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Speaker 1: It is kiss FM. Good Morning, Wednesday, March eighth. Today

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Speaker 1: commemorates the movement for women's rights and celebrates the political, cultural,

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Speaker 1: social economic achievements of women. It's a day to continue

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Speaker 1: fighting for gender equality, equal pay, work opportunities for women,

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Speaker 1: and for equality and access to education and healthcare worldwide.

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Speaker 1: It's a day to work to eradicate violence against women.

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Speaker 1: And just looking back this and I'm interested to hear, like,

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Speaker 1: who has most inspired you, you know when you look

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Speaker 1: at significant inspirations women in your lives Cysneytania Ruby. I'm

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Speaker 1: just curious to hear who those people are. But in

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Speaker 1: the last fifty years, women have achieved the ability, which

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Speaker 1: is fifty years, not like that's yesterday. It's crazy to

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Speaker 1: think that only fifty years women have achieved the ability

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Speaker 1: to get a credit card in their name. That happened

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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy ft believe how late that was. Well,

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Speaker 1: all of this, yeah, be guaranteed they would not be

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Speaker 1: fired for being pregnant nineteen seventy eight, serve in the

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Speaker 1: military nineteen seventy six, get an education at any Ivy

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Speaker 1: League school nineteen eighty three to eighties for that, that's crazy. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Columbia was the last. So who when you think about

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Speaker 1: you could multiple or singular. Yeah, that inspires sisne who

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Speaker 1: who comes to mind? The list is really long for

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Speaker 1: me truly. I mean, if I had to start from

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Speaker 1: the beginning, my mom for sure. You know, she immigrated

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Speaker 1: into this country in the sixties and she was one

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Speaker 1: of the first people in her She was from like

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Speaker 1: a really big family of like, um seven brothers and sisters,

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Speaker 1: and so she was the first of her family to

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Speaker 1: move from Mexico to the US and then bring a

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Speaker 1: lot of her brothers and sisters to here, and I

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Speaker 1: think that is just so weird dependent of in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: here in LA And she met my dad pretty shortly

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Speaker 1: after that, and then they lived in like, uh in

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Speaker 1: like Montesito Heights and ended up buying like a house

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Speaker 1: there and my sister when my brother were born there.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, she's like a huge inspiration. I like, you know,

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Speaker 1: grown up looking up to her. And then when you

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Speaker 1: look at celebrities and things like that, and women that

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Speaker 1: have paid the way I think for us, like Jennifer

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Speaker 1: Lopez really stands out for me always. And then someone

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Speaker 1: in the music industry for me, for me. Nobody's can

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Speaker 1: really know, but her name's Julie Pilot, and when I

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Speaker 1: came here to Kiss, she was the music director at

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Speaker 1: the time, and she really kind of took me under

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Speaker 1: her wing. In an industry where I think women kind

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Speaker 1: of could be competitive or maybe not want to teach

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Speaker 1: other women, she did the opposite, you know. She kind

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Speaker 1: of taught me everything that I knew or needed to learn,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's what you have to do in

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Speaker 1: this industry. I think back to Julie Pilot who worked

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Speaker 1: here and she was what she still around. Yeah, A

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Speaker 1: Kiss was exceptional, a superstar, and I believe her current

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Speaker 1: employer now but at the time a big boss said

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Speaker 1: another company not competitive to us, but I guess kind

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Speaker 1: of was like, hey, who's a superstar your company? And

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh really, Pilot rock star. Next scenely

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Speaker 1: offers her a job. Yeah, so she's excelling in everywhere

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Speaker 1: she really is. But that just goes to show that, like,

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Speaker 1: you really just have to be a mentor too, especially

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Speaker 1: the younger generation, because otherwise you have to just continue

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Speaker 1: to grow within our industries. Tanya, who's on your list

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Speaker 1: at the top. I also have to shout out my

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Speaker 1: mom because she moved here. She didn't know English. She

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Speaker 1: moved from Serbia to know English. My parents only had

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Speaker 1: one car, so she would ride her bike to graduate

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Speaker 1: from Long Beach State. I mean, it's like the things

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Speaker 1: she did are so crazy. So my mom first and foremost,

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Speaker 1: but then Meredith Gray Ellen Pompeio, our modern woman Queen.

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Speaker 1: She is such an inspiration because she's just like breaking

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Speaker 1: down so much of this gender equality and like the

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Speaker 1: amount she's talking about money and what she's getting paid

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Speaker 1: and standing up for what she believes in what she deserves.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's so cool to share numbers like

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Speaker 1: that because I just think it's really important, you know,

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Speaker 1: like the Lady Gang. The women on the Lady Gang

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Speaker 1: have done the same thing with me because they wanted

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Speaker 1: to help support our podcast, so they would share what

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Speaker 1: they were making. And I just think it's really cool

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Speaker 1: when women stand up for themselves and speak publicly about

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Speaker 1: these things. Ruby, who's at the top of your list

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Speaker 1: of women that have influenced you? I would definitely say

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Speaker 1: both of my sisters. I have an older sister, we're

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Speaker 1: all three years apart, so it's Debbie me and then

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Speaker 1: my little sister I have very different relationships with each

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Speaker 1: of them, but they're like, I love them equally and

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Speaker 1: they both motivate me and inspire me equally too. And

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Speaker 1: also Biada for me god who works here. Yeah, she's

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Speaker 1: always just you know, believed in me and empowered me.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like, you know, I never had a

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Speaker 1: boss like that to really motivate you into that, you know,

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Speaker 1: believing and you can really do a lot for you.

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Speaker 1: So I'm thankful for her for She's really interesting to

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Speaker 1: hear that two of the influences sistany and both you

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Speaker 1: and Ruby were and our people that are right here

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Speaker 1: and our little nest of kiss Yeah yeah right, I

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Speaker 1: mean that's that that will forever be part of your

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Speaker 1: kiss life. That have to echo ruby sentiment on Biada.

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Speaker 1: She is very much that way with I think everyone

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Speaker 1: that works here, Yeah, we don't want to work anywhere else. Well, Biada,

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