1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: One or two point seven. It's kids. F M. All right. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: This is a great segment. It's called our Hometown Alsicer segment. 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: This is where we celebrate people who have turned it around. 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: Maybe they lost their job, maybe they quit their job. 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: They just weren't happy and they pursued a path of 6 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: passion and they're making it work. To me, it is 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: so brave to quit the sure thing and go after 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: something that fills your heart but yet be able to 9 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: pay your bills. Because yeah, we could all do stuff 10 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,279 Speaker 1: that we love. Hopefully we could do it, but we 11 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 1: can't get paid enough to cover which is why sometimes 12 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: you gotta do a job you don't love. But listen 13 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: to this. Brenda is on with this now. And Brenda, 14 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: she lost her job back in January. She was at 15 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: a restaurant for ten years. She lost her job and 16 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: she then has come back with a business of making salsa, 17 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: her legendary salsa. Apparently her son's seventeenth birthday happened and 18 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: she made these homemade tacos with some of her friends 19 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: and the homemade saltas, and everybody loved it so much. 20 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: They were like, Oh, you gotta sell this, you gotta 21 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: package this bottle this and sell this. And so she 22 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 1: started posting her salsa on Instagram and the next day 23 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: she got forty orders, and since then she's been able 24 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: to build a business. Brenda, good morning, your Martin. Thank 25 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: you guys for having me well, thank you for coming 26 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: on and tell us about that time between when you 27 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: lost your job and got back on your feet. It 28 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,119 Speaker 1: was a very hard time for me, just because I've 29 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: been working on the restaurant business for over twenty years. 30 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: So the restaurant I was working for Inland Beach was 31 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: about ten years and UM when it closed her doors, 32 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: I didn't know what was next for me. Um after that, 33 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: you know, I um thought I was going to take 34 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: some time off to be with the kids, but I 35 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: guess I didn't know what time was for me anymore. Um. 36 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: After that party, someone suggested I should sell myself as. 37 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: I didn't really think, um, anyone was interested in buying 38 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:18,679 Speaker 1: any selfas. But I still people with my husband and UM, 39 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: we both were like, yeah, let's do it. Um. I 40 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: he took me to go buy some jars, some veggians. 41 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: I made this also for the forty orders that I posted, 42 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 1: and ever since then, I am been getting a lot 43 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: of good feedback from my self, bas and I've been 44 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 1: trying to do a little bit of everything ever after that, Wow, 45 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 1: what is so special about the salsa? Because now customers 46 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: can place orders for pickup or delivery Monday through Thursday, 47 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: and you've got a real business here. Why is it 48 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 1: so good? And what's it called? Um? It's called salsas 49 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: tingona uh chingona means um like a badass a woman, 50 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 1: um i um. I guess everyone likes to salsas because 51 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: they reminds them of like home, like homemade salsa. I 52 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: had people come up to me and be like, oh, wow, 53 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,519 Speaker 1: you're young, and I was like, I'm pretty seven. I 54 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: don't think consider myself young. But they're like no, I 55 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: actually thought you will be like my grandma or my mom, 56 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: you know. And I was like, wow, that's a compliment, 57 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: thank you. So a lot of people tell me, wow, 58 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: this taste is so much like my dad salsa. So 59 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: it's just more like a culture that I brought from 60 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,519 Speaker 1: my home to everyone. I want to try it so badly. 61 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: Can I say, am I allowed to say salsa? Jingoa? 62 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: Can I say it? Yeah? It's a it's a sausa name. Guys, 63 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: it's a popular salsa name, so you can check out 64 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: her sauces on Instagram. Give us your Instagram friend, Yes, 65 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: so as Tingona and La Casina just because I do 66 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: a lot of everything and you're hometown house today. Check 67 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: her out. Check out the salsa, think a look at 68 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: the salts on it look delicious. Brenda, thank you, congratulations 69 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: on doing something you love and making people happy. Thank you, 70 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: thank you so much, thank you. I'm a hut all right, 71 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,799 Speaker 1: Cicity salsa. Give it to me. What kind of salsa 72 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: do you make? Or like? Oh? You see I it 73 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: needs to be not too spicy. It has to be 74 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: just the right amount of spice for me. And then 75 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: like a green salsa and you like it thick, chunky, 76 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 1: more on like the running side. Okay, so I'm a 77 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: Tomotio my favorite. Yeah, Cilantro and Tomotio is my favorite. 78 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: I'm down for like a green tomatheo. I want onions, 79 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 1: chopped onions, cilantro and tomatheo. As long as it's like 80 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: completely blended, I'm good with that. I don't like chunky, 81 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: I don't like Oh, I don't mind at all, Tony, 82 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: what's your favorite kind of salsa? I see I'm like 83 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: a pico de gayo girl. I like it thick and 84 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,919 Speaker 1: chunky and not spicy, but that's not It's chopped salsa. 85 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: But to me, I like it with Like I asked, 86 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: I got your favorite. You fight me on it back 87 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: in sixty seconds. Tickets to go see Billie Eilis to 88 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: the Kia for him. Kiss FM