How a Bronx Doctor Built a Legacy Beyond Medicine

Summary

Living Your Legacy: "How a Bronx Doctor Built a Legacy Beyond Medicine"

Podcast: Living Your Legacy
Host: Rudy Mawer (with guest host Ray Gutierrez)
Guest: Dr. Diana Castro, M.D., Esq.
Date: June 30, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode features Dr. Diana Castro—a Bronx-born physician, attorney, and healthcare leader—whose extraordinary journey spans medicine, law, public health, military upbringing, and cultural heritage. She candidly shares how her multifaceted career and upbringing have shaped her mission to inspire, heal, and leave a global legacy. The conversation covers her work during COVID-19, her transition beyond clinical medicine, thoughts on identity, legacy, social challenges, and her core philosophies on impact and responsibility.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Early Life and Military Upbringing

• Bronx & Puerto Rican Roots: Dr. Castro was born and raised in the Bronx, NY, with Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, a background that shapes her passion and "fire."
• Military Childhood: From six months old, she was immersed in an unconventional upbringing on military bases, where she learned discipline and survival.
  • Quote: “When mom went back to work as a diamond cutter in the diamond district, dad had no other choice but to bring me to work with him… They train you." [06:44]

2. Medicine & COVID-19 Service

• Transition from Traditional Medicine: Worked 12-14 hour days, up to 55 patients daily, predominantly serving underprivileged communities in NYC.
  • Attr: “Servicing Medicare and Medicaid HMOs. I have put in my dues.” [02:31]
• Frontline Pandemic Response: Proudly served the Brooklyn Satmar Hasidic community and first responders throughout COVID.
  • Attr: “They had nowhere to come to get tested before they went home. And I enjoyed every single bit.” [03:07]
  • Attr: “I did not have a moment to fall into that fear… I just knew that I had to do so. Since no one told me that I was to fear it, I just stopped watching the news and I did what I had to do.” [03:39]

3. Identity, Heritage, and Spirituality

• Cultural Tapestry: Dr. Castro describes herself as a blend of Puerto Rican, Cuban, Jewish, and spiritually Buddhist influences.
  • Attr: “Great, great grandmother Murano Jew. So hence, we have our David. We have Puerto Rico. La Caribe… spirituality and Buddhism. Balance, peace.” [04:59]
• Higher Purpose: Describes her mission-driven approach as walking towards opportunities and embracing a “higher purpose.”
  • Memorable Quote: “With the God’s help, I will never be running from anything. I will be always walking into everything, thinking about everything, connecting the dots… I’m definitely here for a higher purpose.” [05:43]

4. Personal Philosophy & Drive

• Relentless Growth & Self-Competition:
  • “No one told me I can’t do anything. So I did and did and did.” [02:26, 08:36]
  • “I’m competing with myself before I compete with you.” [09:00]
• Only Child Perspective: Both she and the host reflect on the drive of only children and adoptees, joking about the chip on their shoulders and the need for self-validation.
• Connection to Others: Emphasizes her role as a “natural mediator, a natural peacemaker… I hope to bring those skills to a worldly platform.” [09:37, 09:59]

5. Post-Medicine: Consulting, Routine & New Directions

• Lifestyle Post-Resignation: Emphasizes self-care, travel (splitting time between New York, Miami, Puerto Rico, and California), and global consulting.
  • Attr: “Well, my day to day, I definitely get eight to nine hours of sleep. I’m a sleep baby. Like, beauty sleep is essential.” [10:44]
• Beta Testing AI: Involved at the intersection of healthcare and technology, beta-testing integration for more connected, efficient systems.
  • Attr: “I’m a beta tester for AI technology… everything is completely integrated into my phone.” [23:47]

6. Legacy, Impact, and Responsibility

• Family Responsibility: Alludes to a profound inherited mission related to her heritage—a “huge responsibility” tied to her name and Cuban legacy.
  • Attr: “When I turned a certain age, my family told me of a certain responsibility that I have now… it has to do with my last name, a certain island and a certain uncle.” [14:14]
  • Attr: “I am going to do everything in my power to bring about a better world. A world with more understanding.” [21:30]
• Balanced Light and Darkness: Recognizes the necessity of both optimism and realism in leadership.
  • Attr: “With everything, light has to be balanced by dark completely. I am going to be the light.” [22:06]

7. Social Commentary: Immigration, History, and Society

• Immigration and Assimilation: Advocates for lawful process, respect for limits, and the importance of integration for societal evolution.
  • Attr: “We are a nation of immigrants… but like every other nation, we have our limitations. There is a natural process of assimilation, and we must respect those quotas because they’re here to protect us… society needs a certain amount of time to bring their fabric together.” [15:46]
• The Value of History: Warns against erasing or forgetting history, advocating for learning from the “breadcrumbs.”
  • Attr: “When we erase history, we’re erasing such basic lessons that have been repeated to us throughout time. And these are like the breadcrumbs that we’re to follow to not lose ourselves in society.” [17:19]

8. Play, Memory, and Influence

• Catwoman Origins: As a child on military bases, played with cats—leading to her affectionate “Catwoman” moniker and quick reflexes.
  • Attr: “On my Instagram, that’s why one of the running jokes is that I am Catwoman.” [08:07]
• Photographic Memory & Empathy: Gifts of high IQ and photographic memory allow her to connect deeply with others, especially through emotion.
  • Attr: “It’s not the wording. It’s the emotion that they left me with too.” [20:14]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “With the God’s help, I will never be running from anything. I will always be walking into everything, thinking about everything, connecting the dots.” – Dr. Diana Castro [05:43]
• “When life gives me lemons, I make pink lemonade.” – Dr. Diana Castro [06:20]
• “No one told me I can’t do anything. So I did and did and did.” – Dr. Diana Castro [08:36]
• “I am a natural mediator, a natural peacemaker, and I hope to bring those skills to a worldly platform.” – Dr. Diana Castro [09:59]
• “I am going to do everything in my power to bring about a better world. A world with more understanding.” – Dr. Diana Castro [21:30]
• “With everything, light has to be balanced by dark completely. I am going to be the light.” – Dr. Diana Castro [22:06]
• “When we erase history, we’re erasing such basic lessons… these are like the breadcrumbs that we’re to follow to not lose ourselves in society.” – Dr. Diana Castro [17:19]

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Important Timestamps

• 00:26 — Introduction to Dr. Diana Castro’s background and multi-disciplinary expertise
• 02:16 — Transition out of traditional medicine and first-hand COVID-19 service experiences
• 05:43 — Articulation of life purpose and resilience
• 06:44 — Childhood stories of military upbringing
• 08:07 — Formation of identity, the Catwoman moniker
• 10:44 — Dr. Castro's wellness routine and change in daily life
• 13:08 — Nonlinear path to medicine and law; focus on healing, advocacy, and constitutional law
• 14:14/21:30 — Inherited family responsibility and vision for a better world
• 15:46/17:19 — Perspectives on immigration, social fabric, and valuing history
• 20:14 — Photographic memory and sensitivity to emotional impact
• 23:47 — Social media and AI beta testing, contact information

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Connect with Dr. Diana Castro

• Instagram / Social: @DianaCastro8888 [23:47]
  (Also integrated with 14+ platforms as a beta tester for AI-based technology)

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Tone & Takeaways

The conversation is vibrant, humorous, candid, and philosophical. Dr. Castro’s passion for life, deep empathy, and unorthodox upbringing shine through as she challenges listeners to embrace their own legacies, honor their history, and rise to their higher purpose.

Takeaway: Dr. Diana Castro is a living example of resilience, adaptability, and legacy-building—turning every challenge into growth, and every experience into an opportunity to heal and empower.

Transcript

[A]

This woman has an IQ of 184. With the God's help, I will never be running from anything. I will be always walking into everything, thinking about everything, connecting the dots. And I'm definitely here for a higher purpose.

[B]

Diana Castro is a physician, attorney, and healthcare leader. She combines her expertise in medicine, law, and public health to improve health care systems, advocate for underserved communities, and inspire others to lead with purpose and impact.

[A]

As a society, we're to come together, and at this point, we keep on ripping that fabric apart. But at the same time, we also can't forget our history. When we erase history, we're erasing such basic lessons that have been repeated to us throughout time. And these are like the breadcrumbs that we're to follow to not lose ourselves in society. No one told me I can't do anything. So I did and did and did. I'm a natural mediator, a natural peacemaker,

[B]

and it spans the globe like a super high cold Internet Elvis.

[A]

Brenton.

[B]

Today, Apple is going to reinvent LeFon. It's not over until I win the Living your Legacy podcast for those who live to leave a legacy that's extraordinary. The impossible has been. Oh, that is sensational. Jordan, Open Chicago with the lead. You said Paul is the fastest man on the planet. You can live your dream. Welcome back to another episode of Live Living your Legacy podcast for inside Success, I am Ray Gutierrez. Joining us today is quite the anomaly. Not only is she a woman in power, but she is also a legacy maker. I would call her the ultimate megazord of Inside Success. Dr. Diana Castro. How are you, Esquire?

[A]

I am doing absolutely great. Great, great, great.

[B]

Dr. Diana Castro.

[A]

A lot alerting and I'm excited.

[B]

Happy Friday. How are you?

[A]

Great.

[B]

What brings you into this neck of the woods?

[A]

Well, my second home is Miami.

[B]

Oh, really? Is it?

[A]

Yes. Yes. Very cool. As a Latina, Puerto Rican, born and raised in Bronx, New York.

[B]

Very cool.

[A]

Second home has always been Miami.

[B]

Awesome.

[A]

So I have now segued from practicing traditional medicine in New York City. And what I mean by that is I was a traditional doctor. 12 to 14 hours, anywhere between 45 to 55 patients a day.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Servicing Medicare and Medicaid HMOs. I have put in my dues.

[B]

Oh, yeah. You earned your stripes.

[A]

Yes, I resigned the first Wednesday in April.

[B]

Of this year.

[A]

Of this year.

[B]

Wow. So you went through Covid and all that? All that.

[A]

Oh, my goodness. I worked. Covid.

[B]

I was gonna say you worked.

[A]

I stayed home. I was gonna be like you did not stay home. So I proudly service Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the Satmar community, which is the most pious community of the Hasidic Jews.

[B]

Wow. You weren't. Yeah, you recommended that flag. Good for you.

[A]

Vetted by the Satmar community of Williamsburg. And during that time, we were treating FDNY and nypd.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

They had nowhere to come to get tested before they went home.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

And I enjoyed every single bit. Every single bit of it.

[B]

I was. I was just going to say, what is life like now that's a little quieter and the. The chaos, the emergency, the dread of the day to day Covid, now that is way behind us. What is life like now for you?

[A]

You know, I never. I did not have a moment to fall into that fear. I just didn't. I just knew that I had to do so. Since no one told me that I was to fear it. I just stopped watching the news and I did what I had to do. And I must say, I did not even get Covid until maybe two years later. And the reason I realized I had Covid, I was about to lecture, and as I knew that they needed a negative test, so I go in and I'm like, okay, guys, come test me. And as they're testing me, their eyeballs are opening up and they're like, docia positive me. Oh, for fraxy.

[B]

For fraxic goodness. Someone watches Battlestar Galactica. That's a very well known curse word and battle star. So talk about this Puerto Rican fire. I'm. I'm Cuban. Nicaraguan. So I'm very familiar with the Puerto Ricans.

[A]

What is my last name, sir?

[B]

Castro.

[A]

Oh, that has its own history, of course.

[B]

Well, that's a completely different podcast. If my grandmother were here, when she's actually standing right there, she'd be like, well, she used to work for Castro. She was there from the very beginning.

[A]

Let's just say that some of us are born and raised in the Puerto Rican culture. But daddy was Cuban. Ah. Oh.

[B]

And there it is.

[A]

Great, great grandmother Murano Jew. So hence, we have our David. We have Puerto Rico.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

La Caribe. We have what I truly believe and is more spirituality and Buddhism. Balance, peace. Vive la vida tua no la mia Cruz.

[B]

Of course. Asuka, I was just gonna say it seems like you're on a spiritual quest now. Like you've earned your stripes and you've ascended in a different dimension. And I mean dimension as in a very positive way. I always say that I'm in the third dimension speaking to the fifth and vice versa so you're clearly on a different path. You can feel your aura, you can feel your energy. Are you walking towards something? Are you running from something? What is your journey today?

[A]

With the God's help, I will never be running from anything. I will be always walking into everything, thinking about everything, connecting the dots. And I'm definitely here for a higher purpose. You know, first I became a healer and. But the running joke is. Yes, what people don't understand is. Born and raised in the Bronx. Yes, I am definitely a little bit of a gangster before I became a healer. So I've often questioned myself, why would you start with me? I am a beautiful soul inside and out, and I do nothing but help.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

But I'm also military trained and I walked over dead bodies when I was three years old. So don't. Just don't. But when life gives me lemons, I make pink lemonade.

[B]

Pink lemonade. So let's talk about some of your history, your background. You.

[A]

You.

[B]

You're militaried, so you're militarized. You're weaponized. Yes. You said age of 3? 6 months.

[A]

6 months. 6 months. When mom went back to work as a diamond cutter in the diamond district, dad had no other choice but to bring me to work with him. And back then there weren't any women in the military. So what do they do with a six month old through, you know, 17 and a half. 18 years old. Yeah, they train you.

[B]

How does, how does one train a six month year old child in the military?

[A]

Well, they start with, you know, little taking care of, you know, bouncing around from this private to this private to this private. And then as I start to walk, they're like, go chase the cats in the base. I don't know if anyone knows this, but under the armories we are literally equipped for war. The armory that you see on top, that's the tip of the iceberg.

[B]

Sure. Oh yeah.

[A]

Underneath this spans for blocks and blocks and blocks. And we have every military piece of equipment are there. You can imagine.

[B]

Yeah. And they're secret missile silos off the Bay of New York.

[A]

Correct. So what happens in cool clean basements? We don't want mice or rats. So what do they populate? Cats.

[B]

Really?

[A]

So what do little girls do when they have no other brothers or sisters?

[B]

You play with cats.

[A]

And the military boys are enough. Go downstairs and play with cats. So hence on my Instagram, that's why one of the running jokes is that I am Catwoman.

[B]

I was just gonna say you're. This sounds like the origin Story of the real life Catwoman.

[A]

Yes. The difference is that this girl has. This woman has an IQ of 184.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

So as soon as I was able to slow down a bit on my day to day medicine, I started training and it was amazing how much of it came back.

[B]

That's awesome.

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I have amazing reflexes. I'm proud to say I have. I don't go to the gym.

[B]

Yeah. It's all Puerto Rican. It's all Puerto Rican power.

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I can dance, classical ballet. There's a bunch of pictures now. Me riding on a horse because basically I was born know riding horses. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got no one. No one told me I can't do anything. So I did and did. And did you.

[B]

You have the fire that I have as an only child where we always have this like, chip in our shoulders, like, ha, I'm better than thou. And it's.

[A]

And it's not that, but I'm competing with myself before I compete with you, Butter Cop. I don't know what to tell you.

[B]

I was going to say. I'm always competing with myself. I'm my worst own critic, my own worst enemy. I never give myself a pat on the back. I'm like, you can do better than that. Go faster.

[A]

Exactly. I'm like, do better.

[B]

Yeah. You can do better than that.

[A]

I'm tired. Suck it up.

[B]

Yeah, exactly. I don't give myself any freaking compliments. Like, good job, Ray. Like, shut up, Ray.

[A]

Like, worked with acidics for over 20 years in medicine. You know their idea of compliment. Can't you do more?

[B]

Can't you? Yeah.

[A]

I just told myself that. You don't need to tell me that.

[B]

Gosh. Would you like a job at More Capital?

[A]

I. I will take on. You have no idea what else. This brain has been consulted on so many levels around the world right now that I feel honored. I do okay. I truly feel honored. I'm a natural mediator, a natural peacemaker, and I hope to bring those skills to a worldly platform on a serious note.

[B]

Yeah, no, no, for sure. I was just going to brag for you that you're on both of our shows. Women in Power and Legacy Makers. That's quite a. That's quite an achievement. We have a very rich.

[A]

I'm going for a third one. I'll leave that surprise for later because I just.

[B]

You're doing. You're doing Kingdom Creators. Because we're. We haven't announced that show yet. And that's the.

[A]

I believe that's the one I Heard, I saw all the titles and there was one that just like bedazzled. That's the one I chose. Yeah.

[B]

Reality transformed and pointing you that way.

[A]

It was like, you know, like the Teacups. Beauty and the Beast. Oh yeah, it's twinkling. I'm like, that's the only one I see. And it's 6:20 in the morning and I really got to go to bed.

[B]

So now I got to ask, now that you mentioned 6:20 in the morning, you said going to bed. Like, what's your daily routine like now? What's your day to day like?

[A]

Well, my day to day, I definitely get eight to nine hours of sleep. I'm a sleep baby. Like, beauty sleep is essential. I don't care what women say. And I can catch up on sleep. So my one professor that told me, you can't catch up on sleep, I'm like, you can't? I can. I definitely can. But when you catch a flight at 8pm in Puerto Rico and you want to arrive by 10pm so you can get your beauty sleep, catch up with your foster daughters, but the flight gods decide that you're not leaving until 1:48 in the morning and then that's delayed and you don't get to the hotel until 6:20 something and to bed's at 6:18.

[B]

So what are you running on now? Just adrenaline fumes. Miami. Miami.

[A]

Sauce Rizzo? No, no, no, no, no. The breath and the tranquility of the Caribbean islands.

[B]

Are you living in Puerto Rico now?

[A]

No, no, I was just on holiday.

[B]

Ah, right on. Where are you now? Are you back in New York or.

[A]

I am. I made a pitstop here.

[B]

Okay. Thank you.

[A]

Of course. Are you kidding me? I've been looking forward to this.

[B]

Right on.

[A]

And from this I'll be going back to New York and then coming back here. Awesome. Then back to New York and then back here.

[B]

What's. What's your. What's your what's like? Well, that's. I gotta ask. Like New York and Miami and Puerto Rico are two, three different. Totally different planets.

[A]

Yes. What do you do? Let's throw in California.

[B]

Oh, gosh.

[A]

Which is like. Oh my God. Well, then this is so cute. Like you get like three things done a week. I just did that in the past hour.

[B]

Yeah, but California is its own beast because Northern California is radically different than Southern California and that you can. I completely profile California depending on what part of the. Part of the compass.

[A]

I don't have that experience. I could just.

[B]

Northern California, I could just see the

[A]

General picture, when I look, I'm like, very different. Very different. Oh, different.

[B]

Yeah. There's San Francisco and there's everyone else, and then there's San Diego. But, yeah, like, talk about what motivates you as an artist of medicine, an artist of life. Like, you're going through these microclimates, you're going through this gaudy city of New York into this tropical environment. What do you feel as a human being when you're exposed to these frequencies? And how does it help your message, your. Why?

[A]

I never went into medicine as. Oh, my gosh. I was never that little girl that wanted to be a doctor. I went into medicine because my boyfriend at the time in college could not study for the MCATs. When the time came, I said, great, I might as well take the MCATs. I'm not sure what else I'm going to do. So I became a natural healer. Wow. That was just. I guess that's what I was meant to do.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

But it's not like I had parents that were like, you must. You must. My parents, I used to joke around. I'm like, I'm being raised by Puerto Rican gypsies. What's going on?

[B]

I was just gonna say, yeah, yeah, that's awesome.

[A]

So that was. First of all, I fell into constitutional law because all local ordinances change on such a regular basis that really, our nation was created by the Constitution. And it fascinates me how Trump interprets it. So that became like a side thing for me. I'm just like, oh, my God, this is fascinating. And love him or hate him, Grandpa Trump, whoever's consulting on a federal level via the Constitution for him is brilliant.

[B]

Oh, sure.

[A]

So why not? If you can't beat them, join them.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Number two. Number three. When I turned a certain age, my family told me of a certain responsibility that I have now. It is up to me whether I'm going to accept that responsibility or not.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

But knowing my nature, there's a very good chance, and I've already started to work on that responsibility. I'm going to say that for a different time, but it has to do with my last name, a certain island and a certain uncle. Oh, that thinks that every Cuban has lost their will to fight.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Let's remind them that they still have the power, and given time, they do.

[B]

But it's definitely metamorphosis. Something different.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

I think when Fidel died, I think it was. He died in a whimper. No one at that point kind of cared. It was quite sad because the Power just was transferred to his brother, which is much, much worse.

[A]

Well, his brother has now transferred it to someone that extremely cruel.

[B]

Oh, geez. Really? Yeah.

[A]

So I've had to.

[B]

I haven't checked.

[A]

I haven't checked my steps.

[B]

Oh, boy.

[A]

But yeah, yeah. So we. We're also in Miami.

[B]

Is the house that's supposed to be mine in Matanza still? Yeah. What are your thoughts on what's happening? Like open borders, closed borders. Do you think it was inevitably about time?

[A]

You know what it is? We are a nation of immigrants. There is no doubt. But like every other nation, we have our limitations. There is a natural process of assimilation, and we must respect those quotas because they're here to protect us. We cannot flood our borders with any one ethnicity because the theory of Darwinism, we need to evolve. Society needs a certain amount of time to bring their fabric together. So love it or hate it, our constitution was created to protect us all. So stop fighting. They don't even know whom they're fighting. No, they're just fighting a social cause that's presented to them. And because they're so sheep, like, in their mentality, they don't look at the bigger picture. They're just like, oh, but my cousin's going to be. I understand, but your cousin has been here for so many years. Follow the process, and then everything can be done in a proper way because it's better for all of us.

[B]

Yes, completely agree. Like.

[A]

And if anyone has another opinion that they're willing to share, that will. We are. As a society, we're to come together. And at this point, we keep on ripping that fabric apart. We have to be smarter.

[B]

Well, you got. There's. The only way to heal is by the cuts. You need to break it apart so it can heal again and become something new.

[A]

But at the same time, we also can't forget our history. We're dealing a lot to erase history. And when we erase history, we're erasing such basic lessons that have been repeated to us throughout time.

[B]

Completely agree.

[A]

And these are like the breadcrumbs that we're to follow to not lose ourselves in society. So it's a much bigger picture. People just keep on following the little sesame seeds without realizing there's a bigger picture.

[B]

Well, some people don't care about the bigger picture. Some people are just completely okay being aloof.

[A]

You're right.

[B]

And that's okay for them. They're the extra. They're the. The. The extra. The extras in our superhero master plan. Because if we're the main Characters of our own reality. There's a sheep. Let's call them extras. Let's not call them sheep. I can call them much worse than that. But this is a. This is a family show. People.

[A]

People that just do not. We want to live their life, that don't want to be involved in everything.

[B]

We need the people that are in

[A]

the meat and potatoes.

[B]

Yes. We need the people that are going to cut us off in track in traffic and delay us from an accident from getting to point A to point B. We need the other people in this great hive of life to make sure that they pause us, move us forward. So when the main characters are making the real decisions, all the. The. What do you call it? The fat or the sheep or the extras, they basically react to what we do. And that's. You can see it when you're driving in traffic and you're looking at someone, they look at you like, how did that happen? No, it's because, motherfucker, I'm controlling my energy. And right now I'm in this car and I have to get from point A to point B. And the energy is going to say, no, no, no, no, no, you're getting there too soon. So we're going to have to throw a couple of things in front of you. You're going to miss the red light. You're going to do this. And then energy just goes up and the universe goes. You're ready now. All the extras have done their thing and now you can participate in your. In your spotlight.

[A]

Well, I'm so glad that you bring up traffic. You know, I think of this. I feel like I'm a conductor sometimes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And everyone around me, they're all the instruments that I need there. But I'm like this, move over. You go over there, la, la, la, la. And I just maneuver through any traffic. It doesn't matter what country I am or what car I have now.

[B]

Is this something that. Now is this secret power something the cats taught you in the basement back when you were being weaponized as an infinite?

[A]

I'm not sure if it was. Or Tom and Jerry with classical music.

[B]

Oh, I see.

[A]

As an only child, you watch a lot of cartoons.

[B]

Of course. Looney Tunes. I watched. I grew up watching black and white Godzilla films. I was obsessed.

[A]

But who knew that all that classical music because there were no words. When you have a photographic memory, do you? Yeah.

[B]

Oh, I have a photograph.

[A]

To have an IQ of 184, you, by definition, you have to like people. So ignorant. People like, oh, that. Well, you don't remember everything. I'm like, I never said I remember everything. That's like a computer. And even they get glitches. I'm like, But I can remember a good 80 to 88% of what people. It's not the wording. It's the emotion that they left me with too.

[B]

Don't say how they made you feel that you remember.

[A]

Oh, yes, I remember how it makes me feel. And then from there, the words that they use to make me feel that way will populate in my mind.

[B]

Absolutely. How. How often do you run into people that have that sort of influence on you? But not an influence in a way where it's making you do something you dislike, but an influence where it's like, hey, I remember this person because it made me feel X way. Like, how often does that happen to you? All the time.

[A]

I live my day to day life.

[B]

I was just gonna say, sure, I

[A]

see someone and I remember, oh, you made me smile. Oh, you annoyed the crap out of me, but I'm still gonna smile.

[B]

So are you taking kind of like day to day, like social currency? Like. Like you're just piling on? These people are negatives. Let me just eliminate them and just focus on the positives.

[A]

Eliminate them. Because it's impossible for me to carry on my higher missions by eliminating.

[B]

What is your higher mission?

[A]

My family gave. Left me a huge responsibility for sure. It is something that I'm not just going to ignore. I am going to do everything in my power to bring about a better world. A better a world with more understanding. A world where at this rate, there's an old saying, we are going to hell in a handbasket.

[B]

We definitely. And actually, we were already there.

[A]

There's some people that believe that. Yeah. And with everything, light has to be balanced by dark completely. I am going to be the light.

[B]

And I will be the darkness.

[A]

Yes. And. Well, I have a dark streak in me.

[B]

Well, cool. Well, I would hope so.

[A]

Dark streak is what connects me to the darker side of me, which is necessary because if I think I can be all rainbows and butterflies, then I'm being ignorant.

[B]

Yep. I was just gonna say, wow, that sounds really boring.

[A]

Different. You know, there's manpower, muscle, and there's savviness. There's mediation.

[B]

So you have all three savvy. Mediation and power.

[A]

I'm consulting and legacy.

[B]

Because legacy make a woman. Power. You see what I did there?

[A]

You know? But do we know we're legacies? No.

[B]

No, we don't.

[A]

I have no idea.

[B]

I Kind of want to keep it that way, too.

[A]

And as an only child, you this. It's just like I'm an only child.

[B]

Adopted. Ah, I beat you. Were you adopted? Because I was adopted, but my grandma adopted me, so it was kind of cheating, but it was my Cuban grandma.

[A]

Your Cuban grandma?

[B]

My Cuban grandma adopted me. I was. I was adopted by a Cuban grandmother. I went Cuban 100. Oh, yeah. 100%. Yeah. She wasn't very fond of Puerto Ricans, by the way. She was Cuban. Oh, you know how it is. Oh.

[A]

You know, some daddies. Some daddies had to escape.

[B]

Whose flag came first, yours or mine? Because your flag is the inversion of my flag.

[A]

Hold on, hold on. What was populated first? I don't know. Puerto Rico was populated first because we had. So you're flagging Fresno Indians?

[B]

Ah, yes, yes, that would make sense. At this point, this is just conjecture. How can people find you? How can people learn more about you after they listen to this podcast and watch it? How can people find you?

[A]

Have. I'm a beta tester for AI technology.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

This is.

[B]

I think we all are, in general.

[A]

Well, I'm officially their beta tester, and so everything is completely integrated into my phone. So through my handle of Diana D I A N A C A S T R O 8888, that integrates me to. I believe, if I'm not mistaken, I'm up to 14 or 15 different social media platforms.

[B]

Oh, okay. So Diana Castro, 888.

[A]

Yes. That's Instagram.

[B]

That's a great. It's like a, what, 800 number.

[A]

What does 8888 mean in the Asian culture? I had no idea until they told me.

[B]

Who's they? You keep seeing they. Is this the alien overlords or the AI Overlords? It's a big difference.

[A]

They is the Asian culture.

[B]

Ah, there we go. There it is.

[A]

The other overlords, the Asians, when they realize that that's the last, you know, four that I chose.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

That's supposedly good luck and a numerology. It means all these different things. So I just choose things. And all of a sudden people like, boom. Oh, my goodness. You understand, like, what you have chosen and the symbolism. And I'm like, nope. It just seemed easy to remember. And everything else was taken over and on.

[B]

So Dr. Diana Castro, 888 or Diana Castro, 888.

[A]

Diana Castro or D I A N a C A S T R O 8888.

[B]

Oh, 8888.

[A]

Four eights.

[B]

Dana, thank you so much for a lovely Friday afternoon conversation. I'm actually quite excited for you. I'm not sure how Jason's going to pull this one off. How to interview you for two shows at the same time. But I'm sure we're going to learn so much more about you. More about your why and your greater, greater, greater, greater, greater journey. Such a pleasure, doctor. Dr. D. Dr. Diana Castro. This concludes yet another episode of living your legacy for inside success. This is Ray Gutierrez.