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And that’s a wrap on Suave: Season 2 🎙️
This season was a rollercoaster of emotions as Suave shared his raw and unfiltered experiences readjusting to life on the outside after incarceration. Have you listened yet?
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Episode 7, “Patience,” of #SuavePodcast is out now 🎧
In the final episode of Season 2, Suave and the team visit a location in the Bronx with deep significance to Suave—a place where you can say his journey towards freedom began. As Suave takes inventory of the past, and the challenges of the last couple of years in particular, he comes to terms with the weight of institutionalization. And he reveals one surprising and life-changing decision.
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After following Suave’s life for several years, we’ve witnessed first-hand the weight of institutionalization.
Season 2 of #SuavePodcast has been a rollercoaster—from navigating reentry, to the challenges of living on lifetime parole, to learning how to trust and love again, all while feeling the guilt of leaving his brothers behind. This road hasn’t been an easy one.
In the season finale, we visit a place that holds special significance in Suave’s story: Orchard Beach in the Bronx. It was a place that he loved as a child, and it was also the place where his mother did everything she could so he’d one day be free.
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On this week`s episode, a return to Puerto Rico that changed everything. Follow Suave as he reconnects with family, roots, and the island he remembers from childhood, and discover why he left with a whole new soul.
ICYMI: Catch up now on Episode 6, “A Homecoming.”
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Episode 6, “A Homecoming,” of #SuavePodcast is out now 🎧
After the crisis he’s been going through, Suave could use a change of scenery, so the whole team decides to go on a trip to Puerto Rico. It’s Suave’s first time back since he was a child to the island where his mother was born and raised—a moment he used to fantasize about in prison. There he reconnects with family who come from a long lineage of survivors… and of Santería practitioners. A spiritual belief his mother always believed would be linked to his salvation.
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Get ready for a very special homecoming in Episode 6 of #SuavePodcast 🎧
In this episode, we go back to Suave’s childhood home in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Suave reconnects with his roots, his family, and his spirituality. We explore the complicated feelings around coming back to a place you once left behind.
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On Episode 5 of #SauvePodcast, an unexpected event triggers Suave and he realizes the effects of not having dealt with his trauma in prison.
Don’t miss this exclusive bonus content where @maria_la_hinojosa and @suavegonzalez215 dig deeper into how incarcerated people are not given the mental health tools to succeed in life on the outside.
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On last week’s episode of the #SuavePodcast you met Frank Ross, Suave’s longtime mentor. Suave gives a closer look at their friendship, and the way Frank really changed his life for the better.
ICYMI: Catch up now on on Episode 4, “Old Head.”
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Episode 5, “Let the Chips Fall,” of #SuavePodcast is out now 🎧
An unexpected event turns Suave’s world on its head, and Suave seems ready to throw it all away. He feels violated, and it triggers a response from Suave we’ve never seen before. As he grows increasingly agitated and isolated from everyone around him, Suave’s actions put everything that he has built at risk.
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We’re diving into the realities of growing old in prison on Episode 4 of #SuavePodcast 🎧
Suave’s friendship with Frank Ross changed his life forever. Now in his 90’s, Frank remains behind bars, and is facing terminal cancer. What does it look like to die in prison, and could he be granted compassionate release?
In this episode we explore male friendship, connection, and the ways bonds are forged between men behind bars.
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Episode 4, “Old Head,” of #SuavePodcast is out now 🎧
As Suave struggles to help the men he left behind in prison, he struggles with the competing desire to finally move on from the past and the decades he spent behind bars. As Suave ponders the responsibility he feels to help others, he reminisces on the men who cared for him inside. Like Frank Ross, his longtime mentor who taught him how to read and write inside. Serving a life sentence for more than half a century, the 93-year-old finally seems to have a speck of a chance to get out. That is, if he can convince the state to release him to die on the outside. As we learn more about young Suave and the “old heads” that helped raise him inside, we explore the bond between men serving life in prison, and the inevitable fear of death behind bars.
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“Do you think that I deserve to be happy?”
Suave host @jujuxwrites recalls the moment she knew that there needed to be a second season. It was the day that @suavegonzalez215 would receive his Pulitzer Prize, and question if he really deserved it.
While Season 1 explored the physical search for freedom, Season 2 goes even deeper as we dive into the complexities of the internal fight from freedom after incarceration. Suave is about truth, resilience, and finding the true meaning of freedom.
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