Andrea Miller comes from a background in finance and tech, having graduated from Tulane University with a BS in mechanical engineering and receiving her Master’s from Columbia Business School. From there Andrea worked at Goldman Sachs, ICF Consulting, and Enron’s international finance team before realizing her true life’s calling: LOVE. In 2002, Andrea became the founder and CEO of YourTango—an online magazine dedicated to helping women navigate the complex world of love and relationships. With an audience of nearly 14 million unique users each month, Andrea recently decided to branch out of the digital realm and publish her first book, Radical Acceptance: The Secret to Happy, Lasting Love.
“I don’t like the shaming around how much sugar the Unicorn Frappuccino has in it. So does a Coke.”
“I’m all about replacing judgment with compassion and empathy.”
“What makes people beautiful their feelings about themselves.”
“I come from a family of entrepreneurs. They encouraged me along the way.”
“I had these incredible experiences at Goldman Sachs, but I wanted to find my passion.”
“Love is the most important thing in the world and the hardest to get right.”
“Being a media company and wanting to be the authority, there’s a braintrust of people in the love space that I wanted involved and part of the business model.”
“We have experts who pay us to have a platform in the digital realm. They’re all entrepreneurs. It’s a virtuous cycle.”
“We train experts to advise people in a conversational way—an emotional way.”
“I’m an eternal optimist.”
“We started from scratch in 2008 and went from traditional print to digital.”
“Radical Acceptance is meant to transform your life. I started working on this 10 years ago.”
“I developed radical acceptance for my marriage. I used to say, ‘I married the most wonderful, brilliant man—except when he’s not.’”
“I knew I needed to start loving his unlovable parts. I found in the process, it wasn’t just his, it was my unlovable parts.”
“My Achilles heel is also my greatest strength, and that’s my passion for work.”
“While the book is about love relationships, radical acceptance works everywhere—the workplace, with your kids.”
“My team is far flung across the US.”
“Writing Radical Acceptance has been brutal because I was worried people were going to judge me. Being open and putting myself out there has helped.”
“My stories are the thread that kept the book together, but there are a lot of other stories of people who practice radical acceptance.”
“Start to accept people for who they are, not who you want them to be.”
“I want to get people around the world to practice radical acceptance.”
Get Radical Acceptance HERE
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Three-time Emmy winner, Judge Cristina Perez, is one of the most trusted TV personalities. Her perspective on common sense, common goals, and common ground makes her a great host and even better judge. Cristina hosted the syndicated American arbitration-based court show, Cristina’s Court, which debuted in 2006 and made her one of four Hispanic judges that presided over English-language American TV making Cristina the first Hispanic judge to cross over from Spanish-language to English-language television. She’s the author of 3 books, with her newest book, Red, White and Latina: Our American Identity, dropping on Cinco de Mayo— the day everyone is Latin! Please welcome to Dot Complicated, Judge Cristina Perez.
“People with a dream is what this country stands for.”
“My father came to this country and was forced to take all kinds of djobs but he knew he wanted to be a surgeon. This country gave him that.”
“This is the country that defines who we are. That’s our American identity.”
“I went to UCLA and wanted to be a doctor. I realized my passion was with people so I changed my major to law.”
“My father always said, “No matter what job you have, feel passionate about it everyday.”
“The law is about people, it’s a story. That’s why TV show court cases are popular because of the human story.”
“I did a screen test and the next thing you know I was doing a Spanish-speaking show in LA on Telemundo.”
“When you work in TV it becomes a passion. You become addicted to it.”
“The best part of being on TV is the platform to be able to defend the law and bring it in to the public eye.”
“We sue each other looking at someone the wrong way.”
“All you need is common sense and good moral value.”
“People are not going to like everything you say and do.”
“There are only ups in bringing law to the public eye.”
“My 3 Emmys are on the mantle. They’re a part of my household now.”
“My Emmys are evidence of incredible television. Fox opened the doors for me, a Latina, to be on TV and connect the law with people.”
“My cultural identity is like pouring cream in your coffee—you can’t tell where coffee ends and cream begins.”
“I want us to find strength in our national identity.”
“It doesn’t matter who you are, there’s a common ground for everybody.”
“My first case I worked on I was in law school. It was so emotional. I couldn’t figure out how to marry emotions and the law.”
“I struggled with how to bring the law and the emotions that come with it with how the individual was feeling.”
“We’re all feeling a rebirth of who we are.”
“TV is so unpredictable, but everything has a reason.”
“Having a teenager is fun. I take my daughter everywhere.”
“My father said, “Remember at the end of the day people will judge you by the work you do. They’ll forget a woman or Latina did it.”
“Work hard, make that be a push to be better for yourself. You want to say, “Hey, this is my piece of work.”
Buy Red, White and Latina HERE
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