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Eva Longoria Bassoon began her career as an actress, but she always knew that she wanted more.

And so she got to work, earning her masters, political organizing,

directing, producing, and building the Eva Empire. She's got a new podcast on Iheart Radio

connections with Eva Longoria. Her directorial feature debut, Flamen Hot, which tells the story of

Richard Montanez, turning flame and hot chitos into a global pop culture phenomenon is already getting Oscar buzz.

And she recorded this interview from Oaxaca, where she is filming her new CNN show searching for Mexico.

Eva gets candid about everything from divorce to motherhood to finding her purpose and why she always knew that no matter what she did, she would find success.

Thank you. I've been dying to do your podcast. Like dying. You have so many amazing guests.

I have to tell you how much this means to me because when we launched three years ago,

everyone kept saying, well, you have to get even Lenghoria.

You have to get even Lengoria.

And I was like, the most famous Latina in America is not going to do a podcast with someone

she doesn't know that has

no following season one. Like she'll come to us later. And here you are. I'm here. Honestly, I had been

listening to you and then I just didn't have anything to talk about for a long time. Like, I was just

like keeping my head down and my feet moving. I was working. And then now I have all this

stuff happening and going on. And I was like,

maybe I should do some podcasts. Your head is always down and your feet are always walking. And what I

want to talk about today is the business of being and becoming Eva Longoria. And I want you to

start by taking me back to your decision to do that

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