This bonus episode of Tamarindo is from our time guest-hosting for Risk, a storytelling podcast about stories people never dared to share. Javier Morillo spent his twenties shutting down white men who reduced him to a fantasy. Then country music got its hooks in him, and a conference in Austin put a real cowboy in front of him. Ximena Ospina is seven when her family leaves Colombia within a month. She starts first grade in Marina, California, able to count to ten and ask for orange juice, and little else. Then story time runs long and she really needs the bathroom.

We explore the critical intersection of reproductive justice, immigrant rights, and multi-racial coalition building. Learn how anti-immigrant policies and systemic healthcare barriers impact Black, Latina, and AAPI communities and why solidarity is our strongest path forward. Our panel includes: Christina Baal-Owens, Executive Director, of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum; Dr. Regina Davis Moss, President & CEO of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda; and Lupe M. Rodríguez, Executive Director, of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice.

Today on Tamarindo, we talk with Alexis Becerra, a Latina leadership coach, trauma-trained expert, and licensed marriage and family therapist with more than a decade of experience, about what happens when work starts changing you. We get into how to recognize a toxic workplace, why it can be so hard to trust yourself while you’re in one, what you can do when leaving isn’t immediately an option, and how to reclaim your confidence and sense of self afterward. Before that, we talk about the art of managing your mood and the small things that help us reset when life or the people around us start throwing us off.

In this episode of Tamarindo, we talk to immigration policy expert, former Biden administration staffer, and former Senate Chief Counsel Andrea Flores to break down why current political framing around immigration is failing and what a bold, human-centered alternative looks like.

Nicole Moreno-Deinzer decided to spend 365 days traveling the world—largely on her own. We talk about how she turned that idea into reality, what she’s learned along the way, and what it means to build an adult life on your own terms rather than following the path you’re told you’re supposed to take.

Today on Tamarindo, we’re joined by Leslie Priscilla, founder of Latinx Parenting and author of CHANCLA: Healing Our Families, Ourselves, and Our Culture, for a conversation about what it really means to raise children through a nonviolent, culturally grounded lens. We talk about where authoritarian parenting practices come from, the difference between respect and obedience, what changes when we see children as full human beings, how behavior can be a form of communication, and how parents can set boundaries without fear or shame. We also get into reparenting, multigenerational family dynamics, questioning authority, and how we can break harmful cycles while still holding onto the parts of our culture, community, and family traditions that we want to carry forward.

Today on Tamarindo, we discuss our defense against despair, the places that take on new meaning for us, and the power of chosen family. We speak to Daneil Luna and Alejandro Valtierra, co-producers of Los Únicos, a new queer Latine play premiering at the Frida Kahlo Theater on October 10. After that, we talk to Cristina Jiménez, DACA trailblazer and co-founder of immigrant rights organization, United We Dream, here to speak to us about the true cost of immigrant enforcement.

Today on Tamarindo,we first talk about what the death of 80s icons like Dolly Parton and TIm Curry stir up for us as aging millennials. Next, we chat with Sarah Rascon, a native Angeleno from El Sereno who is running for State Senate. Sarah was raised by her immigrant grandmother and is proudly shaped by the public school and social services system. She’s here to tell us about her campaign and why she’s ready to be District 26’s next California state senator.

On this musical episode of Tamarindo, we talk to Mariposas Galácticas, an eight-piece Philadelphia-based band that brings together cumbia, klezmer, punk, and Indigenous Andean musical traditions. They share how friendship, ancestry, activism, and community shape their genre-defying sound—and how their music creates space for dancing, resistance, and “rebellious joy.” After that, we speak to Mexico City–born, Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter Andrea Bejar, to discuss her highly anticipated debut album, In Bloom (releasing October 2nd), her journey as a bilingual artist, and her evolution in the music industry.

We speak with Angela Gonzales-Torres, a community advocate and CA-34 congressional candidate taking on the political establishments. Raised in working-class Los Angeles, Angela shares her story growing up in Section 8 housing, being raised by a single mother after her father's deportation, and why she is running for Congress while refusing all corporate PAC and AIPAC money. Plus, in our ¿Qué Pasa? segment, we discuss federal waste on ICE spending, the rise of AI radio hosts in LA, and AOC's public egg-freezing journey.