Finding Home, Healing, and Resistance in Altadena with Courage Escamilla

Finding Home, Healing, and Resistance in Altadena with Courage Escamilla

April 9, 2026 · 45 min · Season 5 · Episode 11

About this episode

Courage Escamilla discusses finding home and community in Altadena after personal and communal devastation.

In this episode of Painting Your Path™ I sit down with Courage: actor, activist, and community organizer to explore what it means to find home, rebuild after devastation, and keep showing up for your community. Courage shares how an unexpected Facebook ad, a cross-town bus ride, and a deep sense of grief led them from downtown LA to Altadena, where they discovered the kind of small-town community they didn’t know they were missing. They open up about living through the Eaton Fire, why their h...

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