October 23, 2025 • 48 mins
In this episode, Live from the ALMA Hotel in Puerto Rico, Beomhan sits down with Eliana Diaz, owner of Unrated Magazine, for a lively discussion about the growing K-pop scene in Puerto Rico. He also chats with Lori from MLK Promotions and a well-known influencer and psychology student, who opens up about mental health and youth culture on the island.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to the K Factor Everything k Pop.
This is a show hosted by me Bomha and just
a little reminder before we start, you can find this
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show on iHeartRadio, app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you find
your podcast. And today I'm in Puerto Rico and I
am joined by many many special guests today and also
a live studio audience.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And our first.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Guest today is a wonderful, wonderful magazine who hosted me
and had a wonderful interview. I hope you guys can
check it out. Do you could mind introducing yourself please?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Of course I'm My name is Iliana Diaz and people
know me here in Puerto Rico as one point, and
I'm the owner of unrated magazine.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Thank you so much for coming and giving me such
a wonderful interview.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's it's your first interview in English.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
We had a wonderful concert and you were there. Yes,
what did you think about the concert?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
I loved it, Like for my first.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Time being like with the K pop community, I was
like so impressed. I was sewing awe actually because of
the energy, the love the people had and how everybody
was really rooting for you and everything, dancing, screaming everything.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I loved it personally, I had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I loved this so much. I love the Puerto Rican crowd.
I loved the Puerto Rican culture, the beautiful landscape that
we have here at the hotel. And I wanted to
ask you because you're kind of the local expert on
the scene of music business. You run your magazine on
kind of all these pillars, and you came to the
concert yesterday and you experienced what it was like to
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see a K pop fan based and a K pop crowd.
What made it different from a regular Puerto Rican artist crowd,
you say.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I believe is that the people are very very heartwarming, heartfelting,
and it's so different in terms of the energy and
how exciting the ambience all all over was, you know,
And I was seeing Valley in the reggaeton community like
rock community here in Puerto Rico. There are very different vibes,
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like the audience in reggaeton, which is in Pereo, which
is our like our main how most of the people
here listen are a little bit more I could say,
I don't want to say bitchy, but more like closed.
You know and more like I'm judging you, but I
enjoy your music, but I'm not gonna tell you that
I love your music that kind of vibe, you know.
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And then I experienced the K pop community and everybody
was so happy, so welcoming. Everybody is so nice, and
I was really really I enjoyed it a lot. Like
I had three events yesterday, so I was like going
to your event, coming back to another one, and then
coming back. So I was like experiencing a whole lot
of different energies and vibes, and I like said to
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Michelle and Christina, I need to get back because I
want the energy and the vibe that I was feeling
when you were singing and everything.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
So I really loved it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So we do this podcast and a lot of times
parents come up to me and they're like, oh my god,
like thank you for talking about all these things about
K pop because it helps me connect with my kid more. Right,
And as you speak about like all the break eton
and like the rock culture, like it's probably like where
a lot of these parents kind of grew up it
and like knowing it's kind of cliquy, and like knowing
he's not that safe of an environment, but you're just
kind of there, just like enjoy a good time. And
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let's say someone listening has that mindset right now, okay, right,
and then their kid comes up to them and it's like, yo, dad,
I want to go to a K pop concert?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What would you say to that? Dad? So I kind
of convince them to like let them go.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Well, I myself am a mom.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
My kid is seven years old, so and yesterday, like
I saw how a lot of kids, my my kids age,
were like enjoying and having fun with everything that actually,
like the girls from MKAY like producing an amazing event
a liesta we have, so all the experience is that
they have for like all types of ages and the
music itself, I would totally say yes because it's like
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the community itself is very family driven and I could
see myself with my kee leg and joined for our
future other events for K pop and like introducing him
to the community and ever, so I would say yes,
definitely do it.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's very it's definitely very friendly, very inviting, especially here
in Puerto Rico. I feel like everyone just has such
a kind heart and like a heart kind of focused
around fun, like but one thing I noticed about Puerto
Rico was like, it feels like the whole island is partying.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
All the time.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Twenty four seven.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I've never arrived at a like from the airport, at
a place to do an event as an idol, and
the first beverage offered to me was an alcoholic beverage.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Got offered media right.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
A lot of oh yo, Beaumont, are you thirsty?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I was like, yeah, I could get a what do
you want a peanut colada?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Our hotel here at Alma is located right by San Juan.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And it was around like two am that we went
outside and we were kind of like, uh, in New
York we call it stupid where we just kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Like loiter outside. We just kind of stand outside.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So we were like stoopid outside at old San Juan,
people were still like partying, walking up and down the hills.
I was like, girl, who go home? But like nobody
like wants to go home here.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And I think.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
That as New York the city that never sleeps, Puerto
Rico is the island that never sleeps.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And I was like, wow, I'm home, like for real,
for real.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And I brought that up because I felt a blend
of that, like the reggaeton and like the rock culsuter
and like those crowds mixing in with also the K
pop crowds. Yeah, And like I was doing a concert
and I was like, wow, this is like beautiful. Yeah,
I've never experienced this so exclusive to like Puerto Rico
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at like I was just focus have fun.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I feltso invited. I wish I could to come back.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And like, one thing I wanted to ask you is like,
like what what is.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It like like like.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Concert culture in Puerto Rico, Like like do you is
it normally disinbting?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Is it normally this friendly?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And do you because you also run a music magazine,
so you're passionate about these kind of things, right. I
feel like the way that we kind of just presented
it was like, oh, they're clique, they're kind of judgy,
but that's not true.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Now, it's not that that they're but you know, it's
to portray the difference of how how marked difference are
the people from every single genre, you know, but culture wise,
when you go to a Puerto Rican concert, what whatever
genre it is, is like you're going to this big
party in your own like village. If you might say
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where you live in and you might not not know
somebody that's sitting next to you, but then you can
offer a salu and you're dancing and everybody like meets everybody.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
So it's like very hard.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
When I think that's a very perto Rican thing or
Latino thing, when everybody's very friendly and when you're partying
this alcohol involved, so everybody's like, oh, this is my primo,
this is my I don't.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Know you, but salou you know, that's how it is.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
My tie felt like that too, Like in a while,
I was performing a lot of times like they're kind
of like busy, but then like they're like yo, like
I literally just talk to like seven people.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You don't nobody, but you don't know any of them,
meeting new friends.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So what inspired you to like start your magazine, to
like to have this passion to like be like, oh,
this is something I want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, when I am very passionate about like culture itself,
like internationally, and I was seeing like there there's a
need here in the island, and I can see like
expanding that and global wise of having like a spot,
a portal, a place, a magazine when you can actually
unify different pillars in different industries, like art itself. We
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are all creatives and I myself, maybe I am more
on the business side, but I do love music and
I dance when I was little, So I see myself
as I can do a lot of things. Let's unify
all the industry is so some maybe you like see
on radio magazine and you meet on radar magazine because
of the K pop community, or maybe because you're into
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cinema or theater. But then you see, oh, they talk
about business, talk about music business, which is something that
nobody much talks about. And I think that that is
very important because the artists need education available. So when
I see on radio magazine, I don't see just as
a creative spot for people to actually like.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
See or say what they do. See.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
My name is an artist and I do this, and
that I see on radio magazine as a place where
you can actually find information valuable enough so you can
actually learn on any different topic that you're interested in.
So that is like a portal to unify the industry entirely.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Wow, that is like it's like a it's like an alls.
It's like a one stop shop for like just everything.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, just like you have your own entire industry salad there.
I can't like I visualize or rated going for a
mixture of like Vulgue Magazine, Forbes and Billboard, So those
three mixing up together that makes the reading magazine. And
of course at first the magazine itself was dreaming into
the Puerto Rican community, but it has like expanded and
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now we see it like growing internationally. Now we're doing
English interviews with Spanish the subtitles, so we're getting there.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I think it's cool that you're you're so passionate about it,
and like you can see and like the production set
and like.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The look of the host. You know, this is like something.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Else a lot of work in thought is put into
and I feel like as as people come into Puerto Rico,
I hope that they can continue to like go.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Through you to to the Puerto Rican fans.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And you also asked me amazing, amazing questions, Like I
was like, I feel so I feel so seen right now.
K you for that, and like I hope that like,
like like the Puerto Rican fans can like kind of
experience the artists the same where you kind of see
them and what is something that, uh, what is your
what is a recent passion or interest that you have
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been really looking to platform lately.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I may say creative direction. Okay, Yeah. Throughout the journey
of like learning about the business side of the entertainment industry,
I am very I consider myself a free spirit, and
my mind like drives away like a lot when I'm
like doing my business stuff. So when I'm creative, the
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when I'm directing like a photo shoot or maybe something
more business driven, creative direction, it makes me feel whole.
So it's something that I'm actually like trying to research
more and see how I can expand my peers on
that part of like I'm owning a magazine. You know,
that's something that you do every single day. So I
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discovered it like casually and now I loving it.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Wow, Wow, good luck.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
What is something that you think you can educate like
the audience on in that and that in that respect,
like like like what could you what could you like
what you could you say about creative direction that can
be like educational for like our audience.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well, creative direction is something that is actually very expensive. Yeah,
because depending upon when you are like developing yourself in
any industry, like whatsoever, considering our pillars here in the magazine.
Creative direction is a way of you, like discovering how
you can send a message throughout the visuals and throughout art,
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and you may have like something very serious like Britain,
and then you can actually put it all beautifuller if
I may say that when you put it visually.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
So creative direction is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
A way to expand your thought in a visual way
for everybody to understand and maybe to put maybe words
that cannot be put into words visually, because sometimes that's
what you do with music, with art itself. Sometimes it's
a way of expressing yourself too. So that's how I
see creative direction, and when business wise or educational.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Wise, I believe that people who are.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Interested in the arts, particularly creative direction may be a
way to.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Make all your thoughts come into place.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So that's not something maybe that can help people out.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I feel like one thing that's super strong in K
pop is specifically that, like I think when when a
lot of like projects come together, it's one idea and
then it's how can we best package this idea as
creatively as possible. And I think there's a lot of
like powerful creative direct just in K pop that kind
of like make these groups and these wonderful music videos
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that happen. Yeah, so thank you for sharing that. And
that was very beautifully said together, like like she normally
does her interviews in Spanish and you really cannot tell.
Thank you so much for your time today. I have
so much fun and thank you for welcoming me to
Puerto Rico. And do you have any closing words for
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the radio audience.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Of course, do what you love and don't take no
for an answer. I know is just a closed door
that you can open over and over again.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
That's it. Do what you love so much.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Thank you, thank you, ask you next time I'm in
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Definitely for another hungo.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh yeah, welcome back to the K Factor. We have
another guests as we kind of go through all of
our Puerto Rico experiences, and today we are joined by
a influencer who talks a lot about mental health and
is a student studying psychology with a wonderful conversation.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Could you introduce yourself.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
On Hi, my name is Nat I am a student
joining a master's degree in psychology.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
For the radio audience who might be a little bit
surprised by what's going on here. This is actually our
first Spanish speaking guests, and we have a translator who's
going to be delivering the audio experience for you guys completely.
If you guys are watching on video, then you guys
can see her wonderful, beautiful face actually delivers the information.
But if you guys listening on radio on iHeartRadio, app,
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Apple Podcast, wherever you get your podcasts, then you guys
will be experiencing the translator, uh, delivering the information.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
So yeah, welcome.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
As someone who kind of represents like mental health in Puerto.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Rico, how would you say that?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Like that topic is normally approached, like whether it's by
the older generation or like the newer generation.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Okay, usually the older generation doesn't really like to talk
about the topic of mental health is more of a
timely topic.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Per.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Usually the younger generation is more open to go into
therapy and talking about it and breaking those generational cursors
or generational proms.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Wow, I feel like like a lot of kids growing
up don't have direct access to like psychologists or like
therapy and all these things. And the first place I
think it's turned to is social media and the place
that I see you right now kind of having with
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the followers and the fan base that you have is
like you're the first touch with these kids who are
kind of looking for help.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
So you're kind of like a superhero. Just tell her that.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And I kind of say that, and I asked my
first question because in k pop, as a lot of
people know, and in Korea, mental health is also very
taboo and we're not really giving a lot of opportunities
to kind of explore what it is that we need
as humans. So so I have a question for you.
Why did you start your page.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
But join pessemi me, Instagramque and Puerto Rico. I'm mousa person.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I start to like it because there's a lot of
people in Puerto Rico doing the social media just like me.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I don't know, I know.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
There's body making it in a language that is easily
to understand, are accessible to somebody that doesn't understand all
the psychology lingo.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Wow, So you're really thinking about inclusivity. And I kind
of like touched on it a little bit before, a
little bit off camera, but like a lot of people
don't have access to like psychology and like like direct
mental health help. So like they turn to social media
and they get like a lot of their information from there.
(17:29):
So you're kind of like a like a superhero. That's
so cool, Like do you see yourself doing this for
a super long time?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I hope this lasts for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
And I think it's also cool that you're in college
and you're taking the information that you're learning from college
and you're paying for and you're just making it accessible
to everyone. Like I hope that more people can do that. See,
like yourself doing this even when you become a practicing
like psychologist.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Process, so you.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Learned that maybe being a psychologist isn't for her, but
she wants to keep sharing the information, maybe giving courses
or things like that.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
What inspired you to like start doing all this stuff?
Like was there a moment that you looked internally within
yourself and like started struggling with and was like, oh,
like there's something there's someone out there who.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Like could use this.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
And no Pero and la profes.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
See in terms of the social media aspect now, but
in terms of the profession, yes, there was a moment.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
And Ela profession Joel.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
She wanted to learn the profession to help herself, which
was incorrect.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
And process correcta profession correcta.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Even though she went in because she wanted to help herself,
she learned that it was better to help others, and
she's glad that she stayed.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
That's kind of extreme. A lot of people.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
They're like, oh, man, I'm kind of going through something
I want to spend like ninety dollars on therapy. You're like,
I'm gonna spend thirty thousand dollars on an education and
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Are you usually like like a super determined person.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
No, Well, I think it's great, like what you're doing
for people, Like, do you have like any questions.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
For me as I will?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
How do you handle your mental health from.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Day to day?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, I'm not as well knowledged and well practiced as
you are, but I kind of like look internally and
like I know, specifically what I need is to be
around friends, be around family, and be around people who
can love and affirm me for who I am and
not kind of like rely on like outside things like
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tell me who I am, you know, I just know
and I can live by that and then just like
living my community.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
And do you think that comes through with your music?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
And I think leaving my kind of K pop scene
and then approaching this new sound, approaching this new team.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
That I have.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
All of this is a collection of the community that
I've built. So all the music that comes out is
just a combination of all these scenarios that are making
me so happy right now. I really appreciate you coming
on because I still do struggle from time to time
with like a lot of stuff. Like, to be honest, twin,
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I have a lot of anxiety, and I.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Actually never really kind of learned how to deal with this.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I feel like I categorize things into danger or not danger,
and when it's danger, I feel like the world is exploding.
I could like drop a pencil, and then if it
goes into the danger category, I feel like my world exploding.
I can't see and I start sweating and all these things. Right, So,
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when something small like that happens and it falls into
that danger category, how could I kind of like crown
myself and like bring myself back.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
S the S S PAS.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
As a student, all I can give you is advice.
But my advice would be to practice for breeding techniques.
And also there is a situation that is causing you
anxiety to step away from the situation for when you're
comming up and then go back to the situation. Of course,
if you can't go to a licensed tervist.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Prespiras.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
So one of the breathing techniques that I learned is
for you to breathe in and fill in your body
as if you're filling in your stomach like it's a balloon.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
It's important, it's important.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
So it's important for what the air to feel it
in your stomach and not in your chest because it
could hurt yourself.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
And so you have to focus on the air coming
into your stomach.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Focus on that and how the air is coming out.
So focus on that and try to.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Relate el magic there. So eke and look at the.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Magic, and that is that you're taking your brain off
of the topic that's giving you the anxiety and you're
focusing on one thing, which is your body and how
you're feeling in the air and letting it out. So
your brain kind of DISCNNA from whatever was giving you
anxiety in that moment.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Is anybody else at home trying this with me right now?
I think that's so beautiful and and thank you for that.
Well one here, uh, I think you're gonna do great
no matter what you're doing. That was so well presented.
You're so well spoken, and I was I can see
why you're as popular as you are. And to what
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that advice reminded me of was singing and actually, like uh,
kind of unrelated, like without having that knowledge, one thing
that I did used to like ground myself was like
I'm just gonna go sing a song and like I'm
focusing on the lyrics and I'm focusing on like like
the melody and like the breathing through the stomach and
like all these things, and like that takes me away
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from the top.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
So actually that was really helpful, So thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
The money. Harlan Conbertillo.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
There's a lot of different ways you can have doing anxiety.
That is obviously a breathing technique, but you can also
focus on music and it will help you as a
tool to help you calm yourself in a situation where
you're feeling stressed.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So as kind of like someone who interacts with a
Spanish speaking audience a lot of the time, how do
you see them responding to like mental health matters and
like how do you what do you see that? What
is a mental health issue that you see that is
kind of specific to a Spanish speaking audience.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
What is on an issue the settlemented particular in Puerto
Rico or.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Pacific. In Puerto Rico, La and Silas, So.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I can't speak for every Spanish speaking gun. I can
speak for Puerto Rico, and I think something that's very
common in Puerto Rico is anxiety for the things happening
on the island.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That is pretty comment wow, and I hope that this
can give some more insight.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Is there anything that like you personally struggle.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
With Jo sindrome in busy anything?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Something I struggle with is anxiety and the impostures in
German feelings in the back of my head always like
you're not good enough.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
That sounds very hard. Do you feel that a lot
going through school.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Ses imposters and that you know, l Sindra, You know,
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so the impast syndrome because of what I'm saying, because
I don't think I'm meant to be in an office,
but I'm meant to probably be helping people giving courses
on handle stress and anxiety.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Anton and Sla you know Ivano, but.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
She feels like in the classroom other students have probably
be calling to be a psychologist therapist, and she feels
in the back of her head being like I am
not I should not be here, I'm not good enough,
and that they see imposter.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I think personally that you're doing great. I think you're
doing an amazing job. You're going above and beyond.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
And I feel.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Like, like, also one thing that I'm kind of curious
about is I come to Puerto Rico. Everyone is so loving,
so happy, so much, so warm, and all these things,
but actually there is a layer of anxiety about the
island and like what can happen to like your home
and all these things, Like how do you think that's
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that's like what what do you think k pop or
like concerts and music can do for the people on
the island.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
But you also Koberton, and.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I think the cape of fandom is kind of a refuge.
I'm also a cap of.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Fan and and ticoloha. I you term familia person so loving.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
In psychology, there's a turn called is your friends and family,
But some people do not have that support system, and
maybe K pop has become the support system for a
lot of people to find support and friendship and love.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I also noticed that a lot of times when people
feel anxiety or negative emotions, it's kind of a a
downward energy where you kind of stay still and you
can't really operate. I feel like, correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
In Puerto Rico, when people feel these things, they actually
go and just have fun.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
They go party and they make more memories and they
have a support system with each other and everyone kind
of shares that bond in a way.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
That's how I felt when I came here.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
It's like kind of on that Sali famili Isla because he's.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Business. It reflects you know, normal men.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Knowing that is what people do. People tend to go
out to try hape, but it's also important to have
a moment of self reflection, maybe being alone in your
room and be thinking exclue instead of kind of ignora.
But yes, it is a good coping meganism.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
So so, so what would you recommend people do when
they're feeling these things?
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Well, Spectro in Grande Spectro at kam journaling at the
River Como.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Then she recommends journaling so you can write out your
feelings and maybe you can read it later to self effect,
to see what you can do to feel better when
those feelings poor.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
That's some different test modo. Journaling personal.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Contra anxiety isn't the same for everybody. But journaling is
always in good advice because that way you it's more
self guiding and you can't analyze your thoughts while being
alone and read it out, and of course the most
important thing to go to a therapist.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Obviously you're very well read, you're very well studied, and
you know a lot of your things. Right if I
was your friend, I came out to you, I'm like, hey,
I'm having a hard time.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
How would you speak to them? Because I feel like.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's still very textbook right now. Maybe it's the language barrier.
It's like, oh, you could try journal and you can
try all these things.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
It's like okay, cool, but i'm your friend. Well I'm
bomhann Okay. I had an anxiety attack yesterday and I
didn't know how to deal with it. Okay, And I'm like, okay, hey,
I'm kind of like having a hard time and I
called you, What would you tell me?
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Prima saves.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Is if you know what the trigger was for.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
That ispira and qspira per moneiente.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
The best thing I can tell you is that if
you don't know what the trigger was for the anxiety attack,
next time you have it, tried to breathe, even though
breathing becomes very difficult during an anxiety, a stick to
just try to process it. And of course if you can,
to go to Betra Bey.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, Boom, I know my sugar, like like like like
I didn't know my schedule something as simple as that.
I was like I don't know what my schedule is,
and I was like like I don't know what to
do right now, and like the time is like scrunching
down in my head and I'm like I don't know
where I should be right now, and like whatever it is,
right So boom, I identified it.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Okay, now what.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Joda friend.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Arguing as your friend, I will tell you then, now
that you know what the trigger is, to find maybe
another friend that could keep it. She likes to look
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at it as it gets a plate. The plate sometimes
spilled with a lot of things, and sometimes it's good
to find somebody else to help you take things.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Off that m and as your friend, you will help
take things off that plate.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Bo your silver love again.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
But yeah, yeah, okay, wow, all right, well, to be honest,
I think that's one more questions. And I think that
your page and and all these things is very helpful
for people, and I hope that they can kind of
experience your popping personality the same way I am as well.
So could you tell the radio listeners like what your
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social media is and all these.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Things Instagram, USAGI, they say, yourmon and.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Is there anything like closing words that you want to
tell everybody?
Speaker 6 (35:37):
And Espanol, I.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Would say thank you for having me here, and thank
you for being so nice about this.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Being in Spanish, consumman contin no, you are out.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
I would say to the people that are watching that
if they want to consume social media content on mental health,
to not focus on the diagnosis, but to focus on
content that makes you feel better. Because for diagnosis and
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you should go to a personas license, but for social
media mental health content, you should go to somebody to
understand better your feelings and maybe for support.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
And find your support at your local Cave pop concert
in Puerto Rico. Hello and welcome back to the K Factor.
We have a wonderful, wonderful final guest here in Puerto Rico.
One of the wonderful talents at MLK events.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Hi everybody, I'm Lori.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
I am the L in MLK. One of the other
letters is miss and Christina. Those are my partners, my
amazing partners. I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I found out recently that MLK was just you guys' names.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yes, and you guys actually have a wonderful story as
so why you guys started this whole company?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yes, Well, the story basically goes that we wanted to
make events that were accessible to everybody in terms of
price and for to unite the cabob community here in
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
And I think what's powerful is that you guys are
completely like women owned, and like everything that you guys
put together is like from like a root of community
and like kind of just putting that together for the
people of Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
What kind of like inspired you to start us?
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I think one of the things that inspired us was
that we I've been a fan of kpop for many,
many years. Michelle recently got into BTS maybe like a
year or two ago. She's behind the camera if I'm
looking at her, and Tina also recently got into K pop.
So I think we are in different like eras of
our capop journey, and we just wanted to make something
fun that everybody would enjoy, of all ages.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
And I feel like the three of you guys like
meeting the three of you, Like you guys are all
very different personalities, completely different personalities that make up one brain.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
It's a crazy chaotic combination, but it works.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
It's like it's beautiful to watch, Like to be honest,
like how different you guys are.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
But you guys seem like you guys have been friends
for like a super long time, Like is that true?
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Yes, Michelle and Tina know each other for way longer,
but I met them maybe, I think it was a
year or two ago, right, And we just instantly clicked
and we just instantly started this and it just worked
out so far. And I feel so blessed that I
was able to find friends that we had the same
passion and motivations, and we were able to create this
and that everybody's enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
And I'm truly blessed. Yes, today's consort was awesome. It
was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun.
I had a great time.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Did you expect the turn out, the audience, the cheering?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
No, be honest, I came in here not knowing anything,
and then I was gonna shoot some content to promote
the event in New York, where I was like, Oh,
I'm gonna go try in New York Puerto Rican food.
I'm gonna go like learn all this stuff about the culture.
And I was like, actually, I'm just gonna go. I'll
learn there, you know, like I want to feel the
energy there. And you guys have made such like a
welcoming home for me. I appreciate that like so much.
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Like have you guys thrown events else like before this before?
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Yes, we recently had some different club events. Most of
them were actually all of them were all ages. Up
there weren't all ages, so there were more mature events,
so more hip hop, KR and B style, And this
is the first event that was for all ages. It
was a festival style, so it ran from one pm
all the way till the morning, and we had vendors
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and we had ice cream for the kids and hopcorn
and dance presentations and of course your amazing presentation and
your DJ set, which I think this is the first
time you did a DJ set, right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Spilled the drunk on the butoneer, oh my gosh, we
don't talk about them.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
We don't talk about it, but it was it was
a couple of drops. I spill a couple of drops.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
I think you should be but you were reviving and
I think everybody vibed with the set. So I think
you did a good job. For it to be your
first time. It didn't seem like your first time. I
feel like you're lying to me.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Thank you all. I mean, actually I did one two
weeks ago. Two weeks ago with my friend. Okay, so
this is my first time doing it by myself.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Okay, so we still have the privilege that the first
Bomhan DJs was in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yeah, okay, fine, I feel special. This is your first
time doing a daytime event, right, Yes, this was.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
The first time.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
What was it like like transitioning from like doing like
hip hop, like reggaetone events to like now doing like
K So I.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Feel like we were doing more KR and b K
hip hop, so more mature Korean genres, right, And this
is the first time that we had to keep in
mind that we were going to have children out of
the event during the day, so of course certain songs
we weren't going to be able to play, just because
we have to keep in mind there's children involved. And
also we had a lot of vendors at this event
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that we're selling different merch A lot of people actually
gave you, like their designs and stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Had the Puerto Rican flag, like, yeah to Puerto Rico,
I was gonna cry. So I think a lot of
artists like drew me me stickers. Yes.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
So I think one of the most difficult things was
the logistics because of such a long event, there's way
more details and way more things in the background. And
I'm very grateful because Tina Michelle held it down. Because
an event's this big, it's a lot of emails, a
lot of coordination, a lot of things I have to
go on in the background that you probably don't even realize.
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And I am very grateful that we were able to
get through the event yesterday and everything went literally I
couldn't imagine it going better, and I'm grateful. The most
important thing is that you had fun and that everybody
at the event enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
I feel I feel so safe, so protected, and I
really see that I'm okay. Brought me out to make
sure that I enjoy Puerto Rico, and you guys took
a lot of sacrifice within yourself.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Like I saw that, you guys Brandon event from like
like you guys said one pm. At what time I was.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
I think I was at the venue, maybe like at
eight am.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
By then, that's crazy eight am all the way until
like the after party was done, and you were like,
you know, you're only Puerto Rico for three days, let's
go to an after.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
After Yeah, so you have to tell the people what
after party you too.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
It was Bad Bunnies Residencies.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
It was it was the last day of Bad Bunnies Residency,
and he threw a after party at a hotel where
you can drink until five am, and they opened only
for the duration of Bad Bunnies Residency, and after that
day they were going to tear it down. I was like, wow,
this is such a great place to make a memory.
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And I looked over at you guys, and I think
there was no life left.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
It was.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
It was three.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Zombies just crawling into the club making sure I'm dancing
at this section.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
I'm like, okay, it's like this is great, you know.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
And then after we made you dance until the wee
hours of the morning. What did we have you doing
this morning?
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Dance? I woke up ten am to go dance.
Speaker 4 (43:16):
Some more, but you were dancing at Elmro. Yeah, it's
actually iconic for you.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Oh it was so fun.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
And the videos are going to be up before this
episode is up, and like I hope that like more
idols can come and like experience just the loving like
like warm embrace that you guys have for like artists
and all these things, you know.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Like where do you guys see yourself in the future.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
I think our priority is basically to make sure that
the fandom keeps getting events that they deserve, because the
keep off fandom has been in Puerto Rico for many,
many years. We started getting concerts like maybe twenty fourteen,
and the concerts have just started getting bigger and bigger,
and the fans who deserve more events and more concerts
because we've come to the point where a lot of
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people have to fly out to go to see their
favorite artists. Maybe maybe they have to go to another state,
but if we bring them here, maybe it's more accessible
to fans that can really travel. Like yesterday, we had
a lot of fans that were very young that were
very happy to see you, and maybe those fans don't
really have the money to fly out to see you
anywhere else, so we just want to make sure that
is accessible to everybody.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Wow, that's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
That's forced.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I'm touch a lawyer so much.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Is there anything that you've that you want to tell
people like at home about the Puerto Rican experience and
the cultural impact of gape up.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Well, that is a very loaded question.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
I just hope that whoever's seeing this that the fandom
in Puerto Rico is very warm and welcoming and we
would love to be noticed more. I guess because the
fans here are very supportive, even if they don't know
maybe who the artist is. They love going to the
events just to support because that is a mentality here.
I think for any genre that maybe if I support
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this artist, even if I don't know their music at all,
that will open the doors for other people and maybe
that artist will grow and eventually they'll become bigger. So
I feel like that was a lot of the mentality
maybe for people that came yesterday who weren't aware of
your music, but I feel like they all left with
the mentality of like I'm going to be one of
those people that saw one when he was small and
he came to Puto Rico for the first time, and
then you're gonna come back and probably fill up a
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stadium because this guy's the limit.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Aw And I felt that love.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
I felt that embraced of like, oh, hey, I think
I probably doesn't know who I am, but you're still
here having a great time having his drinks.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
I do like doing all these things. What do you
think is like like kind of like the mission statement
of like MLK, Like there's I remember kind of off camera,
you guys were talking to me about you guys having
like a lot of experience doing nonprofits, doing a lot
of like things that just are community based, and then
some broads somehow, like you said, kpop And how do
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all these things tied together to make mlkay.
Speaker 6 (46:06):
I feel like.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
There is a lot of things, like the butterfly effect.
A lot of things happen for a reason, we like
to believe. And I feel like every knowledge that we
have individually, be it nonprofits that Michelle and Christina were
involved in, or maybe me in communications, I feel like
that helps us in what we're doing now because maybe
I don't have a knowledge in something, but maybe Michelle
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knows better, so we fill in the gaps. And I
think one of the most important things is that our
mindset is the same and that we would just want
the best for the fandom. Like, of course, this is
a business. There are certain things that we have to
take into account, but the priority is always the fans first,
and we want to keep it that way no matter
how many years past. If this gets to a point
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where it's like twenty years into the future and we're
still with the company, the fans are always going to
be the priority.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
When I go home and I.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
Talk to all my artist friends in all these things,
I always telling y'all, Puerto Rico was a great time.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Y'all have to go. Y'all have to experience all of it.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
What besides my own experience and my own words, what
would you say to the artists who are considering come
to Puerto Rico and it's like and like, what do
you think will like kind of push them over to like.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Be like, okay, this is like the place.
Speaker 6 (47:19):
I feel like the main thing is that please come
to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
Even if you think maybe you don't have any fans here,
You're gonna make fans because everybody here goes it's going
to go to support And maybe you only had twenty
fans in Puerto Rico, maybe you had five hundred fans,
but you're gonna leave with five hundred more. So I
feel like that's the mentality and that if you have
a fan in Puerto Rico, that is going to be
the fan for the rest of your career.
Speaker 6 (47:44):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
Second, Oh, I want to go back to Perto Rico
so bad. I hope to see you guys.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Welcome back, bring me back, please, And I don't want
to go through anyone else, like really, and thank you
for the experience.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
And I mean those are my closing thoughts. Is there
anything else you wanted to tell people?
Speaker 4 (48:02):
Just thank you for supporting us, Thank you for supporting you.
We are so happy that the event yesterday was a success.
And I'm just happy that everybody is happy with the
presentation yesterday and with the event. And I hope that
this is not the end of our journey and that
you definitely come back.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
To I will be back with a kokey tattoo on
my forehead. Okay, let's close the show. Thank you to
all the video listeners at home. Thank you to everybody
watching this on YouTube. Once again as a reminder, you
can get this podcast on iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
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wherever you get your podcast. This is the K Factor,
Everything K Pop with Bumhan and I'll see you guys
next week.
Hello, and welcome back to the K Factor Everything k Pop.
This is a show hosted by me Bomha and just
a little reminder before we start, you can find this
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show on iHeartRadio, app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you find
your podcast. And today I'm in Puerto Rico and I
am joined by many many special guests today and also
a live studio audience.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And our first.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Guest today is a wonderful, wonderful magazine who hosted me
and had a wonderful interview. I hope you guys can
check it out. Do you could mind introducing yourself please?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Of course I'm My name is Iliana Diaz and people
know me here in Puerto Rico as one point, and
I'm the owner of unrated magazine.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Thank you so much for coming and giving me such
a wonderful interview.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's it's your first interview in English.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
We had a wonderful concert and you were there. Yes,
what did you think about the concert?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
I loved it, Like for my first.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Time being like with the K pop community, I was
like so impressed. I was sewing awe actually because of
the energy, the love the people had and how everybody
was really rooting for you and everything, dancing, screaming everything.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I loved it personally, I had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I loved this so much. I love the Puerto Rican crowd.
I loved the Puerto Rican culture, the beautiful landscape that
we have here at the hotel. And I wanted to
ask you because you're kind of the local expert on
the scene of music business. You run your magazine on
kind of all these pillars, and you came to the
concert yesterday and you experienced what it was like to
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see a K pop fan based and a K pop crowd.
What made it different from a regular Puerto Rican artist crowd,
you say.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I believe is that the people are very very heartwarming, heartfelting,
and it's so different in terms of the energy and
how exciting the ambience all all over was, you know,
And I was seeing Valley in the reggaeton community like
rock community here in Puerto Rico. There are very different vibes,
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like the audience in reggaeton, which is in Pereo, which
is our like our main how most of the people
here listen are a little bit more I could say,
I don't want to say bitchy, but more like closed.
You know and more like I'm judging you, but I
enjoy your music, but I'm not gonna tell you that
I love your music that kind of vibe, you know.
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And then I experienced the K pop community and everybody
was so happy, so welcoming. Everybody is so nice, and
I was really really I enjoyed it a lot. Like
I had three events yesterday, so I was like going
to your event, coming back to another one, and then
coming back. So I was like experiencing a whole lot
of different energies and vibes, and I like said to
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Michelle and Christina, I need to get back because I
want the energy and the vibe that I was feeling
when you were singing and everything.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
So I really loved it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So we do this podcast and a lot of times
parents come up to me and they're like, oh my god,
like thank you for talking about all these things about
K pop because it helps me connect with my kid more. Right,
And as you speak about like all the break eton
and like the rock culture, like it's probably like where
a lot of these parents kind of grew up it
and like knowing it's kind of cliquy, and like knowing
he's not that safe of an environment, but you're just
kind of there, just like enjoy a good time. And
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let's say someone listening has that mindset right now, okay, right,
and then their kid comes up to them and it's like, yo, dad,
I want to go to a K pop concert?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What would you say to that? Dad? So I kind
of convince them to like let them go.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Well, I myself am a mom.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
My kid is seven years old, so and yesterday, like
I saw how a lot of kids, my my kids age,
were like enjoying and having fun with everything that actually,
like the girls from MKAY like producing an amazing event
a liesta we have, so all the experience is that
they have for like all types of ages and the
music itself, I would totally say yes because it's like
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the community itself is very family driven and I could
see myself with my kee leg and joined for our
future other events for K pop and like introducing him
to the community and ever, so I would say yes,
definitely do it.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's very it's definitely very friendly, very inviting, especially here
in Puerto Rico. I feel like everyone just has such
a kind heart and like a heart kind of focused
around fun, like but one thing I noticed about Puerto
Rico was like, it feels like the whole island is partying.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
All the time.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Twenty four seven.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I've never arrived at a like from the airport, at
a place to do an event as an idol, and
the first beverage offered to me was an alcoholic beverage.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Got offered media right.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
A lot of oh yo, Beaumont, are you thirsty?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I was like, yeah, I could get a what do
you want a peanut colada?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Our hotel here at Alma is located right by San Juan.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And it was around like two am that we went
outside and we were kind of like, uh, in New
York we call it stupid where we just kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Like loiter outside. We just kind of stand outside.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So we were like stoopid outside at old San Juan,
people were still like partying, walking up and down the hills.
I was like, girl, who go home? But like nobody
like wants to go home here.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And I think.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
That as New York the city that never sleeps, Puerto
Rico is the island that never sleeps.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And I was like, wow, I'm home, like for real,
for real.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And I brought that up because I felt a blend
of that, like the reggaeton and like the rock culsuter
and like those crowds mixing in with also the K
pop crowds. Yeah, And like I was doing a concert
and I was like, wow, this is like beautiful. Yeah,
I've never experienced this so exclusive to like Puerto Rico
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at like I was just focus have fun.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I feltso invited. I wish I could to come back.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And like, one thing I wanted to ask you is like,
like what what is.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It like like like.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Concert culture in Puerto Rico, Like like do you is
it normally disinbting?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Is it normally this friendly?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And do you because you also run a music magazine,
so you're passionate about these kind of things, right. I
feel like the way that we kind of just presented
it was like, oh, they're clique, they're kind of judgy,
but that's not true.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Now, it's not that that they're but you know, it's
to portray the difference of how how marked difference are
the people from every single genre, you know, but culture wise,
when you go to a Puerto Rican concert, what whatever
genre it is, is like you're going to this big
party in your own like village. If you might say
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where you live in and you might not not know
somebody that's sitting next to you, but then you can
offer a salu and you're dancing and everybody like meets everybody.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
So it's like very hard.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
When I think that's a very perto Rican thing or
Latino thing, when everybody's very friendly and when you're partying
this alcohol involved, so everybody's like, oh, this is my primo,
this is my I don't.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Know you, but salou you know, that's how it is.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
My tie felt like that too, Like in a while,
I was performing a lot of times like they're kind
of like busy, but then like they're like yo, like
I literally just talk to like seven people.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You don't nobody, but you don't know any of them,
meeting new friends.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So what inspired you to like start your magazine, to
like to have this passion to like be like, oh,
this is something I want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, when I am very passionate about like culture itself,
like internationally, and I was seeing like there there's a
need here in the island, and I can see like
expanding that and global wise of having like a spot,
a portal, a place, a magazine when you can actually
unify different pillars in different industries, like art itself. We
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are all creatives and I myself, maybe I am more
on the business side, but I do love music and
I dance when I was little, So I see myself
as I can do a lot of things. Let's unify
all the industry is so some maybe you like see
on radio magazine and you meet on radar magazine because
of the K pop community, or maybe because you're into
(08:21):
cinema or theater. But then you see, oh, they talk
about business, talk about music business, which is something that
nobody much talks about. And I think that that is
very important because the artists need education available. So when
I see on radio magazine, I don't see just as
a creative spot for people to actually like.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
See or say what they do. See.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
My name is an artist and I do this, and
that I see on radio magazine as a place where
you can actually find information valuable enough so you can
actually learn on any different topic that you're interested in.
So that is like a portal to unify the industry entirely.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Wow, that is like it's like a it's like an alls.
It's like a one stop shop for like just everything.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, just like you have your own entire industry salad there.
I can't like I visualize or rated going for a
mixture of like Vulgue Magazine, Forbes and Billboard, So those
three mixing up together that makes the reading magazine. And
of course at first the magazine itself was dreaming into
the Puerto Rican community, but it has like expanded and
(09:30):
now we see it like growing internationally. Now we're doing
English interviews with Spanish the subtitles, so we're getting there.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I think it's cool that you're you're so passionate about it,
and like you can see and like the production set
and like.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The look of the host. You know, this is like something.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Else a lot of work in thought is put into
and I feel like as as people come into Puerto Rico,
I hope that they can continue to like go.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Through you to to the Puerto Rican fans.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And you also asked me amazing, amazing questions, Like I
was like, I feel so I feel so seen right now.
K you for that, and like I hope that like,
like like the Puerto Rican fans can like kind of
experience the artists the same where you kind of see
them and what is something that, uh, what is your
what is a recent passion or interest that you have
(10:22):
been really looking to platform lately.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I may say creative direction. Okay, Yeah. Throughout the journey
of like learning about the business side of the entertainment industry,
I am very I consider myself a free spirit, and
my mind like drives away like a lot when I'm
like doing my business stuff. So when I'm creative, the
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when I'm directing like a photo shoot or maybe something
more business driven, creative direction, it makes me feel whole.
So it's something that I'm actually like trying to research
more and see how I can expand my peers on
that part of like I'm owning a magazine. You know,
that's something that you do every single day. So I
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discovered it like casually and now I loving it.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Wow, Wow, good luck.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
What is something that you think you can educate like
the audience on in that and that in that respect,
like like like what could you what could you like
what you could you say about creative direction that can
be like educational for like our audience.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well, creative direction is something that is actually very expensive. Yeah,
because depending upon when you are like developing yourself in
any industry, like whatsoever, considering our pillars here in the magazine.
Creative direction is a way of you, like discovering how
you can send a message throughout the visuals and throughout art,
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and you may have like something very serious like Britain,
and then you can actually put it all beautifuller if
I may say that when you put it visually.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
So creative direction is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
A way to expand your thought in a visual way
for everybody to understand and maybe to put maybe words
that cannot be put into words visually, because sometimes that's
what you do with music, with art itself. Sometimes it's
a way of expressing yourself too. So that's how I
see creative direction, and when business wise or educational.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Wise, I believe that people who are.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Interested in the arts, particularly creative direction may be a
way to.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Make all your thoughts come into place.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So that's not something maybe that can help people out.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I feel like one thing that's super strong in K
pop is specifically that, like I think when when a
lot of like projects come together, it's one idea and
then it's how can we best package this idea as
creatively as possible. And I think there's a lot of
like powerful creative direct just in K pop that kind
of like make these groups and these wonderful music videos
(13:03):
that happen. Yeah, so thank you for sharing that. And
that was very beautifully said together, like like she normally
does her interviews in Spanish and you really cannot tell.
Thank you so much for your time today. I have
so much fun and thank you for welcoming me to
Puerto Rico. And do you have any closing words for
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the radio audience.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Of course, do what you love and don't take no
for an answer. I know is just a closed door
that you can open over and over again.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
That's it. Do what you love so much.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Thank you, thank you, ask you next time I'm in
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Definitely for another hungo.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh yeah, welcome back to the K Factor. We have
another guests as we kind of go through all of
our Puerto Rico experiences, and today we are joined by
a influencer who talks a lot about mental health and
is a student studying psychology with a wonderful conversation.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Could you introduce yourself.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
On Hi, my name is Nat I am a student
joining a master's degree in psychology.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
For the radio audience who might be a little bit
surprised by what's going on here. This is actually our
first Spanish speaking guests, and we have a translator who's
going to be delivering the audio experience for you guys completely.
If you guys are watching on video, then you guys
can see her wonderful, beautiful face actually delivers the information.
But if you guys listening on radio on iHeartRadio, app,
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Apple Podcast, wherever you get your podcasts, then you guys
will be experiencing the translator, uh, delivering the information.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
So yeah, welcome.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
As someone who kind of represents like mental health in Puerto.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Rico, how would you say that?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Like that topic is normally approached, like whether it's by
the older generation or like the newer generation.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Okay, usually the older generation doesn't really like to talk
about the topic of mental health is more of a
timely topic.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Per.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Usually the younger generation is more open to go into
therapy and talking about it and breaking those generational cursors
or generational proms.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Wow, I feel like like a lot of kids growing
up don't have direct access to like psychologists or like
therapy and all these things. And the first place I
think it's turned to is social media and the place
that I see you right now kind of having with
(16:02):
the followers and the fan base that you have is
like you're the first touch with these kids who are
kind of looking for help.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
So you're kind of like a superhero. Just tell her that.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And I kind of say that, and I asked my
first question because in k pop, as a lot of
people know, and in Korea, mental health is also very
taboo and we're not really giving a lot of opportunities
to kind of explore what it is that we need
as humans. So so I have a question for you.
Why did you start your page.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
But join pessemi me, Instagramque and Puerto Rico. I'm mousa person.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I start to like it because there's a lot of
people in Puerto Rico doing the social media just like me.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I don't know, I know.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
There's body making it in a language that is easily
to understand, are accessible to somebody that doesn't understand all
the psychology lingo.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Wow, So you're really thinking about inclusivity. And I kind
of like touched on it a little bit before, a
little bit off camera, but like a lot of people
don't have access to like psychology and like like direct
mental health help. So like they turn to social media
and they get like a lot of their information from there.
(17:29):
So you're kind of like a like a superhero. That's
so cool, Like do you see yourself doing this for
a super long time?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I hope this lasts for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
And I think it's also cool that you're in college
and you're taking the information that you're learning from college
and you're paying for and you're just making it accessible
to everyone. Like I hope that more people can do that. See,
like yourself doing this even when you become a practicing
like psychologist.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Process, so you.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Learned that maybe being a psychologist isn't for her, but
she wants to keep sharing the information, maybe giving courses
or things like that.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
What inspired you to like start doing all this stuff?
Like was there a moment that you looked internally within
yourself and like started struggling with and was like, oh,
like there's something there's someone out there who.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Like could use this.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
And no Pero and la profes.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
See in terms of the social media aspect now, but
in terms of the profession, yes, there was a moment.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
And Ela profession Joel.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
She wanted to learn the profession to help herself, which
was incorrect.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
And process correcta profession correcta.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Even though she went in because she wanted to help herself,
she learned that it was better to help others, and
she's glad that she stayed.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
That's kind of extreme. A lot of people.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
They're like, oh, man, I'm kind of going through something
I want to spend like ninety dollars on therapy. You're like,
I'm gonna spend thirty thousand dollars on an education and
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Are you usually like like a super determined person.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
No, Well, I think it's great, like what you're doing
for people, Like, do you have like any questions.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
For me as I will?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
How do you handle your mental health from.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Day to day?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, I'm not as well knowledged and well practiced as
you are, but I kind of like look internally and
like I know, specifically what I need is to be
around friends, be around family, and be around people who
can love and affirm me for who I am and
not kind of like rely on like outside things like
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tell me who I am, you know, I just know
and I can live by that and then just like
living my community.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
And do you think that comes through with your music?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
And I think leaving my kind of K pop scene
and then approaching this new sound, approaching this new team.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
That I have.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
All of this is a collection of the community that
I've built. So all the music that comes out is
just a combination of all these scenarios that are making
me so happy right now. I really appreciate you coming
on because I still do struggle from time to time
with like a lot of stuff. Like, to be honest, twin,
(21:30):
I have a lot of anxiety, and I.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Actually never really kind of learned how to deal with this.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I feel like I categorize things into danger or not danger,
and when it's danger, I feel like the world is exploding.
I could like drop a pencil, and then if it
goes into the danger category, I feel like my world exploding.
I can't see and I start sweating and all these things. Right, So,
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when something small like that happens and it falls into
that danger category, how could I kind of like crown
myself and like bring myself back.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
S the S S PAS.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
As a student, all I can give you is advice.
But my advice would be to practice for breeding techniques.
And also there is a situation that is causing you
anxiety to step away from the situation for when you're
comming up and then go back to the situation. Of course,
if you can't go to a licensed tervist.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Prespiras.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
So one of the breathing techniques that I learned is
for you to breathe in and fill in your body
as if you're filling in your stomach like it's a balloon.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
It's important, it's important.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
So it's important for what the air to feel it
in your stomach and not in your chest because it
could hurt yourself.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
And so you have to focus on the air coming
into your stomach.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Focus on that and how the air is coming out.
So focus on that and try to.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Relate el magic there. So eke and look at the.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Magic, and that is that you're taking your brain off
of the topic that's giving you the anxiety and you're
focusing on one thing, which is your body and how
you're feeling in the air and letting it out. So
your brain kind of DISCNNA from whatever was giving you
anxiety in that moment.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Is anybody else at home trying this with me right now?
I think that's so beautiful and and thank you for that.
Well one here, uh, I think you're gonna do great
no matter what you're doing. That was so well presented.
You're so well spoken, and I was I can see
why you're as popular as you are. And to what
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that advice reminded me of was singing and actually, like uh,
kind of unrelated, like without having that knowledge, one thing
that I did used to like ground myself was like
I'm just gonna go sing a song and like I'm
focusing on the lyrics and I'm focusing on like like
the melody and like the breathing through the stomach and
like all these things, and like that takes me away
(24:59):
from the top.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
So actually that was really helpful, So thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
The money. Harlan Conbertillo.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
There's a lot of different ways you can have doing anxiety.
That is obviously a breathing technique, but you can also
focus on music and it will help you as a
tool to help you calm yourself in a situation where
you're feeling stressed.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So as kind of like someone who interacts with a
Spanish speaking audience a lot of the time, how do
you see them responding to like mental health matters and
like how do you what do you see that? What
is a mental health issue that you see that is
kind of specific to a Spanish speaking audience.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
What is on an issue the settlemented particular in Puerto
Rico or.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Pacific. In Puerto Rico, La and Silas, So.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I can't speak for every Spanish speaking gun. I can
speak for Puerto Rico, and I think something that's very
common in Puerto Rico is anxiety for the things happening
on the island.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That is pretty comment wow, and I hope that this
can give some more insight.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Is there anything that like you personally struggle.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
With Jo sindrome in busy anything?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Something I struggle with is anxiety and the impostures in
German feelings in the back of my head always like
you're not good enough.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
That sounds very hard. Do you feel that a lot
going through school.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Ses imposters and that you know, l Sindra, You know,
(27:38):
so the impast syndrome because of what I'm saying, because
I don't think I'm meant to be in an office,
but I'm meant to probably be helping people giving courses
on handle stress and anxiety.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Anton and Sla you know Ivano, but.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
She feels like in the classroom other students have probably
be calling to be a psychologist therapist, and she feels
in the back of her head being like I am
not I should not be here, I'm not good enough,
and that they see imposter.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I think personally that you're doing great. I think you're
doing an amazing job. You're going above and beyond.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
And I feel.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Like, like, also one thing that I'm kind of curious
about is I come to Puerto Rico. Everyone is so loving,
so happy, so much, so warm, and all these things,
but actually there is a layer of anxiety about the
island and like what can happen to like your home
and all these things, Like how do you think that's
(28:46):
that's like what what do you think k pop or
like concerts and music can do for the people on
the island.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
But you also Koberton, and.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I think the cape of fandom is kind of a refuge.
I'm also a cap of.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Fan and and ticoloha. I you term familia person so loving.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
In psychology, there's a turn called is your friends and family,
But some people do not have that support system, and
maybe K pop has become the support system for a
lot of people to find support and friendship and love.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I also noticed that a lot of times when people
feel anxiety or negative emotions, it's kind of a a
downward energy where you kind of stay still and you
can't really operate. I feel like, correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
In Puerto Rico, when people feel these things, they actually
go and just have fun.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
They go party and they make more memories and they
have a support system with each other and everyone kind
of shares that bond in a way.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
That's how I felt when I came here.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
It's like kind of on that Sali famili Isla because he's.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Business. It reflects you know, normal men.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Knowing that is what people do. People tend to go
out to try hape, but it's also important to have
a moment of self reflection, maybe being alone in your
room and be thinking exclue instead of kind of ignora.
But yes, it is a good coping meganism.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
So so, so what would you recommend people do when
they're feeling these things?
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Well, Spectro in Grande Spectro at kam journaling at the
River Como.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Then she recommends journaling so you can write out your
feelings and maybe you can read it later to self effect,
to see what you can do to feel better when
those feelings poor.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
That's some different test modo. Journaling personal.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Contra anxiety isn't the same for everybody. But journaling is
always in good advice because that way you it's more
self guiding and you can't analyze your thoughts while being
alone and read it out, and of course the most
important thing to go to a therapist.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Obviously you're very well read, you're very well studied, and
you know a lot of your things. Right if I
was your friend, I came out to you, I'm like, hey,
I'm having a hard time.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
How would you speak to them? Because I feel like.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's still very textbook right now. Maybe it's the language barrier.
It's like, oh, you could try journal and you can
try all these things.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
It's like okay, cool, but i'm your friend. Well I'm
bomhann Okay. I had an anxiety attack yesterday and I
didn't know how to deal with it. Okay, And I'm like, okay, hey,
I'm kind of like having a hard time and I
called you, What would you tell me?
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Prima saves.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Is if you know what the trigger was for.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
That ispira and qspira per moneiente.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
The best thing I can tell you is that if
you don't know what the trigger was for the anxiety attack,
next time you have it, tried to breathe, even though
breathing becomes very difficult during an anxiety, a stick to
just try to process it. And of course if you can,
to go to Betra Bey.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, Boom, I know my sugar, like like like like
I didn't know my schedule something as simple as that.
I was like I don't know what my schedule is,
and I was like like I don't know what to
do right now, and like the time is like scrunching
down in my head and I'm like I don't know
where I should be right now, and like whatever it is,
right So boom, I identified it.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Okay, now what.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Joda friend.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Arguing as your friend, I will tell you then, now
that you know what the trigger is, to find maybe
another friend that could keep it. She likes to look
(34:39):
at it as it gets a plate. The plate sometimes
spilled with a lot of things, and sometimes it's good
to find somebody else to help you take things.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Off that m and as your friend, you will help
take things off that plate.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Bo your silver love again.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
But yeah, yeah, okay, wow, all right, well, to be honest,
I think that's one more questions. And I think that
your page and and all these things is very helpful
for people, and I hope that they can kind of
experience your popping personality the same way I am as well.
So could you tell the radio listeners like what your
(35:16):
social media is and all these.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Things Instagram, USAGI, they say, yourmon and.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Is there anything like closing words that you want to
tell everybody?
Speaker 6 (35:37):
And Espanol, I.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Would say thank you for having me here, and thank
you for being so nice about this.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Being in Spanish, consumman contin no, you are out.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
I would say to the people that are watching that
if they want to consume social media content on mental health,
to not focus on the diagnosis, but to focus on
content that makes you feel better. Because for diagnosis and
(36:24):
you should go to a personas license, but for social
media mental health content, you should go to somebody to
understand better your feelings and maybe for support.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
And find your support at your local Cave pop concert
in Puerto Rico. Hello and welcome back to the K Factor.
We have a wonderful, wonderful final guest here in Puerto Rico.
One of the wonderful talents at MLK events.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Hi everybody, I'm Lori.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
I am the L in MLK. One of the other
letters is miss and Christina. Those are my partners, my
amazing partners. I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I found out recently that MLK was just you guys' names.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yes, and you guys actually have a wonderful story as
so why you guys started this whole company?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yes, Well, the story basically goes that we wanted to
make events that were accessible to everybody in terms of
price and for to unite the cabob community here in
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
And I think what's powerful is that you guys are
completely like women owned, and like everything that you guys
put together is like from like a root of community
and like kind of just putting that together for the
people of Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
What kind of like inspired you to start us?
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I think one of the things that inspired us was
that we I've been a fan of kpop for many,
many years. Michelle recently got into BTS maybe like a
year or two ago. She's behind the camera if I'm
looking at her, and Tina also recently got into K pop.
So I think we are in different like eras of
our capop journey, and we just wanted to make something
fun that everybody would enjoy, of all ages.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
And I feel like the three of you guys like
meeting the three of you, Like you guys are all
very different personalities, completely different personalities that make up one brain.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
It's a crazy chaotic combination, but it works.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
It's like it's beautiful to watch, Like to be honest,
like how different you guys are.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
But you guys seem like you guys have been friends
for like a super long time, Like is that true?
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Yes, Michelle and Tina know each other for way longer,
but I met them maybe, I think it was a
year or two ago, right, And we just instantly clicked
and we just instantly started this and it just worked
out so far. And I feel so blessed that I
was able to find friends that we had the same
passion and motivations, and we were able to create this
and that everybody's enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
And I'm truly blessed. Yes, today's consort was awesome. It
was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun.
I had a great time.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Did you expect the turn out, the audience, the cheering?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
No, be honest, I came in here not knowing anything,
and then I was gonna shoot some content to promote
the event in New York, where I was like, Oh,
I'm gonna go try in New York Puerto Rican food.
I'm gonna go like learn all this stuff about the culture.
And I was like, actually, I'm just gonna go. I'll
learn there, you know, like I want to feel the
energy there. And you guys have made such like a
welcoming home for me. I appreciate that like so much.
(39:17):
Like have you guys thrown events else like before this before?
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Yes, we recently had some different club events. Most of
them were actually all of them were all ages. Up
there weren't all ages, so there were more mature events,
so more hip hop, KR and B style, And this
is the first event that was for all ages. It
was a festival style, so it ran from one pm
all the way till the morning, and we had vendors
(39:44):
and we had ice cream for the kids and hopcorn
and dance presentations and of course your amazing presentation and
your DJ set, which I think this is the first
time you did a DJ set, right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Spilled the drunk on the butoneer, oh my gosh, we
don't talk about them.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
We don't talk about it, but it was it was
a couple of drops. I spill a couple of drops.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
I think you should be but you were reviving and
I think everybody vibed with the set. So I think
you did a good job. For it to be your
first time. It didn't seem like your first time. I
feel like you're lying to me.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Thank you all. I mean, actually I did one two
weeks ago. Two weeks ago with my friend. Okay, so
this is my first time doing it by myself.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Okay, so we still have the privilege that the first
Bomhan DJs was in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yeah, okay, fine, I feel special. This is your first
time doing a daytime event, right, Yes, this was.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
The first time.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
What was it like like transitioning from like doing like
hip hop, like reggaetone events to like now doing like
K So I.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Feel like we were doing more KR and b K
hip hop, so more mature Korean genres, right, And this
is the first time that we had to keep in
mind that we were going to have children out of
the event during the day, so of course certain songs
we weren't going to be able to play, just because
we have to keep in mind there's children involved. And
also we had a lot of vendors at this event
(41:01):
that we're selling different merch A lot of people actually
gave you, like their designs and stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Had the Puerto Rican flag, like, yeah to Puerto Rico,
I was gonna cry. So I think a lot of
artists like drew me me stickers. Yes.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
So I think one of the most difficult things was
the logistics because of such a long event, there's way
more details and way more things in the background. And
I'm very grateful because Tina Michelle held it down. Because
an event's this big, it's a lot of emails, a
lot of coordination, a lot of things I have to
go on in the background that you probably don't even realize.
(41:32):
And I am very grateful that we were able to
get through the event yesterday and everything went literally I
couldn't imagine it going better, and I'm grateful. The most
important thing is that you had fun and that everybody
at the event enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
I feel I feel so safe, so protected, and I
really see that I'm okay. Brought me out to make
sure that I enjoy Puerto Rico, and you guys took
a lot of sacrifice within yourself.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Like I saw that, you guys Brandon event from like
like you guys said one pm. At what time I was.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
I think I was at the venue, maybe like at
eight am.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
By then, that's crazy eight am all the way until
like the after party was done, and you were like,
you know, you're only Puerto Rico for three days, let's
go to an after.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
After Yeah, so you have to tell the people what
after party you too.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
It was Bad Bunnies Residencies.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
It was it was the last day of Bad Bunnies Residency,
and he threw a after party at a hotel where
you can drink until five am, and they opened only
for the duration of Bad Bunnies Residency, and after that
day they were going to tear it down. I was like, wow,
this is such a great place to make a memory.
(42:50):
And I looked over at you guys, and I think
there was no life left.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
It was.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
It was three.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Zombies just crawling into the club making sure I'm dancing
at this section.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
I'm like, okay, it's like this is great, you know.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
And then after we made you dance until the wee
hours of the morning. What did we have you doing
this morning?
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Dance? I woke up ten am to go dance.
Speaker 4 (43:16):
Some more, but you were dancing at Elmro. Yeah, it's
actually iconic for you.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Oh it was so fun.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
And the videos are going to be up before this
episode is up, and like I hope that like more
idols can come and like experience just the loving like
like warm embrace that you guys have for like artists
and all these things, you know.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Like where do you guys see yourself in the future.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
I think our priority is basically to make sure that
the fandom keeps getting events that they deserve, because the
keep off fandom has been in Puerto Rico for many,
many years. We started getting concerts like maybe twenty fourteen,
and the concerts have just started getting bigger and bigger,
and the fans who deserve more events and more concerts
because we've come to the point where a lot of
(44:01):
people have to fly out to go to see their
favorite artists. Maybe maybe they have to go to another state,
but if we bring them here, maybe it's more accessible
to fans that can really travel. Like yesterday, we had
a lot of fans that were very young that were
very happy to see you, and maybe those fans don't
really have the money to fly out to see you
anywhere else, so we just want to make sure that
is accessible to everybody.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Wow, that's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
That's forced.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I'm touch a lawyer so much.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Is there anything that you've that you want to tell
people like at home about the Puerto Rican experience and
the cultural impact of gape up.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Well, that is a very loaded question.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
I just hope that whoever's seeing this that the fandom
in Puerto Rico is very warm and welcoming and we
would love to be noticed more. I guess because the
fans here are very supportive, even if they don't know
maybe who the artist is. They love going to the
events just to support because that is a mentality here.
I think for any genre that maybe if I support
(45:08):
this artist, even if I don't know their music at all,
that will open the doors for other people and maybe
that artist will grow and eventually they'll become bigger. So
I feel like that was a lot of the mentality
maybe for people that came yesterday who weren't aware of
your music, but I feel like they all left with
the mentality of like I'm going to be one of
those people that saw one when he was small and
he came to Puto Rico for the first time, and
then you're gonna come back and probably fill up a
(45:29):
stadium because this guy's the limit.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Aw And I felt that love.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
I felt that embraced of like, oh, hey, I think
I probably doesn't know who I am, but you're still
here having a great time having his drinks.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
I do like doing all these things. What do you
think is like like kind of like the mission statement
of like MLK, Like there's I remember kind of off camera,
you guys were talking to me about you guys having
like a lot of experience doing nonprofits, doing a lot
of like things that just are community based, and then
some broads somehow, like you said, kpop And how do
(46:03):
all these things tied together to make mlkay.
Speaker 6 (46:06):
I feel like.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
There is a lot of things, like the butterfly effect.
A lot of things happen for a reason, we like
to believe. And I feel like every knowledge that we
have individually, be it nonprofits that Michelle and Christina were
involved in, or maybe me in communications, I feel like
that helps us in what we're doing now because maybe
I don't have a knowledge in something, but maybe Michelle
(46:30):
knows better, so we fill in the gaps. And I
think one of the most important things is that our
mindset is the same and that we would just want
the best for the fandom. Like, of course, this is
a business. There are certain things that we have to
take into account, but the priority is always the fans first,
and we want to keep it that way no matter
how many years past. If this gets to a point
(46:52):
where it's like twenty years into the future and we're
still with the company, the fans are always going to
be the priority.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
When I go home and I.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
Talk to all my artist friends in all these things,
I always telling y'all, Puerto Rico was a great time.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Y'all have to go. Y'all have to experience all of it.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
What besides my own experience and my own words, what
would you say to the artists who are considering come
to Puerto Rico and it's like and like, what do
you think will like kind of push them over to like.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Be like, okay, this is like the place.
Speaker 6 (47:19):
I feel like the main thing is that please come
to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
Even if you think maybe you don't have any fans here,
You're gonna make fans because everybody here goes it's going
to go to support And maybe you only had twenty
fans in Puerto Rico, maybe you had five hundred fans,
but you're gonna leave with five hundred more. So I
feel like that's the mentality and that if you have
a fan in Puerto Rico, that is going to be
the fan for the rest of your career.
Speaker 6 (47:44):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
Second, Oh, I want to go back to Perto Rico
so bad. I hope to see you guys.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Welcome back, bring me back, please, And I don't want
to go through anyone else, like really, and thank you
for the experience.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
And I mean those are my closing thoughts. Is there
anything else you wanted to tell people?
Speaker 4 (48:02):
Just thank you for supporting us, Thank you for supporting you.
We are so happy that the event yesterday was a success.
And I'm just happy that everybody is happy with the
presentation yesterday and with the event. And I hope that
this is not the end of our journey and that
you definitely come back.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
To I will be back with a kokey tattoo on
my forehead. Okay, let's close the show. Thank you to
all the video listeners at home. Thank you to everybody
watching this on YouTube. Once again as a reminder, you
can get this podcast on iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
(48:39):
wherever you get your podcast. This is the K Factor,
Everything K Pop with Bumhan and I'll see you guys
next week.
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