Chosen Family

Chosen Family

Author: My Cultura and Sonoro April 12, 2022 Duration: 46:12

Emmy sits down with her best friend Dayna and looks back on how they met in recovery, her coming-out as trans, the challenges of dating as a sober person — and the challenges of exploring all these experiences, publicly through a podcast, during a pandemic.

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In its third season, the Crumbs podcast from My Cultura and Sonoro narrows its focus to a single, powerful narrative. Host Emmy guides listeners through her personal journey of addiction and recovery, structured around the framework of twelve steps. This isn't a theoretical discussion but a raw, chronological account moving from the initial step of Honesty all the way to Service. The podcast delves into the difficult specifics: the disorienting blackouts, the fragile moments of hope that make change seem possible, the reality of setbacks, and the profound personal shifts required for sustained recovery. It expands on the show's core theme-examining the things we accept and the fragmented pieces of identity-by applying it to this intense, lived experience. Listeners are brought intimately into the contradictions and challenges of this path, hearing a story that is both uniquely personal and universally resonant about struggle and transformation. The season uses the audio format to build a sense of closeness and unfolding revelation, episode by episode, as Emmy recounts the fragments of her life and how she worked to reassemble them. This season of the podcast stands as a candid exploration of resilience, examining not just the destination of recovery but every difficult, illuminating moment encountered along the way.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 43

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Podcast Episodes
The Roach Motel [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:16
Having spent all the family's money, Hilda ends up with her kids in a roach-filled motel. Emmy is tired of the chaos, and she starts to distance herself from the family.CONTENT WARNING: This podcast has content that may…
El Pollo [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:51
Hilda's addiction really takes off. With Emmy along for the ride, she's frequenting a Mexican restaurant along the border that's home to junkies and hustlers like her. There, she meets the love of her life.CONTENT WARNIN…
Drugs, Doctors, and Mormons [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:04
Freshly divorced, Hilda begins a string of relationships - including one that brings her and Emmy to a Mormon farm in rural Utah.CONTENT WARNING: This podcast has content that may not be appropriate for all audiences. Yo…
War of the Mothers [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:38
Emmy briefly disappeared as a kid. In trying to figure out what happened, she uncovers something else: the ongoing battle between the two women that raised her.CONTENT WARNING: This podcast has content that may not be ap…
Young Love [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:43
Young love feels like it'll last forever - until it doesn't. Emmy and Hilda unpack the end of her marriage to Neto, and the beginning of a new love.CONTENT WARNING: This podcast has content that may not be appropriate fo…
Shining Star [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:28
To better understand her own story, Emmy Olea is bringing in her mom. And they're going to start at the beginning: Emmy's birth, and how Hilda fell in love with a cholo from the other side of town and thought her life wa…
The Hustler [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:26
Hilda didn't exactly have a conventional childhood. Her mom worked for a Mexican drug cartel, after all. So Emmy and Hilda talk about Mami Licha's life - and how she came from humble beginnings in Mexico to end up as the…
Crumbs Season 2 Trailer [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:45
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El Final Perfecto [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:41
En la vida y en el amor todo es perfecto hasta que no lo es. Emmy repasa dos días en su vida - uno con un novio, y otro con su familia - en el que el mundo se le vino abajo. ¿Podrá Emmy escribir el final perfecto?See omn…
Actuar el papel [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:22
Zach es el hombre de los sueños de Emmy, hasta que él hace un comentario que la hace dudar de si misma. Conocer gente online y ser fetichizada ha cambiado la manera en la que Emmy se relaciona. El hombre con el que va a…