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Making Waves: Giselle Carrillo’s Journey to Surfing and Social Change

Tamarindo

Tamarindo | Sonoro

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

4.8741 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Tamarindo, we sit down with Giselle Carrillo, an educator, surfer, and founder of Los Courage Camps, an initiative aimed at creating equity in the surfing community. Giselle shares her personal journey from growing up in East Los Angeles to discovering surfing later in life, and how it transformed her sense of courage and purpose. We discuss how Los Courage Camps offers free surf lessons to children from underserved communities, helping them build confidence, leadership, and self-advocacy skills. Tune in as Giselle talks about the powerful connection between the ocean and personal growth, and her mission to make surfing accessible for all. We mention GLAAD’s Dímelo series that you can watch right now: https://youtu.be/btzuD0FMTVk?si=VY3uLE8XLcjlOT9P Come workout with Brenda in LA on September 29th: https://www.union.fit/events/heartbeat-house-sip-sweat-w-brenda-dj-devoe 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 twitter at @tamarindocast  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In this episode of Tamarindo, we sit down with Giselle Carillo, an educator, surfer, and founder of Lost Courage camps, an initiative aimed at creating equity in the surfing community.

0:33.0

Welcome to the Marino podcast.

0:38.5

Hosted by me, Brenda Gonzalez, a fitness coach, political nerd, and nonprofit capacity builder.

0:44.4

And me, Delsey Sandoval, a Guatemalan American licensed therapist and passionate creativity advocate.

0:51.0

Together, we're here to uplift our community through powerful conversations with change makers, creatives, and healers.

0:54.6

Each week on the pod, we talk politics, culture, and personal development.

0:58.4

Listeners called Tamarino, the advocacy and self-love podcast.

1:00.6

Let's start the show.

1:09.7

Hello, Tamarino listeners. Hi, Brenda.

1:14.1

I'm excited to be here. Hello, Tamarindo podcast listeners.

1:30.7

Yeah, yeah, I love when we get to hang out and kind of see each other back to back. It's awesome. I'm so excited about today's episode because today we are speaking to Jessel Carrillo. She's an educator, a surfer, and the founder of Los Courage Camps.

1:35.6

But before we get into it, Brenda, I want to talk a little bit about yesterday's event.

1:36.9

Can you give us a rundown of what it was?

1:40.8

Yeah, I'm going to tell the audience because they could get to be a part of this as well.

1:41.6

They could check this out.

1:46.4

So Glad had this event for their series called Dimmelos, who was an in-person gathering. And Dimelo is a awesome conversation series produced and

1:54.0

created by Gabe Gonzalez, who's a friend of the pod. And it's his conversations with

1:59.9

Latinque queer comedians.

2:03.1

And this was such a treat for us to get to go to this in person

2:05.8

because it was a surprise to me that we actually got to have some live comedy.

2:10.0

I thought it was going to be more like a panel.

2:11.7

So how exciting, right, to get to have amazing comedy.

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