If you're sick and tired of people throwing jabs at you, doubting you, and you really want to know how to respond without backing down, without being intimidated, then holy smokes today's guest is here to help. My girl Angie Martinez is one of the hottest hip hop radio hosts. She's been representing and holding it down guys on the air with some of the biggest frickin' names in hip hop like Jay-Z and Tupac. So you better believe she's been in many heated situations where she's had to fricking stand up for herself. Now Angie is called the voice of new rule to this very day because of her strength, because she's been able to maintain and hold her own in an industry that's so damn difficult for a woman especially. So today guys she shares all the tips, tactics and strategies that she's used in her own life to go from success and loss to compromise hardship, hard work and then end up where she is today. Now that all means that you have to learn how to protect your energy and where you are now just being drug into the glorified hustle culture or where actually yes you do need to freaking step up and work damn hard like she did. And so without further ado let's dive in to Andrew Martinez who shows us how on earth to be a freaking total badass to deliver and show up every day as being your own damn boss, even, and despite the fact that you might have imposter syndrome, insecurities and a fricking negative self-talk. And guys, the one ask I do have, if this episode or women of impact brings you value, please do share it, like it, tell your homies about it, to the word, to go global, to really impact women on the global scale and need your help. So please guys, do share, comment, review, all that good stuff. And now let's dive in with Angie Martinez. So for people that may not know, you have been like you're in the radio, Hall of Fame, you are just the most epic, like that I consider the absolute go in the rap industry, you've interviewed everyone from two park. Jay-Z calls you a pioneer, you just had a panel interview with Michelle Obama, like insane career. Yeah. And when I look at why, it's because you're a freaking badass, but there were moments in your career, there's moments in your life where other women,

myself included, felt insecure, have had imposter syndrome moments, have felt weak. Who are all of us? But the fact that you keep stepping up, the fact that you don't let that stomp you. What's our choice? What is the other choice? To back off? To add to you to fall down. To fold up. If I was to say, if I was to sit across from you say I've never done that in my life,

that's a lie.

We always do.

Sometimes fear gets the best of us.

Sometimes you'll... I actually fold up to fall down. If I was to say, if I was to sit across from you say,

I've never done that in my life, that's a lie.

We always do.

We sometimes fear gets the best of us. Sometimes you'll back out of something because you think nerves or you may be not delivered at full capacity because you're in your own head. But then you know, you're self correct, you course correct, you go, everything is always like a learning process. When we talk about how we get back up, it's often in our,

how do we as our own ability? But when someone else is trying to hold you down, when someone else is either taking jobs at you, when someone else is talking behind your back, especially as women, it's freaking hard to get out of your own way, to get out of your own emotions. So how do you find the courage to fight for yourself? There are times where it's a person or a situation or opportunity. There's going to be times where people fuck with you. It's just part of life. And there are times you have to fight back. And there are times where you have to maybe fold, not fold, but bend a little to kind of find common ground with somebody. That's another way to do it.

But there were other moments where people doubt you or your careers in trouble, your

life's in trouble, your bad relationship, your health wise.

I've been in periods where my health wasn't good.

You go through all types of stuff in your life where you have to pick yourself back up.

But I don't know.

This is the thing that I got in my head early.

I don't know where there's this thing that I got in my head early.

And I don't know where if it came from,

if I saw it, I'd read it to somewhere,

but it was like,

whenever I'm like in a dark,

you know those moments where you're like, everything's terrible. This is not working out. Why do I just, I quickly remind myself that whatever this is,

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