E! News: In the spirit of the Change Exchange program, what was a moment of change that had a significant impact on your work?I think the biggest change in my life that had a huge impact on my career was having a child. My daughter was born when I was 37 and I was in the last season of doing my show, The Mindy Project, and it forever changed my career and my job particularly since I'm a single parent. It really changed the face of my career forever.
E!: Was there a lesson you had to learn when you became a mother as to how you were going to handle your career moving forward?Yeah, absolutely. I was raised by immigrant parents who gave everything to us, but their jobs establishing themselves in a career mean that they were the first people in and the last people out.
E!: Before you became a mom, I'm sure there were certain barriers that you anticipated going into your line of work as a woman of color in the industry, but were there barriers that you hadn't anticipated?I think one of the reasons I had a lot of success in my career is that I really didn't go into it anticipating there would be barriers.
E!: If you could give women, girls, your own daughter one piece of career advice, what would that be?This is a piece of advice probably for young people of color coming up is that this idea that there can only be one is disappearing…As an employer and as someone who sees a lot of employer practices, from the corporate level almost everyone is wanting rooms to be truly diverse, wanting productions to be really diverse, and so I would say please don't worry about that.
E!: Were you ever in a position where you knew you were being paid unfairly? And if so, how did you handle that?I only have ever realized that my compensation was not as much as it should be years later because everyone holds what they get paid, like their cards, so close to their chest. It's really hard to even know sometimes because it's such a private thing.
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