1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: My first memory of music is when I was three 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: four years old. The truth is it was not ready. 3 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: The song was not supposed to come out. The songs 4 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: that I write are about something that I've lived, something 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: that I'm feeling in the moment. It gets heavy to 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: be compared and to say, oh, yeah, you're never gonna 7 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: be Jenny Rivera. Hello, guys, and welcome to another episode 8 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: of Cheek Ease and Chill. I'm your host, Cheeks, and 9 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: today we're going to talk about something that's been a 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: huge part of my life for as long as I 11 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: can remember. Oh sad, this chick, that music. We're going 12 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: to be covering everything from how I got started to 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: where I think my career is headed. It's an episode 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: you won't want to miss. So let's do it. Grab 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: your tequi la. This is Chick Ease and Chill. Alright, guys, 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: So music, musica a universal language, is what I like 17 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,119 Speaker 1: to call it. Not only is music a big part 18 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: of my life, it's also a big part of my identity. 19 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: You guys, a lot of you probably know me best 20 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: for being a singer and a performer. My first memory 21 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: of music is when I was three or four years old. 22 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 1: The first song I ever learned. I was sitting on 23 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: my grandpa's lap in his office and he had one 24 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: of those little recording devices and it was like those 25 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: little handheld ones. I had the little mini cassettes and 26 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: he had me on his lap, and the only song 27 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: that I knew that I had learned, my very first 28 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: song that I had ever learned, was by and I 29 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: sang it. And I don't know. I wish I could 30 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: find that recording. I don't know. He must have it 31 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: somewhere because he doesn't throw anything away. I've never asked him, 32 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: but that is my first memory. And from there it's 33 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: just I remember being at the swap meet every weekend 34 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: with my grandma and we would sell cassettes back then 35 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: and would listen to all types of music, to Selena, 36 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: to Bronco, to Los to Ganes, Los dire Norte, Melentine, 37 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: just so many people, Rivera, lup Rivera, everybody. I grew 38 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: up with music, music letsie go ok jop in the larninglis. Yes, 39 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,839 Speaker 1: because you know, I was raised by my grandparents, which 40 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: meant there was always music playing in the kitchen. My 41 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: grandma was cooking and there was always music, some type 42 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: of radio station. We sold music, we sold cassettes. Then 43 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: from there we went to c these we had the Scotebo. 44 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: There was one in Long Beach, one in Huntington Park. 45 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: So I was just always around music. I grew up 46 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: watching my grandpa saying, my grandma's a singer, all my 47 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: uncle's saying, even the pastor things at church. The one 48 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: that didn't really get into it very much was Rosie. 49 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 1: But even then she I think saying at church of 50 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: a little bit, and she has staying here and there. 51 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: But in reality, I come from a musical background, which 52 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: is why I think it's always caught my eye. I 53 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: wanted to like sing. I wanted to try it. I 54 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: was afraid because of everything I had seen my mom 55 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: go through as a female. In regional Mexican music is 56 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: yes seven as soon. It's a it's very male dominated, 57 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: very very male dominated genre, so it's very difficult for women. 58 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: So I knew that I wanted to sing. I wasn't 59 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: sure if I wanted to do Spanish or English. If 60 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,679 Speaker 1: I wanted to do I had thought about rock because 61 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,839 Speaker 1: I really liked my not a point. I had thought 62 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,119 Speaker 1: about so many things, but it was a topic that 63 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: my mom didn't really want to touch as much because 64 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: of what she had lived and what she had gone through. 65 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: So she knew my desires about wanting to become a singer, 66 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: and I would tell her, and the whole plan was, Okay, 67 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna do because I loved Limit Them, you know, 68 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: Alicia a real she was a limit Them, and I 69 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: loved her music, so I wanted to do something like that, 70 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: like North. I was going to be the singer. My 71 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: mom was going to be the manager. That was like 72 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: the whole plan. And she says, Okay, I will help you, 73 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: I will support you, but just wait until I have 74 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: the time to manage your career. You know, I'll do 75 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: my thing and then I'll take a little bit and 76 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: then we'll move on with your career. That was the 77 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: plan since I think I was like I think the 78 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: first time I ever mentioned it to her, like seriously 79 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: was when I was like twenty three, and thank goodness, 80 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: her career just kept getting better and better and better. 81 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: The thing is that my mom knew about it, and 82 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: she was just a little hesitant. She would always say, 83 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: you know what, I just don't know if I want 84 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: this career for you. It's very, very hard for women 85 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: a lot of early mornings, and they're mean. They're very mean, 86 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: especially to the women that seeing in general Mexican music. 87 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: So that was her. You know, she was just hesitant. 88 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: She's like, you don't have to do that, Like I 89 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: don't want you to go down the same road. It's 90 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: very difficult. Just be an actor more than anything. She 91 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: always said, get into acting. And she wanted me to 92 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: be a face model. She's like, I would live for 93 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: be a model, but you're just you know, you're a 94 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: little bit round and not and very short. So just 95 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: be a face model. That was my mama, you know, 96 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: she said. How it was so I realized that I 97 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 1: wanted to sing for the first time when I was ten, 98 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: when I went to a contest to singing contest. My 99 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,359 Speaker 1: grandpa was running it at a nightclub in l a 100 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 1: And he would do it every Thursday and he would 101 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: rent out this place to invite people to come sing 102 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 1: and he would find new artists for his record label 103 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: like this. One of those nights, I said, I told 104 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: my mom, I want to go up there and I 105 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: want to sing. I was ten years old. You guys, 106 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they were like, okay, it's cute, just 107 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: do it. But that's when I realized. I was like, oh, 108 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: I kind of like like like I like how I 109 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: feel up here and I one second place in that contest, 110 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: and that's when I realized, I'm like, dude, this this 111 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: is probably something I want to do. I kept it 112 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: quiet for a long time, but that's when I realized, 113 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 1: I'm like, this is this is kind of cool, like 114 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: what you feel when you have a microphone in your hand. 115 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: So I was, yeah, ten years old, and that was 116 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:54,600 Speaker 1: I think the first time that my mom ever saw 117 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 1: me sing in public. So in when I met Angel, 118 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: my ex boyfriend, he's in the end of Street, you know, 119 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 1: and I had told him. I had mentioned He's like, 120 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: have you ever wanted to sing? I'm like, yeah, I 121 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 1: actually have. Like I talked to my mom about it, 122 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: but I told him the whole story that I just 123 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: told you guys. That's when I decided, Like he said, 124 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna help you. I want to help you make 125 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: this dream come true. And he spoke to my mom 126 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 1: and told her that he was going to help me, 127 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: and he just said that. My mom's face was like uh, 128 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: because again my mom was very like competitive in that sense. 129 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: That she felt like, who is this guy coming into 130 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: my daughter's life and now like she wanted to help me, 131 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: you know, So it's kind of like I think that 132 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: type of thing. So she didn't really like it, I 133 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: think at first, because she wanted to be the one 134 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: to help me. But she said, okay, fine, if that's 135 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: what she wants to do, help her. So then I 136 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: started taking vocal lessons. I started taking vocal lessons in 137 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: and then I stopped because was a very difficult year 138 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,359 Speaker 1: for me because I had moved out in March of 139 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 1: my mom actually kicked me out, as you guys know, 140 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 1: if you don't know, read my books. And then we 141 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: had a little bit of issues in September, and then 142 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: she passed away in December. So I kind of took 143 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: a break. And then I took a break as well 144 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: because I was focused on my siblings. So then I 145 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: started up my vocal lessons again. And I've had the 146 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: re vocal coaches. I've learned a little bit from all 147 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: of them, and it's been great. Right now, I don't 148 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: have a vocal coach because my vocal coach moved far away, 149 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: but I do have all my notes and I practice. 150 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: I think it's very important to take vocal lessons. It 151 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: doesn't matter how successful you are, if you are the 152 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: best singer ever, having also a vocal coach in your 153 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: recording sessions help you a lot, like to play with 154 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: your your voice. Sometimes we get stuck in doing and 155 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: finishing notes a certain way when in reality you don't 156 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: know how powerful your vocal cords are. That's why I 157 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: think it's important. There's all types of videos on YouTube 158 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: now that can guide you and help you there. It's amazing. 159 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: So if you can't necessarily afford a vocal coach right now, 160 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: because it can get expensive. I actually went to one lesson. 161 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: It was Demi Lovato's vocal coach, and he was charging 162 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: me dollars an hour. Let me tell you he was 163 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: completely worth it, but I was like five dollar an hour. 164 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: That's a lot, you know what I mean. That was 165 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: like three years ago, and I said, hold up, that's 166 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: when I started looking into YouTube. Anyways, Guys, I'm sure 167 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: a lot of people think, Okay, well she decided to 168 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: sing after her mom passed. Uh no. That's why I 169 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: was like, it's important for me to talk about this, 170 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: have an episode on music because it's something that I 171 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: absolutely love. It's something that I've been wanting to do 172 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: for years, as you guys now know. And they may 173 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: also think, okay, well, it's been really easy for her 174 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: because she comes from a very famous musical family, and 175 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: in reality, it's been quite the opposite. I think it 176 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: would have been easier for me if I didn't have 177 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: a famous mother, if I didn't have a famous family. 178 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: That's just the truth. So many people think, oh, yeah, 179 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: she she has it easy, you know, reality, I think 180 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: it kind of made it more difficult because then the 181 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: comparisons came and compared me to my mom, and that's 182 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: where it was, like, guys, for so long, I was like, 183 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 1: you guys need to give me the opportunity. Is my 184 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: first time recording in the studio, first of all, with 185 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: my first song. If you guys I have followed my career, 186 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: that was my first song, and I have to admit 187 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: it was not the best. If it was not I, 188 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: if I could be quite frank, it was horrible, you know, 189 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: but that helped me learn and grow. But if you 190 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: guys listen now that we're talking about my mother, you know, 191 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: Jenny Rivera, If you guys listened to my mom's first albums. 192 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: You will see how different her voice was. When my 193 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: mom passed, she had twenty years on me of experience 194 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: of doing live concerts, of making adjustments vocally and as 195 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: a performer. So when I came in, it was kind 196 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: of like they expected me to just be as amazing 197 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: as my mom was. But we all start somewhere, and 198 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: I just felt like it was even harder. I was 199 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: always going against the current. I was like, there were 200 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: so many times that I was like, f this. My 201 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: mom was right, it is a very difficult career, and 202 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 1: yess the early mornings, it's a lot, and how people 203 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: and how women should I say, are treated in this 204 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: industry or should I say mainly in our in our genre, 205 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: in my genre? It sucks, guys, it does. So my 206 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: mom was completely right. That's when I went from like, 207 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: oh my god, like I totally understand her. I totally 208 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: get it. I would even talk to her out loud 209 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: and be like, Mom, you were right, but I'm in 210 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: it already. And I was also taught to always finish 211 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,959 Speaker 1: what I start, so I said, I'm still haven't gotten 212 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: to where I want to get to. I want to 213 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: grab me and I caught the Grammy, and I'm not 214 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,079 Speaker 1: gonna lie being that it's still so difficult. Guys. Sometimes 215 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, there's so many other things 216 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: that I could be doing, And I thought about it, like, Okay, 217 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: I already got my Grammy, thank God, do I need 218 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 1: to continue? But there are still things that I want 219 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: to accomplish. So anyways, we'll get more into that in 220 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: a little bit. Coming from a family of musicians, again, 221 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: I think it's been harder for me. Did I get 222 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: the support that I expected that I wanted from my family? Yes, 223 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: and no, it came in bits and pieces. To be honest, 224 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: it has never been something that was all the way through. 225 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 1: Not only was I getting a hard time from the 226 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: world when I first started my career, but also internally 227 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: in my family, it felt like in some way they 228 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: thought I was my mom's competition, or that I wanted musbian, 229 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: wanted to be my mom's competition, that I wanted to 230 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: fill my mom's shoes, and that is has not ever 231 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: been the case. Because I always say this, those shoes 232 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: are so massive that not me, not another woman, not 233 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:10,079 Speaker 1: anyone can ever fill those shoes. Jennie Rivera's Jenny Rivera Selena, Selena. 234 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: Those people are icons and idols and legends that no 235 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: matter who comes, there will never be another Jenny Rivera. 236 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: There will never be another Selena, there will never be 237 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:25,959 Speaker 1: another there will never be another Michael Jackson. People want 238 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: to compare Michael Jackson with Bruno Mars and I'm like, dude, 239 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,199 Speaker 1: they're so different. Yeah, they have little similarities, but Okadakian 240 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: and and it gets heavy to be compared and to say, oh, yeah, 241 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: you're never gonna be Jenny Rivera. I don't want to 242 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:38,319 Speaker 1: be Jenny river I want to be cheek ease. I 243 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: want to be cheekies. I want you to listen to 244 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: my music. I have a whole other story to tell 245 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: and my old experiences through my music. That that's where like, 246 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: for a long time, it was heavy, and I think 247 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: certain members of my family, my extended family, thought that, 248 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, like, I just want to try it. 249 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: I want to do it. This is something that I've 250 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: wanted to do and I'm not I refused to go 251 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: on with my life and say I didn't do it 252 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: because it was going to upset other people, or because 253 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done it, or because I was scared. 254 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: I said I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna try it, 255 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: and thank goodness, I did, because I'm very proud of 256 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: how far we've come. You know, it's not where I 257 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 1: want to be. I feel like every album, every song 258 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: is better and better, and I'm my own competition. I 259 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 1: don't see anyone else's competition. I don't look at what 260 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: anyone else is doing. I praise other women. I support 261 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: other women in the genre because that's what we need 262 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 1: more of. There hasn't been enough of that, I think. 263 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: So I'm trying to whatever it is that I've accomplished, 264 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: bring other women along with me, other very talented women, 265 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: especially in my genre, so that they can also show 266 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: through my platform, their voice, their talent. You know, it 267 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: is a very very difficult genre for women. It just is. 268 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: It is what it is. It is male dominated. I've 269 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: even heard stories about women having to or have been 270 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: offered to say, Okay, I'll put you on radio if 271 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: you if you sleep with me. Some women have done it, 272 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: some women haven't. That's none of my business, that's just 273 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: the truth. Whatever. Thank god, thank goodness, I've never had 274 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: to do that. I know my mom was offered a 275 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: couple of times she told me herself, and of course, 276 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: you guys know my mother. She's like, f you, I'm 277 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: going to sleep with you if I want to sleep 278 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: with you, but my vagina doesn't want you, so I'm 279 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: not going to. So she got to where she got, 280 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: and me too. I started my relationship with Angel, who 281 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: was who's very known and has accomplished a lot in 282 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: regional Mexican music before him and I met organically and 283 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: throughout our relationship then you know, it just happened that 284 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: he wanted to help me. But it's not like I 285 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: had to sleep with him for him to help me. 286 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: There was. It was an actual relationship of almost five years. 287 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: But um no, thank goodness, no one has ever off 288 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: for me to say, hey, you know, stuck my penis 289 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: and I'll put you on the charts, and I wouldn't. 290 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: I've heard of stories, and I obviously heard of my mom's, 291 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 1: but I have not been offered, thank the Lord. So 292 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: going back to it being harder for me, I think 293 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: to start my career, I felt like I was for 294 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: a long time going against the current. But obviously, being 295 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: born and raised in a family of musicians, it did 296 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: have its perks. I know a lot about music because 297 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: of my family. I did get a lot of a 298 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: lot of advice from my uncle's. I asked a lot 299 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: of questions, I saw a lot of things. Then when 300 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: we like I I can find my Donal's right away, 301 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: like I'm it's something that I think, it's just in me, 302 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I'm very grateful because 303 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: they did, they did help pave the way, like my mother, 304 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: my uncle's, my grandpa, my grandpa was huge in this. 305 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: Like if it wasn't for my grandpa, none of us, 306 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: I think would be or have this opportunity because he 307 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: did start the Rivera dynasty. So I'm very grateful. And 308 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: he's a very very smart businessman. So I learned a 309 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: lot about the business through my grandpa and just kind 310 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: of they did help pave the way. And in a way, 311 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, like more people because of the Rivera 312 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 1: last name, it was kind of like Okay, well I'll 313 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: take a chance to listen to this girl, but not 314 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: I think when it came to listening to especially the 315 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: first song, you guys, the truth is it was not ready. 316 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: The song was not supposed to come out. So I'm like, 317 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: you know what, yeah, you guys are right. The song 318 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: was not ready and it was not good. I think 319 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: the song itself is good, but but I was not 320 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: ready vocally at all. It was just a surprise. A 321 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: lot of you guys may know this story, but Angel 322 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: at that time wanted to surprise me with the song 323 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: on the radio and he just brought it out without 324 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: it being ready. So that started the whole thing. I 325 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: thank him because he wanted to surprise me. But then 326 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: my team, my management was just like, what the heck. 327 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: It just kind of I feel like we started asked backwards. 328 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: So anyways, if you guys want to know a little 329 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 1: bit about that, I just mentioned it in my first book, Forgiveness, 330 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 1: so you guys can go ahead and read the details 331 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: as to how I started my career and what happened. Anyways, 332 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: I'm grateful for him. Everything happened the way it was 333 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: supposed to happen. And yes, I just feel like, yeah, 334 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 1: because I come from a family of musicians, people expected 335 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: me to sing this certain way or seeing like some 336 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 1: of my family members are seeing like my mother, and 337 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: that's why it was a little harder. It was. There 338 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,919 Speaker 1: was a via and they had I guess something to 339 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: compare it with, which is why it was more difficult. 340 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: But I like to take the positive out of things, 341 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: and the truth is that I did learn a lot 342 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: that I am very grateful that I had almost all 343 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: my family to see everything that they did, to learn 344 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,120 Speaker 1: from everything that they did, to learn from their mistakes 345 00:17:56,119 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: as well. And you know, no, so I'm I'm grateful 346 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 1: for that for sure. I'm asked this question all the time, 347 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: like why do I think that it's harder for women 348 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: in in regional Mexican music? And I thought about it 349 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: a lot, and first of all, I think the women 350 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: for a long time in this industry, they felt like 351 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 1: there was only one spot, only one woman. Why it's 352 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 1: like that, I have no idea, but for years it's 353 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: like everyone, all women are fighting for that one spot. 354 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: And that's something that I've wanted to change since I 355 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: started singing, and I stepped into this into this genre 356 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: because I felt like, why is it that we can't 357 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: be like the urbano side of things, those genres that 358 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: women collaborate together. And that's what I did it for 359 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: the first time in my in my playlist album, I 360 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 1: said I want three women that I admire that I 361 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: love on one song. It's never happened. Why. I don't 362 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: understand why it hasn't happened in so many years. And 363 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: there's so much talent, so many talented women. A lot 364 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: of them are my friends. And at first it was 365 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: kind of like it was just like this tension when 366 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: I first started singing. But then I gone tempo. I 367 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: started reaching out and I'm like, hey, peace and love guys, 368 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: like let's be cool. A lot of them have been awesome. 369 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 1: There have been a few that have been bitches, to 370 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: be honest, but whatever, I've tried, and I just wanted 371 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 1: to do that something for the first time. And I 372 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: think for a long time, one of the main things 373 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: is not enough women in the genre support each other 374 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: and empower each other. I think that's been a thing, 375 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: and this whole idea of their just being one spot 376 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:48,880 Speaker 1: for women because it is a male dominated, like especially 377 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: music banda Artho, it's like that's for men, like women 378 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: shouldn't be singing, that women should be singing and mariachi 379 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 1: and stuff like that, because that's more of an elegant 380 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: type of of music, you could say, but that's a 381 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: little bit more rugged. It's it's if you want to 382 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: call it ghetto, call it ghetto, whatever you want to 383 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: call it. But I think for a long time, especially Bond, 384 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 1: that women that's singing band that specifically, it's kind of 385 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: like it's like you're competing against all these men, and 386 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: there are a lot of men. I mean, also the 387 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 1: women that are in high positions in radio or high 388 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,919 Speaker 1: positions and now digital platforms. I feel like those women, 389 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but support men more 390 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: than women. And that's just the truth. And that's what 391 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,360 Speaker 1: I've noticed, and it sucks. And the men that are 392 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: in those positions. Even if there are women that want 393 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: to support our music and want to play our music 394 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: or add us two playlists, there are men that stop it. Why. 395 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's just very sexist. It's 396 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: kind of like this is a man's world. Is music. 397 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: For a long time, they criticize my mom for singing carrillos. 398 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 1: Thank goodness for for her hard work. She made it possible, 399 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: She made it possible for it to be a little 400 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: bit more okay, But it has been a struggle, and 401 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: I think right now it's better than it ever has 402 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: been because I think we're a little bit more adamant 403 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: and intentional about supporting one another as women, and that's 404 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: something that I'm very proud to say. I think I 405 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 1: was one of the first, if not the first, to 406 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 1: share women's music on my social media, to collaborate with 407 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: other women in my genre. Like for me, it's like, 408 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: you know, Likesrio, and for me, it's like, I can't 409 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: take away what you have and you can't take away 410 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: what I have, So why don't we just get together 411 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: and make this bigger? You know what I mean? And 412 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: that's just the truth. And that's something that I've tried 413 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: to just with the year, is just really really not 414 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: just talk about it, but be about it. But I 415 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: think it's a little bit of a lot of things. 416 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 1: And that's why I think also women, other women that 417 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 1: listen to this music should support more women in the industry. 418 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: I get it, like there's a lot of man I 419 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: think it's easier for a woman to go to a 420 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 1: man's concert and admire him for obviously the way he sings, 421 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,439 Speaker 1: but you know, if he's handsome or his package or 422 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,159 Speaker 1: whatever the hell, but for another woman to support go 423 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:20,239 Speaker 1: to another woman's concert. So that's another thing. There's just 424 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: a lot of different things anyways, Guys, I can honestly 425 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: tell you yes, it's been a tough road with lots 426 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: of bumps and obstacles and corrects in the pavement in 427 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 1: my music career. But I'm very very grateful. I'm very happy. 428 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: I feel very proud of myself. Every album has been 429 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: a learning experience. With my first album, aut Am, I 430 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: was still trying to find myself. I was able to 431 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:53,439 Speaker 1: experiment with different sounds, trying to find where I felt 432 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: the best. I invested a lot of ridiculous money on 433 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: that album, very unnecessary, but I learned then was completely 434 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: banda and I felt like, this is what I like. 435 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 1: This is Cinario and sing bandait like honestly excites me. 436 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: I love listening to it. I love here at my house. 437 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 1: It's just something that makes me happy. So I feel 438 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: like in my second album, I kind of just got it, 439 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: and then I wrote a little bit more in there. 440 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 1: I felt like that was like the first time where 441 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,479 Speaker 1: I felt Okay, I'm getting confident, I'm getting better. And 442 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: then playlist was a little bit like Aura, you know, 443 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: because I had a little bit of a mix. It's 444 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: it's a playlist of music of chickens music. That's when 445 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: we got the Latin Grammy. You guys, so I feel 446 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,120 Speaker 1: very proud of With my third album, I felt like, Okay, 447 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: I learned from my first and my second. What am 448 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 1: I going to do different? I want to mix and 449 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: master everything from the sounds, like listening to it in 450 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 1: my car, just learning, Okay, this is my vocal range, 451 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: this is where my voice sounds the best, and this 452 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: is where I'm going to stay. There's no need to 453 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: try to show off and sing crazy. Hi. The good 454 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: thing is I can I can sing very low. A 455 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: lot of women can't. I can sing very low, and 456 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: I can sing really high if I wanted to. But 457 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: I finally found like this is where it's at. This 458 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: is like where I feel good, and I think that's 459 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: what's the biggest difference with my first and second album. 460 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: With the third album playlist, I felt like I got it, 461 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: Like I got a grip on this and I'm proud. 462 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 1: I feel like, without a doubt in my mind, playlist 463 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 1: deserved that Latin Grammy. No matter what anyone wants to say, 464 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: no matter what anyone wants to think, I don't give 465 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 1: an f for that. I would get like two middle 466 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 1: fingers up in the air. To those that want to 467 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 1: criticize and want to say that I bought the damn Grammy, 468 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 1: how do you even buy a Grammy? First of all, 469 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 1: that's crazy whatever. Say what you want, but if you 470 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,199 Speaker 1: listen to the album, all the songs from the beginning 471 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: to the end, the way I chose every song, the 472 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: flow of the songs, the sound, those are things that 473 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: the academy, the Latin Grammy Academy, listened to. And I 474 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: went in there with that intention, Like recording that album, 475 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm to win a Lentin Crammey. I put 476 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,199 Speaker 1: all the energy, I put in, all the work. I 477 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: was like, I learned, I took lessons, I asked people like. 478 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, wait a second, Like what is 479 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: it that the academy looks for? And I followed those guidelines. 480 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, cool, this is what I want. 481 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: This is what I want to accomplish. And we did it. 482 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't want to invest, especially 483 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: in regional They don't want to invest the money to 484 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: perfect their craft. And that's something that I'm all about. 485 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: I'm all about investing, about investing your money, especially in 486 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 1: your craft. And for me, that album was everything. It 487 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: was number three. The number three is huge for me. 488 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: You guys know, I believe a lot of numerology, So 489 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 1: I invested that extra money to master everything at the 490 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,399 Speaker 1: same level, the same sound, where everything felt like it 491 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,919 Speaker 1: was in your face and not behind you. There's just 492 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 1: so much to it. But anyways, bottom line is, I'm 493 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: very proud of myself. I'm very proud, and I can 494 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 1: honestly say I enjoy listening to my songs now. I 495 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 1: think my first album is a little difficult for me 496 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 1: to listen to certain songs, but hey, I was just 497 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: starting especially Banca. It's a song that I love because 498 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: I wrote it for my mom. But it's I want 499 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: to rerecord that song with day guys. I want to 500 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: rerecord that song so bad because it deserves it. The 501 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: song is beautiful. It's a beautiful song. It's it's I 502 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: wrote it from the bottom of my heart. But it's 503 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: hard for me to listen to be honest, But now 504 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: I can tell you that I listened to my music. 505 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: I listened to the songs that I'm recording right now, 506 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: this album that's coming. I'm very fucking proud. I can 507 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: say Wow, I enjoy I I listen to and I'm like, yes, 508 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: it's even better than me problemma. And it's so different 509 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,719 Speaker 1: from Galia, which are songs that are gonna come out 510 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,199 Speaker 1: on this album. And I'm just like, I feel like 511 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: I'm my own competition. I'm like, that's what it's all about. 512 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 1: It's bettering yourself. What can you do to better yourself 513 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: in your craft? Keep learning, keep striving for that knowledge, 514 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 1: whether you're a singer, whether or whether you're a cosmatologist, 515 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: whether you do nails for a living, whatever it may be, 516 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: It is so important to keep learning, to want to learn, 517 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 1: to ever feel comfortable and say, Okay, well yeah cool, 518 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: I got Latin Grammy. I'm just gonna chill. No now, 519 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: I'm like, this album has to be better than playlist 520 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: that want the Latin Grammy because I want to just 521 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: prove it to myself. And and this album is so 522 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 1: I'm so excited for it. I can't wait for you 523 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,679 Speaker 1: guys to listen to it. Anyways, Guys, I can honestly 524 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: say that the it's been a great team. I have 525 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: a great team behind me. I can't do any of 526 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 1: this by myself. I am so grateful with everyone with anywhere, 527 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: from my assistant only to to my manager to Mivanda 528 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,159 Speaker 1: and honestly, I'm just gonna right now, I'm focusing on 529 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: this next album. I think for me, I want to 530 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 1: do a tour. To be honest, I want to do 531 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: a tour in Mexico and Los Nidos, and I have 532 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: a few things on my vision board, things that I 533 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: want to accomplish, a few sold outs that I want. 534 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: So I don't know. I am doing what I can. 535 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: I I've learned to set goals, but just focus in 536 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: the moment, and right now, the moment is finishing this album, 537 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: getting my tour ready. We start April ten in the 538 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 1: Polo Casino. I have some dates in the States as 539 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: well as in Mexico, and I'm just going to let 540 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 1: it be and I'm just taking a day by day 541 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: right now when it comes to this, because I really 542 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: need to finish this album. With this album, Aberna. As 543 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: those of you that listen to my music may know, 544 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: a lot of the songs that I write are about 545 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: something that I've lived, something that I'm feeling in the moment. 546 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: The first song is the first love song that I 547 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: sing that I really like and it's a cover. But 548 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: I think, more than anything, what inspires me to write 549 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: to record the songs that I record, the songs that 550 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 1: I even sing live, even if they're not my own, 551 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: it's just I need to feel them. I don't know 552 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: if a lot of artists are like that. I think 553 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: a lot of artists just can sing songs and whether 554 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: they've been through that or not. For me, it's super important. 555 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 1: I have this saying I've shared here with you guys too. 556 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: What comes from the heart reaches the heart. So if 557 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: I feel that song in my heart, even if I'm 558 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: not living that situation in the moment, if I lived 559 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: it two years ago, I still can sing that song 560 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 1: on stage like I'm going through it in that moment. 561 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: What I write to there's a corrido coming. I think 562 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: this is the first corrido. Actually, no, the second corrido, 563 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 1: because the first one is La that I wrote, and 564 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: then which is the name of the album, is also corrido. Yes, 565 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: I mean in but I felt like I was ready. 566 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 1: I felt like, Okay, I've been holding onto this song 567 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: for a little bit for like I don't almost two years. 568 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: I think because I wasn't ready, I need to feel ready, like, Okay, yes, 569 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: I can every word in this song. I can go 570 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: up there and say, hell yeah, I'm that bitch. So 571 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: I feel like now I feel like I'm that bitch, 572 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: Like I have gotten this far, Like I'm happy, I'm 573 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: proud of myself, like I enjoy being on stage. I 574 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 1: don't care what anyone has to say. I'm all like, 575 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: you know what, if you guys want to criticize me, 576 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: go to one of my concerts and then you'll see 577 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 1: what I'm all about on stage. So now I'm like, 578 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: be quiet, go ahead, say what you will. It's a 579 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: part of it. I've learned that people are going to 580 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: criticize regardless, even Taylor Swift, who I think is amazing. 581 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: She's thin and beautiful and is amazing and amazing performer 582 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: and singer, and she's always getting criticized for one reason 583 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: or another. When I saw that, I'm like, dude, this 584 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: is just part of it. We have to understand anyone 585 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 1: that wants to be a singer, wants to step into 586 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: this world, this industry needs to know if they're going 587 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 1: to be people that love your music and they're going 588 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: to people that don't. And that's it. Like we have 589 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,239 Speaker 1: to be okay with those things. It's part of it. 590 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: All The haters are part of everything. There's always gonna 591 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 1: be naysayers and people that are trying to bring you down, 592 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: and it's just kind of like it's just part of it, 593 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it really shows like 594 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 1: what you're made of if you can get through all 595 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,959 Speaker 1: that and keep going. And I think that's why, more 596 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: than anything, I feel very proud of myself. My album, 597 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 1: my fourth album, is what I want to focus on 598 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 1: and my tour. Start my tour this year. But if 599 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,959 Speaker 1: we're looking, you know, five years down the road, I 600 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 1: want to have a couple more albums, I believe it 601 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: or not. I want a Christian album. I want and 602 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: feel the need. I have one song that I want 603 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: to sing. It's in English that I I have for God. 604 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 1: He's a huge part of everything that I do, as 605 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 1: you guys know. So I want to do like conferences 606 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: or like seminars that like Tony Robbins, you know that 607 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: last two or three days. I have that in my mind. 608 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: I have ideas for two more books, not memoirs. I 609 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: want to stay away from the os for a while, 610 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: but I do have two ideas that I I already 611 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 1: talked to to my book agent and I want to 612 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: work on I want to show you guys. I also 613 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: want to show a panel show of not only women. 614 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: But I have this whole idea. I can't really say 615 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 1: much because I'm all about protecting, you know, but I 616 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: do want like a panel show where we just kind 617 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: of like a podcast, but like it could be probably 618 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: a podcast with other people. Oh my God, to be awesome, right, 619 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: and like have the cameras there. We could be in 620 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: our pajamas, I don't know, but just talk about all 621 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 1: kinds of ship and get the opinion of so many 622 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: different people. So I have so many dreams, you guys, 623 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: and so many things that I want to accomplish. And 624 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: today when I was I had my vision board and 625 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 1: I was cleansing it with Baralosanto and I was lighting 626 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: my candles. I was like, Okay, God, protect everything that 627 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: I want to do, and may your will be done, 628 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: because there's so many things that I want to do, 629 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 1: but sometimes we were meant to do other things. So 630 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 1: I'm just going with the flow. But those are some 631 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 1: of my dreams and I share them with you guys 632 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: because I know the people that listen to this podcast 633 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: and to my podcast. Have all send me good vibes, 634 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 1: So send me a good vibes, guys, get the little 635 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 1: oh look at But I have a lot of things. 636 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll be a mom. Guys, in five years, I 637 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 1: don't even know. I don't know. Maybe I'll be a mom. 638 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 1: Maybe that's the thing. Maybe I have all these things 639 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: and then I become a mom and then like I 640 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 1: just focus on my child. But knowing me, I love 641 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: to work, so highly doubt it. Maybe for a year 642 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: I'll focus on the kid. Briannest my producer. Guys, she 643 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: just asked me a question now that we're talking about kids, 644 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: if I would want my kids to be in this industry. Guys, 645 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a very good question. Now I 646 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 1: understand my mom more than ever, you guys, more than ever. 647 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: Things that I was so hard on her about and 648 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 1: I was a bit critical, I'll be honest where I 649 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 1: was tough on her, like why aren't you here for birthdays? 650 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 1: And this and this and that, and even when she 651 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: hit I don't know if it was necessarily a fan, 652 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 1: but someone in the audience he was pulling her hand 653 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: and she hit him with the microphone. I didn't understand 654 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 1: that at first. I was like, Mom, you're an artist, 655 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,400 Speaker 1: Like you can't be doing those things and all this 656 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,440 Speaker 1: stuff because they pressed charges in the whole thing, right, 657 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 1: So I was kind of like hard on her, and 658 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 1: she's like, well, you don't know, like at the end 659 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 1: of the day, I'm a woman, and I'm like, now 660 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,319 Speaker 1: I get it. Guys. Now I'm like, dude, if someone 661 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,759 Speaker 1: were to throw someone and I've done this before on 662 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: stage where they've thrown something, or if they've said something 663 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: to me in the crowd and I stopped the whole 664 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,360 Speaker 1: show and I'm like, get this person out. You're not 665 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,279 Speaker 1: gonna disrespect me. And I think of my mom in 666 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:42,719 Speaker 1: that moment. I'm like, oh my god, because now I 667 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 1: get it. Now I am on stage, now, I'm singing. Now, 668 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: I'm a woman in this industry. And she was absolutely right, 669 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 1: it's not easy. So if my daughter grew up and 670 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,840 Speaker 1: wanted to be a singer, I would definitely support her. 671 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,959 Speaker 1: I would definitely want to manage her or at least 672 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: be there with her. I would support her and and 673 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 1: guide her as my as I can. But I would 674 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: tell her woman, Mom said, I would say, it's not easy. 675 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 1: It's tough. Be ready. You have to have a hard 676 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: shell and a soft heart, and you've got to toughen 677 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 1: up because I will be honest. This this career, this industry, 678 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 1: I think more than anything has. I'm different now, and 679 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 1: I am and I can admit that I was so naive, 680 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:27,839 Speaker 1: so gullible when I started, and this career, Mapolio, It's 681 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: made me like I have tougher skin like now. I 682 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 1: guess it is the music that I sing. I don't know. 683 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,360 Speaker 1: You feel like you have to be strong and you 684 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 1: have to show these men I can do this too, 685 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: So it just does something to you. I don't know 686 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 1: how to explain it. I don't regret it because I 687 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 1: feel like we are evolving, like we need to, like 688 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,279 Speaker 1: that's just part of life, is evolving. But I do 689 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,399 Speaker 1: see a different cheekys and not necessarily in a bad way, 690 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,920 Speaker 1: because I feel like I'd rather be this way and 691 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,640 Speaker 1: be more alert and be masileista you know, like I 692 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 1: can bullshit now than before. I was just very naive 693 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,799 Speaker 1: and very like a pushover, a people pleaser, and like 694 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,360 Speaker 1: this industry will do that to you. And now I 695 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,880 Speaker 1: understand my mom. Now I understand her she would always 696 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,759 Speaker 1: say this career made me a bit, and I'm like, oh, 697 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,879 Speaker 1: because I would. I'm telling you, I would tell her Mom, 698 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,360 Speaker 1: I don't agree with that. You shouldn't do that. And 699 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,799 Speaker 1: now I'm like, Mom, I'm sorry, I get it. I 700 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,799 Speaker 1: fucking get it now, like I get it, and I 701 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,120 Speaker 1: have compassion. Honestly, I have compassion for her, and I 702 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,280 Speaker 1: thank her because yes, she wasn't there for some birthday, 703 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,640 Speaker 1: she wasn't there for some holidays, but she was the 704 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,840 Speaker 1: motor of our family. And sometimes now I have to 705 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 1: miss Jennica's birthday sometimes, or I can't be there for 706 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: certain holidays because I'm working, and it's like I gotta 707 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,840 Speaker 1: do what I gotta do. I gotta pay my bills. 708 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,320 Speaker 1: And now I'm like, Mom, thank you, like my respects 709 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 1: to you and your hard work, and you did it. 710 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,359 Speaker 1: That's why I always say she's my teacher, she's my 711 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 1: life professor. Guys, it takes a lot of balls or ovadios, 712 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,080 Speaker 1: like my mom would say to admit that. But hey, 713 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,520 Speaker 1: you guys know how I am very honest and upfront 714 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,399 Speaker 1: and I can tell you guys the way it is 715 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,319 Speaker 1: because I have nothing to hide, and it's a part 716 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,400 Speaker 1: of my growth, and I'm not ashamed of it. So 717 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:10,760 Speaker 1: mom my hat goes off to your the bomb. Well, guys, 718 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,880 Speaker 1: I hope you've learned a lot about me and my career, 719 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,040 Speaker 1: and I hope I've also inspired some of you to 720 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:20,640 Speaker 1: follow your dreams. Today's motivational Monday quote is exactly that, 721 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,680 Speaker 1: and it goes a little something like this. It says, courage. 722 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,440 Speaker 1: If you have a dream, you need to follow it, 723 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 1: and not just follow it, but chase after it, sprint 724 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,400 Speaker 1: towards it, go towards it with passion, with the fighting spirit, 725 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,759 Speaker 1: with the courage to do whatever it takes to make 726 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,160 Speaker 1: it happen. Too many people are walking around with silent 727 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: dreams because they shoved them aside. Too many times, they 728 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,920 Speaker 1: told their dreams that they were too big, too unrealistic, 729 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 1: too impossible. Don't let that be you. You do have 730 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,760 Speaker 1: the strength, You are capable, You do have what it takes. 731 00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:00,840 Speaker 1: You can accomplish even your wildest dreams. Your only question 732 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,800 Speaker 1: is do you have a few tiny moments of courage 733 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:10,240 Speaker 1: to say yes? Guys, listen to that again. More than anything, 734 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,920 Speaker 1: what I wanted for this episode was to inspire and 735 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,279 Speaker 1: encourage you guys to follow your dreams, no matter what 736 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,880 Speaker 1: is said, no matter if people say you should or 737 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,960 Speaker 1: shouldn't do it. It's what you're meant to do. Again, 738 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 1: thank you for listening to another episode of Chickens and Chill. 739 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,560 Speaker 1: I appreciate each and every one of my listeners. I 740 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,560 Speaker 1: am so grateful and yeah, I have a great week, guys, 741 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 1: and I will catch you next week. This is a 742 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:41,160 Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio and Mikela podcast Network. Follow 743 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,920 Speaker 1: us on Instagram at Michel Dura Podcasts and follow me 744 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,680 Speaker 1: checks that's c h i q u i s. For 745 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 1: more podcasts from my heart, visit the I Heart Radio app, 746 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,080 Speaker 1: Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.