WEBVTT - Boss Planet: Amara La Negra 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.800 Some people think that it's easy, but when you know 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:04.720 what your plan A is, there's no plan B. 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:06.480 I have my days, ka yo yodo. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:08.680 I'm a big cry baby privately to say because in 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:09.639 front of the people, I'm strong. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.320 We saw that in Loving Hip Hop Baby Yeah boy, no. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.919 Real cry mommy, You're a badass bitch. I thank you 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.160 so much. I can't wait to hear my girls tell 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:21.680 me a bitch. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.520 One day's happen. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.560 It's not gonna last forever. Can ciple that? 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.000 And you have to think about your retirement at one point. 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:41.879 I want to be able to chill and enjoy all 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:42.880 the hard work I've done. 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:44.840 So you guys are planning on getting married. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.040 Oh my god, thank you for flying with us on 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:59.400 it in our own world. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:07.080 Ladies, gentlemen, Days and gaze. It is my absolute pleasure 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.039 to welcome you today to in our own world. We 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:14.160 are honored to welcome a powerhouse of talent, resilience, and 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:19.040 unapologetic authenticity. She's an international sensation, celebrated for her groundbreaking 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:20.040 work as a singer. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:20.960 Actress, and activists. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:22.960 From the hit show Love and Hip Hop Miami to 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.119 global stages. She's used her platform to amplify the voices 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:30.319 of Afro latinas changing societal norms and inspiring millions. She's 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.040 also the dynamic co host of Desigualez, a talk show 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.400 that delves into topics of culture, identity, and empowerment with 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.080 boldness and humor, especially the humor beyond her artistry. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.160 She's a savvy. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.520 Entrepreneur, owning and thriving real estate portfolio and her own 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.440 beauty brand, Eternal Beauty by Amata. As a mother advocate 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.400 and trail blazer, she continues to redefine success, blending passion 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.360 with purpose. Please join us in welcoming the radiant, unstoppable, 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.440 ever inspiring someone I have loved since the day I 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.600 met her, and I feel lucky to call my friend 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:08.880 annas or as you know and love her. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.320 I need that card I'm taking, I am taking that 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.720 speech and wherever they present, you have to read this. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.000 Thank you so much and such an honor to be here. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.240 I know that this this has been pending for the 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.040 longest time, because we've always said I boy have anyway, 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:26.760 and I didn't have a chance to. But God's timing 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.840 is perfect. And thank you guys so much for having 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:29.280 me today. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.960 We love you. And you guys love you. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.840 I'm trying to be all form. Okay, the people don't 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.480 know that we're actually friends friends. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:36.960 I know, I know. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.480 Yeah, yeah, listen when you so we met. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.960 I met you at Red Table talking Stephan when you 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.480 came on you guest and I was behind the scenes 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.320 in the room with the producers and the directors, and 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.600 I was like, that is my kind of bitch. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.080 You were raw, We're real. 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:51.720 Yeah. 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.919 It didn't matter the room or the people that were 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.720 around you. I felt like you entered with your true 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.000 presence and I really admire that about you. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:00.680 So it really is our honor to. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:01.000 Have you here. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:02.920 I ask you, thank you, thank you so much. And 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.920 to be honest, you know what. Being so honest and 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.560 being so you know, upfront, and being all those things 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.240 have been a good thing and a bad thing for 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.399 me too, you know. But I really appreciate the people 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.560 that see the authenticity in me. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.000 Came in k I'm not a I'm not faking it. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.000 This is really who I am. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.880 And we've had the opportunity of hanging out and being 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.360 into the spaces for for a minute now. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.080 But anyways, I'm just glad to be here. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.240 I have seen this spaceship for a while now, so 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:31.920 I was like, they. 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:39.800 Have okay, speaking of Oh here we go, I'm not 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:40.600 talking about Dick. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:41.520 I'm not talking. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:41.960 About weird shit. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:43.760 Okay, not yet. Later. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.240 One thing that we really want to ring true today 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.360 and why we love to have you on this couch 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.840 is because to you and to everybody that you amplify. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.720 What you do. You are a boss bitch. 0:03:55.360 --> 0:04:00.480 You are somebody who paves your way, who is strong, powerful, talented, 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.360 all these things that as a woman who was looking 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.360 for a role model, you fit the bill. 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.040 And then some Amen. 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.080 My first question for you, which is maybe not so easy, 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:11.640 because I want to talk to you about how do 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.480 you become that woman? Which is the crux of the 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.000 conversation that we're going to have. But I want to 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.320 start with when was the first moment that you realized 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:26.640 you had enough love for yourself to pursue this amazing 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.120 career and how did you do so? How were you 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:34.080 able to link your gift with putting it out to 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:34.479 the world. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.279 Well, to be honest, it was my mom's fault. Really, 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:38.080 my mom did it. 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.560 But you know what, and I've always said this, I'm 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.400 a big believer that there's some people that are born 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.520 knowing what their purpose is, and there's other people that 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.160 through life experiences find what their purpose is. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:52.080 I feel like I was. 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.160 Born from a very early age knowing I was very sassy, 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.600 very artistic. I was a type of girl that I would, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.839 you know, walk through the sail animals in the supermarket 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.080 and I would just perform and said, I knew that 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.640 that's what I wanted to do, That's what I liked. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:08.320 I always will say that. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.920 My mom has been my number one fan, has been 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.240 my number one supporter, and everything that I am thanks 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.400 to her, because if she hadn't given me the opportunity 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.240 of exploring, you know, what I was good at, I 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.719 wouldn't be here today. She never told me no, She 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.000 never said hi, ass so and go study something else. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:28.039 She was like, well, if you want to be a singer, 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:29.440 but you're gonna take singing class. 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:30.880 If if you want to be a dance you're gonna take 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:31.560 dancing class. 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:33.960 And she exposed me to a lot of things that 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:35.800 I think. I always talk about that with parents. It's 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:37.440 so important if you see that your kid is gifted 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.039 in something, don't come over here telling them what they 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.600 need to be because you want them to be that. No, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.560 if they want to play a guitar, if they want 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.480 to play the piano, if they want to guess, say 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.360 you'll play with rocks, find out why and let them 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.880 play with it, because you just never know. So I 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.680 will say that I was naturally born with the gift. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.760 I always knew what my gift somewhat was. I did 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.719 didn't know how powerful it was. And and then obviously 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.919 grateful to my mom for being able to allow me 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.800 to explore who I really was. Yeah, all those good 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.000 parents that you know what I'm saying, support their kids, 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.760 support your weirdos, exactly, support them. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.919 Is there anything you know when you would like go 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:21.440 up to they ask you, like, what do you want 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:22.120 to be when you grow up? 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:23.120 Is there anything that was it. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.760 In the entertainment industry that maybe you wanted to pursue? 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.760 I always from day one, And that's that's the hardest 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.240 part because a lot of people start this industry thinking 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.240 that they can they can do it, and a lot 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.000 of them, if not most of them. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:37.600 Give up. 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:38.360 Oh for sure. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:39.960 And I started when I was four years old and 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:45.480 I'm still here. And I'm here because you know, some 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.039 people think that it's easy. But when you know what 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.680 your plan A is, there's no plan B. You know, 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.720 so there's never been like, but no, doesn't work out, 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.159 I'm going to be I'm. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.000 Gonna be a hairstylist. No is this is what it is, 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:56.760 So plan B. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.479 It's the day that you feel horrible. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.400 You've hated your whole day, you don't like being on camera. 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.440 You've had this realization that whatever, how do you keep going? 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.240 How do you realize that at that moment when maybe 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:11.920 you feel like I don't want. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.920 To do this, how do you find the will? 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:14.960 You know what I mean. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:16.880 I'm going to tell you a couple of tips, and 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.760 I'll tell you my truth and a couple of tips. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.360 My truth is my mom has always been my biggest 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.560 motivation because I want to make her proud. My mom. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.120 You know, as an immigrant to this country, I know 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.720 how hard she worked. I knew, you know, my mom 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.360 when I was like ten years old. She still didn't 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.520 have her papers, and I saw her struggle so HARDY 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.680 hinted they would make her work and not pay her. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.000 I saw her go through so much that I promised 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.600 her eliya, okay, your boy, that I promise you you'll 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.040 never have to work again. I'm gonna make you proud. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.000 I'm gonna make sure that all your sacrifices were worth it, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.400 you know. So I've worked really hard towards that to 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.320 keep keeping my promise. Obviously, now I have my daughters, 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.040 and I want my daughters to feel proud of me. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.040 I want my daughters to grow up and be like 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:56.960 my mom was. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.560 That bit, Yeah, they are my mom was. My kids 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.240 don't know who I am. I'm just their mom. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.720 But eventually I want them to look at me and 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.640 be like, I can't believe that that's my mom. 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:06.880 You know. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.120 But besides all those things, I have my days, Mundo. 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.400 I have my days, Kyo yodo. I'm a big cry 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.440 baby me too, ky yoyodo, privately to time, because in 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:16.440 front of the people, I'm strong. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:22.360 We saw that in Loving Hip Hop Baby. Yeah boy. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.560 It's a different type of cry when you're by yourself, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:24.960 you know. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.040 But in those cries in the shower, yes, I cry, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:30.960 and I and I and I and I motivate myself. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.800 Being an only child, also, I'm accustomed to talking to 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.920 myself and motivating myself. And I have to be in 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.360 my own space and I also am a big believer. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:38.880 Obviously. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.000 To give me the strength better, I listened to a 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.840 lot of motivational apps, n or a motivational video. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:45.680 Give us one of them. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:50.599 Well, there's an app called motivation and it helped me 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.440 a lot also during pandemic, because sometimes you just need 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.120 the reinforcement of why are you here? 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.880 Keep working? Nothing can stop you. Remember your purpose. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.079 Sometimes you need to hear that push because you. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.319 Get overwhelmed with things in life. You know it's too much. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.880 Yeah, you mentioned your girls, which are some of the 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.640 most beautiful little girls on life. They need to make 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.000 like little dolls after your daughter's Well, how do you 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.320 think that that's changed your perspective now as a mother? 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.320 I mean I've always been very ambitious, and I've always 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.280 been a hard work and I've always been determining those 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.480 How I know for sure, like nothing that hasn't changed. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.520 Now has that multiplied most definitely because now I have 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.000 two people that depend on me the responsibility and then 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.280 when they look at me, and you know, before. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.920 My drive was my mom. Now my mom has like 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.960 I live room my kids. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.320 So I would say, is that you know, they've definitely 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:47.040 made me want to leave a better legacy. And I 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.280 will say this just in case, you know, one day 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:50.560 everything stays in the internet. 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:51.640 One day my girls will see this. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.960 Mommy has had to do all types of things to 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.679 make sure that you have a good lifestyle, to make 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.000 sure that you have all the things and live in abundance, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:02.599 and all things that I didn't have, I want to 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:03.160 make sure. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:03.600 You have them. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.120 I know that someday one day, when you Google me, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.720 you will see some things. 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.119 And I don't want you to judge me, because. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:15.200 I paid all your diapers and your white and you're 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:16.640 in you're private. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.280 School and all those things. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.880 So you know, sometimes it's hard because people can be 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.000 very judgmental. And as long as you know where your 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:25.960 vision is and when your purposes and what you're doing. 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:27.880 You are a role model for me. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:32.040 And I have no doubt that your daughters will understand 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.160 how much of a role model man. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:34.880 You know you are. 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:36.719 I'm always in your zms like. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:38.400 It is. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.839 I love you, I admire you like you are. You're 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:42.560 one of the people. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.360 Social media is so weird because it makes you feel 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:45.800 like you're keeping up with people even if you don't 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:46.400 see them so often. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:47.440 Yeah, yeah, but you're. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:48.880 One of the people that I follow that I'm like, 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.920 I can't like experiate No, I wish, I wish in 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.000 some ways, yes, but like I feel like I can 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.440 like experience joy through you, you know what I mean? 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.240 Like, I like I'm happy to see everything. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:05.840 That you're doing and already just just as a like 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.120 a glimpse into the future. I don't think your daughters 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.640 are going to judge you them and if there's anything 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.760 like you, they're gonna say, Mommy, you're a badass bitch. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.079 I thank you so much. I can't wait to hear 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:18.319 my girls call me a bitch. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.560 That's gonna happen. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.040 Yeah, trust me, I'm definitely gonna keep up with a 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:32.960 Latino tradition. They're gonna know about that. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.199 Okay, traditions and Latino people. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.960 Something that we do very well, which you just touched upon, 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.199 is build something for our children. 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:41.520 Yeah. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.640 I hear that all the time with my dad. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:51.520 Yes, gig wow, what an amazing thing to connect to 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.040 as a Latino that our parents are just trying to 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:54.720 make us better. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:55.439 It is true. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.640 But speaking of you just recently launched Eternal Beauty by 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.080 a Matta. So my question is when you're launching new 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:04.400 brands launching new things. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.480 What as your inspiration behind that? 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.839 You know, my inspiration behind launching new things is I 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.000 always say overall, I never want to die with anything inside. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:19.240 Oh say Joa, That's what she said, Every act, everything 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:20.720 I've ever had in my mind. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.440 I want to try it, whether it worse. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:23.880 Or if it doesn't, I still had the guts to 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.439 do it, And I meant, what about if it works? 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:32.120 They say that the biggest the biggest projects, the biggest dreams, 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:37.960 the biggest ideas, the biggest money is actually in the cemetery. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:39.600 There's so many people that. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.360 Died with so many amazing ideas and projects and things 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.120 that they never actually bothered to do because they were 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.720 afraid it wasn't the right time. I didn't have everything perfect, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.880 I didn't know, but you didn't try, And who cares 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.880 if it's not perfect? Sometimes God just needs you to 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.800 open the door of you trying and he will guide 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.480 you and leave you towards what's the next next step. 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.520 But some people don't even take the next step because 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.000 they're afraid that they don't even know how to start. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.520 So but I mean, I'm willing to try. Its influ 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.679 you know, I mean, see, you know onto the. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:14.000 Next Listen to this woman. You don't understand how valuable 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.800 what she just said is let it go. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.840 Yeah. Literally, sometimes we're waiting for perfection. There's no perfect time. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.360 If you have an idea, Okay, I want to do 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.599 something that is right now, we're going to figure it 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.280 out cause somebody knows somebody knows somebody, and just do it. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.400 You might not have the budget, it may not look 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:32.920 better at first. You have to crawl, and then you 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.200 get there. I'm telling you I heard this once and 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.960 I always took that with me. In the cemetery is 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.840 where all the biggest, greatest ideas lie on. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.760 Do you think that it's because of the ego? 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.480 That's something that I grovel with a lot often, which 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:51.400 is like, is it my ego that's not letting me failure? 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:51.800 Yeah? 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:52.600 Fear of failure? 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.520 Like, what is it? What is it that selps us? 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.679 I think obviously it's a fear of failure. I think 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.400 there's some of us. For example, I'm one of those 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:03.160 that I'm a perfectionist, so I want everything be so perfect, befect. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.559 Then you don't end up doing nothing and you even 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.360 realize three a year or two four when you think 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.560 you never even did it. And I also think of society. 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.400 Society has put so much more pressure on us today 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.480 than many many years before, were it was okay to 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.640 at least try, it was okay to at least start something. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.200 Now you haven't even started, when half of the world 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.440 is already criticizing you for even trying. So, you know, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.520 I just feel that society has made it really tough 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:33.800 on people to try to break through. But I admire 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:39.720 those people nomal I always say, goot ye do it 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:40.600 by pergetic. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.160 I admire that same same same because it takes a lot. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.600 It takes a lot to make that first step. You're 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.280 mentioning society. And I have a question for you, and 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.000 this was, you know, on the along the lines of 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.480 what kind of drew me to you as a person 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.360 other than everything else that I'm sure people already know and. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:14:59.200 Are seeing about you. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.040 But society has a long way to go in a 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:06.520 lot of things. And you have been very vocal in 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.760 the past, And if you're open to being vocal here 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.080 please of course. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.920 About how I don't even know. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.000 Maybe we can start with my question mark, like, how 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.360 do you even feel about the term afro Latino? Because 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.040 write me from my perspective, I'm like a Latinos, a Latinos, 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:22.600 a Latino. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.200 Yeah. Do you feel like you even need to add that, 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.479 you know, pre pre. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.880 That part of it into it, yeah, or or how 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.400 do you see just like in general representation of Afro 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.840 Latinos in the media, behind the camera, in front of 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.120 the camera, on TV, on our in our headphones. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.200 You know, some people have told me that why do 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.600 I always use the term Afro Latino when I can 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.360 just say I'm Dominican, or when I can just say Latin. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:52.240 Of course, exactly everything, But here's my thing. Unfortunately, because 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:56.320 of society standards of beauty and because of society's stigmas 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.680 of what a Latina looks like when you say Latina, 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:00.360 the last thing you're thinking of is a person that 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.440 looks like me exactly. So therefore it is so important 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.640 for me to always amplify Afro Latina. I come from 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.720 African descent, and you don't have to be as black 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.880 as I am. You know, there's a lot of lighter 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.960 skin Latinas that also come from African descent. They may 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.240 not want to expose it or talk about it because 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.240 it's not beneficial, or because they don't feel the need 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.000 of like this doesn't really add to me. But mamma, 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.520 let me tell you something that asks that you got, mama, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:25.560 where you think that came from? 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:26.520 That came from us? 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.120 You know what I'm saying, Like, certain certain aesthetics that 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:34.600 you have in that DNA, we're in there, whether you 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:35.880 want to admit it or not. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.000 Somebody is somewhere. 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.280 So to me, it's important to always uplift and talk 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.320 about that because unfortunately society hasn't really given us a 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.320 lot of opportunities. And it's not they're like, oh, you know, 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.080 you have the same opportunities as everybody else. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.160 Know we don't because and I'm gonna give. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.080 You a perfect example, the moment, and I don't like 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.400 to generalize, but the moment a Latino gets a set 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.280 with another on aff Latino, the first thing you're gonna say, and. 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.639 You always have to put our color first. 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.640 So even when you go to a job application, if 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.560 you have if you have a dark skinned Latino, they 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.199 has all the you know, they qualified, and you have 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.600 a lighter, you know, skin tone person, automatically you don't 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.680 get us in or think we all it's just our 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.040 color always comes first. So to me, it's important to 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.639 talk about it. And I mainly started talking about it 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.280 because the entertainment industry, which just has always been my forte. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.320 I'm like, why is it that I don't see manyone 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:37.960 talking about it? 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.119 Not just talking about it, but when you look at 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.040 our main networks, which is not that many, you can 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.560 you can pick with one hand how many. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:46.880 People are underrepresented. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:51.119 Underrepresented in Mexico, which runs the Latin media, has no 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.040 black people and anything they do. So Mexico get it 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:55.720 the fuck together, righte the fuck now. 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.960