2019-03-12
1 小时 0 分钟As I sat down to speak with my guest today, Laura Pena.
She had been traveling the world for the better part of a year, sitting down with teenage girls to interview them, to film them as part of a documentary series called she is the universe and discover who they were, what their lives were like, what their concerns were, their dreams, their hopes, their struggles, their needs to give them voice.
And that is part of a bigger mission now, to really shine the light on the role of women and girls from all walks of life and tell their stories and bring them together in a mentoring community.
But that is not where Lara's story began.
She grew up in the Dominican Republic and found herself drawn to the field of design.
Eventually went to school, and through a series of leaps of faith, found herself studying in New York City and launched into the world of design and motion graphics in New York, where she began to build a life and a career and a relationship.
But everything was not the way it was supposed to be.
Eventually, she found herself no longer wanting to live the life she should live and making some huge changes that set her off on her own journey of discovery and led to her current project.
In today's conversation, we dive deep into the major stops and awakenings along the way.
Really excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
As we're recording this, I'm reading Juno Diaz's book, the picture that he paints of Dominican Republic.
So that book is fiction, but is it remotely realistic in any way to your experience growing up there?
Absolutely.
Sometimes he makes them a little bit bigger than they are, but for the most part, it is.
It is.
And, you know, he talks a lot about the dictator that we had.
And I feel like people, when I was reading it the first time, I was like, I wonder if people really will connect with this book, people that haven't lived in, you know, in the Dominican Republic.
But I think.
I think people do.