Hey, it's Alicia. Today we're excited to share an emotional and uplifting episode from a new podcast we think you're going to love.

Kian Arwe is a podcast from Colorado Public Radio about Latino Joy. It's a series hosted by journalist May Ortega,

featuring intimate stories centered on Latinos from all walks of life. They've done episodes about an amateur chef on a mission to

recreate the green Chile recipe that his grandmother never put in writing, a brewer who's connecting

to his heritage by recreating the ancient drinks of his ancestors, and a minor league baseball

executive whose life revolves around a tight-knit community of sports fans. It's a show about the

moments big and small that helps shape us.

An episode we're sharing today is about a woman who set out to make a documentary film

about the complexities of Latino identity, even though she had never made a movie.

You can follow Kiana Arwe on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

Here's the show.

Just a heads up, there is a racial slur in this episode.

Growing up on the border in South Texas, sometimes I felt like I was part of two different worlds.

Maybe you can relate.

Home life was a world filled with flavors of my parents' home country. Meanwhile, my school life and the rest of the world outside of home was a slightly more

American world. We were expected to speak English, know about the big American

movie stars, popular American shows, things like that. And on paper, having a foot in both those

worlds sounds pretty cool, like having a little bit of everything. But it's not that simple.

Denise Soler-Cox knows what I mean.

One of the things I used to resent as a kid is when people would say, you've the best of both

worlds, Denise, you're the best of both. And I would feel like, but I don't feel like that.

Why don't I feel like the best of both? Yeah. It took a long time for Denise to find her community. The people who

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