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Please help me welcome Jess Jude to me Day.
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Girl, I'm fangirling.
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I know this is me meeting my internet bestie.
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She doesn't know it,
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but like this is me at home.
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Jess. Oh, Jess is in,
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she's in Chile. Now we're becoming like in-person besties.
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You guys don't know it,
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we've been chatting, like we're like,
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I told her I went to Punta 6 times.
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I told her she has to go to yeah,
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yeah, yeah. So in Jess's honor I will be doing
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how are you? you're in LA.
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I'm so happy to be here.
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Oh, I'm so happy you're here too.
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So there's a lot of Publica Dominicana all the way to the
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United States. What was the biggest culture shock that you experienced
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when you first moved here?
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Literally everything. I feel like it's so different and it's so
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funny. Even before I moved to the US,
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I remember I had a trip this one time with my family
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I was going on a cruise and I came to Miami
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from the DR and I saw my aunt speaking on the phone
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Elae and I was like,
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yeah, guard cellular porque like put that away right now because
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no that was hilarious seombiana a feasa terrio hide the phones,
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take off my earrings like we're,
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we're and I was born and raised here so that was a
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shock for me going there but still that's so far.
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That was my and my aunt was like that.
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I love that so much.
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So Jess, you often tell your followers to take the content
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and to just, to just post it,
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but what really inspired you to do that?
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Literally nothing. Like Telejuro,
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Like I never thought I was gonna do social media say Joe
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Chiquita I. I would like record myself in my mom's laptop
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and be like talking to my YouTube fans.
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Meanwhile there were no YouTube fans,
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but in the pandemic like I just started randomly posting videos about
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like Bad Bunny like music and like Dominican stuff and it just
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like hit so. It was so random,
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but I kept going with it because I,
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I started like enjoying it and I started like growing like passion
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for it, so I just went for it like I just
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kept posting and that's it.
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No, and if I'm not wrong,
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you finished your college career while becoming a content creator like full
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How did you manage that?
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I actually started college like my first year of college was when
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the pandemic hit, and then I started posting videos my second
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semester of my freshman year.
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So all throughout college I was posting videos and it was pretty
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fun. Like I don't know.
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I liked it. It was when we used to talk about
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like school how school was going like about complaining about like school
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work. I, I remember one time I complained about this
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girl that didn't do any work and I was like,
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oh, like what is what what is this?
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It was, it was fun and going back to right,
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in, in the Dominican Republic,
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right? What's one thing about your Dominican heritage that you keep
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so close to your heart no matter where you are?
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Because I know you travel a lot.
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I know, I feel like everything,
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like everywhere I go I'm just like my whole personality is high
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you're Dominican like wherever I go like connecting with Dominicans,
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connecting with Latinos, I'm like everything keeps me connected to my
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home country. That's beautiful and you started making content about Bad
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I slowly started to be seducted by him.
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Like he started to seduce me.
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And I saw that play out because you dance salsa with Bad
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Bunny. It wasn't just exciting for me but it was exciting
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Like I was so excited to share it with my community,
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my audience because I was like,
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oh my God, people are going to freak out like even
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more of like what I freaked out.
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So that was really cool and I mean,
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yeah, it must have been crazy you were experiencing the album
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for the first time oh my God.
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So almanquetos amamos like that that's gotta be a little bit surreal
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right? And I feel like this whole album is so
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like personal to like the Puerto Rican culture and not just Puerto
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Rican culture but like all Latino culture.
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So I feel like if you're Latino you definitely connected a lot
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with this album and even if you're not Latino,
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you got to learn a lot more about the Latino culture and
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Like, I thought this album was so special.
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he's just one of many,
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right? You sat on a panel with young Nico and,
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oh, Raul Alejandro casually,
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Alvarito Dias. Who's next?
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Like who are you manifesting?
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Everyone and anyone I love like music is my passion like I
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love music. I live literally for music and like seeing how
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me showing my passion for music and like my love for music
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has brought me like all of these opportunities has been so cool
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anyone that I'm interested in learning about,
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Jean, or in studio Dominican is a fan.
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My cousin's gonna geek out when she sees this.
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What's something that you hope your fans take away every time they
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see your content and,
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and you and. Just do whatever you love,
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do whatever you're passionate about.
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If you start something and you're like,
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I don't know where this is gonna take me that doesn't matter
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just keep going for it like if you love it,
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whatever it is that you love,
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go for it because you don't know what could come from it
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and if you get any opportunities,
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if anything comes your way and you're like,
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oh, I don't know like I'm not sure,
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just go for. Because if you get this opportunity,
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it's because something bigger is coming your way.
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That's what I think always.
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I love that. Just go for it.
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Follow Jess's footsteps. If I wouldn't have said yes to all
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the little things that have built me to this,
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I, I wouldn't be where I am now.
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So be a little of a yes person.
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Just say yes. I love that.
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And obviously we're doing this interview in English,
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right? Perotami your most of your content is fully in espanol
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How does your audience react when,
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when you go from English to Spanish?
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I'm honestly like Spanglish like see at home familia to Spanglish.
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Seemi amigo to Spanglish yo is Spanglish telo juro pero.
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I love bringing in the English to Spanish and putting them together
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because it brings like a wider audience like anyone who might not
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speak Spanish can watch me in English and be like,
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oh like I like her or people who don't speak English so
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like I'm learning English with you so I feel like it's so
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important to mix both and that's who I am too so I
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can't just let go of one language or let go of the
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other it's just who I am.
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So I love integrating both and I'll never let go of my
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Spanish and I'll never let go of my English because them together
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Are bringing like the audience that I wanna like keep for myself
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You said it so perfectly.
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It's like we have these both identities and parts of who we
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are culturally, linguistically.
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We're not letting it go.
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We're gonna let it shine the way it is and it just
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I can't wait to see where you shine next they might already
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follow you, but if they don't,
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where can they? And Instagram and TikTok at just.
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