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  • Our Otherness Is Our Strength

  • Wisdom from the Boogie Down Bronx
  • By: Andrea Navedo
  • Narrated by: Andrea Navedo
  • Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Our Otherness Is Our Strength

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Actress Andrea Navedo, best known for her role as Xiomara, Jane's mother on The CW's Jane the Virgin, shares hard-earned wisdom from the boogie down Bronx.

Andrea Navedo didn't get to see many positive portrayals of Latinas in the media growing up. So when she had the chance to play a starring role on Jane the Virgin, a role that cast her as a complex, flawed, and genuine Latina single mother, she jumped all over the opportunity.

Now, she shares bits of her story of growing up in "da South Bronx—boogie down, burning"—to inspire young people who grew up like she did and who, after being counted out, still strive to succeed.

Expanding on her beloved commencement address to DeWitt Clinton High School and other speeches, Navedo offers the pithy, ghetto-honest, and at times laugh-out-loud funny lessons she learned from surviving abusive relationships, dealing with repeated rejection, and eventually triumphing in the entertainment industry. From how to listen compassionately to your own internal dialogue, to why fame and validation may not make you feel better about yourself, to how to never play the victim, she provides notes from life's trenches, the trenches of the South Bronx. She shows how the outer and inner challenges of what popular culture deems the horrors of places like the Bronx can instead be the very factors that bring out our superpowers.

For all who wish to take the reins on their own lives, especially in the face of hardship, trauma, discrimination, and inner doubts, Navedo's reflections, confessions, memories, and, most of all, hard-earned lessons help us realize our "ghetto" is the breeding ground for our self-actualization—our otherness is our strength.

©2023 Broadleaf Publishing (P)2023 Andrea Navedo

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Pure transparency!

The flow of the story is capturing and intriguing. Written with 100% authenticity and pride!

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Gorgeous ability at description

Very easy to listen to. Andrea is a natural and Jane the virgin is my fave so love that it is incorporated all throughout the book! Fun and informative

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Very inspiring

This was a very inspiring book from one bronx girl to another. Thanks for sharing your life story and lessons.

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