This Season Finale episode is our gratitude made audible. To our choir family — who walks through our doors carrying nothing but gives everything. To our listeners — whether on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts — who've become not just an audience but witnesses, the other half of this deeply personal conversation. Your downloads, shares, and open hearts have proven that these voices matter and these stories deserve to exist. You are actively creating meaningful connections. Thank you. Thank YOU!
As Rick Rubin writes in The Creative Act: "Creativity is not a rare ability. It is our birthright, and it's for all of us." Every week, when someone experiencing homelessness picks up a pen in our songwriting workshop, they're claiming that birthright. That's not entertainment — that's radical humanity. In this episode we reflect on a year of music-making with Voices' Music Program Manager, Natalie Bradley.
If these stories have moved you, become part of this work: Visit voicesofourcity.org to support Monday meals, songwriting workshops, resource assistance, and the radical belief that no one is disposable. Whether $5 or $500, every donation says: these voices matter, this work matters, YOU matter. Can't donate? Keep listening. Keep sharing. Your presence here is also essential.
Thank you for walking with us through every crack in the sidewalk this season. Keep climbing toward the light. Remember—creativity is your birthright too. Keep singing, world.
Produced by: Shairi Engle & Enrique Rivera
Hosts: Naylenie Castillo & Enrique Rivera
Narration: Shairi Engle
