So happy to share another specially curated batch of episodes

featuring some of the inspiring women we've had on the show.

I have admired Julisa Natsale Arse Raya

since she first began sharing her story of rising through Wall Street's ranks

while being undocumented.

Her newest book has the most double-take, Stop Scrolling, Walk Backwards in the Bookshop title. You sound

like a white girl, the case for rejecting assimilation. It weaves Julisa's personal experience

of pursuing the American dream, was gained and lost in that pursuit.

With the undervalued history of Latinos in this country, Jolisa makes a powerful case that

belonging, true belonging, does not come from chasing a white ideal or a moving finish line,

but rather from embracing our culture, our history, and reclaiming it all for ourselves.

Julie said perhaps an obvious question, but I think a necessary question to get us started.

Can you tell me about

the first time that someone said to you, you sound like a white girl? I don't know that I remember

the first time someone said that to me, but I do remember the most impactful time someone said

that to me. And that was when I was in high school. And this

boy I had a crush on, we were on the phone. And he said to me, you sound like a white girl. And

he didn't mean it as a compliment, but I took it as a compliment. You know, I distinctly remember

feeling happy that he said that

because I had spent such a long time practicing how I enunciated words so that my accent

wouldn't be so obvious that when he said that, I thought all those times of standing in front of the mirror

have paid off because I finally sound like a white girl and I was excited about it.

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