WEBVTT - Let Your Sazón Shine Through 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.040 I'm Honey German. My parents are Dominican. I was born 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.480 and raised in New York City. I love sneakers and 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:09.959 I'm a body positive padicate. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.640 I'm Carolina Bermudez, Soy Nika a wendsay, but I was 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:17.079 born and raised in Ohio. I'm a wife, a mama, 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.319 and a worker bee. This is life in Spanglish over 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:25.239 the pandemic. She has racked up so many views, over 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.120 one hundred million views. She has over three hundred thousand 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.800 follows on Instagram and Facebook. She is one of my 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:39.040 personal favorites. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Lil suss On Package. 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.120 I don't know I should I call you Rita because 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.240 that is your real name? Right? Which iver was found 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:44.479 with me? 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:46.720 Little sass On packet is fine and Rita's fine. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.279 Whichever is fine. The first question I have is how 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.280 did you come up with Little sass On packet? Because 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.240 anybody who listens to Life in Spanglish knows the little 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.480 sass On packets that mom and dad had to use 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:01.279 right where you meet Mom and dad how us. So 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:02.320 it's funny enough. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.800 I actually got that nickname from going to battle rap events. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.560 I was the only Latina. That was like really in 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.199 the front. So at one point I had the artists. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.319 When I got to know them, they were like, you 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:13.960 need to make sure you come because you're like a 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:14.959 little Spanish seasoning. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:16.840 I was like, yeah, I'm like a little sas on packet. Huh. 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.440 And they're like, that's it, that's name, that's it. And 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.600 I was like, okay, I guess that's what we're calling 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.360 me now. So my drop, my drop little packets here. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.360 And then Eminem is going to battle. Right, little name 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:29.520 in there said. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.039 Your your full name, give it to us. Your full 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.080 name is Rita. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.600 Oh my gosh, I couldn't Spanish all the way. My 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.960 father was like, let that ring. Yeah, that just rolled. 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.640 That rolled off the So. So but your friends call 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.560 you Rita. Yes, so now we're friends and you're Puerto Rican. Yes, 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.279 I am from the Bronx. Hello, So you're the only one, right, No, I'm. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:55.760 So. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:57.360 Is that where you were born and raised? 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:58.960 Born and raised in the Bronx. Yeah, I have a 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.520 big family. I'm one of so yeah. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:07.680 Why by the way, I'm one of six, so I 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:08.040 don't know. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.680 You know, big families and stuff. So yeah, yeah, I'm 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.720 like the middle from my mom. Again, there's eight of us, 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.240 three from my mom. Papa was a rolling stone. But 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.359 I love my big family and that's what I guess. Well, 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.480 the personality comes from Okay. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.760 So now I have to put honey on. The first 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.840 time I ever saw you on Instagram, I swear I 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.120 had to rewatch this video several times. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:33.120 Remember which video was? 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.920 Absolutely? Because it's a series? Now is it a series 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.560 for you? Because of how to look good? Pachi? This 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:39.839 is actually a fat cheep right now. 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.080 Yes, yeah, it's a series for me that I started. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.440 I don't know what the algorithm did to bless me. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.400 But this day I was, you know, on your Discover page, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.280 like you don't know, like what you're gonna find. 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.480 I've always for you today, Caen. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.560 Totally, So I was on there. I'm always looking for 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.360 recipes or like you know, organization things or whatever. And 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.480 then somehow on the reals section, she pops up and 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:08.640 she's like me, MEI and I died because it's so true. 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.040 That's something like you know that we as latin As 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.200 we have that you know where it's like my my grandmother, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.040 my Abelita, used to say noees el bastillo es la Perca. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.880 That's facts, and I felt like that in the media 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.040 connection to you. So then I was like, this girl 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.120 is funny. So then I went to your page and 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.280 I started watching all of your other reels and I 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.440 just was like, Oh, that's crazy. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.520 It's amazing to hear that from you. Honestly, yes, but 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:35.880 I did. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:37.800 You know, Normally, you watch a video, you crack up, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.080 and then you move on, you know. But then I 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:40.600 was like, I need to know more about this girl, 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.720 because there is something so dynamic and beautiful about you, 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.040 and we're going to get into like, you know, your 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.200 messaging and what you know, your messages to your fans 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.880 and everything. But I just loved it because I thought 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.120 to myself, I'm like, how many times do we as 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.960 women want to look amazing but we just don't have it? 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:58.160 You know, It's just not there. 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.320 It's crazy because when I when I first the video, Honestly, 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.520 whenever I do video, I don't think that they're gonna hit. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.120 It's not like I sit there and I think, oh, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:06.160 this was going viral. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:07.839 It was just one of those days that I put 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.920 on a little twenty dollar dress that I got and 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.760 I was like, oh, Mama, looked good. And then I 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.200 was just like, I'm gonna record this because I was like, again, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.080 like you said, there are so many of us as women, 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:18.200 we just want to look good. We want to go 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.760 out and feel good about ourselves. And sometimes people get 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.560 caught up in the names Gucci to be Chuocci and 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:24.279 you gotta wear. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.440 A product, and I'm like, listen, I got at it. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:27.360 I'm not mad at it. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.120 If you got it, you got it, but I ain't 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:29.440 got it. 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.400 So I was like, you know what, whatever I do got, 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.159 If I got Rainbow money, that's what's gonna happen today, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:35.920 and we're gonna make sure we treat. 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.440 It like I'm out here, yes at the Oscars. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.039 And then sometimes you got that Zara money sometimes that's it. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.640 Sometimes you got the Fashion Nova money. Like it's whatever 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.880 your budget is. You can look good for whatever your 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.080 price ranges. And so when I when I made the video, 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:51.920 I really didn't think nothing of it. And then people 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.720 started messaging me and like. 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.360 Oh my god, yes I like my little five dollar 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.479 dress too, but I got like three dollar braces, and. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.680 I'm like, yes, this is a whole world. People like this, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.039 so but we need more moments like that. I feel 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.599 like as women just in general, to just connect with 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.839 each other and also to keep it real, because like 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.840 that is the one thing about Instagram that I've been 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.520 seeing more and more. Like that's why we say like 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.040 real versus fake, you know. And there was just something 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.839 that was so real and genuine about you that I 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.839 just appreciated. And it's not all clothing and things like 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.960 you get great messaging about dating and family and work 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.719 and just you know, motivation, which I thought was really interesting. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.080 So take us all the way back. What were you 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:35.039 doing prior to you know, doing TikTok and Instagram? 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.479 So I waitressed for many years, and then of course 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.400 when the pandemic hit, I had just got into working 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:43.520 for the post office. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.880 So it was one of those things that again I 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:47.080 come from a Sasa family. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.160 My family's like performers, so I've always had that inmates 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.400 to be like, you know, some kind of stage presence. 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.320 But I didn't want to dance, so I would make 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.320 videos and I knew that I wanted to pursue that route, 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.760 like acting or some kind of entertainment. Yeah, but again 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:02.960 I was working at the post office post office sixteen 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.000 hours shifts, six days a week, mama was tired. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.599 But you're in this job where it's like grueling. It's 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.640 like you have to put in your hours. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.839 Yeah, And I was delivering packages and things like that. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.400 And what I noticed online is that I had. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.159 Friends during that time kind of like entering answered during 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:19.279 the pandemic, and they were doing. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:20.080 Really well for themselves. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.760 But I always felt like I saw influencers kind of 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.719 want to make you be them, but never want you 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.280 to be kind of you. It's like have this kind 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.280 of lifestyle like me, or like this is what I do, 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.040 and you get all these people that just want to 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.080 be them, and I'm like, I don't feel like anybody's 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.680 like okay with themselves, Like at least that message is 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.560 it's okay to be you. So when I started doing videos, 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.479 like I was getting my little two views one was 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:41.400 for my mother and I'm. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.839 Like, okay, five, Like I got it. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.560 But eventually they just started to kind of like take off. 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.680 And I want to say I wasn't prepared for it 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.800 in a sense because I just didn't think that the 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.040 message would resonate with as many people as it did. 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.320 So then here we are now. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:57.800 Like of course it would, because I feel like the 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.719 problem with influencers. Everybody wants you to envy them. Yeah, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:02.920 I know people that won't even post where they live 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.000 because other influencers have these beautiful homes that they don't 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.880 even feel appropriate to record in their own space anymore. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:10.520 Honey, I want you to rewind. I want you to 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.160 say that again because that was such a honestly a 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.800 profound statement that you feel like Instagram influencers want you 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:19.960 to envy them. I never looked at it that well. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.000 Of course, look at my look at my kitchen, look 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.640 at my bathroom, look at my versace. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.600 I always record everything. I always this is just me. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.080 I want people to recognize and know that I am 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:33.440 humble that I. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.880 Because you're looking for people to relate to you, not 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.000 people to envy your wanting that there's a mentalities out 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.240 there for a lot of influence to be like you 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:42.640 got to kind of be like me or want what 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.560 I have, And I'm looking for the connection record in 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.600 certain spaces because they feel like it's not Instagram worths. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.680 The aesthetics is not good enough because. 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.240 People now people have mansioned. They're over there in Texas. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.120 You know, my floors are heated, and it's I feel 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.040 like it's a disservice to so to see someone that 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:00.760 you know that you can relate to and be like, yo, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.680 like I shop at Rainbow's two, or I love my 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.440 ten dollar dresses, like I welcome it because so many 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.440 other people make you feel inferior and like just that 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.720 your life is not valid because it's not like their. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.200 Life a certain lifestyle in order to be like or 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.560 something that's it's like it's it's saying it without saying it, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.360 of course, And so that's why. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:22.600 It was just one of those things. When I do 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.400 my videos, I shoot it in my living room with 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:25.560 my parrot in the background. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.920 My favorite is the bathroom with the bathroom with the 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.920 with the sheet with the bathroom curtains. She's like, y'all 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.079 don't get this BS. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.280 Honest, y'all gona know the message is for real for me, 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.440 and it's not like I'm not trying to like be 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:38.200 anything that I'm not. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:39.960 When you're in your bathroom, I know it smells like 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.640 I'm telling you so. So. Then so you're still working 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.320 at the post office, like we said, you're you're grinding 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.000 sixteen hour days. You are delivering those packages and now 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:58.120 you're delivering package that. So when did you think to yourself, 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.120 because I think this is a critical or a pivotal 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.840 moment in people's career, when did you say to yourself, 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.880 I am going to take the leap. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.120 Honestly, it wasn't even like I had made that decision. 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.960 I had gotten very sick from working in the post 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.280 office and working such long hours. And again it was 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.080 during the pandemic, so everybody was spending the stimulus checks, 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.160 you know, ordering from Amazon. So it was just it 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.680 was very intense. And at one point I had dropped 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:23.880 forty pounds in a month. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:24.520 Oh wow. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:29.320 Yeah, I ended up hospitalized and the doctor told me. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.120 They were like, your body is breaking down way too 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.360 much for somebody who is just thirty years old. If 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.720 you continue on this route, you are going to die. 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:37.480 Wow. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.760 And so I remember it because of work, Because of 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.000 the work stress. It was beyond stress. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.360 It was just like, like I said, since you're running 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.600 up and down steps all day delivering packages, it's just 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.079 like it's physically demanding. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.559 Oh, because you're in the city, Yeah, I'm thinking of houses. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.920 No, I'm doing this in the Bronx oh Fordham Road, 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.760 all the businesses, so it's just like it's physically demanding, 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.840 of course mentally like demanding everything. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.040 I wasn't getting enough sleep. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.440 So when the doctor gave me that real conversation of 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.600 being like, if you continue on, you will lose your 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.120 life and you are only thirty, it was like, I 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:10.840 kind of have to make a choice about something and 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.080 I can't continue to do this. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.280 Yeah, I want you to continue this. We're going to 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.959 take a short break, but I am dying to hear 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:18.839 the rest of this. So we're gonna we're gonna break 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.079 for a second and then we'll be back with Little 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:28.400 Sasson Packet. MANA, all right, guys, now we are back 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.880 with Sassoon. You know her as Little Sassoon Packet on 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.120 all social media channels. And you were just filling us 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.560 in on that moment when you said, well, actually it 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.480 was decided for you that you were going to stop 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.760 working and you were going to devote yourself to you know, 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:48.120 this new direction. And so I want you to take 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.520 you through those first couple of weeks where were you 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.000 just kind of like recording videos and then stopping and 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.480 being like, nah, I'm not going to post that. Were 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.120 you like doubting yourself or were you just all in. No, 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:58.680 I don't think. I don't think for a second. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.160 I was on like I was myself because at the point, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.760 because I had loved when I left the post office. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:04.920 Again, it was in the pandemic, so it's not like 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:05.360 I could. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.560 Just find another job. So I was like, at this point, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.680 I have to make whatever I'm doing work for me. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.240 And let me tell you, I would just make video 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.600 after video after things that I thought, and what was 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.839 crazy is that nothing was taking off. And finally when 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.240 a video took off, it only took off because somebody else. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:23.199 You know how TikTok, they. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.800 Can use your voice. Yeah, so somebody else used my. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.960 Voice and the video blew up on their page. Wait, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.040 which one wasn't it was? 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:31.240 It was an old. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:35.319 Rant where I said something along the lines of if 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.800 you like, if you cheat on me, your trash and 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.520 the woman who has you like a raccoon, if you 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.320 want to take my man, something like that. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.600 and the person did my voice over didn't accredit me, 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.000 and it went like megaviral. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.360 ND there I think I remember the raccoons. I think 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.079 I remember that people would I think remember this. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.959 Fourteen point six million on this person's page, and I 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.880 was like to the point people were coming back to 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:58.840 my voice and being like you need to accredit her, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.800 and I was like, it's my voice. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.480 Like I was losing it because I was like, I 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:04.240 was like, hold up. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.520 So eventually that's when I started saying meta in my 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.640 videos because I was like, I gotta do something that. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.960 If people hear it, they can attribute it back to me. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:12.920 Like you're gonna. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.520 Knows I've heard that before. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:14.800 Yeah. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.600 Yeah, So then I was like mita And then that 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.800 was it. That just became the thing with all my rants. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.120 Since I knew I had the capability to go viral, I. 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.640 Was like, we're gonna just keep going and see what happens. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:30.040 Yeah, unbelievable. Now, we all come from hard working Latino parents. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:35.439 What was the response that you got home and said 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:39.360 mommy daddy because you didn't follow in their footsteps literally, 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:40.679 like you know, because you said that you come from 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.720 a salsa dancing family and you decided not to be 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.680 a performer, so you went the safe ruit, which I 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:47.920 believe it is safe when you work for the government 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.400 or yeah, you have a job like you did. What 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:52.480 was that conversation, like. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.400 So, honestly, my father My mother was all for it. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.000 My mother was just like, whatever you're gonna do, you know, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.720 she's very supportive. My father was like, don't talk about it, 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.360 do it. I want to see it. Because there's also dancers, 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.880 so they couldn't they couldn't really say much about pursuing 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.040 our entertainment field because that's what they've done themselves. So 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.120 my dad was just like, listen, I'm gonna be real 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.040 with you. He was like, if you're gonna do it, 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:15.800 you better do it. He was like, I don't want 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.160 to hear like you quit on this. He was like, 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.120 go for it, and I want to see the results. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:21.760 And I was like, all right, dad, you got it. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.199 So that was it. And it took a while. 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.800 Like I said, those videos were getting those two three. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.200 When I got my first one hundred views, I was like, 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:29.800 I'm a star. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.760 Are your parents more Americanized? Like do they understand the 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.240 concept of what an influencer is? 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.680 To be honest with you, my father he's like he 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:40.800 still calls it book face. 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:42.840 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.120 He's like I don't do the book face and the 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.120 gram stuff. But like he's he's learning about social media, 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:49.360 but he doesn't know about like the world of like 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:50.680 do you understand. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.480 Like the concept of like this is your occupation. But 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.480 I feel like a lot of Latino parents when you're writer, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.400 when your painter, when you're a poet. 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:57.679 They don't understand. 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.720 He just saw the first check come in and he 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.560 was like, Okay, it's working. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:03.880 So that was what it was. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.800 Once he saw the money coming, and then he was like, Okay, I. 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.600 Guess I guess he's making it work. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.680 Yeah, then they can make it support asking me for 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.240 the money exactly. He was like, oh you're not you 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.880 could pay for this grub Hub. Okay, yes, I can 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:19.760 add because of Rita, no problem. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:21.960 I love it. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.920 So yeah, No, they were just they were always supportive. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.840 The one thing I love about my parents is because, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.680 again in the sauce of war, they're legendary names. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.800 So people always assumed. 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.840 Like, oh, you're gonna continue on your father's legacy because 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:35.400 he's worked with. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:38.000 Them. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.440 Out who are you give us? 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.600 Her parents Eddie and Maria tours they're known as the 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:42.560 Mambo King and Queen. 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.920 So yeah, no, I like, I grew up with this 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.280 whole mentality of if you're going to make entertainment work, 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:50.560 you have to if there's no door. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:50.920 Make a door. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.200 Because my parents have been like that, and so I'm really. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.520 Grateful for growing up in that kind of environment. But 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.400 my dad was just like, don't talk about it, Rita. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:14:59.560 He was like, I want to see you do it. 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.440 And I'm like, this is giving me goosebumps because when 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.400 I spoke to my parents, my dad's a doctor. My 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.080 mom raised six kids, so she never had time for 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.960 a job. And when I went to my mom and 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:10.680 dad and I said I want to I want to 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.600 work in radio and TV and and they both looked 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.480 at me. And my dad actually was the one who 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.000 said to me, which is interesting, it was your your dad. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.880 In the conversation, my dad said to me, I don't 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.240 know how to help you, but I'll always support you. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.640 That's beautiful, and he said because it was like with 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.120 my brothers and sisters. They went to med school. They were, 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:31.920 you know, so smart, and they were like applying to 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.680 medical school and he could guide them and he could 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.760 tell them what to do. But with me, and that's 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.280 where I felt like they were very nervous because they 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.120 didn't know how to direct me or guide me, you know. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.640 But he said, I'll always support you, and then to 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.320 that effect. When I was, you know, grinding at the 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.160 beginning of my career and you know, I was doing 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.360 My mom was the one who reminded me. She's like, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:59.120 e huh, She's like, when you pray and you get it, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.280 you have to yourself you prayed for it. You prayed 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.960 for this, so you can't complain, you know. And so 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.920 I think that that's something that a lot of people 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.280 don't understand about this industry. You know, when you get 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.480 the blessings or when you get that little foot in 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.480 the door, you know, you got to totally go for it. 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.320 Yeah, and not only like even with going for it. 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.240 And I'm sure because you know, you do radio and 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.800 things like that, the struggle to even be seen as 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.360 something serious as lad. You know, I started off wanting 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.400 to be an actor and those doors weren't opening for me. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.880 And then I did reality TV and that kind of 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.000 just didn't work out. I've had several Instagrams because I've 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.560 had them taken down. People like reporting videos to make 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.360 sure that nothing grows. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:37.760 Honey knows all about that. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.440 Be super real for me, I've seen what I don't understand. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.360