Geena Aguilar, known as "Geena the Latina", is a local celebrity and radio personality throughout San Diego & Los Angeles with an inspiring story of resilience and purpose. After tragically losing her two teenage brothers to gang violence, Geena spiraled into a deep depression, but eventually found healing and direction through her spiritual awakening. She shares how exploring modalities like Theta Healing and mediumship not only helped her in her own healing but also helped her connect with her brothers and unlock her own intuitive gifts.

Now, Geena uses her platform to uplift her community, serving on the board of a nonprofit (the Positive Movement Foundation) that supports underserved youth, and hosting her own show "The Geena the Latina Show" where she delves into wellness, mental health, and spirituality. Her journey is a testament to the power of following your intuition, and how adversity can propel you towards your true calling. You'll will be captivated by Geena's authenticity, wisdom, and dedication to making a difference -she's a beautiful soul shining her light, for sure!

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Connect with Geena:
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TheGeenaTheLatinaShow/videos 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/geenathelatina

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thegeenathelatinashow

Website: https://www.geenathelatina.com/cv

The Positive Movement Foundation: https://thepositivemovement.org/

Meet Geena Aguilar

Geena the Latina has been a staple on San Diego’s #1 Hit Music Station Channel 933 for more than 17 years. Geena is the host of “The Geena the Latina and Frankie V Morning Show.” And is arguably one of the most beloved radio personalities in SanDiego.  Geena also appears weekly on Fox 5 San Diego giving viewers a look at what’s happening around town every weekend.

In 2023, Geena launched “The Geena the Latina Show” a dynamic online show and podcast that delves into the realms of mental, spiritual, and physical health with a creative touch. the show aims to inspire, entertain, educate, and motivate listeners, fostering a vibrant community that celebrates diversity and empowers individuals to prioritize their well-being and unlock their full potential.

Geena currently serves on the board of the Positive Movement Foundation which aims to provide underserved and at-risk children and youth with the tools and support to increase their likelihood for success as they mature. In three years, the foundation has raised more than $900,000, implemented dozens of programs in multiples schools across San Diego County, and has provided endless amounts of resources for both students and teachers alike. 

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hey, beautiful soul, welcome to spirit speakeasy. I'm Joy Giovanni, joyful medium. I'm a working psychic medium, energy healer and spiritual gifts mentor. This podcast is like a seat at the table in a secret club, but with mediums, mystics and the spiritual luminaries of our time. So come behind the velvet ropes with me and see inside my world as I chat insider style with profoundly gifted souls, we go deep, share juicy stories, laugh a lot, and it wouldn't be a speakeasy without great insider secrets and tips. You might even learn that you have some gifts of your own. So step inside the spirit speakeasy. Hey, beautiful souls, we are so blessed to have today's guest. Her name is Gina Aguilar around San Diego in Southern California. She is known by Gina, the Latina. She is a local celebrity and personality, and quite honestly, I think she's a treasure here. She does so much work just giving back to the community, and she has a nonprofit, and she has her own podcast where she talks about wellness and lots of woo, woo things. I actually got to be a guest on her podcast, but she has this incredible journey. She had a really significant loss earlier in her life, and she just shares with us, not only how that loss, which she shares really beautifully about both of her brothers and what happens with them, it helps to propel her into this version of herself that she is today, but she also gives us these beautiful pearls of wisdom about how she found the courage to really get out of the place that she grew up in and make a better life for herself, how she was able to follow her intuition and get out of her own way to have this amazing career as a public personality, and all of the accolades that she's gotten and how she uses her intuition today, she has some spiritual gifts of her own that she has recently publicly started sharing about. So she's just a wonderful human being all around I'm so grateful that I got to meet her and have gotten to talk with her a few times, and that she agreed to come and share about her journey and her advice for us here on spirit speakeasy. So without further ado, I'm so excited to introduce you to Gina Aguilar. Welcome back, or welcome in for another episode of spirit speakeasy. We are here today with Gina Aguilar, also known as Gina the Latina. She is a local treasure here in Southern California. I'm going to read her bio, and then we are going to get to talk to her, which is so exciting. Gina the Latina has been a staple on San Diego's number one hit music station, channel 933, for more than 17 years, Gina is the host of the Gina, the Latina and Frankie V morning show, and she's arguably one of the most beloved radio personalities in San Diego, the city of San Diego, named April 17, 2018 as Gina the Latina day in 2018 Gina was also recognized by California Assemblywoman LORENA GONZALEZ Fletcher's 80th district as Woman of the Year. She has voted Best radio personality in 2019 in San Diego, just to name a few of her accolades. And Gina also appears weekly on Fox five San Diego, giving viewers a look at what's happening around town every weekend in 2023 Gina launched her own show called The Gina, the Latina show. It's a dynamic online show and podcast that really delves into the realms of mental, spiritual and physical health with a creative touch. The show aims to inspire, entertain, educate and motivate listeners, fostering a vibrant community that celebrates diversity and empowers individuals to prioritize their well being and unlock their future potential, a lot like we do here. Gina currently serves on the board of the positive movement Foundation, which aims to provide underserved and at risk children and youth with the tools and support to increase their likelihood for success as they mature. In three years, the foundation has raised more than $900,000 implemented dozens of programs in multiple schools across San Diego County, and has provided endless amounts of resources, both for students and teachers alike. The City of San Diego named December 2 2023 as the positive movement Foundation Day in 2017 Gina created an annual girls empowerment conference, which was attended by 500 high school students from underserved communities throughout San Diego, and it quickly became the largest non religious conference of its kind in the whole United States. Giovanni. Gina has been through more in her young life than most people could imagine. She had two teenage brothers that were actually killed due to gang violence, so she has a strong personal passion for the inner city youth of her community, and aims to serve in any way possible. She doesn't like to toot her horn, but this is really true about her. Gina was the first in her family to graduate from her four year university, and was the founding president of the first ever Latina based sorority, sigma, lambda gamma at Loyola Marymount University, where she also received a softball scholarship. She's been a member and has supported numerous charities throughout San Diego. She truly loves life and appreciates everything that she has been blessed with. Welcome in, Gina. How are you?
Wow, that was a great intro.
There's so much that you do, and you are truly a local Southern California treasure. And I have a feeling soon to be a national treasure, honestly.
Oh, I thank you coming from you. That's great.
Well, you're pretty amazing. I know you don't like to toot your own horn too much, but you actually are a California native. You grew up in LA, in the valley, is that where? Yeah,
I grew up in Sylmar San Fernando, which is in the Los Angeles area, North Los Angeles, and I, but I moved to San Diego, like, 18 years ago.
That's a while. I mean, it seems like so you're in LA, you have kind of like a semi normal childhood. Is that? Is that how it is there for you?
It just depends. What you did find is
normal. Well, you know, we grew up in an area. I grew up in the Sylmar San Fernando area, and anyone who's from there, I always say, like, we grew up like, I don't know how to explain it. So, like, people like, Oh, were you poor? I don't, I don't consider myself poor. We didn't definitely grow up rich, but we grew up in an area where there was, like, a lot of gangs. Gang activity was, like, highly present, and a lot of girls got pregnant at a very young age, and it was just kind of a normal thing. And not many people, like, went to college and did things. So you just kind of learn how to maneuver that when you're young, like, which streets to walk down and which streets not to walk down, and you just, it just kind of becomes life, is it wasn't. It was very normal in my mind. But when I got until I got older, is when I realized, like, maybe that wasn't so quote, unquote normal with that said, you know, without getting too much into my family, because that's their lives. But you know, there was a lot of alcohol, drug addiction, just, you know, like they did their best they could. But I wouldn't say it was like what you see on TV, the cookie cutter house, the leave it to clean. What does it? Leave it to cleavers, or whatever they're called, yeah. It definitely wasn't that. Yeah.
How did you as a young girl, like a young girl and a young woman, how did you see a different life for yourself? What was inspiring to you? Um,
so for me, you know, I a therapist once told me that a long time ago, it made sense to me, like, when people come like, can't control what's going on in their home environment or the things around them, like kids, they start controlling what they can so for me, I became a overachiever in life, like, so I was a straight A student, valedictorian, best athlete. Like, very was, was very, like, hyper critical myself, though, too, because you start, like, at your you know, the way you look and like, you start perfecting everything you can control when you're a kid, when you can't control the other things. So I think that's kind of where I started exceeding. And then I always me, my brothers always grew up. Like, I know this is crazy, but I don't know what talk about. Sorry, I haven't talked a while, but like, like, Biggie, Biggie, Smalls. Like, we always wanted, like, like, all his songs he rap through, like, you know, we made it out the hood. We're we're here, we're gonna go on and do bigger things. It was just always this, like, I was really good at manifesting at a very young age, before I even understood what manifesting was like. I think that anyone who comes from certain areas, you it's you're it's easy to dream, because it's not a reality, I guess. And no one ever told me no. So in my head, and me and my brother's head, we were like, Oh, we're gonna make it. We're gonna and I don't even know what made it. Make it meant at that moment, but like, we were like, since a little kid, like, we're gonna do it, we're gonna become rich, we're gonna do this, and we're gonna do that. And it was just always in our head, like, we're gonna do more. And I don't know exactly what was the inspiration of that, other than just dreaming, yeah, really like and manifesting, I guess, which, I didn't know that manifest was a word, though, at that age,
I think it's so powerful though, just to just even that emotion of music moves you, and looking at the Compare and contrast of just everyday life moves you. I know that's how it was for me when I was young, where it's like, yeah, we didn't know what was more, what? What did it mean to like, be in a something better? We just knew, like, well, maybe this isn't it, so yeah. And
then when you're like, your favorite rappers rapping about you're like, Yeah, that's it. I want to do it, you know. Or I want yeah. And maybe that wasn't like, the greatest inspiration, but it sure did get you out of the mindset of like, I always just knew I wanted to do something bigger than, like, bigger than what was expected. Did, which wasn't much expectation at that time.
Yeah, it sounds like you are someone that just has an inner determination and an inner drive, too. I know you talk about this publicly occasionally, and I know that you've already shared with people that I've done a reading for you, which I told you I'm so happy happened before we had this conversation, because I wanted to get a chance to meet your loved ones independently of us talking and then work with you. How old are you when you lose your brothers?
So I was a year out of college, so I think I was like 21 or 22 I had I went to squat, Loyola, Marymount, graduated, and was working at Fox Sports TV as a sales assistant. So my life, and, you know, I would say, like, my life was very different, like I was always working there in hay ministry, but I was, I kind of kept my home life secret, or where I come from, because I was like, embarrassed at the time, like I thought, Oh, they're gonna think I'm ghetto, or they're, you know, whatever. But I was about 22 when my first brother died. He was shot and killed, and then five months later, my other brother was shot and killed to the day, five months to the day. Yeah, yeah,
that must have been. How did you process that as such a young woman in such a pivotal time in your life?
Yeah? Well, after my first brother died, I was kind of like, just keep it moving. Like, keep it. But then after my second brother died, it was just a lot. He was, like, my best friend, and I just, I ended up just quitting my job. I don't even remember quitting. I think I just stopped showing up. I have no clue. Like, when you go through that much trauma, you're just out of it. And I moved back in with my parents, because at the time I was moving on my like, after 18, I never moved back home, but I moved back in with my parents, and I literally did nothing for an entire year. And I was super depressed. I got really skinny. All I would do is, like I had an eating disorder. Like, that's when an eating disorder developed, and I would just run every day, like, five, six miles, and then sleep. I slept a lot for about an entire year. Well,
we should mention that right before this, like you said, you're at Loyola Marymount. You, you worked your determinated self to the bone, I'm sure, achieving this softball Scholarship, which, yeah, anyone who's ever been in any kind of school or you know now it's different, but it's so hard to get those type of scholarships. Yeah, so you work so hard you graduate, which, you know, like you said, You're the first person in your family, it's a really big deal. You're on this like, success trajectory, and then just like happens to all of us, life happens, and really, it feels like it just takes you all the way down. Yeah, you know, I
always say, like, people grieve differently, and I never judge anyone for how they grieve. Yeah, but yeah, you're like, I was at my low. And even for years to come, because I didn't deal with it immediately. But for that year, I was really at my low. I remember one of my friends, like, came and visit me, and was just like, Yo, you need to, like, pull it together. Like something's not right with you. But I ended up going back to work about a year later, and I threw myself in work at the radio station. But yeah, during that time, I guess it was just, I mean, anyone who's suffered depression or like, like, I understand like, you feel like there is, there's never going to be, like, you're never going to be happy again. You know, like, when you lose someone, you think you see them, you have dreams like it's something you don't even work. You never wish on your worst enemy at all. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And most people that are listeners and friends here have lost someone significant in their lives as part of their journey. One of the questions I always get asked that maybe you have some insight on looking back, was there something you know, we're in this grief journey. And like you said, Everyone grieves differently when when they've lost someone. And for most people, it seems like there's some point which they can identify when it's happening, where that momentum just somehow comes back, or you pull yourself out of that quick sound of grief. Do you remember what happens for you that is it an offer that comes? Yeah,
so, so I was at my parents home for like, a year doing nothing. And my old boss, I always tell him this, because he doesn't even remember doing this, but my old boss at the radio station, because I had worked at the radio station in LA, at Kiss FM, throughout college, and then when I went, when I graduated, I went to go get a real job, because I never thought I was gonna be on the radio. And he called me. He, I don't know how, because I wasn't even taking people's phone calls or anything, but he called my parents house phone, and he's like, I remember. He's like, Get the f out of that house. Like, you need to come back and work like, and his intention was just to get me out of the house, because I feel like, I you know. And he's like, you can just work in the office. You can just literally come in whenever you want. You could go home. It's okay. No one knows your story. Because at the time, I remember, I was still embarrassed, like around Hollywood people, and I thought that they would think like, Oh, who's this little girl from the ghetto? Like, two brothers killed her brother was in gangs like, you know, all these things that I don't I could care less about now, but at the time, it was a big deal. And he's like, just come back and come to the. Office. And I did. I literally started the next day, and I threw myself into work like I was at that radio station from the morning till the very night,
yeah, which obviously is probably not the healthiest version of no pendulum swing either, but it gets you kind of moving and going. And, yeah,
it got me, it got me out of the house, and then eventually, that's why I always tell people, like, at some point you're gonna have to deal with your grief. Because, like, fast forward to what, however, many years later, I got sick, and I was really, like, I never dealt with all the trauma, because I just threw myself into work, which, for me, worked at the time. It got me out of the house. It kept kept me going. It got me to where I am today. But at some point all that grief is gonna catch up to you, and you have to do the work such a
good point. Grief is patient. If we busy ourselves with other things, it lays in wait until, like you said, something happens, and then we're forced to deal with it one way or another. So then you're on this kind of train again, of determination. You find that version of you that's got that hustle spirit of like, I'm just gonna go and get this done and move my life forward. Do you at some point, like, are obviously, you're thinking of your brothers all along, but are you receiving like, dreams from them? Are you just putting all of that to the side as part of that, like grief you're not dealing with.
So, you know, at first I did they were, they would show up in my dreams, and they still show up in my dream as little kids, which is interesting, you know, like little kids, because, you know, and I, at the time, I didn't know what that meant, but I always use them as like ammunition, because they wanted to be on this dream with us, because in our head, we always wanted to work in their attainment world. My brother would be like, Oh, I'm going to be your security guard, which I don't know why I would need a security guard, but at the time, it made sense. And my other brother was gonna be like, the fashion guy, and we just had this whole plan. So when I was working radio, I didn't really know what I was working to, but it was always for them. But a year a big moment happened a year after I was on the radio here in San Diego, and we skipped a whole lot of how I got here, but that's fine, doesn't really matter. But a year after, I was gonna quit radio, because it's just I didn't want to be in the public eye. It was just people were so mean and just have all these things, yeah, and I hadn't shared what happened to my brother with my brothers, and I ended up sharing that story in the radio, and it wasn't even anything. It was planned, it just happened. And I had never got so much response from people like, like, Thank you for sharing. We connect with you like, we've been through that, you know? And that's when I realized, okay, this is maybe my purpose here. Like, when I have something important to say people will listen. If I can help people by being on the radio, I will, yeah, and that's kind of when I decided to stay in radio. And I don't remember what your question was exactly, but I felt like then, then I saw more signs from my brothers after that moment, like after I was shared, after I was open it, then I started seeing like being able to fill my brothers around and things like that. I guess I love the way you said that, because one thing I often try to help people understand is that when our grief is really loud and we have all these emotions, even if we're trying to push them aside or not deal with them, it's not that our loved ones aren't there trying to give us signs or trying to say hello to us. It's that our emotions are not being dealt with so we it's us not being aware of them not being there for us. So thank you for sharing that. Yeah, yeah, that's what I felt. I
love that though, and I love that you allowed their story to you know, it really is this thing that then moves you to the next phase of having more of a vision for what perhaps you could do with the platform that you have. So that's, that's kind of cool. I don't want to miss this little part of I know part of your story is you never thought that you were going to be kind of an on air personality. That's not the path you really saw for yourself. You Is it where, sort of like for me, where it's like, well, you're just going for different jobs, and then you get kind of swept into this stream of flow, and then you're on air. How does that even happen?
I know, right. It sounds crazy. It is crazy. Well, during college, I always wanted to work in entertainment since I was a very young age, I just didn't I thought I was more a behind the scenes person, but I didn't know. So during college, I interned at a lot of different places, like at Music Video Production places at like DreamWorks, at all these casting agents, like things like that. One of the internships was in radio, and I loved it because it was fun. I got to go to concerts. I got to do all these things. And so during college, I got hired on the promo team, where you go set up the tents. I made some of my best friends in radio. And then after college, like I said, I had to go get a real job in my head, because you don't get paid much as entry level there. What am I going to do? Right? I never wanted to be on the radio, so went to go work at Fox Sports TV as a sales assistant, which learned that that wasn't for me. Nothing at Fox Sports was great. It's just sales is just not me. Yeah. Then my brothers died, and then I went back to radio, and when I had gone back. Back, I was still just in promo, and it was literally just to get out of the house. I still didn't think that was my job. But there was a, I was working an event, and there was a big boss there, and he his name is John Ivy. He loves when I shut him out. He if you look him up, he's like, known to find some of the biggest artists, like Ryan Seacrest, Justin Bieber, like all these things at the time. I didn't know who he was. You just know who a boss is. And he pulled me aside, and he's like, Are you new? And by then, I had actually, technically been working there since I was 18. Like, not really. And he's like, Well, where have you been? Why haven't I seen you? Because he came in during that time I wasn't working, and I it's like, it's a long story. He was like, Well, I have time. So I sat there and told him my whole story, not knowing who he was or anything. I just was very honest. One thing about me is I'm very honest. I'm not a good liar. If you ask me something, I'll tell you the truth. And so he's like, okay, and that was it. And I remember after that, my other boss was like, what'd he say? Like, why was he talking to you so much? I'm like, I don't know. He just wanted to know who I was. And so about two weeks later, and then I find out who he was. And then two weeks later, he pulls me into the office, and he says, Hey, have you ever thought about, like, considered being on the radio? And I was like, like, talking. And he's like, yeah. I was like, I'm like, Uh, no. He's like, Well, would you want to and I was like, sure, like, you know, like, what else was I doing, really, right? And so he's like, okay. And at the time we they needed, I wasn't like, going to be on the radio. They needed, like, people to call in, like, Hey, I'm out here on the corner of blah, blah, blah, you know, like that. So I started doing that. They paid me for that was great money. I was making no money. It was great money. And then, like I said, I was at the radio station from the morning tonight, mainly to keep my mind off what happened with my brothers. And so I started becoming friends with a lot of the On Air talent and the producers, and I started, like, working on the nighttime show, but not technically, like, back in the day, they didn't really check the hours and stuff. It was just I was kicked out at the radio station, yeah. And so I started working on the nighttime show. And I started going out with one of my friends, Manny, on the streets. He was, like, the red carpet reporter in LA and I would just, like, learn from him, and just go, I'm trying to make this short, but one day, okay, like, Yeah, so one day with him, there was a Lindsay Lohan world premiere for music, and there was a James Bond movie premiere, okay? And they were trying to decide where to send him out to. And then the guy who was on the radio, Joe. Joe, who was the first guy that let me work for him. He said, Well, Gina, he asked him, Where do you want to go? And Manny said, Lindsay Lohan. It's like, Gina, can you go to James Bond? I'm like, Yeah, sure. I was always overconfident, since a little kid, like, just fake it till you make it right. But I was so scared going to that red carpet by myself. He's like, Okay, I go to James Bond. You go there. And I went there by myself on the little carpet with my little mic. I had no like, usually I was just like, shadowing Manny, right? Yeah. And so then I'm like, doing this, and the first interview I get for him is James Bond himself, Pierce Brosnan, wow. And so after that, I think it proved to them that I could do it. So when Manny eventually went to work on the Ryan Seacrest show, instead of having auditions, they just slid me in. Jojo is like, I just want Gina. We don't need auditions. She's been doing this. So I became the, like, the red carpet report. It's still like the street girl, though, like, not in the studio, but after that, because it's LA, it's a big show. It's a big radio station. A lot of other morning shows started hitting me up to come audition to be the morning girl. And at the time, I still was not convinced that I wanted to be on the radio, but San Diego was one of the I said no to a lot of people, but San Diego was one of the ones that I was like, I love San Diego. I grew up coming here. All my friends went to college there. Let's just go audition. And I came in, I auditioned. I remember, I didn't even had headphones. I didn't know I had never sat in a rural studio because I was like, in LA, they don't let you go really, in the Rural Studio too much, yeah. And they just said, Be you. And so I was like, Okay, well, that's easy. And I was probably a little over sharing, because you don't realize you're talking to a million people or whatever. It totally doesn't feel like that. Yeah, it doesn't feel like that. And they just said, Be you. And so I think within like that week or two, I got that job, like that day. Within a week or two, I was moved down to San Diego, and I've been here for 18 years.
Oh my gosh. So that is like a whirlwind, kind of one thing leads to another, yeah,
but, but important part of that story is I, one time I asked that initial John Ivy, way back we had lunch, was like, why did you choose me? Because you couldn't really ask anyone, right? Yeah. And he he said this, and this is good advice, I would say. He's like, look, I can teach anyone to be good on the radio, but I can't teach everybody to work hard, and you were the hardest working person in that room. So good point. There's and that should be said for that. And that's why he pulled me aside in and he said, That's That's why he said. And he's like, I could teach anyone to be good, but I can't teach people to work hard. That's not something I could teach them to do. Wow. Them to do. Wow, that's, yeah, I
think that's valid, because that's something anyone can cultivate within themselves, hard working and focus and, you know, just taking the opportunities as they come. At what point in there, in that trajectory of, kind of, I keep seeing you like a pinball just kind of bouncing from this thing to. The next thing to the next thing, and then down here, where do you become Gina, the Latina in so,
so they called me that way back. It was funny, because when I started reading on the street, kind of, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's they called me that from day one, because so when I was on the street and all the time, there was not many Latinos on the radio at all, at all. And so I think they wanted people to know that I was so they started calling me Gina Aguilar. But it just didn't really click on air. So one of the guys there, Dave styles, give him a shout out, because he always reminds me, like, oh, I came up with their name. He just started calling me Gina the Latina, and it just stuck. And they did perceptuals That said that, like, within, like, quick, like, it was easy to remember, and so it's, that's when it happened. It happened early on, like, the red carpet days.
It's, I mean, it's catchy because it rhymes. So, yeah, there's that. But how did you were you comfortable with that? I remember the first time when I moved here and I heard you on the radio. It's been a lot of years now, maybe was not long after you came here, actually, it was probably 2011 ish, and I remember being shocked, like, oh well, she must be okay with that, if that's what they're calling her. But like, I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to identify people by their heritage, so she doesn't have problem with it, so let's go with it. But
yeah, I never cared. I thought it was funny, and I never really cared, honestly, ever, until I feel like other people have a problem, could have a problem with it more than myself. Like I'm not that I don't take things that seriously, like I am Latina and my name is Gina. I'm not sure what the problem is with that.
That's really powerful, just for the representation factor. Are you? What's the what's the stat on it? Are you the first female Latina Morning Show host on a non Spanish, non Spanish speaking?
Definitely in San Diego. And there's not, there's not many in the country. I don't know the exact stat on that. I know, like my friend Dana Cortez, she has a show, but there's not. There's still in in this year, there's still not a lot of us. But yes, definitely in San Diego. Yes,
it's so powerful for I was just listening to an interview with Malcolm Gladwell, and his mom is Jamaican, and she was saying, he was saying how excited she is, you know, that Kamala Harris is running and and they're like, Oh, it's a Jamaican woman. Like, this is the first time anything like this has ever happened. So I imagine it's, it's in some regard, the same with, you know, young women who are seeing you thinking, like, oh my gosh, maybe this is something I could aspire to. Or if she could do it, maybe I could work hard too. And, yeah, yeah,
I think it, you know, especially as Latina women in the past, I wouldn't say now, like, We're known as to be a more traditional role, stay at home, take care of the kids, you know? And I'm, I'm completely opposite of that. Like, I don't have kids, and I don't want kids not saying there's anything bad with them. I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I have stepson, you know what? I mean? Like, all that's enough for me. I definitely put my career first, and, like, very so. And I'm not saying either is right or wrong. I'm saying it gives, it gives different representation, and it also gives a representation to for whatever weight, whatever path you choose. Hey, there's a there's someone that looks like me on the radio, like, you know what I mean, or on TV, because I do TV too. It is, it does matter. Like to see more of us, you know. And so I don't ever try to be like this super crazy role model, although people like like to put me there. I don't that's like too much expectation, but I am who I am. And so if that hopefully inspires you to do I do believe that anyone could do whatever they want, though, as long as you put your mind to it, I will say that what doesn't matter what race, color, gender you are, and for come really
far away from someone who didn't even know what they thought making it meant to like, now you're like, creating nonprofits to support other people, and you're a role model. Girl, I
don't know what you're talking about. Yeah. Well, my number one thing I said if I was gonna do radio when, when I spoke about my brothers being killed, if, if, if I was gonna continue a radio because remember, at that time, I was just gonna go back to LA and not do radio anymore. I was gonna make my voice matter, and so I have made it my mission to like, because I know like, like, we can have a I have a nonprofit, we can show everybody else can show up, and they could do great work. But when giovanina shows up and says to say something, the kids start listening just because, like, like, I know that I could say the same thing as someone else, but they'll listen to me because I'm not their mom, I'm not some teacher, and nothing against them. But like, sometimes they're like, Oh, that girl on the radio who laughs and whatever actually has something important to say. They do listen. And so I have made that, like, if I'm gonna stay and do deal with the BS of radio, because there's a lot of BS of radio. Like, you know what? I mean, it's a great job, but there's a lot of BS, then I'm gonna make it. There a reason why I'm doing this? And so that is, you know, as we're talking I'm speaking at a school tomorrow. I'm the keynote speaker at this the school for it's like for kids who have had a really rough life, you know, or got had challenges. And so I'm speaking at their college Expo. Tomorrow, so I just make sure to make time for all that stuff.
So I was gonna say it's your willingness to go there and share your story. And the way I always say it here is like shine your light so they can see what you're doing. So perhaps they can see something different for themselves, at least an option for them to consider. How long is it into that part of your journey where you're down here, you move down. You take the job. Your things are flowing for you. At what point in that are you like, yeah, I still don't know. I don't know if this is it. It
was that one year mark, like, when I was on radio for one year, and after that, I was like, Okay, I'm gonna stop quitting. Because remember, I had tried to quit radio many times, many times, and for some reason, I kept coming back, or it was fun, or whatever. After that, I decided to not quit anymore, and I was really gonna make, like, do it. And, yeah, so, like, about a year in after this,
and then, when did you start the nonprofit? That's
much more well, right? Yeah. Well, so we first, when I first, right away, I would start speaking at schools. I got asked to speak at a lot of schools, and I might have overdid it a little bit, because it was, like, it's emotionally draining to tell you back then, especially because the story was so fresh. You know, it was right after my brothers died. It was a lot. It was really draining. But I did go to a lot of schools at the time, and it kind of became, like, a lot of schools knew, like, hey, Giovanni, and I try to do as much as I can. But then I took a take a step back because it was just wasn't good for me emotionally, because it's, yeah, you know, I'm an empath, so it's just like a lot, and at the time, I didn't have the skills to learn how to, like, clear my space and do all the things, right? Um, so I took a step back, and then, um, another and then I teamed up with my my friend, this other girl, had a nonprofit, and we started the girls empowerment conference. And we did that was really cool with two girls, and we had like 500 teens from all across San Diego would come on a Saturday. We got like different speakers. We got different we just got warmers. We had all this stuff. And we did every year. It became the biggest conference of its kind in the US that's non religious, and we were having all the way up into the pandemic. We had it all planned, and then the pandemic hit, and our conference was like two weeks after that, so we had to cancel it, and unfortunately, we did not start it back up after that, because there's a lot that goes into it to getting the schools involved, and all the groups had fallen apart. But after that, I had been wanting to do something, and one of my friends wanted, he hit me up, my friend Omid, who's the president of our positive movement foundation. He's like, Hey, I have this idea. I want to start this nonprofit. Are you in? And he got a group of us together. So to start this new nonprofit, the positive movement Foundation, which we do, you know, lots of different programs, like, I mean, so many programs. Our intention was to always bring back that empowerment conference at some point, but we're doing a lot of things for the underserved communities and schools here in San Diego well. And
we're also going to link the positivemovement.org in the show notes with along with your all of your contact points, just in case anyone wants to get involved or wants to see, like, what is this all about? I wanna there's a cross over here, so I think we're gonna probably wave back and forth between two topics. But I also wanna talk about your show, the Gina, the Latina show, because that to me, with the little bit that I know from hanging out with you a couple times now, that feels like your personal project that you're offering the world of like you had your journey, you had an awakening of some sort for yourself, and now you're wanting to share what you've learned. Will you talk about
that piece? Yeah. So it's definitely my passion project. So on the radio, I love radio. I love channel 933, but you know, the format's different. We we get to talk about our lives, which all our San Diego listeners have talked about, but we only get short increments of time and all these things. But along my healing journey, after my brothers died, I had some health issues, I really started delving into, like, the spiritual space, right? And so, I mean, I have done it all. I say, like, shamans, Reiki, like anything I have tried, right? And, um, and I just felt, and for a while it was kind of secret, because it kind of seemed like weird, and I'm very mainstream and like, but
Apple's experience here, yeah, describing it is like they start with one thing, and then it's like, oh, they're not sharing it, yeah.
But at some point I realized, like this, had all this work has healed me so much. It's literally changed my life. Like, I was probably delved into it for like, seven years. Like, meditation and all this is when meditation was even a weird word, right? And, like, like, all this stuff, right? And so then I thought I was like, You know what, I want to be able to how can I, like, keep this in, like, it's not fair to everybody else. Like, how can I introduce the the non, whatever you want to call it. I don't know why I'm saying non secular, but that whatever the non spiritual world to this because I thought it's just, I'm doing a disservice. I'm not helping anyone by keeping all these things in that I've learned. So I The idea started, let's start the giovanina show, where I'll just be a kind of like after you get off work. Let's talk about whatever. These healing stuff. And season one, we started light just talking about, like, journaling and meditating and the basic stuff, right? Acupuncture, I
know, yeah, acupuncturist. And kind of the more now what I guess has become the more acceptable segments of it, right? Yeah. But even when
we started filming, because I started filming that, like, four years ago, we didn't launch until like two years after the first like, for season one, we didn't launch till like two years after. So it's been a process, right? Yeah, and it's really crazy just over the last few years, how all this has become a little more normalized. But my always my intention was, you know what? People, quote, unquote, don't think I'm, like, weird, so maybe if they hear me saying it, then they'll listen again. The same thing, like, I could be the bridge to to, like, all this healing stuff that I have experienced. But it's not only healing. It's also, like, I like to do topics about just learning things like, what is Ayahuasca? What I've never done it, but like, what is it like? Just people, like, are not even, some people don't even have a clue. And if I can be that bridge again to helping people, then I will. So yes, it's a passion project. Everybody that works on the show is doing it for passion. I invest my own money as much as we can and and we're hoping it just the intention. Everyone that works on the show wants to help people, and so they're all doing it like everybody has other jobs. So we do it on our own time, but it's turned into a full production. You've seen it, and I
got to be a guest a few weeks ago, so please check that out. I'll link the YouTube channel and everything below, because it's you really do share. It's not all the same vein. It's different. It's different people's stories, different experiences, those people that love shows like Top Chef. You had chef Claudia on not long ago as well. And so it's different people's journeys. But the starting point, like you were saying for you was your own health and wellness challenges, and then the things that you sought out as, like, okay, how am I gonna fix myself? Is that really how it started? Yeah, kind
of like, how am I gonna help myself? But also, like, so like, Chef Claudia, like, I have so many amazing friends. I have such, like, inspirational stories or and like, we would have dinners, and I'd be like, like, you guys could be helping people. Like, I shouldn't be the only one that has access to these people and these conversations and these things I'm learning. So that's what, pretty much every different episode is about.
It is really cool that you acknowledge and can I have identified, like, Oh, I'm a bridge. That's what I do. And this, I'm a bridge either connecting. The other thing that I think is probably true we can see is even before you were doing it on the podcast. Now, I have a feeling everyone that knew you, you're so down to earth, and you're so like, girl, you know, I'm from Boston. You're, like, a realist about things, and you're gonna straight shoot it. You're not going to say some, you know, sometimes people can get swept up in the like, psychosomatic side of things and and they're taking the placebo pill and it does nothing and all. But you're not like that. You're not that girl. You're like, no, gonna say it good or bad? Yeah,
if you don't want the truth, do not ask me. Don't ask my opinion.
So I have a feeling, like everyone that knew you was all already coming to you privately saying, like, hey, what's the deal about acupuncture? What's the deal about Reiki? What's the deal about Yeah, so you probably were doing some of this. Yeah,
no, I had referred my friends, like so many people, so many things. Oh my god, I saw this Shaman. Oh my god, I saw this like, you know, so within my circle. But I just felt like by putting it on YouTube and on the YouTube show, the giovanina show, it could reach to it can reach by putting out in the universe, you're letting it reach whoever it's meant to be reached, is the way I look at it, right. So just opening the circle and whatever is supposed to happen will happen. I believe in that. And we're just gonna keep doing it until, like, while it feels right, and if it ever doesn't feel right, then we'll switch gears, and we've made slight adjustments, as you know, the trends and things like that. But overall, the bottom line is always like, just to help educate or entertain someone, yeah,
and you are such a great doorway in for a lot of people, because you really have, we have a lot of listeners who are kind of all over the world and different parts of the US and Canada and but those of us that are local here, you really have this reputation as a trustworthy almost like a like a big sister vibe is, yeah, I think the feeling, especially for a lot of young girls that you serve. So I think people can look to you and say, like, oh, well, what's her opinion about it? And maybe it's not going to fully decide that topic for them, but you share it in such a easily digestible way, I think too, yeah,
yeah. I always say, like, find what's works for you. I'm just exposing if it doesn't feel if it doesn't feel good for like, I'm never trying to convince someone in any episode. I'm just trying to like, Hey, let you know this is what I did, or this is whatever, take it or leave it, and not everything is gonna be for everybody. But if it doesn't resonate with you, then don't do it. If it does like, I'm big on intuition, and if it doesn't feel right, well then it's not for you. But if it does like, you know, do that, we need to do an episode, a whole episode, on intuition.
I topic, and I think it's so misunderstood, it's like. I feel like it's a thing I end up talking about all the time. Yeah, is, I'm glad you brought that up too, though, because I remember you saying, when you were a girl, you really always knew that there was something more for you. You had, like an inner intuition, or an inner knowing, of like, No, I am capable. I don't know how I'm gonna get there or figure it out, but I'm gonna work real hard and I'm capable. Yeah, did that intuition stay with you to some degree the whole time? Well,
okay, let's so answer, because a little differently. So, okay, the intuition like, so since I was young, I just knew things I don't know how. I didn't know what it was. I just knew things like, what kind of things like, for example, one of my softball teammates passed away. And the night before, I started getting really anxious, and I knew something bad was gonna happen, right? Like, I just knew it over, yeah, and then that happened, right? Um, to as silly as in high school, my teacher would write like, like, numbers on and me and my friend would play game, and I would tell her what number was going to be written before it'd be written. And I would always get it right, you know, like, I just kind of knew. And then as I was growing up, I've had multiple, whatever you want to call them, at the time, I thought they were psychics at the time, come up to me randomly, like, I remember, and just come up to me and stop me and be like, you have this presence about you, like you're gonna do big things. And I'd be like, I know. I love that answer, yeah, yeah. And then like, like, multiple would just come up to me and always say, like, I feel your presence, which was, you know, the time, it just kind of became normal, because it happened all the time, but I didn't really understand it, yeah, and then as I got older, I just, I just always knew things I don't know. I just know if something's right, I know if something's wrong. I know if someone's good and know if someone's bad. I know to stay away from things. Like, I use my intuition at very young age, how to stay out of trouble, like to stay away from things, and that really served me in life.
Yeah, it sounds like you had some little bit of permission to just allow yourself to trust that. I think that's where a lot of people go wrong is I think it's why people will say like, oh yeah, I knew it. I knew that person was not good, or I knew that I shouldn't have gone to that situation, yeah, they don't, they question it or don't trust it. It sounds like you have always had a lot of permission to go with your gut. Yeah? I
think, yeah. I mean, I don't think my I don't know if I didn't verbalize him. I mean, my parents definitely didn't, like, they weren't the kind of parents to tell me, like, no, like I was always the one that I just did what I want, because I knew, like, you know, I make decisions all the time based on gut with nothing, no, quote, unquote facts behind me, and I don't really care. Yeah, I like it.
I think if we could all get a little closer to that, that'd be maybe better. It sounds like too you have a very strong sense of yourself, and, you know, you have this really beautiful way of being neutral about a judgment on an idea, and just assessing whether you feel personally like it's right for you or not. It's not about is that a good thing or a bad thing? It's Is it for me or not for me? Yeah,
yeah. Exactly. Because it could be like, like, like, as simple as is, is it in my highest and best to go to this party today, my friend's birthday party, right? I could force myself to go because I feel bad, or I know in my body that I really shouldn't go because, maybe because my body needs rest, and I'm okay, and being okay with that, you know what I mean? Like, it's just, it's just a thing. You just start putting yourself first, I guess. Yeah,
does that come naturally to you? That ability to put yourself first?
No, that was not that had to be taught by my healers and stuff, because I would still, like, push myself or, like, put others first, and then I would get sick, and then I knew I shouldn't have gone, you know? And those are very basic things, but you do that enough and you and then you do, you follow your intuition enough to realize, like, oh, that's, that's why, you know, and so enough that you don't need a reason anymore. And we don't always get validation, bro, but I've had validation enough to know that it doesn't matter. Yeah.
So you, I mean, I know you've received lots of different type of healing and had lots of different experiences. And if you're not okay with me sharing this, we can cut it out, but I know that you actually have, like, trained a little bit in modalities of healing yourself to learn how to do it. Yeah, right,
yeah. When I So, when I was first going through my healing journey, I started doing Theta Healing, like going to a theta healer, and all I know is that I don't know what they actually did, but one hour with her, for me, did better than five years of traditional therapy. I'm not saying any traditional therapy is bad, but for me, that was my thing. So I know if somebody's good, I'm gonna keep going. So I went to her every like two weeks for like a year or two and and eventually I'm a natural learner, like I'm an investigator. By like, my craft, my I'll report everything. I'll look up everything. So I was like, What is this that she's doing? So she told me about, like, a beginning, like workshop. So I just went, like, just to learn, really, and then I, like, fell in love with it. So I went to the second, like, Theta Healing two, and to the advanced two. I became, actually a theta healer practitioner. I actually am certified. And can I. I just have I'm too busy, but I do do a lot of life going on. Yeah, I do do it on my friends, and I think it's so healing. So then I started to tap into that. And then I also started to tap into like. So after my brothers died, I always knew I could communicate with them like, and I don't care what people say like, they play songs, they talk to me like it is so easy for me to communicate my brothers, but I never communicate with anyone else, just my brothers. And so as I started learning, I was like, What is this? So I started, I took some courses with, like, Monica, the media, jays, van Praag, just to, like, hone into my skills. Yeah, you know. And it's, it was like, it's been really cool. I'm nowhere near you or whatever, but it is cool to, like, understand different signs and different messages from my loved ones, but also from other people's loved ones too. To extend, I'm still trying to figure it out, but, you know, it's just good another thing to know, yeah, and it's,
it's, for me, it's, it's such a wonderful example of, like, just being able to give yourself permission to just try something that interests you, yeah, and not, like, hold a judgment about, like, Oh, what if I don't do good? What if I, you know, like, that fear, whatever it is that stops us from just trying something. It's one of my favorite things about you. You have a lot of there's just something that overrides that in you that's like, No, we're gonna go. We're gonna do, yeah, just try it and see. It's like, I don't even know what it is, but it's just like, a really special quality about you. Yeah, if someone doesn't have that quality naturally, do you have any advice that you would tell someone who's like, oh, I want to try things, but I don't know what to try, or I don't I get scared. What would you say to someone who feels like that,
like in general, or just, okay, I say, just keep trying things until, you know, like, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Like, like, it's, it's kind of like dating, right? When you first date, you start dating, like, random people. Like, try different things. I used to go to like, like, if someone invited me to a drum circle, I'd go. If someone did this, I would just go. And then I probably never went again if I didn't like it, you know, or whatever. But like, just have an open mind and go, and you'll find something that you're like, Oh, this is what. I love it. And then keep going and keep going, and then be it's okay if, like, it kind of wanes out and you find something else. But, like, just keep trying. Like, what does it hurt? Like, what do you I feel like, people talk themselves out of things before things even happen, which to me is like, mind blowing. Like, how you how'd you go down this full rabbit hole before, like, you even try? Like, you know what I mean? Like, I don't, I don't understand that concept. Like, try first and then figure it out. Like, and I always say, like, I would say, like, most things in world is not brain surgery. Like, like, I would never go try to be a brain surgeon, because I feel like you have to have really special skills. But most things are not we can, mostly, we can figure out, if you just put in your effort and want to figure it out, you know, like when I came in the radio, I didn't know how to do anything. Now I know how to edit, do all these things that I taught myself. I just figured it out. Just figure it out. Everyone's smart, like, you're not innately, like, quote, unquote dumb, like we I think we're told we are, or we think because we didn't get grades in school or whatever the case is, but that's just what everyone's telling you. Like you can really figure out whatever you want, minus maybe I wouldn't go try to do brain surgery. I always say that, but you know most things, yeah,
well, at least you could. You could go to class and learn about it if you just were interested, like
you could if you really wanted to, you really could become a doctor. You know what? I mean, really, really wanted to, yeah, that's not my that's not my lane.
Though. I wonder if you believe, like, I do that, if, if someone's curiosity is being piqued about a certain area or topic. Like, I feel like, well, that's probably for you. Then, like, if, yeah, if it's calling to you. Because there's a whole lot of people, I was one of these people for a long time that, like, mediumship was of no interest whatsoever. Like, I was like that for a long time, and then something shifted, and kind of like yours, it was breadcrumbs of different things I tried and different things I had to experience first. And then I realized there's this whole world of mediumship that exists, and 1000s of practitioners and different types of like, different types of mediumship, and it's this whole world that opens up for you. So it's like, like, just if something's calling you or or peaking your interest, or you find yourself just, like, consistently interested, like, just explore a little more, just having
my experience, and I think, yeah, and I think nothing happens by chance, and if something keeps reoccurring in your life, even if it's a conversation someone's having on your piqued your interest, like we are to start listening to it, you know, and and every journey starts with like, a little something, like I before we got on the call, you were talking about my website, and you're now the second person that told me there's problems with my website. So to me, I need to have problems, but I need to go fix my website. To the universe has given me two signs today, within the hour to go fix my website. And now, if I don't listen, then that's up to me, right? Like, but the universe always is giving you signs of different things. I could have just blown that off. Like, oh yeah, you know. Like, you know, it's not like you were telling me to fix your website. You You and my boss both told me there's something going on, you know. And, and that's like, uh, whatever. But, like, let me. Wanted to share my mediumship experience with you, because so I never believed that. Like, I thought mediums were like, Bs and like I was like, the biggest but we always had them coming into our radio station, right? And until this one girl came in. Her name was medium Michelle, and I don't think she practices anymore, but she came in and she told like she was one of the mediums that they feel pain. And she told me exactly where my brother was shot, like she knew things that just no one would know. And then I started to believe in every time she came. And then Monica, the medium, came in, and she was just like, I was blown away. And then I was like, oh shit. Okay, these people, this is real, right? And it was so healing for me to hear messages from my brothers. Like, how the heck would these two girls know? And some people say, Oh, well, you're a public figure. No, they knew exact details, yeah, from things that there's no way anyone can know. And so after that, those were like two experiences. And then I started opening my mind to medium to the point where now I can do it myself, kind of, you know what I mean. So I would have never and like, 15 years ago, I was like, Oh, this is BS. But I listened and listened to the medium one and then another medium. Like, there was enough experiences in my life to make Okay, and it's led me down this path. So I guess my point in that is that, like, we just need to listen to the universe. Keep trying. Oh, keep trying. And I wouldn't, I don't push things ever. But like, Hey, my friend randomly invited me to James Van Praagh thing. Okay, I'll go do it. Who cares? Like, let's find out.
Yeah, absolutely, yeah. It's just, I guess there's a willingness to have an experience that's in there that we can cultivate in ourselves, and I think often for a lot of people, maybe not everybody, but there's definitely, we talk about it when we're training in mediumship, there's a percentage of people that will be at, like, a public demonstration. Or I started training before I had ever been to, like a big group, mediumship reading. I didn't even know what that was, if it was a thing. I was several months into my training before I saw that even. And how many people get brought by someone else? Or, you know, someone invites them, or it's like, like you, you're this is your job, you're at the radio station, and this person comes in, and it's like in your day, that day, whether you like it or not. So it's fascinating the way these things can kind of come across our paths. And yeah, you could have resisted. You could have said no, but it's just that little bit of openness. And yeah, what I love about that is it's something anyone can work on within themselves. Is just, can you be a little bit more open to experiences? Can you be a little bit more open to notice? Oh, you know what, two people in 24 hours said the same thing to me. What's maybe I have to pay attention here. You know what? I mean? Yeah, those things. I think people think it's going to be this, like, bit I did anyways, this big like, like it is in the movies, Time stands still and we realize, Oh, I'm having a moment right now. It's not like that. It's yeah, it's these little breadcrumbs. Is how I always feel like it is yeah. So
we have to pay attention to them, right? And have faith and like, just trust, like, like, I think once I was able to just 1,000% trust the universe for me, God, whatever it is you believe in, yeah, like, and know that, like, not to worry about stuff and just, like, trust that. Like, if you're doing everything you're supposed to be doing, you're opening, you're being, you're opening, ready for the universe and signs, like, you will be guided the right way. So many people get stuck on like, Okay, I want to get here, and this is how I'm gonna get it. But they don't realize, like, it could go all these other ways, yeah, and so just don't get like, you have to follow the ebbs and flows and where life takes you, exact it is always going to take you somewhere better. Zero determination
too, right? Yeah, like not, not even if things don't, are not unfolding the way maybe we thought that path was going to look just keeping moving forward, keeping at it, keeping
available, I guess, yeah. And keep and being open to all the opportunities, and going with them, and saying yes, really, to things that feel right,
yeah. And to trustworthy resources. So anyone who's looking for an additional trustworthy resource, the Gina, the Latina show, you can find it on YouTube and everyone, yes, yes. You know, it's
funny, because when I talk about the guests, I think I told you about this. When I choose the guests, people are like, so surprised. Like, I literally sit down and feel like, like, how do you choose a guest? Well, I have to, like, I tune into their energy, or kind of, or try, like, is
this a good guess right now? Yeah,
like, is this gonna be a good person for the show? Is their energy feel right? Sometimes I need a conversation on the phone with them or and if it does, then yes, we're going with it. Like, I don't care how many followers they have, or don't have, like, whatever, or if it doesn't feel right for right now, nothing's saying wrong in them. I'd say no. Like, I've said no to some big people because I just didn't feel they were right for our show. Yeah, you know. And so, but I really, like, just, and, and I do that with the topics too. Like, like, how do you cover the topics? I just, I just sit. I usually go into yoga. And I always come out of hot yoga ask my boyfriend, I'll run to the car, because I have all these ideas of, like, Okay, this is what we got to do. This is who I got to call this. Like, like, I just, like, I go in there with intention. I go into hot yoga and I. Come back out with everything I need to know. And that's how the universe works. Really, if you could do you don't have to go to Hot Yoga, but for me, that's what it works well, the
good thing that I want to point out about that is, since you are someone that's so on the go, it's giving your mind that time, whether it's meditation or yoga or going for a walk around your block, or giving your mind that time to just not have to be thinking so hard and processing and looking for it so that that inspiration or intuition can drop in.
Yeah, yeah. Because, you know, the are you into brain waves and all that? Obviously, okay, yeah. And like, and that's, that's just like, you know, we're operating at beta brainwave all day long. Most people are, and that you're not getting answers from there. So when you are able to do all these other things, you drop into the alpha brain wave, at least. And then if you can get into the theta brainwave that that's where everything is just like magic. Like you have your best ideas, you have your best like, everything. I always tell people, like, if you can learn how to, like, not mess with your brain waves, but drop into different brain waves at any part of the day. Like, you're like, have access, yes, and you can, I mean, I always say through meditation is a great way to start, but there's so many ways to do it.
That's so true. Oh, I love all the work that you're doing. I'm gonna shift gears a little bit because I don't want to keep you too too long. At the end of our guest episodes, we do something called the Spirit Speed Round, which you have graciously agreed to participate in even though you have no real idea what?
No, I'm down for
whatever, not hard, and there's no pressure. Will you share one thing that really shocked you or was unexpected about these spiritual gifts that you started learning about? Wait, I'm sorry you could have will you share one thing that either shocked you or was really unexpected as part of your spiritual journey, like looking through all these different healing modalities and energy work and intuition and all that, is there something that was like, shocking or unexpected for you as a part of that,
when I realized that I could talk to dead people that was shocking as fuck, I was like, What are you telling and when? But on top of that, when you know that it brings someone so much healing, it's so rewarding, and those moments are just, it's like crazy. Like, I was just like, blown away. Now it's kind of normal. It's not like a big Woo, but I remember the first time I was like, Oh, dang. Like, how did that come through? Like, what the heck. But apparently that's what the person needed to hear. So okay, yeah, you're
that is a really hard to describe, and like unexpected feeling, yeah, yeah. If you got to spend a day on the other side in the spirit world, you got the full tour. You got to spend time with everyone who you've ever known that's crossed over and it's almost time for you to return to your life. Your guide tells you you have one hour left, and you can spend it with anyone who's on the other side. Who do you choose and why
you're gonna make me cry? It would have to be both my brothers, Stephen and Matthew. Yeah, I'm
sure you missed them. Yeah, sorry, no, it's okay.
It's crazy because they died 20 years ago or something, you know, and like that. I think that's something with grief that, like, you don't
like, just something you're always deal with, you know for sure. And I think it's something that people beat themselves up for not realizing. Like, no, grief isn't is ever present, and yeah, and it goes
in waves. It goes up and down. Sometimes I could talk about them, like, without crying. And, yeah, obviously, whatever today, but yeah, definitely them.
Well, I got to meet one of them, and it was an honor. He was a real charmer. Yeah, he talks a lot all the time. Sure, he talks to you all the time, too.
Chill out.
This is their, this is their. Like fame too. They got ideas. They got, oh yeah, yes. I'm sure your other brother's trying to pick out your fashion all the time too. Yeah, I know he's not happy with me right now. Probably
I put it to the backbone or somebody.
Even though we have all these spiritual gifts and and awarenesses, we have very human lives. What's one quirky thing about you that people might be surprised to learn? Oh, man, like, what
like? Give me example, I
don't know. Like people. Some people have said that they're like, even though they have a really public life, they're actually like a really shy book nerd or something they do in the morning, or just a quirky habit, or a quirky personality. Thing about you,
I have a probably a lot, um,
I I'm not as wild as people think I would be like, I'm actually pretty calm. I'm not like, I would never like, I'm not like, the bad one at the parties, like, we have a good time, but I'm actually calmer, like, people think I'm like, I don't like people as much as we're like, look like we're drinking a party. Actually, don't drink that much. Like I'm fake drinking. I also am like, like, Oh, I know this is my favorite thing, okay, and, and I've been delving into this more. Like, if I didn't do the radio, I would love to be an interior decorator. Oh, so I love decorating stuff. So all my friends know, like, like, my friend just bought a house, like I totally did. House. Like, like, I work with her to like, like, I'm very particular on certain things, though, but I love it. Like, I love like, my house to have you walked into it, yeah, like different things, and to do the styles. And so I help my friends with that stuff too.
That is a cool, quirky thing that, and you're very, you have a very, very cool taste in art. Thank you, lovely. Yeah, thank you. Thank you that those two pieces that you have near the front, I like those a lot.
Yeah, you know what's crazy. I didn't even realize, and we didn't do this on purpose. Every person we have a lot of art in our house, every person is dead. That wasn't on purpose. Oh, wow. But like, I think that's like something means something, because I do connect with, like, dead people all the time, interesting. I just felt like, Oh, wow. Why did I choose those ones? But okay, oh yeah, I
liked them all. They're really cool, yeah? Well, you leave us with a pearl of wisdom. What's one piece of advice that you wish that you'd had earlier on in your understanding, in your like, the journey of your life? Like, just overall, yeah, overall, just as a person,
stop caring what people think, and I'm still working about this, because I feel like we care too much about what the world thinks, that we lose who we are and our authentic self and who we're supposed to be, especially with social media now. But even you know, I always cared what people thought, since I was at a young age, about maybe the way I looked or even, like, I started the Giovanni theater show way longer before because I was scared, or I wouldn't even talk about how I could talk to people. Or like, you know, like, I just care too much, and I'm still working progress. But if I could tell any kid, like, who gives a f about what other people think, just if it feels right to you, do it, I
think that's perfect. And I think as adults, we still need to hear that. I know that sometimes I know I still need to hear it. Yeah,
I'm speaking to myself right now.
Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for all the nonprofit work you're doing and all the work that you're doing with the Gina the Latina show. Everyone check that out. We're gonna link everything in the show notes too so you can easily access it. And thank you for being here shining your light. Yeah, thank you for having me. Well, what did you think? I know that most of you that listen are empaths or sensitives of some kind, and I'm sure just by watching or listening to Gina, you can feel her energy, you can feel the powerhouse of a soul that she is, and I love, that she has really given herself to the community as this bridge to either bring information, bring inspiration, bring support, bring awareness and to connect people and help them open up just a Little bit more. She truly is a beautiful human being. Make sure you check out her show, the Gina, the Gina, the Latina show on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts, again, that's linked in the show notes, and her charity organization, the nonprofit, the positive movement.org, we will link that as well if you want to find out how to be involved in that, and certainly to have the Gina the Latina show as a wonderful resource for things that are adjacent to all the things that we talk about here. I'm so grateful to Gina for being here with us today, for sharing her story, for sharing her wisdom and her advice in that no nonsense down to earth way that she has. I'm grateful for her being here, shining our light. Thank you to Gina, and thank you to all of you for being here. I would love it if you found value in this episode, if you would wherever you're listening, do a little like or a subscribe and make sure to share an episode with a friend so that they can have their mind open just a little bit wider as well. Big hugs. Lots of love. Bye for now. From inside spirit speakeasy, you.