I'm home grown, and to be honest, that's the best avenue -- to be in the trenches learning from the bottom up and soaking in the company's culture while learning valuable lessons.

Roberto Larios

I told him it'd never, ever gotten to that point, but what I didn't want to worry about was making sure that I can take care of my bills and being able to go home to visit my family whenever I got a chance, i've been in situations and I've seen my parents be in positions where they have literally zero dollars with the need to figure out how to get out of that situation, and I don't ever want to be in that position ever again.

All of the partners paid attention once I was honest, their major concern aside from the wage issue was,' What if we get a call that you were in an accident ?' There is the idea that anyone is replaceable, but they've made me and my colleagues feel like we're each unique parts of the company's success.

Ultimately, as representatives, we are here to build careers, elevate profiles, and most importantly, achieve dreams. If we can help, for example, five Latina female comedy writers that we represent find success, and all five of them are doing amazing things or are about to, then the ideal scenario would be that we can go sign five more to replicate the success, in the end, it isn't necessarily just the work that I or any of my teammates are doing, but how receptive the other end of my phone call or email is being to our clients.

I was promoted in about three years. That typically doesn't happen to a Latino in this industry.

Is this enough to keep me here ?

I would say, take a look at every agency's roster and how many diverse agents they have, but it's not necessarily about a number. What's the ratio and, therefore, the impact ?