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NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

American Dreaming with José Díaz-Balart: Lele Pons

NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

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3.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Lele Pons is one of the most influential digital creators in the world today. Through creativity, hard work and determination, Pons is learning to take charge of her mental illness.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tell me, what does the American dream mean to you?

0:04.0

I think it means opportunity and freedom. I am so pleased and so happy to be with Lele Pons today.

0:29.6

Lely, it's great to see you.

0:31.6

Thank you.

0:32.6

Great to see you too.

0:33.6

When you were 16, you really kind of found Vine

0:38.3

when you were in high school.

0:40.1

And then you ended up this phenomenon,

0:42.5

I mean the first to reach a billion loops on Vine.

0:46.3

And then from there you just kind of shot up into our consciousness.

0:52.3

And now, you know, 42 million followers on Instagram,

0:56.0

17 million followers on YouTube.

1:00.0

It came like super natural.

1:02.0

Like, you know, it's just like it came because it was something that I was doing fun.

1:06.0

And then it became like, like, like work.

1:09.0

I went to Berkeley, Berkeley in Boston Music School.

1:14.3

I went there as a summer program,

1:16.5

and that was before I did Vine.

1:18.2

So I had my whole life planned out.

1:20.2

So to have Vine come in the way,

1:22.7

my mom was just like, what is this app?

1:25.0

And my dad was like, what is this app?

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