Getting Real with Mandy Gonzalez: One of Broadways Biggest Voices Shares Her Journey of Trials and Triumphs

Get Real with Caroline Hobby

Nashville Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

When Mandy Gonzalez steps on stage, you feel it—power, passion, presence. She rose to fame as Nina in In the Heights, shattered ceilings as Angelica in Hamilton, and defied gravity as Elphaba in Wicked. Now, she’s back on Broadway, transforming into the legendary Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd., rewriting the rules of a classic role.

Her voice is unmatched. Her story? Even more powerful. A working mom, recording artist (Fearless), and screen actress (Quantico, Across the Universe), Mandy has built a career on strength, soul, and staying true to herself—even while battling breast cancer.

Five years cancer-free, Mandy Gonzalez is not just surviving—she’s blazing. And Broadway is better for it.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.1	So what happened to Chappaquittic?
0:07.2	Well, it really depends on who you talk to.
0:09.2	There are many versions of what happened in 1969
0:11.7	when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond.
0:15.2	And left a woman behind to drown.
0:18.7	Chappaquittic is a story of a tragic death
0:20.7	and how the Kennedy machine took control.
0:23.4	Every week, we go behind the headlines
0:25.1	and beyond the drama of America's royal family.
0:28.3	Listen to United States of Kennedys
0:30.1	on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast,
0:32.6	or wherever you get your podcast.
0:38.2	No one is harmed, no death, no trauma, just a few cells grown in a dish.
0:43.2	This is David Eagleman from the Inner Cosmos podcast, and this week we're tackling a tough
0:48.5	question where brain science meets the future. Lab-grown meat is going to force us to confront the boundaries of our ethics.
0:57.6	And what does this have to do with brain plasticity, social belonging, messed up boundaries between mental categories?
1:04.4	What does this uncover about brain science and our calculations of morality?
1:10.0	Listen to Inner Cosmos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
1:15.3	podcasts.
1:17.6	Just like great shoes, great books take you places.
1:21.4	Through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget.
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