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Hola. I'm Claudia Romo Edelman and I'm Cynthia Kleinbaum Milner and
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a La Latina, the playbook to succeed being your authentic self
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This is our wrap up episode.
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We're gonna talk to you about the playbook of all the key
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takeaways that we got in season two.
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And you're gonna hear many of these takeaways are similar to the
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which means our playbook is being reinforced and we are learning that
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there's a very specific list of things that we Latinas should do
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and keep in mind so we can get to the top.
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So Cynthia and I spent a lot of time doing the decalogue
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the playbook of the 10 things that you as a Latina
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should look so that you can make it to the top in
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half the time with half the process.
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Thank you. I'm in let's start with number one.
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Embrace your cultural identity.
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And when I think about this Claudia,
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the first guess that comes to mind is actually somebody that didn't
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do this, Mary Lou Marshall,
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she couldn't embrace her cultural identity and she even changed her name
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and last name to be able to get into law school because
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when she was going to school,
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she didn't think she could get the financial aid and the admission
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that she wanted because she was Latina.
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So she literally put her Latini dad in hiding and became somebody
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else, went to school,
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became a lawyer and then embraced her Latinidad.
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And she has made it a point of her career to make
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space for all of us to be who we wanna be.
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And that's the number one key taker of this season and the
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previous season, which is be your authentic self.
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If you are your authentic self,
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you are going to transmit more self confidence,
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you're going to be able to be more proactive,
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be more ingrained in the cultural community where you are.
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And I think that that's the number one thing that is all
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across every one of our guests is be yourself,
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everyone else is taken and people will recognize when you're faking it
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So be your authentic self in order to get promotions faster
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Also, you have no choice ladies.
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Because if you are not your authentic self,
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your energy, your mental bandwidth is going to be dedicated to
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fitting in to faking it and you won't have enough energy to
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act, actually do your work and be amazing at your work
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So stop trying to be someone else.
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Like Claudia said, everybody else is taken.
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Be yourself. Number two,
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take risks. I think it was Gloria Al Cantara who said
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that she became more comfortable taking risks because she took one small
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risk. Nothing happened.
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Sometimes it worked out sometimes it didn't work out,
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but it's not like her career ended.
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So she just started being more comfortable with taking risks.
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If you don't take risks.
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If you don't get out of your comfort zone,
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there is no growth and we're so scared sometimes to shake the
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boat and to move into different positions.
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But even in our A La Latina dinner in New York.
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I love hearing Ariana Stoer saying that it's gonna be ok at
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Your career is gonna be ok.
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Your family is gonna be ok.
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So take comfort in knowing that things will be ok and take
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risk in lateral moves,
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take risk in changing careers,
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take risk in moving to a different industry if you feel more
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comfortable. So number two,
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take risks. Number three,
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say yes to opportunities.
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We had many guests that spoke about how sometimes they didn't seek
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the opportunities, but people put opportunities in front of them and
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even when they weren't sure that it was the right opportunity or
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that they were ready for it.
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They said yes, Rita Fro from Disney had so many sponsors
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and so many people in the teams adjacent to her that they
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would come to her and say,
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hey, there's this new opportunity.
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Do you want to take it?
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And she just said yes.
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And that's how she got to the top by saying yes when
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an opportunity knocked on her door.
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But we also heard a lot from a lot of guests saying
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I'm gonna say yes to volunteering.
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I'm gonna say yes to go where the fire is.
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I'm gonna say yes to doing the extra extra mile so that
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I can be seen and can be noticed and can be recognized
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So we say yes opportunities,
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but also say yes to volunteering and say yes to trying your
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hardest. Number four,
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build your reputation. Claudia and I talk about this a lot
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because we know that Latinas work very hard,
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but we also know that we are too humble and that we
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maybe don't feel comfortable speaking about our accomplishments and this is something
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that's gonna slow us down.
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It's gonna slow you down.
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If you only focus on delivering results and you assume that people
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are noticing your results without you taking ownership of them,
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you are missing out.
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So spend time speaking about what you and your team are delivering
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It's part of like playing the corporate game in a and
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I think that what I heard a lot from all our guests
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in season two and season one is how someone else noticed you
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your hard work and took you on an opportunity.
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I said you can do it better.
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What I didn't hear enough is self advocacy and self promotion are
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integral to self realization and going in the corporate ladder.
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So let's build our reputation,
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having our work, talk about ourselves and our excellence.
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But also let's be better at self advocacy and self promotion the
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way that other people do.
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Number five, seek mentors and sponsors in this season,
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we spoke, I think more than in the last one about
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allies about how of course mentors and sponsors are super important.
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But sometimes we think that a mentor or a sponsor has to
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be somebody that looks like us.
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And if that's what we're going to wait for,
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it's going to take us like five generations to get to the
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top because there's not enough of us at the top.
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So we should consider anyone that believes in us a sponsor.
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If you have somebody in your company that you work with,
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they can become your sponsor.
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Even if they don't look like you and mentors,
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you can start tapping into mentors.
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Even when you're going to school.
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We heard from Nancy Reyes,
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we heard from Anna Sein about people that mentor them to get
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not even to college into high school.
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People that were not Latinas,
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people that weren't part of their families,
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but they kind of took it upon themselves to guide them to
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navigate an environment that was totally unknown to them and really help
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them open doors that enable them to be where they are.
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And also we heard in season two,
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how people are giving back how they got mentors and sponsors and
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they are committing themselves to becoming a mentor and a sponsor for
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many other people so that people want to work with you and
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see you as a role model and ideally as a hero.
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And number six, don't look at your career as a ladder
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I can't tell you how much I wish people understood this
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I still see a lot of young people,
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Latinas and not thinking that you need to get a promotion every
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two years and in your linkedin or in your resume,
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it should look like you were just climbing a ladder.
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And every one of our guests told us that is not true
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You can move to different parts of the organization to learn
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the business, to also experiment with other functions and see if
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you like something better than what you're doing now.
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And ultimately, that's going to make you a better asset for
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your organization if you understand the business.
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And if you start looking at how all this playbook connects with
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each other, you can start understanding that it's going to be
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ok, that you can start taking risks,
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that you need to build a network that you need to understand
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how the careers are not straight.
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Then you start building a pattern for yourself that you to grow
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and do it by being your authentic self.
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Number seven, invest in continuous learning.
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I love Adela Zepeda saying that 20% of her time is devoted
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to understanding the industry where she is operating,
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how much we have to be curious how much we have to
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trigger that continued learning in the places where we are so that
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we can get into those corporate board positions that we are all
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wanting to be able to do that.
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You need to invest in continuous learning and Adela said up to
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20% we heard it from many other guests as well.
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Yeah, many of our guests have master's degrees phd S there
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is a formal learning that you can sometimes take time away from
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your job and immerse yourself in learning something.
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But what Adela said was like,
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so much more important and so much more impactful to all of
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our lives, which is up until the day we die,
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we should spend 20% of our time learning something new because life
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changes too fast, technology changes too fast and we can get
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stale. So number eight is one of my favorites,
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building relationships. 40% of the success and entrepreneur depends on the
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networks that they have in order to get to the places where
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We Latinos, we do not have enough networking opportunities,
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enough or infrastructure to build relationships.
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So you need to go and make a bigger effort to show
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up to places where the network is to be able to be
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conscious about networking for purpose so that you can see how our
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guests are looking at a power map and who do they need
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to build relationships with so that they can advance on their career
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and build trust. And you don't have to think about relationships
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in a transactional way in a what can this person do for
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me immediately? Sometimes you nurture a relationship that will yield something
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later on and sometimes it's gonna happen.
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Like Patricia Pacheco who was waiting tables,
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mentioned to one of her customers that she was looking for a
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job and that person got her an interview at American Express and
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that was her first job.
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So build relationships anywhere you are.
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Number nine, adapt your style to the circumstances.
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The first time that we heard this very clearly called out was
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from Adela Zepeda who said that she adapts not only her style
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but she calls it the language of the environment where she's
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in. So if she's operating a company,
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she speaks one language.
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If she's on a board,
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she speaks the language of the board.
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And that's how we should all think about adapting without losing who
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we are. But also not saying this is who I am
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Take me as I am and you adapt to me.
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No, we have to change.
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Like Eliana Musa said on season one,
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change the clothes that we pack in the suitcase depending on where
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we're going, but always pack your own clothing.
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Because what we have seen is that in order to be able
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to be accepted, Latinas have been packing the clothes of someone
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else in order to dial down in order to be accepted
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So adapt your style to the circumstances knowing that you need
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to learn the language where you are,
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but you cannot change and deny who you are.
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And I think that the number 10 which is really important and
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we have heard from everybody and I think it is my personal
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message for everyone listening to a Latins aim high dream big.
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Understand that we are in the greatest position that we can as
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a Latino community that our ancestors have made it possible for us
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and made all the sacrifices so that we can have a school
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so that we can be the first generation that goes to college
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that is in senior positions that can make it so dream big
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make your ancestors really proud of your success and don't deny
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yourself the opportunity to aim as high as you want.
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And once you've reached that high that you were dreaming for,
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move the goal post because there's somewhere else that you can go
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never stop dreaming and take someone with you.
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Yes. And I was actually going to say that the person
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from all of our guests that reminds me more of this goal
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is the guest from the episode right before this one,
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Claudia Romo Del Man.
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She dreams high and she's teaching me to dream high too.
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It was amazing having this second season.
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I hope that all of our audience can feel how much this
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is incredibly gratifying, satisfying,
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but also useful for you as much as it is for
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us to do a La Latina podcast and a La Latina dinners
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expanding it the network so that we can be having more
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Latinas in the top possessions in half the time with half the
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bruises rate review and help other Latinas by telling them about a
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La Latina podcast and all of that we can do leading and
