I think at some point you have to empower others and really allow everyone else to do what they're hired to do and what they're brought onto the team to do.

Sometimes when you're producing or directing something, and which I've been at fault to do in the past, you find yourself trying to do a portion of everyone else's job because you're just trying to be so in control and you think that you have to be hands on, on absolutely everything. You give your sense, you give your keynote to make sure the DNA is consistent. I think that's all you can really do.

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.

It's okay to start over again.

I can honestly say from my experience, my family and I had to start from scratch. We left Venezuela back in 1998 and sold the few things we had to come to America in search of the American dream. We went through really tough times. There were moments where we were wondering are we going to make it.

Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship.