Speaker 1: So my name is Anna Paulina Luna and on April
Speaker 1: I am going to be launching my first podcast, which
Speaker 1: I honestly never expected to do. I really do have
Speaker 1: kind of an incredible life story that actually brought me
Speaker 1: to where I'm at now. I grew up within the
Speaker 1: welfare system and was raised by a very young single mother.
Speaker 1: Later on, after I had attended about six high schools,
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to college, but I had no
Speaker 1: way of paying for it. So I joined the Air Force.
Speaker 1: And it was in the Air Force where I met
Speaker 1: not only my amazing husband, but I was also able
Speaker 1: to excel as an adult and realized not just a
Speaker 1: sense of deep patriotism. It was there that I essentially
Speaker 1: discovered myself as a conservative. I can tell you that
Speaker 1: when I first joined I was definitely naive as to
Speaker 1: what was going to happen, like what I would observe
Speaker 1: with my friends and family and what really war does mean.
Speaker 1: In my husband was actually shot in Afghanistan and because
Speaker 1: of that, our family actually did deal with PTSD. And
Speaker 1: that's something that the military, and I think military culture
Speaker 1: has really created this taboo around and not talking about it.
Speaker 1: We weren't helping the problem. So my husband and I
Speaker 1: actually became advocates and started working with various nonprofits to
Speaker 1: help veterans that were struggling with that issue. And I actually,
Speaker 1: later on even ended up writing a book about it
Speaker 1: that was published. But I can tell you that had
Speaker 1: I not gone into the service, I would have never
Speaker 1: want experienced all of that too. But I would have
Speaker 1: also never understood what it really means to truly sacrifice
Speaker 1: for this country because a lot of people say it,
Speaker 1: a lot of people see it, and they read it
Speaker 1: in books or they hear it on television, but they've
Speaker 1: never truly lived that. And I think that we, as
Speaker 1: a military family have. Later on, when I got out
Speaker 1: of the military, I had always wanted to go to
Speaker 1: medical school, and I was actually on my way there,
Speaker 1: and then I saw what was happening with identity politics
Speaker 1: and cultural correctness really destroying our country. And I realized
Speaker 1: that people with my voice, especially among the conservative, semantic
Speaker 1: American demographic, they were almost non existent in your average media.
Speaker 1: And so I started using my platform to speak up.
Speaker 1: And that's basically what I'm hoping to use this podcast
Speaker 1: force to share information and provide that representation for those
Speaker 1: voices that felt like they haven't been represented and that
Speaker 1: they don't have a voice on what's happening with cancel culture.
Speaker 1: If someone were to ask me what the American dream is,
Speaker 1: it's coming from nothing and through hard work being able
Speaker 1: to attain anything you set your mind too. And I
Speaker 1: do believe that the American dream is only possible here
Speaker 1: in the United States. Nowhere else in the world could
Speaker 1: someone from my background and from my demographic be born
Speaker 1: into the circumstances that I was born into and later
Speaker 1: on not only run for Congress, but also to have
Speaker 1: a podcast with I Heart Radio and move forward as
Speaker 1: being a leader, especially of the largest voting minority in history,
Speaker 1: which is a Hispanic American voting block. A lot of
Speaker 1: what I'm hoping to do with my podcast is talk
Speaker 1: from a place of personal experience and to provide you
Speaker 1: guys with true insight, true stories of people that have
Speaker 1: lived that not just statistics. I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of podcasts on the market today they're all about clickbait.
Speaker 1: They want to talk about these divisive things, but they're
Speaker 1: not actually providing value of truth and insight as to
Speaker 1: why certain things don't work and others do. And I
Speaker 1: think that when people truly allow themselves to be emotionally exposed,
Speaker 1: which is what I'm gonna be doing with this podcast,
Speaker 1: and it allows for a connection and a really personal
Speaker 1: bond between the podcaster, which would be myself and the
Speaker 1: person listening to the episode. I also think too, that
Speaker 1: these stories are inspirational. Just because you're born a certain way,
Speaker 1: or just because you're born to certain demographic or socio
Speaker 1: economic status doesn't mean that you are limited. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're in the greatest country on earth and you can
Speaker 1: attain everything, and that's what I'm hoping to share with
Speaker 1: these episodes. My name is Anna Paulina Luna. I am
Speaker 1: one of the youngest conservative Hispanic activists in the country,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that you'll turn into my show because
Speaker 1: one it's not going to be boring to I'm not
Speaker 1: politically correct, and three, we do things a little bit
Speaker 1: differently on my podcast, so you're gonna get some honest perspective,
Speaker 1: I think, some fun insight, but also to some ways
Speaker 1: that you can directly get involved to help change what
Speaker 1: you're seeing pap into our country happening around you. And
Speaker 1: then also to ways that you can I think change
Speaker 1: the dinner discussion on politics and within your family. Starting April,
Speaker 1: listen to Luna Talks with on A Paulina on I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio, app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts.