Speaker 1: That's right. Guess who is? It's your girl Latin Nega
Speaker 1: and you're listening to it exactly, al Mada. I heart
Speaker 1: radio slaft my cool exactly a maa my podcast where
Speaker 1: I am going to tell you exactly how it is
Speaker 1: and how I feel. And most importantly, I have my
Speaker 1: co host here with me, Yes, and today I'm Stevin Doodas,
Speaker 1: and today we're gonna find out exactly who made La
Speaker 1: is hassy because you're gonna have a one on one
Speaker 1: on all about Alana, which is me and me feel
Speaker 1: about that, but let's be honest. Do you feel comfortable
Speaker 1: about that? Because I'm gonna get kind of juicy with it?
Speaker 1: Do you wanna get juicy? Because I like it juicy?
Speaker 1: When it's dry, it's not good. Well, people need to
Speaker 1: know exactly who is exactly, so so you're ready, I
Speaker 1: do my own side effects that you hear that like
Speaker 1: radio from the sixties and fifties. That's that's amazing that
Speaker 1: I'm so recently you said that you were homeless, but
Speaker 1: recently I said it, but recently I wasn't homeless, thank god.
Speaker 1: And yes, that was a wall back. Oh my god, damn,
Speaker 1: we're really gonna get into something because you need to
Speaker 1: help me help somebody out, or you help somebody out.
Speaker 1: I agree, I hear you. Okay, So long story short. Um, yes,
Speaker 1: back in like two thousand and I don't know, I
Speaker 1: was like twenty three or so. Um, guess that I
Speaker 1: fell in love with this guy who was trashed by
Speaker 1: the way, And okay, I hope that he's actually listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast and his ass was, but I guess what.
Speaker 1: Thanks to your crunchy, raggedy ass, I am here today,
Speaker 1: so thank you very much. But he really did have
Speaker 1: me struggle, and I won't lie. I'm grateful for many
Speaker 1: things that he did teach me, for many opportunities that
Speaker 1: he did give me. However, you know, um, he did
Speaker 1: pay me in a very uncomfortable situation where I had
Speaker 1: to choose between being with him and my mother. So
Speaker 1: once he know yes and don't say one day, you know,
Speaker 1: he got pissed off. He ended up cursing my mom
Speaker 1: out and kicking her out. Who whoaa. You don't take that,
Speaker 1: And it's like a two from one deal. You have
Speaker 1: to be cool. If not, it's not happening. A long
Speaker 1: story short, you know, things didn't work out. I ended
Speaker 1: up leaving in my car for like three months and
Speaker 1: for the Walgreens and um McDonald's in Homestead with Homestead
Speaker 1: is an air here in Florida, and I was there
Speaker 1: for three months. It was terrible. I would go in
Speaker 1: there and watch myself with white bee's and stuff. My
Speaker 1: mom never knew that I was struggling because I didn't
Speaker 1: want to stress her out because she was already in
Speaker 1: a bad situation where thank god, she found a Christian family,
Speaker 1: and she asked, and she could, you know, if if
Speaker 1: she could stay there because she didn't have anywhere to
Speaker 1: go and come to us. Later, I ended up sleeping
Speaker 1: in that same bed with her for like a year.
Speaker 1: So listen, nobody knows everybody's story. You have to be
Speaker 1: supportive of people because you never know what people have.
Speaker 1: They see the glory and not the story. In another
Speaker 1: and another thing too, a lot of people expect or like, oh,
Speaker 1: you have a badass face, a body, you have a
Speaker 1: pretty facial smart, why were you struggling? People automagical assuming
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be out here in the streets. Fucking
Speaker 1: if people are to minthly expect you to be out
Speaker 1: in the streets, sucking or whatever if you're struggling, but
Speaker 1: not necessarily some of us, which is my respect everybody
Speaker 1: that does what they do to survive battle. I'm very prideful,
Speaker 1: which is a good and bad thing, right because that
Speaker 1: is the stigma. Let's just that's the stereotype for at
Speaker 1: that we're just right, that we're all beauty. But you
Speaker 1: have brains and beauty a mat and that's what I
Speaker 1: think made. And I have some beauty too. But okay,
Speaker 1: but I guess what's not gone this good ass though?
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't back to you exactly.
Speaker 1: So wait, your mother has always but struggled to make
Speaker 1: you like who you are today, because exactly mad is
Speaker 1: exactly who your mom made. You know, I think yourself made, yes,
Speaker 1: but your mom I know the story. I know how
Speaker 1: she had to travel around the whole state of Florida
Speaker 1: to get you to all these auditions. I know that
Speaker 1: your mom. So what what was like the breakthrough? Honestly,
Speaker 1: everybody that knows me knows that. I always give my
Speaker 1: mom credit because as a child, you never really appreciate
Speaker 1: all the sacrifice that our parents do for us, because
Speaker 1: you know, not for nothing, but I've missed my mom
Speaker 1: having a job and taking care of me and me
Speaker 1: just you know, doing my high school at the homework
Speaker 1: that I used to hate. I wish I could go
Speaker 1: back to that. But announcing a dot now that to
Speaker 1: have all these bills and all these responsibilities, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I don't know how she did it. She did it
Speaker 1: by herself and with me your whole. I don't know
Speaker 1: that was able to do that, But I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: that because I recall her, which I used to do
Speaker 1: with her. You know, you sell sell flowers in the
Speaker 1: streets of Hialiyah with her on the weekends to make
Speaker 1: some extra cash the flea market. I remember cleaning houses.
Speaker 1: But my mom too as well. I remember a lot
Speaker 1: of work that she did in order to pay for
Speaker 1: my singing classes, my dancing classes, and instead of telling
Speaker 1: me no, she always supported me. So I am grateful
Speaker 1: because thanks to her, I'm here today. And that's why
Speaker 1: any opportunity I get to tell parents, if you have
Speaker 1: a talented kid, I'll you know, be supportive. Stop telling
Speaker 1: your kid would you want them to be? Let them
Speaker 1: be who they are. Just support them because you never
Speaker 1: know what they might make out of themselves, I think
Speaker 1: is the word more. You gotta support your children. Now
Speaker 1: you're we're speaking on your early days to get to
Speaker 1: exactly who a mata is? Who were you in high school?
Speaker 1: Who was a mada in high school? First of all,
Speaker 1: nobody let me in high school. That's why I did
Speaker 1: it because I was not cute. Now I was always cute,
Speaker 1: but don't get it twisted. I was cut or whatever.
Speaker 1: But okay, I wasn't popular or nothing. And I've always
Speaker 1: been very socially awkward. I'm good when the cameras is on,
Speaker 1: like fan, but then afterwards I'm like, I just want
Speaker 1: to go to my room and to hide there, Like
Speaker 1: why am I out here? Right? So I'm very socially awkward. Um,
Speaker 1: I was never out and about. I really hated being
Speaker 1: in school. While I was there, I was always thinking
Speaker 1: about dancing and just I always had like a performance
Speaker 1: in my mind. Um, during the lunch break or whenever
Speaker 1: I skip class. Kids do not skip class. But if
Speaker 1: you're gonna skip class, skips class the dance classed, right.
Speaker 1: I used to always skip class in the dance class
Speaker 1: and I love to perform, and that was like my
Speaker 1: happy place. So I always knew. I even went to
Speaker 1: college for those I mean, I know, I studied business administration,
Speaker 1: I didn't actually get to finish. I wanted to study
Speaker 1: funeral services. Batt. I realized that education is key. I'll
Speaker 1: never discredit that, but not college may not be for everyone.
Speaker 1: You know, certain things may not be for everyone. And
Speaker 1: I was trying to do it to please her, but
Speaker 1: I just that environment was never for me. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to give a special shout out. Who would
Speaker 1: you like to shout out from those early days? A teacher,
Speaker 1: A right here on one of because most definitely I
Speaker 1: want to give a shout out to my best friend
Speaker 1: Jail Smith. He had an amazing dance studio at out
Speaker 1: here in Miami called True Talent Dance Studio. Well, we're here,
Speaker 1: right here in the city of Miami. Um, we cannot
Speaker 1: go on without speaking about the man, the legend, the icon.
Speaker 1: Don't Francisco? Yes? What was that like? How? First of all,
Speaker 1: everyone knows you were on the show because we always
Speaker 1: see the clips. We love the little clip of you
Speaker 1: when you were younger. All remember you younger? Yes? But
Speaker 1: how did that happen? How did you get there? My mom?
Speaker 1: My mom is more than I am. He tells me
Speaker 1: how to talk, how to dress, how to say, what
Speaker 1: to say, don't sing this song, what I'm doing my choreography.
Speaker 1: She's there in a little cornery kid. So she's like
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson's father, yeah, or like Selena's dad. No no,
Speaker 1: no no. I would say Michael Jackson because when I
Speaker 1: was used to beat the hell out of me, I
Speaker 1: got it. I got it right. Look at me to
Speaker 1: be good. But say no to the vines. Anyways. Um,
Speaker 1: sometimes kids don't joan, but um, but you know what,
Speaker 1: Francisco was such an amazing experience for those I mean
Speaker 1: that known. Obviously, Francisco is a very important part of
Speaker 1: the Latin culture, very important. Everyone knows how Listen, you're
Speaker 1: African American, you know who don't Francico is you're Asian?
Speaker 1: You know who don't? Everyone says something back in those days.
Speaker 1: I was there for six years. Every single Saturday, I
Speaker 1: became I was reading the section called like the kids
Speaker 1: section where they would ask you like where the babies
Speaker 1: come from or anything like that. That was cute and
Speaker 1: we were so innocent that we actually, you know, would
Speaker 1: say and stuff like, oh, you buy your babies at
Speaker 1: the supermarket or something like that. These days kids no
Speaker 1: way too much, so it's not the same. But then
Speaker 1: it became a background dancer for the personality Ganta. Then
Speaker 1: it became a background dancer for for the network um
Speaker 1: dancing and Graham means all those things as a background dancer,
Speaker 1: and then it was a great experience. It showed me
Speaker 1: how to work in that environment. Definitely gave me a
Speaker 1: great work ethic. Um it was good and I'm grateful
Speaker 1: that that she, you know, she put me in that space,
Speaker 1: because sometimes it's about your surroundings. God knows what you
Speaker 1: have been able to have become if you were just
Speaker 1: put in the right environment. So that definitely, and what's
Speaker 1: even more intriguing about this whole story is that you
Speaker 1: were you actually work your ass off to get to
Speaker 1: where you are today, going doing background doing all this
Speaker 1: traveling around the state, like you didn't just come out
Speaker 1: us here. You know, I wish it would have been
Speaker 1: that easy, But at the same time, I don't because
Speaker 1: then maybe I wouldn't have to appreciate, you know what,
Speaker 1: and how hard I've worked to get here, and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be, you know, as grateful for it. When they
Speaker 1: give you things. I feel that you don't appreciate it
Speaker 1: as much then when you have to bust your ass
Speaker 1: to get it. It is not because I have a cousin,
Speaker 1: I have a friend who hooked me up. Because you're
Speaker 1: out here giving your dot away know and if you
Speaker 1: are MA, my shutouts to you. But no, I'm not
Speaker 1: a SCAMMERA I'm not doing this. It was just based
Speaker 1: off working. You know, especially society, you are better than
Speaker 1: being the Laton the Lion community. We are known for
Speaker 1: being very hard working people. You know what I'm saying. Like,
Speaker 1: let you know, I always like to credit because no
Speaker 1: matter when from what country you may immigrate from, you
Speaker 1: know that you're coming to the United States to work
Speaker 1: and bust yours for a better future for yourself and
Speaker 1: for your family as well. So that's that's amazing. And
Speaker 1: it's crazy because I even know you. I've interviewed you
Speaker 1: several times in different markets, and I never knew this story.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I didn't know exactly who Amata is.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the thing. I think people don't
Speaker 1: know exactly who you are. And now exactly matter is
Speaker 1: that if you don't know, you're going to get to
Speaker 1: know now, So this is incredible. Now my next question
Speaker 1: that was all glad, beautiful, amazing, inspired because I don't
Speaker 1: so they say that, you know, women in the industry
Speaker 1: is really hard. Let's just keep it. I'm just asking
Speaker 1: the question. Don't come for me. People don't come for me.
Speaker 1: Did you ever? Okay, First, have I ever? Never? Have
Speaker 1: I ever? That would be a great game. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what the listeners? That would be? Never have I ever? Would? Never?
Speaker 1: Have you ever had to smash to get an opportunity? Um?
Speaker 1: Have I ever smashed for an opportunity? No, I've never smiled.
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest because it is what it is.
Speaker 1: I've never smashed for an opportunity. Battle. I have been
Speaker 1: with people that could have given me opportunities, dang, and
Speaker 1: you didn't take them. No, I didn't take it. I've
Speaker 1: been listen, if I had an opportunity to give to myself,
Speaker 1: I would try to smash me too. No. I have
Speaker 1: been with people that could have given me opportunities. And
Speaker 1: even though in the back of your mind you're hoping
Speaker 1: that maybe you know, I actually like you, but maybe
Speaker 1: you might want to, you know, hook me up or whatever,
Speaker 1: and it didn't happen for free. No, yeah, don't you
Speaker 1: ever look back and like that, why did that for free?
Speaker 1: I could have got Yeah, sometimes you would just be
Speaker 1: putting miles in your little for I want to refund?
Speaker 1: Can I have a Can I have a total refund?
Speaker 1: Can you just give me my hole total back? Because
Speaker 1: it was such a waste. But um, you know why, No,
Speaker 1: I don't regret anything that I've done in my life
Speaker 1: because I feel like everything is a life experiences and
Speaker 1: it builds your character, and it builds who you are,
Speaker 1: and it makes you stronger, makes you wiser. It's just
Speaker 1: things that have to happen in your life. So that's
Speaker 1: why I always give. If I had to give an
Speaker 1: advice to any girl that wants to participate or be
Speaker 1: part of this industry, which is very difficult because predominated
Speaker 1: by men. Um most definitely don't be out here giving
Speaker 1: your they get hoping this person is gonna do anything
Speaker 1: for you all the other day, so it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Make sure that you keep your business business and personal personal.
Speaker 1: And that's the hardest thing for me because I love
Speaker 1: mixing the two. It's terrible. Okay, So I just wanted
Speaker 1: to address that elephant in the room. But also lately
Speaker 1: in social media, people are like coming for this new
Speaker 1: look that you have. I mean everywhere I went. I
Speaker 1: was just recently up north and everyone's like, damn, my
Speaker 1: mother looked smoking hot. Thank you. I'm like, calm down, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Even though I give mixed feelings. Some people like the
Speaker 1: thicker amount of some people like the more polished, somewhat
Speaker 1: version of what I'm coming. How did you get here?
Speaker 1: As far as how you look your image? I know
Speaker 1: that you guys really want to know the t on
Speaker 1: you know, this transformation that I've done and all things
Speaker 1: that have happened that that have happened to me. So
Speaker 1: then that's why I want you guys to stay tuned
Speaker 1: because on episode five, actually on the episode fifty, exactly
Speaker 1: in my I want to tell you exactly what happened,
Speaker 1: how it happened, and what you can do right because
Speaker 1: I need to learn exactly how to lose this cheaho
Speaker 1: because that you need to help me. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this much. Um. Some of it was
Speaker 1: unwilling and some of it was you know, purpose. So
Speaker 1: it's been a mixture of things, which, like I said,
Speaker 1: I just want to be prepared to express myself, gentleman.
Speaker 1: I tried, I tried, I tried. I know everybody wants
Speaker 1: to know, everybody wants to know the team, but I
Speaker 1: just feel like I want to do it in the
Speaker 1: right in the right moment, you know, because I don't
Speaker 1: want people to think that this is a joke. I
Speaker 1: don't want people to think that I'm doing this, you know,
Speaker 1: to promote anything, like, I really want to express what
Speaker 1: exactly happened. And I know that a lot of people
Speaker 1: have been concerned about my health. Other people think that
Speaker 1: I'm doing drugs. No, I'm not doing drugs. And we'll
Speaker 1: get to that later. Well, you know that's exactly what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Then you're just gonna have to tune. And
Speaker 1: I am so upset right now. I don't talk about
Speaker 1: I don't think about SIFT. I want to know, but
Speaker 1: you know what exactly? Yes, but I will, I will say,
Speaker 1: I will say what I did. Listen, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: off of you for like two seconds because I saw
Speaker 1: that Mommy just joined us. Yeah, yes, he isn't me.
Speaker 1: That's my daughter. My baby makes us like my mother,
Speaker 1: like mama, that's right. Exactly. Can I interview my mom?
Speaker 1: Charisma came said, let me see this in English just
Speaker 1: in case. But you understand me, you understand name was right?
Speaker 1: A little bit? When are we gonna work? And that's
Speaker 1: the Spanish word? But how has it been for you
Speaker 1: being the mother of such a fabulous, gorgeous daughter like myself? Talented, smart,
Speaker 1: well educated? You see me? How has it been for you?
Speaker 1: I know it's been an honor, but can you please
Speaker 1: elaborate a little bit more on that? Unica a then
Speaker 1: different normal? You saw you an artista, Yo saw you
Speaker 1: n artista and momento, comproment, taste okay, and no work
Speaker 1: a little bit harder, different? Has it better? Hasn't been
Speaker 1: hard for you? Like? Okay? So obviously we know that
Speaker 1: you work very hard to help me get to where
Speaker 1: I am now, But do you feel that it's been
Speaker 1: hard to be a support system for me in this industry?
Speaker 1: To the casino it's ok so compromise, so Leon said,
Speaker 1: perceive and getting to people that they can the problem
Speaker 1: and problem and moment the k based out press, maybe
Speaker 1: Potasia the parlor to Potiam and to say, let's talk.
Speaker 1: I just want to thank my mom for being here
Speaker 1: where No, no, no, no, you're trying. You're trying to
Speaker 1: get out of this. Have your mother in the studio.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, aspect supers the thirst beautiful woman right
Speaker 1: now listen People's Magazine. I don't know, Yo, Morossa said
Speaker 1: seeing Young Charismata when I when I'm going a personae
Speaker 1: man when the mommy, Oh my god, what don't you
Speaker 1: what doesn't the people know about me? You're asking my
Speaker 1: she has never told us, Oh my god, Oh no,
Speaker 1: I can't. When I was literally such yes my tongue too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've always like say, come on in super what is
Speaker 1: POI poisson? We have let me clarify that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where you have to. I don't know what's the
Speaker 1: terminology for it, but I like to be um in
Speaker 1: small spaces. I think it's because I'm an only child,
Speaker 1: so I accustomed myself to being alone. So wherever I
Speaker 1: can find a little corner or whatever, it's my space.
Speaker 1: Or I would stick myself inside a box and then
Speaker 1: create my own world in there, like my mom. We
Speaker 1: know that you speak this amazing Highalea English, and we
Speaker 1: would like you to give us the word of the
Speaker 1: day English exactly. Oh Okay, exactly, exactly, okay exactly and
Speaker 1: not fasting. You are the most beautiful ladies in the world. Exactly. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to some juicy stuff. Okay, we got
Speaker 1: to the earlier days. Let's get to love in hip hop.
Speaker 1: Oh Lord Jesus stuff, and he calmed out, Am I going, Brian,
Speaker 1: listen loving hip hop? You've had, you said, you've you've
Speaker 1: You've been in some relationships that Maiden break broke you.
Speaker 1: The world got to see you in a relationship. We
Speaker 1: got to see you in a relationship. And it's almost like,
Speaker 1: and in these relationships, how hard is it to find
Speaker 1: somebody that's not an opportunist, that's not trying to live
Speaker 1: up in your house trying to be the biggest star.
Speaker 1: And I'm not throwing shade at no no, who palm tree.
Speaker 1: How hard is it for you to find someone? Because
Speaker 1: that's where you left off on the show, Like that's
Speaker 1: say this much. I was actually talking about it yesterday
Speaker 1: because I I just reopened my Tinder, so look um,
Speaker 1: it's I'm swiping right, I'm swiping left. Listen, it's hard.
Speaker 1: I was just talking about it because I'm like my
Speaker 1: whole life I've dedicated my life to success, right to
Speaker 1: following this dream of becoming this person that I see
Speaker 1: in my mind, and I have left out you know, friends, family,
Speaker 1: I don't care about family. I don't care about anything.
Speaker 1: Just success, work, my mom. That's all that matters. Nothing
Speaker 1: else matters. You can have the biggest house on the block,
Speaker 1: you can have the nicest car, you can have the
Speaker 1: most expensive you know, jewelry, bags, everything that you can imagine,
Speaker 1: and still somewhat feel incomplete, and still feel like you're
Speaker 1: missing that other part. And it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: about how educated you are, how pretty you are, how
Speaker 1: good you're though it's not about none of those things.
Speaker 1: You're just you're just always in the search of that.
Speaker 1: So it's not the easiest thing. I have so much
Speaker 1: love for MJ. I appreciate him, I'm grateful for him.
Speaker 1: He was a great part of my life at one point, um,
Speaker 1: I mean unfortunate and and and you know what, I
Speaker 1: needed him and that your trash. I needed him time
Speaker 1: all the time. Is he going to leave? Had some
Speaker 1: great that's how they think. I had great moments with him,
Speaker 1: And I wish you nothing but the best. He's the
Speaker 1: great person is just that I think sometimes in life.
Speaker 1: I am that's but I think that some things in
Speaker 1: life is just about timing. You know. You can love
Speaker 1: someone or whatever and just not be at the same
Speaker 1: speed in that moment in life, you know. And I
Speaker 1: think that he has some things that he's working on
Speaker 1: and I'm working on my own. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I wish you nothing but the best. I am currently
Speaker 1: dating and I am very happy right now. You're just
Speaker 1: answering the questions. So let me ask you. So real.
Speaker 1: You're like an open book, you ask me. But wait,
Speaker 1: you're dating? Yeah, I mean, how's that going? I'm you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm very open minded right now. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened to my body, to my knee.
Speaker 1: But the moment I hit thirty, like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: this transformation in me happened, like from the way that
Speaker 1: I see things that they do. So I mean, we
Speaker 1: didn't like for what I mean, why would I I
Speaker 1: mean it doesn't mean Look first of all, First of all,
Speaker 1: my icon is Jennifer Lopez. Everybody give it up for Jay. Look,
Speaker 1: so we all got a chance, you know. But I'll
Speaker 1: say this that I admire. Yes, you need to have
Speaker 1: options but I admire the fact that if something makes
Speaker 1: her unhappy, she's out. Who says that you have to
Speaker 1: be in an uncomfortable, unhappy situation just to satisfy society
Speaker 1: so that they don't see you as a or or whatever,
Speaker 1: and while you're unhappy. Back in the days, our grandparents
Speaker 1: used to be in these long as fifties, six year
Speaker 1: marriage where you're not even together. One sleeps in one room,
Speaker 1: the other sleeps in the other room, but just so
Speaker 1: that the family sees that word to get camera, is
Speaker 1: you how you feel about you and your own personal happiness.
Speaker 1: Once you understand that you're not always gonna be able
Speaker 1: to make everybody happy and need to be happy for
Speaker 1: you the person, then you're really gonna be happy with yourself.
Speaker 1: So then that's what I'm doing. We heard this. Why
Speaker 1: are you looking at me like that? But you're gonna
Speaker 1: see him at all? I'm so sick everybody telling me
Speaker 1: that study to be with Julian. We need dating show.
Speaker 1: I think if id someone exactly for amating now accomplishments?
Speaker 1: What what is am doing now besides this awesome show
Speaker 1: called Exactly that's on iHeart Radio, which is incredible. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. That's right. Um, I would say that
Speaker 1: I am currently working on my second edition of my
Speaker 1: children's book, I Might Eat this Way not to bullies.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not supporting the bullies. And I think
Speaker 1: that it's important for children at a very early age
Speaker 1: to have a clear understanding of what boundaries are and
Speaker 1: what is accepted and what is not. So definitely that
Speaker 1: obviously already know the second because a second the fourth
Speaker 1: season of Loving Hip Hop Miami on H one. Working
Speaker 1: on that. It's happening. It's happening. People don't know this.
Speaker 1: It's happening, isn't it. Yes, it is happening. We're currently filming. Um.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited about that. Put me on that show
Speaker 1: because I found the customer. The format is a little
Speaker 1: bit different. The former is a little bit different. They
Speaker 1: changed it up a little bit, they cleaned it up.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just it's going to be different this season.
Speaker 1: I am also working on a clothing line. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: very excited about that. That should be coming out something
Speaker 1: at the end of August. Um is actually I'm gonna
Speaker 1: buy Sandy Fashion the Dominican Republic. It's very fabulous and
Speaker 1: no just for girls in the meantime, just one of
Speaker 1: those tops. Don't worry money, does it? Why not? Exactly?
Speaker 1: Why not? I need to be open minded, UM, working
Speaker 1: on that. Like I said, definitely working on a lot
Speaker 1: of music. UM, I'm just being open moneyed into different
Speaker 1: things obviously for those I mean I know, I'm also Um,
Speaker 1: I also have my airbnbs in the Dominican Republic. Being
Speaker 1: smart and I always want to talk about generation of wealth,
Speaker 1: making sure that my girls, you're not just a boss bitch,
Speaker 1: a bad bitch, but you're a smart bitch that knows
Speaker 1: how to invest your money and not to spend it
Speaker 1: on you know, the bags that you can have, Horda.
Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to be smart, you know. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do the best that I can with what
Speaker 1: I have. And I just keep praying that God continues
Speaker 1: to give me opportunities. UM. Just you know, waiting for
Speaker 1: things to come. TV shows right now? You want what
Speaker 1: would you really want to? I want to do what Tompany.
Speaker 1: I want to do everything and anything that I have
Speaker 1: in my body that God has given me that I
Speaker 1: still haven't done. What it is, I don't know because
Speaker 1: I don't put any limits to my art. I want
Speaker 1: to do movies. I want to do TV shows. I
Speaker 1: want to do my own my own TV show. UM.
Speaker 1: I want to have obviously a successful cosmetic you know line,
Speaker 1: I would love that. I want to do so many things.
Speaker 1: I am dying to have either my own like UM
Speaker 1: residential business and like building or like a hotel or
Speaker 1: something like that. I don't know. I want to do
Speaker 1: so many things. I just want to make sure that
Speaker 1: the day that I died, everything that I had in me,
Speaker 1: whether it failed or it was successful, I didn't. I
Speaker 1: tried everything. It doesn't matter, but you're not good. I
Speaker 1: did it because you know what, most people don't have
Speaker 1: the balls to do half of the things that I do.
Speaker 1: Whether I've felt in many times and I've cried my
Speaker 1: tears away and my mom has been there with my
Speaker 1: support system, but I tried it. I'm not scared to
Speaker 1: do things. So that's just me. That's what I want
Speaker 1: to be able to call. How easily has it been
Speaker 1: for you to become mainstream like a mainstream artist? Do
Speaker 1: they embrace you? Because I know that as you know,
Speaker 1: a Latin X artist, it is a little it's harder
Speaker 1: for us. I don't care anybody, So let's keep it real.
Speaker 1: It's it's a little harder for them to embrace us,
Speaker 1: especially the hip hop industry. It's kind of like they
Speaker 1: look at us like we're like I would say that
Speaker 1: at least, you know, I would say in the American side,
Speaker 1: they have been very open into accepting me, and I'm
Speaker 1: grateful for that. I think that I also took like
Speaker 1: a little perhaps, you know, in my music career. Um,
Speaker 1: and I'm getting back to it. I think that there's
Speaker 1: no right timing. The timing is whenever you decide it's
Speaker 1: time for me to push this, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: get back to it. And then, Um, in the Latino,
Speaker 1: I'm doing a lot of music. Obviously, we know that
Speaker 1: we have evil, so I'm over there. I just finished
Speaker 1: doing a song with Emphasis Musico Ago. I'm doing a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff on the low. Um Tokeisha and I
Speaker 1: have been working, you know, I'm doing a song together,
Speaker 1: like a whole one of Dominic in orders. So I
Speaker 1: want to get back into that name too, because that
Speaker 1: was really the market that got me to where I
Speaker 1: am now somewhat. You know, they gave me that support
Speaker 1: system that I needed to be able to even get
Speaker 1: close to doing the crossover, so I never want to
Speaker 1: neglect them. Who exactly is a mata when you look,
Speaker 1: when you wake up and look in the mirror, I'm
Speaker 1: a bad bitch. You'll see me, No, you look, I
Speaker 1: would say a Mata is awkwardly, I mean, she's socially awkward.
Speaker 1: She is funny, she is somewhat even innocent to a
Speaker 1: certain extent. Um kind of a big kid. She is
Speaker 1: very you know, like a goal oriented. Um, she knows
Speaker 1: exactly what she wants in life, She's not afraid to
Speaker 1: go get it. Slightly adventurous. Um, I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything. I would say, you know, I have a
Speaker 1: lot of great things, just like I have a cole
Speaker 1: of bad things, you know, But that's just part of life.
Speaker 1: And I would say that I Mighta keeps evolving and changing.
Speaker 1: I've noticed that I am changing. I don't even know
Speaker 1: how it is happening, but I almost feel like somewhat
Speaker 1: you mature, life experiences build your character. So I just
Speaker 1: feel like I Mighta keeps evolving, and I love who
Speaker 1: she's turning and becoming. So I just want to see,
Speaker 1: you know, what the future holds. One thing we don't
Speaker 1: know about Amada. We already heard it from your mom.
Speaker 1: Y'all don't know that, I would say, a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know that as fun and bubbly and excited
Speaker 1: and loud and gendulous and over the top and extra
Speaker 1: as hell is I Maybe I am also very like
Speaker 1: I said before, timid, somewhat shyme Um. I cry a lot.
Speaker 1: I am a freaking river. Yes, I cry so much.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't even laugh about it now
Speaker 1: because I'm probably gonna leave and go cry again. You
Speaker 1: start crying. No, no, no, it's only when it comes
Speaker 1: to me. I feel like I expect so much from
Speaker 1: myself and I pushed so much and I'm so hard
Speaker 1: on myself. I mean, I could have just done the
Speaker 1: best thing and I still have to ask that I
Speaker 1: do good. I funked up, right, I've had done it better? Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you actually had done this? Oh my god, I funked
Speaker 1: up that. Say my career is over, I said, super dramatic,
Speaker 1: it's done. So I'm one of those. But I feel
Speaker 1: like if you don't do that to yourself, and if
Speaker 1: you don't expect the most out of yourself, then you're
Speaker 1: always gonna be medeo her for the sake of what
Speaker 1: is your favorite dish? One on me? I'm on, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, friend, do you like to cook? Hell? No, no,
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not built like that ring. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: what was your favorite saw? I'm gonna be no. Actually,
Speaker 1: so the funny story, um as coming from a Dominican family,
Speaker 1: cooking is a really big thing. Is whatever, my mom
Speaker 1: has the best song. Ever, however, my mom is a
Speaker 1: professional chef. She's had three restaurants in the past, and
Speaker 1: she's never liked to see me in the kitchen ever
Speaker 1: since I was a little girl. She used to always
Speaker 1: kick me out of the kitchen because she always felt
Speaker 1: like if I grew passion and love for the kitchen,
Speaker 1: I would end up being a cook like her. So
Speaker 1: it was more like, um, I don't know. So she
Speaker 1: would always be like, get out, don't be here. Germs
Speaker 1: always cook rice and beans because this is like the
Speaker 1: sterett let's break some stereos. Mommy does always cook, right,
Speaker 1: and she's like if you don't, if you don't eat rice,
Speaker 1: then you didn't eat. But that's like that Caribbean mentality,
Speaker 1: and it's terrible. It's terrible because I'm trying to be
Speaker 1: supportive of her and help her now with her dyet.
Speaker 1: I think that culturally we come up with this concept
Speaker 1: game the more you serve food on the plane, the
Speaker 1: better it is. The more you eat, the healthy you are.
Speaker 1: You know that's not true. As as Latinos, we do
Speaker 1: need to take care of our health and we do
Speaker 1: need to stop putting the pressure on people because when
Speaker 1: they're too skinny, we say that they're dying or they're
Speaker 1: getting sick. If they're too big. I never listen. I
Speaker 1: never understood it because I always I always came from
Speaker 1: being the girl that was thick, so I always had
Speaker 1: the love of like zamn, you think, yeah blow get
Speaker 1: colosso or I always spell it whatever. Then I went
Speaker 1: through a stage where I gained a lot of weight
Speaker 1: and I still looked thick. Brokay, you're not getting a
Speaker 1: little big. You don't get refrige. You're getting a little
Speaker 1: high when you start. When I start seeing a Latina
Speaker 1: losing weight, I think my arms were starting to look
Speaker 1: like my thighs, Like, yeah, it's not getting that cute, right.
Speaker 1: But in the streets, you're attractive for the streets, for
Speaker 1: the men in the streets. But for the industry that
Speaker 1: I'm in, Yeah, you know. And also TV makes you
Speaker 1: look a little bit, you know, bigger. So one day
Speaker 1: I saw myself in the TV show that I had
Speaker 1: recently done, when where I was actually co hosting, And
Speaker 1: when I saw myself on TV with that silver dress
Speaker 1: next to the other host, I don't know what happened
Speaker 1: to me that. I was like, why did anybody tell me? Why?
Speaker 1: Because nobody you don't know? What did you say you
Speaker 1: look like? Because I know you made fun of your
Speaker 1: own self. We look at like an ornament on a tree,
Speaker 1: like we always make fun of our own We said,
Speaker 1: I look so bad. And the thing is that you
Speaker 1: never know how fat you are to one day. It
Speaker 1: just takes one day, like you're gaining all this weight
Speaker 1: and don't even notice to one day you see yourself
Speaker 1: in a video or a picture, or you passed by
Speaker 1: the mirror naked or something, you're like, uh, that's me.
Speaker 1: That's kind of how I felt. Anyways, it was more
Speaker 1: for health purposes besides everything that I realized, I need
Speaker 1: to get my lege together and I also want to
Speaker 1: be an example for my mom. I want to be
Speaker 1: an example for my mom because she's older, and I
Speaker 1: want her to, you know, take care of herself. And
Speaker 1: I need her, you know, she's my gasoline. And besides,
Speaker 1: who's gonna take care of my kids? Because I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do it, So I need her here, right
Speaker 1: So you know that apprecially to who I think, um
Speaker 1: exactly Amata is? Who is Amada? Who exactly are you?
Speaker 1: That's You're always striving for the next best thing and
Speaker 1: that and that's one thing that no one could ever
Speaker 1: take away from you. Yeah, you're always striving to do better.
Speaker 1: I think that everybody should be like that. You just
Speaker 1: can't listen. We're all given the same twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: and I always talk about it. It's about what do
Speaker 1: you do with your twenty four hours? Some of us
Speaker 1: have the ability of having the work I know you
Speaker 1: put having. You know what, he I think we got this.
Speaker 1: I can already see it. You're always I've calmed down
Speaker 1: from it because I used to be way more intense.
Speaker 1: But I'm just about to get back to it. But
Speaker 1: I'm like that. I feel like you should be hungry.
Speaker 1: I hate to see people comfortable. You have your regular job,
Speaker 1: you come home, you do the same culture. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about I'm not saying, don't be a hard worker,
Speaker 1: but also be a hard worker for yourself, for your
Speaker 1: own goals, for your own achievement, not just to have
Speaker 1: a paycheck to pay your bills. And that's what I
Speaker 1: don't like. So if I can motivate anybody that's listening,
Speaker 1: is yes, work to pay your bills, but also work
Speaker 1: for yourself, like, stop building other people's dreams by just
Speaker 1: working for other people, even if you come home, even
Speaker 1: if you come home and you'll stop an online business
Speaker 1: or whatever you want, but just do something for you.
Speaker 1: And that's a wrap. Grasses and join us next week
Speaker 1: for more of exactly Amata. You can also find me
Speaker 1: and find Stevie at our social media platforms minds Is
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Speaker 1: follow us at Michael through that podcast. Um, this has
Speaker 1: been so much fun. You can check us out on YouTube, very, Instagram,
Speaker 1: thought Lina, we are everywhere, and by the way, are
Speaker 1: for our next episode. We're gonna be talking about sets.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about relationship, money, what same sex
Speaker 1: being like, would you date a guy that's bisexual. I
Speaker 1: but get you're freaking want to ask. A matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I want to know what you think. And also I
Speaker 1: want to thank I Heart Radio and Michael Podcast Network
Speaker 1: for supporting this amazing concept of exactly Amada. I love
Speaker 1: you guys so so much. Guys, stay tuned and we
Speaker 1: will see you next week