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Empowering Latina Leaders with Dr. Beth Marranzini · Teach Me Something Hosted By DJ Prostyle & Penny Dellas

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: This is DJ pro Style and this is Pennydellas.
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  Speaker 1: And this is Teach Me Something, brought.
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  Speaker 2: To you by Berkeley College. Yeah exactly, and this is
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  Speaker 2: to Teach Me Something podcast. So welcome to our language
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  Speaker 2: battle that we have here going on. I am Pennydellas,
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  Speaker 2: I am DJ pro Style and this is presented by
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  Speaker 2: Berkeley College.
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  Speaker 1: Like, is that really how this this podcast started? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is how we're gonna do it.
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  Speaker 2: Organic started a trends bro you started, Yes, you did.
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  Speaker 2: And on this episode, we're really excited because the voice
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  Speaker 2: you heard on the third mic today is Beth Marancini,
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  Speaker 2: a nationally recognized healthcare executive, policy advocate and community leader
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  Speaker 2: with over twenty five years of experience in her field.
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  Speaker 1: Let's give a warm welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you guys, thank you, thank you for
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  Speaker 3: being here.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: So we were just talking about our backgrounds and you know,
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  Speaker 4: all the different languages.
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  Speaker 2: We're just a melting pot.
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  Speaker 3: That's what makes us better. That's what makes us better.
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  Speaker 3: The mix of all the culture, the emotions. It's just amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Every day I get up, I'm like, thank you, lord.
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  Speaker 3: I was born in the art.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Yeah, I love it, especially in New York City.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a melting pot. It's different cultures on every corner.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a beautiful thing. And everyone that comes here
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  Speaker 2: to the pod we always end up talking about languages
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  Speaker 2: and definitely and touring and architecture and all the.
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  Speaker 4: Love.
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  Speaker 2: We love our snacks.
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  Speaker 4: Really done a good food podcast, right, we oh the idea.
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  Speaker 2: We've spoken a lot about food on all of the episodes. Somebody,
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  Speaker 2: I think that'll be really cool. But let's speak about
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  Speaker 2: the chef of business that we have with us here
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  Speaker 2: like that segue. You currently serve as the Madam chair
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  Speaker 2: of Prospanica National Latina NBA and Awards, and I've had
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of being on one of the seminars on
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  Speaker 2: the National Landscape with you. How did that series movement
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  Speaker 2: come about?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that is an amazing question, I will say. Let
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  Speaker 3: me just take us back to I started with Prospanica
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  Speaker 3: in twenty eleven and the reason why I joined Prospanica
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  Speaker 3: is because the company that at that time I was
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  Speaker 3: working for Medical Health Solutions, which by the way, my
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  Speaker 3: fiance was the president, had been just bought by another company,
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  Speaker 3: a Credo Health, and they had the biggest massive layoff
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  Speaker 3: in Bergen County. So at that time I was on
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  Speaker 3: the Diversity Network as the president of the Diversity Network
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  Speaker 3: Board and one of my peers who was in the
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  Speaker 3: Prospanica New Jersey chapters, say look. We were like, brainstormy,
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  Speaker 3: how do we help people get landed job right? And
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  Speaker 3: he suggested to bring the Hispanic NBA, the National Society
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  Speaker 3: with MBA, which is Prospanica now because they rebranded and
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  Speaker 3: the Black MBA. I were like, yeah, great, So then
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  Speaker 3: I joined in twenty eleven, went to the first my
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  Speaker 3: first conference in Orlando. We had the hard Rock Cafe
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  Speaker 3: and all the other stuff, and I fell in love
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  Speaker 3: with the mission, the mission of you know, empowering Latinos
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  Speaker 3: to be you know, socially economic and educational like empower
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, wow, I that resonate with what I
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  Speaker 3: want to do because when I came to the US,
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  Speaker 3: I worked two jobs, okay, and one job was sixty hours.
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  Speaker 3: The other job was the weekend and catering while I
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  Speaker 3: went to school. And I felt that I have gotten
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  Speaker 3: that far because of my education, and I was looking
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  Speaker 3: for a way of you know, giving it back, helping
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  Speaker 3: our community get educated. And Prospanica diam Fast forward in
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  Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. I have just I have co wrote two
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  Speaker 3: books and we were with a lot of Latinas in
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  Speaker 3: Europe in twenty nineteen when we launch our book and
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  Speaker 3: I realized that, wait a minute, what about Latinas. I
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  Speaker 3: looked at a statistical information that is stated in the
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  Speaker 3: US one in every five women is a Latina. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: then I look at a statistical information that says Latinas
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  Speaker 3: are not really graduating for college. Only four percent of
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  Speaker 3: Latinas that obtain their high school diploma actually graduate from
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  Speaker 3: college nbaight less than zero percent. I'm like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: what's the future is going to look like in the US.
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  Speaker 3: If they're predicting that Latinas are going to be higher
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  Speaker 3: numbers right in the population of the US and they're
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  Speaker 3: not educated, what's going to happen to the US? I
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  Speaker 3: got to do something, So pick on the phone called Tomas.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out to Tomasa, you know, the CEO for Spannica.
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  Speaker 3: Said Thomas, we have to create any specific track that
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  Speaker 3: helps Latina get educated, promoted, empower, you know, advance in
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  Speaker 3: their career. And he's like, oh, we had that, said
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  Speaker 3: you had that and what happened? We got to do
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  Speaker 3: it now. So it all started with that conversation. And
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, I launched what is called the
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  Speaker 3: muhies Righanta's Award, which today is called Parejas Award. And
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you why. And right when COVID hit, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to have our first four hundred people event where
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  Speaker 3: we're going to be giving this award. I realize and
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  Speaker 3: if you notice the same women in the Latinas in
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  Speaker 3: the US in leadership are getting award, it's the same one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, they're really nice, but what about all
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  Speaker 3: the other Latinas that are doing so much for their community,
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  Speaker 3: for in education everywhere, and they're not getting recognized. So
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  Speaker 3: I launched first de Moides Rigentis. That's how I started,
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  Speaker 3: and then the Latina Track, which is now called the
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  Speaker 3: Latina MBA in Prospectic.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking aback because, first of all, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: educating us on these statistics. It's very important that we
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  Speaker 2: know that, and being of Latina and having an MBA,
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  Speaker 2: you know, shout out to Berkeley College. But it was
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  Speaker 2: a difficult track and you don't see many of yourself
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  Speaker 2: within your classmates. So it's definitely interesting to see those
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  Speaker 2: statistics and hear that and thank you for advocating for.
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  Speaker 1: Our thought that. By the way, those statistics that's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then you know, you look at the in
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  Speaker 3: the US war positions in the fourth of five hundred,
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  Speaker 3: that's also like less than four percent, And I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: why there's so many brilliant Latinas out there that can
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  Speaker 3: become CEO. I mean, we're busy to start with, so
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  Speaker 3: we could definitely help corporations because we're very savvy. Latinas
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  Speaker 3: are not only very passionate, but we're very savvy, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, we have these sixth sense that make us
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  Speaker 3: be entrepreneurs and owned businesses, which, by the way, if
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  Speaker 3: you look at the statistical information as well, entrepreneurship, we're like,
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  Speaker 3: the highest number of entrepreneurs is Latinas and Latinos in
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  Speaker 3: the US as well.
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  Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I know a bunch of amazing
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  Speaker 4: women who are entrepreneurs, you know, so that number makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Graduation number and all that doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: So I think, you know, there was a time guys
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  Speaker 3: where I feel corporations were missing out on diversity let's say,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel corporations are missing out on Latinas and
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  Speaker 3: it is important that they invest, we invest in the
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  Speaker 3: education and the professional investment of Latina because there will
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  Speaker 3: be a majority pretty soon. So that's my concern right now,
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  Speaker 3: and why I'm advocating for the Latina's NBA. Who I'm
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  Speaker 3: advocating for. We're hosting this event. This was another dream
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  Speaker 3: of mine. So you gather all these Latinas all the
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  Speaker 3: time in conferences, and yes, you meet people, you expand
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  Speaker 3: your network, which is important, but then they walk out
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  Speaker 3: of there with nothing. My dream, and I pitched this
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  Speaker 3: idea from the very beginning, was to host an event
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  Speaker 3: at a school where Latinas could walk out of their
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  Speaker 3: listening to other Latinas in leadership people in education, but
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  Speaker 3: obtained a certification that they could put to the resume
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  Speaker 3: as I did this a leadership course. So that's also
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  Speaker 3: something that we're going to be hosting second year in
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  Speaker 3: a row. Last year, one hundred and fifty seven Latinas
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  Speaker 3: at Pepperdine University, May twenty nine. Prospanica is obviously hosting
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  Speaker 3: this for US and the Latina MBA. Shout out to
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  Speaker 3: Randy Gomes she's in the committee, and thank you for
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  Speaker 3: making this possible for all of us here this connection.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the difference. It's not just going to be
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  Speaker 3: a conference for you to just go and sit there
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  Speaker 3: and listen. You're going to obtain a certification that you
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  Speaker 3: could add to your resume and that was important to me.
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  Speaker 2: And credentials are important. Stackable credentials are important. Going back
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  Speaker 2: to the percentages, because pro and I are stuck on
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  Speaker 2: these percentages from your perspective, right as an S and
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  Speaker 2: me in this space, why do you believe that those
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  Speaker 2: percentages are so low or what does the data show?
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  Speaker 2: Is it because they're not reporting that they're part of that?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Worth the disconnect in terms of are we not reporting
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  Speaker 2: that we've graduated and obtained these degrees or is it
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  Speaker 2: do you think that there is a lack of education
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  Speaker 2: and financial literacy or lower socio economic communities or what
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  Speaker 2: do you think is the dividing trend there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you think you didn't know, but all every element
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  Speaker 3: and factor that you mentioned contributes to that fact, especially
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  Speaker 3: for latinas. I was very blessed.
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  Speaker 4: Guys.
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  Speaker 3: My mom, you know, was a woman who you know,
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  Speaker 3: divorced my dad or they divorced when I was six
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  Speaker 3: months on in the Dominican Republic, and she could have
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  Speaker 3: chosen to you know, okay, I'm not going to do anything.
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  Speaker 3: This is it. This is the end of my life.
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  Speaker 3: Four kids and me thirty years old, and she chose
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  Speaker 3: to go to school and then from there she became
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  Speaker 3: secretary for two of our presidents, chuse Man and Balaguer,
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  Speaker 3: So I had a role model. The expectations for me,
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  Speaker 3: and I never had a doubt, was to go to school. However,
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  Speaker 3: when you come from different backgrounds, the expectations for Latinas
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  Speaker 3: it's more of you're going to get married, you are
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  Speaker 3: going to you know, your goal is to have kids.
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  Speaker 3: That that's success for you for the most part. That's one.
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  Speaker 3: The other one is when you come to the US,
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  Speaker 3: especially you are coming to work. It's not about education,
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  Speaker 3: especially if you're family. You don't come from familia where
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  Speaker 3: people are educated or that's the expectation. It's more you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna come hit the ground running and look for a
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  Speaker 3: job and help support your family. That's another thing. And
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  Speaker 3: the other thing is we get married young. For the
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  Speaker 3: most part is you know, to me, it was a
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  Speaker 3: surprise when you come to the US and men and
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  Speaker 3: women are getting married at thirty five. We're expected to
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  Speaker 3: get married in our wur twenties. Once you're married, you're stuck.
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  Speaker 3: You're pretty much for the most part, unless you have
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  Speaker 3: a supportive partner to take care of the house. Family,
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  Speaker 3: your parents, older the people, your kids. And that's the reality,
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  Speaker 3: you know. The other thing is a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: mentees that I have And by the way, shout out
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  Speaker 3: to Melissa Barell, She's one of my mentees and I
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  Speaker 3: saw your podcasts. A lot of the mentees that I
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  Speaker 3: talked to is like first generation going to school. It's
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  Speaker 3: hard when you don't know how to enroll, where to enroll.
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  Speaker 3: Melissa is a good example because she helps students enroll
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  Speaker 3: and she helped my son. I'm like, wait, AMT, why
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  Speaker 3: don't you charge for that? And that's where she launched
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  Speaker 3: me be me, but be better than me. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm giving you one hundred dollars for what you're doing
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  Speaker 3: and I don't even care you. This is something that
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  Speaker 3: you could you know, you're helping and you could also
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  Speaker 3: make money for. So that's the whole thing. Encouraging the
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  Speaker 3: next generation to you could do it. I did it
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  Speaker 3: looking at people that look like you and those environments
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  Speaker 3: and not you know, so they don't get scared or
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  Speaker 3: you know, the language barriers. A lot of mentees are
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  Speaker 3: very kind of worry and concerned about their accent. And
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you this. When I first came to the
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  Speaker 3: US and I couldn't speak the language one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 3: my mom ended up being also a teacher at NiFe
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  Speaker 3: for individuals like the housekeepers and mechanics at a lise
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  Speaker 3: on Nocturnal. So I knew the basis for English, but
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know how to speak the language one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: But I love speaking the language. And where I'm going
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  Speaker 3: with this is I lost the sort of like the
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  Speaker 3: being afraid of my accent when I saw the Nobel Prize.
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  Speaker 3: I was watching on TV and the scientists from Russia
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  Speaker 3: won the Nobel Prize and he could I couldn't understand
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  Speaker 3: a word he was saying. I'm like, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: If this guy is the most one of the most
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  Speaker 3: brilliant minds in the world and he can speak English
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  Speaker 3: and have that thick accent, why am I worry about
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  Speaker 3: I started to sing look for microphones everywhere, so lose
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  Speaker 3: that also thought and being scared of your accent. Be
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  Speaker 3: proud of who you are, be proud of your accent.
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  Speaker 3: Educate yourself. That's what I want really for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: It's true, that is true.
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  Speaker 2: It's the power of education really, whether it's and that's
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  Speaker 2: what we speak about here, whether it's in the classroom
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  Speaker 2: or outside the classroom or listening to this podcast, you're
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  Speaker 2: learning something or teaching you things. And we have industry
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  Speaker 2: experts that come on here and it's it's thank you
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  Speaker 2: for sharing that anecdote about you know, the adveries you
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  Speaker 2: faced or you know self complexes with your language. What
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  Speaker 2: piece of advice would you give to young professionals right
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  Speaker 2: now aspiring to these leadership roles that maybe they believe
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  Speaker 2: are unattainable.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think they are attainable, number one, And
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  Speaker 3: anybody can be a leader. You don't need to be
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  Speaker 3: a leader of I'm going to be an elected official.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be a millionaire. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 3: you know, the number one in the sport that I am.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what leadership is. It really is. There is
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  Speaker 3: sort of confusion. A leader is someone that through adversity,
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  Speaker 3: rights up and becomes an advocate for others that potentially
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  Speaker 3: don't have that ability, don't have a voice. That's what
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  Speaker 3: leadership is is facing adversity. And honestly, I have situations
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  Speaker 3: in my life where I was advocating for let's say,
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  Speaker 3: a program for children with disability, and I had an
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  Speaker 3: opposition from like leaders of the PTO because I wanted
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  Speaker 3: this a girl scouts to be a shadow to these kids,
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  Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, it's a liability. And I got
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  Speaker 3: up one day and I sat on my bed and
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  Speaker 3: I saw Gandy and I saw Martin Luther King and said,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, I get it now. I am here
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  Speaker 3: literally a piece to give my life for what I
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  Speaker 3: believe this is right and it's the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what leadership is is what is it that
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  Speaker 3: you see in your community? What is it that you
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  Speaker 3: see around you even at school? How can you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: lead by an example, advocate for others, find a cause.
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  Speaker 3: It's as simple as that. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. But for your kids are in sports
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  Speaker 2: and they're learning leadership.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and teamwork definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think sports is great for fundamentals. Days of the
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  Speaker 4: word I can't think of the word right now of
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  Speaker 4: what it teaches them.
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  Speaker 3: Discipline, there's the word. And I know that because I'm
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  Speaker 3: a black belt with sports, with anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's so great about it.
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  Speaker 4: It's not you're not putting your kids into sports because
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  Speaker 4: you want them to become professional athletes, right, But the
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  Speaker 4: discipline they get out of it is will stay with
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  Speaker 4: them for life, you know. And that's the greatest thing
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  Speaker 4: about it. And it's the same thing with military, right
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  Speaker 4: And we've had when we talked to Shaggy, we talked
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  Speaker 4: about that. Shaggy brought up the discipline he got out
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  Speaker 4: of the military. He believes that every everybody should be
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  Speaker 4: required to serve like a year in the military just
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  Speaker 4: from the discipline you learn from it, you know, so
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  Speaker 4: transferable skills.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you my oldest sister and women we're in Dominica, Republic,
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  Speaker 3: and I was necessarily like seven eight years old. She
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  Speaker 3: makes sure my brother and I were into karate or
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  Speaker 3: swimming lessons. And I love karate. If you have a
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  Speaker 3: daughter and you can't give if you want to give
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  Speaker 3: your daughter something that is going to help her be
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  Speaker 3: confident and secure and disciplined, karate is the best thing
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  Speaker 3: to do. I literally was in national competitions at the
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  Speaker 3: age of ten years old in the r with like
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  Speaker 3: eighteen years old, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And today I still do twenty a half hours of
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  Speaker 3: training every morning. And Randy, who you know is in here,
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  Speaker 3: could tell you. I send videos to the whole group.
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  Speaker 3: I have two different groups. Come on, people, let's go.
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  Speaker 3: I do the cold plunch. Fuck, I doan yeah, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's like you and a half hours of
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  Speaker 3: training and I do the cold plunch.
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  Speaker 1: So we haven't I have not done that yet.
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  Speaker 2: I never remember.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, guys, is like euphouri. You come out
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  Speaker 3: of there with energy, helps you with inflammation. It makes
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  Speaker 3: you feel like you are like super Woman once you
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  Speaker 3: come out of the top inside of four all right,
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  Speaker 3: So I'll be honest. I do up to like a
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  Speaker 3: minute on the cold plunch, and then I do thirty
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  Speaker 3: minutes or forty minutes on the on the cold shower
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  Speaker 3: fifty five degrees, the cold plunch about thirty eight degrees.
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  Speaker 3: My fiance those five minutes, so he's a superhero. But
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  Speaker 3: you starting like that, listen, discipline on everything. You know,
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  Speaker 3: this is supplying yourself and it's not about doing what
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  Speaker 3: you won't be able to sustain it started with like
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  Speaker 3: five minutes a day.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you have to create the habit too, Bengal. That's
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  Speaker 1: the most important is getting back into the gym.
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  Speaker 4: I always tell people like, so, I haven't been working
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: out for a long time, obviously because the injury I
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: went through. But now I want to get back into starting.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: So now I have to force myself. Before it was
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: part of your daily routine, like so it came naturally
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: because once it's part of your routine, that's it. But yeah,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: getting going is the hardest part. But I always tell
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  Speaker 4: people like, just start. You have to start, because if
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: you keep pushing it off, it just goes to the
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: next day, the next day, next week, next month, next thing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, two three months past you didn't do anything,
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  Speaker 4: you know, so.
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  Speaker 3: Well you have to feed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting today.
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  Speaker 2: Well there's your first day.
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  Speaker 4: Really the no, Yeah, I stay, Oh, I stay active
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: because I have three young kids, right, three young boys
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: who were in sports.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, for me, I was you know, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Until text you voice notes, you go, I'll be.
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  Speaker 4: Posting back and watching TV, you know, watching them. Think
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: I'll start walking and doing Yeah, I'll do some walking first.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: And tell people do you take care of your car?
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: You know, house? You know you do? They all change
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: or that, but what about you?
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: This is part of It's something that has to cut
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: you off. It's something I saw on social media a
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: long time ago, and I tell people this.
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  Speaker 1: All the time. Uh.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: I forgot which entrepreneur was, but he was talking out
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: of college in front of everybody, and he said, hey, listen,
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: if I think it was Warren buff Buffett, and he said,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: if I gave everybody in here right now the opportunity,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: if I gave you a chance. Basically, he said, if
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: I buy anybody in here any car they want, doesn't
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: matter how expensive. If I told you today, I'm going
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: to buy you a car, raise your hand. If you
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: put your everyone raise their hand. He's like, now, if
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: I also told you that the car I buy you
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: is the only car you could have for the rest
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: of your life, raise your hand, and I'll buy you
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: any car, it doesn't matter how expensive it is. That
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: That's a lot of people still kept their hand up. Right.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: He's like, now, if you knew you had a car
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: right for the rest of your life, it was the
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: one car you were going to have. How are you
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: going to treat it right. You're gonna change the oil
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: on it, You're gonna make sure you put the best
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: gas in it. You're not gonna put the bs. You're
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: going to clean it and make sure that you don't
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: take it places it shouldn't be. You're not going to
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: drive down roads that are messed up.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: He said, Now if you put that same attitude that
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: how you would treat that car into treating your body right,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: because he's like, you only have one body, you can't
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: change it. But he's like, people don't think like that.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: People will get one piece of one something and take
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: care of that thing because they know it's the only
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: one they have, like one materialistic thing, and say, I
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: can't mess this up. You know, I'm sure everyone has
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: something at home that you keep safe because it's your
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: only thing. He's like, but we don't treat our bodies
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: the same way. And he's like, once you get that
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: mentality that you realize this is the only body you're
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: going to have for the rest of you, Like that's it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You start treating it the same way. Watch how fast.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: It's funny you said that, because you know I've been
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: trying to get my kid to make an appointment for
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: a specialists. And I'm like, you know what, I study
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: so much in my life even today. You know, I
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: do have my undergrad my master's, I have a a doctorate,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: and I'm going to for health law and Ethics degree
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: right now Hafstres School University. I'm never going to stop.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: But I when I feel like I'm going to sick,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: I go to the doctor right away because I'm like,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: I story so hard, I invested all this money. Am
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I going to get sick and not take care of myself?
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I like I've run and I know my kid depend
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: on me too, so you know, especially my oldest who
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: is statistic I mentioned he you know, I take care
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: of myself because what's going to happen to them? And
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: again it's three parts, right. Mental, I do meditation all
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: the time. I have to. I do my physical training
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: as I mentioned, every single day, and then you have
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: to do your soul. I don't talk to anyone unless
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I do my little prayers and I don't care what
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: you believe in. I say my friends all inspirational notes
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: prayers every morning. So I am, you know, very disciplined.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to taking care of your body, your money, yourself.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Very disciplined.
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  Speaker 1: That's incredible, that's beautiful. I have to work on all
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  Speaker 1: three of those.
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  Speaker 4: Yes you do, you're supposed to say, yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 2: You're awesome. I meditate already. We've spoken about this in previous.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: In one time and it was like it was hard
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: for me. It was funny.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Was at an event I'd say, and I went into
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: a room and like you put and I had like
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: friends with me said like, well, like you said, we
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: start laughing.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: So you really, I like, kind of do it by yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I do it in that once you figure it out
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  Speaker 2: your life.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I think spiritually, I'm fine.
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  Speaker 4: I have my conversations every day, but I think the
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: meditation part clear.
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  Speaker 3: I do it in my sauna. So we have a
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: sauna and I do my meditation in it. So I
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: lay down, I do my the Peloton app so I
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: do yes, yes, So I do everything I have for
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: the most part in my treadmill. My bike is Peloton
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: because I Camilla. Do you know Camila Ramon, the Latina that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Does She's a Trainer's a beast.
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  Speaker 3: It's a party every day. I will I will include
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: you in my group. It's like there's a bad chata session,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: there's a salsa, there's a bad bunny, bad bunny hard.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's way harder than people think, riding, cycling and
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: putting the pressure up and all that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: So I met her in person. I had gotten a
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: recognition from Aldiario at the Harbor Club and she happened
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: to be there and she they sat her on my
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: table and I went up to her and this other trainer, Tonde,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: who is African American. African American, it's really tall and
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: dark and like buff. And then Camela and I went,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: she's from Argentina. I said, come on, I'm going to
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: tell you something. Every morning, I'm like, bibe, this girl beibe.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: And then I'm like but what I'm I'm like, I
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: love her. I put my little pill my speaker, and
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I have a party every morning. That's how I try.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, so cool, that's awesome. But I wish I
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: could wake up and do that. But yes, like when
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: we're ready next to me, like laying on my face.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, don't worry, I'll come time. Do you know You
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: go through faces in life, so don't be too hard
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: on yourself. That's the other thing right now. You're not
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: doing those things. When Matthew was born, for seven years,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I stop everything, oh my nonprofit, everything, because he had
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: an eating disorder and he you know all this, I'm
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: trying to figure it out. After that, I went back
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: to the things that I like and now I'm even
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: going back to school. So I tell you guys this
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: and everybody who is listening today you might not be doing.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Don't be empathetic to yourself. I'm kind. You know that's
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: not bad. You will do it when the time comes
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: and when you're ready, So don't be hard on yourself.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Love yourself. I got up to in the morning. I'm like,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I love you girl.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: A little bit of grace. Give yourself a little bit
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: of grace. Yes, I was going to start the gym today.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: It's a big first step, that's right. Came back from vacation.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: We're going to the gym.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I was getting it actually on vacation. There's a lot
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: of walking around.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, as long as you move your body. So it's
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: what I always say, just move your body, doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: An hour.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I just had to knee injury, so it kept me
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: down for like three months.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: But you're back with inflammation. So now that it's here's
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the news.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: You're back. You're back, You're back.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: You lost the weight though during by eating correctly.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: So the good thing is I learned how to eat
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: correctly so you wouldn't gain weight.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: So now when I add the working out and it's
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: going to be like summer, here we go.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Life is a balance. Life is a balance. I tell
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: everyone is not putting yourself on diet. I don't really
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: believe on diet. It might work for people, it doesn't
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: work for me. I feel like you deprive yourself for
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: the things that you really need to enjoy. So I
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: balance what I eat with my exercise and that's just
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: the way it works for me. And I do that
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: with everything. You know, if you're too extreme one way
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: or the other, a fanatic, I don't think that that's
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: good either. You know, I don't.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Believe in dieting, and I know what's healthy lifestyle, right
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: like we we say dieting, but it's developing that health.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Talk about it all the time, eating healthier and eating
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: smaller portions Bengal, realizing and allowing your mind to tell
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: yourself that you ate enough versus you know, eating out of.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Habit called ammonia like we do. Dominicans like this big
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: play like no, no, no, a smaller play, but either, right,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: the things you like and you know, try to do
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: a little walking, exercise, meditation anything. Really, you know, that's
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: just how love is.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I loved this episode.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: It's been great.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I love you guys. I watched like all your top
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: episodes because I wanted to see exactly who you were,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: what to do, and that's where I saw Melissa.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I was alo.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: She was great. Yeah, yeah, she was great. She was
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: episode one, season one. Yes, she kicked off the pod
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: and in Truths, teach me something fashion. We love to
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: end every episode with this question, if you could describe
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: what your legacy would be in one word, what would
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: that word be?
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Okay, so I cheated, Okay, I cheat it. I'm like,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: oh my god, what would it be? And I went
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: to my fiance and I said, Kenny was here with
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: me and said, oh my god, what would that be?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: What do you think it is for me? Because I'm
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: passionate about anything and everything like I pets or or
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: individual disability of women or you know, minorities or education
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: like passionate. Yeah, I'm very passionate a lot of it,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: and that's consistent with me, right Latina, I have Italian,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: so I'm like, oh, what is it. He's like, the
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: word I really describe you is champion, and a champion
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: is not someone that wins, you know, on a sport
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: or your competition. Is really somebody who advocates for others,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: has a cause and has a passion for something that
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: is bigger than you are, you know. And God has
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: given me the opportunity as a champion to even pass
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: legislation in the Jersey knocking on the door, Congresswoman Ellipoe
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: I went in and I said, look, we need this
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: legislation for individuals with disability to have a decal on
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: the driver's license. When the things were happening with police
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: stopping them, people with you know that couldn't communicate and
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: they were getting killed, and it passed. So again, to
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: be a leader, you don't need to be an official,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: You don't need to have money. You just need to
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: have this one thing that is bigger than you, that
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: you believe in and the faith that you can do it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: So yes, we can watch us.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: That is so beautiful and empowering. Where can our listeners
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: find you get in contact with you see what's next.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Well prospanikata or is where you could find about the
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: part of a Yes, well we are going to be
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be a maliwu and I'm going to
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: be a host to all of you vip I invite you,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: you'll be my guests and you can come, but it
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: will be a latinos Yeah. And LinkedIn, uh, you know
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Beth doctor Beth Marenzini Instagram is the same thing. And
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: I have kicked off a lot of mentorship programs, you
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: know in the corporate world, corporate world, but as well outside.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: I have a lot of mentees. So when you reach
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: out to me with a message through LinkedIn, I will
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: respond because I feel like a lot of people did
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: so many great things to open doors for me. That's
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: the least I could do. You know, people were kind
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: to me what I was like racing through the ranks
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: in corporate and I was very blessed with people even
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: checking my homework for spelling. So that's why I do it,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: you know, to repay.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: That's what it's all about, giving back and building our community.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: And you know, the theme keeps coming up through every season,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: your network, your network is your net worth and you know,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: you never know.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Definitely, thanks for having me here than I enjoying.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: This so much.
• 30:08
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