In this season finale, Mala and Diosa sit down with astrologer Esoteric Esa to explore astrology, angel numbers, and the spiritual journey of birthing a Scorpio baby podcast.
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Welcome to Season nine, Love at First Listen.
O la la Loka modes. Welcome to the final capitulo of season nine of Loka Dora Radio. I'm viosa and I'm mala. Loka Dora Radio is a podcast dedicated to archiving our present and shifting the culture forward. You're tuning in to Capitolo do Cientosos two twenty two.
Last time on Loca Dora Radio, we interviewed Selena s titties. Go back listen to that episode. It was such a fun interview. Selena talked to us about the life cycle of a drag queen, what it was like competing on RuPaul's Drag Race, life after Drag Race, and her upcoming show at the Passage in the Playhouse.
So I created a drag night called because my family loves Lotia, so we always play Lotria and bitch I love it loth I can never find thet man. So I was like, let me, let me create a night where, like I have the club make lot and we play Lotia. And I created a night called Altria, and I changed the drawings on the boards to be more gay and drag queen and like, so I was combining my Latin culture with my gay culture and my dragquenness, and like, I created this night called the Loria, and it's like a celebration night.
It's a fabulous interview, Leave us a review, share with a friend. It's so fun.
It's such a good way to wrap the season. And every time I see Selena's name, I want to say it in Spanish, like I want to say Selena stitsps, but I know it's s titties, but I just I can't. My brain is won't let me.
And I feel like she probably wants that. She like her name is set up in such a way that everybody can pronounce it and it's going to be authentic no matter what. There we go, Yeah, there we go.
Well, today is the final episode of season nine.
I can't believe it once again in disbelief.
And this episode drops on November thirteenth, and it's just I again, like you said, and disbelieve another season, another season that we're wrapping, another thirty episode season, our third season that's thirty episodes long. With Iheartradios Makutura Podcast Network.
All these numbers have like really inspired us to do a little something that we don't usually do on the podcast, and that's talk about angel numbers, which is coming later in this episode, because we could not ignore all of like the signs right around this episode.
This is so true because it's the ninth season dropping on November thirteenth. Thirteen is a powerful number, and it's also two two two, which is an angel number, which we as individuals don't necessarily follow angel numbers, but we know that angel numbers are significant to people and that two to two is like a recurring number, a recurring message, if you will.
Yeah, we're in the City of Angels and you are an angel in my life, so we must discuss angel numbers. It's all there in front of us. We're gonna have a guest joining us as a Turk as a to break it all down for us again later in the episode.
Yeah, and just you know, before we bring on our guest, we want to just go down memory lane and just recap a little bit on the history of Loka Tora. We formally officially launched November nineteenth of twenty sixteen, and our first episode launched on SoundCloud.
Wow, we were SoundCloud podcasters.
We were. That was like where the indie pods started. I feel because remember how hard it was back then to get on Apple podcast Like it was a little complicated. Now I feel like it's so much easier. There's been some development. There's also Spotify Podcasts. Of course iHeartRadio as a podcast network as well, but we didn't know any of that. Like we started on SoundCloud.
The game has changed, and specifically Apple podcasts somebody over there was really out to get us because.
Don't bring the story back.
We don't want the curse that again. No, it's so we've overcome. They can never they can't get us anymore if they can't touch us. But back then, we had trouble getting the feed up and the US I was like back and forth, like battling with this this representative over at Apple podcasts.
Well, no, what happened is that we got the feed up and then they took it down from Apple podcast and our tagline. It turned out it was our tagline Mommies of myth and Bullshit at the time, because you look at the shows now and it's like, there's no way that we would get taken down now. Now, I don't think who knows. Maybe there was a personal vendetta grudge against us, But at the time we were flagged because of the mommies and myth and bullshit in our tagline. It was in our bio, it was in our episode descriptions. Because we were starting to brand ourselves and brand the show, and we had all these different taglines, and so I remember pulling up examples from non Latino shows that had like quote bad words or curse words, and I sent them as an ample and was like, well, why is this okay? And this one's not? What's the deal? What's the subtext here? Because I don't get it.
I seem to recall, we were like, there's a show called Come Town, Yes, so what's the problem, So.
Like, bullshit can't be in a description. It made no sense at the time. It still makes no sense to me, but we were able to get the show back up, but it was a brand new feed, so any like podcast reviews, any ratings we had like those all got lost And thankfully it was like kind of early definitely still season one. It was not that late in the game, I don't think, but that was something that we dealt with early on.
Yeah, and I also remember very specifically that this person at Apple Podcasts was like, oh, and the description shouldn't be anything that's okay for a small child to read. And you were like, why would a small child be listening to a podcast? Like whose standard is that? Yeah, yeah, there was somebody over there and you know who you are if you're listening. Still hate listening to this day.
Oh yeah, those were the times, the indie times, so much growth, so much learning, don't go anywhere.
Look on moves. We'll be right back, and we're back with more of our episode.
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Congra Jasmine, And I'm a numerologist astrologer. I have a numerology column at Comopolitan, So I'm your plug, I'm your source for all things numbers. Amazing.
Well, that is also one of the reasons we invited you on today. We had you earlier on this season and that was such a great episode. And when we were thinking about wrapping this season, we started seeing the numbers everywhere and we thought, let's do something different and actually talk about the numbers of lok Atota Radio. It's our ninth season that we're rapping, and when we were looking at our launch date, we actually launched on November thirteenth, so obviously there's another number for you. And we're rapping with our two to two episode, and so we just want to talk all things numbers. And we also realized or were reminded that lok Atota is also a scorpio, So just feel like there's a lot to work with here.
I was just about to say, of course, y'all would birth a scorpio baby, right, sexy, daring, controversial, but equally inspiring. Java, do we too like anything less? And then thirteen, which is the divine feminine number.
And right when we.
Look when I think of Malamosa, I think of, you know, embodying femininity in such a very dark feminine way.
You know, I want to say dark feminine.
It's just very unconventional, like being really true to like what makes us edgy. I want women to own more of their edginess, you know what I'm saying.
Oh, yes, totally agreed, And I think that's like part of the personas right. The Mala and diosa a different levels, different different varieties.
Yes, it's a good angel, bad angel, dynamic.
Absolutely, didn't y'alls do like a creative shoot once? Yes, you were a good angel batting. Yeah, we played with that the devil, Yes.
Diabla and like an angel. Yes, that was and I think that is that can be the podcast. You know, we've interviewed some controversial figures in our community on the show. We've talked about difficult topics, and we've also had fun with it. And so today we want to we want to keep having fun with it and talk about the numerology. I mean, I love the fact that we have an angel number as this episode number two two two. What does it mean?
And tell me how this spsonates as you reflect back up to date on the how you curated this season.
So angew number two two two.
Y'all works with obviously twos, but it adds up to two four sixs. You're working with essentially two numbers, the number two and the number six. Twos are the energy of intuition. It's two and six actually both here we go again feminine numbers. So in enumalogy we have masculine feminine numbers because masculine and feminine is an element. It's not it's not necessarily a gender norm. It's just a classification of element. So two two two is about working with your intuition the high priestess energy. And when we think of the hyph priestess, it's someone who is deeply tap into again the depth of her darkness and who knows the significance of the depth of her darkness and how to wield it to her power right, how to create and manifest from a place of anger, but sitting within to allow on anger to create good and productivity and in inspiration. So two to two is an energy of collaboration and partnerships. Would you say that this season, up to date, you've collaborated more than from the very beginning. Do you have more partnerships up to date to this point, have you noticed more of a feminine intuitive approach to your content creation as well?
I would say yes. I would say this was our most collaborative season because we brought in Stephanie as our producer. Stephanie was originally or the last two seasons or audio editor, and so to have that collaborative person, a third person there we go with the number three come in and give us, you know, creative ideas and feedback and really be able to push us along on the days that we needed it, the weeks that we needed it where it's like we really want to get this done, but we don't have capacity to outreach to this person. Can you handle it? And she would handle it.
Three is the.
Energy of an estheticism, just really quickly. It's the energy of the trinity, It's the triangle, and it's.
The most powerful occult symbol. That's how you see you know, jay Z and folks doing Rockafella.
Because it's the most powerful symbol of manifestation.
It's it's the trinity, and.
It's also the energy of the Empress, the divine Empress. So we'll get you bringing in that third party and the three of you, right, creating these temppoles, right of energy centers, right to bring forces together and to create something really beautiful and profound within the three of you.
Yeah. Yeah, And I think there's just so many in art and in life, like the number three. It's such like a strong structure, right, like triptys and a triad and et cetera, et cetera. Like you said, the triangle, there's just something about that structure that is just steady mm hmm.
Absolutely, yeah.
And I think in terms of of guests, you know, I think there was like a lot of intention this year with the types of guests that we had who we wanted to have on. I think the follow through, you know, I think was really great this year. So yeah, I think it was a collaborative year in every sense of the word.
We also we birthed a new show also we did with Senora Sex said, which has been very collaborative with the network, right, a lot of which we've never experienced before because in creating Locato Radio, historically we decide what we want to talk about, we record the episode, we put it out and with Senora Sex said, there was a lot of like brainstorming and back and forth, and yes, like creative collaboration with with the team at Michael Duddah, which has been very different but very great as well.
And let's still bring in that scorpionic energy and Sex said. Scorpio rules the taboo, It rules.
Sex, sit rules all of the subjects that we don't really necessarily talk about.
In society, especially in Latin LATINX culture.
And you know, I love the title, right, it's it's Senora, I said, I got lie, that's so.
Scorpio fits the bill.
But I just wanted to touch on really quickly this year in terms of collaborations. I really love seeing y'all bring on Odelia from my clo org. It was so first of all, I love that you created space for her to come onto your platform to talk about something so important, which is indigenous lives.
Especially Indigenous women indigenous communities.
But to see the two vimala and step into this very empowered, like you know, what we're creative is, but we also have a voice, and we stand for something and not be afraid to speak on political subjects that are really important for us right now in this very crucial shift right of the timeline, I was just honestly so proud of you. I was like just thrilled. My blood got really pumped in a great way, because we need to see these.
Type of collaborations more So. I want to personally.
Thank you both for bringing Odelia on and my salo org because she's a fucking badass, right and then you both are bad asses, and so the three of you together was my favorite episode for sure.
Amazing.
Thank you. She is a force, She's a force, and we remain in touch and we hope to do more with her, do more with her in the future. Absolutely, what else? What else did we want to?
Yeah?
I mean the number? Did we talk about the number nine?
Land?
The number nine?
Yeah? Yeah?
Season season season nine and we're nine season nine, I mean in exiting season nine also means we're entering season ten, you know? And yeah, what do those numbers mean for us?
Well?
First of all, congratulations, how many people can say they make it to season nine and successfully with an audience?
Thank you truly the tell.
A podcast, and I always have everybody launched the podcast. Who cares if you don't have one listener, it's your mother. But you know, so in numerology we go from zero to nine. We don't go from one to ten. Interesting, right, because zero is the number of it's the number of the universe. It's the godlike essence, it's it's actually the most powerful vibration.
Zero.
People think it's nothing, but it's it's the cycling back of the infinity, the infinity symbol. So nine is when you get to the very end of the numerical chapter.
So nine is actually a number of reflection, introspection.
So now that you're in your ninth season, do you feel like it's sort of a culmination season and reflecting back and like, wow, we're not the same maladiosa when we first launched, and look at our growth, right, look at our power?
Tell me about that?
Oh absolutely, we were just discussing that.
Yeah, everything from what we talk about on the show to the decades that we were in in our lives. We were in our early twenties when we started and now we're in our early thirties, and as Bosa has pointed out, and we're talking about on this episode even the way our voices sound. We had like baby voices when we first started, and you know, now we're in our a grown woman voices and so it's all it's all different now now.
We're in our sex operator voices exactly.
I love it.
Yeah, So nine is actually it's a number about self.
So do you feel like, sure we're duo, right, obviously we come together, we're a pair, we're strong, we're.
Really great with synergy.
But do you feel like now more so on this season it was like you can reflect on specific episodes and kind of pinpoint this episode really has Diosa's influence or oh, this this episode kind of has Mala's influence, right, because nine is a number of self, right, and so it's like where are hobbies or where our intentions are?
We want to highlight and amplify that.
So do you kind of see that in a sense too, where maybe someone add more flavored to an episode or how does that feel?
I think that it happens episode by episode, Like the USA is very much and Stephanie together, like in booking our guests and getting our outlines together and our research and I mean I can only speak for myself, but I think I bring the energy. I think I bring the energy and like some of the entertainment and some of the laughs and the vibes like on the on the audio itself, like when we're recording in studio, not that the Yosa doesn't because she's hilarious and very fun.
I bring no vibes, but.
That's our I think that's our balance, you know what I mean. Like I'll bring the energy and a little riffing and some jokes, etcetera, etcetera. And I think that it's kind of been how our episodes just tend to go.
Yeah, definitely, Mama is very much like she brings like the talent and the joy, you know, and I bring like the outline. I bring the outline and the order and the structure, you know.
I mean, I'm not surprised.
You're an air sign, so that's what they do, because Mala, you're a fire sign.
Right, I'm a Capricorn.
You're a Capricorn. You have to have Leo placements.
I'm you have to my understanding, I'm a double Capricorn cancer.
Do you know? Okay, now we're getting billion depth.
Do you have anything in your fifth house of your natal chart, like maybe your sun or your moon.
I don't know, that's the house of Leo. I'm We're gonna have to look at your chart.
Yeah, I'm a January January fifth, nineteen ninety two. We'll edit that off.
We'll be giving people.
That I want too much info.
Yeah, So I want to go back to actually, just really quickly, the ninth. So nine is the most spiritual number.
And when I think of spirituality, it's not necessarily like, oh, you got to be this person who meditates all the time and who works at sound bowls.
Spirituality to me.
Is defined by your connection to your authentic self and the essence of your soul. And when I look at because I've been following y'all for damn near I think maybe four or five years at this point, and when I.
Look at y'all.
Today to see Mala really just embrace your self expression and going into your comedic you know, talents, your comedic genius, and then Dyosa really seeing you reclaim and embrace your ancestral lineage. Right, And how like spirituality again is just how we self express that really empowers us to be our authentic self. So that's how I see y'all progressing into like this nine spiritual energy.
What do you think about that?
I think that that tracks. Yeah, definitely, that feels, that resonates, that feels right, It totally tracks.
And I last year, THEOSA literally took me to Peru with her and we climbed Machu Pichu for her birthday, you know, case in point. And yeah, I've continued with the stand up. I'm in film school right now. Theosa went back to school as well and studied audio journalism and I'm studying film and television production. So the podcast has also allowed us to usher in that like new era for ourselves individually. And it also I think cycles back to the podcast, but developing those skill sets and the show has made it possible.
And nine actually talk about higher education.
Nine is the energy of the ninth House, which is learning something new. So it can literally be going back for your masters or going for some sort of certification, something to further your skill set. So I mean, like, if the astrology and the numerology ain't astrology and numerology like.
Then what is?
So thanks for sharing that tidbit. Look at how that tired in real nicely?
No, truly, it's like, yeah, it's it's all making sense. Thank you for helping us make sense of all of it.
Always just look to the stars, baby, they'll tell you.
I love that.
Well.
Thank you so much for breaking that down for us, and for bringing your expertise once again to look at the radio and just being so gracious with your time.
Thank you.
I appreciate you both, and I love that y'all are keeping out for the angel numbers and those listening let us know what angel numbers are coming up for you at this time because those are always fun, always fun to vibe with and cross reference.
So thank you.
And if listeners want to keep up with you and your work and maybe get a reading for themselves or their projects, where can they find you?
Yes, you can find me on Instagram eso Eric Underscore Essa.
You could book a session with me, and I do love astrology sessions. So if you're curious about that that crush in your life and you want to know is it going to work or not, let's not waste your time but the love reading with me.
You can do that in my website Suluminati dot com.
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Don't go anywhere, look amorees We'll be right back.
And we're back with more of our episode. So that was amazing. Jasmine really provided esoteric. Essa provided some insight and information into our numerology as a podcast that I had never considered and didn't know.
And I think the way we've been talking about femi identity since the inception of Loka Dora is that it moves beyond like a gender binary, right, which is why over the years we've had guests that are of all the gender spectrum, or that's why we've had guests across the gender spectrum, because like, fem identity doesn't just exist in like cis women, right, And so I think that that, like you said, has been at the core of Lokatra is looking at gender sexuality as something expansive versus limiting, and that there can be something freeing in seeing strength in feminists and FEMI identity.
Yes, and seeing femininity in many areas, you know, like I said, in the technology of femininity, I think has been really interesting for us and the numerology of femininity. So yeah, I love that and then our listeners I think also appreciate that element of the show, and I think that they've come to expect that, you know, that's absolutely we're indulging in the feminine.
Yeah, I agree, I agree. I mean in nine seasons later, I think we we keep delivering, We keep trying new things, keep making the show, making the podcast multiple now, so it's like we're doing it.
We're really doing it. And speaking of listeners, we have some amazing listeners, some listeners who have become part of our lives season after season.
Uh.
And and there's some who we met them when they were young and we were young, and now we're all like, you know, living our best lives and in our careers. I think of Jen from the Block. When we met gen Torres, she was a student, she was an undergrad, and we were doing a college talk at Pitzer. Yeah, and now she's like hosting like shoe salons with Adidas and Nike, and she's modeling and she's killing the game. And she's not the only one. There have been others. I think about Jackie Jackie Hernandez, who is a listener who comes over the years, has come to basically all of our all of our events, I think after she first started listening, and she now has been hosting some really cool like puff and politics, like cannabis themed talks, which has been really amazing to see from her. And there are others. I mean, Stephanie, I think you were a listener before you started working with us, which has been excellent, and now you're on the team and you're an integral part of the show. Yeah.
Yeah. And there's also the listeners that we have never had the pleasure of meeting in person, but that engage with us, that comment, that message us and let us know that an episode resonated with them, that email us and just let us know that you're listening. And so those like, we love them. We love receiving that type of feedback. We love knowing that you're still listening, even all these years later. I think it was this past year or this maybe last season when there was that young woman that was graduating from UC Berkeley and said she had been listening to look, I thought our radio since she was in the eighth grade. I can't even and I did the math, and yeah, she was gonna graduate from college. And yes, it makes sense actually, because there's eight seasons at the time, I think it was eight seasons and so we have raised the children, literally we have and so I think those those are the moments I think that I also really love and that I never imagined the places the podcast would go. When we started in twenty sixteen, it was an outlet for us, a creative outlet, and I think just a way to get things off our chest, literally because we were working incredibly tough jobs. We were both at nonprofits, We were seeing a lot of injustices. We were right at the helm of like the me Too movement of the Trump election, and so there were a lot of things we wanted to say and our community wanted to say. And so it started as a hobby, right, It started as let's just do this podcast once a month and really realizing what we were doing and what we were putting out there. But I think our openness to growth has allowed us to get here that we have been willing to change, to adapt, to grow, and to work really fucking hard. Also, you know, the show is amazing, but it has not gone without its sleepless nights, mental breakdowns, cries, tears, sobs.
And it's a business, you know, it's literally a business. A small business, but a business nonetheless, And so of course there's also there's always the financial stuff that we're sort of constantly, you know, figuring out and working with and trying to grow with the show. Oh yeah, and make the show grow. So, like you said, it started as a hobby and now we are co owners of this production company and we have two weekly shows at iHeart under the Michaudra podcast network, which is incredible. And no mean feed.
I was about to say, you took the words right out of my mouth.
No small feet, no, no small feed. I mean it's not every day. And that's the dream, like in LA in the industry, to have shows thought up and dreamed up and then they get greenlit and then they get funded and then they actually get put out.
Yeah, with like creative freedom. Might I add, like, look at Tora. That was baked in our contract like it was our baby, and so we were going to have creative direction and creative freedom. We were going to have creative direction and creative freedom no matter what. But to also still have some creative freedom with Senora sex said, it is also really exciting and really gratifying because it is a sex show, a sex ed show, and you know that is not everyone's cup of tea. But I think the network saw the need and the gap and we filled it.
Yeah. And like our listeners have pointed out, Senora Sex said, nobody else is doing it. Nobody else is doing it. I mean these talks between latinas about your first period and masturbation and cysts and your first time and all kinds of things. I mean, it's really truly innovative. If I do say so.
Myself, Milea's just tooting her own horn, our horn.
I'm cheating. I'm cheating all of our horns.
Yeah, and I think you know what I love about that show not to venture off into Senora Sex said too much, But what I love about the show is that who is asking I've been thinking about this. Who is asking the senora as, the women in their sixties and their seventies what their sex life is like?
No one.
I don't think many people do because I don't think it's considered sexy. I don't think it's considered like important, and I don't think it's I was speaking to Lillian Rivera, an author, a couple a couple of weeks ago, and she said, we're like invisible once we turned fifty, and I think, yeah, that's why the show I think is so great and can be so relatable for women in their fifties plus, women's in their forties plus, because nobody's asking them those things anymore. Everyone wants to know, like what's sexy to you when you're in your twenties and thirties, right, but once you hit a certain age, like nobody cares anymore. But there's still so many stories to share, and these women have so much lived experience, and like they want to tell their story.
Yeah, and I feel like they've by then, they've probably had a lot of sex. Yes, it takes time to rack it all up. And so those are the ladies that I want to talk to.
Literally, they've they've.
Done their reps. You know, they know what they're doing.
So in theme with the Nine Lives, you know obviously like the Nine Lives it comes from. I mean that's also very feminine too, is like the feline, right, and this idea that cats have nine lives, they land on their feet, they bounce back, there's nine iterations like there is for look at THEA. Was there ever a time where you like wanted to quit or you were like, don't thin I'm gonna bounce back from this. Did you ever have a moment in the past, like nine seasons or like nine lives where you were like, okay, I like, I'm not sure, was there ever any doubt?
Uh? Not wanting to quit, but wondering, how is how are we gonna make it over this hump? You know how? Who's gonna throw us a lifeline? Who's gonna throw us a booie? You know? And somehow there's something always pops up for us, somebody always like I don't know, there's there's a life raft and I've just been holding on to Like I always go back to this comment that La La Romero made back in the day when she said, like, if this is where you guys are, you know, season three, imagine where you'll be season six, and there's the money will come basically is what she said. And she's been right, and she's been right, and so I've I've been like nervous and scared even and how's this gonna work? Are we gonna be okay? But then we end up always being okay, and I see that we have that bounce back, we land on our feet. The show still stands and the listeners are still there and that has been just really comforting and inspiring and motivating, you know, And it's the whole. If you build it, they will come. Yeah, And so if we keep building, they will keep coming.
I hope.
So I sure, I hope. So how about you? Was there ever a time you wanted to quit? I'm scared to ask you that question, Jailie.
I'm like, every day, every day I think about quitting this.
No, not really.
I love the creative outlet. I love the format, I love what we do, I love our team, I love our listeners.
I love all of that.
Did I when I was a little girl, think that I was going to grow up to run a business and be an entrepreneur? No, And so I think that those are the growing pains, And that's the part of this that makes me quote want to quit, where there's those moments where you're like, Okay, I got thrown into running a business because we had to this project. This beautiful baby forced us to become a business when we were just like running off of Venmo and IOU's basically, and then we were forced to formalize. And so there are those moments where I'm like, Okay, you're chasing the money. You're chasing gigs, You're trying to bring gigs. You want a bigger budget, you want to pay people more, you want to pay yourself more. You want health insurance, you want school tuition. Like, there's so much that goes into the daily business practice that I never saw my I never saw that for myself. I never saw that for myself. It's a part of the growing pain, so I embrace it. It's a challenge. Sorry, it's a challenge. But I would say those are the parts where I'm like, Okay, what if I had a regular job, Yeah, totally, you know, what if I had a steady paycheck? You know, But I don't think there's any going back now, I really don't. I have those moments where I'm like, I don't want to go back to working for anyone else anymore. Like I don't think I physically, emotionally, mentally can There's the beauty in designing your own schedule, designing your own life, and there's also chaos that comes with it. And I think it's for me, it's been about embracing the season of chaos and then embracing the season of ease. And just not trying to force one or the other and just letting it be what it needs to be and knowing that we're going to make it. On the other side, we're gonna be okay. And whenever things are tough, I tell Mala, like, we've made it through worse, We've made it through really tough things. We're gonna get We've done more with a lot less, is what I remind myself when things are really hard.
Yeah, it's a little of the that like grass is greener on the other side stuff. And you know, we had jobs.
Yeah, remember when I was dying to quit my jobs? Yes, And now I'm over here romanticizing, like what if I just clocked in and clocked out? Cause I think like that's the part that no one tells you about running your own business, especially when it's a creative business. You're never off. You're never off. You can technically take time off, but no one's clocking in for you. No one's covering your shift because like, you still have work to do and the work will be there when you get back. Yeah, And so I think it's also about perspective, like, Okay, if the work is always going to be there, well, then I can take a day off. You know, am I going to Is taking today off going to make me miss my deadline?
Yeah?
Okay, can't take it off. Is it going to be okay? Yes, okay, I can take it off.
Yeah. And it's also I think pushing ourselves to do our professional development on our own, with our own like motivating ourselves to develop professionally. It's not like a requirement of a job and a boss somewhere else that's sending us on a retreat or sending us to get certified, or sending us to take a class. We've decided that in order to strengthen the business and the show and to grow it and expand it, that we in fact need to go back and get the training and go to school. And I think when we signed with the Pot, with Michael Dura and with iHeart, that was like, oh, this is a relief, you know. That was like a level up, a step up. That was financial security through the show that we didn't have before. And now several seasons in, as the show continues to grow and we continue to grow, now it's time for like, okay, another level up, yes, you know. And it's that constant leveling up, and so I feel like at the time, it was the middle of the pandemic. Times were absolutely nuts. We decided to start this business, And so I think about the turbulence of that time period, not just for us as individuals and as a show, but in the world, and how we came out of it with this multi year network contract. But it was it was born out of a lot of turbulence, absolutely, and so we're in a much less turbulent place. Oh, but I think we're starting to feel like the feathers are, you know, ruffling a little bit. And I think that's also a sign that like there's some other level up that's upon us. Yeah, because we need it, because it's that time. Now you're like growing out of our clothes.
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, you're constantly evolving, changing as an artist does a person, and that comes with the leveling up and the growing pains, I think. And here's to another multi year.
Deal, another nine seasons. Baby, let's go, let's do it. Yes.
I want to be like Latino USA, season after season, year after year. Let's do it.
Yeah, like truly an archive, truly documenting our lives and the lives of people around us. And this great city that we call home. I can't think of better people to do it. Honestly, the world needs us. So thank you all for listening and for making it possible because we owe it to the listeners.
We do owe it to the listeners. And I think before we wrap, let's just talk about, like what are we manifesting for season ten?
Oh? Yes, yes, yes, yes, what's on the top of your list?
I want more live shows and in person activations. I don't know what exactly that is, but we you know, prepen demic, we were out and about doing events all the time. And I think, like me personally, like I don't really know how to like pick it up again because we can't. The world has changed, We've changed, listeners have changed, but more so like what can how can we enter re enter physical space, meetups events in a way that feels right for us and our community and our listeners.
Yeah, live shows. We used to do live shows all the time, and at least one every year. Look at live a podcast party.
We used to do live shows with zero money. I don't know how we were doing them.
I have out of our own pockets, out.
Of our own pocket, like we were just like putting on these fantastic live shows in iconic at iconic venues. Yeah, all over lay with zero budget, and now we're just like we're tired.
We're tired, we're burnt out, We're tired. It's yeah. I think also, you know, the life Life events space and the party space we were in it, but that's its own world and it really is very exhausting. It is. It's late nights and it's a lot of prep and promo and yeah, the money stuff, and so I think it was very fun and I think that we can be strategic about our live shows and stuff in the future. I think we've started to really invest in the behind the scenes we have work.
That's why the audio quality is so much better, y'all. Yeah, I mean everything is better. I think the podcast itself is better. And we were doing all kinds of different things and not to be like the podcast sucked, of course not, but it's like, I don't know, when there's more intention on something, it's obviously better when you're like kind of spread out, you're spread out.
Yeah, we were spread all over the city. We were spread all over the place, and that was it was fun. It was great. I think another thing that we want to manifest for season ten are more podcasting one oh one workshops. For a time we were doing workshops at branches of the LA Public Library, like a bunch of branches, what like ten branches. Yes, it was amazing in person. We also did some webinars on zoom. And you know, we love education and we love we love to teach the children. So I think we want to do more of that, more podcasting workshops. And by the way, if you're listening and you want to bring us to your campus or your organization to teach out a podcast, email us.
Yeah. Yeah, I definitely want to bring all of that back too, and some newness, some newness, another season, another couple seasons, yes, please another nine seasons, ten seasons, yes, please, a million seasons.
We would like a fresh contract. We would like renewal to the contract. Ferries out there listening, please bring us back.
Yeah.
I think it's been an incredible three seasons with my podcast now work. It's been an incredible nine seasons of lok at our radio, and I'm just grateful, hopeful for the future. Excited more growth, more interviews, more art, more music, more everything, more storytelling, more storytelling.
We got stories, y'all. We have stories. We have things in our back pocket and that are in the works, you know, that we hope to bring to life. Like we said, it's the dream to get a show greenlit and made and put out there. And so there are more that we're dreaming about and that we're working on and that we're manifesting. Senora Seza and Mari Juanata podcast for Potheads, it still lives. But beyond those three shows, which is amazing that we can even name three shows, we have a slate you know, off network and on network. But there's even more shows that we've dreamt up and that we want to put out into the world. Yeah.
Yeah, Well, with that, thank you for listening to another episode of look at Radio. Thank you for rocking with us nine seasons. Thank you for rocking with us the past thirty episodes of this season. It's been an incredible season, an incredible time, and I can't wait to come back on the mic and greet y'all and say welcome to season ten.
So until then, until season tens us.
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