Welcome to Unbreakable Latina.

Hi guys, welcome back to Unbreakable Latina. This is your host Melina. I hope you're having an amazing day, whatever day you're listening to this on. If you're watching on YouTube, thank you so much for watching. I want to take a little moment to celebrate the fact that I hit a million downloads on Unbreakable Latina. I cannot even believe we're here. I remember starting the podcast here in the comfort of my room and I'm still here.

I had no idea where this journey was going to take me. I thought it was going to be like a little

project that I do on the side. I didn't realize how much it would grow. Thanks to TikTok and

Instagram, my podcast has grown so much. I remember in the beginning

when I put the first episode, I had like, I don't know, 70 listeners or 70 plays and a couple

listeners. And it was practically just like family, people that knew me and followers here and there

that I don't even know how, or listeners that

I don't know, Spotify pushed out my podcast too or someone was searching. I have no idea how I

gain those listeners, but I appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you if you've been here

since day one. Thank you to whatever you found me. It honestly makes me so

happy when I received messages saying like, hey, your podcast made me feel less alone because

I started the whole podcast because I felt alone in all the things that I had been through.

And I thought it was only me going through these things. But once I started my social media

journey, my podcasting journey, I realized that a lot of

us go through the same things, but we just don't talk about it. It fulfills me to help others,

and I also have found that having this podcast has helped me heal so much, has helped me grow.

You guys have seen the growth of me as a person and how I started, how my voice was so timid, and I was shy,

and little by little, I've shown my personality more. I'm still a shy girl, but it's not as much as I was in the beginning.

So thank you for being here. Thank you for continuing to listen. Honestly, sometimes I've had thoughts of quitting.

I've shared that with you guys plenty of times because I feel like, oh my God, like I just keep doing

this and I'm still working my full-time job, but I wish I could do this full-time. If you guys could

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