Our special curated playlist continue as we revisit some of our very favorite conversations since the start of this show.

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What's the point of coming over from South America, crossing over, if you are not going to add this value that you bring to the table so that it becomes

about much more than this Mariana or Alicia. It's about other Marianas and other Alicias that are

going to be seeing you on screen and being like, she made it, I can be there too. Mariana

Tencion I met six years ago when we were both hired as hosts at Fusion TV.

Mariana was making the crossover from Spanish-language television a nearly impossible feat

and has since become a national correspondent on MSNBC.

She has a new book out called Perfectly You.

It's the story of finding her passion as a journalist and the dramatic

life events that forced her to return to her native Venezuela.

In Perfectly You, you write, my mission would be to change the game from within.

What does that look like?

It looks like the Mariana who goes on the air and says,

this is Mariana live for NBC News, does live Spanish-to-English translations on the air and inspires

other young people to be themselves and to know that they too can make

it on that screen, even more so than that, that we need their authentic voices to really reflect

the stories of our community.

Tell me about what your childhood was like in Venezuela.

I was born in this beautiful, majestic country.

You know, it has the beaches, it has the Amazon jungle, it has part of the Andes, you know,

it was a place that was prosperous.

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