Dee Valladares Survivor 45 Audition Video

Transcript

00:00 (soft music)

00:02 - My name is Dianelys Verazares, D for short,

00:06 because you probably cannot pronounce it.

00:08 I am 26 years old and I live in Miami, Florida.

00:11 I'll start off by highlighting that in many ways

00:13 I've been preparing for Survivor my entire life.

00:16 I was born in Cuba and my parents immigrated to the US

00:19 when I was just two years old.

00:21 Growing up, we never really had much.

00:22 My parents were tasked with the job of survival,

00:25 working two to three jobs to ensure that my brother

00:27 and I had a plate of food to eat every single day.

00:29 And although sometimes those options were just

00:31 McChickens or cheeseburgers or cup noodles,

00:34 you guys remember those?

00:36 They made sure that we had each other.

00:38 That was really enough.

00:39 Fast forward to my teenage years.

00:41 I started working when I was 14 years old.

00:43 I never really stopped since.

00:45 I started in retail sales,

00:47 then I went to pharmaceutical sales,

00:49 and now I am in tech sales

00:50 while operating my own travel backpack company.

00:53 The work ethic that I've learned in those jobs

00:55 will definitely transfer onto the social aspect of the game.

00:58 I am a big believer that there is no strategy

01:01 for authenticity, and I feel like I can get very far

01:04 in the game, kind of just like by being myself.

01:06 (upbeat music)

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