How a Bronx Doctor Built a Legacy Beyond Medicine

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 higher purpose. Dynacastro is a physician, attorney, and healthcare leader. She combines her expertise in medicine, law, and public health to improve healthcare systems, advocate for underserved communities,

and inspire others to lead with purpose and impact. This is society where to come together. And at this point, we keep on ribbing 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 12 times. And these are like the breadcrumbs that we're too follow to not lose ourselves in society. Don't want to hold me, I can't do anything. So I did, and did it.

I am a natural mediator, a natural peacemaker, and it spans the globe, like a super high school, internet Elvis, ready to fire from here. Today, Apple is going to reinvent from home. It's not over, I'm telling how we're--

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“Welcome back to another episode of 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. I am to the absolute great.

Very great, great. Dr. Diana Castro. What a lot of learning, and I'm excited. Happy Friday, how are you? Great.

What brings you into this neck of the woods? Well, my second home is Miami. A really is. Yes, yes, very cool. As a Latina Puerto Rican born to raise in Bronx, New York.

Very cool.

Second home has always been Miami.

Often. So I have now segueed 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, servicing, Medicare, and Medicaid age demos. I have put in my juice. Oh, yeah, you're in your stripes. Yes. But I resigned the first Wednesday in April of this year.

Wow, so you went through COVID at all that all that. Oh, my goodness. I worked COVID. I was going to say, you worked. I stayed home.

I was going to be like, did not stay home. So I proudly service Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the sat more community, which is the most prized community of the Hasidic Jews. Wow, you worked, yes, it's like, you're coming at that flag. Good for you.

I'm embedded by the sat more community of Williamsburg. And during that time, we were treating FTMY and NYPD. Wow. They had nowhere to come to get tested before they went home. Wow.

And I enjoyed every single bit of it.

“I was just going to say, well, what is life like now?”

That's a little quieter. And 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?

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.

Isn't it? 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, OK, guys, come, test me. And as they're testing me, their eyeballs are opening up and they're like, "Dark, you're

positive." Me. Oh, for fractious. For fractious. Minus.

Someone watches Battlestar Galactica, that's a very well-known curse word in Battlestar. So talk about this Puerto Rican fire. I'm Cuban, and you car out. So I'm very familiar with the Puerto Rican. What is my last name, sir?

Gastro. Oh, that has its own history. Of course, we did that one. Well, that's a completely different podcast. In my grandmother, we're here in which she's actually standing right there.

She was like, well, she used to work for a little Castro. She was there from the very beginning. Let's just say that some of us are born and raised in the Puerto Rican culture, but that it was Cuban. Ah.

Oh. So we have Puerto Rico, La Pella de Caribe, and we have what I truly believe

Vive la vida tu Yanolamiya. So I like it. Of course, Asuka. I was just going to 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 in 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? Well, the gods 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 for I became a healer.

“So I've often questioned myself, why would you start with me?”

I am a beautiful soul inside and now, and I do nothing but help. But I'm also military trained, and I walked over to the bodies when I was three years old. So don't, just don't, but when life gives me lemons, I make pink lemonade. Pink lemonade. So let's talk about some of your history, your background, your military, so your militarized,

your weaponized. Yes. You said age of three? Six months, six months. Six months when mom went back to work as a diamond cutter in the diamond district.

That had no, the choice but to bring me to work with them. And back then, there weren't any women in the military. So what do they do? What are six months old through, you know, 17 and a half, 18 years old? Yeah.

Very training. How does one train a six month year old child in the military? Well they start with, you know, little, taken care of, you know, bouncing around from this private to this private to this private. And then as I start to walk, they'll let go chase the cats in the base.

I don't know if anyone knows this, but under the armories, we are literally a quip for war. The armory that you see on top, that's the tip of the iceberg. Sure. Underneath this spans for blocks and blocks and blocks.

And we have every military piece of equipment are there. You can imagine. Yeah. And there's secret, there's secret missile silos off of the Bay of New York. Correct.

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

So what do little girls do when they have no other brothers or sisters? They play what can. The military boys or, you know, go to Susan Play with Cats.

“So hence, on my Instagram, that's why one of the running jokes is that I am catwoman.”

I was just going to say, this sounds like the origin story of the real life catwoman. Yes. And it is that this girl has this woman, has an IQ of 184. 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.

That's awesome. I have amazing reflexes, I'm proud to say, I have, I don't go to the gym. Yeah. That's all Puerto Rican. It's all Puerto Rican power.

Yeah. I can dance, classical ballet. Yeah. It's a bunch of pictures now, me riding on the horse, because basically I was born, you know, riding horses.

You've got-- No one told me I can't do anything, so I did, and did and did.

You have the fire that I have as an only child, where we always have this, like, chip

in our shoulders. I'm better than that. And it's-- It's at the top of it, I'm competing with myself. Right, I compete with you.

Puerto Rican. I don't know what to tell you. I was just saying, I'm always competing with myself. I'm the my worst own critic, my own worst enemy, I'd never give myself a pat on the back. I'm like, you can do better than that.

Go faster. Exactly. I'm like, do better. Yeah, you can't put it on that. It's tires, suck it up, buttercoaster.

Yeah, exactly, though. I don't give myself any freaking compliments. Like, good job, right? Like, shut up, right? Well, it was good to have a good mix for over 20 years in medicine.

“You know, the idea of compliment can't you do more?”

Can't you? Yeah. And then I'm like, I just told myself, you don't need to tell me that. So, would you like a job at more capital? I will take on, you have no idea what else I said.

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. Yeah. 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, we're growing for a third one.

I'll leave that surprise for later because I just, you're doing, you're doing kingdom

that's a one. I saw all the titles and there was one that just like, the dazzle, that's the one that was, yeah. Reality transformed and then it pointing you that way. It was like, you know, like the tea cups, yeah, you know, Computing the Beast.

Oh, yeah. It was twinkling. I'm like, that's the only one I see in a six, 20 in the morning and I really got to go to bed. So now I got to ask, now that you mentioned a six, 20 in the morning, you said going

“to bed, like, what's your daily routine, like, now what's your day to day, like?”

Well, my day to day, I definitely get eight to nine hours asleep. Okay. I'm asleep, baby.

Like, beauty sleep is essential.

I don't care. I was women say. And I can catch up on sleep. So my one professor that told me, you can't catch up on sleep on my, you can't. I can't.

I definitely can't. But when you catch a flight at a PM in Puerto Rico, and you want to arrive at 10 PM, so you can get you beauty sleep, catch up with your false disorders. But the flight gods decide that you're not leaving until 1.48 in the morning and then that's the late.

And you don't get to the hotel until 6.20 something, and to bed to 6.18. So what are you running on now? I just adrenaline fumes, Miami sauce? Rizz now, no, no, no, no, no. The reason the tranquility of the Caribbean Islands.

Are you living in Puerto Rico now? No, no, no. It's just on holiday. Ah, right on. Where are you now?

Are you back in New Yorker?

I am. I made a pit stop here. Okay. What's that for? Are you kidding me?

I've been looking forward to this. Right on. And from this, I'll be going back to New York. And then coming back here. Also.

And back to New York. And then back here. What's your, what's that? Well, that's, I've got to ask, like, New York and Miami Puerto Rico, two, three different totally different planets.

Yes. What are you? And then let's do it. Let's throw in California. Oh gosh.

Which is like, oh my god. This is so cute. Like, you get like three things done a week. I just do that in the past hour. But the California that's owned big beasts because Northern California is a variety

of different than Southern California. And that you can, I can believe it from profile of California in the painting. Well, part of the part of the, of the gum they are. I don't have that experience. I could just.

Northern California. I could just see the general picture when I look on like, very different, very different. Oh, different. Yeah.

There's that. There's San Francisco. And there's everyone else. And then they're sending. But yeah, like, we'll talk about what motivates you as an artist of medicine and

an artist of life. Like you're going through these microclimants. You're going through this Godi 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, your message?

Your, your why?

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 amtats. When time came, I said, great, I might as well take the amtats. I measure 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.”

Sure. But it's not like I had parents. I was like, you must, you must. My parents, I used to joke around on my, I'm being raised by Puerto Rican gypsies. I was going to do that.

Yeah. That's awful. So that was first of all. I fell into constitutional law because all local ordinances change on such a regular basis that really all our nation was created by the Constitution and if fascinates me

how Trump interpreted it, so that became like, a side thing for me, I'm just like, oh my God, this is fascinating and love and were hate them, whoever's consulting on a federal level, the other Constitution for him is brilliant. Oh, sure. So why not if you can't beat them, join them?

Yeah. 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 our responsibility or not.

Okay. But knowing my nature, there's a very good chance and I've already started to work on our responsibility. I'm going to say that for a different time, but it has to do with my last name of certain island and a certain uncle.

Oh.

“That thing said, no, are we Cuban has lost their, well, to fight?”

Oh, yeah. Let's remind them that they still have the power. Well, it's given time. It's, they do. But it's definitely metamorphance is something different.

Yes. I think when Fidel died, I think 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, what were, well, his brother has now transferred it to someone that's extremely cruel.

Yeah.

So I've had to, um, I haven't checked, I haven't checked it.

I stopped. Oh, boy. I should. But yeah. So we are also in Miami.

“Is the house that's supposed to be mine in Matanza still?”

Yeah, what are your thoughts on, on, on, on what's happening, like open borders, closed borders, like do you think it was inevitably about time? You know what it is, um, we are a nation of immigrants. We are a little doubt, but like every other nation, we have our limitations. No.

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 us in a amount of time to bring the 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, they're just fighting a social cause as presented to them and because they're so sheep like in their mentality, yes. 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, followed the process and

then everything can be done in a proper way because it's better for all of us. Yes, completely agree. And if anyone has another opinion that they're willing to share, that we'll, we are as a society where it's a come together and at this point we keep on ripping that fabric apart.

We have to be smarter. The, well, you got, there's really way to heal us by, by the cuts.

“You need to break it apart so it can heal again to become something new.”

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

And these are like the breadcrumbs that were 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 this a bigger picture. Some people don't care about the bigger picture. Some people are just completely okay being a, a loof.

You're right. And that's okay for them. They're the extra, they're the, the extra, the extras and our superhero master plan, because if we're the main characters of our own reality, there's a sheep. Well, 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 that just do not, we want to live their life. They don't want to be involved in everything.

We need the people that are in the meat and potatoes. Yes, we need the people that are going to cut us off and track us in traffic and delay us from an accident, from getting to a 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, what do you call it?

The factor, the sheep or the extras, they basically react to what we do.

And that's, you can see when you're driving in traffic and you're looking at someone and look at you, like, how does that happen? No, it's because Emma, Emma, fuck her, 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 you're going to reverse goals. You're ready now. All the extras have done their thing. And now you can participate in your, in your spotlight. Well, I'm so glad that you bring up traffic.

You know, I think of this, I feel like I'm a conductor sometimes. Yeah. And everyone around me, they're all the instruments that I need there. But I'm like this, then, then, then, then, then move over, go over there, love, love, love. And I just maneuver through any traffic.

It doesn't matter what country I am or what car I have. No, is this something to do it?

“No, is this secret power something that the cats taught you in the basement?”

Back when you were being weaponized as an infinite... No, I'm not sure if it was the cat or Tom and Jerry with classical music. Oh, I see. As an only child, you watch a lot of cards here. Of course, literally tunes I watched.

I grew up watching Black and White Godzilla films. I was obsessed. But who knew is that all that classical music, because there were no words. When you have a photograph of my right, do you? Oh, I have a question.

What's happened to have an IQ of 184, you by definition, you have to.

I'm like, I never said to remember everything, that's like a computer and even they get glitches.

I'm like, but I, to remember, a good 80 to 80% of what people, it's not the wording. It's the emotion that they left me where to. Don't say, what, how they made you feel, but you remember, oh, yes. I remember how it makes me feel. And then from there, the words that they used to make me feel that way will populate in my mind.

Absolutely.

“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 just like. But an influence where it's like, hey, I remember this person gets it made me feel x-way. Like how often does that happen to you in a day? Oh, I live my day-to-day life. I was just going to say, sure.

I see someone and I remember, oh, you made me smile. Oh, you don't know the crap, I don't know, but I'm still going to smile. So are you taking kind of like day-to-day, like social currency, like you're just piling on. These people are negative. Let me just eliminate them and just focus on the positive.

I just eliminate them because it's impossible for me to carry on my hire missions by eliminating. What is your hire mission? 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 world with more understanding.

A world where, at this rate, there's an old saying, we are going to hell in a hand basket. We definitely. And, um, I actually we were either. There's some people that believe that and, um, with everything, light has to be balanced by dark. Completely.

I am going to be the light. And I will be the darkness. Yes. And, well, I have a dark streak in me. No.

Cool. Why not? That dark streak is what connects me to the darkest side of me, which is necessary because

“if I think that can be all rainbows and butterflies, then I'll be in the ignite.”

Yep. I'm just going to say, wow, that sounds really boring. And, you know, there's manpower, muscle, and there's savviness. There's mediation. So, so you have all three, savvy, mediation, and power.

I'm consulted. And, legacy, because legacy, because legacy, because we can only power see what it is there. You know, but do we know what we're like to see? No. No, we don't.

I have no idea. I kind of can't want to keep it that way. I don't want to keep it that way. No, I don't want to keep it that way. No, I don't want to keep it that way.

No, I don't want to keep it that way. No, I don't want to keep it that way. No, I don't want to keep it that way. No, I don't want to keep it that way. So, it was kind of cheating.

But, it was my Cuban grandma. You can't remember? My Cuban grandma, don't remember. I was woof. I was adopted by a Cuban grandmother.

I wouldn't Cuban 100%. Oh, yeah. 100%. Yeah. She was a very fond of Puerto Ricans, by the way.

She was Cuban. Oh, you know, it is. Oh, you know, some daddy's had to escape. Who's flag came first? Yours or mine?

Because your flag isn't the inversion of my flag. Um. Oh, don't know.

What was populated first?

I don't know. For the recalls, populated first, because we had. Uh, so you're flagging. So you're flagging? No, Indians.

Ah, yes, 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 vodka, I'm watching it. How can you find you? I do have a beta tester for AI technology. Okay. This is.

I think we all are general. Well, I'm officially their beta tester. And so everything is completely integrated into my home. So good on my handle of ad. Diana D. I. A. N. A. C. A. S. T. R. O.

Cash. Kate, Kate, eight, eight. That integrates me to. I believe if I'm not mistaken. I'm up to 14 or 15 different social media platforms.

Okay, so Diana, cash or eight, eight, eight. Yes, that's only six of them. That's a great. It's like that. That's like, what 800 number?

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

“Who's they? You keep seeing that. Is this the alien overlords?”

Or the AI overlords? It's big difference. They is the Asian culture. Ah, there we go. There it is.

The other overlords. The Asians, when they realize that that's the last, you know, for that I chose. Sure. That's supposedly good luck and enumerology. It means all these different things.

So I just choose things and all of a sudden people like. Boom. Oh my goodness. Do you understand? What do you have chosen and the symbolism?

And I'm like, nope. It just seemed easy to remember and everything else was taken. Well, we're done. So Dr. Diana, cash or 8888 or Diana, cash or 8888? Diana, cash or D-I-A-N-A, C-A-S-T-R-O, 8888.

Oh 8888. 4888. Diana, thank you so much for he lovely Friday afternoon conversation.

I'm not sure how Jason's going to pull this one off.

“How to interview 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.

“Dr. D. Dr. Diana, cash or this concludes yet another episode of Living Your Legacy for Insights Success.”

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