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Elsa Collins calls herself a doer, but she is also a builder, among the things she has built.

The idea turk, a social impact and civics consultancy.

This is about humanity, which raises awareness about separated and reunified families' work

that is shaped by Elsa's own experience of growing up on both sides of the U.S. Mexico border,

Waddaistas, a digital lifestyle community to help Latinas leverage their power,

and I am a voter, which is creating a cultural

shift around voting. Elsa has probably built something new in the time that I have recorded

this intro, and that is because she is one of those people who sees a problem and immediately

connects the dots between what it will take to solve it and the people she knows who have

the tools and resources necessary to get it done. So today, we're talking

about how we can each do that in our own lives, how even as someone who understands and leverages

the power of celebrity, also still believes that you are the most influential person in your universe,

and your capacity to influence those around you is second to none.

Also, my friend, I know so much about you, but I have so many holes that I want to fill in.

You say you grew up on both sides of the border.

What was home like? And where do you consider home? My gosh, what does growing up on both sides

of the border mean? I think it means to me that there really was no border. It meant waking up in

Tijuana, crossing the border every day, going to school in San Diego, coming back home to eat dinner, going to the mall

in San Diego on the weekends, or going further south to Ensenada for a meal. So to me, growing up on

both sides of the border was just like this amazing experience that I genuinely feel so blessed I

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