You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm your host, Elise Hume. You're about to hear from Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez. She's a young professional in finance and a daughter of migrant workers from Mexico. In this talk from TED Institute in 2020, Elizabeth busts through the most common myths about immigrants in America.

Stick with it for a moving personal story about how her family overcame challenges that once

ripped it apart. I love how Elizabeth uses her journey to challenge us to greater caring for those

around us. Hope you do too.

Hi, everyone. My name is Elizabeth and I work on the trading floor. But I'm still pretty

new to it. I graduated from college about a year and a half ago. And to be quite honest,

I'm still recovering from the recruiting process I had to go through to get here.

Now, I don't know about you, but this is the most ridiculous thing that I still remember about the whole process, was asking insecure college students what their biggest passion was.

Like, do you expect me to have an answer for that?

Of course I did.

And to be quite honest, I really showed those recruiters just how passionate I was

by telling them all about my early interest in the global economy,

which conveniently stemmed from the conversations that I

would overhear my immigrant parents having about money and the fluctuating value of the Mexican

peso. They love a good personal story. But you know what? I lied. And not because the things I said weren't true.

I mean, my parents were talking about this stuff,

but that's not really why I decided to jump into finance.

I just really wanted to pay my rent.

And here's the thing.

The reality of having to pay my rent and do real adult things is something

that we're rarely willing to admit to employers, to others, and even to ourselves. I know I wasn't

about to tell my recruiters that I was there for the money. And that's because for the most part,

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