On this episode of Kill the Small Talk, host Alex Caron sits down with actor, filmmaker, author, and social justice advocate Alix Dick for a deeply personal and wide-ranging conversation about culture, creativity, and survival.

Alix opens up about growing up in Sinaloa, Mexico, surrounded by cartel violence and instability that ultimately forced her family to flee to the United States. What began as a temporary move became a permanent reality — one that reshaped her identity, her legal status, and her relationship to storytelling.

The conversation moves fluidly through memories of Mexican culture — from cumbia and sonideros to banda music — and how cultural identity evolves through displacement. Alex and Alix share laughs over music preferences, “this or that” questions, and  ...