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Speaker 1: Welcome to more Anita, a deep dive into the Latin

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Speaker 1: X experience. With more Anita, we want to create a

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Speaker 1: community and a shared space with you while sharing knowledge

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Speaker 1: and inspiration. This show is about celebrating our culture with

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Speaker 1: guests who exemplify the best of us. I'm Darrylene Gastillo.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, me him there. This week we have part

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Speaker 1: two of that special two part episode that we told

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Speaker 1: you about last week. I cannot wait to share it

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Speaker 1: with you. Saying vital everyone wants to be on stage

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Speaker 1: and in front of the camera. I whant to say everyone.

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Speaker 1: I mean Alita Deal putting most everybody. But we need

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Speaker 1: to build the world behind the scenes too. I even

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Speaker 1: dare to say it's the most important position in this industry.

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Speaker 1: The gatekeepers is what I call it. They are the

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Speaker 1: ones who give out the golden ticket. So Jasmine and

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Speaker 1: I get into something a little more personal. I loved

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Speaker 1: being in Hamilton's. It was the thrill of a lifetime

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Speaker 1: and I am forever grateful for what it did for me.

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Speaker 1: Honestly highlight of my career so far. But let me

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Speaker 1: tell you, guys, it takes everything out of you. And

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Speaker 1: there were other goals that I couldn't Chase because of

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Speaker 1: my time in the show, to be on tour, to

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Speaker 1: be giving all of my time into that, I couldn't

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Speaker 1: give my time to other things that I loved. So

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Speaker 1: when the pandemic hit, I pressed the pause button and

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Speaker 1: then they came back and asked me if I wanted

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Speaker 1: back on the road. I've talked about it before the show,

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Speaker 1: but it really was a leap of faith for me

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Speaker 1: not to go back. Sometimes you need to believe in

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Speaker 1: yourself and know that there's a path even when you

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Speaker 1: can't see it. I'm going to get a little more

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Speaker 1: personal with you, so hang with me. The path I

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Speaker 1: talked about not seeing, I literally did not see. I also,

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Speaker 1: unfortunately had a team at the time that did not

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Speaker 1: see that for me as well. COVID was really one

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Speaker 1: of the most vulnerable times to be an artist, and

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Speaker 1: I decided to get even more vulnerable and fire my

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Speaker 1: entire team. I realized that there were some things that

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Speaker 1: didn't feel right, and I realized that the people that

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Speaker 1: the way that I wanted and the way that I needed,

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Speaker 1: and they were really not sending out the message that

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Speaker 1: And I have so many people that were like, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's crazy. How are you going to get an agent

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Speaker 1: during these crazy times? How are you going to do this?

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Speaker 1: How are you going to make this work? How are

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Speaker 1: you going to make money? And I took a leap

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Speaker 1: of faith. I made it my mission, and I made

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Speaker 1: it my goal to find people that I wanted to

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Speaker 1: work with, people that I wanted around me, and people

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Speaker 1: that I felt represented me in the way that I

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Speaker 1: wanted to be represented. And I gained that with my

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Speaker 1: current team now. And I'm grateful and lucky and so

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Speaker 1: blessed that I took that leap of faith, and it

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Speaker 1: was honestly the best decision of my life. I really

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Speaker 1: loved this conversation with Jasmine, and I don't want to

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Speaker 1: make you wait anymore to hear it. I hope you

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Speaker 1: get as much out of it as I did, and

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Speaker 1: I hope you find faith in yourself to leap. Don't

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Speaker 1: be scared. Life is already scary. Why not look fear

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Speaker 1: Do what makes you feel happy, Do what serves you.

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Speaker 1: And with that, I leave you here with Jasmine Romero

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Speaker 1: fain beat. Though You've made this big scary decision, this

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Speaker 1: big leap decision UM, to leave Son at all and

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Speaker 1: to now begin investing more in yourself. You know, So

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Speaker 1: what does that look like for you? Yeah? Writing awesome.

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Speaker 1: I know you're gonna do a ship ton of that, UM.

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Speaker 1: And what else is that? Is there a goal for

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Speaker 1: yourself that you have set? Like, what is the mecca

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Speaker 1: for you? The mecca for me? I figured it out

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and I find that this

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Speaker 1: is actually super helpful, is knowing what your goal is,

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Speaker 1: And So a couple of years ago I heard an

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Speaker 1: interview with this this UM film executive named Nina Jacobson.

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Speaker 1: She was the head of one of his best the

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Speaker 1: you talking about that's a theme park ride, that's not

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Speaker 1: a movie. You're insane, And she was like, no, I

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Speaker 1: huge success. Then, you know, some years later she got

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Speaker 1: the next thing she green light was a little book

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Speaker 1: she optioned called The Hunger Games, and I just I

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Speaker 1: and she's super casual, Yeah, like this this little thing

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Speaker 1: Her new company was all about, like putting women's stories

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Speaker 1: what Nina Jacobson does, what Shonda Rhymes does for black women,

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Speaker 1: these deep, complex characters, but also stuff that is super entertaining.

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Speaker 1: I want to do that for Latinos. I think that

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Speaker 1: of South Beach. So what that's that's the big goal

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Speaker 1: media that highlights our stories. How do I do that?

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Speaker 1: You start with Princess of South Beach. Um, we got

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Speaker 1: this incredible cast together. I'm really hopeful that it's going

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Speaker 1: creating more of those. And I also need to start

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Speaker 1: like six cases of wine just can shoot like a

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Speaker 1: stash for like your writing wine from Darryln Castillo. Yes, yes, please,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna send my cash app, my venmo, your girls unemployed,

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Speaker 1: Please send wine. I just remember like seeing you in

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Speaker 1: But I was like, Yo, this girl is like I

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Speaker 1: be major. It's going to be major. The idea of like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's of course all the trauma and the generational issues

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Speaker 1: um that come from being a minority, I believe as well.

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Speaker 1: Is that something that you challenges you as well? Do

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Speaker 1: you have that relationship with your parents? Is that hard

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Speaker 1: for your parents to fathom your quitting so not all. No,

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Speaker 1: they're actually really proud of me for taking the leap,

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Speaker 1: and I'm really grateful for that in that like whatever

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Speaker 1: always been super supportive, and they really do. But even this,

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Speaker 1: like we worked hard so that you could work smart.

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Speaker 1: We worked hard so that you didn't have to sacrifice

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Speaker 1: But I also I definitely there were definitely times where

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Speaker 1: you're working, Like quote unquote, you're working and you're sitting

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Speaker 1: They've never had the opportunity to be mentally burned out

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Speaker 1: I know that they don't get it. Um, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: least they try. They're trying. It's not malicious. Now that

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Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna say you're unemployee girl, because I

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Speaker 1: know you're not getting you about to somebody gonna come

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it fun employed. I'm gonna say fun

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Speaker 1: my creative endeavors. So how are you planning on creating

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Speaker 1: Are you? And I'm saying this because I'm asking this

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Speaker 1: sometimes people do that and end up in another cycle

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Speaker 1: of something that maybe is not investing in themselves. So

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Speaker 1: what are you doing to create that narrative for yourself?

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Speaker 1: Why are you? Why are you reading me? How dare you?

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Speaker 1: I see you? Girl? Yes? Have you always had that

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Speaker 1: does that tap in for you? I think for me,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much We're rooting for you. We're all

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Speaker 1: rooting for you and cannot wait to see what you do.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on Anita. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Keep doing what you do, girl. That two part episode

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Speaker 1: Jasminetto is truly an incredible person and I cannot wait

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