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