Shot Of Truth Podcast

25/06/2024

12/10/2023

Tania Dominguez-Rangel is a DACA recipient I met on my travels abroad in Europe. We were both traveling on advanced parole with the Cultural Leadership Fellowship! We would find speakeasies and talk about life, love, and processing our experience. I would come to learn this girl is full-on doing the most–from her podcast, The Most Interesting People on My Timeline to her work with the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective. This girl was meant to be a star, I mean come on, look at her! In this episode, we talk about her experience in education, her love for Tumblr, singing, and YouTube creation, and about some of the cool people she met along the way. Special shout-outs to Maggie Loredo, Karla Chavez-Espinosa, and Nicole Solis-Sison! Enjoy!

Topics:
Creator of all things, music, film, podcast
Experience in education at Harvard
The Most Interesting People on My Timeline Podcast

Show notes:
https://www.taniadoes.com/about

02/06/2023

Our 100th Shot of Truth Podcast episode! We traveled across borders (some fellows) to Guatemala and (others to) Mexico all to find what we had most in common was that we just wanted to feel connected and free. This episode highlights 3 fellows that returned home for the first time. You even get to hear an exclusive interview that we recorded in Guatemala and her reflection listening back to it 🤯 Tune in to hear Selena, Alex, and Ingrid share the most impactful moments on this journey home. Enjoy!

25/04/2023

We are joined by the co-founder of Otros Dreams en Acción Maggie Loredo. She is an activist, pocha, and returnee. She invites us all to listen to narratives across borders from people who have returned or been deported. Her organizing work in Mexico is one of supporting and advocating for returnees and deportees to have a dignified return. She shares the work they do at Otros Dreams en Accion (ODA) from advocacy, education, and healing through art and stories. This episode is an invitation of love to share stories across borders until they [borders] no longer exist.

Topics:
Pocha House
Returnee/Deportee
Organizing in the US v Organizing in Mexico

Show notes:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-maggies-restfund?member=25415291&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined

https://linktr.ee/maggieloredo

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A black and white photo provided by ODA’s with a sticker on a window. It reads Visa Justice, F*ck the Pol!ce and !ce ACAB ]

24/02/2023

EP: The Joy in my Grief

I have felt every emotion under the sun during this interview. Laura Garcia tends to be a private person who puts everyone first but in this episode, she lets you into one of the most vulnerable parts of her. From sharing stories of her family to the joy she has found in her grief. She lost her younger brother to ALS in 2020. She talks about the amount of joy he lived his life with and how she taps into that energy for her own well-being. She speaks about how her family keeps him alive knowing that his presence exists. I smiled a lot listening back to this. Enjoy, cherish, and hold close to this episode. Listen via spotify, apple podcast, our website and more.

25/01/2023

✨BDAY New Year Mini✨ I know it’s been the new year for like 25 days but it always starts off slow for me. The shift into Aquarius season hits me hard as I dissolve into all my feelings (meh). This episode is a quick update on what to expect with the podcast in 2023 and a recap of the most difficult and best memories of my 20s! It’s my birthday in a matter of days and ya’ll 30 is here and it’s loud. Enjoy this sweet minisode and let’s hear it for 2023! I will be doing a flash birthday giveaway featuring my favorite candy shop and some other goodies

08/12/2022

We are joined by Laura Bohórquez from Inner Work Collective Freedom–she is also a part of the Cultural Leadership Fellowship traveling to Guatemala. Laura has traveled under advance parole multiple times and shares how she's processed some of those experiences. We recorded 48-hours before she left for Mexico City and it was beautiful to hear how this time around it was much different than in the past. She is heading to Guatemala in a couple months and that experience is very different from returning home. Give it up for Laura!

La Hora del Pan translates to The Bread Hour aka 5AM–when the bread is fresh and the aroma of sweetness and yeast fills the streets.

Topics:
Episode focus: the challenges of returning home and processing the bureaucracy of our situation in regard to a previous experience on AP.
La Hora del Pan
Food Reasons

Honorable Mentions:
Cultural Leadership Fellowship Team

Show Notes:
https://www.culturalleadershipfellowship.org/program

02/12/2022

✨NEW✨ In this minisode, we feature Cindy who is a part of the Scholar Fund WA Cultural Leadership Fellowship and is traveling to Mexico for the first time since she left at 6 months old. She shares the subconscious and physical impact of being separated from her mother before crossing. She knows this opportunity to return will come with healing inner child/teenage wounds and also come with joy, tears, and sharing the return with many beautiful people. Listen via Spotify, Apple Podcast, and all podcast platforms! Learn more about the program at culturalleadershipfellowship.org.

Topics:
Episode focus: leaving Mexico at such a young age.
What is home?
All the processing beforehand
Sharing the experience with others

Honorable Mentions:
Samara Almonte


Show Notes:

ScholarfundWA
Culturalleadershipfellowship.org

17/11/2022

In this episode, we invite Alejandra and Yuriana to share about the Scholar Fund WA Cultural Leadership Fellowship they created to take DACA recipients abroad via advanced parole. We start by revisiting both of their journeys and what inspired this fellowship. We also get to hear directly from four of the fellows traveling abroad! It’s beautiful, emotional, exciting–you name it! This episode is in partnership with Scholar Fund WA and Adelitas Apparel–learn more about our raffle basket and events we are hosting to raise $35,000 for this opportunity! Ya’ll this episode had me in all my feels, Enjoy! Listen via Apple Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, and all the podcast places.

Topics:
Founders of Cultural Leadership Fellowship
Fundraising Efforts
Fellow Interviews

Show Notes:
ScholarfundWA
Culturalleadershipfellowship.org
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultural-leadership-fellowship-fundraiser-tickets-468209155187

04/11/2022

This week we are joined by Mayra Barragan-O’Brien the creator of Undocu.mentalthealth. Mayra is an Undocumented Therapist creating content to share resources and knowledge on mental health and immigrant rights. She is also the co-host of UndocuChisme a podcast she started with her sister to share stories and decolonize chisme! In this episode, Mayra talks about her family and life experiences that led her to pursue a career as a Mental Health Professional. We talk about relationships, boundaries, and navigating systems such as institutions of higher education. Plus all the ins and outs of Undocu.mentalhealth! The impact her platform has made is loud and she’s here to be real about it. Listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify, our website and more!

Topics:
Undocuchisme Podcast
Family and Boundaries
Life before Undocu.mentalhealth

Show Notes:
mentalhealth

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Mayra is sitting on a chair smiling. She is wearing an orange and beige suit. The text reads: Shot of Truth Podcast Presents EP: Undocu Mental Health w/ Mayra Barragan O’Brien]

20/10/2022

Shot of Truth Podcast is back with biweekly episodes and kicking off the good news with Nicole Solis-Sison. If you have not heard of Nicole you have not been paying attention! Her work expands across the country from Los Angeles to New York. She is here to talk about the many layers of work she has created and been apart of including the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective, Zero Waste Cart, The Undocumented Justice Film and so much more! Nicole really Let’s Up and gets the work done and she does it with FASHION. At the end of the episode we play a game and it includes the next two slides. Get the load down by heading over to shotoftruthpodcast.com and listen via Spotify, Apple Podcast, and more. We are happy to be back!
Topics:
Undocumented Filmmakers Collective
The Grind
Romance & Photo Flash
Honorable Mentions:
Edwin Soto
Justino Mora
Luis Cortes
Show Notes:
https://www.nicolesolissison.com/about
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[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Nicole Solis-Sison modeling in front of a grey screen. She is wearing a white top and yellow pants. Text reads: Shot of Truth Podcast presents EP: Let Up w/ Nicole Solis-Sison. The Shot of the Truth Podcast logo mid-page]

08/06/2022

NEW EPISODE!! Killari is a world solo traveler! She is formerly undocumented and had a deep desire to travel once she was able to. She has visited 15 countries since and has learned many lessons through it all. They hoped returning home to Bolivia was the answer but later found home was everywhere they went. This is an episode about identity exploration, searching for community, and reconnecting to ancestral roots. Enjoy!

Topics:
Leaving DC -> Austin
Traveled 15 countries
Connecting to Indigenous Roots

Show Notes:


[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Killari in Atlitan Guatemala. Text reads: EP: Eat, Pray, Love]