Life & Work with Rick Herrera and Alexandra Gutierrez

Today we’d like to introduce you to Rick Herrera and Alexandra Gutierrez. Them and their team share their story with us below:

Rick “Wind” Herrera is an award-winning and multi-talented artist. He is a Brooklyn native, comedian, writer, singer, and actor who is pursuing his passion of creating projects and performing. Despite growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Rick has overcome challenges and setbacks by learning from his environment in a positive way. 

In 2015, his one-man play, “The Naked Truth,” won the award at the 10th Annual One Festival. This is a prestigious festival that selects only one of 14 one-man plays to be showcased throughout New York City. He is also a 2017 “Brio” award winner which recognizes his work as an artist. Also, in 2017 his show “The Naked Truth” was selected in the HBO Latino Film Festival. Rickʼs second one-man show, “Still Naked” premiered in 2017 at “LATEA Theater” and received rave reviews. 

In 2018 he created and performed an intimate concert called “F.E.A.R” based on original music he wrote. That same year he received an award from the “American Filmatic” for his performance in his one-man play “The Naked Truth”. 

In 2019 Rick co-created and released a podcast with his wife called “The Wind & Cloud Podcast” which interviews all types of guests of different professions. Rick continues to spread positive messages, laughter, and spirituality to the people he connects to on his journey and has plans to continue creating One-man plays. 

Alexandra Gutierrez is an artist with multiple hats. Her background and training in dancing, singing, and acting has led her to play various roles in musicals, theater, independent feature/short films, commercials, and commercial print ads. 

When not performing she continues to create content writing, producing, and directing. Alexandra also goes by the name of Spiritual Cloud, her spiritual name. She is a writer and actor of the “The Unknown Webseries” directed and created by Guru Enlightment. 

In 2019, Alexandra produced, co-created, and released “The Wind & Cloud Podcast” alongside her husband, interviewing people from all walks of life as they share their inspiring journeys. 

Her goal as an artist is to express meaningful life experiences through her work. She will continue to create content that has a purpose and will offer positive lessons to people, motivate dialogue and open our minds not to what society wants us to be but who we are, have inside ourselves, and are afraid to embrace or let go. 

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It hasn’t been a smooth road, but I believe that’s what makes the journey well worth it. Success taste better with struggle I say because there are lessons there for you to learn from, good and bad. 

One struggle that always come up is how are we going to fund our projects. 

Being artists, parents, along with our 9 to 5 job; we have responsibilities to meet so we are always making sacrifices and finding ways to keep the dream alive. I also feel staying true to who you are and believing in yourself while the world challenges you is an ongoing struggle as you continue to create and make your vision come true. 

You will receive a million No’s but it’s your passion and saying yes to yourself that will get you through along with the love and support from friends, family, and people you meet. 

You have to green-light yourself and your projects and not wait for others to give you power; you already have what you need, and everything will fall in place. So, keep going and having faith. 

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
We are both Actors, creators, writers, pretty much well-rounded artists that have a huge appreciation and passion for the arts. We both have had individual success in our careers but since working together as a husband-and-wife duo we have experience greater success in our creative projects together. We are recently most proud of our award-winning fatherhood wed-series called “DAD-rahpy”. Dad-rahpy follows two Afro-Latino fathers who randomly met on a bench at a children’s park. As they build a friendship, they confront their internal conflicts and joys of fatherhood while juggling the obstacles of life. 

This project holds a special place in our hearts because this was something that was created from love and a true source from our life. We wanted to shine a light on fatherhood, the good and bad from a father’s perspective who is also a person of color. 

Dive into the trauma, challenges, and joy of a father as well his relationship with his child. We wanted to be raw, funny, and honest and I believe we did that by remaining true to who we are and not shying away from the tough conversations. The reaction and love that we have gotten from people who saw the series has been amazing! We are also thankful and grateful for the love and awards we have gotten from the Film festivals. It was a team effort to pull this show off and we are forever thankful to everyone who helped spiritually, the actors, the crew, the people who donated money; everyone. Also, a big shout out to the other main actor Jerry Diaz for hoping on this project, trusting us, and sharing his truth as a father on this show. 

What sets us apart is that we are not afraid to create from the heart, to be authentic, to give the audience substance that’s going to make you not only laugh but think and reflect on your own life. Comedy and truth is a huge weapon for us because after the tears are done from facing an issue hear comes the healing from laughing at it. 

A big reason we are able to do this is the countless therapy sessions we had with our spiritual teacher Guru enlightenment. 

It’s a constant and revolving effort to work on ourselves to learn and grow from and then that trickles down to the work we write and create. 

We also have a podcast that we are proud of called “The Wind and Cloud Podcast” (Where the everyday people are the celebrities.) 

In society we glorify and get inspired by the people we see on tv, movies, social media; but what about the hard-working parents? the actor chasing his dream? a teacher? or a simple human being who treats other human beings with love and compassion. On this podcast, we hear the stories of hope, challenges, insecurities, and courage of people from all walks of life. 

Let’s talk about our city – what do you love? What do you not love?
We are originally from New York City and what we love is the food and the creative community that was around us. The least was how negative and dangerous NYC was becoming. 

As for our new home Arizona we love the peace and mountain scenery around us. 

The least is getting use to driving everywhere and things being an hour away lol 

Contact Info:

• Website: rhcomedy.com
• Instagram: @rhcomedy, @dadrahpy, @thewindcloudpodcast, @alexacloud13
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DADrahpy/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3_uLsoeCIa7SFg2RiFrfHQ
• SoundCloud: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wind-cloud-podcast/id1449909378
• Other: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/thewindandcloudpodcast