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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Well, Adam Levine, I've talked to him in

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Speaker 1: Adam Levine. Maroon five, so they're doing a residency. I

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Speaker 1: am going to set you up with tickets to go

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Speaker 1: to Vegas to see Maroon five. Maroon five was one

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Speaker 1: of the first bands I had in here when I

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Speaker 1: first started here a Kiss FM. This Love I think

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Speaker 1: was out and the whole band came in eighteen years ago,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and five. Listen to that. You actually remember

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Speaker 1: the first time you heard this love on the radio?

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Speaker 1: You know, actually this Love, I mean, it really started

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Speaker 1: to take off while we were in Europe. We were

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Speaker 1: had like, hey, man, I want to listen to Maroon five.

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Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, shouldn't really turn on the radio.

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Speaker 1: That's eighteen years ago. Five we sound the same, Yeah

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Speaker 1: you don't, I sound totally the same. No, you sound different.

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Speaker 1: Um no, but well I'll take it to the band

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Speaker 1: on that okay, So he's gonna be on a little

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Speaker 1: bit right now. It's our hometown hustler segment. Hit it.

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Speaker 1: This is a great story. So Nicky High, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: meet her in a second of Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena.

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Speaker 1: Her grandmother passed away, right, it's difficult, Nicki quitter corporate

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Speaker 1: job to open up her dream bookstore. Her go fund

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Speaker 1: me attracted national attention, raised twenty thousand dollars plus. So

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Speaker 1: she grew up in Altadena right here, and for years

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Speaker 1: worked for Trader Joe's So interesting, visiting cities across the country.

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Speaker 1: She would go into different bookstores and talk to owners

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Speaker 1: about how they started their business. So in her mind,

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Speaker 1: she's gathering these data points about how to do what

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Speaker 1: she really wanted to do while working for another company.

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Speaker 1: So last November, after weeks of trying to find the

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Speaker 1: right space, Nicky High signed a lease on Pasadena's North

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Speaker 1: Hill Avenue and opened up Octavia's Bookshelf. You are eighteen,

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Speaker 1: and let's meet Nikki. Now, Good morning, Nicki, congratulations on

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Speaker 1: opening your bookstore. You did it. Huh, I did it.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I can't believe it. So it's really great.

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Speaker 1: Over three hundred people showed up on your opening day

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Speaker 1: and tell us about Octavia's Bookshelf and it's significance to

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Speaker 1: you and to the community. Yeah, Octavia's Bookshelf is a

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Speaker 1: bipoc focused bookstore carrying books across all genres written by black,

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Speaker 1: Indigenous and people of color authors. It's the first of

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Speaker 1: its time owned by a black woman in Pasadena, and

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Speaker 1: it really just celebrates stories that are sometimes overlooked and

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Speaker 1: my goal is to celebrate and promote those authors every day.

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Speaker 1: So great, And how does it feel like you're working

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Speaker 1: for a company, you're doing your gig for many many years.

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Speaker 1: What is it like to get up in the morning

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Speaker 1: now that you're doing your dream job? Because these are

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Speaker 1: the inspiring stories. I know a lot of people listening

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Speaker 1: want to pursue something. It's been in the back of

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Speaker 1: their minds, but it's just like push, the push to

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Speaker 1: push to do it. What do you feel when you

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Speaker 1: wake up now? I have to pinch myself every morning

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Speaker 1: just to make sure that this is real and it's happening.

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Speaker 1: I've been dreaming of this for so long. And you

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Speaker 1: know when I made the leap initially and quit my job,

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Speaker 1: there was a moment of Oh my god, what did

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Speaker 1: I just do? Because I really liked my job and

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Speaker 1: the people I worked with, but you know, I love

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Speaker 1: books even more and talking to readers and authors and

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Speaker 1: so being able to get up every day and do

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Speaker 1: something that I'm so passionate about. It's just a dream

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Speaker 1: come true. Really. And Octavia's Bookshelf the name Octavia, tell

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Speaker 1: me from where that comes? Yes, Octavia's Bookshelf is in

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Speaker 1: honor of Octavia Butler, who was born and raised in Pasadena.

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Speaker 1: She was a black woman sci fi ish author and

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Speaker 1: she's written, oh my gosh, just such amazing books, and

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Speaker 1: some of them written in the early nineties, still super

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Speaker 1: relevant to things that are going on in the world today.

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Speaker 1: But there's just nothing like her. And I think authors

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Speaker 1: like in K Jimison, you know, we're hugely influenced by

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Speaker 1: Octavia Butler. And I always thought, if I had an

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Speaker 1: to honor our hometown legend by naming the store after her. Wow, well,

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Speaker 1: you are our hometown hustler. Today. We love to spotlight

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Speaker 1: these stories. So congratulations on a Nikki high of Octavia's

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Speaker 1: Bookshelf in Pasadena. Check them out at Octavia's Underscore Bookshelf

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Speaker 1: on Instagram and go buy and say hi if you're

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Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. Good luck, Nikki, thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Have a

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Speaker 1: great day you too. Bye bye. I'm a hustle baby

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Speaker 1: fifteen years doing her day job. Goes for it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what hometown US was all about. I only had

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Speaker 1: that moment if you went to kiss comment told us

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