Speaker 1: Some people think that it's easy, but when you know
Speaker 1: what your plan A is, there's no plan B.
Speaker 2: I have my days, ka yo yodo.
Speaker 1: I'm a big cry baby privately to say because in
Speaker 1: front of the people, I'm strong.
Speaker 3: We saw that in Loving Hip Hop Baby Yeah boy, no.
Speaker 2: Real cry mommy, You're a badass bitch. I thank you
Speaker 2: so much. I can't wait to hear my girls tell
Speaker 2: me a bitch.
Speaker 4: One day's happen.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna last forever. Can ciple that?
Speaker 1: And you have to think about your retirement at one point.
Speaker 1: I want to be able to chill and enjoy all
Speaker 1: the hard work I've done.
Speaker 2: So you guys are planning on getting married.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, thank you for flying with us on
Speaker 5: it in our own world.
Speaker 6: Ladies, gentlemen, Days and gaze. It is my absolute pleasure
Speaker 6: to welcome you today to in our own world. We
Speaker 6: are honored to welcome a powerhouse of talent, resilience, and
Speaker 6: unapologetic authenticity. She's an international sensation, celebrated for her groundbreaking
Speaker 6: work as a singer.
Speaker 2: Actress, and activists.
Speaker 6: From the hit show Love and Hip Hop Miami to
Speaker 6: global stages. She's used her platform to amplify the voices
Speaker 6: of Afro latinas changing societal norms and inspiring millions. She's
Speaker 6: also the dynamic co host of Desigualez, a talk show
Speaker 6: that delves into topics of culture, identity, and empowerment with
Speaker 6: boldness and humor, especially the humor beyond her artistry.
Speaker 2: She's a savvy.
Speaker 6: Entrepreneur, owning and thriving real estate portfolio and her own
Speaker 6: beauty brand, Eternal Beauty by Amata. As a mother advocate
Speaker 6: and trail blazer, she continues to redefine success, blending passion
Speaker 6: with purpose. Please join us in welcoming the radiant, unstoppable,
Speaker 6: ever inspiring someone I have loved since the day I
Speaker 6: met her, and I feel lucky to call my friend
Speaker 6: annas or as you know and love her.
Speaker 2: I need that card I'm taking, I am taking that
Speaker 2: speech and wherever they present, you have to read this.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much and such an honor to be here.
Speaker 1: I know that this this has been pending for the
Speaker 1: longest time, because we've always said I boy have anyway,
Speaker 1: and I didn't have a chance to. But God's timing
Speaker 1: is perfect. And thank you guys so much for having
Speaker 1: me today.
Speaker 2: We love you. And you guys love you.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be all form. Okay, the people don't
Speaker 1: know that we're actually friends friends.
Speaker 4: I know, I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, listen when you so we met.
Speaker 6: I met you at Red Table talking Stephan when you
Speaker 6: came on you guest and I was behind the scenes
Speaker 6: in the room with the producers and the directors, and
Speaker 6: I was like, that is my kind of bitch.
Speaker 2: You were raw, We're real.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It didn't matter the room or the people that were
Speaker 6: around you. I felt like you entered with your true
Speaker 6: presence and I really admire that about you.
Speaker 2: So it really is our honor to.
Speaker 4: Have you here.
Speaker 1: I ask you, thank you, thank you so much. And
Speaker 1: to be honest, you know what. Being so honest and
Speaker 1: being so you know, upfront, and being all those things
Speaker 1: have been a good thing and a bad thing for
Speaker 1: me too, you know. But I really appreciate the people
Speaker 1: that see the authenticity in me.
Speaker 2: Came in k I'm not a I'm not faking it.
Speaker 2: This is really who I am.
Speaker 1: And we've had the opportunity of hanging out and being
Speaker 1: into the spaces for for a minute now.
Speaker 2: But anyways, I'm just glad to be here.
Speaker 1: I have seen this spaceship for a while now, so
Speaker 1: I was like, they.
Speaker 5: Have okay, speaking of Oh here we go, I'm not
Speaker 5: talking about Dick.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking.
Speaker 4: About weird shit.
Speaker 2: Okay, not yet. Later.
Speaker 5: One thing that we really want to ring true today
Speaker 5: and why we love to have you on this couch
Speaker 5: is because to you and to everybody that you amplify.
Speaker 4: What you do. You are a boss bitch.
Speaker 5: You are somebody who paves your way, who is strong, powerful, talented,
Speaker 5: all these things that as a woman who was looking
Speaker 5: for a role model, you fit the bill.
Speaker 4: And then some Amen.
Speaker 5: My first question for you, which is maybe not so easy,
Speaker 5: because I want to talk to you about how do
Speaker 5: you become that woman? Which is the crux of the
Speaker 5: conversation that we're going to have. But I want to
Speaker 5: start with when was the first moment that you realized
Speaker 5: you had enough love for yourself to pursue this amazing
Speaker 5: career and how did you do so? How were you
Speaker 5: able to link your gift with putting it out to
Speaker 5: the world.
Speaker 2: Well, to be honest, it was my mom's fault. Really,
Speaker 2: my mom did it.
Speaker 1: But you know what, and I've always said this, I'm
Speaker 1: a big believer that there's some people that are born
Speaker 1: knowing what their purpose is, and there's other people that
Speaker 1: through life experiences find what their purpose is.
Speaker 2: I feel like I was.
Speaker 1: Born from a very early age knowing I was very sassy,
Speaker 1: very artistic. I was a type of girl that I would,
Speaker 1: you know, walk through the sail animals in the supermarket
Speaker 1: and I would just perform and said, I knew that
Speaker 1: that's what I wanted to do, That's what I liked.
Speaker 2: I always will say that.
Speaker 1: My mom has been my number one fan, has been
Speaker 1: my number one supporter, and everything that I am thanks
Speaker 1: to her, because if she hadn't given me the opportunity
Speaker 1: of exploring, you know, what I was good at, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be here today. She never told me no, She
Speaker 1: never said hi, ass so and go study something else.
Speaker 1: She was like, well, if you want to be a singer,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna take singing class.
Speaker 2: If if you want to be a dance you're gonna take
Speaker 2: dancing class.
Speaker 1: And she exposed me to a lot of things that
Speaker 1: I think. I always talk about that with parents. It's
Speaker 1: so important if you see that your kid is gifted
Speaker 1: in something, don't come over here telling them what they
Speaker 1: need to be because you want them to be that. No,
Speaker 1: if they want to play a guitar, if they want
Speaker 1: to play the piano, if they want to guess, say
Speaker 1: you'll play with rocks, find out why and let them
Speaker 1: play with it, because you just never know. So I
Speaker 1: will say that I was naturally born with the gift.
Speaker 1: I always knew what my gift somewhat was. I did
Speaker 1: didn't know how powerful it was. And and then obviously
Speaker 1: grateful to my mom for being able to allow me
Speaker 1: to explore who I really was. Yeah, all those good
Speaker 1: parents that you know what I'm saying, support their kids,
Speaker 1: support your weirdos, exactly, support them.
Speaker 6: Is there anything you know when you would like go
Speaker 6: up to they ask you, like, what do you want
Speaker 6: to be when you grow up?
Speaker 2: Is there anything that was it.
Speaker 6: In the entertainment industry that maybe you wanted to pursue?
Speaker 1: I always from day one, And that's that's the hardest
Speaker 1: part because a lot of people start this industry thinking
Speaker 1: that they can they can do it, and a lot
Speaker 1: of them, if not most of them.
Speaker 2: Give up.
Speaker 4: Oh for sure.
Speaker 1: And I started when I was four years old and
Speaker 1: I'm still here. And I'm here because you know, some
Speaker 1: people think that it's easy. But when you know what
Speaker 1: your plan A is, there's no plan B. You know,
Speaker 1: so there's never been like, but no, doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a hairstylist. No is this is what it is,
Speaker 2: So plan B.
Speaker 4: It's the day that you feel horrible.
Speaker 5: You've hated your whole day, you don't like being on camera.
Speaker 4: You've had this realization that whatever, how do you keep going?
Speaker 5: How do you realize that at that moment when maybe
Speaker 5: you feel like I don't want.
Speaker 4: To do this, how do you find the will?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you a couple of tips, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you my truth and a couple of tips.
Speaker 1: My truth is my mom has always been my biggest
Speaker 1: motivation because I want to make her proud. My mom.
Speaker 1: You know, as an immigrant to this country, I know
Speaker 1: how hard she worked. I knew, you know, my mom
Speaker 1: when I was like ten years old. She still didn't
Speaker 1: have her papers, and I saw her struggle so HARDY
Speaker 1: hinted they would make her work and not pay her.
Speaker 1: I saw her go through so much that I promised
Speaker 1: her eliya, okay, your boy, that I promise you you'll
Speaker 1: never have to work again. I'm gonna make you proud.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure that all your sacrifices were worth it,
Speaker 1: you know. So I've worked really hard towards that to
Speaker 1: keep keeping my promise. Obviously, now I have my daughters,
Speaker 1: and I want my daughters to feel proud of me.
Speaker 1: I want my daughters to grow up and be like
Speaker 1: my mom was.
Speaker 2: That bit, Yeah, they are my mom was. My kids
Speaker 2: don't know who I am. I'm just their mom.
Speaker 1: But eventually I want them to look at me and
Speaker 1: be like, I can't believe that that's my mom.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: But besides all those things, I have my days, Mundo.
Speaker 1: I have my days, Kyo yodo. I'm a big cry
Speaker 1: baby me too, ky yoyodo, privately to time, because in
Speaker 1: front of the people, I'm strong.
Speaker 3: We saw that in Loving Hip Hop Baby. Yeah boy.
Speaker 3: It's a different type of cry when you're by yourself,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: But in those cries in the shower, yes, I cry,
Speaker 1: and I and I and I and I motivate myself.
Speaker 1: Being an only child, also, I'm accustomed to talking to
Speaker 1: myself and motivating myself. And I have to be in
Speaker 1: my own space and I also am a big believer.
Speaker 2: Obviously.
Speaker 1: To give me the strength better, I listened to a
Speaker 1: lot of motivational apps, n or a motivational video.
Speaker 4: Give us one of them.
Speaker 1: Well, there's an app called motivation and it helped me
Speaker 1: a lot also during pandemic, because sometimes you just need
Speaker 1: the reinforcement of why are you here?
Speaker 2: Keep working? Nothing can stop you. Remember your purpose.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you need to hear that push because you.
Speaker 2: Get overwhelmed with things in life. You know it's too much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you mentioned your girls, which are some of the
Speaker 6: most beautiful little girls on life. They need to make
Speaker 6: like little dolls after your daughter's Well, how do you
Speaker 6: think that that's changed your perspective now as a mother?
Speaker 1: I mean I've always been very ambitious, and I've always
Speaker 1: been a hard work and I've always been determining those
Speaker 1: How I know for sure, like nothing that hasn't changed.
Speaker 1: Now has that multiplied most definitely because now I have
Speaker 1: two people that depend on me the responsibility and then
Speaker 1: when they look at me, and you know, before.
Speaker 2: My drive was my mom. Now my mom has like
Speaker 2: I live room my kids.
Speaker 1: So I would say, is that you know, they've definitely
Speaker 1: made me want to leave a better legacy. And I
Speaker 1: will say this just in case, you know, one day
Speaker 1: everything stays in the internet.
Speaker 2: One day my girls will see this.
Speaker 1: Mommy has had to do all types of things to
Speaker 1: make sure that you have a good lifestyle, to make
Speaker 1: sure that you have all the things and live in abundance,
Speaker 1: and all things that I didn't have, I want to
Speaker 1: make sure.
Speaker 2: You have them.
Speaker 1: I know that someday one day, when you Google me,
Speaker 1: you will see some things.
Speaker 2: And I don't want you to judge me, because.
Speaker 1: I paid all your diapers and your white and you're
Speaker 1: in you're private.
Speaker 2: School and all those things.
Speaker 1: So you know, sometimes it's hard because people can be
Speaker 1: very judgmental. And as long as you know where your
Speaker 1: vision is and when your purposes and what you're doing.
Speaker 4: You are a role model for me.
Speaker 5: And I have no doubt that your daughters will understand
Speaker 5: how much of a role model man.
Speaker 4: You know you are.
Speaker 2: I'm always in your zms like.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 2: I love you, I admire you like you are. You're
Speaker 2: one of the people.
Speaker 6: Social media is so weird because it makes you feel
Speaker 6: like you're keeping up with people even if you don't
Speaker 6: see them so often.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but you're.
Speaker 6: One of the people that I follow that I'm like,
Speaker 6: I can't like experiate No, I wish, I wish in
Speaker 6: some ways, yes, but like I feel like I can
Speaker 6: like experience joy through you, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like, I like I'm happy to see everything.
Speaker 6: That you're doing and already just just as a like
Speaker 6: a glimpse into the future. I don't think your daughters
Speaker 6: are going to judge you them and if there's anything
Speaker 6: like you, they're gonna say, Mommy, you're a badass bitch.
Speaker 2: I thank you so much. I can't wait to hear
Speaker 2: my girls call me a bitch.
Speaker 4: That's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, trust me, I'm definitely gonna keep up with a
Speaker 1: Latino tradition. They're gonna know about that.
Speaker 4: Okay, traditions and Latino people.
Speaker 5: Something that we do very well, which you just touched upon,
Speaker 5: is build something for our children.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I hear that all the time with my dad.
Speaker 7: Yes, gig wow, what an amazing thing to connect to
Speaker 7: as a Latino that our parents are just trying to
Speaker 7: make us better.
Speaker 6: It is true.
Speaker 5: But speaking of you just recently launched Eternal Beauty by
Speaker 5: a Matta. So my question is when you're launching new
Speaker 5: brands launching new things.
Speaker 4: What as your inspiration behind that?
Speaker 1: You know, my inspiration behind launching new things is I
Speaker 1: always say overall, I never want to die with anything inside.
Speaker 1: Oh say Joa, That's what she said, Every act, everything
Speaker 1: I've ever had in my mind.
Speaker 2: I want to try it, whether it worse.
Speaker 1: Or if it doesn't, I still had the guts to
Speaker 1: do it, And I meant, what about if it works?
Speaker 1: They say that the biggest the biggest projects, the biggest dreams,
Speaker 1: the biggest ideas, the biggest money is actually in the cemetery.
Speaker 2: There's so many people that.
Speaker 1: Died with so many amazing ideas and projects and things
Speaker 1: that they never actually bothered to do because they were
Speaker 1: afraid it wasn't the right time. I didn't have everything perfect,
Speaker 1: I didn't know, but you didn't try, And who cares
Speaker 1: if it's not perfect? Sometimes God just needs you to
Speaker 1: open the door of you trying and he will guide
Speaker 1: you and leave you towards what's the next next step.
Speaker 1: But some people don't even take the next step because
Speaker 1: they're afraid that they don't even know how to start.
Speaker 1: So but I mean, I'm willing to try. Its influ
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, see, you know onto the.
Speaker 4: Next Listen to this woman. You don't understand how valuable
Speaker 4: what she just said is let it go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Literally, sometimes we're waiting for perfection. There's no perfect time.
Speaker 1: If you have an idea, Okay, I want to do
Speaker 1: something that is right now, we're going to figure it
Speaker 1: out cause somebody knows somebody knows somebody, and just do it.
Speaker 1: You might not have the budget, it may not look
Speaker 1: better at first. You have to crawl, and then you
Speaker 1: get there. I'm telling you I heard this once and
Speaker 1: I always took that with me. In the cemetery is
Speaker 1: where all the biggest, greatest ideas lie on.
Speaker 4: Do you think that it's because of the ego?
Speaker 5: That's something that I grovel with a lot often, which
Speaker 5: is like, is it my ego that's not letting me failure?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Fear of failure?
Speaker 4: Like, what is it? What is it that selps us?
Speaker 1: I think obviously it's a fear of failure. I think
Speaker 1: there's some of us. For example, I'm one of those
Speaker 1: that I'm a perfectionist, so I want everything be so perfect, befect.
Speaker 1: Then you don't end up doing nothing and you even
Speaker 1: realize three a year or two four when you think
Speaker 1: you never even did it. And I also think of society.
Speaker 1: Society has put so much more pressure on us today
Speaker 1: than many many years before, were it was okay to
Speaker 1: at least try, it was okay to at least start something.
Speaker 1: Now you haven't even started, when half of the world
Speaker 1: is already criticizing you for even trying. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I just feel that society has made it really tough
Speaker 1: on people to try to break through. But I admire
Speaker 1: those people nomal I always say, goot ye do it
Speaker 1: by pergetic.
Speaker 6: I admire that same same same because it takes a lot.
Speaker 6: It takes a lot to make that first step. You're
Speaker 6: mentioning society. And I have a question for you, and
Speaker 6: this was, you know, on the along the lines of
Speaker 6: what kind of drew me to you as a person
Speaker 6: other than everything else that I'm sure people already know and.
Speaker 2: Are seeing about you.
Speaker 6: But society has a long way to go in a
Speaker 6: lot of things. And you have been very vocal in
Speaker 6: the past, And if you're open to being vocal here
Speaker 6: please of course.
Speaker 2: About how I don't even know.
Speaker 6: Maybe we can start with my question mark, like, how
Speaker 6: do you even feel about the term afro Latino? Because
Speaker 6: write me from my perspective, I'm like a Latinos, a Latinos,
Speaker 6: a Latino.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you feel like you even need to add that,
Speaker 2: you know, pre pre.
Speaker 6: That part of it into it, yeah, or or how
Speaker 6: do you see just like in general representation of Afro
Speaker 6: Latinos in the media, behind the camera, in front of
Speaker 6: the camera, on TV, on our in our headphones.
Speaker 1: You know, some people have told me that why do
Speaker 1: I always use the term Afro Latino when I can
Speaker 1: just say I'm Dominican, or when I can just say Latin.
Speaker 1: Of course, exactly everything, But here's my thing. Unfortunately, because
Speaker 1: of society standards of beauty and because of society's stigmas
Speaker 1: of what a Latina looks like when you say Latina,
Speaker 1: the last thing you're thinking of is a person that
Speaker 1: looks like me exactly. So therefore it is so important
Speaker 1: for me to always amplify Afro Latina. I come from
Speaker 1: African descent, and you don't have to be as black
Speaker 1: as I am. You know, there's a lot of lighter
Speaker 1: skin Latinas that also come from African descent. They may
Speaker 1: not want to expose it or talk about it because
Speaker 1: it's not beneficial, or because they don't feel the need
Speaker 1: of like this doesn't really add to me. But mamma,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something that asks that you got, mama,
Speaker 1: where you think that came from?
Speaker 2: That came from us?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, certain certain aesthetics that
Speaker 1: you have in that DNA, we're in there, whether you
Speaker 1: want to admit it or not.
Speaker 2: Somebody is somewhere.
Speaker 1: So to me, it's important to always uplift and talk
Speaker 1: about that because unfortunately society hasn't really given us a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities. And it's not they're like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: you have the same opportunities as everybody else.
Speaker 2: Know we don't because and I'm gonna give.
Speaker 1: You a perfect example, the moment, and I don't like
Speaker 1: to generalize, but the moment a Latino gets a set
Speaker 1: with another on aff Latino, the first thing you're gonna say, and.
Speaker 2: You always have to put our color first.
Speaker 1: So even when you go to a job application, if
Speaker 1: you have if you have a dark skinned Latino, they
Speaker 1: has all the you know, they qualified, and you have
Speaker 1: a lighter, you know, skin tone person, automatically you don't
Speaker 1: get us in or think we all it's just our
Speaker 1: color always comes first. So to me, it's important to
Speaker 1: talk about it. And I mainly started talking about it
Speaker 1: because the entertainment industry, which just has always been my forte.
Speaker 2: I'm like, why is it that I don't see manyone
Speaker 2: talking about it?
Speaker 1: Not just talking about it, but when you look at
Speaker 1: our main networks, which is not that many, you can
Speaker 1: you can pick with one hand how many.
Speaker 4: People are underrepresented.
Speaker 5: Underrepresented in Mexico, which runs the Latin media, has no
Speaker 5: black people and anything they do. So Mexico get it
Speaker 5: the fuck together, righte the fuck now.
Speaker 1: But it's just not that part is the fact that
Speaker 1: they've also, you know, they've created an image of what
Speaker 1: Mexicans should look like, what they eat, what they do,
Speaker 1: what they.
Speaker 2: And everybody is not the same.
Speaker 1: So to me, it was just like, if nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: talk about it, I'm gonna talk about it because I
Speaker 1: can't believe like everybody sees it, but nobody has the
Speaker 1: guts to say it because nobody wants to get fired.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be like, oh, there goes that person
Speaker 1: is always talking about the same thing. So anyways, I'm
Speaker 1: glad that I was able to talk about it. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that I was able to be vocal. I'm glad
Speaker 1: that I've been able to be impactful. I'm glad that
Speaker 1: I've been able to open that conversation.
Speaker 2: You know. I'm glad that my voice mattered. You're doing
Speaker 2: the work that, like you said, a lot of people
Speaker 2: don't have the guts to do. Yeah, And I don't
Speaker 2: even think that it's for people who look like you.
Speaker 2: I think it's for people who look like me and
Speaker 2: im and just overall to be honest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm true parents, Yes you are.
Speaker 2: It's like ghostly yea for real.
Speaker 6: Also like I got you, I got you.
Speaker 4: She is.
Speaker 2: But I and I have this conversation a lot.
Speaker 6: I'm like, if I have white privilege, you have a
Speaker 6: lot of privilege maybe beyond but you know, yes, but
Speaker 6: that's okay.
Speaker 2: I know that she's so honest about That's the thing
Speaker 2: you have to be.
Speaker 6: You have to be real that you're not living in
Speaker 6: a world where I have privilege not because I have
Speaker 6: white skin, but because my mom is a pop star,
Speaker 6: but because by direction you have to You have a
Speaker 6: two parent household. You have a two parent household where
Speaker 6: both parents love you. Right then and there, you're like
Speaker 6: above like half the.
Speaker 2: Girl, that is that is so true.
Speaker 4: Which, by the way, how much do I tell you
Speaker 4: that I value that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, you don't know how much I value that.
Speaker 5: My parents are absolutely in love with each other in
Speaker 5: a weird ass way, because I've seen them be jealous.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, yeah, you're like a sixteen year old marriage.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. But that's cute though it is.
Speaker 6: But I do feel like, first of all, if it
Speaker 6: hasn't been said, or if you haven't heard of this before,
Speaker 6: let me be the first one to tell.
Speaker 2: You the human being who needs.
Speaker 6: The most protection and deserves the most attention in the
Speaker 6: world right now is the black woman.
Speaker 4: Yes, period, hands down.
Speaker 6: It must be really exhausting to have the role that
Speaker 6: you have to constantly be educating people on things that
Speaker 6: are such a lived experience for you.
Speaker 2: You don't know, I feel like I don't.
Speaker 1: It doesn't bother me to teach it, bothers me to
Speaker 1: be judged for teaching.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 2: Doesn't bother me to teach it.
Speaker 1: Bothers me that people will criticize me for teaching it,
Speaker 1: bothers me that people will criticize me for, you know,
Speaker 1: voicing a problem that everybody sees and when you talk
Speaker 1: about it is like, well, you don't have anything else
Speaker 1: to talk about. Well, oh, you're just whining or you're
Speaker 1: just complaining. You should be grateful.
Speaker 2: You know, you have athletes, you have you know you
Speaker 2: you you have an actor here there or whatever.
Speaker 1: And and it's like, why does it bother you so much?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 1: And and here's another thing too, there's a difference between
Speaker 1: when there's an African American activist talking about injustices and
Speaker 1: racism in their community and then when there's an Afro
Speaker 1: Latino talking about the same issues in our community. It's
Speaker 1: not seeing the scene, it's not given the same light
Speaker 1: of like to less unite it, to fight the power.
Speaker 2: It's like, I can handle here's this one whining again
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 4: You know, That's what I think. Let's call it what
Speaker 4: J said. It's like the minority of the minority of the.
Speaker 1: I don't like to generalize, but we do have a lot.
Speaker 1: We have a you know, we have a big amount.
Speaker 1: We have certain people that can be that way, and
Speaker 1: we'll cover it by saying that they're not or will
Speaker 1: be Like a lot of people are racist and don't
Speaker 1: know that they're being racist while.
Speaker 4: They're doing it.
Speaker 2: It's still racist, guys.
Speaker 5: The only that happens that I don't understand is that
Speaker 5: like white people wouldn't exist without black people. Like I'm
Speaker 5: sorry to just call it what it is, Like it's
Speaker 5: called migration science.
Speaker 6: Like do a little bit of research and it's getting scientific,
Speaker 6: you know, watching a lot of young.
Speaker 5: It's not about you talk about talk about.
Speaker 4: The history of humanity.
Speaker 5: Humanity, every conversation that we have only exists because a
Speaker 5: black person was alive, Like that is the history of
Speaker 5: the world.
Speaker 2: And I don't do some reasons.
Speaker 1: I don't expect us to get you guys to give us.
Speaker 1: Just give us equality and you know, don't make us
Speaker 1: feel as if we're not.
Speaker 4: Are you ready?
Speaker 5: If anybody was being worth of putting on a pedestal,
Speaker 5: it would be you.
Speaker 4: You understand, well.
Speaker 6: Fault okay, because you're saying that, people say, oh, no,
Speaker 6: you're wanting you don't have other things to talk about.
Speaker 2: That's the joke.
Speaker 6: You are the prime example of somebody who has a
Speaker 6: million things to talk about. You just sat here like
Speaker 6: I'm a new voice for T mobile, Like come on,
Speaker 6: you have a million things to talk about.
Speaker 2: But that is something that needs to be.
Speaker 1: You know, what And here's one less thing before I
Speaker 1: because I can talk about this forever. But if something
Speaker 1: else about that is that a lot of people feel like,
Speaker 1: well that's none of my business. Well that hasn't been
Speaker 1: doing with me, or I can't necessarily relate. You can't
Speaker 1: relate now till your daughter falls in love with a
Speaker 1: black person. You can't relate now till your mother falls
Speaker 1: in love with a black person or so so a
Speaker 1: black person is related in your family, and then now
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to relate. So if you if you
Speaker 1: look at the way the population is going certain races,
Speaker 1: are you know, a.
Speaker 5: We're mixing, We're okay that we even have to talk
Speaker 5: about that is crazy to me. Like again, I know
Speaker 5: you say, which I agree. Okay, yeah, we should all
Speaker 5: be equal, but if we're looking at who started this
Speaker 5: whole fucking drama, then we should be the one.
Speaker 2: But it goes to it goes so far into history
Speaker 2: exactly say that.
Speaker 1: It's not all I'm saying is I want to be
Speaker 1: able to see more opportunities for people like myself overall
Speaker 1: judges based off our education of our personality, off that
Speaker 1: we can offer, and not just based off the way
Speaker 1: that we look and you can't generalize because we're not
Speaker 1: all the same. You know, go like there is white
Speaker 1: good people and bad white people. There's good black people
Speaker 1: and bad black people, and that's just how the world is.
Speaker 1: You know, overall there's.
Speaker 5: Good people and bad people, and you know what, you
Speaker 5: know what's funny, I don't even think that. No, after
Speaker 5: dating her and having all these weird lesbian I think
Speaker 5: I don't think everybody's good.
Speaker 4: I think it's a gray area. I think we have
Speaker 4: the propensity to change. I think we have the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some people, Okay, I don't know the reason.
Speaker 2: Would you want to cut them.
Speaker 4: Off like that?
Speaker 2: What do you mean, like what everybody deserves a chance?
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, so don't say some hard.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have to go to the
Speaker 1: jail and find out that people have choices that have
Speaker 1: you know, done a lot of murders, a lot of
Speaker 1: terrible things, and see how good they could really be in.
Speaker 6: I don't even think it's about yeah, like I mean
Speaker 6: you're talking about like the worst.
Speaker 1: People, Yeah, like the worst people that we're talking about humanity, right, humanity?
Speaker 2: Yeah, not everybody's back.
Speaker 5: Like that's why listen that's where a lot of my
Speaker 5: thinking lies. It's like in humanity and people and killing
Speaker 5: and murder, like I've seen animals do some really weird shit.
Speaker 4: Like law is weird.
Speaker 5: Like I have a really weird relationship with humanity. But
Speaker 5: we're getting there, Okay, anyway, moving on.
Speaker 6: Okay, moving on, Okay, I want to I want to
Speaker 6: take it for like a positive spin that.
Speaker 2: Have there been changes that you've witnessed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, just even having just having these type
Speaker 1: of conversations is a positive, you know, move and like this.
Speaker 2: I saw that, you know, back back in a couple.
Speaker 1: Of years ago, when I was very outspoken publicly about
Speaker 1: the Afflatino community. I saw how the conversation started to row,
Speaker 1: and how people started to investigate, and how people were curious,
Speaker 1: and how you know, how some people well that didn't
Speaker 1: want to say that they were after Latino decided to
Speaker 1: be like, oh, by the way, you know, I'm Colombian
Speaker 1: or I'm you know, from Adudas or whatever. But the
Speaker 1: whole time, while being in the States, you were just
Speaker 1: trying to fit in with the African American crowd just
Speaker 1: to not feel like you were left out or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing more roles where they all have people that
Speaker 1: look like myself speaking Spanish and all those things are
Speaker 1: positive moves. Instead of making us sound like we're Jamaican
Speaker 1: or from Africa, African American. Let us be us because
Speaker 1: there isn't Latin country that doesn't have people like us.
Speaker 1: So are you really going to show diversity?
Speaker 4: Show it all the nuance, show the nuance?
Speaker 1: Do it?
Speaker 4: Okay? Speaking of nuance, So speaking of music, great segue.
Speaker 5: You surprised me with your musical choices because you know
Speaker 5: you do theater, acting all this stuff theater.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I said theater. I think it's
Speaker 4: just quit it at her hand.
Speaker 5: I know I'm a researcher and I've been researching that,
Speaker 5: but I would love to see you in a theater production.
Speaker 2: I mean too, That's one of my biggest dreams, your dad.
Speaker 2: I had to do theater at least once in my
Speaker 2: life to get it out of my sister.
Speaker 4: Hello, you need to write a musical about you?
Speaker 2: Oh you think? Yeah? I mean, would you watch it?
Speaker 2: I will help you write the music.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 6: Put her make her do that, because she told you.
Speaker 4: I'm working on a musical right now.
Speaker 2: Listen, Emily is working on a musical to a Broadway
Speaker 2: play and the.
Speaker 4: Music is done. Baby, So I got you.
Speaker 2: Here's the evidence. Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. We would watch a musical about your life. But
Speaker 2: it's a unique story. Yeah, it's incredible. I think it's good.
Speaker 2: I think I could do it. I would love that.
Speaker 5: But I'm sorry, that wasn't my question. My question was
Speaker 5: as being a fan of your music.
Speaker 4: Your music changes, it is. I'm a musician. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be real with you.
Speaker 2: My music is all over the place.
Speaker 5: I think that you can sing, and I love your voice.
Speaker 5: But your music changes genres and this and that, which
Speaker 5: is great.
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 4: No, nothing happened. When are we gonna.
Speaker 2: Get more music? More music?
Speaker 5: I mean everything that you release is delicious. You come
Speaker 5: from Brazil, not necessarily I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: No, No, not you, your music, my music.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: Why you don't like your music?
Speaker 2: Some music I just don't, I said, everybody is it?
Speaker 2: Emily talks about her first album, like what was I thinking?
Speaker 4: You're playing your music when you came in and what
Speaker 4: was I doing?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: I mean I look at look at you.
Speaker 1: You grow, you evolve and change, sure, And to be honest,
Speaker 1: if I were staying true to myself, to who I
Speaker 1: am and the music that I like, most likely I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be doing a lot of the music that.
Speaker 2: I've put out. What do you listen to?
Speaker 1: Oh, don't judge you based on what I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: judge you because it has nothing to do with the music.
Speaker 2: I would say.
Speaker 1: But I listened to Afrobead, I listened Tota from you know,
Speaker 1: as I listened to Like, it's very broad. Like you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying Tony Braxon.
Speaker 4: She said, don't judge me. I'm here listening listening to
Speaker 4: Oscar Peterson. Don't judge me. Okay, don't look at my.
Speaker 2: It's very broad.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is a lot of the music
Speaker 1: that I have done has been trying to please the crowd,
Speaker 1: has been trying to fit into what the culture somewhat
Speaker 1: says that it's the sound at the moment, not necessarily
Speaker 1: because it's my sound. Like you, you can't go from
Speaker 1: like Insecure, which is one of my favorite songs.
Speaker 2: To then going to like Yeah, to then going to
Speaker 2: like min It's like, it's like, it's very like but
Speaker 2: that's God.
Speaker 1: But then yeah, but then it's different where I'm singing.
Speaker 1: I feel like, when you sing sing, there's a very
Speaker 1: small audience that will pay to listen to you sing
Speaker 1: these days, and then there's a broader audience that will
Speaker 1: pay to shake their ass. So I am going to
Speaker 1: help you shake it.
Speaker 4: Can you do?
Speaker 2: You can?
Speaker 4: You can?
Speaker 2: She's on her hustle, hustler and your passion.
Speaker 6: There's a bit of time, right, like, especially somebody like
Speaker 6: you have so many I've already hit that curve.
Speaker 2: Bolly, anybody got time to play you.
Speaker 1: Nobody got tap for that exactly.
Speaker 2: So that's basically what it is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, So if you had all the time in
Speaker 6: the world, and you an audience didn't matter, and you
Speaker 6: had a fat budget okay, okay, all those things, and
Speaker 6: you could make one record that came from your soul,
Speaker 6: like really just like came from your soul, and it
Speaker 6: was a passion project, a love project. What kind of
Speaker 6: music do you think it would be?
Speaker 1: I don't know, because I would I would fight in
Speaker 1: between doing an album close to like an album somewhere
Speaker 1: related to like Tony Braxton, and then I would and
Speaker 1: then I would be fighting to do some laying thea oh,
Speaker 1: I love her, you know, because I love that. I
Speaker 1: love rhythm, I love percussion, I love all of those things.
Speaker 1: So I would be fighting back in the days, you know,
Speaker 1: a modern version Fania. I would be fighting to like
Speaker 1: be in both of those spaces. That's what I really love.
Speaker 1: I love to shake my hands, I love all those things.
Speaker 1: But because I'm a natural performer, I'm a show girl,
Speaker 1: so I want to, you know, be Janet Jackson back
Speaker 1: in the days. So that's that was my passion. That
Speaker 1: was my goals growing up, you know, Donna Summers grow
Speaker 1: a gainer those ana. But then eventually I realize, because
Speaker 1: here's the difference. One thing is when you do things
Speaker 1: with passion and love because of what you love, and
Speaker 1: once it's one thing is once you get into the
Speaker 1: music industry and you realize that this is a business
Speaker 1: and how things and it's corporate and how things are
Speaker 1: they move and it's not really just what you want,
Speaker 1: is what all these other people agree that you need
Speaker 1: to do, And it's based off budgets, and it's based
Speaker 1: off percentages, and it's based off this, this, this this,
Speaker 1: and then you almost feel like you have just become
Speaker 1: a puppet and I went through all those experiences, and
Speaker 1: then that's where people are like, why aren't you doing music?
Speaker 1: Is a gamble suta and see what sticks. But there's
Speaker 1: no guarantee that you're gonna stick. And you'll be spending
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of millions even of dollars behind a
Speaker 1: dream and a project that can guarantee you that you're
Speaker 1: gonna make.
Speaker 2: It, and you have mouths to feed.
Speaker 1: And now things have changed a little bit because now
Speaker 1: I have children, and it's like, as much as I
Speaker 1: still want to play this gamble game, you know, I
Speaker 1: have responsibilities now. So it's like I kind of have
Speaker 1: to pick not necessarily, which I've already been there, done that,
Speaker 1: and been screwed Manyana can can become a label or
Speaker 1: somebody because there's a difference between you doing it by
Speaker 1: yourself and putting budget behind yourself. Then when you have
Speaker 1: a monster, we're gonna take you from here to hear
Speaker 1: he and I do, and then I top you in half.
Speaker 1: And then and then people don't see this park is
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I need there's super millionaire, but you
Speaker 1: don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah they got.
Speaker 1: Paid by Moha they see and yeah, they got paid
Speaker 1: two hundred one hundred thousand dollars, but there goes a
Speaker 1: record label fee, management fee, fly agent, answers, rehearsal spaces
Speaker 1: the dancers need to get paid for.
Speaker 2: When you come to see You're like in the Red people.
Speaker 1: Think people confuse fame with money, and later on I
Speaker 1: understoodama doesn't equal money.
Speaker 2: And then you see a lot of.
Speaker 1: People and the selling you this movie, this fantasy that
Speaker 1: they got it when they don't. The clothes they got
Speaker 1: to return it to the Stilce, the junior to the junior,
Speaker 1: the car, they said, don't eat that gambo with this,
Speaker 1: like a lot of things. They have lived in a mansion,
Speaker 1: but they're struggling to pay it, but they ain't gonna
Speaker 1: tell you, so you would never know. And they're, you know,
Speaker 1: doing bookings to bookings to bookings to pay things off
Speaker 1: and live a lifestyle that we are sold that you're
Speaker 1: supposed to live because you are famous or because you're
Speaker 1: the illusion. The illusion. So I've lived and learned so
Speaker 1: many things.
Speaker 2: Kiki Palmer is somebody that I loved a my or.
Speaker 2: She's hilarious, and she.
Speaker 6: Was talking recently about the fact that she is a
Speaker 6: Toyota parked at her in front of her house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which I'm like, you know what, that's amazing. She's like,
Speaker 2: I live well below my means.
Speaker 6: I live well below my means, so that I'm comfortable,
Speaker 6: because what's the point of keeping up with this illusion
Speaker 6: that is not real? It's not actually attainable, and it's
Speaker 6: definitely not attainable when you're in the business aware in
Speaker 6: which really is a gamble.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm real tight. I'm not gonna lie right now.
Speaker 1: I haven't said this publicly, but that's gonna pay my bills.
Speaker 1: But right now I'm really really tight because I've decided
Speaker 1: to push and force myself as hard as I can
Speaker 1: right now to establish a foundation for my children. That
Speaker 1: means like I bought this new home. You knows too
Speaker 1: exactly this home airbnbs. I just brought this another property
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure I leave my girls
Speaker 1: set up that God for bid, Mayana, something goes really bad.
Speaker 1: You have a two million dollar house that you can sell.
Speaker 4: You have there's such a.
Speaker 1: You know, things that are our youth doesn't really talk about,
Speaker 1: is you know, creating an estate plan, you know, having
Speaker 1: a trust, having all those things prepared, set up, you
Speaker 1: think that you're gonna live forever.
Speaker 2: A life insurance does something. All those ships that as latinos.
Speaker 1: For the most part, unless you come from money, no
Speaker 1: one teaches us these things minorities. We don't know about
Speaker 1: these things. We don't know about having life insurance and
Speaker 1: being able to use the money we don't.
Speaker 5: Speaking from somebody who grew up as an apple baby,
Speaker 5: I didn't know about that ship being real.
Speaker 2: With you and don't have the city stand though.
Speaker 1: It takes it takes us to break the generational curse
Speaker 1: and do better for you know, for what it's the first.
Speaker 5: Step as a parent out there listening to somebody so amazing,
Speaker 5: What would you say is the first step to be
Speaker 5: able to.
Speaker 1: Get an accountant? Get an accountant. I don't pay no bills,
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm an accountant.
Speaker 2: Shut out to Todd. I love you, Todd. Get an
Speaker 2: accountant because sometimes you.
Speaker 1: Think that you know what you're doing, but you really
Speaker 1: don't don't and sometimes you spend more than you should.
Speaker 1: And I think it's important when you have an accountant
Speaker 1: that can meet. Yeah, that's too much. Now we're gonna
Speaker 1: get you know these fifty thousand and we're gonna invest
Speaker 1: it in this, and now we're gonna get this. Twenty
Speaker 1: we're gonna put that, and now we're gonna get this. Yea,
Speaker 1: you don't even need that. Those big numbers. You could
Speaker 1: do with a thousand, five thousand dollars and then next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that it adds a lot of
Speaker 1: us are not thinking about it's not gonna last forever,
Speaker 1: and I just and you have to think about your
Speaker 1: retirement at one point. I want to be able to
Speaker 1: chill and enjoy all the hard work I've done. I no, no,
Speaker 1: that later on, but right now I get you know,
Speaker 1: I see a lot of people like, oh, I want
Speaker 1: to party now because I'm young and this is my
Speaker 1: time to live it up and later on to figure out, No,
Speaker 1: it's backwards.
Speaker 2: Now it's hustle. It's great time now, and then later on,
Speaker 2: you don't want to be, with all.
Speaker 1: Due respect, you don't want to be fifty sixty, seventy
Speaker 1: years old still working.
Speaker 2: No, you know that's not goals for me.
Speaker 4: Listen to all the respect for people who do.
Speaker 1: All the respect for people who do battle, dam being
Speaker 1: for people who do. Advise those that are coming up,
Speaker 1: get you. You really walked that path. Oh, get your
Speaker 1: shit together. Don't do what I did, because you're gonna
Speaker 1: end up over here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: So yeah, guys, please take a moment right now if
Speaker 5: you're listening, because as I'm listening to this amazing woman
Speaker 5: and sitting across from the woman that I love so.
Speaker 1: Much, I.
Speaker 5: Took a moment and I was really like wow, Like,
Speaker 5: sometimes you have to be present and take advice from
Speaker 5: people who have the means to say so. Amada has
Speaker 5: been somebody who every time I see her, she's working. Yes,
Speaker 5: every time I see her, she's working towards the goal,
Speaker 5: even if that means shifting, which I think is valuable.
Speaker 5: We've had conversations where you've said, you know what, I
Speaker 5: thought this was the vibe, but I changed my mind
Speaker 5: and I'm going to try this now and that's what
Speaker 5: keeps you the person that you are. So listen to her.
Speaker 5: Or we're going to go on a quick break and
Speaker 5: we'll be right back and have a couple of questions
Speaker 5: left ladies, germs Germaine's dromones. We are back in our
Speaker 5: own world from that very needed break because I'm sweating,
Speaker 5: and when we were on the break.
Speaker 4: Trust me.
Speaker 5: We talked about shit that I mean you might hear
Speaker 5: in a bonus episode.
Speaker 4: But we'll see. Okay, so we've got a little insight
Speaker 4: on that.
Speaker 5: Gem has a couple questions, but also Amada has a
Speaker 5: couple of questions for us.
Speaker 4: So where should we start? You want to ask your
Speaker 4: final questions?
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's my thing. You said that in the spaceship,
Speaker 1: I can be myself. Yeah, I can be free and
Speaker 1: I can just be open. So you guys have opinion
Speaker 1: getting married?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: I just want to know you.
Speaker 1: Guys have been together for the longest time, and to
Speaker 1: be honest, these days, it's so hard to see a
Speaker 1: stable relationship for as long as you guys have been
Speaker 1: in a healthy relationship, because I'm sure everybody goes through
Speaker 1: their ups and down door and mind, nobody's perfect, Bato,
Speaker 1: and you keep thugging it out because of love is real.
Speaker 1: So do you think it's important to do? Have you
Speaker 1: ever considered it? Would you do it? It's something that
Speaker 1: you really don't care for. What's your vision on marriage?
Speaker 5: I feel like I need to answer this just because
Speaker 5: of where I've been positioned in this question. I might
Speaker 5: reply to but there are males and females, and then
Speaker 5: there's male and female energy. And for whatever reason, people
Speaker 5: have attached me to being the person that's going to
Speaker 5: ask this woman to marry me.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say it out loud. We have been married.
Speaker 4: I love you. I know that. Obviously we're going to
Speaker 4: get towards that piece of paper, but we put in
Speaker 4: the work. Yes, you have.
Speaker 5: So so when people ask me that, I know, I
Speaker 5: get a little apprehensive and nervous. And I'm sorry about
Speaker 5: that because, for real, the reason behind it is because
Speaker 5: I'm ashamed of myself. Okay, She's like, shit, I shouldn't
Speaker 5: have asked that question.
Speaker 4: No, it's okay. It's just that I feel like.
Speaker 5: The woman who deserves to answer that question should be
Speaker 5: on the other side of somebody who's ready to ask it.
Speaker 5: And the only reason I haven't is because I'm not ready,
Speaker 5: not because of her.
Speaker 4: So I just want her to.
Speaker 2: That, Okay, Okay, okay, Well so what's your life?
Speaker 4: Main things? Awkward?
Speaker 2: So what's your favorite food?
Speaker 1: Yeah? O, my god, okay, I get it. You know,
Speaker 1: I only ask because I'm funny enough, you know, when
Speaker 1: I see you guys, as much as you admire me.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't have everything in this world, and
Speaker 1: you can't have your cake and eat it too. Some
Speaker 1: people say you can, some people say you can't. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: because of the experiences that I've lived, I feel that
Speaker 1: maybe you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Speaker 1: And some of us are blessed in different things that
Speaker 1: we may not have everything. And when I look at
Speaker 1: you guys, you know.
Speaker 2: I'm a little envious. I mean, I don't have no girlfriend.
Speaker 2: But what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Of the love that you guys share, of the fact
Speaker 1: that no matter how good or bad things have been,
Speaker 1: you guys have been willing to thug it out and
Speaker 1: stick it through. Because most people these days, a moment
Speaker 1: shit get is hard, they leave, they bounce, And no
Speaker 1: matter how hard things have gotten between you guys, you've decided,
Speaker 1: you made the choice, you made the decision that your
Speaker 1: love is stronger than whatever it is, and you're still
Speaker 1: there for each other. And some of us, you know,
Speaker 1: haven't been able to ever found You know, I haven't
Speaker 1: found that connection. I haven't found someone that has been
Speaker 1: willing to love me so much that no matter how
Speaker 1: hard things have gotten.
Speaker 2: They there there were willing to stick to stay.
Speaker 1: Because yes, I'm very ambitious, and yes I'm very driven,
Speaker 1: and yes I want a lot, but I don't what's
Speaker 1: the point of having all these things. I would love
Speaker 1: to have a partner, you know, to share those things with, to.
Speaker 2: Come home to, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't get to have that. And the same thing,
Speaker 1: some people wish that they had children and they don't
Speaker 1: get to have that. And you know, some of us
Speaker 1: may not always get everything that we want. So I
Speaker 1: only said it because you know, I I see it
Speaker 1: and I wish that I had it, And maybe you're right.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's beyond a piece of paper, to be honest,
Speaker 1: it's beyond that. Yes, sometimes as women we want it
Speaker 1: because it's a fantasy.
Speaker 2: It does. It's a fantasy, at least for me. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't care so much about the paper because you
Speaker 2: ain't taking my ship. You got me all the way
Speaker 2: you think you're gonna get everything. I've worked so hard
Speaker 2: again because too hard.
Speaker 1: But I will say, you know, sometimes it's just about
Speaker 1: the partnership, the companionship, and I pray and hope that
Speaker 1: this year I am able to find that that balance,
Speaker 1: because everything can just be work it's like, yeah, every
Speaker 1: time we see you're working. Yeah, I've almost managed to
Speaker 1: ignore certain things of my feelings by just making myself
Speaker 1: busy and working a lot.
Speaker 2: For sure, you escape it. I think that love.
Speaker 6: We were having this conversation yesterday about two people that
Speaker 6: we know, or one person that we know who is in.
Speaker 2: A new relationship.
Speaker 6: Okay, and they just started dating less than a month ago,
Speaker 6: and like, like lesbians.
Speaker 2: Love to u haul, they're already living together. Okay. So
Speaker 2: when I spoke to this this this friend of ours, she's.
Speaker 4: Like, I'm sorry, No, you're right, I feel the same way.
Speaker 2: Okay, and they'll say how they thank you.
Speaker 6: So I told em, you know, she was like, oh,
Speaker 6: you know, she says that she's so in love, that
Speaker 6: she's so in love.
Speaker 2: If she was really in love, she'd be terrified. I
Speaker 2: don't think that love is about finding This is my
Speaker 2: humble opinion.
Speaker 6: I don't think love is about finding the perfect person,
Speaker 6: or even finding a person. I think that you make
Speaker 6: a choice. I think that people who are in a
Speaker 6: relationship and things get bad and they leave more power
Speaker 6: to them. I I come from a family of a
Speaker 6: single mother who had different relationships. When I was younger
Speaker 6: with incredible men that I am honored to have shared
Speaker 6: the time that I did with them, because she put
Speaker 6: her children first and she was on her search for
Speaker 6: love until now she's found.
Speaker 2: The man that she's married to.
Speaker 4: Much.
Speaker 6: I love you, but I am I applaud women or
Speaker 6: men who leave relationships and no longer serve them no
Speaker 6: matter what.
Speaker 2: But yeah, if you are somebody who wants.
Speaker 6: A relationship, who wants somebody to witness your life.
Speaker 2: Then you need to step away from.
Speaker 6: The romanticism and recognize that love is a practice.
Speaker 2: It is a daily ritual, it is a daily choice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it means.
Speaker 6: Wow, I really don't like you right now. I don't
Speaker 6: even like you this season. In fact, I don't even
Speaker 6: know who this is because this is not the person
Speaker 6: Emily and I have been through twenty two when.
Speaker 2: We started dating. Between we're so different, we're new people.
Speaker 6: But every single and I tell Emily all the time
Speaker 6: when we talk about the marriage thing, I'm like, baby.
Speaker 2: I don't even care if we get divorced.
Speaker 6: I think I just deserve to be your first second
Speaker 6: and your wife for first.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, you have. She's been an amazing I
Speaker 5: don't look at people and me, and they're.
Speaker 4: Like, how's your wife? And I say she's great, because
Speaker 4: I love you.
Speaker 6: I love you, no, and and and I want to
Speaker 6: speak to that too, you know, to the piece of paper.
Speaker 6: But I think that for me entering a marriage, it
Speaker 6: would be a decision where I would hope for longevity,
Speaker 6: and I would want longevity. But to me, it's more
Speaker 6: about like that commitment, that making a decision to center
Speaker 6: to build a life with you, whether that is for
Speaker 6: fifty years.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 6: I can set out to be married to you for
Speaker 6: fifty years and get hit by a truck and die tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I don't get two years into our marriage. It's the truth.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. I don't look. I don't see you.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't see I don't see you guys dying.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see you dying.
Speaker 4: One and true.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't see you guys separating. Thank you. I
Speaker 2: see you guys together forever. I think that you guys.
Speaker 1: Were blessed to find that perfect connection, that perfect match
Speaker 1: that is so hard to find.
Speaker 2: Me and that like I heard what I've heard, I've heard.
Speaker 6: I don't know, but I've heard that the streets.
Speaker 4: But I'm sorry to be a little gay right now.
Speaker 4: But mean, though.
Speaker 1: It's terrible you're in these streets, I can't they just
Speaker 1: want no, no, no, I'm sorry. They get a little intimidated.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sure they get a little intimidated. Gorgeous, but
Speaker 1: don't say what's happening?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you just said it. You just said it.
Speaker 2: And I'm not a man hater by any day, Oh
Speaker 2: I am now, But I do think.
Speaker 6: That the average male, not all of them, but the
Speaker 6: average male who hasn't actually been in touch with their femininity,
Speaker 6: because I think that's what most men lack. See a
Speaker 6: woman like you and they're terrified. Yeah, they're like, wow,
Speaker 6: what I'm.
Speaker 2: Supposed to be the provider. I'm supposed to be there.
Speaker 1: Because I would not say any of my bills, telling
Speaker 1: me twice I ain't spending one dollar, to be honest me.
Speaker 1: And I also think that things changes, well once you
Speaker 1: become a mother. For sure, now that I'm always going
Speaker 1: to be a mother first and then I'm going to
Speaker 1: be a woman. So I'm gonna make sure that my
Speaker 1: girls are taking care of you know what look at Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know? So dating now changes a little bit. But
Speaker 1: like I said, you know, I think that talking always
Speaker 1: about love and relationships and things like that, and even
Speaker 1: sex is always one of those topics that people are
Speaker 1: always so interested in listening to because everyone is out
Speaker 1: here trying.
Speaker 2: To figure it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no guidebook on how to find the proper
Speaker 1: love or the proper relationship or whatever.
Speaker 2: So I always like to ask, you know, people they
Speaker 2: have good experience listen.
Speaker 6: Like you said, I come from a single parent household
Speaker 6: where I was very much the older sibling, and where
Speaker 6: like I had a lot of freedom, I had a
Speaker 6: lot of liberty, and.
Speaker 2: I learned a lot of things on my own. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Emily was.
Speaker 6: The last child, the child that was preyed upon, and
Speaker 6: I was the accident.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 6: With two parents who absolutely love her, were always present,
Speaker 6: always around, we.
Speaker 2: Could not have been raised more.
Speaker 4: Shout out to them, by the way, Yeah that love.
Speaker 4: Like I'm eternally grateful for the way that I grew
Speaker 4: up like gay, Yes, yeah for sure, for sure.
Speaker 6: But we we we've been we're still figuring it out.
Speaker 2: We're still figuring it out.
Speaker 6: You know, It's there's no I could I would be
Speaker 6: a hypocrite if I sat here in front of you
Speaker 6: or in front of anybody, And I said, I could
Speaker 6: write any kind of manual love.
Speaker 2: It's just a choice that I make daily.
Speaker 6: I love them so long as I wake up every
Speaker 6: single day as I have for the last almost eight
Speaker 6: years and seen what I do in her I'm still
Speaker 6: here now.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, the interview has I love it.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: Because you guys have started this project together and I
Speaker 1: see that pretty much. I'm sure you guys have individual
Speaker 1: lives but still come together to do many things. Where
Speaker 1: do you see this podcast going? Where do you visualize
Speaker 1: your next step would be? Where do you want to
Speaker 1: take this? What's the evolution about this?
Speaker 4: Let me call it Enrique, and that we do this
Speaker 4: because we love it.
Speaker 5: We have a daily battle with ourselves, which is like
Speaker 5: what are we willing to share?
Speaker 4: What are we not?
Speaker 5: Because privacy is valuable being You don't want to be
Speaker 5: the person who all of a sudden is in the
Speaker 5: public eye. And then that translates to oh, just say
Speaker 5: all your you know what I mean, You don't owe
Speaker 5: anybody anything. That's true, But we're living in a world
Speaker 5: where unfortunately, even people that are not in media are
Speaker 5: connected on social media.
Speaker 4: It's a thing that we often see. To me, I'll
Speaker 4: speak for myself.
Speaker 5: It's a privilege to be able to have an outlet
Speaker 5: where we can talk to people like you and have
Speaker 5: amazing conversations. And honestly, this is what I really feel.
Speaker 5: If nobody ever saw one episode of our podcast, I
Speaker 5: would still be equally as proud of it because I've
Speaker 5: learned so much in these conversations with these people. Akau
Speaker 5: No well like all the other people who have been
Speaker 5: you know where I've been. That it's something that adds
Speaker 5: to my life therapy as a human being, and it's
Speaker 5: a privilege to be able to say that somebody like
Speaker 5: iHeart and Enrique and Michael da.
Speaker 6: I used to have exactly how You can still go
Speaker 6: listen to the episode check them out on her YouTube.
Speaker 1: That's right, maybe one day that will happen again. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, you know, I can't you have an empire
Speaker 1: to write, I can't.
Speaker 2: Be I try. I love it, but that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I mean, let's be real.
Speaker 5: We're living in the world, which we talked about this like,
Speaker 5: we're living in a world where you know, I'm in
Speaker 5: music gems in fashion and we're able to do this.
Speaker 5: But Amada is a revolutionary in what she does. She's
Speaker 5: a boss bitch. So I hope that if you listen
Speaker 5: to this podcast today, you understand that you're in a
Speaker 5: presence of an amazing woman. And whether you're a woman,
Speaker 5: a man of the way, whatever is happening out in
Speaker 5: the world right now, please listen to this human being.
Speaker 5: Because I'm telling you this. I've said it a couple
Speaker 5: times during the episode. Every chance I have to listen
Speaker 5: to what she has to says, I feel better for it.
Speaker 4: So thank you.
Speaker 1: This has been a really good To be honest, it's
Speaker 1: been a really good episode. I think that we've gotten
Speaker 1: you know, so much out there. I always say that
Speaker 1: I pray that God can put words in my mouth
Speaker 1: to connect with the people that listen, because I always
Speaker 1: also say that God can't come to tell you things,
Speaker 1: but he'll put words in people's mouth for you to listen.
Speaker 1: And I hope that my message, my words have been
Speaker 1: able to inspire or touch someone's heart to get their
Speaker 1: ship together.
Speaker 2: Yes, so with that baby right here, that beach.
Speaker 5: So there's one more in our own world tradition which
Speaker 5: we're gonna break which is where we report the news
Speaker 5: in space, and it's called Everybody.
Speaker 2: Your one like, and it's called space news.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, So we have this single segment where
Speaker 5: we report the news in space.
Speaker 4: The first half of always Right. The second half is
Speaker 4: always right space news.
Speaker 2: Okay, Right, here.
Speaker 4: We go, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5: First off, Mars may have made it's two moons by
Speaker 5: ripping an asteroid apart, all right, begging the question, why
Speaker 5: in the folk are we trying to get near Mars.
Speaker 4: If it's ripping things in half? Thank you so much,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 5: Next, a new mid infrared image from the James Web
Speaker 5: Space Telescope featured the Sombrero Galaxy like a Mexican sombrero.
Speaker 5: All right, name that after the Mexican sombrero, also known
Speaker 5: as Messier.
Speaker 4: One O four M one O four. The signature glowing
Speaker 4: Core gave it its sombrero name because it's wide and
Speaker 4: you know emulated. Go ahead, not meybe, because I'm a stick.
Speaker 5: But what really makes this galaxy special is the giant
Speaker 5: bottle of tequila and the tamil it can be holding.
Speaker 2: No, I have no idea what you said, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go with you. Because I love you. Whatever she said,
Speaker 2: there's a tamal.
Speaker 5: I don't know. Earth bound asteroids could be tracked more
Speaker 5: precisely with a newly discovered math equation. Imagine we can
Speaker 5: literally decide when asteroids are coming to Earth. But in
Speaker 5: other news, now we can know exactly where to avoid
Speaker 5: the impact zone, and then we can die slowly and
Speaker 5: painfully over the course of a few days in a
Speaker 5: post apocalyptic Earth.
Speaker 2: So I have a question, where do you get this
Speaker 2: news from?
Speaker 5: Well, so the first half of the news is real,
Speaker 5: and then the second.
Speaker 4: Half you.
Speaker 2: Oh, you just asked them seasoning to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and this has been spaces all right, guys, thank
Speaker 4: you listen.
Speaker 2: This has been real. This has been fun.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Thank you guys so much for
Speaker 1: having me. Thank you for being open and honest as
Speaker 1: well with me, because I was open and honest with you,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 2: Don't know what to say.
Speaker 4: Oh follow me, I was getting that.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Go check me out, and like I said, I hope
Speaker 1: I can come back. And then also on my YouTube
Speaker 1: channel forever.
Speaker 2: She's blogging.
Speaker 1: I'm blogging, amongst other other things. You know, I am
Speaker 1: on love and Hip Hop Miami that airs every Monday.
Speaker 1: I'm also on Dessy Wallace Monna through Friday at three
Speaker 1: o'clock and I'm also the voice of Papa.
Speaker 2: John's and Metro by T Mobile.
Speaker 1: I also have Internal Beauty by Amada, also Los Woryal
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Speaker 1: and I am the mother of who my haestat Lo's
Speaker 1: Woryal Twins. And I'm sure I'm gonna come up with
Speaker 1: more things later on in life, So anyways, go follow me.
Speaker 2: I love you guys, So I'm like.
Speaker 5: You don't have anything else to hear about that, but
Speaker 5: you can follow us on In Our Own World pod
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Amada, We love you so much, love you
Speaker 4: way too long.
Speaker 5: To have here, and You're welcome anytime, and you listeners,
Speaker 5: We'll see us next week on In.
Speaker 4: Our Own World podcast. We Love you, Thanks for listening.
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