(speaking Spanish)
- Uh oh.
Leaving. - Into new ventures.
I feel like I'm more excited for you.
- Yeah yeah yeah.
- You know I mean?
- I feel like that's what I've gotten so far.
That everybody's just like
oh my god I'm happy for you.
- Yeah.
Do you remember your first video?
- Of course I remember the first video.
- What was the first one?
- Okay so first video we've ever done together
was 11 Things Dominicans Know To Be True.
I always talk about that video because
it was like so funny to come in.
Gadiel was Gadiel.
And had like a paper of beats and stuff
where he was like all over the place.
He was like just do, just do that.
That's fine, that's fine.
And I was like, I don't know.
Cause I've never done this before.
(speaking Spanish)
- I had no script or nothing.
- No you just, this was like,
yeah yeah yeah just do that.
- That's where we met though.
- Yeah that's the first time
and you like called me to talk to me.
I was like this guy, okay, hello.
Now you was trying me.
You was trying me. - I was.
He was like.
(speaking Spanish)
- They gave me your resume and it said
accent, New-yorican.
- Yeah, that's a dialect, Gadiel.
- I don't know.
I'mma verify.
That's why I called you.
- The way you called me I was like
what the hell's wrong with this guy?
Like yeah, I'm Dominican.
Like why would I lie?
- Why you got Rican in your resume?
You remember that?
(laughing)
When we did that video, I remember you came in,
I didn't know you, you didn't know me,
she's like, I got salami.
I'm like, oh, she is Dominican.
(laughing)
- [Julissa] That was the start of something really dope.
- [Gadiel] Yeah.
- I would've never in a million years thought
that because you called me in for that video
this would end up being two and a half years later
three years, almost three years.
- Everybody in the team was like, I love Julissa.
You have to bring her back.
She's so good.
Oh my god she play so good as a mom.
Ah yeah, she sounded just like my mom.
(laughing)
(speaking Spanish)
- Cause I never imagined like,
I'mma play this mom to a grown ass man.
(laughing)
- I remember talking to my manager at the time.
You know like, we need to bring her in.
She understands the voice.
That's why all these videos did well.
Because people identified with
you knew the Latino voice.
(speaking Spanish)
You came over, and you did some great ass video.
- Mm.
Wow, well I'm a completely different person, period.
Like obviously I grew in the sense of like,
I know how to shoot now because I came in and I didn't know.
I was like, what?
- Yeah. - You want me to do what?
So from that point, yes, I learned so much.
Like I know how to shoot now,
I know how to edit, I know how to put up lights.
All of those things I didn't know.
But even altogether, I feel like I'm a different person.
- Yeah. - Cause I came in,
I was young.
- She wasn't politically correct.
- I was just rough around the edges.
You learn, you learn.
And so I learned.
Things that you can and can't say
and that my view of viewing things
isn't the only way to view things.
- Yeah. - I think I learned that
as a whole.
My career skyrocketed here to be honest.
Nobody knew me before.
And although I was doing Off-Broadway shows in Miami
which is a really small market.
And then I was also
auditioning and had little short films that I've done
and I did a guest star and all those things but
this kind of just like...
- Mm-hmm. - Started solidifying
a lot of things and opening more doors and all that stuff.
- Yeah and now you're talking to school.
- Yeah I'm talking to schools
which is the coolest thing ever.
Oh I never thought that a little girl...
(laughing)
A little girl was about to be talking to different schools.
So honestly I just feel like here, one thing that I learned
that I don't think that where we come from you learn
is to be vulnerable.
- Is there anything that you're gonna miss about Pero Like
moving forward?
- Yeah of course.
How am I not gonna miss the team?
And when we're all here, we're all talking crap
and we're all like just joking and having fun.
Those memories though, I'll take em with me.
I don't feel sad about this.
I think that this is such a good thing.
I think that when you put everything into something,
if you put everything into something,
there's no way you could come out and say
I feel like I missed this.
I regret this.
Or that I...
I don't have any regrets.
- I feel like we all became a family member.
People had their differences, people loved each other,
we worked together.
There's times that we came together as a team
and took this Pero Like platform to a whole another level.
- If there's a video that I think that would suit me
and you know obviously we worked together great,
and you're like, yo Julissa, I want you in a video,
I'mma come back.
- Yeah of course.
- I'm not gonna, this is not like a
get away and stay away or anything like that.
- You're not leaving with bad feelings.
What was your favorite video?
- My favorite video I've ever produced or ever been in?
- Ever produced.
- Can I go with top three?
- [Gadiel] Top three.
- Number one, How I Went From Waitress To BuzzFeed Producer.
- [Gadiel] Oh yeah that was such a good one.
- And it was special because it was the first time I cried.
My second favorite video has to be
when I made the tribute to my aunt.
That video was really special.
Oh that video was so hard for me to do.
You were there.
You went with me.
- And what's your third favorite video?
- Damn, I kind of...
- Has to be one with me in it.
God damn. - I know that's why.
- We're like Keenan and Kel.
We like Key and Peele.
- The Dominican version. - The Dominican version.
- I think some of my favorites are definitely
the ones you produced with me and you.
That would be like the mom videos.
- The mom videos.
- That we have to stop because we're laughing so hard.
- Savage mom is my favorite.
- Hey!
Overall, that's my favorite video.
I think, to me.
Cause savage moment just has things that,
even the beginning that, ah!
When you fall and I'm just like.
(speaking Spanish)
(laughing)
My last favorite video that I produced again.
- Yeah.
- Had to be the one that was just released.
And that was the, I transform into my four Latina icons.
I knew I was leaving
and I was like
go big or go home, Julissa.
And then to see how it came out.
- [Gadiel] I like that you're leaving with a bang.
Cause that was such a dope video.
- [Julissa] So yeah, that was in my top three videos.
- I'm gonna definitely miss you.
- I'm gonna miss you too. - Yeah I know.
We had such a great run.
- Yeah. - But this is not
the end for us. - Not at all.
- No. - Not at all.
- I was gonna say, this is only the beginning.
- Yeah.
- It's not a goodbye cause I'm gonna see you later.
- Mm-hmm.
- So do you wanna give the people any advice
or any closing words?
- I guess it's just the same thing that I always say
if you know me, and same thing I stand for,
and it's just to dream big.
Like dream big, and then when you're like, alright,
that not big enough.
Dream bigger, dream bigger, dream bigger.
Dream the biggest you could possibly imagine.
Because you can do it.
- Funny, you got me motivated.
I thought you we're gonna say dream lower.
Now you have to dream bigger. - No.
Never dream low.
It's all growth and if you fail, who gives a damn.
You know how many people fail every day?
People don't post their failings.
They only post their wins.
- Ooh.
And where can people find you?
What you gonna do next?
Are you gonna work on your channel?
(speaking Spanish)
- Yeah, Julissa's not over.
I'm not going away.
Subscribe to my YouTube channel.
It is youtube.com/lajulissa.
You can find me there.
There will be videos coming up and out.
And Gadiel is in a couple of them already.
- Yeah we working.
- You can follow us on Instagram @lajulissa
and on Facebook, lajulissacalderon.
So yeah, the journey is just begun.
- I know you're gonna do great.
In my eyes, you're already great.
- Thank you. - So I know damn well
when you're gonna go out there
you're gonna conquer the world
and you're gonna be even greater.
I'm super excited for you.
I got your back and I'm always here for you.
- Thank you mi hermano, I love you too.
This is all possible cause of you.
(speaking Spanish)