Welcome, welcome, to burn it all down. I'm thrilled. And I am thrilled to burn it all down, the sports and feminist podcast you need. I'm Brenda Elsie, and I am thrilled to be interviewing Anna Jorka today, a telemundo sports broadcaster, and she is going to be part of the upcoming 2022 World Cup Qatar Telemundo team covering the biggest tournament in the world.

Congratulations, Anna, on this new post.

It's super exciting. Thank you so much. You were saying it and I was like,

yeah, imagine in that crowd. Yeah, the stadium's full of people. Thank you for having me, Brenda.

Yes, it's really, really exciting. I'm counting the days already. Okay, so how did you get here? Was it hard to kind of

break into sports and football as a woman, basically, as well? Well, it all happened as an,

as an accident, you know? Like I used to work on TV and radio in my country. I'm originally

from Honduras. And then I moved to the States because of my husband's job. And one time, I was like,

you know what, this is not working for me. We need to go back home. I was like in depression. You know, I was one of

those Hispanics that don't dream of doing the whole American dream, you know? Like I was,

that was never in my, on my dreams. So I was having a hard time adjusting. I didn't speak the

language. I didn't know anybody. So I said,

you know what? I think I have to go back. This is not working for me, blah, blah, blah.

And he said, give me an opportunity just a year. If in a year you don't like it, then we go back.

And he started putting together like a demo. And he took that demo to the Telemundo's

local station in Orlando. And I think they felt bad for him because they were like, what is this

gringo doing here showing us this demo? And they saw the demo and they saw the demo and they called me and I started literally

the same day that they did the casting and I started doing hard news. I just wanted like to have a,

you know, like my my foot in the door.

And I was talking about sports every single day with a guy who did the sports segment.

And one day that guy got an opportunity to work on a bigger station, the one in Dallas, if I'm correct.

And they said, okay, we're going to start looking for someone else, blah, blah, blah. And one of the other reporters say, why are you looking

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