This post originally appeared on The Legacy Bunker’s Medium. The author, Rachel Garcia-Kessel, serves as co-executive producer and brand & media strategy lead for Tales of a Latina. To draft it, she asked Katherine K. Nunez a series of questions in writing.
For the opening of Season 3 of Tales of a Latina, host Katherine K. Nunez decided to become the person answering the questions.
Longtime friend and producer Kevin Pryor leads the conversation, introducing the season through her own story: becoming a mother at 16, finding her identity, pursuing acting, and building a platform while navigating personal hardship.
“I’ve spent a lot of time creating a safe space for other people to tell their stories, but I realized that I hadn’t fully allowed the audience to hear mine,” she wrote in her responses for this feature.
Katherine has told parts of her story in interviews before. What changes here is the place she gives it. “Before I asked the audience to connect with another season of guests, I wanted them to understand the woman behind the platform,” she explained.
From Introducing the Vision to Finding Her Voice
Katherine describes the first two seasons as distinct stages in building Tales of a Latina. Season 1 introduced the vision. Season 2 expanded it and helped establish the show as a consistent platform.
For season three, she wrote, “The production has grown, the conversations go deeper, and I’m much more confident in my voice as a host and Executive Producer.”
That confidence is shaping what she wants to explore. Accomplishments remain part of a guest’s story, but Katherine is increasingly interested in the experiences behind them: sacrifice, survival, family, identity, and culture.
“It feels more mature because I have also matured throughout this journey.”
Her approach to choosing guests reflects that development too. She describes looking for stories connected to something she has experienced, witnessed, or wants to understand more deeply. Their lives do not need to resemble hers for a conversation to resonate. Reinvention, rejection, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and the desire to be seen can create points of connection between otherwise different journeys.
“Sometimes I’m asking a guest a question, but I’m also speaking to the younger version of myself or to someone watching who may be going through the same thing,” she wrote.
Opening the season with her own interview gives viewers more context for that perspective. They can better understand the experiences that influence what she notices, what she asks, and why a particular conversation matters to her.
The Work Behind the Finished Episodes
“Creating this show required me to become more than the person on camera. I had to become a producer, businesswoman, creative director, negotiator and leader,” she wrote.
She also describes reconsidering the pressure to appear as though she has everything figured out. Building the show has made her more willing to acknowledge the effort and uncertainty involved. “Tales of a Latina taught me that people connect most deeply when you are willing to be honest about what it took to get where you are.”
The difference between the public presentation and the private work runs through her responses. Audiences see wardrobe, interviews, red carpets, and finished episodes. Katherine says they do not always see the financial pressure, personal losses, or moments when she continued without knowing how everything would work out.
Sacrifice and survival are not abstract themes in her account of the show. They are experiences she is considering in her own life while asking guests to reflect on theirs.
Bringing Production Back to Hudson County
Filming Season 3 at Bravery Studios in Jersey City adds another personal connection. Katherine describes Hudson County as home, even as her career and lifestyle have taken her across New York City. “There is something powerful about creating this season in the same area where I grew up, became a young mother, struggled, dreamed, and began building the woman I am today,” she wrote.
“I’m not leaving my roots behind as I grow – I’m bringing the production, the opportunities, and the spotlight back home with me.”
For Katherine, the location connects her present work to the experiences that preceded it. Hudson County remains part of the story she is telling, rather than a place only in the opening lines of her biography.
Building Beyond the Show
Katherine’s ambitions for Tales of a Latina extend beyond its current interview format. She envisions live conversations, special events, community programming, partnerships, original productions, and opportunities for emerging voices.
She also describes a desire to strengthen connections between Latino and African American communities while making space for stories she believes mainstream media too often overlooks. “I want Tales of a Latina to become a platform where people know their experiences will be respected, celebrated, and preserved,” she wrote.
“This chapter is about ownership and legacy,” she wrote. “I’m not waiting for someone else to validate me or hand me an opportunity anymore. I’m creating the platform, owning my story, and building something that can exist beyond me.”
