1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: Well leave me around Rigo one or two point seven kids, 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: I m Los Angeles. 3 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 2: Thanks for being here in the morning. 4 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: So earlier we were hearing from Sisany about her story 5 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: here celebrating International Women's Day. She started in the Cinnamon 6 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: Rule shop in San Diego. And then of course is 7 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,240 Speaker 1: here as our friend every single day in the morning. 8 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: And now it's Tanya's turn to retrace some of the 9 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: steps that led you here. I do feel like I've 10 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: witnessed a lot of the story now, not to here, 11 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 1: but to hear so from here inside of here, you 12 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: had a journey to here, and then you've had a 13 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:34,959 Speaker 1: journey inside of here. 14 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, does that make sense? 15 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy that I've been like working with this 16 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 3: show for thirteen years. Like for you, that's so wild 17 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 3: that I've done anything for that long. 18 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: It's also so remarkable and cool because did you get 19 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: a You didn't get a degree in journalism, Sysany. 20 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 2: Did you. 21 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 3: It was an art degree with an emphasis in graphic 22 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 3: design and multimedia. 23 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, right, I dropped out of college. But you are 24 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: the journalists of the team. Journalistial is a major. Yeah, 25 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: I graduate body did it? 26 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 3: Funny enough? It was in print, not broadcast. But details details. 27 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: You print your trending reports and then you read them 28 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 2: back then. 29 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, that's right. Yeah. 30 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 2: So it all started for you wear on the. 31 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 3: Air Tucson, Arizona when I was at the University of Arizona. 32 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 3: So I worked for the Morning Show ninety two nine 33 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 3: in the Mountain, which was Jenny and Blake in the morning, 34 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 3: and it was my senior year of college, so I 35 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 3: was up at four am. But I was still doing 36 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 3: all my like partying and stuff because I wanted to 37 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 3: live up my senior year of college. So I like 38 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 3: party until one o'clock in the morning, and then i'd 39 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 3: like come home, get ready and just go to work 40 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 3: in the morning, and I'd kind of sleep nap in 41 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 3: between classes. It was pretty wild. But what's crazy about 42 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 3: my story when I look back on everything, getting fired 43 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 3: and getting dumped were two of the biggest blessings and 44 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 3: best things that ever happened to me. Because I was 45 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 3: working at this Morning shown Tucson, right and they it 46 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 3: was two thousand and eight, so they laid off basically 47 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 3: every part timer. Had I not been laid off of 48 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 3: that job, I was going to stay in Tucson because 49 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 3: my friends that were graduating college were having such a 50 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 3: hard time finding jobs. They couldn't get work because of 51 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 3: the recession, and so I was like, I'm not going 52 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 3: to leave this job. I have a job and they're 53 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 3: paying me and part time. Why would I leave had 54 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 3: they had I not been let go from that, I 55 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: would never have come back and tried to do anything 56 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 3: here in La. 57 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 1: So that was like, sure, those things in life that 58 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: seemed so crazy for moments, Yeah, I. 59 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 2: Can end up opening They open up the next door, especially. 60 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 3: When you're so young, you know, like I took it personal. 61 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 3: I thought it was me. I thought I was doing 62 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 3: a bad job, when it was I was just a 63 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 3: number at that time, you know. 64 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,959 Speaker 1: So before you started hearing O nine with us, Yeah, 65 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: what where? 66 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 2: How did you get a job in La? 67 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 3: So then I came back and I had to pay 68 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 3: to go to Santa Anna Community College in order to 69 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 3: intern here a clear channel at the time, because you 70 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 3: had to be at a school yet to be able 71 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 3: to get school. So I basically was working for Valentine 72 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 3: in the morning from five to eleven AM, and then 73 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 3: I would intern at MTV in Santa Monica, and then 74 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 3: I was living in Orange County, So I would just 75 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 3: kind of spend. 76 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 2: Spend your life in a car. 77 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of spent my life in the car. 78 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 3: But what was really the changing moment was I got 79 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 3: this idea to put my resume on like a baby shoe, 80 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 3: and I decorated all the baby shoes with like adjectives 81 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 3: that described my personality. So I would put like driven, enthusiastic, positive, 82 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 3: and I set my resume all over Los Angeles. I 83 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 3: sent it to like Billboard baby shoes with baby shoes, Yeah, 84 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 3: with my resume saying trying to get my foot in 85 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 3: the door. 86 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: No oh god, I was like, why baby shoe because 87 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: I could fit in the mail. 88 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 2: Yeah. 89 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 3: Right, So I was just trying to get my foot 90 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 3: trying to get my foot door. 91 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: Pretty clever, yeah statement. 92 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 3: And Tim Martinez at Kiss FM saw it hired me 93 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 3: and that's when I moved over to Kiss as a 94 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 3: promotions assistant. 95 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 2: Shout out to Tim Martinez. 96 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, and also, what a great clever idea for anybody 97 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: listening to adopt, which is to get my foot in 98 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: the door on a shoe with all your qualities. 99 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 3: Yeah. I remember I went to pay Less it stands 100 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 3: out and bought just like a bunch of baby shit. 101 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: I pay more, right exactly, you can pay less. Well, 102 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: it's a blessing that that all happened. Yeah, Tim got 103 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: you in because then you started on the Street team 104 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 1: and ended up here on the air in what twelve. 105 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 3: In eleven, twenty eleven, early twenty eleven. And what's even 106 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 3: crazier is that I was going to quit this job 107 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 3: and move back to Arizona because of my boyfriend. 108 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: And then he dumped you, and then he dumped me, 109 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: And I was not saying we had anything to do 110 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: with that. No, thank goodness, he did. 111 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 3: Honestly, you like it, so it blows my mind. I 112 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 3: was going to leave moved to Arizona to be with him. 113 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 3: He dumps me. I came in. I remember I came 114 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 3: in every single morning crying. My eyes looked like bowling balls. 115 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 1: Everybody here, Disney, you were not here in the morning 116 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: show for this, but I remember this as well. 117 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 3: And everybody wrapped their arms around me. Everybody was so 118 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 3: sweet and loving and encouraging through that season of life. 119 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 3: And then a year later I became like full time 120 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 3: on the mic, like it. My life completely did a 121 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 3: one eighty thanks to him dumping me. 122 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 1: Like, honestly, what are we sending him as a gift? 123 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: We need to send him something, just not to rub 124 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: it in, but just what a blessing, What an angel 125 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: you were, Dumper. 126 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so crazy. 127 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 1: It's a great story, and everybody you know starts somewhere 128 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 1: and you never know where it's going to go. But 129 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: it all led to the blessing of us being with 130 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: you every morning. So thank you Tanya's story on this 131 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: International Women's Day. Come up next, Let's get to Caane 132 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,239 Speaker 1: Brown be most stadium tickets in August.