Letting Go to Become Who You Truly Are – Deborah Santana
About this episode
Deborah Santana shares her journey of personal reinvention after a long marriage, exploring themes of identity, growth, and the importance of contemplative practices.
There’s a challenge that comes with being known for what you do. When you move on you now have to figure out who you truly are. Deborah Santana spent more than three decades inside one of the most recognizable partnerships in American music as COO of the New Santana Band, co-architect of the Milagro Foundation, and the steady, contemplative presence behind a global touring life with her ex-husband, the legendary musician Carlos Santana. At an age when most people are quietly winding down, she did the opposite: she walked away from a 34-year marriage, dismantled the identity she had built around someone else’s career, and started over. She earned a master’s degree in her 60s, founded a new nonprofit ( Do A Little) , wrote a second memoir ( Loving the Fire: Choosing Me, Finding Freedom ), and became a trustee of major cultural institutions. But this is not a celebrity interview. It’s an exploration of transitions and later-life reinvention. You’ll hear about her experience and the lessons she learned that may help you. She shares the foundational daily contemplative practice she built, the calendar block for herself disguised as “a meeting” she used to jump start her…
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