Today we’d like to introduce you to Nazareth Rivera.
Nazareth, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
Well, actually I have thousands of stories that could define me but the one that marked me the most in my life was that my mother was detected with breast cancer, I was 12 years old that event formed me and I believe the woman I am now! I constantly saw my parents fight to get us ahead but I had never seen the sacrifices they went through when leaving our country and starting from scratch in a country we did not know. I remember the first time we arrived in Texas was a hope of new life for my family since in Mexico they had told us that my mother could die in less than three months at that age no one does not imagine without the person you loves most, I did not have No idea what life would be like without her.
Life gave us hope in Texas hospitals for her continuing fight against the CANCER, my father looking for money to feed us and I try to understand the new place the new culture. At first, it was not easy for anyone but with a lot of union and love we all got ahead, my mother always showed a positive attitude to everything and a lot of faith that everything would be fine and it was. I could extend this story because they do not imagine every day as she took on her role as a mother that despite the chemotherapies and radiotherapies she was the one in the house, I never need anyone to know and educate me and my sisters.
I remember how every morning she got up she put on a cap since she don’t have hair for the treatments and took us to school and picked us up I never saw her weakness but rather a lot of strength. And so it made me see that if one has faith and a positive attitude, every dream can be achieved. I have always considered myself a very positive woman but as I passed my life every obstacle made me see the different life. this first event taught me to fight for my dreams. The Study and the teachers that life has given me have achieved the persevering woman that I am today.
Living the battle of my mother perfectly changed my perspective of seeing life and knowing that if one does not do what one likes, one is simply not happy and with it, I learned to do what I like. On my way everything already looked very good, I changed the city, I adapted perfectly, work opportunities came and everything looked perfect until I came across an experience in flesh and blood, being a dreamer with a career made I stopped the migration department and for things deprive me of my freedom leaving me without wings…
That experience made me understand how great education is at home and in school and how you can make a difference in such a monotonous society from there I entered a huge purpose of being able to speak For all those immigrants who deserve to be here a fighter and worker in my life, I imagined being deprived of my freedom without having committed any crime, but today I am grateful that I have lived that experience because it is my purpose of life, after all, my day It’s about fighting and perseverance.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
I think that apart from being a totally warrior family against cancer, the following was the adaptation to the new country, at the age, I was in full puberty and I felt that I did not fit in my new city so there were moments of great anguish and doubt of myself to be able to achieve something where I was, I think that my high school at the beginning was not easy but I have always considered myself a transparent person and accept everyone as they are and that helped me get to have great social circles possibly It was not the popular one but it was the sociable one that could talk to everyone from there I could discover that I liked communication but it was not yet my passion.
As my family’s circumstances were improving, my father always improved my work, so from a young age I started to work, I could say that I worked as a child since I invented everything to sell. In a border full of limitations it is a little more difficult to get ahead, being an immigrant is not a crime and literal in times past that felt… although for me it was never an impediment despite growing up with that undocumented or illegal title I always knew that Anything I set out could do. At 15 I accompanied my mother to clean some offices and deliver food that helped us with the expenses of the house.
When I was able to work alone one of my first jobs was a waitress in two Mexican restaurants in them I learned the responsibility and of course, the independence of earning my money bought me my things and if it was possible to help my parents. Another of the battles was not to fit into a border, I always saw my city a little limited before discovering the love for communications was interested in criminology becoming an FBI agent was my dream and living in cities with special crimes such as In the series, I grew up I knew that it was not criminology but communication and research, in general, was what I was passionate about and as soon as I finished high school despite not yet defining my career I decided to leave my house to a big city like new york, Los Angeles o Miami I was already determined.
Please tell us more about your work, what you are currently focused on and most proud of.
My modeling hobby discovered my work, participating in several catwalks one of the castings was to be part of a television program as the principal host of there I really knew what I wanted to devote and started my training in this media industry. By creating a program on the nightlife of my city at age of 21 I learned to speak in front of camera but also to structure the entire segment, as I was working for independent producers I was given the opportunity to work locally for Televisa El Paso learning Monetization and publicity within the industry, given all the tools I decided to move to a city like Miami where I developed my career as a journalist in the locution and in an editorial about the audiovisual content industry.
With this, I had the opportunity to enter an independent production company creating my own debate and magazine program called El Reventon where I show my personality and my communication of my way of seeing life in the current issues of society. I am proud to be a dreamer and that I have been able to take advantage of every tool that has been granted to me for the growth of my person and my career because for today I am proud to say that I am a creative producer of audiovisual content and a journalist. I am distinguished by this passion for life and for the dreams that one possesses because in me you will always have a positive and fighting side in whatever circumstances I find, my perseverance and my attitude define me but also the nobility and humility of my heart to support who I can also define me.
So, what should we be on the lookout for, what’s next in store for you?
My short-term goals for this year 2020 is the creation of two television shows!
But My future plan in this industry is to have my own producer and television channel or digital platform where I can produce from a commercial to a movie that is my dream but as a purpose, another of my plans is to use my career for social work, in this case, focus on immigrants since I am a dreamer and sometimes for lack of communication there is a lack of information on how one can undertake or achieve their goals, inspire any sonador whether small or large and create a guiding foundation for all those I need it.
Contact Info:
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nazarethriveratv/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stefania.alvarezrivera
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