Chosen Family, Community Care & Healing with Luis Cornejo

Tamarindo

Tamarindo | Sonoro

Business, Comedy, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, News, Education, Non-profit

4.8 • 741 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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In this episode of Tamarindo, we sit down with Luis Cornejo, licensed therapist and host of the Queer Magic Podcast, to explore the power of chosen family in queer and Latine communities. Luis shares their personal journey and the vital role chosen family has played in their life, both personally and professionally. We discuss the emotional and cultural dynamics of navigating family expectations, the psychological impact of unsupported biological ties, and practical tools for building and maintaining supportive networks. Throughout the conversation, Luis offers insights on community care, setting healthy boundaries, and fostering collective healing — leaving listeners with affirmations and guidance for cultivating meaningful connections. We also reference CHIRLA, please join us in donating and standing with CHILRA:https://www.chirla.org/get-involved/donate-support/ Tamarindo is a lighthearted show hosted by Brenda Gonzalez and Delsy Sandoval talking about politics, culture, and self-development. We’re here to uplift our community through powerful conversations with changemakers, creatives, and healers. Join us as we delve into discussions on race, gender, representation, and life! You can get in touch with us at www.tamarindopodcast.com Brenda Gonzalez and Delsy Sandoval are executive producers of Tamarindo podcast with production support by Karina Riveroll of Sonoro Media. Jeff Ricards produced our theme song. If you want to support our work, please rate and review our show here. SUPPORT OUR SHOW Contribute to the show: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/tamarindopodcast1 Follow Tamarindo on instagram @tamarindopodcast and on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TamarindoPodcast-143

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0:00.0	On this episode of Tamarindo, we sit down with Luis Cornero, licensed therapist and host of the Queer Magic podcast to explore the intersections of queerness, healing, and Latime identity.
0:34.3	Welcome to the Marindo podcast.
0:39.5	Hosted by me, Brenda Gonzalez, a fitness coach, political nerd, and nonprofit capacity builder. And me, Delci Sandoval, a Guatemalan American licensed therapist and passionate creativity advocate.
0:46.2	Together, we're here to uplift our community through powerful conversations with changemakers,
0:51.1	creatives, and healers. Each week on the pod, we talk politics, culture, and personal development.
0:56.4	Listeners called Tamarino, the advocacy and self-love podcast.
1:00.1	Let's start the show.
1:04.9	Hello, Tamarindo, listeners. We are so happy to be with you today. How are you, Brenda?
1:15.8	Yes, very excited to always talk to our listeners. Of course, you all can tell it's a somber mood
1:22.5	here in the whole country, but it feels ultimately so close here in Los Angeles. So how are you feeling,
1:30.2	Delci, with the news and everything that's going on right now? You know, I, it's very interesting
1:36.1	because the feeling that I've been tapping into, you would think would be sadness or
1:42.9	one of those emotions, maybe vulnerability, but I feel
1:46.5	angry and I feel an intense anger, almost like I've been to the point where I feel like I'm
1:54.7	rageful about what's going on, you know, for so many different reasons. And we'll kind of talk a little bit about those reasons, but it just, you know, for so many different reasons. And we'll kind of talk a little bit about those
2:03.1	reasons. But it just, I don't know if you feel this way too, Brenda, but it's like exhausting.
2:09.4	Like we've had enough already. Latinos being, you know, Latina people being scapegoated and being
2:16.1	kind of showboated and paraded and used as political
2:19.5	ponds. It's like we're done with that. And it feels angering to be in that place again.
2:27.9	Yeah. No, I think that the anger and the exhaustion is absolutely real. I'm feeling it in my body.
2:33.3	It's very difficult to like function for work.
2:36.8	And I'm still supposed to like send emails and act like nothing's happening. I think that's been
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