Jearnest Corchado's success in the big screen didn't just happen overnight. The actress and singer from Sneakerheads, Little America and The Real Housewives of the North Pole (launching on December via Peacock), began acting in Puerto Rico when she was just 8 years old. We talked about what she calls "the jearney": the high and lows of her career, including how she landed her breakout role on Netflix months after the initial audition, and how she reconnects with her inner voice through music...

Emmy-winning host and TV personality Lilliana Vazquez is a trailblazing interviewer, style expert and one of the OG fashion bloggers. In 2008, she launched Cheap Chicas, a brand that has evolved into what we know today as the LV Guide. Born and raised in Texas to a Puerto Rican father and Mexican mother, she’s been a host and contributor at NBC’s TODAY show, Extra, The Talk, Rachael Ray, The Wendy Williams Show and Steve Harvey.  Lilliana made history at E! Entertainment's daily morning...

Juleyka Lantigua is the Founder and CEO of multi-million dollar media company Lantigua Williams & Co., a Peabody-nominated studio whose mission is to support and amplify the work of creators from the margins in digital audio and film. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in The Bronx, she’s a journalism veteran with 20 years of experience. Prior to launching her own business, she was Senior Supervising Producer/Editor of NPR’s Code Switch and before that, she was a staff writer at...

Serena Kerrigan, better known as SFK, is an entrepreneur and Internet personality who’s primary goal is to make women aware of their potential in all aspects of their lives, including dating and sex. After almost 4 years as a producer and host at Refinery29, she quit the company to fully focus on her personal brand. At the moment she didn't have a set plan, then the pandemic hit. That's when she  decided to entertain her online community by dating a new guy every single week, that’s how...

Meet Lissette Rios, one of the most influential Latinas in the public relations industry. After 15 years of working at global PR agencies with major brand clients including Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Nintendo, General Motors and others, she founded Chic Influence - her very own PR and talent management agency. Prior to founding her own company, she left the corporate world as a Senior Vice President of a global PR firm. Her agency is the complete opposite of how corporate America...

Before Alicia Menendez became the MSNBC anchor we know today, the only career path she saw for herself was running for public office. Once in the political scene, she realized the media had the power to set the narrative and determine what stories matter. Today, Alicia is one of the most respected Latina journalists in the US media, she’s the author of "The Likeability Trap" and the creator and host of Latina to Latina podcast. She’s been a correspondent for VICE News, an anchor at Fusion...

Before Cyndi Ramirez became the founder and CEO of Chillhouse, a NYC spa and wellness café with a modern twist, she struggled to find a job after dropping out of college. This is the story of how she used her appetite for innovation and creativity to launch her own blog, Taste The Style, and later on a thriving business that now has Sophia Amoruso - the Girl Boss - sliding into her DMs and becoming her business advisor. We talk about the importance of building an online presence, no matter...

Rizos Curls’ founder and CEO Julissa Prado never envisioned herself as an entrepreneur - she followed what came natural to her: creating concoctions for her curls and helping other young women embrace their natural hair texture. This genuine passion became a business overtime. Her products are now sold nationwide at Target and Ulta and internationally, through their website. Prado told us about how managing his dad’s restaurant from a young age helped her develop the skills she now uses in...

Comedian, host, actress and producer Darlene Demorizi, better known as Dee Nasty, quit a hotel front desk job at 25 (and a steady paycheck) to pursue what some family members considered as “plepa” - “nonsense” in English. The Dominican-American from The Bronx clearly proved them wrong after she used Instagram as a tool to catapult her career with a clear goal in mind: becoming a comedic actress. Since then, she’s developed video franchises for media outlets like VICE and Fuse TV and has...

On EL ADN Podcast, award-winning journalist Victoria Leandra sits down with the movers and shakers of our culture for honest and intimate conversations about the challenges they’ve overcome to reach their current success.  We opt to focus more on the failures rather than the wins because “rock bottom will teach you lessons that mountaintops never will.” With that in mind, we ask guests about the concrete steps they’ve taken and habits they’ve adopted in the journey to their achievements...