Season 3 is here — and we’re starting strong! 🎙️ Victoria Cornelio welcomes our new co-host, Andres Tamez, for a deep, inspiring conversation about media, storytelling, and the transformative power of clean energy.
In this launch episode, we shine a spotlight on The Sunrise Spectrum Initiative — Tangelic’s flagship program delivering solar power, economic empowerment, and community-led innovation to rural Ghana. From lighting homes and powering schools to training local solar entrepreneurs, this is people-first sustainability in action.
📌 Episode Highlights:
💬 Meet Andres: His media journey, creative voice & passion for service
🎥 Why media preservation matters for culture and justice
🌍 Sunrise Spectrum’s impact in rural Ghana — energy for homes, clinics & classrooms
⚡ Clean energy beyond the tech: Empowerment, equity & resilience
👩🦱 Gender equity as the backbone of sustainable energy ecosystems
💬 Join the Conversation: What’s one people-first solution you’d love to see in the clean energy transition? Share it in the comments!
✨ Explore More:
🌐 Website: https://TangelicLife.org
📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/tangeliclife
🐦 Twitter/X: https://x.com/Tangelic_
💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/tangelic
👍 Facebook: https://facebook.com/tangelic.org
✅ Don’t forget to like, comment, share & subscribe to help amplify voices driving climate justice, energy equity, and community innovation. 🌍⚡
🔖 #TangelicTalks #Season3Launch #SunriseSpectrum #CleanEnergyForAll #PeopleFirstSustainability #EnergyAccessMatters #ClimateJusticeNow #GenderEquityInEnergy #StorytellingForChange #GlobalSouthSolutions #CommunityLedInnovation #RenewableEnergyNow #PoweringCommunities #LightingUpLives #SolarEntrepreneurs #EnergyEquity #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #ClimateActionVoices #EnergyForEducation
In this launch episode, we shine a spotlight on The Sunrise Spectrum Initiative — Tangelic’s flagship program delivering solar power, economic empowerment, and community-led innovation to rural Ghana. From lighting homes and powering schools to training local solar entrepreneurs, this is people-first sustainability in action.
📌 Episode Highlights:
💬 Meet Andres: His media journey, creative voice & passion for service
🎥 Why media preservation matters for culture and justice
🌍 Sunrise Spectrum’s impact in rural Ghana — energy for homes, clinics & classrooms
⚡ Clean energy beyond the tech: Empowerment, equity & resilience
👩🦱 Gender equity as the backbone of sustainable energy ecosystems
💬 Join the Conversation: What’s one people-first solution you’d love to see in the clean energy transition? Share it in the comments!
✨ Explore More:
🌐 Website: https://TangelicLife.org
📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/tangeliclife
🐦 Twitter/X: https://x.com/Tangelic_
💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/tangelic
👍 Facebook: https://facebook.com/tangelic.org
✅ Don’t forget to like, comment, share & subscribe to help amplify voices driving climate justice, energy equity, and community innovation. 🌍⚡
🔖 #TangelicTalks #Season3Launch #SunriseSpectrum #CleanEnergyForAll #PeopleFirstSustainability #EnergyAccessMatters #ClimateJusticeNow #GenderEquityInEnergy #StorytellingForChange #GlobalSouthSolutions #CommunityLedInnovation #RenewableEnergyNow #PoweringCommunities #LightingUpLives #SolarEntrepreneurs #EnergyEquity #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #ClimateActionVoices #EnergyForEducation
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00:00then that's why i learned this early on about andres he buys films oh and he watches them on
00:05his dvd player because we don't own media anymore and that's a bigger conversation
00:10but it's something that really stuck with me it's like it's just therapy like having your
00:14own podcast is just like a therapy session for yourself and it's like people say it in a mocking
00:19way but like what's wrong with that right i just want to let people know that for this season we're
00:24going to be anchoring our narratives and our topics on the sunrise spectrum and sunrise spectrum is
00:31our flagship program like i said certainly i am the woman engaged in recognition for your podcast
00:37consider great tell me as a suggestion that combines an upbeat and abiding spirit without any micro music
00:43welcome to tangelic talks your go-to podcast from tangelic where we dive into the vibrant world of
00:50clean energy development sustainability and climate change in africa we bring you inspiring stories
00:56insightful discussions and groundbreaking innovations from the consummate making waves in the global
01:01community tune in and join the conversation toward a brighter greener future let's get started
01:07welcome to tangelic talks a podcast at the intersection of energy equity and empowerment
01:16with your co-host victoria cornelio and our new co-host andres thomas in this episode that's it
01:23this episode basically we just want you to get to know andres but also we're going to tease a bit about
01:29what we're doing for this season i'm telling you about our sunrise spectrum initiative which is our flagship
01:35program here at tangelic so we've got little quick quickie episode for you today but get ready for season
01:43three get to know our new co-host and let's kick it off andres who are you oh my that's a that's a
01:50loaded question if i've ever heard one that was where you're from i'm i'm from uh i'm from northern
01:57mexico uh i'm from uh from novo leon and i found myself here uh through uh many circumstances
02:07which is an interesting interesting path it's an interesting path to end up uh working with a
02:13non-profit i i think so yeah yeah i'm i'm from i'm from northern mexico uh i lived for a little while
02:20in texas i uh oh my okay this is harder this is harder than it looks this is harder than it looks
02:27yeah we've done a couple of we've done a couple of episodes with guests already and uh they make it
02:32fuck easy i know i know talking is an art for sure absolutely uh i do what's your background my
02:40background is in my study uh my my university background is in audiovisual production and
02:49language and so i've i've worked in media for a long time at this point i've done i've done
02:57news and editorial work um mostly writing uh copywriting and translation from english spanish
03:06spanish english and that has been that has been a big chunk of my trajectory also video editing and
03:12stuff like that miscellaneous work work with my university like about audiovisual i don't i think
03:19it's just the the storytelling aspect of it i've always really liked it and i've always i've always
03:24also liked having uh having the ability to to share things i think that's that's really cool
03:31um which is which is one of the one of the nice things one of the privileges of living
03:35how we are right now right um so it's a gift and a curse uh to be able to to be able to
03:43receive so much information yeah no i agree we were having a bit of a a chat about that earlier
03:51yeah and when it comes to storytelling what would you say it makes a good story
03:55oh i think uh what makes a story compelling is uh i think it's just something that's genuine i think
04:04for me something being transparent and genuine and seeing that the the story the storytelling is coming
04:13from a place of of interest and intrigue and not just being preachy i guess is is i think a big
04:21important thing yeah for sure i think so and what is is there something that comes up for you when
04:28you think about past projects you've done before something you're really proud of you know media you
04:33might have out there that you want people to check out i have a couple of uh of projects that i've
04:38worked on that most of my most of a big chunk of my repertoire is another podcast which is uh which
04:45is a catholic podcast a religion-based podcast but it's in spanish uh it's called the ocito podcast
04:51on on youtube and i used to have a couple of youtube channels but i've sort of uh sort of just sort of
04:58stopped got really really busy i've been doing stuff on youtube um because i've always gone as like
05:06the the tag kirby that's just always been when i was in high school my friend was like he just
05:11started calling me kirby and i just sort of ran with it i don't know why um and so and so like i i
05:20have a right now i just have a channel called kirby's cave and i'm i intend to do gaming there and i
05:25i do um uh pokemon pokemon cards
05:31yeah pack openings and stuff like that because i just i've gotten back into that hobby because i needed a hobby
05:38i needed a hobby so bad other than that like i have a couple of short films but honestly
05:43you do you make a short film and then you lose track of it you have no idea where it is on what platform it is
05:49is like it well how does that happen things change like things change like you like for example i
05:56worked on a short film it was about the the it was a really interesting little uh animated film i did the
06:02final cut for it um in editing and i know it was up on a certain platform and then it disappeared from
06:09that platform and i have no idea where it is now it's like i mean i could host it my myself for my
06:17portfolio but honestly if i were to to direct people towards it no idea where it is my gosh
06:24okay then that's why i learned this early on about andres he buys films oh and he watches them on his
06:30dvd player because we don't own media anymore and that's a bigger conversation but it's something that
06:36really stuck with me of you do really value media and being able to find things and own your own work
06:42right so maybe if you if you ever find that short film maybe press it into a dvd yes yes no like like
06:49it's it's it's it's behind me like all my my blu-ray collection right there and uh and glep if you ever
06:57watch smiling friends so like i i like to collect books i like to have dvds i like to rip them uh i i i don't
07:06like the the anti-preservation of media that we can we see a lot right now not being able to own
07:13your own uh basically copy of something that you bought a copy of right because when it says buy
07:22what you expect is buy not you have a limited license with 50 billion conditions uh no i i buy it
07:30i can i can rip it which is super hard because a lot of my blue my blu-rays are 4k you have to go
07:36through a process to make them digital a whole process you basically basically you've been locked
07:44out of doing it you've been locked out of doing it there's no you uh programs can't really read it
07:49and most importantly as cd like uh readers right the uh blu-ray readers have become more rare
07:57in like the home space you you know you only really need them for professional applications
08:03now they've managed to lock it down so that by default like nothing yeah nothing can nothing
08:09can read these files nothing can extract the video from these from these blu-rays and it's hard to play
08:17them back as well so that's a whole process i had to buy it i had to like uh do some stuff with the
08:22firmware you have to have a specific program to do it that the here in mexico it's not a
08:27problem but in the in the u.s there's like it's it's completely legal for you to rip your media
08:34the elite the illegal part is breaking the encryption so you you find yourself in a very gray area where
08:45what you're doing is 100 legal because you own the instance of the media you own but you're also
08:50sort of breaking somebody else's like copyright protections by right by doing the thing you're
08:58doing and so yeah it's just a great it's just annoying and i don't care about it i don't care
09:05for it so i have my library my files that i'm not going to share i'm not going to sell them
09:10uh and they're mine and i i like to preserve my media no i love that and you come from a media
09:16background audio visuals and you know like you said editing and things like that so what drew you to
09:21tendelic dogs well i've always been interested in uh in i don't know if i should say helping like i i
09:28i i i believe in service i i really want to do something to serve um my my community the world
09:37at large uh i'm not one of those people that's obsessive about it i don't stress about what's
09:41going on at the world at large because i think that's one of the major contributors to our issues
09:47with with mental health and our self-perception and all that stuff but i do care about it uh i do
09:54care about it quite a bit and i do care about um i care about consumer protection that's a big thing
10:00um with for for me i care about the environment i care about i'm a very like uh i'm a very i'm a
10:09big tree hugger i just love nature and so i i care about all these things and i was reached out
10:16to i basically i'm on a freelancing site and i was reached out to by by justin and so
10:23um who is the who i believe is the is the chairman of tangelic right and so we started
10:31talking and i i was like he was like hey we do this non-profit thing this is uh this is i think uh
10:38you would be great as a co-host i was like oh that's that's really cool i really want to really
10:43want to do it i just want you to know that i am a big skeptic when it comes to non-profits like i
10:49just don't don't trust me he's like that's perfect and i was like oh that's awesome okay
10:55and so it was just his attitude the attitude of the people here like the more i interact with the
11:00people uh here at uh at angelic the more i'm like these people are actually really passionate
11:06and they believe in what they're doing and they're very transparent about what they're doing and
11:10they're doing practical things not just saturating you with buzzwords yep that's the goal
11:17yeah and so that that i think was what really attracted me to hear i was like oh i've been i've
11:24been uh i've been really wanting to do something that i think is is of service i've been really
11:29wanting to help inform people because i think education is like a big thing that i love uh and
11:35and just like i said storytelling and sharing this this sort of combines all of those all of these
11:41things that i love which are the the aspects of of service and and education and media and it puts
11:51it all in one place and i also just love talking i love yapping and so it's it's just a perfect blend
11:56yeah it's a perfect storm i got that i'm a huge nerd and i love talking so when when i heard about
12:04this i was like jean i can do this like this is a thing that people do i had someone tell me once
12:10they're like oh they're just handing out mics to everybody yeah yeah no dude like one like there's
12:16this uh there's this great great thing of like uh for for it's like it's just therapy like having
12:23your own podcast is just like a therapy session for yourself and it's like people say it in a
12:27mocking way but like what's wrong with that right and if and if it gets popular that's awesome now
12:32this is a podcast a little bit more purpose and more more of an intention behind it but it's still
12:37it's still i think uh important for for there to be for there to be like this genuine the aspect of
12:45genuine people behind it because i think that's what makes a podcast interesting and that's been
12:49an amazing thing with like the guests we've talked to up to now i think this is the first episode that's
12:52going to be released for this season but we already talked to a couple people a couple of people
12:57and they're so interesting and they have so much personality to them and uh yeah it's exciting
13:01basically yeah yeah and you're right it is like therapy because i think for me a lot of these
13:07issues i work on i'm interested in and also they're part of my career so this is a place where i can come
13:12and actually talk to people who can ground me again or who i have really big questions about the world
13:18and the green sector and they can just like bring a human perspective to while i'm drowning in like
13:24white papers so it's really nice to kind of have a balance i think what's your familiarity with this
13:32sector was it something you were involved in before is it something you're discovering now no it's
13:38something that i'm that i was a tent um sort of tangentially involved with when i when i used to do
13:43um sort of gathering data and and writing for like new stuff like i i i understand what the sector is
13:52and i understand what the problems at large are i don't understand a bunch of the lingo i don't
13:58understand a lot of the specifics going on about the about the sector and and i think that's what
14:04makes it even more appealing to me it's more compelling i it's it's like one of those things that
14:10like you know about and you're passionate about you just don't know the the way people talk about
14:15it i guess yeah yeah for sure and hopefully with tangelic talks and your help here um we'll be able
14:23to bring that to the forefront for people you know i think a lot of the conversations we have
14:27are kind of bringing it from that high level jargon heavy to the more human and just showing people
14:34that it is just people doing things for the planet yes good or bad in that sense but it is just people
14:40trying to do human things yeah and depending on what on what side of on what topic you care about
14:48like you end up in a bubble of people that that can be like on a certain on a certain political
14:56spectrum or a certain like social spectrum and so you basically isolate yourself so if i'm with my
15:03circle that care about consumer rights a lot and then i'm in my circle that cares about the
15:07environment a lot i'm with two completely different sections of people that are usually really at odds
15:12with each other and so yeah i don't like that i don't like that i want to care about the things i care
15:17about um because i care about them not because uh because like some sort of external force or
15:25ideology compels me to i'm gonna care about the environment does it matter that i'm not particularly
15:31like uh left wing or whatever and i'm going to care about i'm gonna care about you know consumer
15:37rights and i'm gonna care about people's freedoms doesn't matter that i'm not necessarily super right
15:42wing or whatever a hundred percent and i think it is like humans are we we can relate to things
15:49and then take it very different ways but we can connect in i don't know core beliefs and then
15:57however those manifest in the way that we show them can be different but at the end of the day
16:01we are trying to do the same thing maybe coming at it in different ways for sure yes yeah which is a
16:08hard thing about being part of a society society but this is andres and we're really excited to have
16:16you here i just want to let people know that for this season we're going to be anchoring our narratives
16:22and our topics on the sunrise spectrum and sunrise spectrum is our flagship program like i said
16:28and it's basically just a project that we are looking to implement in rural ghana where we're
16:35lighting homes with solar systems replacing harmful cooking fuels with clean cook stoves also powering
16:41schools clinics and community hubs with solar microgrids the idea is to train locals in solar tech to grow
16:48the clean energy economy from within make it a self-reliable self-sustaining project um the idea
16:54is that you know we see a lot of solutions and we've talked a lot on this podcast about solutions
17:00that come from the top down so all of these things are rooted in pillars that the community has told us
17:05about that our partners in in the field know about and we also want to center gender equity in this
17:12conversation because in certain cultures um there's a lot of limiting beliefs and limiting training
17:20when it comes to gender equality and gender equity in these spaces so we really want to champion that
17:26and it's not just about technology you know it's not just about solar microgrids and all this stuff
17:32the pillars are what's anchoring this project and what's going to be anchoring this season so in these
17:38episodes we're going to be exploring community-led innovation health and education transformations
17:43economic empowerment women and climate leadership and the global nexus of green transition so we've done
17:50some episodes already that touch on these things we're going to keep doing more episodes that touch on
17:56these things a lot of our guests are going to help us understand these pillars a bit more but we just want
18:00you to know where we're coming from with these ideas and these centering themes right and you can read more
18:06about the sunrise spectrum at tangelic life.org did i miss anything i think i think that's i think you did
18:13good thank you very well presented very professional yeah that is season three um like you can see it's
18:23going to probably feel different but i think it's going to be really fun what are you looking forward
18:27to this season your first season at tangelic talks i'm looking forward to a ton of stuff like uh i i yeah
18:33i'm i'm really excited about this i i'm looking forward to to all of the talk about the uh energy
18:42is something that's like so fundamental uh and i think i think the talks are going to be interesting
18:48right because you have the talks of what is green versus what is sustainable because it's not necessarily
18:53green and sustainable at the same time sometimes right like uh you have you have solar panels and solar
19:00panels have a controversy to them but what what i think is really nice about tangelic is they they
19:05understand that we're coming this from a people first perspective so this like so what what does
19:12solar mean from that from that point of view right means being not being dependent on an unreliable grid
19:20right or not being dependent on on some sort of centralized structure independence and that's going to be
19:26what makes it sustainable and what makes this a a net positive in the world this even even though
19:33maybe like from the from a resource uh a resource usage perspective maybe solar panels aren't the
19:40greenest right but when it comes to the human impact they can have they will they they have the ability to
19:48uplift communities in a big way right so that's that's one of the perspectives that like one of my
19:54opinions and i'm looking forward to having conversations around that and i'm looking
19:57forward to be proven wrong or right on on on this sort of topic but i think it's super interesting
20:03and i think it's super important for people to be reasonable and to understand that and i think that's
20:08one of the great things that that i found about you vic that i love about you is that people first
20:13the most important thing is that we don't we don't do our causes are really important our causes
20:22are sometimes what guide us and what motivates us but if they're uh a detriment to the people that
20:29that we are if they're just going to affect the people negatively especially people that are on the
20:34lower rung of the importance you know like uh on the yeah lower priority yeah and and people people
20:44are sometimes very very okay with well if it negatively affects them you know it's for the greater good
20:51no no it's people first it's this is this is about helping yeah people first is important a hundred
20:58percent and i think um it's i've always been very people focused but i think something that i found
21:05really funny was that we had eric shankweiler last season saying oh you could survive the apocalypse to
21:10have the bragging rights but like who are you going to brag to you know like community focus people
21:16focus it's not about just you know you having a good microgrid because if the world powers down
21:23you're going to be okay it's about the community having it the community owning it at the end of
21:27the day the community being the one exactly yeah because a lot of these you know you see a lot of
21:34volunteer trips where people get dropped somewhere to build a house and then something goes wrong with
21:40the house and the locals don't know what to do because they weren't trained on how this works or that
21:44works or blah blah and then it kind of falls apart so we're very aware of that and i think the sunrise
21:50spectrum really takes that into account you can read you know all the technical stuff because as much
21:56as jargon is annoying we do have technical reports that you can read if you're interested in more of
22:01the nitty-gritty but on its you know face we also have a very nice video on youtube that kind of goes
22:09through it in a more you know chill way and i think it did pretty well explaining it so you know
22:15you've got some more information but just keep in mind that this season a lot of the topics we're
22:20looking at are around that and are looking into why these kinds of conversations are so important
22:25right so hopefully you enjoy season three if you have any any suggestions or people you think we should
22:34speak to or you want to come speak to us send us an email at support at that was a weird way to say
22:41it but support at tangeliclife.org or um you can find us also on tangeliclife.org slash tangelic talks
22:50and there we have a form to apply to be a speaker as well if you're interested in coming in and joining
22:55these conversations anything else very well put vick very i love it amazing well thank you guys this
23:06was just a quick tease we'll see you next week with our first guest our first interview and our
23:12first official episode of season three of tangelic talks take care have a good one
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