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Ep. 2 | CASA Creations · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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SPEAKER_02: What's going on y'all?
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SPEAKER_02: It's UC Lauri Hernandez here.
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SPEAKER_02: This video we have the pleasure of interviewing Stephanie, owner of Casa Creations.
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SPEAKER_02: Stephanie talks about a little bit about her life, a little bit about her backstory, some inspiration that she has for Casa Creations.
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SPEAKER_02: If you're interested in that, stay tuned.
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SPEAKER_02: All right, we're going.
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SPEAKER_02: Welcome to the show, Stephanie.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for having me, man.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for having me.
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SPEAKER_00: I appreciate you having this platform for the gente like us, you know, to represent where we come from, what we're about.
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SPEAKER_02: Yes, ma'am.
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SPEAKER_02: Yes, um, that's good.
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SPEAKER_02: All right, so your the name of your business is Casa Creations.
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SPEAKER_02: And I was wondering where you where'd you get the inspiration for that name?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, glad you asked, Matt.
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SPEAKER_00: I love telling the story.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, Casa Creations um was started.
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SPEAKER_00: It it casa is the first initial of me and my three lifelong um best friends um that I've had for over 20 years, over 23 years, you know what I mean?
0:56
SPEAKER_00: Um, so we've we've had this friendship.
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SPEAKER_00: One day we're just hanging out, you know, just chilling out, you know, drinking, having a girls' night.
1:03
SPEAKER_00: And it just came to me like as I was trying to find uh uh my name, my journey of how was I gonna put myself out there, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was like, wait a minute, all our initials together, because it's Christina's the C, the A is um Ariana, the S is me, and then the other A is Annalisa.
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SPEAKER_00: So I was like, dude, that's supposed Gasa, like we're the house of friendship, that's what we're about.
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SPEAKER_00: We've been friends for so long, like you know, boom, and it stuck.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was like, and everybody liked it, the girls liked it.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's what we would call ourselves as a group, and and our group techs and stuff like that was yeah, we're Gasa Creation girls, you know, um, because of our friendship, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh so that's where uh creations was formed, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's what we're about, you know, creating from your house, everything happens in La Gasa.
1:51
SPEAKER_00: That's how you know my my background to that.
1:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure, man.
1:56
SPEAKER_02: I think I think there's definitely like in our root, our culture is just like arts.
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SPEAKER_02: Like I did a video last time, and it was about um how many artists are on my our Instagram page for Corpus Christian Risco, like musicians and artisans and people like you that create stuff with with the resin, and it's just so awesome to to see it is, dude.
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SPEAKER_00: I've never seen nothing like this, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh it it's it's it's refreshing, it's it's it's awesome, and especially just be welcome, you know what I mean?
2:26
SPEAKER_00: Like that's what's you know, the welcomingness part of it is is is also awesome, right?
2:31
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so now that you bring that up, um, so you've been selling stuff, right?
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SPEAKER_02: And then you you mentioned that going to markets for you has helped you out.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, you want to talk on that a little bit?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, you know, uh I started, you know, I've always been an artist all my life, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_00: I uh since like first grade, and then throughout my journey of schooling, I always picked art as an elective, you know, any chance I got was art, art, art.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, in high school, I was, you know, uh in art, I won awards and I used to enter contests, and I used to, you know, I had a got a lot of achievements, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and uh what we're talking about.
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SPEAKER_02: Well, no, yeah, so you so you basically started from the beginning, and and I was gonna bring that up too.
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SPEAKER_02: So, like you're good, you're good.
3:15
SPEAKER_02: I'm nervous as things it's all good.
3:18
SPEAKER_02: I like your backdrop.
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SPEAKER_02: I like the I like the skull and all the flowers and all that stuff you got there behind.
3:22
SPEAKER_02: I'm kind of embarrassed.
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SPEAKER_02: This is my house.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm kind of embarrassed of it, but no, no, this is my little my little office for my turn.
3:28
SPEAKER_00: A man, I was in the last minute putting this.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the old schoolina that you you know how we keep it also gonna just put tax on that because it's like section it up, right?
3:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
3:38
SPEAKER_01: Put that there, boom.
3:39
SPEAKER_01: Hey, it looks like a whole new room, man.
3:41
SPEAKER_01: There you go.
3:41
SPEAKER_01: I had this back there already, you know.
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SPEAKER_01: So um that's so awesome.
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SPEAKER_02: Like, it's it's cool that you're like you're you're going out there and actually putting yourself out there, yeah.
3:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
3:53
SPEAKER_02: You think the thing I like about your content is like you don't give a damn.
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SPEAKER_02: You're just like, hey man, this is me.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey, like at this point in age, you know, I'm that's what I'm about, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: My journey, my my my journey that I'm on, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, as we discover and and learn about ourselves, we should grow.
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SPEAKER_00: There's always I always tell my kids and stuff like no matter how old you are, there's never you don't stop growing just because you're like 30, 40, you don't stop growing, like you still you should still be growing, like that's something that doesn't end, you know what I mean.
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SPEAKER_00: So, hey, can you do better?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, can you achieve more?
4:27
SPEAKER_00: Yes, can you try harder?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's always you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So um, that's what I try to teach my kids, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_00: Like it this becomes a family business, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, that's what I'm all about is family and and creating, and and my kids create all the time too, like my girls and and my son, like it's you know, my husband, like we all do the damn thing, you know.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure, for sure, man.
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SPEAKER_02: I I was listening to because I like how you put your videos of where you're at and who's there and all this stuff.
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SPEAKER_02: And I saw one video, and your daughter was like, Oh, because you were like, Oh, we're selling this, we're selling this, and then your daughter comes in, she's like, Yeah, we got this, and we got yeah.
5:03
SPEAKER_02: I was like, Man, that's freaking awesome.
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SPEAKER_02: The you know, your daughter's kind of following you.
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SPEAKER_00: They love to help and and and try to sell my cositas too, and they hype me up, and then and it's pretty cool, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I bring them along as much as I can if if it's not like a school day or you know, they're not with their grandmas, and I bring them along, you know.
5:20
SPEAKER_00: I I want to include them, even though I know it's gonna be stressful because kids get on our nerves every now and then, you know.
5:26
SPEAKER_00: Like, but hey, that's what it's about, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: I I want to include them, especially my daughters, so they can see that hey, mommy's out there, you know, she makes these things, she pushes herself, and especially dealing because you know, I have a lot of anxiety.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't um that's what one of the things I'm overcoming, you know, by doing these markets.
5:45
SPEAKER_00: And and um, like I said, um, when I go back to uh always being an artist, you know, um, I didn't put my business out there to like on social media platforms because I used to create for my friends and family and all kinds of shit.
5:57
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
5:58
SPEAKER_00: Like I'm always doing that as gifts, you know.
6:01
SPEAKER_00: You know, if you don't is you don't always have money or or not, it's not about money, just giving somebody's a gift from your heart, you know, creating it.
6:08
SPEAKER_00: I always see it as that's not a cheap thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Somebody doesn't create something and give it to you because they didn't have money to buy something for you.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like, hey, they took their time to make you something.
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SPEAKER_00: At least that's my way of thinking, you know.
6:20
SPEAKER_00: So um uh I put myself out there on on social media platforms and um I want to say the end of 2019.
6:28
SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, that whole you know, um year I would sit back and watch all these people on Instagram.
6:35
SPEAKER_00: Like Facebook got too like I wasn't about Facebook the one that it was getting too like catty, shady, just a bunch of people doing like I wasn't about that, right?
6:46
SPEAKER_00: So I I started doing more Instagram, and that's when I started seeing these people and doing these markets, and it was like people from our you know, Corpus Christi doing going downtown, and just like wow, it was cool.
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SPEAKER_00: So I sat back and I and I watched that for like a whole year, you know, like always being the uh what I call the wishing girl, like, oh I wish right, I wish, I wish I could do this, or I wish, you know what I mean?
7:09
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, so one day I just jump.
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SPEAKER_00: I I jump, I jump, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Um with my eyes open.
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SPEAKER_02: Is there something that is there something specific that that inspired that that decision?
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SPEAKER_02: Or there is just a bunch of things that happened at once.
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SPEAKER_00: No, yeah, yeah.
7:27
SPEAKER_00: Uh what is it?
7:28
SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like it's kind of like bittersweet.
7:32
SPEAKER_00: It's like um, that's how I see it.
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SPEAKER_00: It was it's kind of three-step, but it I see it as blessings.
7:37
SPEAKER_00: Um, all this came about uh when my dad passed away in uh 2019, you know.
7:42
SPEAKER_00: Um sorry to hear that.
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SPEAKER_00: No, it's cool, it's cool.
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SPEAKER_00: He was a good man.
7:46
SPEAKER_00: Like what's awesome is that that man, he gave me all the tools I needed to be able to live without him.
7:55
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, we were weirdos, we would talk about death, we would talk about hey, when I died, me had this as well, you know.
8:01
SPEAKER_00: But you know, we would talk about all that crazy stuff.
8:03
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, you know, as sad as it was, you know, um I got from that I got strength to uh change things in my life, you know, because uh things weren't uh so great as far as like my troubles and um you know, problems, nobody's perfect, you know what I mean?
8:21
SPEAKER_00: Nobody's perfect.
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SPEAKER_00: So uh that was like an awakening call.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, my dad needed me.
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SPEAKER_00: I had to be there for him.
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SPEAKER_00: I had you know, boom, that happened, and and from there that's where um my courage came, right?
8:37
SPEAKER_00: You know, uh that's crazy.
8:39
SPEAKER_00: I still got fear, but I told myself, hey, now you got somebody working for you up there.
8:44
SPEAKER_00: I'm very spiritual, you know what I mean?
8:45
SPEAKER_00: Like I'm very, very cultural and very spiritual.
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SPEAKER_00: Like um, it's not just you know the arte, oh it's it's a cute, it's you know what some people tend to use it in the wrong ways, you know, which is it's cool as long as you ain't disrespecting it.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey, if you like it as decoration and just I see hey, that's cool.
9:02
SPEAKER_00: You take it down another year, you take it down, you move on.
9:05
SPEAKER_00: But right is up all year round, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_00: Like my life, you know.
9:10
SPEAKER_00: So that's where where where I said I gotta do it, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Like my dad gave me these tools, he told me, he prepared me, and and and hey, you know what I mean?
9:20
SPEAKER_00: I gotta I gotta do it.
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SPEAKER_00: So that that's awesome.
9:22
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know.
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SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_02: So it's been with you since you were a kid, you were young in elementary age, and then I'm I think I heard you you wanted to do like like art teaching or something like that.
9:34
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's pretty.
9:36
SPEAKER_00: I'm glad you mentioned like you play.
9:38
SPEAKER_00: Man, that's go ahead, talk about that's so cool, dude.
9:41
SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, that's you know, that's awesome that you you uh you know you remember that you pick up on the little things.
9:48
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, I wanna, uh you know, I was one, I got my degree, you know, from Del Mar um in studio art.
9:54
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I got my associates, you know, in that and and I used to work in the medical field and for a few years, I was like a front office, like coding and all that shit.
10:02
SPEAKER_00: You know, I had a career in that.
10:03
SPEAKER_00: And right, yeah, I remember that.
10:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and just you know, I just said, you know what?
10:07
SPEAKER_00: I got the opportunity and the blessing to be like a stay-at-home mom.
10:11
SPEAKER_00: And and I wanted to raise my kids, you know what I mean?
10:13
SPEAKER_00: That was that was my you know, I didn't want my kids to be raised by anybody else.
10:17
SPEAKER_00: Like, so I was blessed enough to be like, hey, my husband was like, want to stay home, watch the kids, you know, I work, you know, do it.
10:23
SPEAKER_00: So I was like, all right, all right, you know, I you know, I'm very humble, you know, we're humble people, so um, I was like, right on, you know.
10:30
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I I I dedicated my and you know, when I when I I um all everywhere, you know, I dedicate like everything, you know, like you know, I'm and when I'm coming out, like I'm trying to figure out how I want to say this, like I'm coming out now because I'm I'm barely, like I said, discovering myself because I dedicated my life to being a mom and a wife, you know, raising just I put my interest and my little things, you know, like I said, I wanted to be a teacher.
10:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, not because I I had to, but just because uh, you know, I come from what I'm very traditional, you know.
11:03
SPEAKER_00: I come from ancient people like the the where the women stay at home, take care of their kids, the man goes to works, and and hey, you share you share your money.
11:11
SPEAKER_00: It's like you know, we live in that that that household where we can do that, you know?
11:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and and so I was like, hell yeah, you know, that's what I wanted to do.
11:18
SPEAKER_00: So um I did it, you know what I mean?
11:21
SPEAKER_00: And and now my kids are grown, dude.
11:23
SPEAKER_00: Like my last one, she's in the school system now.
11:26
SPEAKER_00: So it's like that was like when that happened, I was just like, shit, like what am I gonna do?
11:32
SPEAKER_00: I ain't gonna lie, I was like, I I don't know who I am, you know, like what am I like?
11:38
SPEAKER_00: What I I you know, because I was just alien bando, kicking, playing with the kids, making memories, just doing all kinds of you know, giving them their life, their childhood, and shit that you know I didn't have growing up, you know what I mean?
11:51
SPEAKER_00: And you know, and so I was like, shit, like I got all this time Monday through Friday from this time to this time, like and I ain't trying to go back to work because you know, I was like, Man, it's been years since I've actually been in the clock in, clock out pace.
12:06
SPEAKER_03: Like, can I do it?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I battled with that.
12:08
SPEAKER_00: Like, is that something I can do?
12:09
SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, wow, yeah, but is it something I want to do?
12:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, I think I want to do not really, right?
12:19
SPEAKER_00: I think I'm gonna start like I said, courage, and just I jumped with my eyes open, you know what I mean?
12:25
SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's awesome.
12:26
SPEAKER_02: And hey, that's cool how you lean how you kind of lean toward your toward what your roots were, like creating stuff.
12:33
SPEAKER_02: That's pretty awesome.
12:34
SPEAKER_02: That's very awesome.
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SPEAKER_02: And then even to to get to a point where it's like, hey, I want to sell this, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
12:40
SPEAKER_00: And in my family always used to tell me, like, you should sell it.
12:43
SPEAKER_00: You should say, and and and uh I'm not about you know, like I said, I'm very humble.
12:47
SPEAKER_00: Um I my whole motto in life is powermented, which that means, you know, to me, like you're humble, you do things humbly with a humble heart, you know.
12:55
SPEAKER_00: Um, that's how my dad raised me.
12:57
SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, I'm not about money.
12:59
SPEAKER_00: I mean, of course I don't want to go broke and be starved, you know.
13:02
SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
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SPEAKER_00: To me, it's not for the money.
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SPEAKER_00: I I do it because I want everybody to have my art.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to share my art, you know, and and I want I want to make people happy with my art.
13:12
SPEAKER_00: Um, especially I like making uh memorial pieces, you know, memorializing your your past, you know, your loved ones, putting them in pendants, making them in trinket dishes, you know.
13:22
SPEAKER_00: I started messing with uh resin um as a medium.
13:26
SPEAKER_00: Like I'm going into like two years, two and a half years and do and messing with that.
13:30
SPEAKER_00: So um I've been uh I'm able to do a lot more and it's it's been fun, you know, creating things with that medium.
13:36
SPEAKER_00: It's like opened up a lot.
13:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was.
13:39
SPEAKER_02: I was watching, I was watching your videos because I kind of stalked to you before we came on, you know.
13:42
SPEAKER_02: So just throw that out there.
13:44
SPEAKER_02: So like I was watching your resin videos, I was like, Oh shoot, I didn't know about this.
13:48
SPEAKER_02: And you were talking about how some of them are like there's different brands, yeah.
13:53
SPEAKER_02: You came upon one that you like you like because it's so clear.
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SPEAKER_02: There's just a lot to it, and that it was pretty cool.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, it is, it is, and and and I I I you know did my research and I messed with it and do, you know what I mean, and I like it, I like it, you know.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's cool.
14:10
SPEAKER_02: So um what what which of your the your creations sell the most?
14:16
SPEAKER_02: Would you say sell the most like whenever you go to markets and stuff like that?
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SPEAKER_00: Um a little bit of everything, to be honest.
14:25
SPEAKER_00: I I I can't pinpoint um anything in particular because I make all kinds, I'm everywhere, man.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: I make I don't stick to one thing, I make all kind, I mean, I make all kinds of stuff.
14:37
SPEAKER_00: I had to move up to like three tables when I do my markets.
14:40
SPEAKER_00: I have boom, boom, all around me.
14:43
SPEAKER_00: Um, so I make all kinds of stuff, a little bit of everything sells, you know.
14:46
SPEAKER_00: I make from eyelash kit cases to hold people's fake eyelashes in there.
14:51
SPEAKER_00: Um I make uh uh trinket dishes, you know, uh trays, um, all kinds of shit.
14:59
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
14:59
SPEAKER_00: And then it a little bit of everything sells, you know.
15:02
SPEAKER_00: Like uh right now, I um I just finished, I just got um punched out some uh molds of um business card holders.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm doing that, you know.
15:12
SPEAKER_02: I like those.
15:12
SPEAKER_02: I saw those.
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SPEAKER_02: I was like, oh, that's pretty cool.
15:14
SPEAKER_02: It's like a square, and then it's like a rectangle.
15:16
SPEAKER_02: You place your you can even place some other stuff in there, yeah.
15:19
SPEAKER_00: Phone even fits into it.
15:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, phone.
15:20
SPEAKER_00: There you go.
15:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
15:21
SPEAKER_00: You can use it, you know, for whatever.
15:23
SPEAKER_00: Hey, whatever fits right there, you know.
15:24
SPEAKER_02: So uh so those molds, do you make the molds?
15:27
SPEAKER_02: You make the mold?
15:28
SPEAKER_02: No, no, no.
15:28
SPEAKER_00: I buy them from makers, yeah, yeah.
15:30
SPEAKER_00: I support makers, you know, from uh it'sy and Instagram and stuff, and and uh I try to, and of course on Amazon as well.
15:37
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, and I just buy them and just try to, you know, do and if somebody gives me a custom, you know, I'll search.
15:43
SPEAKER_00: If I don't have the mold, I'll I'll look to buy it and stuff.
15:46
SPEAKER_00: So um, I want to get into making my own molds, get you, you know, buying the silicone and do that's my next uh uh step of something I wanna wanna try, you know, to do because I have a lot of little things that are like vintage stuff that I never seen that I would like to make a mold of, you know.
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SPEAKER_02: Nice, man.
16:02
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
16:03
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
16:04
SPEAKER_02: All right, so oh, I saw that you skinned a rattlesnake.
16:08
SPEAKER_02: Holy crap!
16:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
16:10
SPEAKER_00: Uh my primos, they were they had he has a long business, and I was watching his snap, and he was like showing like the the machine cut the you know, killed the snake.
16:19
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, damn, I was like, everybody's right around, save it.
16:23
SPEAKER_00: I'll be right there to get in.
16:24
SPEAKER_00: They're like, for real, I'll be right there and boom.
16:26
SPEAKER_00: I went to like it's over there.
16:27
SPEAKER_00: I went over there like a loca.
16:29
SPEAKER_00: I can use this.
16:31
SPEAKER_01: It was all chopped off and they could think it was all I don't know.
16:34
SPEAKER_02: And then you you put like little pieces in earrings, like that was awesome.
16:37
SPEAKER_02: I was like, Whoa, that's pretty cool.
16:40
SPEAKER_00: I skinned it, I dried it out, I did the whole shebang, you know.
16:44
SPEAKER_02: Wow, man, that's cool.
16:45
SPEAKER_02: That's like creation, like you gotta use your own to figure something out.
16:49
SPEAKER_00: But you're butt on the leg, what I told him, oh I I uh well, I didn't kill it myself, but I skinned it.
16:54
SPEAKER_00: Like, damn, you weren't scared.
16:58
SPEAKER_00: I was dead already.
16:59
SPEAKER_02: It wasn't yeah, that's Texas 40 right thing.
17:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
17:05
SPEAKER_00: I saw that that diamond back, you know, the scales, and I just thought, hey, that's I that's art.
17:09
SPEAKER_02: That's yeah, that's all you and then you put uh a Pantera song on that.
17:14
SPEAKER_02: I was like, hell yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:16
SPEAKER_02: I remember what's uh uh Southern Trend Kill or something like that.
17:18
SPEAKER_02: I like Pantera, yeah, yeah, for sure.
17:22
SPEAKER_02: Uh always been an artist.
17:23
SPEAKER_02: Uh so do you remember your first piece of art?
17:28
SPEAKER_00: Uh as a child, like my first art that I yeah, because you know that's where I fell in love with with art, you know.
17:35
SPEAKER_00: Like uh I was in the first grade.
17:36
SPEAKER_00: I only went to three schools on my life, you know what I mean.
17:39
SPEAKER_00: Um, I like I I mentioned to you before, I I grew up in the the gutter gutters of corpus.
17:44
SPEAKER_00: You know, I went to George Evans, Wind Seal, and uh, you know, Ray raised a little bit of fancy out there, but yeah.
17:51
SPEAKER_00: You know, the neighborhoods I grew up on, the streets, you know, Comanche Street, 25th Street, those are some heavy streets, you know, some pretty heavy, crazy activity goes on there, you know.
18:01
SPEAKER_00: And then um, so uh I went to George Evans and uh an art program was introduced to the school, you know, they got money fundings or whatever.
18:10
SPEAKER_00: And I was in the first grade, and I remember I made this little perito, it was like a a black dog.
18:15
SPEAKER_00: It was my dog at the time, and you know, I made this little statuette, and then I'm on the paper, I made like a um like a pond, like it was drinking from a pond, and you know, I I cut out the different colors of construction paper, layered it for like what the colors would be and shit.
18:30
SPEAKER_00: And and I think that they entered in a little children's um art thing that goes on like at the museum or museums downtown or something, and I think I want something, and I was remembering that because I was telling my dudes like man, and then my mom use it as a goddamn door stopper, use it as a door stopper.
18:52
SPEAKER_02: Damn, well, so man, so do you feel do you feel like you've do are you proud of yourself now?
18:59
SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah, you know what I mean, from where you were, yeah.
19:02
SPEAKER_02: Like, how do you feel about that?
19:04
SPEAKER_00: For sure, man, for sure.
19:05
SPEAKER_00: Like, like I said, I you know, I like to call this what I'm on now is as uh I'm on a journey to heal my broken child self, you know what I mean?
19:14
SPEAKER_00: Um, I suffered from childhood trauma, and um, I never recovered from that, you know what I mean.
19:20
SPEAKER_00: I never got a chance to heal from that.
19:23
SPEAKER_00: Um, and then you get into being a teenager and then a bunch of, you know what I mean?
19:26
SPEAKER_00: The hormones you hate the world, shit happens, and yeah, for sure.
19:30
SPEAKER_00: You know, unfortunately, the hoods that I'm in, I got into drugs.
19:33
SPEAKER_00: Well, I got into smoking weed, you know what I mean?
19:35
SPEAKER_00: And at a very young age, and uh uh it went from there in high school, you know what I mean?
19:41
SPEAKER_00: And then you get into more shit, and you know, and then it goes from there, you know what I mean.
19:45
SPEAKER_00: Then I had like um, well, I guess I now that I'm sober, I like to say that I'm proud that I am sober.
19:52
SPEAKER_00: I am going on three years being sober from um prescription medications, you know.
19:57
SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, I did abuse prescription medications, especially Xanax, the the drug, any downer I can get.
20:03
SPEAKER_00: You know, I was a pill popper, I was a pill popper, there's no way around it.
20:06
SPEAKER_00: Okay, that it used to embarrass me.
20:11
SPEAKER_00: It used to embarrass me, you didn't mean it, and and now I'm just like, nah, that shouldn't now that I'm sober, and you know, because that was uh a big part of you know my life for many years, double double digit number years that I thought I needed, and then they were prescribed to me, you know.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: You know, well, at first they weren't, but then eventually they did, but then they got worse, you know what I mean?
20:33
SPEAKER_02: Right, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:34
SPEAKER_02: Um, like from one addiction to the next.
20:36
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
20:37
SPEAKER_00: And then especially when you get them prescribed to you, you don't think that you're doing nothing wrong because hey, it's your prescription, it says your name, you're not doing it's legal, right?
20:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, somebody going off the street somewhere and buying over there.
20:51
SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, I need I needed to go to sleep.
20:53
SPEAKER_02: I need I need to lose tonight, yeah.
20:54
SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, it it was a big chunk of my life, and then especially when you I had like traumas and tragedies, I I used that as a crutch to do self-medica more and more.
21:05
SPEAKER_00: And like I said, um from a bittersweet back to you know, bittersweet, one of the things bittersweet is because when I fixed my life and I finally got everything together and being as far as being sober was when my dad passed away.
21:18
SPEAKER_00: That's how that happened, you know.
21:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, because in that year 2019, I was still an active addict, popping pills.
21:25
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I was popping Xanax, and I thought I was, you know, it gave me false confidence.
21:31
SPEAKER_00: It gave it and it that's what's scary, you know.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: Cause I I used to get these medicines from a doctor, I used to see a doctor.
21:36
SPEAKER_00: Uh I gotta I need somebody to help me with my mental illness.
21:41
SPEAKER_00: But in reality, I didn't have mental illness, you know.
21:44
SPEAKER_00: I gave myself the mental illnesses for my addiction and never healing from my trauma.
21:50
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
21:51
SPEAKER_00: That that caused that shit, you know what I mean?
21:53
SPEAKER_00: Because now that I'm sober, I I'm a completely fucking different person.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Who I was, you know what I mean?
22:01
SPEAKER_00: The lights back.
22:02
SPEAKER_00: And like I said, it it when my father passed away, you know, he didn't have a wife.
22:07
SPEAKER_00: That was my best friend.
22:08
SPEAKER_00: My daddy is my best friend.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: I was like, wow.
22:12
SPEAKER_00: We did we're family, you know, he he we did everything.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, later in life, he became my best friend.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: Besides my dad, it was awesome that he became my best friend.
22:21
SPEAKER_00: We could share shits and talk up, you know, it was cool, you know.
22:24
SPEAKER_00: So um, he needed me, you know.
22:26
SPEAKER_00: I I I needed to take care of him.
22:29
SPEAKER_00: That was my jefito.
22:30
SPEAKER_00: He he was like, when all that shit happened at a left field, yeah, just the look in his eye from one doctor's appointment, he was just like, uh-uh, Cavrona, he's like, You better be strong.
22:43
SPEAKER_00: You know, what the fuck?
22:45
SPEAKER_00: Like, oh I just like do I really have to be it was hard, you know, it was hard, but as this the man that he was, I knew he needed that in me.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: Wow, I knew he needed that.
22:59
SPEAKER_00: The fear that I saw in his eyes, you know what I mean, the of that he was dying, you know what I mean?
23:04
SPEAKER_00: Uh cancer, and and then from one moment to the next, we're in the hospital, and then there's nothing they could do.
23:10
SPEAKER_00: So I could I couldn't be all pendeched or wanting from being all Xanaxed out, you know what I mean.
23:17
SPEAKER_00: I couldn't I knew I know right from wrong, you know what I mean?
23:20
SPEAKER_00: So you know, uh that's what you know I got morals, you know what I mean.
23:24
SPEAKER_00: So um that's what comes first, you know what I mean?
23:26
SPEAKER_00: And and my dad needs me, you know what I mean?
23:29
SPEAKER_00: So cold turkey, boom.
23:32
SPEAKER_00: Cold turkey from being a very, very, very heavy pill popper, yeah.
23:39
SPEAKER_00: You know, to cold turkey.
23:40
SPEAKER_00: Boom.
23:41
SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm in the hospital, paperwork, dealing with people, signing shit.
23:46
SPEAKER_00: My dad's dying, you know.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: It's a lot of it's a lot of fucking you don't just die, it's a lot of paperwork, and it's like it's a process, man.
23:54
SPEAKER_00: Don't die yet.
23:54
SPEAKER_00: I'm not ready for all the people.
23:56
SPEAKER_00: Hey, it's pretty crazy, but it was eye awakening, you know, and and you know, I never like growing, you know, uh growing up, I didn't fear death.
24:05
SPEAKER_00: It was like, ah, we used to do crazy shit, just reckless, you know what I mean?
24:09
SPEAKER_00: Reckless, but I never thought I always thought, oh, I'm gonna die by getting hit by a bus, or I'm gonna get fucking ran over, or you know, something crazy.
24:17
SPEAKER_00: You think like that, you know.
24:18
SPEAKER_00: But you know, me, at least to me, I never thought that you can go out like the one my dad did, boom.
24:24
SPEAKER_00: Nobody expected it.
24:25
SPEAKER_00: An illness.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: Ah shit.
24:28
SPEAKER_00: So that kind of made me like fear, like I got lost to stala and shit, you know, and I was just like, oh shit, like and so it tripped me out.
24:35
SPEAKER_00: Like, oh my god, I'm a heart attack, I gotta take care of my heart, I gotta take it.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: So I started worrying about like my health, you know what I mean, like taking care of my health and and and that problem.
24:44
SPEAKER_00: So it was crazy, you know, and and I'm I'm proud of myself.
24:49
SPEAKER_00: I want to say that I'm proud of myself because something that that that was a moment in my life that an addict would normally use as a crutch.
25:00
SPEAKER_00: That you know, because when I was an addict, you would you when you're an addict, you find any little thing to be a to use as a crutch to go use.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: Oh, they don't like me.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: I'm a go-user.
25:09
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you know what I mean.
25:10
SPEAKER_00: You find crutches, you know what I mean?
25:12
SPEAKER_00: And I I that should have been a crutch because I used when I lost, you know, I lost my brother, you know.
25:18
SPEAKER_00: Um my dad's my second, the second uh male figure in my life that I lost, it was dear to me, you know.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: And and I used my brother's death as a crutch to spiral down, you know what I mean.
25:28
SPEAKER_00: So it's like I I didn't do that, and that gave me the the that's what also gave me the testimony to be like a firm believer that hey Josito, I'm not gonna question you no more, man.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: Like I used to always question and uh you know, be upset or whatever.
25:46
SPEAKER_00: And the the things that happened, the magic that happened, and my dad's passing.
25:51
SPEAKER_00: For one, he passed on Ash Wednesday.
25:54
SPEAKER_00: That's my dad's holiday.
25:55
SPEAKER_00: Like, he he's he was uh a hardcore boom.
26:00
SPEAKER_00: He did Lint every for years, you know.
26:03
SPEAKER_00: That was Ash Wednesday Lint, the Quaresma.
26:05
SPEAKER_00: He would give up uh smoking cigarettes, drinking, or something, you know, that he did.
26:09
SPEAKER_00: He would give up gambling, his lotto, and he was very religious.
26:12
SPEAKER_00: So when he passed, boom, I was just like, What the fuck?
26:16
SPEAKER_00: The numbers of of like the numerical numbers of his last breath.
26:20
SPEAKER_00: And I was you know, my dad passed in my arms, like you know, there.
26:24
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I saw that and then like the church bells when the coroner people take from his church.
26:31
SPEAKER_00: It was just like it was just all these signs, and then how I got the strength to battle my addiction.
26:39
SPEAKER_00: Like when people have addiction, that that addiction demon, if it got a grip on you and shit.
26:45
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's hard.
26:46
SPEAKER_00: I've I've seen a lot of people, friends, that that are still an active addiction, and that they don't look like they're gonna get out of it, you know what I mean.
26:55
SPEAKER_00: Um, it looks like that's their life, you know, and then hey, I I don't judge, but I ain't trying to be around that, you know, especially being a recovering addict, my you know, like nah, you know what I mean.
27:06
SPEAKER_02: I just nah it's like it's like you said, you have like you have morals, like you know, right from wrong.
27:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, that's yeah, man.
27:13
SPEAKER_02: Mad mad props to be able to to to not use that as a crutch to continue.
27:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it gave me strength, it did the complete opposite, which is it just blows my mind.
27:23
SPEAKER_00: Like when I when I think about it and I sit back and I think I was like, damn, that's that's badass.
27:29
SPEAKER_00: So I gave myself credit, I give myself a lot of credit now, and it's like when I never used to, you know.
27:34
SPEAKER_00: So um that's what gave me all this courage and strength to come out to markets, dude, and nice start talking to the gente out there, and and yeah, here I am.
27:45
SPEAKER_00: You know, I ain't everybody's cup of tea because when I'm a loud, very loud person.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: You might my grandma tell me, man, you like a tornado.
27:54
SPEAKER_00: I used to hear you from I can hear you for miles and miles.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: Like that's crazy, you know.
28:02
SPEAKER_00: But hey, I just keep it real, you know.
28:04
SPEAKER_00: Um I keep it real.
28:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm very loyal.
28:07
SPEAKER_00: That's what's kept like my my girlfriends, my three lifelong friends.
28:11
SPEAKER_00: That's what's kept us friends that long, especially being girls.
28:14
SPEAKER_00: You know how girls can be and and and shady, and yeah, you know, but we just keep it real, you know.
28:20
SPEAKER_00: We we tell each other in the nitty-gritty, whether we like it or not.
28:24
SPEAKER_00: Be mad at me.
28:25
SPEAKER_00: You want to be mad for two months?
28:26
SPEAKER_00: Be mad for two months, girl.
28:27
SPEAKER_00: But you're gonna come, we're gonna you're gonna come back, you know.
28:30
SPEAKER_02: Like, right, right, yeah, that's cool.
28:31
SPEAKER_02: That's friendship, man.
28:33
SPEAKER_00: Hell yeah, and that's because we were all pregnant the same year, which is also crazy.
28:36
SPEAKER_00: We didn't plan it, we didn't even plan it like at all.
28:39
SPEAKER_00: We didn't plan it.
28:39
SPEAKER_00: It was me first, and then my my second friend, you know, she had the three months apart.
28:44
SPEAKER_00: Our kids are three months apart, so it's pretty crazy.
28:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's so awesome, yeah.
28:49
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
28:50
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome, and now you're doing now you're doing shows and pop-ups and markets.
28:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
28:56
SPEAKER_02: Man, that's that's uh that's a story.
28:58
SPEAKER_02: It's a lot of fun, yeah.
29:00
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
29:01
SPEAKER_02: So you do the markets.
29:02
SPEAKER_02: Um, you got you have any coming up or uh yes, in March.
29:07
SPEAKER_00: I I I I'm trying to put myself out there a lot, you know what I mean?
29:10
SPEAKER_00: And I got five so far in March, right?
29:13
SPEAKER_00: Art walk, Friday, uh, March of March would be Saturday, you know, to the women's history month out there at the um Water's Edge Park.
29:21
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:23
SPEAKER_00: And then I got um two more at a small business shop, and then I got the Bulga with Fresco, and then the people's market.
29:32
SPEAKER_00: So I'm I'm getting out there as much as I can.
29:35
SPEAKER_02: That's what's up.
29:36
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I hope you sell, man.
29:37
SPEAKER_00: I hope you sell one of my first um one of my first gigs was at the people uh the people's market, but then the second gig was um art walk, and I did that one like I didn't have nobody to help me, man.
29:49
SPEAKER_00: I didn't, I didn't my everybody the kids were at school because artwork kept to be there a certain time.
29:53
SPEAKER_00: They don't get home, and I couldn't, you know.
29:55
SPEAKER_00: My husband was getting home at that time, it was cutting it close, so they couldn't.
29:58
SPEAKER_00: It's hard to take up about five in the car with no problems, like something's always crazy, so I just had to by myself, and it was hard having a tent, three tables, four big totes, and looking at the back of the middle.
30:11
SPEAKER_00: I was in chingas doing it all myself, you know.
30:15
SPEAKER_00: And I was telling myself, man, that's messed up, dude.
30:18
SPEAKER_00: Because when I went down there, I was a little upset because I was setting up my tent, dude, and a tent, those tents take at least two people.
30:26
SPEAKER_00: I mean, one person can do it.
30:28
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna look a little squirrely, going uh uh each side is it'll it'll happen.
30:34
SPEAKER_00: Nobody helped me, dude.
30:35
SPEAKER_00: No, everybody just stood around.
30:37
SPEAKER_00: There was people because there was like the bars and there was like picnic tables, and there were some bottles there drinking and shit.
30:42
SPEAKER_00: And I was just like, Man, I was telling my husband, not even one to try to flirt with me or nothing.
30:48
SPEAKER_00: Nobody came and helped me, dude.
30:50
SPEAKER_00: I was just like, I mean, no story, I'm not ugly, but just you know, we're drinking, I might have looked, you know, nobody helped me.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: I and hey, which I don't care.
30:58
SPEAKER_00: Hey, I did the damn thing myself, you know.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: Right, right, right.
31:02
SPEAKER_00: I got it done, and it was crazy.
31:04
SPEAKER_00: But um, the point of that was that it was a very successful night and it was a high traffic.
31:09
SPEAKER_02: What's up?
31:10
SPEAKER_00: You know, it was a good month, and it was a high traffic, so it was like crazy and it was successful, and it's awesome because when I left, make it pensino, like damn, that just happened.
31:21
SPEAKER_00: Like that's you know, that was like right there that opened up like I'm doing this, like you know, to let me know like I'm doing something good, like this is hell yeah, you know, gave me that confidence and hell yeah.
31:32
SPEAKER_00: And I thought, dude, that's when my dad started too, you know.
31:34
SPEAKER_00: Back to my dad, you know, he started in those parts, you know, because I was down in People Street, and he used to, as a chavalito, he used to be down there shining shoes and shit, you know.
31:43
SPEAKER_00: I think like he started like at five or six, he was down there trying to earn money for his all his siblings and stuff because you know his mom, he's from a family of 10.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: So on my dad's side, I got a big family.
31:55
SPEAKER_00: You know, uh uh there's ten of them with six sisters, you know.
31:58
SPEAKER_00: It's like it was a lot of them.
32:00
SPEAKER_00: Uh so it's like you know, he was down there doing that.
32:02
SPEAKER_00: I was like, Man, I was down there making money in the same street pavement, not the same texture pavement, but of the same geographical areas that my dad was out here as a chavalito, make hustling it and making money, you know.
32:13
SPEAKER_00: It's like it felt good, you know what I mean?
32:16
SPEAKER_00: Culturally, spiritually, it was just like it's just all lined up, and it was it's it was it's awesome, man.
32:20
SPEAKER_02: It's an awesome because he made a decision to just do it, yeah.
32:23
SPEAKER_00: And then for like the people, like the gente, that's what you know, especially like you.
32:28
SPEAKER_00: And I wanted to give you a shout out too for you giving us this platform to to, you know, like I told you in a message when you reached out to me, I was just like, Why don't you not like me?
32:38
SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, I gotta lie, I stressed about it, and I and I like I I one of the things that I'm in I'm in this day of age where I like to the three P's.
32:47
SPEAKER_00: I plan, practice, and prepare, you know, plan, prepare, practice, hair to ever order.
32:52
SPEAKER_00: Three Ps.
32:53
SPEAKER_00: And I try to do that because you I used to do things like rah, just do it, you know, and you can't do that, man.
32:59
SPEAKER_00: I got you looking crazy, so you you can you can't do that.
33:02
SPEAKER_00: You gotta you gotta prepare, you gotta practice, you gotta make a plan, and you you know, you gotta be a little organized, yeah.
33:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I try to do that.
33:12
SPEAKER_00: I was like practicing.
33:13
SPEAKER_00: I I even wrote notes and shit.
33:15
SPEAKER_01: Like honestly, I'm gonna look at this paper here.
33:19
SPEAKER_01: Hopefully, it's gonna get me back.
33:21
SPEAKER_01: I haven't used none of this.
33:25
SPEAKER_01: This is raw life, man.
33:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, hell yeah.
33:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I appreciate yeah, I appreciate the shout-out.
33:32
SPEAKER_02: I appreciate the shout-out.
33:33
SPEAKER_02: Uh that's what I want to do.
33:35
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's you're doing a lot of good shit too, man.
33:38
SPEAKER_00: I see the stuff you're doing and and and the new ventures you're going on and what you're trying to do as well.
33:44
SPEAKER_00: And that's what's up.
33:45
SPEAKER_00: We appreciate it.
33:46
SPEAKER_00: Community that we're in is is is awesome.
33:49
SPEAKER_00: It's awesome.
33:50
SPEAKER_02: For sure.
33:51
SPEAKER_02: For sure, man.
33:52
SPEAKER_02: I plan to meet some more people.
33:53
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I I'm real, I'm real kind of just in my zone.
33:57
SPEAKER_02: Like I work, I come home, I really don't talk to a lot of people.
34:00
SPEAKER_02: It's hard for me to schedule for market days because my because I'm a truck driver and my schedule, my schedule is all whacked.
34:05
SPEAKER_02: I work at 6'2, so I don't get the same two days off.
34:08
SPEAKER_02: So it's just like I really don't talk to a lot.
34:10
SPEAKER_02: The reason why I bring that up is because I want to, you know, talk to some more people in the community, yeah, yeah.
34:14
SPEAKER_02: And not only for my sake, you know, but for people that are listening, you know what I mean?
34:19
SPEAKER_02: Like there's people, there's somebody like you or me, you know, or anybody else is just listening, they're like, hey man, that's kind of like me.
34:26
SPEAKER_00: Don't be embarrassed, don't be like that's my thing that don't be embarrassed, no one.
34:29
SPEAKER_00: If you're embarrassed, be embarrassed, but oh hey, fuck it, you know, just just get out there.
34:33
SPEAKER_00: Like what you what's embarrassing is you, you know, like you know, I used to be embarrassed of my problems that I have my addiction.
34:40
SPEAKER_00: I used to used to make me embarrassment, but it's like it shouldn't no more.
34:43
SPEAKER_00: That should make me fucking proud.
34:45
SPEAKER_00: That what's it what should be embarrassing if I still had the problem and wasn't doing nothing about it, and just you know, right?
34:50
SPEAKER_00: That's embarrassing.
34:51
SPEAKER_00: But hey, when you when you accomplish something, don't be embarrassed, you know, don't be embarrassed, you know, get out there, you know, face it, and nobody's perfect, you know.
35:01
SPEAKER_00: Nobody's perfect in life.
35:02
SPEAKER_02: You were saying, you were saying in uh I think on your on a one of your one of your videos, you had like a long video and I was listening to it, and you were saying you gotta make mistakes.
35:11
SPEAKER_02: You have to.
35:12
SPEAKER_02: I mean, how else are you gonna get it's basically how else are you gonna get better if you don't make mistakes?
35:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
35:18
SPEAKER_02: That's that's it's like this, like that's the school making mistakes.
35:22
SPEAKER_00: You have to.
35:23
SPEAKER_00: You you you you you gotta want to make a mistake, you know.
35:28
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you gotta want to because that's how you're gonna learn, you know.
35:31
SPEAKER_00: That's that's how I try to see it now, is like you know, what I try to teach the kids, my kids, you know, is is say don't be, don't get upset, it didn't work out.
35:39
SPEAKER_00: Hey, that's okay, hey.
35:41
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, try again.
35:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and it's like I don't know if it's our culture, but it's like, oh what you're gonna look like you're gonna look dumb doing it, you know what I mean?
35:50
SPEAKER_02: And I think that's the it's fear of not wanting to do it because somebody's gonna be like, Hey, no, that's dumb, you know what I mean?
35:56
SPEAKER_02: Exactly, but it takes a lot of courage for us to be like, you know, screw it, this is what I'm doing, exactly, and then we and when we when we do that, it if it everybody is affected, you know, whether it's good or bad.
36:09
SPEAKER_02: Everybody's affected, and like, oh, he's doing it.
36:12
SPEAKER_02: How come I can't do it?
36:13
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
36:13
SPEAKER_00: I mean, dude, that's how it came for me seeing markets.
36:16
SPEAKER_00: It was like, hey, well, she's doing it.
36:18
SPEAKER_00: Why can't oh that pretty girls do or that maker?
36:21
SPEAKER_00: Okay, oh wow, and I started to see, well, I don't think I'm no different from I don't know their personal lives, but from what they were put out there, I I felt like, well, I don't think I'm that different from her.
36:33
SPEAKER_00: So that that's what that's what helps, you know what I mean?
36:35
SPEAKER_00: It's seeing, well, they can do it, you know.
36:38
SPEAKER_02: Hey, I can do it too.
36:40
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
36:40
SPEAKER_02: It's community, it's community, cops Christie originals.
36:46
SPEAKER_02: That's why I did the podcast.
36:47
SPEAKER_02: I was like, Man, we gotta relate, we gotta bring some people on here.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: Uh for sure, dude.
36:51
SPEAKER_02: People like you, like me.
36:52
SPEAKER_02: Like, I didn't know I didn't know I had an accent until I I lived in Colorado for like two, not in Colorado, uh, Oklahoma for like two years.
36:59
SPEAKER_02: Oh wow, and they're like, Oh, you got an accent.
37:01
SPEAKER_02: What I do, and then they're like, Yeah, you have an exit.
37:04
SPEAKER_02: They're like, Where which part of Mexico are you from?
37:06
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I'm like, No, I'm not I'm not from Mexico.
37:09
SPEAKER_01: No, what which part, what's the word that I say that made you think that?
37:16
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but it like we're we can relate, it's awesome.
37:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so so you're uh so what are some of the challenges of being a stay-at-home mom?
37:26
SPEAKER_00: You got two girls, right?
37:28
SPEAKER_00: It was just you know, like everything, you just everything's unexpected, you know what I mean?
37:34
SPEAKER_00: Like you you gotta be it's me, you know.
37:37
SPEAKER_00: But now that my kids are uh are older, I said that's what it's giving me a chance.
37:40
SPEAKER_00: Like I said, they're in the school system now.
37:44
SPEAKER_00: Go to school, you know.
37:47
SPEAKER_00: You know, I did my job, you know.
37:48
SPEAKER_00: I still got a job to do, you know, because if they need me, they call me, whatever.
37:52
SPEAKER_00: I gotta be available to go get them.
37:54
SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't got nobody else to do that, so I gotta be available.
37:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, but now that I got more time, you know, it's like heck yeah, I take advantage of that shit, you know what I mean.
38:02
SPEAKER_00: So Monday through Friday from you know uh seven to three, yeah, there's no struggles.
38:09
SPEAKER_01: There's no there's no challenges after that.
38:15
SPEAKER_01: Oh shit, get burning dinner because I'm too busy making a TikTok and trying to post something, and I'm telling you, damn it, and I'm recording.
38:29
SPEAKER_00: Did I put up?
38:30
SPEAKER_00: I ain't gonna lie to you.
38:30
SPEAKER_00: Like, sometimes I do it like six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve times, and I'm like, damn it, I messed up.
38:38
SPEAKER_01: Like, I wonder what people think if they're coming up to my house hearing me.
38:44
SPEAKER_01: Nobody talks, they're like, Mom, we're not talking.
38:47
SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, something messed me up.
38:50
SPEAKER_01: Get it right and put it on, you know.
38:52
SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, but it's all fun, you know what I mean?
38:55
SPEAKER_01: Until you burn dinner, you burn a pizza, yeah, you burn a pizza, two one one out of the two pizzas, and now you're left eating a fucking hard piece of cardboard.
39:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, man.
39:07
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
39:08
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
39:08
SPEAKER_02: Kids are awesome, man.
39:09
SPEAKER_02: Kids are awesome, and then I oh man, I saw the story of your daughter using the red shampoo.
39:14
SPEAKER_01: Oh man, my kids are wild.
39:16
SPEAKER_01: My my daughters, that was funny.
39:19
SPEAKER_01: Oh gosh, there's something else.
39:21
SPEAKER_00: Hey, La Chiquita's the one that her name is aka.
39:24
SPEAKER_00: We call her Chucky, and she's proud of it.
39:27
SPEAKER_00: We call her Chucky because she's she is the one that, yes, but it's funny, even though she's the the wild child one, she's a straight A student.
39:36
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, damn, yeah, girl, you're straight A, she's she's been straight A's in her other two.
39:41
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's so that's what I was gonna ask you.
39:42
SPEAKER_02: So, what uh what are some of the things that your your kids like excel at?
39:46
SPEAKER_02: Like, do they like certain do they like creating?
39:48
SPEAKER_02: Do they like math?
39:50
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, they love creating, man.
39:51
SPEAKER_00: They love drawing, painting, they love getting in my stuff, you know.
39:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh it used to drive me crazy, and it and I and I used, you know, because I didn't I didn't want to tell them no, but I didn't want them getting in my good shit, like my quality stuff.
40:05
SPEAKER_01: So it's like, ah, yeah, it was hard to part with some of that stuff, but I you know, uh, I would sit down like, well, you better do it really good, because that's a professional 12 by 12 canvas, but that's my professional quality acrylics, you know.
40:21
SPEAKER_00: But I would still give it to them, but I would really lecture them about the the responsibility of using that properly, and so they don't listen, they're gonna get wild and crazy.
40:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they'll yeah.
40:31
SPEAKER_00: I haven't eventually started buying their them their stuff, you know, the cheaper stuff for for them that they could if they waste it, they waste it, you know.
40:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they love creating, man.
40:39
SPEAKER_00: They love my daughters, they're always cutting up papers and you know, making little hand puppets, they're always making shit, always making shit with tape.
40:48
SPEAKER_00: They're always using the tape, they're always using my paper, my cardstock paper, they're always or even just cardboards, you know.
40:55
SPEAKER_00: Anything they can get their hands on, they're making something out of it because they they see mom, and then the small one sees the older one, and she wants to keep up with the older one, and then the older one sees mom, and so it's cool, you know.
41:06
SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's awesome.
41:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
41:09
SPEAKER_00: And my son, he does stuff too.
41:10
SPEAKER_00: You know, my son, he he does modeling, he puts together like model figures and stuff.
41:14
SPEAKER_00: Um, and then he's in high school, you know.
41:17
SPEAKER_00: I got a 15-year-old and he's in the ninth grade, which is like oh wow, um, but he's into uh uh 3D modeling.
41:24
SPEAKER_00: He has some elective that he's doing something like that.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: I don't know, he shows me on the computer.
41:28
SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't know too much about that stuff because it requires numbers and all kinds of yeah, yeah.
41:33
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, ah, that's too much stuff going on, it's too loud, take it away.
41:38
SPEAKER_00: No, but he showed me I'm like, that's good, mijo.
41:40
SPEAKER_00: Hey, I'm proud that he could do that, you know.
41:43
SPEAKER_00: Um so it's cool, you know.
41:45
SPEAKER_00: Heck yeah, it's a family like my husband too.
41:48
SPEAKER_00: He he he he's a gardener, he's always planting.
41:51
SPEAKER_00: We got a garden back.
41:52
SPEAKER_00: I saw your garden.
41:53
SPEAKER_00: Do you still have it?
41:53
SPEAKER_00: Or yeah, yeah, we got it back there.
41:55
SPEAKER_00: It's big, you know.
41:56
SPEAKER_00: He grows all kinds right now.
41:57
SPEAKER_00: We're we're um we got a lot of plans for Casa Creations, you know.
42:01
SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, I was gonna ask you that.
42:03
SPEAKER_02: So, where do you see Casa Creations going?
42:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, man.
42:06
SPEAKER_00: I wanna we're gonna I'm I wanna venture bigger and and and you know, um we got blessed with uh like a little trailita, like a trailer, like a food truck trailer, like one you kind of pull.
42:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you need some renovations, you know.
42:19
SPEAKER_00: We've been kind of like put uh putting back on renovating because inflation, dude, everything's expensive, man.
42:25
SPEAKER_00: Yep, just to buy the material, like oh, I mean, we got the money, you know, because we like I remember you were talking about in some of the stuff I listened to.
42:33
SPEAKER_00: You um was about you try to do cash, cash.
42:36
SPEAKER_00: That's one of our tactics, too.
42:37
SPEAKER_00: Is it's as if we save that cash, you know what I mean?
42:40
SPEAKER_00: Boom.
42:40
SPEAKER_00: We if it hits and you know, we put it aside if we can pull it out and we just save pay with cash, you know what I mean.
42:45
SPEAKER_00: That's the way to go, yeah.
42:46
SPEAKER_00: Um, so you know, we didn't want to get caught up in the everything with the inflation, you know what I mean?
42:51
SPEAKER_00: It's a bunch of crazy stuff, so it's like ah, you know, uh we we're holding off on buying materials, but now I guess you know, I think it's gone down a little bit.
43:00
SPEAKER_00: I think I don't know, my husband's all in charge of all that, but we're gonna start renovating that and and uh we're gonna do like a mobile food truck slash yeah slash pull up, pop, you know, put a little table, sell his plants because he does a lot of like uh plants from like um he like uh like grafts it and um you know he cuts it off and he does this whole little rooting system and the whole shang.
43:25
SPEAKER_00: So we got like apple trees in the works.
43:27
SPEAKER_00: Apple, those are take those are like to get it to be a tree, to be able to take clippings from it, to have other little trees.
43:34
SPEAKER_00: It's it's a big process, it's been a long process, but it's it's awesome to see, you know.
43:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure.
43:39
SPEAKER_00: Banana trees, you know, all kinds of stuff.
43:42
SPEAKER_00: He got all kinds of stuff, you know, tropical stuff.
43:44
SPEAKER_00: You know, we want to have a lot so he we can sell it in.
43:47
SPEAKER_00: Because I like to do uh I paint macetas pottery, like you know, the the terracotta pots.
43:52
SPEAKER_00: I like to paint them.
43:53
SPEAKER_00: Um I I do a thing like in Mother's Day called Macetas para madres, you know, so you can I paint the The pot real pretty, like I put a fritter flower, you know, I paint something on it cultural, uh, and you know, um, so we can put our actual plants in there, you know what I mean?
44:08
SPEAKER_00: Like it's a family business, you know what I mean?
44:10
SPEAKER_00: A whole making some munchy, you know, good, just munchy food, just munchy cherias, you know, just just full up like that with some stuff like that.
44:20
SPEAKER_02: Man, I want to try that.
44:21
SPEAKER_02: I want to try the Mexi Dog, and I want to try the what is the guisada, got any guisada nachos, the nachos, yeah, yeah.
44:29
SPEAKER_02: You know, they both look good.
44:30
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, yeah, they were good.
44:32
SPEAKER_02: Check out the check out her TikTok.
44:33
SPEAKER_02: She's got two videos there, one on building a Mexi Dog, and then one on the the Garni Gisada Nachos.
44:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, since that's I I've been messing and playing with something like that because that's what I'm practicing to you know, for ideas for that, you know, especially for the side of town I live in.
44:46
SPEAKER_00: We live like between um Calais and Nanaville, and they ain't shit out here to eat.
44:51
SPEAKER_00: They ain't nothing, they ain't nothing out here.
44:53
SPEAKER_00: You got one McDonald's, one Whataburger, Sonic.
44:56
SPEAKER_00: I ain't one on Sonic and all that shit.
44:57
SPEAKER_00: There's the fact that he has there's nothing new, you know what I mean?
45:00
SPEAKER_00: And we keep on thinking, especially like the little road, the area we live on, that just there's not much for people that you know that don't have a car to go somewhere far, that something walking distance, you know what I mean.
45:10
SPEAKER_00: And then so we're we're working on something like that, you know.
45:13
SPEAKER_02: That's cool because you see the need, you see the need, and whenever there's a need and you create something for that need, yes, that's where they're gonna that's awesome.
45:21
SPEAKER_02: Yep, that's good.
45:22
SPEAKER_02: That's good.
45:22
SPEAKER_02: I was thinking about that too.
45:23
SPEAKER_02: I was like, man, because my daughter, she's six, and I'm thinking about her feet like hers when she's gonna start working, you know.
45:30
SPEAKER_02: It's like, hey, let's just get a trailer, you know, sell some that way she can get some experience and you know, making money, you know.
45:36
SPEAKER_02: Um, so that's that's definitely teaching our kids.
45:38
SPEAKER_00: That's that's you know, our children, that's that's our future.
45:41
SPEAKER_00: At least how I see it.
45:42
SPEAKER_00: That's our future, you know what I mean?
45:43
SPEAKER_00: Especially the ones we could we're in control of, like, hey, if the world's crazy, at least they're gonna have three needles that are gonna grow up to be adults that are gonna try to balance that out out there, you know what I mean?
45:53
SPEAKER_02: You know, yeah, that's right.
45:54
SPEAKER_00: Especially with the way things are going, and the world is is crazy out there.
45:59
SPEAKER_00: And if you if you know, if I you know, especially me, like if I can give my children a childhood and let them have their innocence for as long as I can, I'm gonna do that.
46:08
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
46:08
SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm gonna do that.
46:09
SPEAKER_00: You know, I think about my son, he's 15, he's a good kid, he just stays gamer, you know, gamer in his cave.
46:15
SPEAKER_00: That's his the gamer at 15.
46:18
SPEAKER_00: What the hell were we doing at 15?
46:20
SPEAKER_00: I know I was out there local at 15, going to concerts, parties, you know, after high school, you know, going to a keger party, doing all kinds of crazy, you know what I mean?
46:30
SPEAKER_00: It's like, yeah, and it's like, whoa, so he still got what I like to say, he still got his innocence and his childhood, you know what I mean?
46:37
SPEAKER_00: And it's pretty awesome to see.
46:38
SPEAKER_00: I was talking to my friend about that because she uh she has a 10-year-old little boy, and I like to give her props because you know, uh, she's a uh single mom, you know, she has three ninos, and I give her props, you know, when she feels down on herself and and and you know, like she's not doing right.
46:53
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, hey girl, I give a reminder to your son for being 10.
46:57
SPEAKER_00: He likes to roleplay and dress into cosplay and do things like that's beautiful, man.
47:02
SPEAKER_00: Like the 10-year-old little boy to have that that imagination to still want to do those things and and you know, be role-playing and pretending he's a Spider-Man or pretending he's Woody or something from the tourist thing.
47:12
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
47:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's awesome, dude.
47:14
SPEAKER_00: For being 10, like that's pretty cool.
47:16
SPEAKER_00: You don't see that out there, this generational era of what the evil's out there, yeah.
47:23
SPEAKER_02: Like the way I see it is like my my kids are not responsible for my feelings.
47:28
SPEAKER_02: They're not they're not responsible for for me, and I have and whenever like my if my wife and I get in an argument, I gotta mention to my daughter, hey, it's not because of you, you know, where you know, it's between me and mommy, you know.
47:41
SPEAKER_02: So and and I think that's yeah, because nobody's perfect, you know what I mean?
47:45
SPEAKER_00: Hey, nobody's perfect, and like I and I tell my kids too, that's that's cool that you say that because the different the parenting that I want that the the generational, you know, the the curse, what I like to call it, that you people you know keep.
47:59
SPEAKER_00: I broke that shit, you know.
48:00
SPEAKER_00: I would I didn't want that for my kids, you know.
48:02
SPEAKER_00: I didn't I didn't I knew I would I wasn't you know I didn't I didn't wasn't raised in a in a household with the mom and dad and none of that you know what I mean like I didn't have that family unity household like you know what I'm able to provide for my kids so you know it it's it's cool that we can give them that and so I tell them when I get I fuss them out because I ain't perfect.
48:21
SPEAKER_00: I yell and yell, I'm a I'm a Mexican mom.
48:23
SPEAKER_00: The second time that you see in the pinch of TikToks can I tell Mexican mom, that's that's probably that's me, that's me.
48:30
SPEAKER_00: So uh you know, I'm a weird, I'm I gotta potty mouth.
48:33
SPEAKER_00: I say a lot of bad words and I cuss, but it's okay.
48:38
SPEAKER_00: My kids know, you know.
48:39
SPEAKER_00: If I if I felt like I fussed him out after the whole shit's done, I what I like to do is I go back and I I apologize to them.
48:47
SPEAKER_00: And if I felt like I over I popped off too crazy because I was in a bad mood, like you said, my mood I I realized that my mood reflected how I was gonna talk to them or respond to them when they would be coming and asking for something, or you know, I'm like, why?
49:02
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like so.
49:04
SPEAKER_00: I go and I try to tell them, hey, I'm sorry, you know, just you know, it's a lot of things going on.
49:09
SPEAKER_00: I let I reassure them that that it was nothing they did, you know.
49:13
SPEAKER_00: It's mommy, I apologize, and then I also let them know that hey, you should run out appreciate that I'm apologizing.
49:21
SPEAKER_00: A lot of parents don't apologize.
49:23
SPEAKER_00: I let them know the importance of what I'm also doing.
49:26
SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's awesome.
49:27
SPEAKER_00: Not a lot of parents apologize to their niños.
49:29
SPEAKER_00: I tell them, Oh, I don't know.
49:31
SPEAKER_00: You know, a lot of parents are like, I'm the parent, I don't give a shit.
49:33
SPEAKER_00: Right, don't cry, I can get over it, motherfucker.
49:35
SPEAKER_01: You know, yeah, is this like can I I can be cussing and all this?
49:37
SPEAKER_01: I'm about to go.
49:38
SPEAKER_01: No, you're good.
49:39
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead.
49:40
SPEAKER_02: It's like PG 13 written on that.
49:42
SPEAKER_02: You're good, you're good.
49:43
SPEAKER_02: I I just don't cut.
49:44
SPEAKER_02: Like if you're a guest and you want to cut, that's fine.
49:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, sorry.
49:47
SPEAKER_00: I gotta I'm gonna but I try to I remember because I know sometimes in the environments, in the I I I know to pull some of that back if I'm not in a place where I can be doing that, people are gonna look at me, oh like oh that's you know, I know, you know.
50:04
SPEAKER_00: Uh so you know, I just let them know that hey, you should be lucky that at least I'm I'm respecting your feelings, right?
50:11
SPEAKER_00: Which I never had growing up, and nobody was ever respecting my and I respect your feelings, and I don't want you feeling upset with mommy, I don't want you being mad or or I want you know what I mean, and I and and I talk to them, you know.
50:22
SPEAKER_00: I think that's key to your to your kids.
50:24
SPEAKER_00: Is you ain't gotta be perfect, you ain't gotta be all oh you know, talk no, no, no, just hey, keep it real and just talk to them, communicate with them, and and let them know, you know, that it wasn't them, especially you know, if it wasn't them, which it shouldn't be them, if you know if they're not doing nothing crazy on purpose, like coming and hitting you to be little assholes, you know, there's no reason why it's all your mood, like how you're you know what I mean.
50:48
SPEAKER_00: Like how you said it's all your mood.
50:49
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I try to teach that to my kids.
50:52
SPEAKER_02: That's good.
50:52
SPEAKER_02: I was listening to uh George Jordan Peterson, and he was saying that whenever uh like a man or a male is like anxious or whatever, they take it out physically.
51:03
SPEAKER_02: But for for females, they they instead of take if they don't take it out physically, they take it out verbally, like like uh like verbally, you know, with like like the way you're saying, yeah, like you could go into something and then you take it out on somebody, yeah, on somebody else, which is I mean versus normal.
51:20
SPEAKER_02: Like yeah, and then you apologize to your kids, and that's yeah, because if we don't if we don't show them that we that we know how to apologize, then how are they gonna learn exactly how to apologize, you know?
51:31
SPEAKER_02: So that's that's good teaching, right there.
51:33
SPEAKER_00: That's okay.
51:33
SPEAKER_00: So you know, and I just I still I work on it, you know what I mean.
51:35
SPEAKER_00: Like I said, at least uh it's always room for growing.
51:38
SPEAKER_00: I can't say oh well, I'm the mom, I don't have to no, you can't think like that.
51:42
SPEAKER_00: You gotta be like, shit, okay.
51:43
SPEAKER_00: Well, tomorrow I'm gonna try my best not to yell like that.
51:46
SPEAKER_00: My best to tolerate or just be more uh patient, you know what I mean?
51:51
SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, so you know, we gotta we gotta always challenge ourselves and and and and always want improvement.
51:57
SPEAKER_00: You gotta always want improvement.
51:58
SPEAKER_00: It ain't gonna happen, it don't have to happen overnight, right?
52:01
SPEAKER_00: But just make that goal, you know, make goals.
52:04
SPEAKER_00: I that's how I say make goals.
52:05
SPEAKER_00: You're never too old to I'm I don't need to make goals.
52:10
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, make a goal, man.
52:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and and set your mind to it, manifest it, and and put that that pathway of I want to get there.
52:17
SPEAKER_00: I'm here, but I want to get there.
52:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, do it.
52:20
SPEAKER_02: You always have goals no matter.
52:22
SPEAKER_02: I mean, just because you're a certain age doesn't mean you can't have goals or you can't keep going from where you're at.
52:28
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
52:29
SPEAKER_02: So um, I think that I was looking at I was interested in something that was saying that uh something about expectations.
52:37
SPEAKER_02: Expectations equal disappointment.
52:40
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, man.
52:41
SPEAKER_02: Well, what is that?
52:42
SPEAKER_02: What is that?
52:42
SPEAKER_02: Because I you had posted that.
52:44
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
52:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, because you know, in in my journey, you know, that's something I always had a lot of of depending on the person and then their role to me, whether it was mom, husband, or friend or whatever.
53:00
SPEAKER_00: You know, we I had this expectations, or like, you know, uh, well, they shouldn't do this or they should be doing this, or how can they, you know, and then all those expectations eventually you get disappointed when they don't do that, because uh the hard truth is that that you know, most of the time everybody's out for themselves, you know, and then what what you get lucky as is if that person who's out for themselves, if they're a good person, you're gonna benefit from that.
53:31
SPEAKER_00: You know, because even if they're out for themselves, they're doing positive shit and and and uh for themselves if they're a good person, you know what I'm saying?
53:38
SPEAKER_00: So right the sun is gonna glow everywhere, you know what I mean?
53:42
SPEAKER_02: Right, right, right.
53:42
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
53:43
SPEAKER_00: So the sunshine will glow everywhere.
53:44
SPEAKER_00: So it's like that's how I try to see it, you know, little theories and I try to tell myself I cut out, you know, expectations of of certain people so I could stop getting disappointed, right?
53:55
SPEAKER_00: And and and when I got sober, that's what made me work on those things and realize those things and like boundaries, you know, setting these boundaries um for the that's what I switched it to instead of having an expectation from somebody.
54:10
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to name a certain because if they listen, I don't want to track the you know, right, and they get all out you're talking actually about me, you know.
54:18
SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to do that, you know what I mean?
54:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, but uh it if you have certain expectations, somebody what I did was I switched it into having boundaries for that person.
54:28
SPEAKER_00: I I threw expectations out the window.
54:30
SPEAKER_00: Okay, you're obviously proven me time time and time and time again.
54:33
SPEAKER_00: You're a fucking person, you keep hurting me, hurting me.
54:36
SPEAKER_00: Right.
54:37
SPEAKER_00: I keep accepting, accepting, accepting because traditional, like I I think I don't know if it's a cultural thing, but I know me growing up, mexicana, chicana, you know, you you gotta respect your elders, whether they're right or wrong.
54:48
SPEAKER_00: You you gotta have respect, though.
54:49
SPEAKER_00: Somebody dad told me you respect, you know, and and you gotta tolerate it.
54:52
SPEAKER_00: And it's like, why?
54:54
SPEAKER_00: Why?
54:54
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no, no, no, not not anymore.
54:56
SPEAKER_00: So it's like I set boundaries, you know what I mean?
54:59
SPEAKER_00: And setting those boundaries is what's helped, yeah.
55:02
SPEAKER_02: It's tremendously, man.
55:04
SPEAKER_02: For real.
55:04
SPEAKER_00: And when you and when you set the boundaries, you know who's gonna stay and who's gonna go, exactly, because you know your worth, you know, and and hey, those are especially the health, you know, boundaries are you know, everybody's boundaries.
55:17
SPEAKER_00: I'm sure whatever you're setting is healthy boundary, you know.
55:21
SPEAKER_00: That's why they're it's there, you know, so that that person knows, hey, you're not gonna do this anymore to me.
55:28
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna accept this anymore.
55:29
SPEAKER_00: And this is what I'm putting out.
55:31
SPEAKER_00: And if you can't respect that, then you I can love you from afar, you know.
55:36
SPEAKER_00: Bad blood, I I love you from afar, you know.
55:39
SPEAKER_00: Nothing wrong with that.
55:39
SPEAKER_00: Nothing wrong with that.
55:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
55:41
SPEAKER_00: So nothing.
55:42
SPEAKER_00: All that is what's you know, mixes all in into making what Gasa creations is, man.
55:47
SPEAKER_00: Like that's that's that's that's not only my brand and my business, but it's like that name is my life.
55:53
SPEAKER_00: Like, like I create, like I said, I create in La Casa.
55:56
SPEAKER_00: That's where all the creations are made, the family memory, dinners, the the all that, you know.
56:01
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, it's awesome having you on and sharing your sharing your story.
56:06
SPEAKER_00: And Suz, you you're welcome.
56:08
SPEAKER_00: You opening up uh a good uh alleyway for just the the gente, the original awesome people like us, you know, people like you.
56:17
SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much, thank you so much.
56:19
SPEAKER_02: Well, I think we'll have come to a close.
56:21
SPEAKER_02: We've been on about an hour.
56:22
SPEAKER_02: I gotta get to my kids and my wife, and uh for sure, man.
56:25
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
56:27
SPEAKER_02: Appreciate you coming on, and hopefully you can visit visit sometime in the future.
56:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure.
56:31
SPEAKER_02: Um so um, so you're so I'm I put the band, yeah.
56:36
SPEAKER_02: That's my daughter.
56:36
SPEAKER_02: I put the band down here, you guys.
56:38
SPEAKER_02: Her IG is here, Facebook, her tick tock.
56:40
SPEAKER_02: And uh look her up to see when she's uh when she's gonna be out there selling some of her stuff, y'all.
56:46
SPEAKER_02: So have a good one, Stephanie.
56:48
SPEAKER_02: See you later.
56:49
SPEAKER_02: Bye.
56:49
SPEAKER_02: Okay, bye.
56:50
SPEAKER_02: All right, y'all.
56:51
SPEAKER_02: That was it.
56:52
SPEAKER_02: Thank you for listening.
56:53
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56:56
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56:59
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