A Guide To Living the Life of your Dreams + Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

This week, the ladies react (freak out) to the announcement that Bad Bunny will be the Super Bowl Halftime Show Performer! Meli and Cami talk to journalist and comedian Tess Garcia about how they all first heard the news, why the announcement is so significant, and they soft launch a campaign to attend the big game/concert. Later, Cami and Meli dive into a conversation about how to lead the life we want and give us real-life tips on how to set goals, get over our fears, and take the first steps toward achieving our dreams.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello and welcome back. I'm Alis Ortis, I'm Camilla Ramon
and this is Astaa baby Millie.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Can you believe that we are halfway over halfway through
the season of the podcast Insane?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Y'all time flies when you're having so much fun and
talking a lot of cheese.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Me absolutely, And if this is your first time joining us,
my friend Meli over here, she's an Olympian former professional
soccer player, footballer and now a sports broadcaster and my
number one hype girl.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yes that is right. And my girl Kami is now
a singer show What, a fitness enthusiast and Peloton instructor.
She's actually the first cycling and tread instructor to teach
classes both in English and in Spanish on Peloton. So
shout out to my girl Kami. And again, if you're
new to the show, welcome. You're all welcome here always

(00:52):
because we love to talk about everything about Latini, that
chie mit and we all do it with accompanying it
with a cup of coffee from time.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Okay, so we're gonna hit up our cafe cheese mess
section today with my girl, our girl test Gattacia.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Journalists and pop culture.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Analysts to help us dig into this bad Bunny super
Bowl business baby, and then what.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Are we getting into, Melie?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
And we're gonna get into a perfect way to kick
off your day with an incredible topic, which is around
living the life of your dreams, because I mean, we're
all gonna talk about Benito bad Bunny and who better
is living the life of his dreams?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
And I think our dreams too literally.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
So when don't we just drop the beat? This is
ask let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Okay, so fun fact, you guys, we were just talking
to tests here joining us high test.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Hi, test Ola, my favorite, she got it forty.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Thanks for being here.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
But she was like, I love that little beat, and
I was like, fun fact, I've been working with my
producer so long that he's actually the one that produced
the beat for the podcast as well. So not only
is he producing my music, but he also supported us
with this, which is incredible.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
What's his name, Alonso, Alonsoo, I know, doing the Lord's work.
We love Alonso, we do.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
We're big fans, but we're also big fans of the
recent announcement that happened. The Super Bowl halftime performer has
been announced. There were a lot of speculations. I personally
thought it was gonna be Taylor Swift, but you know what,
I was really fucking pump.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
When it was Benito.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, yes, So I asked my friend Tess Gott to
see you because I immediately, I like went on social media. Well,
I actually my reaction wasn't so immediate. We'll get into
like immediate reactions. But I logged on to social media
the next morning and I saw my friend Tess, who
is a journalist but also breaking down the biggest moments
in pop culture on TikTok.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
She is a stylist.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
She is a comedian, she is a marketing strategist, she
is an occasional yoga teacher. She's literally an icon, and
she's also like, something that I love about tests is
that she is a voice of the community, period, of
the people, of the people, and.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
We fucking love her.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
So I opened up TikTok and I immediately saw her
commenting on it, and her take was just so on
point that I was like, you're coming on the show.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Please tell me you're available tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I said, obviously, So thanks for being here, Tess, thank
you so much for having me. I am a regular listener,
so this for me is very meta.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
What an honor?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, seriously, honestly, you do it. So I need to
ask you.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Ladies, where you were when you heard the announcement.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Where were you I was? I don't even don't. Oh
it was during the game. I was on the couch
and my husband was like that Bunny is going to
do the halftime show or the super Bowl, and I'm like,
like my ears perked up. I was like, wait, what
did I hear that?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Right?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Or like, what's going on here?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, that's where I was.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
And then what did you say?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
I was just like it, you.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Know, when you're like very climax, No, just wait, just wait,
just wait for somebody who's a huge Bad Bunny fan like.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Just wait, just wait. Do you know when you're like
you have your phone in your hand, you're like kind
of watching a game, You're like kind of paying attention,
but not really. So I just heard words. I heard
Bad Buddy super Bowl halftime and I'm like, what's going
on here?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
You know?

Speaker 1 (04:29):
And then finally I had to like kind of confirm it,
you know, and then I was like, oh shit, this
is insane. This is amazing, by the way, But then
I think my brain automatically started being like, but why,
but oh my god, but this is amazing. But there's
so many meaning to it, you know what I mean.
I just started like, holy shit, and that's me. Okay,
what about you? Test?

Speaker 3 (04:48):
So around seven pm Eastern time, I got a text.
Listen you guys, that was before the news broke. I'm like,
you had a leak. No I didn't. Oh so well,
maybe I did, but it was from like a source inside.
It was just from a friend who was like, it's
gonna be bad. It was cheez men. My friend was like, girl,
it's gonna be bad. Bunny like, how are you good? No,
she said, girl, how are you getting to the super Bowl?

(05:10):
And in my head, I'm like, okay, so what's bad
Bunny got to do with the super Bowl? Because that's
what she has to be discussing. I go on Twitter
and I'm seeing not super reliable sources, but sources with
the check mark which you could buy now Twitter to
be verified, just being like it will be bad Bunny
and all this stuff, and I'm like, okay, I'm a journalist.
I go on his tour schedule because I know he's

(05:31):
gonna be in Latin America. He's in Chile.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
He's gonna make it.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm like I would do in the math. I'm like,
even in a private jet. Okay, so y'all I think
he could do it. I think he could do it,
and he can do everything. They will cart him from
that stage. He'll be like on a gurney, not a gurney,
but you know what I mean, like something that ye
golf cart if you will, to a private jet and
then they're gonna book it because it's gonna take like
thirteen hours from Santiago to the area.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, I just I just did that flight literally like
two weeks go to the bay. Okay, no, sorry from Chile,
but that was hell y and that was hella long.
But yes, continue it's long.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah. Basically I tweeted. I was like, you guys, like
stop spreading misinformation, like I was being real like journalist,
like on my high horse, I'll believe it when I
see it. And then like two hours later, I was like, Okay,
so I saw it. I do believe it.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
I believe it and I love it.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
You're like, I also believe now the paid verified check mark.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, Suddenly, like a random person who I've never heard
of in my life could have a leg to stand
on with me.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Love it.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
I was a show I went to, She's dropping an album, Who's.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Incredible like her? We'll talk about it, I think on
my femo saw.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
But that was a very, very like cathartic experience for me.
And I also had a couple of drinks at this show.
So then I was like, we like came back home
and I like open social media and I'm like, I
have an app blocker now, so I get my news
a little late, a little I'm a little late to
the gate with me, So I like unblock my app

(07:14):
blocker as I do.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Every day for fifteen minutes.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Maybe it's not much better than you tab maybe not.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
I like to think that I am, though, So I
unblocked it for my first session of fifteen minutes of
unblocking for the evening. It's probably normally five times, and
I unblock it at night.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
So am I saying? Then I'm better?

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Then I opened it and I was like, oh, bad
Bunny is some some like gonna be on the super
Bowl And I was like oh.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
And it looked like a cheese my page.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
It was like one of those like don't cheese my pages.
So then I was like, I'll believe it when I
see it. I like threw my phone on the couch
and I was just like, I like went to sleep
because I was tired.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
And I can't hang anymore.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
I have like two drinks, by the way. So then
I like woke up the next morning in the first thing,
Like that's when I actually got excited because I was like,
this is a rumor, Like I just went to sleep,
and then I woke up and I started looking at
people getting so excited, and then everyone's.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Like I was waiting for your reaction. I was waiting
for your reaction. I was like, I went to sleep.
I know the fuck out.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
I went to sleep.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
But literally, test this video was the first one that
I saw when I woke up.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
So tests got me.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
You did a little bit of research, you did a
little bit of digging, because she us a little bit
about your takes, your your hot takes.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, So I beyond my work in journalism, I also
do marketing specifically targeted toward Latinos in the US. So
there's a bunch of random stats just jumbled around in
my head related to this demographic. My first thought when
I heard the news that this was real, that bad
Bunny was gonna be our performer. Was this makes sense economically, like,

(08:57):
which is so cynical, But Latinos are the economic powerhouse
of the US right now. One of the stats that
I know you mentioned to me at some point, Gommi
from my TikTok is that actually I had an outdated
stat in that TikTok, But as of last year's report,
the US Latino GDP is four point one trillion dollars,
which is to say, that's the output of Latinos in

(09:20):
the United States economically, that's what they're producing through their labor.
That's an insane number. That number is higher than a
lot of countries.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
And I think, I mean, I don't have the stats
in front of me, but.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Like yeah, I checked the lists and it was like
if the Latinos in the US were a country on
their own, Like, do you have the number, because I
feel like it's like the.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Fifth it's basically Latinos they are.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Let me do a quick google.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
They are the fifth largest GDP in the world.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Exactly in the world, in the world. So if Latinos
only in the US were their own country, they would
be the fifth largest GDP in the world.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Single fastest growing as well of the top ten in
the last from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty three, the
fastest growing GDP in the world, sur passing China. Wow,
so that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
It just goes to show like, not only are we
the fastest growing demographic in the United States, but there
is spending power behind that that if you want to
do good business in this country, you cannot ignore, regardless
of your political beliefs, regardless of anything. And I think
this is as much as I am a fan, and
I'm so excited as a fan to watch and be
out in my living room like or there, ohalla, we'll

(10:37):
see Listen THEREFL.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
We've been here this whole time.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Nfel listen, We're not new to this NFL.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
I love the ball.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah. When I do the thing where they I don't
know what they do. Actually, very sad.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Very unfortunately. I am.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
I have to say that I am a Dolphins fan.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
I saw that.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, I am not.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
The Dolphins fan through and through. We won LAS last
night at what costs. It's very unfortunate what happened to
Tyree Hill last night.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, I saw that. Anyway, I also say, I have
to say that in my thirty five years of life,
I've never been to an NFL game either, But you know, test,
but you know what, how amazing would your first NFL
experience be if bad body was perhaps the halftime show.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
My team, the Lions, they were awful through my I'm
from Michigan. The Detroit Lions were awful my entire childhood,
so bad, laughably bad. I can say that now because
they're good now. And last year people were talking like
they might actually make it to the super Bowl. So
I watched and I was like, I kind of like
these guys, So imagine I don't think it'll happen, but
imagine if it were my team, and menito like I'm

(11:47):
putting out emails now, I will see.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I started, honestly, like I didn't even need to do
much because I, like all the people that take my
class on Peloton already started the campaign for me. Like
they posted a video they like on a bicycle. Like
people who do not take my cluss are so confused,
They're like, why is this bitch working.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
On a bike.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
But the people that know, they get it and they understand.
But people were like all attacking the NFL. They're like
take her to the sover Brot. Love you guys, so
thank you so much for commenting on the video, and
if you haven't done so, please let's continue this campaign.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
But also something that I.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Found was very interesting is that this is also a
year where I mean, this is not the first time
that the Super Bowl halftime performance is a Latino.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
Artist, like, let's be for real.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
But also I think it's it's one of the few
times where it's like a very very Spanish language forward
Latino artists.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Because you had check it out.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
We've had j Lo, there's been Gloda, Stepan and many
many more. But they're very much so they're very much
so like crossover artists, where Benito has managed to be
a crossover artist but still maintaining the Spanish forward language
and not diluting any of the culture. Matter of factly
he has been die into the culture like even more so.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
And I'm not.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Sure if this is the first time, it's it's definitely
not the first time. But like the NFL has also
like expanded more internationally. They're having games overseas, they're having
games everywhere.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Right now, that's Upoulo game with Carol g as the performer,
Like they know exactly what they're doing in terms of
I took a class on like sports and Communications in college,
and I learned basically the rules of football were adjusted
and created to love themselves to television, like it's meant
to be really good TV. So it makes sense that
they're considering every aspect of what makes really good television

(13:36):
for the world. Yeah, right, as opposed to just football
fans in this.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Well, you look at it at a marketing perspective like
that tests especially with your background, and like I believe
it's since two thousand and seven, thousand and eight that
they started expanding, you know, their international marketing efforts for
such an American sport to England, Germany, now I see
South America. So you're seeing like different continents getting the

(14:02):
football experience on site in stadium. But now, obviously, if
you're on TV and you have the world's greatest artist
at this current moment, like how big is that for
Latinos right now?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Who I mean, it is the biggest stage in the world.
Love the Super Bowl, hate it, Love the NFL hate it.
This is the most watched broadcast point blank, period, doesn't
matter where you are and for that to be somebody
who is so like you said, Gomi, like makes not

(14:41):
only makes no attempt at crossover, but shows that you
don't need to cross over in order to resonate with
people who maybe don't even understand you. I think that's
a statement that it's gonna make a lot of people mad,
but it's also it's really represent of a moment in
history in which, like, we have no choice but to

(15:04):
listen to the people who are calling the shots in
our culture, and right now that's Latinos.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Honestly, I feel like for me personally, like I've had
a really hard time like grasping everything that's happening in
our communities right now. It's been a very challenging time
for me to even like show up sometimes some days
like excited and happy, you know, in the way that

(15:38):
I want to because I want to uplift people. So
during a time where the last thing that I expected.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
As a Latina was something like.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
This to be decided upon by people in positions of power,
people that have could have been potentially swayed to make
a different decision, it was I get chills just thinking
about it, because it was just such a relief and
I think it's such a beautiful opportunity for us to continue.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
To use this as.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
An opportunity to speak on the beauty of everything that
we are and the things that we bring forward and
the things that we deserve as Latinos, especially in the
United States, and it motivates me even though I never
stopped doing it. I think there was like two classes

(16:34):
that I was like really sad and like the people
afterwards were like, hey, girl, like are you okay?

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Like I under like I see you.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Like people, there's very like little classes where like I
have taught class and like not been well or like
not been able to like push through something.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
There were two particular.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Classes that I taught earlier this year that I was
just like not well like and it was a time
where I could have chosen to kind of like take
a step back and potentially like not teach a class,
but I was like, this is so real, like what's
happening right now, And even if I communicate in a
way that's not as direct as potentially like I'm ready to,

(17:15):
I just showing up and like showing my feelings and
speaking to some of the things that I'm going through
is a really nice way to unify or feel like
we're not alone, because we're really not alone. Like there's
so many of us going through this right now and now.

(17:35):
As after those two classes that I had where I
was like, I also had a revelation. I was like,
the hell, girl, show up your brightest, best, proudest self,
your biggest, your loudest, your most fucking happy and excited
version to exist and to be who you are, because
that's the reality. Like I fucking love being Latina, Like

(17:57):
I loving Latina to my core. And if I can
perry out on a fucking bicycle in a way that
makes some people uncomfortable because they don't understand the culture,
like that's okay, and I'm gonna do that to celebrate us.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, Tess, I have a question for you, especially because
you have the posts that you made on TikTok and
ig that I love, but for bad Bunny and you
take a step back and he did his residency in
Puerto Rico. He purposely did not do a show in
the United States, right He said he wants to avoid
doing shows the United States to protect his people. But

(18:33):
then he decides to accept this type of offer, which,
by the way, there's a lot of I've been listening
to the I want to say, quote unquote other side
because I like to hear different perspectives, right, and they're like,
oh yeah, money and all stuff. But I've also heard
in the past that Super Bowl artists they don't make
a lot of money when they choose to perform at
a super Bowl. It's more of a PR push a

(18:54):
PR play because the post effects of it is insane.
But anyways, I want to ask for Bad Bunny, like,
why would an artist like him actually go and say,
you know what, for this one show, for this super
Bowl halftime show, I'm going to go to the US
and perform.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
I think, to put it as politely as I can,
it's the biggest fuck you. But you could possibly possibly
imagine because his concerns around protecting his community come from
doing shows in the US. Naturally, we heard him say
that in my friend Lucy Exposito did the great article
for ID where he mentioned that think about the super Bowl.

(19:37):
That's a humongous venue. It's generally pretty gate kept. Like
you can get tickets to a Bad Bunny show maybe,
but you're not gonna get tickets to the super Bowl.
But you can watch it from your couch. Yeah, that's
accessible to people in a way that a typical Bad
Bunny tour in the United States would not be. You
get to watch it from wherever you are. You can
watch it from the safety of your home. For him

(19:59):
to do that and for him to tweet I saw
it was like I was like, Okay, that's baller like
to be like, I guess I'll just do what just
one little thing. Yeah, I mean, I think in a
practical sense, a lot of the concerns that would come
about from doing a traditional concert tour in the United
States right now don't arise from the Super Bowl. And then, also,

(20:21):
like you said, manly, regardless of the money here, this
is leaving a mark on history in a moment where
you would expect someone to feel the need to cross
over for the sake of protection, even in the public eye.
He's not doing that, and that is the biggest fuck you.
Yeah to hear it's just crazy.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
My personal opinion is that like the the reward from
the representation and like the give back to the community
that it has for him to be performing at such
a stage and what it means to do that is
greater than the risk involved from like the people that
are potentially like attending the show to quote unquote see him.
Because also those tickets, like let's just face that are

(21:01):
probably already sold, they're not accessible. Like it's not easy,
Like a regular person like doesn't just like go to
the super Bowl for fun, you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (21:09):
Like it just doesn't happen.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Okay, I have I have, like on a lighter note,
I want to end like our segment with you with
like some questions about like the super Bowl and like
your watch party kind of like situation, right, So how
would what's take your perfect Benito super Bowl watch party?

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Like layout? Ooh?

Speaker 3 (21:35):
This emulates what I did the first time he hosted SNL.
Which is crazy that I've done a watch party for
him already. I had, I made Gokito, I have little
like themed snacks with some friends, and everybody brought a
little something and we just watched from from like this
little lounge in my building and and we just kind
of chilled there. I think that would be my my

(21:55):
preferred way. I don't want to watch this in public.
It's very personal to me. I'm not going to a bar.
This is very intimate for me to watch my husband
up there.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Why because you're gonna be well right, I'm.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Like, listen, maybe they're they're playing the super bul at
a sports bar, but they're like, what is she doing?
And I'm like, you don't know the vibe.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
I just posted on ig story today a picture of
her dog and it's like, you know, I'm getting Oh, no,
do my casan Parkenton's.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Arguably in New York, Like, you can find a really
dope spot to go watch it.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
I That's the thing is, now that we have time
to plan over, I'm like, perhaps I will go beyond
my usual little like themed TikTok friendly watch party and
and go somewhere and be hitting the ground while I
watched the show.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, let's help, let's help. That's not the case. Come February,
let's help the three of us and our listeners.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Let's get it.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
We are there, We are there.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Campaign campaign has begun.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Listen, I have go go some of my buddy go
friends over so we can, like my husband's watching narrating
to us because lord knows, you know, I could be a.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
Little do Lulu and still hope that the Dolphins make
it to.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
The Super.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Literally, anyone that knows anything about football just laughed out loud.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
I know we're like, okay, yeah, they're like, oh my god,
yeah they can do it.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
They can do it.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Tests before I let we let you go as well.
And again I listened to like this other side of
this whole ordeal.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Right.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
I know, I've been even questioned by either a my
Latino friends or my you know, white America friends that
are like Bad Bunny like him again, right, even though
they do understand that he is like the world's biggest
artist right now. Yeah, but you know what, we're audience members.
If anyone's just chirping at you, hit him with the
straight facts. We love facts. Okay, So here's some for

(23:59):
you if you want to just chirp back. In twenty
twenty five, Bad Bunny set multiple records, including the most
nominations in a single year at the Billboard Latin Music Awards.
With twenty twenty seven Marcket, he surpassed six billion billion
total streams on Spotify, breaking the all time viewership record

(24:21):
for a single artist performance with his Amazon Music live
stream finale that we all watched and tune into and
I was literally torking on an airplane to and then
his album Deidad mass Potos became the highest charting live
album on the Billboard two hundred in more than five years.
And lastly, if people think like, oh, he didn't perform

(24:42):
in the United States, but YadA, YadA, YadA, guys, he
generated over five hundred million dollars to the island of
Puerto Rico from hosting his residency there. So straight up
facts hit him with the straight facts and Kirian los Latinos.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, I'm gonna pull Beyonce one time. You know that
bitch when you cause all this conversation, That's exactly who
this man is right now. That's who Latinos are right now.
I'm gonna leave that there for us.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
Tests.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
I love you so much, thank you so much for
joining us. We need to have you back sometime on
the pod. We'll figure it out. But we love chatting
with you to get some hot takes on Latino pop
culture and more and clearly the economy, because this bitch
is a well verse.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
She knows everything about everything.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
And I think I'm gonna do is read.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, so read thought.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Where can people find you and your work so they
follow you and your amazing videos that you've been posting.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Oh my goodness, yes, people can find me on all
social platforms at HI this is tests as in Hi
this is Test and yeah, and Tescarcia dot com. But
I'm all over the place on the internet.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, and you might see her next time you read
an article and you're like, yes, go it's probably.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
Written by us.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Probably we're going to toss the break and when we
come back, Madie and are going to take you through
our personal step by steps on how to reach your
goals and lead the life you want. Okay, So today

(26:23):
Maddy and I sat down, We're like, what do we
want to talk about? That's like something that we both
like have in common. And I think that one of
the things that we love to do is like we
are big goal setters, Like we have goals, we have dreams,
we have aspirations.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
And we are going to go out there and what
we're going to do is.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
We're going to try and we're going to try our best.
And I think that when we think about our goals
and our dreams and our lives and you're like, what
is like the biggest, possible, most incredible thing that you
could possibly achieve in your life, it becomes so overwhelming,
like and.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
You don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
You don't even know where to start, right, So, like,
let's just say you're making a huge career shift. You
are wanting to make a hobby into a profession. You
don't know, nobody has ever done what you are visualizing
yourself doing before in the world.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
It seems so overwhelming, so daunting.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
But the most important thing is to have a clear
path and to take the first step. Mellie, you after
you retired from being a pro footballer, you said, I
want to make this my career. I don't want this
to be the end of the path for me, like
I want to be in sport.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
How is it that you.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Curated the right mindset, you feel to take you to
where you're at today.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, well thanks for that intro, Kami, because I think
our listeners also we get these questions a lot, like
how did you get to where you are today? Or
you know, one of those steps in terms of goal
setting and dealing even with the outside noise and balancing
so much in your day to day. And I want
to take a step back because one of the things
I learned that was so important during my playing career,

(28:07):
which I think really helped me and my post playing
career into getting into like broadcasting and stuff. Was I
had read a book called Mind Jim, and so you know,
every day you can go out for a walk, you
can lift weights, you can exercise your body, and yes
that does help and impact your mind your mental health,
but you also need to work out your mind. And

(28:28):
you have to work out your brain. And by doing that,
there's lessons that you learn in terms of believing in yourself,
giving yourself confidence, talking to yourself the way that you
would talk to your best friend, the way that you
would talk to you know, your son or daughter to
motivate them. And so you have to treat your brain

(28:49):
and yourself like you are their biggest coach and so
and then, and it was even to the point in
that book that they would talk about athletes, you know,
being on a one v one in front of the
and missing it and missing it and missing it. But
it's because of the pressure, because of the lack of confidence,
and because of all these external factors. But the one
factor that they had to really believe in the most

(29:11):
was in themselves and in their brain, in the ability,
in the capacity to be able to achieve that one
v one and make a goal and so those types
of practices and learnings and even that book really helped
me in my transition and in my current day life.
So when my first step when I want to achieve something,

(29:33):
be it launching this podcast, be it hosting Lionel Messi,
be it becoming a broadcaster, it was first not only
just writing down my goal, but like actually verbalizing and
saying what is it I want to do. And so
if you're trying to figure out what is it that
you want to do, or maybe you already know but

(29:55):
you don't know, what's the first step. It's saying it.
It's putting it out there to the universe. It's writing
it down, and it's manifesting it. And you can manifest
it in so many different ways and commun I you know,
we both have spoken so much about the power of manifestation,
and so I just think that the first step that

(30:16):
you need to do is exactly that, putting it out there,
writing it down. Then it's it's taking action. What about
your first step coming or maybe beyond that, because you
as well have taken a huge step recently, which is
becoming a singer and artists and you know, recording your
own first song and music video. That's a whole that's

(30:36):
a whole goal and dream in itself that you have
made that first step in doing it and executing it.
So I would love to know how how you you know,
put that into practice.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well, first off, I love the mind Jim kind of
like situation because I think that.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
It doesn't matter, like what goal you have in mind.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
We talked about this before, like my goal was not
like release the music, right, but I did have like
I wanted to like make changes. And when I did
decide like, hey, I'm going to release the music, there
were actionable steps that I took and like things that
I needed to complete in order to arrive at the
place where I had my own song, I had a

(31:14):
video for it. I did think about like how to
release it on social media and how to have a
conversation with people. But it doesn't matter, I think if
you are one of the things that I every single
year that I do at the beginning of the year,
I actually I didn't do it last year, which was
a big surprise, But for a moment, I was like,
I think I went through a lot at the end
of last year. In December, that's where I encountered loss

(31:36):
in my family. So I decided to kind of like
take it easy and upper pressure on myself in the year,
and kind of my overall goal was to not say
no to anything and to just allow myself to creatively
flow a little bit more. But in the past, when
I was trying to achieve goals, I would in the
beginning of the year write down like the craziest goals

(31:58):
and I wanted to achieve some were crazier and some
were less crazy, and I would literally close the book
right close the book. No, actually, I I would write
down the biggest goals that I could ever dream of,
and then I would write like break down each goal
by like actionable steps that I could take to reach
those goals.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
And then I would close it.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
So in my head, I already kind of knew subconsciously,
even if I forgot like the things that I want,
that I had to do in order to achieve them
without putting so much external pressure on myself. And then
at the end of the year, one of the craziest
things is you open up that book and you can
check off and tire things from your list, especially if
they're relatively in alignment with the actions that you're taking.

(32:42):
Do you set goals at the beginning of the year.
Many absolutely, Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I do it every every
year and write it down. Uh huh, well, I put it.
I have in my notes app in my phone, I
have like a checkbox.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, and I'll write it all down and then I
even we my husband and I got to a point too,
I want to say about four or five years ago
that we started doing them together at the beginning of
the year, which also helps and something that's important too.
You know, if you want to help, like hold yourself accountable,
but you're not like putting pressure on someone else and
it's like accountability. It's more just like, hey, if you

(33:16):
are a team like my husband and I are, we
can see each other as like a team. It's like hey, uh, like,
let's look at like what we wanted to achieve at
some point, you know, how's that going? Do we still
want to do it? Sometimes you change, sometimes you don't.
But I do think that when you surround yourself with
the right people, they will also help you and and
motivate you to achieve those types of things. Remember when

(33:40):
we spoke to Oh my gosh, the hard Rock Stadium
are one of our very first episodes. Oh my gosh,
remember when pre Schomate talked about accountability and she had
a group at her work to have the five Am club.
And the group would either like text each other in

(34:02):
the morning, just not like obnoxiously, but like just to say, hey,
you awake, and then they would do their routine or
go work out whatever on their own. But it was
just like an accountability thing. I think those also help
when you're taking actionable steps, But.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
What about community is hyper important? So I think when
it comes to goal setting, like after like let's say,
for example, you want to be an actor, but you
haven't even acted before in your life, like this is
just an example, or you want to get a promotion
at work, whatever it is that your goal is. But like,
let's use acting as an example. You want to be
an actor. You have never acted in your life before, but.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
You write in your year's goal, I want.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
To be an actor or I want to consider myself
an actor. Step number one is learn how to act.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
How do you learn how to act? You put in time,
and the way that you put in time.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Is doesn't necessarily you don't necessarily need to gain access
to the an eighty five hour acting workshop exclusive, whatever.
There's so many tools that you can use online to
get to where it is that you want to go.
Maybe in the beginning so that it's less daunting, you
start to watch twenty minute YouTube videos on how to

(35:16):
act right, and then that will kind of give you
more insight and more knowledge as to like Okay, well,
like people that are acting sometimes they take classes via zoom.
There's webinars that you can take that will teach you
about acting. You can actually do like in person acting,
you can do improv. There's different kinds of acting. What
is it that you want to explore? Right? But I
think number one is like writing down, like what's the

(35:39):
first step that you need to take, because if you
don't take the first step, then you're never gonna go anywhere.
Right where preparation meets opportunity, that's when you find success
or your big break or that moment. But if you're
not prepared and you don't have any experience, you can't
be mad at anybody for you not getting the opportunities
or leading the life that you want to lead. Right.

(36:01):
So when we talk about goals, we've all heard of
smart goals, specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. Notice
that I didn't say, like I want to win an
oscar in a year. I said I want to consider
myself an actor. Right, So that's not necessarily like time bound, right,
But if you were to want to make it time bound,

(36:21):
you can, you can you can make it smart. You
can say I want to start auditioning for at least
five roles achievable relevant like via getting a manager or
an agent or via self submission for roles that make

(36:44):
sense for me within the next two years. That's very reasonable.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Right, absolutely. And I think when you're setting these goals, right,
you think a lot about like, oh my gosh, but
like mitia tox, what do they ever think about me?
What if I'm not like at home as much, if
you know, you have a family, or what if you're
not you know, with your husband or wife as much,
or you know your partner or I don't know, like

(37:12):
there's so many external actors. Do you think about the
other person, the external and not about yourself? Did you
ever catch yourself in that moment just being like not
like you have your goal, but you're just like thinking
about the everything else?

Speaker 2 (37:26):
But do you.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
Always think about that?

Speaker 2 (37:28):
So when I was when I was in college and
I wanted to get a job in communications. I always thought, okay,
well I'm not qualified, Like who am I? In the
back of your head, you kind of not everyone, but
like you have those thoughts like come in, that's what
I like to call your interno gotat cha, and then
you have to fumigate that bitch and send her back
into the wall.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
We all have one.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
It's just a matter of whether or not you let
that gog gottat cha commiserate with your other negative thoughts
and then you have a fucking gog goat cha roundtable
happening in your head versus having that one internal coal
gotat chat that has no fucking friends, and then you
can send her back into the wall whenever she comes
out to play.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Right, I want to throw up because but it's so populate.
They populate, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yeah, and you can't kill them, right, so you're always
going to have at least one in the house.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
Like, let's just be so fucking for real.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
So when I was when I graduated college and I
got a job in communications, I was like, oh, well,
I haven't written so much in Spanish before, and I
have to communicate with people from Latin America, like I
might even qualified for something like this, da da da da,
Like what are people going to think about, you know,
my writing skills or whatever. When I made the transition
into fitness, I was like, well, what are what are

(38:38):
people going to think about me? Just like restarting my career,
like shifting over this way. I during that time, I
was still in the process of healing my relationship with
my body. I was like, nobody's going to take fitness
advice from me. I do not look fit enough? Why
why would they take fitness advice from me? If I
struggle with my body image? Right then after that, when
I started posting in Spanish on Instagram on social media,

(39:02):
so many people that I knew from like high school
and stuff like unfollowed me. I was like, these people
hate my content. I'm not gonna go anywhere, Like these
people are like judging me for like like posting workout
videos in Spanish. These are all internal right, Like yeah,
some people unfollowed me, but like the reality is like
people don't give a fuck about me, Like not that
people are not talking shit about me for posting a

(39:23):
workout video in Spanish And if they are like fuck
them anyway, Like it's really.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
Not that deep.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
I love that because yeah, keep going.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
No, that's the same.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Thing happened when I when I went to Poloton, I
was like, well, what are people gonna think about this
little latina that's just out here like screaming nokukaracha energy
or whatever the fuck like.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
On the on the mic.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
And then when I started opening up a little bit more,
even on my rides, when I started talking about things
that are like a little bit deeper, it's always like what.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Are people gonna think?

Speaker 2 (39:50):
And right before I launched my song, I was like,
people are gonna talk shit, and honestly, I don't give
a fuck what anybody else has to say about my
song because Gloria Stefan told me four times that she
loved it, so fuck you guys, yes she did. But like,
if you are always worried about what other people are
gonna think, you're literally never gonna do anything with your life.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Literally. I love that you say that because in my
transition from playing to like become a broadcaster, I knew
I wanted to become a broadcaster, but I didn't know.
I didn't know honestly, Like what it would take to
get there. I did not study communications, y'all. I did
not study journalism. I yeah, I have a background playing soccer,
but like that's different. I have a background in business.

(40:29):
And so just like you, I took an actionable step,
which was, Okay, no network wants to hire me because
I went knocking on ESPN's door. But I did one
step and that was I gotta buy myself a camera.
As the next one was okay, now that I just
spent the money that like, I totally didn't have a
budget for on a camera, that means I was investing
in myself. Then it was like, okay, Another actionable step

(40:51):
was let's start creating content. And I'm gonna start, you know,
ripping out videos talking about soccer. I'm gonna start, and
you have.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
To put things out. Yes, you have to start. You
have to start somewhere. Everyone starts somewhere. You can't wait
until you're it's taking you ten hours for you to
edit this one video, even though I'm sure it probably
took that long the first time you.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
Edited a video.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
No, literally because there was no cap cut back.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Then literally, Like, but you can't wait until your video
is perfect before you post anything, because then no one's
gonna see it and no one continue.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yeah uh, and so when you say, like, don't give
a fuck about what anybody else says. During that time,
I had read I had listened to an audio book
by Gary Vannerchuk which was crushing it and it was
aout billy. Yeah, I need to read the updated one.
I hear it's really good, but it's essentially that he
literally says like, don't care about what other people think,
like you do you and like do what you love

(41:43):
to do. And that's essentially what I did, because I
started thinking about, oh my god, like what are people
going to think about me? I had recently retired and
so like I had a soccer team, so they're probably
like I was kind of like the guinea pig, like
one of the first ones kind of that had retired earlier.
And I was just like, my teammate, what do they
think about me?

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Too?

Speaker 1 (42:00):
But then I was just like, you know what, I
don't give a fuck, Like you gotta do you and
do what you love. And I swear to I swear
you all. I promise you. Once you do what you
love and you believe in yourself, you'll fight so much
happiness and inner happiness and like just this like pride
that you're proud of yourself more than anything, and like

(42:22):
that's when you start really like figuring out like what
self love really comes to you when you start making
these actionable steps. Doesn't have to be at work. It
could be like if you want to do fitness, like
if you want to go out to walk, if you
want to go to start running, training for a five k,
ten k, a full marathon, whatever it is, like it's
the actionable steps and you'd be so proud of yourself.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
Honestly, I wanted to say something about mind Jim.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yeah, I never I have a read mind Jim, but
something that's very much so true about anything, whether it's
like your training for something, right, you're gonna exercise for it.
So like let's say, for example, your goal is to
run a marathon on you have to start your marathon
training program and you're gonna wake up every day and
you're gonna be like, Okay, next step on my training plan.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
Is this, this, this, this, this.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Right, So as it pertains to leading the life of
your dreams quote unquote, in exercise, it's a little bit
more manageable because you have plans. There are programs, especially
on Peloton, like there's literally everything that you can possibly
choose from that's literally laid out for you to be successful,
and you have so many resources. But when it comes

(43:30):
to something that's a little bit more creative, for example,
like setting yourself up to be a Peloton instructor, right,
there's less actionable steps because the groundwork is not laid
out for you. Nobody is sitting here saying, in order
for you to be the first Latina sports broadcaster, you

(43:51):
have to do this step, this step, this step, and
this step. But there is something that is called consistency,
and that's called time dedicated towards something that brings you
slowly closer to where it is that you want to go. So,
for example, very easy, many of us that are listening

(44:12):
to this podcast, we work out, right, especially if you
know me from Peloton, or if you like football, potentially
your inter exercise, just like you train for a marathon.
Just like you wake up every morning and you do
maybe a twenty minute upper lower body workout, you dedicate
another twenty minutes of your day towards this, whether that

(44:34):
is if you are learning to edit your videos for
social media, editing video for social media, researching product that
you need in order to provide high quality content, which
you do not need a lot of nowadays. Taking time
to watch a video for on how to act, taking
your acting lesson, doing vocal warm ups, sitting down and

(44:57):
journaling with a purpose, or journaling to think about moments
in your life that you can then potentially.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Use to write lyrics for music.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Those things add up over time, and we think sometimes
that just because we only have thirty minutes before we
have to start making dinner for our.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
Family, that that's not enough time.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
That could not be further from the truth, because thirty minutes,
four times a day adds up to a substantial amount
of time that you wouldn't otherwise not have dedicated to
anything relating to this. That gives you more knowledge, that
gives you more experience, that gives you more confidence. And
I think knowledge, experience, and confidence are three of the
most important things when you're trying to achieve literally anything.

(45:47):
So just like you train your body physically to be stronger,
to lift heavier weights, to run faster, to run longer,
just like we train our minds right to speak kindly
to ourselves, to remove ourselves from situations where we're we're
focusing on our mental health because just like we train

(46:08):
our mondy, we have to train our mind in order
to be mentally healthy. Just like that, you also train
your talent. You train that like extra brain that you
have that's working on something creative to take you to
where it is that you want to go.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
I'm gonna be honest with you' all, like I have
dealt with a lot of guilt, you know, because you
do take a risk sometimes when you when you're doing this,
you're maybe it depends on your goals, right, Are you
risking your time? Are you risking your time away from
your family, your loved ones? Are you risking your time
from X y Z? And one of the things that
I realize is because I also, you know, either travel

(46:53):
a lot, or I had to travel a lot to
get to where I am, or I had to even
if it's in the same city, go to a events,
go to working events, go to networking events. Sometimes you
don't want to go at the end of the day
because it's much more comfortable to stay at home with
your loved ones, maybe watch a series on television, YadA, YadA, YadA.

(47:14):
But I've realized that when you're dealing with this guilt,
you got to ask yourself again, like what's your goal?
What's your angal? Will this lead me to my goal?
Is this worth it for me or maybe even my
family or you know people who rely Sometimes maybe the
goal is balanced.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Yeah, you want something a little bit more balanced, you know, Yeah, yeah,
that's okay.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
We were also like priorities change, we go through different
things in life, and sometimes there was a time where
I remember like the like social media was all like
I'll sleep when I'm dead. I'm like, no, I need
to sleep nine hours a night. If not, I will
literally have a panic attack. Okay, I need to leave
and I just spend time with my husband on the
counch ship. Those are non negotiables for me that I

(47:58):
carve time out for.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Every day of the week.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
So that's so real many because I also experience that guil.
But it's so true that if you're aligned with your
overall life, it's just something it's very personal to each person.
And don't get me wrong, there's times where I'm like,
maybe I can't talk to you for like the next
two weeks. Just know that I'm going to be with
my head down, I'm going to be grinding, and like

(48:21):
some family members or partners are more receptive to that
than others. Luckily, I think both of our husbands are
extremely supportive of both of us being entrepreneurs and like
big boss bitches for lack of better words, and it's
nice to have that. But I think also it's a
conversation too, because we both communicate with our partners on

(48:45):
the regular about this.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
I think.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
I think also it's like Latinos Latinas. Sometimes we feel
like we're getting like we get put into a box
almost like we have expectations, not only societal expectations, but
family expectations, and that sometimes dictates the way that we
think our path is laid or path is set. And
sometimes you're like, maybe I want to build my own path.

(49:09):
Maybe I want to walk my own walk different from
what I was either taught or like, you know, the
path that was kind of somewhat built, right. I think
the base has been built for a lot of us
in a beautiful way, but that's only for us to
take a decision to walk which way we want to go, right,
And so also, you know, if you're maybe even thinking

(49:31):
about my parents what they're expecting from me, like why
am I doing this? Why? As honestly as women, like
why aren't I at home cooking for my husband? Because
that's something that I think as latinas like that's something
that's different as our generations have grown. And so like
what I want to say to that is exactly what
you know I have gone through, which is like you

(49:54):
do you okay? And Gomi, you have the best saying.
And I remember years ago went on Instagram what is it?

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Like?

Speaker 4 (50:05):
I did not make that up?

Speaker 1 (50:07):
You did it?

Speaker 2 (50:07):
No, that has been passed down from generations.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
It's it's a very wise saying that.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
I'm from Ahenthina. So the first time I heard it,
I was in Agenthina. But yeah, can you translate that
for us?

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Melli, don't break my ovaries, don't bust my ovaries?

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Incredible exactly. So I think that societal expectations are so real.

Speaker 5 (50:36):
And I if you know what it is that you
want for yourself, like, don't let others limited view of
what their life turned out to be or what they
think that your life should look like determine or like
set the standard for how you want to live because.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
The reality is that we get to make our own
decisions on what that looks like.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Yeah, any last p advice for our listeners or people
that are you know, wanting to live out their next
their dreams.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
The only person that's limiting yourself is you. And as
long as you keep working towards it and you put
in time, it doesn't matter how little or how much
time you have available to set forward to it, you
will get closer to it. And alignment happens in very

(51:31):
weird ways. Sometimes sometimes you think that this one thing
is supposed to be what worked out for you, and
then it doesn't happen, and you're devastated and you're devastated,
your heartbroken, and you're like, wow, but this was like
my big break. This was the opportunity where I was
going to change lives and finally get to teach to

(51:52):
thousands of people and like have conversations about wellness and fitness.
I'm talking about myself right now, and it doesn't happen
because something more aligned with who you are and what
you're supposed to be doing is waiting for you on
the other side. And as long as you don't let
that knock you down, then you will make it.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
What about you, Meli.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
I think that one, it's taking the steps, taking the
actionable step. But we talked about bad Bunny at the
top of this show, and there is no better person
right now this given space that has taken step by
step by step, and it's a journey, y'all. He didn't
do this in like two years. Okay, it's been a

(52:35):
long time. It's been over over well over a decade
in the works.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
There's another like entire episode that we could be having
about like authenticity and your unique voice that I think
we should maybe touch on in the future, Meli, because
that's also another thing to be said, Like it's not
just about like step by step action, it's also about
alignment with who you are and ownership of that, and

(53:01):
like the understanding of the power of what it is
that you represent and the power that you have, and
also like how you can train yourself to value that
so that when you communicate other people can see the
value in that as well. So I think we should
definitely come back and touch base on that. What do
you think, amen, Sister, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Well, thank you for having this conversation with me.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
I admire my Lisa so much because she's she's a
goal getter, she's a bitch that will be like, I'm
going to do this, and then a year later we're
launching a podcast together.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Oh you too.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
So I'm really I'm really pumped that we have this conversation.
And if you guys want to hear any other specific
topics from us, like, please feel free to drop it
in the comments on Spotify or wherever you listen to
your podcast on the podcast as a whole pod, Instagram
or social media handles, so that we can make sure
that we are also providing you with what it is
that you guys want to know from us.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
Perfect all right, now onto the sec Cami drum roll,
please do it, Famosa. And this is the part where
Camila obviously shares her favorite shareable things in the world
of music. And then I talked to you a bit
about the insight into the sports world, whether that be

(54:18):
in soccer, football, or women's sports.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
So exactly, so many what do you ever in the
world of sports for us?

Speaker 1 (54:25):
All right, So I'm gonna first update you on the NWSL,
which is the Professional Women's Soccer League. Just a few
weeks ago, the Kansas City Current won the NWSL Shield
and as of recently. So a little bit after that,
Washington Spirit clinched the playoffs. And in that game, there's

(54:46):
a Nigerian player. Her name is Gift Monday. Yeah, if
you have a name Gift Monday, that's already a gift
in itself. And she recently scored the fastest hat trick
in all of NWSL history in the eighteenth, twenty first
and thirty six minutes. So this was like a huge
moment in the NWSL. But just keep in mind and

(55:07):
on your radar that obviously there's you know, two teams
that are into the playoffs, but the playoffs do start
November seventh, so that's just about a month away. So like, actually,
this is one of the most exciting times to tune
in to the NWSL, to these women's soccer games, because
this is when things start get heated. It's s's to
really get lit obviously, because there's playoffs on the line

(55:29):
and the postseason is on the line, So tune into
those games. And then secondly, in the world of the
WNBA in women's basketball, the Minnesota Links coach Charelle Reeves
was suspended for one game for her behavior and comments
during and following the loss to the Phoenix Mercury, which
she's that, yes, it was geez and it was all

(55:53):
because of her reaction because one of her players, Nafisa Collier,
got injured off this play. This is the first time
leave that in the history of THEWNBA that a coach
has been suspended for a playoff game. But this is
just a call. This is a call because what we've
said was that she wants there to be changes in
the league when it comes to officiating, and that the

(56:16):
officiating crew time and time again has been, you know,
lacking good calls. She says, you know, she literally, quote
unquote said for the leadership to deem three people semi
final playoff worthy, it's fucking malpractice. So she not only
says stuff during games, she said it after the game.

(56:36):
And so this all goes to show that, like the
league has to do a better job in protecting the
players because obviously there was an injury caused of that.
And I think this is not only just the WNBA,
this is like across other sports as well. I think
officiating does have to, you know, obviously get better. There's
a lot of stakes on the line when it comes

(56:56):
to qualifying, like going to next rounds, whether it be
the playoffs, you know, the champion and chips, et cetera.
So anyways, that's in the world of of w NBA.
The Links lost in game four of the series and
now without their coach and without their star player. So
uh yeah, there's a lot of heated news of the
WNBA as a research Now over to you, kummy.

Speaker 4 (57:17):
Oh my goodness, that was a lot of cheese mamedy.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
On on my side, I guess I have like sweeter news.
I went to a listening event for Silvana Estrada, who
is a Mexican artist.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
She is an indie artist and her new album.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Bendan Suavez Juvias is dropping in like sixteen days. There's
a couple of tracks that are already out from the album.
It was a private event that was kind of like
a Q and a session with the editor of Rolling Stone,
the Latin music editor of Rolling Stone that was interviewing
Cibina estra Sorry and she actually they played some unreleased

(58:07):
music and she also performed when I tell you that
you can hear the woman's soul when she sings. It
was absolutely incredible. She also mentioned that she had just
recorded a tiny desk she came with some of the
performers from The Tiny Desk to perform for us as well.
So if you see the Tiny Desk, listen to it.
I'm not sure if it'll drop by the time this

(58:27):
episode drops, but make sure that you check it out
and then go and listen to Silana Estralla's tracks that
you can access off the album right now. Like I
I'm a crier, but also like everyone was crying and
this thing because like you can feel the emotion, and
she also went through a very difficult time. She described

(58:50):
it as one of the most difficult times of her
life where one of her best friends passed away. So
there's a lot of you can hear that in the
sound a lot, and it's it's really refreshing and it's
so beautiful to see somebody express themselves in that way
with their voice. Her vocals are just incredible.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Love that you mentioned. Uh, first off, I need to
listen if can you can share that, like I need
to find this by the way, like seve of those
links cost yeah. Uh, And you say Tiny Desk, y'all.
I listened to the entire Cardinals.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
I knew it, oh, y'all.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
So it's so good, y'all, you need to listen to Cardio.
It's Cardios b is going on tour? Did I hear this?

Speaker 2 (59:38):
I feel like he just was kind of touring, if
not officially touring, he was definitely traveling around the world
and performing because I did see that, but I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
Yeah, well, I'll get back to you. I'll confirm in
our next podcast whether Cardi Babs is going on tour
or not.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
Perfect, which I hope.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
So I mean the same.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
I'll be there front row, screwing my lungs out, Mally.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
You have to pick me up.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
On your on your shoulders.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
If Cudlos Vivis performs in front of us, then we'll
get kicked out of the venue. Will where they Well,
thank you guys so much for joining us. We hope
that you took some valuable stuff away from this pod.
Melissa and I are always so excited to share, you know,
our bts on how we push each other forward to

(01:00:27):
be the best versions of ourselves, which is something that
we continuously strive for, aside from giving ourselves permission to
peer and have.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
Fun on the regular. So thank you guys so much
for listening.

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