Welcome to the Moth Podcast. I'm Tique Milan, writer, journalist, leadership coach,

Moth Storyteller, and your host for this episode. We're celebrating the launch of our

brand new book, A Point of Beauty, True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go. Now you're listening

to the Moth podcast so I know you love hearing the Moth, but reading the Moth, it's an entirely different way to experience these true personal stories.

Plus, it's much harder to give a podcast as a last minute gift for your partner's birthday or graduation.

Mother's Day, Father's Day is coming up, just saying.

And the Moth's new book might include a story from the person

you're listening to right now. Actually, there's no might about it. You can read a story from me in the

book. Before I get into more about what makes this book so special and why you should definitely

pick it up wherever books are sold, I want to share one of the much love stories that

appears in A point of beauty.

This was from Sean Leonardo, and he told this at a Boston main stage where the theme of the night was,

Who Do You Think You Are? Here's Sean live at the morning.

In 2010, I'm standing in this grimy little gym in Waxaca, Mexico,

finally watching La Lucha Libre.

And now for those of you that don't know what that is,

La Lucha is the arts of Mexican wrestling. The pageantry and acrobatics are second to none.

And while the storylines and narratives of good versus evil would feel familiar to you,

there's a special magic to La Lucha because in Mexican culture it is sacred.

Now, I've always had a fascination with La Lucha ever since watching it on the TV with my

dad and it's always been so spectacular but those warriors were so foreign to me in

their mask and regalia,

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