Speaker 1: Welcome, guys, Welcome, welcome once again, and to girl Amada
Speaker 1: Lanegra and you're listening to exactly a Mada A production
Speaker 1: of iHeart. Thank you so much for tuning in and
Speaker 1: obviously don't forget to give us those five.
Speaker 2: Stars that you always do.
Speaker 1: With that being said, by the way, I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit sick, so my voice is a little deep, so
Speaker 1: today things will be slightly different. I wanted to just
Speaker 1: basically take you, guys in a day in the life
Speaker 1: of me. I'm because I feel that a social medium
Speaker 1: and just people's imagination overall, I think that people assume
Speaker 1: or think that artists or influencers life is I don't know,
Speaker 1: like a magical fantasy life where you just wake up
Speaker 1: and you know, you have this big buffet in your
Speaker 1: house and you wake up in a silk robe and
Speaker 1: you drive your Frari and and it's like, that's not
Speaker 1: really realistic, that's not necessarily the truth for all of us,
Speaker 1: for some of us, whatever. So I just wanted to
Speaker 1: be open and just basically take you through a day
Speaker 1: of minds, especially now that things have changed for me
Speaker 1: as a mom.
Speaker 2: Things are way different now.
Speaker 1: I think one of the reasons why I'm still sick
Speaker 1: is because I haven't had time to rest.
Speaker 2: My girls take so much time.
Speaker 1: I love them so much, but they take so much
Speaker 1: of my time that finding that balance really is a challenge.
Speaker 1: And to make this conversation even more interesting, I want
Speaker 1: to invite my producers, my friends, my buddies, my partners,
Speaker 1: slight co hosts on this show, Arlene and my boy Alex.
Speaker 1: What's good y'all? How are you guys doing today?
Speaker 3: I'm ready to hear all about your life, Amada, because
Speaker 3: we can hardly keep track.
Speaker 2: My friend is true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so many people, so many people have always written
Speaker 4: so many things to you on your social media pages,
Speaker 4: and I think it's good to kind of just like
Speaker 4: inform them exactly what you said. The glitz and the
Speaker 4: glamour doesn't come with a little bit of dirt underneath your.
Speaker 1: Fingernails, exactly exactly, and I think that is important also
Speaker 1: to just I hope that today's podcast can be motivational
Speaker 1: to some of the people are listening. But I just
Speaker 1: want to keep it honest, and I think that that's
Speaker 1: the reason why this is exactly a matter where I
Speaker 1: am real, honest, authentic, transparent, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Just going to tell you what it is. You know,
Speaker 2: I do a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: You got to especially these days as an artist, as
Speaker 1: an entertainer, or whatever the case may be. You got
Speaker 1: to be able to do more than one thing. You
Speaker 1: can't just be the Gamma rapper. I'm a singer. No,
Speaker 1: you got to be able to do everything. And here
Speaker 1: we sing, we dance, we wrap, we host, We are authors, designers,
Speaker 1: you know, all types of entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2: You know it's a little tough, but you got to
Speaker 2: do it these days.
Speaker 4: Now you have two beautiful trimming and that must obviously
Speaker 4: take a ginormous scentage of your day time and effort,
Speaker 4: for sure. So can you run for the audience a
Speaker 4: little bit of how your day starts? Like, are you
Speaker 4: the type of person that wakes up early? Do you
Speaker 4: like to work out? What is it that goes on?
Speaker 4: I mean, the kids keep you up on i AMA right, Like,
Speaker 4: enlighten us a little bit here for those who are
Speaker 4: listening in that are trying to really push themselves and
Speaker 4: need a little motivation.
Speaker 2: For all the.
Speaker 1: Moms out there, you're doing a great fucking job. Okay,
Speaker 1: if nobody's told you, you're doing an amazing job. You're great,
Speaker 1: and you are a super You're super woman. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: am learning to be that woman now and it is
Speaker 1: definitely a challenge. I'm making it happen regardless. My girls
Speaker 1: don't sleep all through the night yet. I can't wait
Speaker 1: till that day comes. But baby steps and in my mind,
Speaker 1: I wish that I could work out. I work out
Speaker 1: in my mind laying down in bed. I promise myself
Speaker 1: that I would figure out a way to make time
Speaker 1: to work out every day.
Speaker 2: It's very difficult. Better at get get it.
Speaker 1: Get it, like, if you really want to accomplish something,
Speaker 1: you'll figure out a way to make it happen. So
Speaker 1: I am going to, you know, try to put in
Speaker 1: those thirty minutes forty minutes at least an hour a
Speaker 1: day for myself. How I don't know, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make it work. I wake up in the morning, one
Speaker 1: is sleeping, one is up. Sometimes both of them are sleeping,
Speaker 1: changing diapers, you know, preparing formula, preparing milk, giving it
Speaker 1: to them, Getting on my phone. First thing on yeah
Speaker 1: I do in the morning is get on my Instagram,
Speaker 1: you know, check out a little achievement.
Speaker 2: What's happening, Who said, what da da da da. And
Speaker 2: here's one rule that I do for myself. This has
Speaker 2: helped me my whole life.
Speaker 1: I stopped doing it for a while because life can
Speaker 1: sometimes get you, you know, out of track. But I
Speaker 1: always figure out a way how to do three things
Speaker 1: productive for my career.
Speaker 2: I should do it for my health and from whatever.
Speaker 1: I always look for three things, whether it is to
Speaker 1: send a DM to someone important, a producer or writer,
Speaker 1: an opportunity, seek for an audition, seek for three things anything,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what it is, even if it's to
Speaker 1: organize my schedule, write a song, listen to music, be
Speaker 1: productive three things daily that will add some type of
Speaker 1: value to my career. I always feel that it's important
Speaker 1: to move forward. Do something that's going to help you
Speaker 1: move forward. If you sit back down at the end
Speaker 1: of the day and realize that today was productive, but
Speaker 1: I really didn't do anything that's gonna help me for
Speaker 1: the next day, it's gonna help me get better, there's
Speaker 1: gonna help me make some type of money, then you
Speaker 1: just wasted a day.
Speaker 2: So I always do that.
Speaker 1: And whether it is that I am, you know, preparing
Speaker 1: for my podcast or getting ready to do the reality show,
Speaker 1: or do a music video or go.
Speaker 2: To the studio or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm always doing something in that lane. And then on
Speaker 1: top of that, I also daily handle my real estate,
Speaker 1: whether it is preparing the next Airbnb, whether it is
Speaker 1: something is broken, something needs to be fixed.
Speaker 2: Paying, you know, payroll, all those things.
Speaker 1: You know, when you have several properties, you consistently have
Speaker 1: to be you know, upgrading and fixing things.
Speaker 2: So that's another thing. It's it's a lot of the way.
Speaker 1: I'm indeed, I don't have yosa and aanam you know
Speaker 1: when we're here, But I'm saying my life itself, I
Speaker 1: don't have like a nine to five. You wake up
Speaker 1: every day, you have a that. I don't have a schedule.
Speaker 1: My life rotates and changes daily. My girls have somewhat
Speaker 1: made me feel as if you have to create some
Speaker 1: type of stability for them. So therefore, for them, you know,
Speaker 1: I make sure that they have some type of stability.
Speaker 2: But me, I'm just all over the place.
Speaker 4: Well, that's funny that you say that because you don't
Speaker 4: have a nine to five, you're you're making a living
Speaker 4: for yourself. And as someone who has done that before
Speaker 4: and continues to do it in some type of form
Speaker 4: and way outside of what I'm doing here. It's hard.
Speaker 4: It's hard because you got to make time for everything.
Speaker 4: Am I right?
Speaker 2: Early?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I was going to say that as somebody who
Speaker 3: wants to have kids one day, that scares the shit
Speaker 3: out of me.
Speaker 2: I'm out of ass.
Speaker 3: That scares the shit out of me because I'm already
Speaker 3: super busy with my career and with work. I can't
Speaker 3: even imagine what it would be like to juggle a child.
Speaker 3: I say it, I'm working, I work from home, and
Speaker 3: so I've got you know, I'm recording a podcast with
Speaker 3: a mad Laa and then Akiva, I have to be like,
Speaker 3: can we pa please, so that I can like what
Speaker 3: what kind of advice I don't even know I'm and
Speaker 3: any kind of advice?
Speaker 2: Would you take? My case? Not one, but two.
Speaker 1: It's like for someone who was raised by themselves with
Speaker 1: no siblings, not around any cousins or any kids like that.
Speaker 1: And my mom, because it was just a two of us,
Speaker 1: she made me have to mature faster than I probably
Speaker 1: should have. You know, I was working and thinking of
Speaker 1: responsibilities and things like that, and like my mind was
Speaker 1: always go oriented and work oriented, and I have to
Speaker 1: soup it out of me and become better. It's older,
Speaker 1: like all those type of things. Having kids now, it's
Speaker 1: definitely a challenge. I love to be challenged because it
Speaker 1: brings out the best of me. It changes my character
Speaker 1: into the best version of me. You know, I realize
Speaker 1: how strong I am, how capable I am, how amazing
Speaker 1: I am that I am able to administrate handle all
Speaker 1: these things and do it by myself.
Speaker 2: Is it tiring? Yes? Does it warm me out? Yes?
Speaker 2: Do I not have the energy all the time? Yes?
Speaker 1: Do I still want to be young and feel free
Speaker 1: and go out and do go to brunches and have
Speaker 1: mimosas and go to the club and do all these things?
Speaker 2: Yes? Can I do it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Does your life changes once you have kids, Yes, that's
Speaker 1: part of life. Our parents had to do it too,
Speaker 1: you know, that's.
Speaker 2: Just the way of life.
Speaker 1: But I feel like it's a sacrifice that I'm doing now. Eventually,
Speaker 1: once they get a little bit older. In my mind,
Speaker 1: as soon as you're like at least ten years old,
Speaker 1: y'all's getting a job. I don't care period. Y'all's going
Speaker 1: to get a vending machine. I'm going to help you
Speaker 1: get a vending machine, and you can make even if
Speaker 1: it's three hundred dollars to hundred dollars, you're making some
Speaker 1: type of income for yourself. I want to teach you
Speaker 1: how to create, you know, money on your own so
Speaker 1: that you could be independent.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you.
Speaker 1: Want to do whatever it is, I'm going to put
Speaker 1: your ass to work, because one I think is important.
Speaker 1: It's important for them, it's important for me, and eventually
Speaker 1: they'll be able to help out. Right now they're little,
Speaker 1: YEAHO sacrificio. But I think that these days it's important
Speaker 1: to have your family no matter what. For those that
Speaker 1: want to have children, amen. For those that don't want
Speaker 1: to have children because of the responsibility, I would suggest
Speaker 1: for you to, you know, reconsider it and think a
Speaker 1: little bit deeper because you're thinking like that now because
Speaker 1: you're young, full of life, and there's so much that
Speaker 1: you want to do now. But with time, you'll get older,
Speaker 1: you'll get tired, you'll slower, you know, you'll you'll slow down, and.
Speaker 2: Eventually it's such a great feeling to know.
Speaker 1: That these little people that you raised, these little people
Speaker 1: that you created, they're going to have your back.
Speaker 2: They're going to be right there with you. There'll be
Speaker 2: your support system.
Speaker 1: They're gonna, you know, wash you and clean your ass
Speaker 1: when you can't do it yourself.
Speaker 2: So it's a sacrifice.
Speaker 1: But even the relationship that I have with my mom,
Speaker 1: those who know me know that my mom is my
Speaker 1: best friend. Were together all the time. She's the light
Speaker 1: of my eyes, and I am there for her. You know,
Speaker 1: she doesn't have to work, she doesn't have to do anything.
Speaker 1: I'm right here for you because I know all the
Speaker 1: sacrifices that she did for me, so she knows she
Speaker 1: can count on me. But it was sucked to get
Speaker 1: to your elderly years and know that you by yourself,
Speaker 1: because yeah, you may have your nephews, but your nephews
Speaker 1: have their mother. You know, they have their father. They
Speaker 1: will be their priority. You're you know, whenever they can
Speaker 1: make some time for you, they do that. But it's
Speaker 1: just amazing to know the love that your children have
Speaker 1: for you. That it is that memo Pito. It's a
Speaker 1: beautiful feeling. And I'm saying this with having you know,
Speaker 1: like three hours of sleep.
Speaker 4: That's that's that's the incredible part right where you have
Speaker 4: to put in the time. I know, for instance, like
Speaker 4: people that are about to have kids, that don't have
Speaker 4: a traditional ninety five, that are trying to work. So
Speaker 4: that's some great advice to anyone who's listening. Right now,
Speaker 4: Let's roll it back a little bit here. You talked
Speaker 4: a little bit about your ventures in real estate and
Speaker 4: everything that's happening outside of the country, right because that's
Speaker 4: where you are holding your your real estate ventures. How
Speaker 4: how is that? How is that dynamic? Living here, having
Speaker 4: to travel back and forth? How do you handle? Are
Speaker 4: you staying there long term? Do you come back? How
Speaker 4: hard has it been for you to open up this
Speaker 4: airbnb business?
Speaker 1: And originally, because I was having a lot of somewhat
Speaker 1: free time, I moved to the Dominican Republic for a
Speaker 1: few months and that allowed me to get to know
Speaker 1: the market, get to do a couple of mistakes, you know,
Speaker 1: because you will make mistakes, you will lose money, you
Speaker 1: will somewhat get robbed.
Speaker 2: We all go through it. And you have to have
Speaker 2: big guts.
Speaker 1: You have to have big balls to get into the
Speaker 1: real estate, you know, industry without necessarily knowing of it.
Speaker 2: You know, you have to take a gamble. You have
Speaker 2: to be a risk taker. That's just what it is.
Speaker 1: This is like playing the lottery, except that now I'm
Speaker 1: betting in you know, cement, and I'm betting in real estate.
Speaker 1: I'm betting in houses and land and property. That's just
Speaker 1: basically what it is. Sometimes you're gonna win real big,
Speaker 1: sometimes you're gonna lose a little bit. But those those
Speaker 1: moments that you lose become lessons and you learn from it.
Speaker 1: So it took me some time to be out there
Speaker 1: to learn the system to now understand that it's a
Speaker 1: great business.
Speaker 2: If tomorrow I were.
Speaker 1: To lose everything, I know that I have equity and
Speaker 1: all these other different properties that I can sell it,
Speaker 1: flip it, and I will have some type of money somewhere,
Speaker 1: you know, instead of just having the money in the
Speaker 1: bank or investing it in. Business is good, But some
Speaker 1: businesses could do great today and go to hell tomorrow, but.
Speaker 2: Properties always go up.
Speaker 1: So I am happy with the investments that I've done because,
Speaker 1: like I've always said before, if you've heard my podcast before,
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in generation of wealth. I know
Speaker 1: that I am the only, you know, breadwinner. I am
Speaker 1: the only provider for my mother and my children. And
Speaker 1: if God were, you know, forbid something would have happen
Speaker 1: to me tomorrow. I know that I've somewhat, you know,
Speaker 1: given them something, they have something to work with, unlike
Speaker 1: myself coming from an immigrant mother, agra but without having
Speaker 1: that much you know, education and knowledge on things. She
Speaker 1: didn't you know, really prepare me for tomorrow. She didn't
Speaker 1: really have anything, says giving me knowledge and you know,
Speaker 1: preparing me as a person, but financially now, so I
Speaker 1: just want to be able to do that for them.
Speaker 1: And and the Dominican Republic just gave me different flexibilities
Speaker 1: that I don't have in the States. You still get
Speaker 1: your money and dollars, you know, you pay property taxes
Speaker 1: once when you buy the property, then you don't pay
Speaker 1: any more property taxes.
Speaker 2: The property belongs to you.
Speaker 1: And there's just so many great benefits that I was say, like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just going to do it in
Speaker 1: my country.
Speaker 2: It makes sense for me.
Speaker 1: I can airbnb it, I have a company that handles it,
Speaker 1: and I'm just here, you know, and while I'm here,
Speaker 1: I'll work on other things.
Speaker 3: How do you decide, like what you probably get a
Speaker 3: lot of business opportunities come your way. How do you
Speaker 3: how are you deciding what you want? To go into
Speaker 3: and what you you maybe want to wait, wait on
Speaker 3: or you don't want to know.
Speaker 1: I do my best to do everything at least when
Speaker 1: it comes to work for myself. Right, there's a movie,
Speaker 1: there's a scene, there's this, there's a whatever, there's a radio,
Speaker 1: there's a show, there's a book. I say yes to everything. Bombo,
Speaker 1: let's do it because I'm naturally a risk taker. You
Speaker 1: never know where your luck is. You send me and
Speaker 1: my make your luck is on the bottom of your feet.
Speaker 1: If you don't move, you will never know where your success,
Speaker 1: where your opportunities are at. Sometimes we can become complacent.
Speaker 1: So to me is like when an opportunity comes to me,
Speaker 1: I know that God has sent that my way. Why
Speaker 1: didn't he send it to somebody else? He send it
Speaker 1: to me? So okay, cool, let's try it. What's the
Speaker 1: worst that can happen? If it doesn't work?
Speaker 3: Goen.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to business itself, it depends how
Speaker 1: much the money. You know what type of money we're
Speaker 1: talking about. It depends how prepared you are, and you
Speaker 1: have to believe in it. You know, it has to
Speaker 1: make sense to you. Some projects don't make sense to me.
Speaker 1: Some other ones don't make sense to me, it makes
Speaker 1: sense to somebody else, and then I see that somebody
Speaker 1: else was able to become successful with that same idea.
Speaker 1: It just wasn't meant for me directly. So I'm pretty open.
Speaker 1: I like to try different things because you just never know.
Speaker 1: At this moment, I'm not gonna lie. I am looking
Speaker 1: to create another business as soon as I have an
Speaker 1: opportunity something that instead of for example, which I'm happy
Speaker 1: with my real estate, but my real estate is like
Speaker 1: a long term once it pays off, when my girls
Speaker 1: will be able to have that money, my grandchildren will
Speaker 1: be able to have that money, or if they want
Speaker 1: to sell it, they can flip it, get that money
Speaker 1: and reinvest it in another property and get more equity
Speaker 1: out of that.
Speaker 2: There's so many things that you can do with that.
Speaker 1: But I do want to have a business where I
Speaker 1: have daily income, a business that's basically I want to
Speaker 1: provide some type of customer service where I can create
Speaker 1: some type of daily income. Because we all know the
Speaker 1: entertainment industry is a gamble, is a roller coaster. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you're hit you're the hot thing in the town, and
Speaker 1: sometimes you're not.
Speaker 2: And when you're not. The money goes down, the opportunities
Speaker 2: go down. So then what do you do then?
Speaker 1: I've seen so many artists and celebrities that have been
Speaker 1: so wealthy, so rich, they've blown that money up, and
Speaker 1: then you see them in the streets, you see them
Speaker 1: working a regular job. You see that they don't have anything.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be that person. I've learned from
Speaker 1: those examples by watching. So I want to be able
Speaker 1: to while i still have my moment and while I'm
Speaker 1: still working, while I'm still young, create different sources of income,
Speaker 1: create different businesses that if something were to happen, we
Speaker 1: are still good.
Speaker 4: You've given the audience a lot of knowledge, and you've
Speaker 4: told a lot about you know, the behind the scenes
Speaker 4: of what you're doing and how you're getting there, and
Speaker 4: obviously what you're looking for in the future. But how
Speaker 4: do you stay motivated and focused on these goals, especially
Speaker 4: during times of like rejection or setbacks, like anytime, like
Speaker 4: you are putting a lot of time into something and
Speaker 4: it just falls flat. How do you deal with that?
Speaker 1: Well, because I'm naturally ambitious, it's hard for me to
Speaker 1: let go of things. And that's why I've always been
Speaker 1: a fixer. I can fix it.
Speaker 2: I will work my way. I can fix this.
Speaker 1: Like it becomes then like a personal challenge, you know,
Speaker 1: like if somebody else could do a why can't I.
Speaker 2: I can do this. I can fix it.
Speaker 1: And I will go at it and go at it
Speaker 1: and go at it and go so I annoy myself
Speaker 1: and I get it done. And then it's just such
Speaker 1: a self satisfaction to know, you know.
Speaker 2: I did it. I freaking knew it.
Speaker 1: I didn't And I've had people be like, damn, I
Speaker 1: really didn't think you were going to be able to
Speaker 1: pull that off, and I'm like, you've seen, like I know.
Speaker 1: So just having that personal challenge for yourself to know
Speaker 1: that you can is important. Taking time to see where
Speaker 1: you're at now, where you came from is important.
Speaker 2: Looking back at.
Speaker 1: Like five years ago, where were you, what were you doing?
Speaker 1: You know, looking at how far you've come. That's important
Speaker 1: to keep you motivated into You can't go back into
Speaker 1: that space. You can't allow yourself because you've come so far.
Speaker 1: You got to keep pushing and you don't know what
Speaker 1: else is coming for your future. I never in my life,
Speaker 1: when once I was sleeping in my car, I never
Speaker 1: thought that I would be the owner of so many
Speaker 1: you know properties I was. I didn't have word to sleep.
Speaker 1: Now I have too many places you know that I
Speaker 1: can pay.
Speaker 4: You touch on that you were sleeping in your car.
Speaker 1: I was homeless at one point, and you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't know too much about the you know, the music industry.
Speaker 1: I allowed my emotions and my personal feelings to get
Speaker 1: mixed up with my business by being you know, emotionally
Speaker 1: involved with the person that was administrating and managing my career,
Speaker 1: and one thing messed up the other one.
Speaker 2: It was a domino effect. I ended up sleeping in
Speaker 2: my car for the you know, for like three months,
Speaker 2: parked outside McDonald's and walmarts because they had it was
Speaker 2: twenty four hours and I felt safer, you know there
Speaker 2: showering inside the walmarts and the McDonald's with white bees
Speaker 2: and all those things.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 1: It was a really bad stage in my life. That
Speaker 1: trauma created the woman that I am today. Because I
Speaker 1: feel that the trauma of being homeless made me want
Speaker 1: to purchase as many properties as I could so that
Speaker 1: I would never have to be back in that space.
Speaker 1: So anytime I have an opportunity to invest in a property,
Speaker 1: in a business, in something I do it so ave
Speaker 1: sad Sometimes God, you know, makes you go through certain
Speaker 1: things to build your character and see what you're gonna
Speaker 1: do with that challenge. So you know, I'll be stressed out,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm never afraid of damn, this is too hard.
Speaker 1: I be thinking more of like how do I fix it?
Speaker 1: Like what do I do now? Instead of like, you know,
Speaker 1: dwelling over spilt milk? Oh no, what do I do now?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: You're not a dweller, Amada. You don't dwell because I dwell.
Speaker 2: I could.
Speaker 3: I'll think about one thing and I will dwell the
Speaker 3: ship out of that one.
Speaker 2: I'll dwell a little bit.
Speaker 1: But then I go get okay, I snap out and
Speaker 1: be like okay, dally, So what do we do now?
Speaker 2: How do we fix the problem? Problem? Solution? What's the problem?
Speaker 2: How do I I need to fix it? I can
Speaker 2: sell it.
Speaker 4: I'm the same way. I'm a solution oriented person.
Speaker 3: I do think and know they're more like fixers men like.
Speaker 4: To I do. But you know what's funny is like
Speaker 4: I all sit like you know, there's certain times I'll
Speaker 4: have a talk with someone or something like I'm the
Speaker 4: type of person that like, I make one mistake, I
Speaker 4: felt like the whole entire like if a domino decided
Speaker 4: to fall sideways instead of falling forwards. I felt like,
Speaker 4: now everything else is messed up. Right now, the whole
Speaker 4: line is messed up, and I'll dwell on that, and
Speaker 4: it'll take me time for me to realize it's okay
Speaker 4: to create that mistake because you're just going to get
Speaker 4: up and you have the ability to continue moving forward
Speaker 4: and fixing things or continue to find a solution to
Speaker 4: move forward. Which that's a great way to look at
Speaker 4: especially but.
Speaker 1: Then why are we so hard on ourselfs? But then
Speaker 1: that's why that mentality is important. It's okay, we all
Speaker 1: have different mechanisms. It's okay for to dwell a little bit,
Speaker 1: but as long as you can get back on your
Speaker 1: feet and snap out of it. Some people don't know
Speaker 1: how to do that.
Speaker 2: Some people will get stuck in that space.
Speaker 1: And then that's why I once met a very wealthy
Speaker 1: billionaire man. He's the vice president of a country in Africa,
Speaker 1: and he booked me, that's what I'm He booked me
Speaker 1: out there, and you know, he took me to his
Speaker 1: palace and his palace was full gold and not goal sign.
Speaker 1: But I've never seen such a thing, nonetheless here in
Speaker 1: the States. And then we traveled into different parts and
Speaker 1: you know, the city, and then I saw there was
Speaker 1: a lot of poverty, and I felt bad. And we
Speaker 1: were in his rolls roys we're not equal, Aluisi, And
Speaker 1: I asked him, do you ever feel bad when you
Speaker 1: see the way that your people live, knowing that your
Speaker 1: house is full of gold, and the way that you
Speaker 1: live in the style that you have and everything else.
Speaker 1: And you know what he told me, and that has
Speaker 1: always stuck with me, and ever since, I see things differently,
Speaker 1: he said, sometimes I do. But then I learned that
Speaker 1: we're not all meant.
Speaker 2: To be rich.
Speaker 1: In order for there to be rich, there has to
Speaker 1: be poor. In order for there to be a boss,
Speaker 1: there must be employees. And once you think about things
Speaker 1: that way, it is true. Unfortunately, we're not all meant
Speaker 1: to be rich, we're not all meant to be successful.
Speaker 1: We're not all meant because then where is the balance
Speaker 1: of life. However, you can also see how some people
Speaker 1: that are born in the gutter, in the worst conditions
Speaker 1: in life because of who they are. In that fire
Speaker 1: that they have within themselves. You'll see that if they
Speaker 1: have to swim across a river, catch whatever it is,
Speaker 1: to go to school to learn because they have a
Speaker 1: vision of what they want to do. Because the consistency,
Speaker 1: the drive, and then they become something out of themselves.
Speaker 1: Those are the people that are chosen to become successful.
Speaker 1: Things can be given to you. You have to work
Speaker 1: for it. You have to challenge yourself. That's just the
Speaker 1: way of life. So unfortunately it seems good, it seems bad,
Speaker 1: but it's.
Speaker 2: Really up to you.
Speaker 1: You have to have that drive inside of you that's
Speaker 1: going to get you out of where you're at to
Speaker 1: become what you want to be. Nobody can put that
Speaker 1: in you except you.
Speaker 4: That's so true, and this is why today we wanted
Speaker 4: to do this episode. We've always pulled the curtain back
Speaker 4: a little bit on what you've done, but we've never
Speaker 4: really exposed it as how you deal with from the
Speaker 4: beginning of your day to the middle of your day,
Speaker 4: to the challenges of real estate, to the challenges of
Speaker 4: having to stay on top of your game, because if
Speaker 4: you don't work, and if you don't try, or if
Speaker 4: you don't even take those challenges like you just said
Speaker 4: there is no money coming in, and that's scary and
Speaker 4: it's it's a very difficult thing.
Speaker 3: As someone who's been in the business for as long
Speaker 3: as you have, Ama, how have you. How are you
Speaker 3: seeing the music industry changing? Because now you don't need
Speaker 3: to do the.
Speaker 2: English crossover market.
Speaker 3: There's like this misconception that you got to change who
Speaker 3: you are in order to be successful.
Speaker 2: But there are some artists that are.
Speaker 3: You know, are super popular now and that are coming
Speaker 3: out with Spanish albums.
Speaker 2: How are you processing all of it? The big changes?
Speaker 1: I think this social media and the internet overall has
Speaker 1: expanded all these opportunities for so many artists, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think that now the American audience is getting
Speaker 1: to really realize how big the Latino community is, how
Speaker 1: big we are, how influential we are worldwide, Like our
Speaker 1: music is impactful and we are able to create trends.
Speaker 1: You know, we are a thing. We've always been a
Speaker 1: it's just that y'all realize it a little late. But
Speaker 1: we've always been here. And I think that once the
Speaker 1: American market realized that as well. For the Latino community,
Speaker 1: for a very long time, hitting the American market was
Speaker 1: the dream was the goal, was the purpose, And now
Speaker 1: that we see things switch, we see a lot of
Speaker 1: hip hop artists, you know, trying to get on and
Speaker 1: do featurings with Latino artists and all these other things,
Speaker 1: or even say a couple of Spanish words here and there.
Speaker 2: It's like, ooh, look at that.
Speaker 1: You know, you realize that we're here, and I just
Speaker 1: like to see that we're able to support each other musically,
Speaker 1: we're able to combine our music in our sound and
Speaker 1: even for those that don't speak any Spanish, music is
Speaker 1: a universal language. You know, it's just a vibe. You
Speaker 1: may not understand even if you were to put some
Speaker 1: music in I don't know. Some Indian music, some Asian music,
Speaker 1: we may not understand, but we feel the music. We
Speaker 1: know there's a vibe, we know what it is. So
Speaker 1: just being able to feel that, I think it's just
Speaker 1: an amazing thing to see, you know, how music has
Speaker 1: been able to bring us together somewhat.
Speaker 2: So I love it.
Speaker 1: I think that it's great and I also love to
Speaker 1: sa see how women are becoming empowered in the music industry,
Speaker 1: especially in the urban side of it. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of urubanas really standing up for for themselves,
Speaker 1: for their culture, for their for their sound, for the community.
Speaker 1: They're like over out there.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Think music is getting bigger, is getting better, and I'm
Speaker 1: just great, you know, happy to be part of it.
Speaker 4: Let's wrap it all up, like if this was a
Speaker 4: vlog you get ready with me? Vlog? How do we
Speaker 4: how do we wind down and start it and then
Speaker 4: warm back? You know, how do we end the night?
Speaker 1: Honestly, I wish that I could say I just you know,
Speaker 1: have a glass of wine and just you know, watching
Speaker 1: Netflix and relax after a bubble back.
Speaker 2: But it's a fucking lie. It's not true. How do
Speaker 2: I I unwind?
Speaker 1: I unwind when I have certain opportunities, probably when I'm
Speaker 1: driving or in the shower or whatever is my moment
Speaker 1: to disconnect. I love to listen to like Shade, or
Speaker 1: listen to some you know, some type of or maybe
Speaker 1: even E D M music or something that's gonna make
Speaker 1: me chill. But one of my biggest ways to unwine,
Speaker 1: and it's really not unwhining because my brain is still
Speaker 1: functioning at a thousand. There's this app called Motivate, and
Speaker 1: I put on my Motivate app and sometimes you need
Speaker 1: that boost. I need somebody to tell me how great
Speaker 1: I am, even though that I know it. But you
Speaker 1: need to have that that push. So sometimes you just
Speaker 1: need to like hear it and sak and be like,
Speaker 1: all right, you know, let's get back to it. People
Speaker 1: like myself, when you are an entrepreneur, when you are
Speaker 1: your own business, you are the functioning machine. It's hard
Speaker 1: to unwind a thousand percent because everybody depends on you.
Speaker 1: You have a whole team of people that they they
Speaker 1: pay their bills, they maintain their family based off what
Speaker 1: you do. So it's kind of hard to completely, you know, disconnect.
Speaker 1: When I have a chance, you know that it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen a lot. Maybe sex. No, that's not true because
Speaker 1: even when I'm having sex, I also be like, when
Speaker 1: you can hurry up and need to make this.
Speaker 4: Call, I think you're still crunching numbers in your.
Speaker 1: I'm having it must not be good to know the
Speaker 1: sex can be great, But then in the middle I
Speaker 1: could be like, shit, did I text Arleen Alex?
Speaker 3: That happens so often you are not thinking about Arlene
Speaker 3: and Alex when you're no, no, But it's true.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 1: Even crazy enough, even when you're having sex, or even
Speaker 1: when you're trying to have some moment for yourself that
Speaker 1: you're trying to relax or whatever, even for those that
Speaker 1: like to smoke, or for whatever it is you may
Speaker 1: want to dance.
Speaker 4: Whatever, are you good? I mean, this is this is
Speaker 4: very interesting to hear how am Outa's day is and
Speaker 4: how how unlikely it is for her to unplug an unwind,
Speaker 4: which is perfectly fine because every person does it their way.
Speaker 4: I'm out I'm just glad.
Speaker 3: To know that no matter what Amadas doing, even if
Speaker 3: she's in the bedroom.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm so glad to me this gorgeous face is
Speaker 4: what you see.
Speaker 1: No, no, honestly, I mean your life is different from minds,
Speaker 1: and minds is different from yours. But personally, stay motivated, grind.
Speaker 1: I don't care what anybody says. Don't ever be complacent,
Speaker 1: you know, because the only thing that keeps you motivated
Speaker 1: to the next day of you know, taking up and
Speaker 1: living your life is the the just, the the energy,
Speaker 1: the ambitious, the grind, the excitement of another day.
Speaker 2: So you know, never become complacent.
Speaker 1: Always wonder what else you're capable of doing, what else
Speaker 1: is in you? You know, take your time to rest
Speaker 1: if you're capable of doing it, and you know, winding down.
Speaker 1: I still don't know how to do that. But I
Speaker 1: always say the worst feeling in life is regretting not
Speaker 1: having done Don't regret I should have done this. I
Speaker 1: had an idea, I didn't do this. Get your ass
Speaker 1: up and do it. Don't let it be too late.
Speaker 2: And just because you have the energy today doesn't mean
Speaker 2: you're gonna have it tomorrow. Life is unpredictable.
Speaker 1: You're here today, we don't know what tomorrow holds, and
Speaker 1: you might not even be here tomorrow to make those things,
Speaker 1: those dreams happen. So if you have it, do it today.
Speaker 1: Don't procrastinate. No, I'm gonna do it. No, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: email it tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Do it right now. If there's a call you meant
Speaker 2: you're meaning to do do it now.
Speaker 1: What's the worst that can happen. You're still gonna go
Speaker 1: to sleep at the end of the day. You know
Speaker 1: tomorrow's another day. Whatever, Just go get it, go get it,
Speaker 1: be fearless, be fearless, and go get it. It's never
Speaker 1: too late. Don't ever feel this too late. And dah,
Speaker 1: I'm too old. I'm too fat, I'm too skinny, I'm
Speaker 1: too wet, I don't got time. Make the time, Make
Speaker 1: the time, because in life, it's all about how bad
Speaker 1: do you want it? And if you want it bad enough,
Speaker 1: you're going to figure out a way to make it happen.
Speaker 1: So that's my takeaway for today. And with that being said,
Speaker 1: Arlene Alex, thank you so much for joining me today,
Speaker 1: for being my support system and always being here gonna
Speaker 1: go at me looku as.
Speaker 2: I am so grateful for you guys. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: I hope that I was able to motivate some of
Speaker 1: you guys as well, and that's why I want to
Speaker 1: thank you once again for listening to exactly Amata and
Speaker 1: of course go find me on all my social media
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