really wants to be able to that have
already been. And you don't Bigger warning
have already been molested in our hole in our neighborhoods
and our homes raved. I mean, who really wants to keep
putting themselves in a situation where you just don't
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know what is going to happen. If somebody can violate you your
app, your body. So anyways um when I was able to
step out of that and come to this realization, I was like
what are we gonna do about the name that are now?
Have been watching me perform. I am a part of the If I do not
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do something. So then I create I created mom
and Hip-Hop kitchen with Kathleen Adams and it was really
based off of creating a safe space.
So mama said, pop kitchen is an all-women's hip-hop event that
happens once a year in the SouthBronx, the birthplace of the
Bronx and the height to highlight obviously women in
hip-hop or also giving us a space to talk about reproductive
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Justice to talk about domestic violence to talk about all of
those things that are happening to us and that our hip hop the
way we decide to use it. The way, we decide to tell our
story, our narrative it is our narrative, it's not water down,
it's not played around with it. Is it is an inter General a
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generation of use me intergenerational.
It's a community thing. So everyone gets to witness
sisters telling her those that identify as women telling their
story and it's just a that warmth of okay, like my
community knows that this is what I want.
This is what I'm talking about right now.
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So it's like a really cool, sexy, sweet medicine, you know?
So using hip-hop from what my story was that I wasn't safe.
So then having being like, I need to create something.
So it's 15 years later and we'restill doing, you know Mama
Tip-Up kitchenware on a pause right now, covid.
Ha Ben but we're gonna pause right now but we did it for 15
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years Street and we're able to create give young people the
opportunity to again, tell theirstory.
But it's beyond just telling your story.
It's what are the things that what are the Lessons Learned?
What are you learning about yourself and how can you share
that with other people? So we had folk young women that
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were with us since they were like, 82.
There were 18, you know that we're with US every year that
went from being a performer thenpoets to then doing
behind-the-scenes stuff and being the command the host.
And so for me that is a Solutions that's a creating a
solution out of a pretty negative situation.
(40:30):
And really it was it's about hergreatest power is believing in
herself, right? And being like I have on my
shirt like being a giant glass, So that work and I'll make it
really quick. That work has afforded me the
opportunity to be an expert in in social, emotional learning
(40:56):
ultimately, right? Because I was the one picking
the folk and supporting them with their stories and placing
them in the timeline where it where it went perfectly.
So there could be a flow. So like this cultural curation
like curating this this The culture of women in hip hop, on
a stage to present to others. Became something that now, you
(41:22):
know, I do my work around the world doing that, but also other
people are doing Mama's, hip-hop, Kitchen in their own
way. They took something from it and
we're like, I need to do this inmy community.
I need to do this in my so it's been really beautiful to see how
it's grown and how it has been preserved and taken care of by
the people who are the stakeholders themselves.
(41:47):
That's powerful and you've planted so many seeds across the
world to not just in the US. And like you said, they take
something from it. Get inspired and motivated and
create something unique and special to celebrate culture,
curating culture. You know, curating Positive
Vibes, a positive narrative, that there is hope, and that's
(42:11):
very important. Yeah, that's and it's I one more
thing, really, Italy is I reallylearned that I it's not about
confronting situations, it's about care fronting situations.
So not that aggressive, which iswhat I was used to.
(42:32):
I'm going to confront the situation far, right?
Um I learned with my own stuff that I couldn't confront myself
cuz all I was going to keep doing was harming myself.
I didn't have anything positive to add to myself.
I had to care for myself and askmyself.
A place of like Mamita to Sarah,Kay, some of the that doesn't
feel good. Like so in what ways can we
(42:53):
support you, you know, in havinga better experience in this life
and so that's that's the energy that I like care front
situations, instead of confront here.
Francine just allows you the space to be empathetic and to
have compassion and to be well, within yourself as the person
that's asking the questions to write and know you're not a
(43:13):
harmer but you're just you really want to support.
Port, whatever. The situation is so Amen.
Amen. And and that's and, and I know
we're going to be doing some more conversations, having some
more conversations, but I feel like this set you up now for
what you're doing now, which is even more powerful.
(43:37):
More impactful, not to say that that wasn't, but it's not a
bigger scale, right? You're, you're reaching even
more people and you're showing people, Casey said boilie she
said with it, Out. She said, way I love that when I
first heard like I heard see step with.
I love SI SE puede obviously, but she said where they wound
(43:59):
being a girl, dad, that, that tome is like she's gonna have a
couple shirts like that. And she's always going to hear
that, right? She's always gonna hear that.
What's what some words of wisdomthings, you can share to, to
round out. This, this mini interview
because we hinted, like I said, this is the a petty Thief who
you only getting a little bit, alittle bit of Mofongo a house
(44:23):
phone call just a little bit, you know?
But what's some words of wisdom,you can leave to the community
that when they are encounter with all these crazy narratives.
Again thrown Adam what can they do to learn about a narrative?
(44:44):
They can relate to but also one They can learn about themselves
because there's different things, right?
Because learning about yourself,I feel you and your able to
shift, but what are some things,a hundred percent?
It's not. I think you're on E 100% like we
have to stop pretending that theinner work and healing the inner
(45:11):
child and doing, I'm telling yourself the truth about your
story and Care fronting yourselfand figuring out the details.
Feels like about yourself. That that, that, that is the
key. I like their can't, we are
running around having expectations of people as people
(45:34):
ourselves who have not done the work, you learned that you can't
really have expectations of people.
Once you really do the work of, it's like, how much of yourself
can you expect can people expectfrom you, right?
And so, I would say that what I am liquid, I've lived on is to
be able to produce the way that I produce and to be able to show
up in a way that's positive and have been through this at length
(45:58):
Uzi, hasn't that I have for lifeis really like I am who I've
been waiting for Period. Like I, there is, I can hope and
he have out, but like, what is it that I can do?
What is within my capacity? What can I do to get closer to
that desire? That I have?
So that thing that I see that that I'm visualizing that.
(46:18):
So that Divine, download that pops into my heart.
And I'm like, oh my God, there'sa snow and I'm inspired.
There's this new thing I want todo.
Like I am who I've been waiting for.
Yes, the we have a support system and a group that
hopefully that Support, but really digging and putting the
seed in and putting this, you know, whatever you have to put
(46:40):
on top and then put back and Biggie and watering it and
making sure that it has a no sun.
And like, that's my job, that's my responsibility.
So what I would say what I wouldoffer up operate, is that the
concept of self Justice before Seeking Justice for everybody
else, seek Justice for yourself.By telling you being brave
(47:04):
enough and being courageous enough to ask yourself the tough
questions. So you could get that monkey out
of the way. So you can have a clear path
because you deserve it because you're worth it.
All of the trauma. It's going from the work is
really to go from a trauma trauma and Trauma.
(47:27):
From a trauma traumatic space togoing into a heating centered
space. Your work is to transform to
transform your life to be in a healing space.
You don't have to stay in traumaforever, that's like not really
necessary especially if it's abstract after a while.
You can't even go back and grab it would, they're allowed to
(47:48):
talk about about that. You know, I love this is the
stuff that I love. So I'm really just that
transformation. Giving yourself the opportunity
of telling yourself that Ruth believing that you are who you
been waiting for and starting tosee your life from a heating
centered lens like having healing centered engagement,
that's how you're engaging with your life as from a Healing
(48:09):
Center place, you got to do thatwork before, you got to figure
out that trauma. Why are you showing up the way
that you're showing love? And so, that's what I can offer
before doing all this other stuff like you're still going to
be judgmental and all of these things, if you don't, if you
don't Don't have the language within yourself about yourself.
(48:31):
Yeah I creating safe language for yourself.
What you're telling yourself. It's a lot of work but it's so
worth it and it's a lifelong journey but you have way more
rewards. You feel way more full in life,
less miserable less grumpy when you take care of yourself.
(48:51):
So your self-care is really Collective care.
Yeah, so the positive spin is take care of yourself, right?
And it's not be selfish and whatever if that's what people
want to consider it fine but take care of yourself.
Like what are the things that you need in order to be well?
And, and that? And after that, everybody else
(49:15):
will benefit from like having a positive energy around them and
we could do more things than we can build because things like
trust and like that, you need Integrity that you need in order
to build a safe community. Unity, if you're not that in
your own life, you're never going to be able to be that in a
and our community and you because you are a harming agent
(49:38):
and I was a farmer in my own wayand I had to discover some
things about myself and make that shift because I didn't want
to live like that. We all have something so but
it's worth working on and you'reworth recovering a man and I
love you. Amen.
Were the words from the worst from Le TT.
(49:59):
And this is again as I say and Ibet edu, that's what we're
probably gonna call. We're going to rename the show
and I bet he do love it. I appreciate before we get off.
I just want to say that contribution, your contribution
to humanity, your contributions to my Humanity, like me as an
(50:22):
individual, like it was really nice.
To move to New York from Chicagoand experience the quality of
person that you are. Thank you, right?
And that was a really cool because there's so many
different characters. But you're so even Keel, and
your, and your flow is even Q. It's cool.
(50:43):
And I know you have a lot of energy, but I know, you know how
to balance that and but your consistency that piece like your
integrity really created a space.
For a lot of people to trust youand you've kept it up and you've
been awesome and I'm so excited for your family that you, your
daughter will be able to hear from your heard father's friends
(51:09):
of what an influence and what a positive impact he has had as
someone who documents has been documenting.
Just so many parts of our Latinolife's are thicker.
They don't lifelike just gratitude for the type of
journalists that you are. You know, that's how I see you
(51:30):
even through your music and all like just what a great way to
capture people's stories. And so I feel honored to have
been able to be a part of this recap and be chosen for the next
season and I just did you a lot of a lot more positivity and a
lot more abundance because you deserve it.
You know, I see a manner that that means a lot.
(51:51):
That means a lot. It doesn't, it doesn't take care
of them in controlling Corazon. They get older gravity as well
man. They so allow for no car you in.
Yo, I couldn't finish the show without giving them a shout-out
day. So my brother beat iy Art Space,
if you have not been there, me in to check it out.
And also his single hang here, ahas laced this season because
(52:17):
the instrumental has been playedthroughout every episode in
PSAs. So me and that's a fun fact and
the song itself has won countless Awards, the video
Melvin, Aldous has been just a blessing today so and they still
to him. They've done so many things and
(52:38):
Angie Hernandez. Big shout-out to day, Souls mom,
you know to so many people, you know, all the guests.
Everybody me Gente, all the 30 guests have been on.
Thank you. You have made me a better
person, a better human being a force to be reckoned with now
(52:58):
more than ever because I always believed that I was.
But each episode you build and you grow and you learn every
story, you hear from every word of wisdom, you learn from, and
that's the power of Storytelling.
That's The Power of inclusive storytelling.
(53:18):
Culture, Familia, overcoming adversity, and Legacy at
approximately a too-sami Gente happy 50th, man.
That's right, that's right. You have to sorry, did you know
Savvy a ski season 2 featured 30guests and episodes doubling the
(53:40):
cultural content for season one that's quite impressive.
If you ask me, the audience, continue to grow in the US and
internationally new countries toA propellant a where Aaron Tina?
Colombia, Guatemala La, república, Dominicana Venezuela,
India France, Pakistan, Sweden, New Zealand, Netherlands,
(54:01):
Trinidad, and Tobago to my International audience.
Thank you for listening and don't be shy to request a show
live. I got my bags packed and ready
to go to all my guests. Thank you for believing in my
vision. Investing your time and trusting
me to share your story. You are part of something
special, that continues. To inspire listeners around the
world. I'm so grateful honored and
(54:22):
blessed to build a platform thatcelebrates culture through story
telling stories Unitas, by learning about our differences,
which are much more similar thanthey see stories are therapeutic
for the soul and connect us to give us hope and we are
searching for inspiration stories.
Create a narrative that is fires, positive change.
Now more than ever real stories need to be told and shared so
that false narratives don't become the norm.
(54:44):
Thank you for your support. Me Andy own deals.
Do a specific Santi. Ramona's, gracias for working
your magic on the edits, and even being a special guest on
the show, this season. The Best Is Yet To Come, at my,
to my little being a TV. Anime, I loving wife, I'm there,
Amelia, the sangria spiritually,Amigos, your love and support
(55:04):
drive me to be a better. Father, husband, and human
being. This is why I continue to make
the impossible possible to my ancestors and guardian angels,
thank you for your sacrifices, so I can be here.
Lucy Progreso, Para Siempre, none of this will Be possible,
if a young family, never left Cuba more than 50 years ago for
swing America. The American dream gracias Mami
(55:26):
Papi e te Te Quiero Mucho. See you in season 3, me Gente.
Hasta la próxima Blondie. Be possible, if a young family,
never left Cuba more than 50 years ago for swing America.
The American dream gracias Mami Papi e te Te Quiero Mucho.
See you in season 3, me Gente. Hasta la próxima Blondie.
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