Latina

So happy to share another specially curated batch of episodes featuring some of the inspiring women we've had on the show.

Welcome back to Latina to Latina.

On this podcast, I talk with Latinas about how they got to be so amazing.

I was about 12 years old when the first edition of Latina hit newsstands in 1996.

And I remember feeling like we, Latinas, had arrived.

If you've ever read the magazine, then you can thank Christy Haubegger for willing it into existence.

Today, Christy's an agent at CAA, where she reps some of the biggest names in entertainment and runs the agency's multicultural business development.

I'm in the wrong school.

And I went to check my mail, actual mailbox, and I opened it up.

And there was my very first acceptance letter from Latina magazine.

And it was for $500 for this essay that I'd written just about Wanderlust.

And $500 was my exact rent at the time.

Anyway, so like not cutting hair is like a thing in my family.

And so losing my hair, which is, you know, long and brown and curly.

And I have always felt like it is the most visible marker of my of being Latina, which is a big hang up that I've written since.

extensively about but will not go into now, I was devastated that I was going to lose my hair.