Hey you,Thank you for reading The Latinx Collective, your weekly dose of inspiration and celebration via stories about Latinx identity, culture, victories, and successes in our community.As a creative, I'm always eager for advice and lessons from other creatives. Over the past week I attended a bunch of cool events in the Latinx community centered around leadership, creativity and growth and wanted to share some of those insights with all of you. You can expect the regular newsletter format tomorrow but I wanted to share a special interview I did with Juan Bago, actor and co-host of the Latinos Out Loud podcast (go follow him here and here). They just celebrated their 100th episode (listen to it here) with a live taping at The Greene Space (the performance space by WNYC0 and had special guests Lin-Manuel Miranda (🇵🇷), his dad Luis A. Miranda Jr, and SNL director Oz Rodriguez (🇩🇴). You should listen to the episode in full, but they shared excellent tips for creatives, including:From Luis Miranda: "First thing we need to get out of our minds and vocabulary is that we cannot do something. Instead of coming up with 17 excuses of how the world is screwing is, identify what are real barriers you need to conquer, and what are barriers you put on yourself, in order to move forward. This is difficult for young people but it's the main exercise we all have to engage throughout our lives."From Lin-Manuel: "You also have to understand that it takes awhile to bridge the distance between the work you see from your heroes and the work you're making. You gotta start priming the pump (creating things). You gotta let the brown water come out of the faucet before getting to the clear water." Con cariño,Elisabeth Rosario