If you feel like you are seeing Emerald Tubia everywhere, it's because you are. Right now, she is

starring in Amazon's With Love and Lifetimes Holiday in Santa Fe,

bringing smart and independent Latina characters to life.

And as her star rises, Emerald is incredibly intentional about how she shows up in the world,

on set in her own life, and committed to taking in the here and now even as she strives for more.

And Rod, thank you so much for doing this.

Yes.

You are absolutely everywhere right now.

It was not always like this.

And I imagine that there were moments in your life where you prayed for the moment that you were having right now. It was not always like this. And I imagine that there were moments in your life

where you prayed for the moment that you were having right now. Oh, yes. You can get me a little

emotional. Like, of course, it's been a long journey. I come from a really small town in

Brownsville, Texas. Thank you, Alicia. Now you're going to make my makeup look really mess up.

I come from a really small town in Brownsville and my dreams are sometimes just so hard to reach and I remember my

girlfriends and I remember like their dreams and sometimes it just wasn't possible for them

because they had other priorities. So I just feel so blessed to be just living my dreams. It's also really hard. Sometimes I think,

what did I get myself into? It's full of nose. It's a career that you have to be so strong,

that you really have to believe in yourself, that you really have to know what you're worth. And I feel

that my mom has a lot to do with that. I think my mom, since I was young, she instilled in me,

how valuable I was and how my, where I was young, she instilled in me how valuable

I was and how my, where I come from, I should never be shamed of my family and my background,

and I should always bring that with me and carry it with me and always be authentic.

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