Speaker 1: I didn't know if I was looking for an assistant.
Speaker 1: I knew I needed help. I just felt very comfortable
Speaker 1: with her. So Omi became like my day to day
Speaker 1: my personal assistant. Is there something like super crazy that
Speaker 1: comes to mind that you feel that I've made you do,
Speaker 1: or that you've had to do or whatever? When um,
Speaker 1: you really wanted a salad in Corona, so she had
Speaker 1: me put the salad in the uber and the salad
Speaker 1: cost two for the uber and the salad was only
Speaker 1: like twenty bucks. We did have a little bit of
Speaker 1: a break. I think that break was definitely needed for
Speaker 1: us because I think you grew in a way and
Speaker 1: I did too. And I think you learned to appreciate things,
Speaker 1: and so did I. Hello, Hello Totos, Welcome to another
Speaker 1: episode of Chicks and Chill. I'm your hostess with the
Speaker 1: mostess cheeks, and today we're going to be joined by
Speaker 1: a very special guest. She's one of my favorite people.
Speaker 1: She's also my right hand in or should I say woman.
Speaker 1: I'll be introducing you to my assistant and friend in
Speaker 1: just a moment, so stay tuned for this episode of
Speaker 1: cheek Ease and Chill. Oh my gosh, guys, I am
Speaker 1: so excited to introduce you to know Ami Valdivia, better
Speaker 1: known as Ohmi Lovely, my Pepper, or Homie. And I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna get into that later as to why I
Speaker 1: call her homie. She is actually sitting right a few
Speaker 1: feet from me. Hiomi say hello, Hello. She's a little shy. Guys,
Speaker 1: she's a little shy. Are you excited to be on
Speaker 1: the podcast or what? I am excited. It's so she'll
Speaker 1: be on your podcast. Oh thank you. Omi. She hears
Speaker 1: me like every time we're recording, and she always asks me, like,
Speaker 1: what did check up out today? I'm like, no, you
Speaker 1: gotta go listen to it. I always tell her, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she literally does not let me listen to it. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I have to, like she needs to go and give
Speaker 1: me a listen. So anyways, guys, first of all, just
Speaker 1: so you know, Omi and I did not prepare anything
Speaker 1: at all. We didn't talk before nothing. So we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about like how it is, how it's been,
Speaker 1: when we met, how we met. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: do an episode like this because I see on my
Speaker 1: autograph signings at my concerts a lot of people gravitate
Speaker 1: towards Omediate. They love her very much, and I want
Speaker 1: people to know the type of relationship that we have
Speaker 1: because again, a lot of things have been said in
Speaker 1: media that I treat her bad and then all this stuff.
Speaker 1: So she's here to clear it up if she wants.
Speaker 1: And I want you guys to meet her more than anything,
Speaker 1: like to get to know her on a different level. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Omi, the first question I have, why do we
Speaker 1: call you homie? I don't know that's a good question.
Speaker 1: Do you think you're a home? Sometimes? I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, guys. We call her homie. We call
Speaker 1: her like for homie, she's the homie or like homie,
Speaker 1: just to mess around like she's a home. But she
Speaker 1: really isn't a home. She's a good girl. We'd just
Speaker 1: like to mess around. Tell them the truth, what the
Speaker 1: tru and tell your dad to listen to this Facebook.
Speaker 1: My dad's not allowed listen to bookle Oh he's not. Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess we can start from the beginning. Oh me,
Speaker 1: do you want to tell them how we met? Yeah? Sure,
Speaker 1: so as you guys all know, like you know, I
Speaker 1: started out as a huge fan of her mom, and
Speaker 1: you know, wow, she was Unit four seven guys. I
Speaker 1: was lucky to get into the first one, and we'll
Speaker 1: obviously been a fan of her mom. You know, you
Speaker 1: also love her kids. But I've always gravitated more towards chickens.
Speaker 1: We're saying chickens. I always colored Jenney, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: I started admiring the person she was, and I saw
Speaker 1: how much she helped her mom and just the kind
Speaker 1: of person she was. I think even when her mom
Speaker 1: was here, she's always like she was her own person
Speaker 1: and you know, inspired people even through Twitter quotes all
Speaker 1: the time, even um, when her mom passed away. Like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people, a lot of fans who
Speaker 1: actually chose sides, and me and a couple of other
Speaker 1: friends never chose a side. We kind to stay mutual.
Speaker 1: And because of that, you know, I was able to
Speaker 1: see both sides, and I gravitated more towards her, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to support her because during that time a
Speaker 1: lot of people left her, not only her family, but
Speaker 1: also like friends and fans, and you know, along with
Speaker 1: the you know Torrito, well, we supported her events and
Speaker 1: I think we're the only two fans that were actually
Speaker 1: there on her first autograph side and she had I
Speaker 1: think it was like somewhere incumbent. You were there where
Speaker 1: you're little pony to a low jeans, white shirt. You know,
Speaker 1: never think she would go to water Gray or something
Speaker 1: like that, but she went like that, and we just
Speaker 1: started supporting her anywhere she went. And she noticed that,
Speaker 1: you know, no matter where it was, we were there present,
Speaker 1: taking her gifts. You know, they're as friends but also
Speaker 1: as fans, and you just started bringing us around more,
Speaker 1: little by little, and you know, it just turned into
Speaker 1: like working for you, I guess, and you kindly never
Speaker 1: gave me the option. You just said you're gonna be
Speaker 1: my assistant and that's final. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: well wait, okay, okay, we kind of if it did
Speaker 1: happen that way. You guys, when you want something, you
Speaker 1: go for it. So okay, we started. She started following
Speaker 1: me or my career in two thousand nine, no nine nine, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: with Chickens and Roxy and she went with Torito. A
Speaker 1: lot of people may know who he is or not.
Speaker 1: He's also a fan of my mom's and he is
Speaker 1: now in my life. Baby just gave me a rose. Okay,
Speaker 1: So she went to I think it was Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was the autograph signing on me where we first met
Speaker 1: in person, and then we started following each other on
Speaker 1: Twitter and she would always like, like my quotes and
Speaker 1: she would put quotes too. Then she invited me to
Speaker 1: go hiking, which, by the way, guys, it's been that
Speaker 1: many years and we have not gone hiking once. But
Speaker 1: that's how our friendship started. She said, hey, we should
Speaker 1: go on a hike one day because I used to
Speaker 1: like hike a lot more. I haven't hiked in a
Speaker 1: long time, to be honest, and she's like, I'll take
Speaker 1: you to this really nice place we have not gone. Guys,
Speaker 1: always tells me about glamor we have not got on
Speaker 1: our hike, so I owe her that. I owe her
Speaker 1: that I heard high guys. So that's how we kind
Speaker 1: of started. And then she started helping me out with
Speaker 1: was it a fan page on me? A fan page? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was first a plant page. And then you wanted
Speaker 1: me to help you with your closet. Remember with my closet? Okay?
Speaker 1: And then that's when I was like, okay, I like
Speaker 1: you're going to be my assistant. Yeah. It just flowed
Speaker 1: because I was going to school then. I remember I
Speaker 1: was going to school, and even when I would go
Speaker 1: see your mom, I would ditch school college. So I
Speaker 1: never like college. I just went because my dad wanted
Speaker 1: me to go. So then it just came a point
Speaker 1: where I had an excuse to leave college freaking oh me.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and at the time I was I didn't
Speaker 1: know if I was looking for an assistant. I knew
Speaker 1: I needed help. I just felt very comfortable with her.
Speaker 1: And then Dorito was also my assistant, and then he
Speaker 1: took a little break. That's a whole other story, but
Speaker 1: now he's back in my life. Anyways, so only became
Speaker 1: like my day to day my personal assistant. I taught
Speaker 1: her basically everything, kind of like how I learned because
Speaker 1: I started my career as an assistant, my mom's assistant,
Speaker 1: and I was everything. I would do her hair, I
Speaker 1: would do her personal shopping. I would pack for her,
Speaker 1: I would unpack for her, I would pay the bills,
Speaker 1: I did everything like that was like, I mean, I
Speaker 1: had other little jobs, but that was like my main thing.
Speaker 1: So anyways, Omi walked into it kind of like not knowing,
Speaker 1: but we've learned right on me. Yeah, you showed me
Speaker 1: how to send an email because I don't know how
Speaker 1: to send an email. I don't know how to see
Speaker 1: see people. I always remember that. You're like, did you
Speaker 1: see cee this? I'm like, what does c C mean?
Speaker 1: Because my parents, I mean, my parents never send an
Speaker 1: email back then. Now it's different, you know, but back then,
Speaker 1: like I went to school. Yeah, but like I wasn't
Speaker 1: like all that techie when it comes to like emails
Speaker 1: and all that. And you showed me how to file
Speaker 1: do your bills and all that, and everything had to
Speaker 1: have a receipt and a date on everything. Yes, everything
Speaker 1: is I'm very anal okay about like, I'm very particular.
Speaker 1: I've learned that through the years. Yeah, you know, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm very particular here. I want things in a certain way,
Speaker 1: and when it's not done like that, it bugs me.
Speaker 1: She can tell you right here, only can say whatever
Speaker 1: she wants, like honestly, like the mic is open, and
Speaker 1: if I get on her nerves sometimes I'm sure I do.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, that's just part of it. Like
Speaker 1: my mom would get on my nerves. Sometimes I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie like I would be like mom, like it
Speaker 1: was tough. It's not easy, guys, It's not easy being
Speaker 1: an assistant. That's why I'm patient. I've been patient because
Speaker 1: I know what it is to be in that position
Speaker 1: and how stressful it is. And in reality, you don't
Speaker 1: have a schedule. It's something that we've been trying to
Speaker 1: work on, but in real something's always happening. So she's
Speaker 1: she used to get to my other house like at
Speaker 1: seven in the morning because she lives so far. How
Speaker 1: far away I mean, well, what traffic in the morning
Speaker 1: would be like an hour and a half, Like an
Speaker 1: hour and a half. She would leave her house so early,
Speaker 1: wake up at five, And I felt like crap because
Speaker 1: I was like, she wakes up so early, she gets
Speaker 1: here so early. It because she wants to avoid traffic.
Speaker 1: So now we're trying to work on a little bit
Speaker 1: of a schedule. She just moved out. Everyone around about
Speaker 1: asked for om me. She moved out for the first time.
Speaker 1: And she's living ten minutes away from the new house.
Speaker 1: And now I'm happy because she gets to rest, she
Speaker 1: gets to like, she doesn't have to drive so far.
Speaker 1: I would always worry. I would always tell Hermie, it
Speaker 1: stresses me out, like being on the road so much.
Speaker 1: She wasn't getting enough sleep. But she would always say
Speaker 1: I love my job. Do you love her job? On me? Honestly?
Speaker 1: Like I do? Why why do you love your job?
Speaker 1: I think when you love something you do, you don't
Speaker 1: see it as a job. You see it more like
Speaker 1: a hobby, but like you're doing something you like and
Speaker 1: you're getting paid for it. But I think there's many
Speaker 1: many reasons that I like my job. Would I being
Speaker 1: assistant for another person? I don't know. I think being
Speaker 1: assistant you have to really like love and look up
Speaker 1: to the person, you know, admire the person you're working for,
Speaker 1: because if not, then you wouldn't do things the way
Speaker 1: you want to do them, you know, going with like passion,
Speaker 1: but like passion and love. Yeah, if you're passion and love.
Speaker 1: And that's crazy that you say that. Because Julie Julie
Speaker 1: Vasque is a shout out to her. She was my
Speaker 1: mom's assistant, a very very good assistant. Her and I
Speaker 1: had our little differences because I was my mom's very
Speaker 1: first assistant, like her personal assistant, and then Julie came
Speaker 1: and I was kind of like a hello, like I'm
Speaker 1: not needed anymore. But it was something it was a
Speaker 1: part of my growing and I gave her a little
Speaker 1: bit of a hard time. I will be honest. I
Speaker 1: gave her a little bit of hard time. I was.
Speaker 1: I was a little bit sometimes, but it was just
Speaker 1: because I was very territorial with my siblings, of my mom,
Speaker 1: of our household. She was a very good assistant, and
Speaker 1: she said like once my mom passed away, she says,
Speaker 1: I will never be anyone else's assistant like I did
Speaker 1: it for her. I loved her. I was passionate about it,
Speaker 1: and she hasn't. She started doing her own things. I
Speaker 1: think she has like her record label now right that
Speaker 1: she opened like a little studio to like salon. Oh
Speaker 1: she did. Oh my goodness, that's awesome. So now that
Speaker 1: you say that, it reminds me of Julie because I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said it, you have to be passionate about
Speaker 1: the person that you're working with or working for. It
Speaker 1: is a tough job. So now that we're talking about
Speaker 1: it being tough, tell us a little bit about your
Speaker 1: normal day, Like how does it start with time? Does
Speaker 1: it start usually? Well? Right now, since you know I
Speaker 1: live closer, I've been lazy and I wake up late now.
Speaker 1: And the reason I told her, I said, okay, only
Speaker 1: start coming in at nine or ten so that she
Speaker 1: has time to go work out and do her thing.
Speaker 1: She's like, you're honestly, it's it's it's it's making me lazy,
Speaker 1: Like I need to come in earlier. No, but I
Speaker 1: need to get back on my workout stuff. But now
Speaker 1: I wake up like seven seven thirty a, get ready
Speaker 1: showered or on my you know, my be flawless skin
Speaker 1: drive to work. Usually if we have already like a
Speaker 1: set schedule, like what we're gonna do if we have
Speaker 1: to go to an event, like obviously it's prepared for that.
Speaker 1: But like the normal thing is like I get here,
Speaker 1: I always I don't care what people say, but I'm
Speaker 1: always a person that my job title is not just
Speaker 1: being an assistant. Like if I need to pick up
Speaker 1: the dog poop and I see it there, like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pick it up, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: I don't really care what anybody says. That's just me
Speaker 1: and that's how I was raised. But you know, I
Speaker 1: get here and whatever we have to do first like
Speaker 1: usually always send me like what you want me to
Speaker 1: do before when I get here. If I see anything
Speaker 1: I need to pick up, I pick it up. Do
Speaker 1: office stuff. When I have to pay people out help
Speaker 1: you with your laundry, I help you, but you know
Speaker 1: sometimes she likes to in her laundry on her own. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what else do I do? You know? Lately hapen having
Speaker 1: everything kind of you know, there's been so many packages
Speaker 1: because of the new house and everything, so it's always
Speaker 1: like opening a bunch of packages. It's pretty much like
Speaker 1: a lot of little things that I like to do.
Speaker 1: Like I wouldn't say like I limit myself to anything,
Speaker 1: you know, but that's what I'm saying that I wouldn't
Speaker 1: do that for another person, but I do it for
Speaker 1: you because you know, I admire you and you are
Speaker 1: a great person. M thank you, my lovely Oh, she
Speaker 1: don't make me cry, guys, because honestly, I don't think
Speaker 1: I can ever think of a time where Omi has
Speaker 1: said no to me when I asked her, Like obviously
Speaker 1: I'm not asking her to do crazy things, but there's
Speaker 1: certain things and she's like, okay, yeah, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: And you know, she even cooks. She helps me with
Speaker 1: social media as far as like reminding me to post
Speaker 1: certain things or whatever. Like I'm very hands on with
Speaker 1: everything that I do. So a lot of people may think, oh,
Speaker 1: she does on my social media for me, and that's
Speaker 1: not true. She just reminds me, hey you got this DM,
Speaker 1: or hey you gotta post this, or hey we gotta
Speaker 1: respond to certain comments. Like she really is on everything,
Speaker 1: and I can't say that there's not one part of
Speaker 1: my life. Like, honestly, even when I've had surgery, she
Speaker 1: has helped me. She has showered me. Um. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm like, she's not just my assistant, she is my friend.
Speaker 1: She is I'm like her, her sister, I'm like sometimes
Speaker 1: her mother, Like I have helped raise her. It's crazy
Speaker 1: because when she lost her mom last year, because my
Speaker 1: mom passed in December nine and her mom passed on
Speaker 1: December eight, um, nine years later, right on me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nine nine, nine years apart. And I feel like I
Speaker 1: could be there for her and help her through that
Speaker 1: and guide her. And there's days still that she has
Speaker 1: bad days. And it's just a very unique relationship that
Speaker 1: we have and I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful for
Speaker 1: her because honestly, she she does. She does help me
Speaker 1: over and be and I think if I had to,
Speaker 1: I would like do what I gotta do. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, but she helps me so much. We
Speaker 1: did have a little bit of a break on me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did. We had six months or six months six months. Look,
Speaker 1: I think I met you when you were what twenty
Speaker 1: one on me or how old are you? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: she was young and even like me teaching her to
Speaker 1: say thank you and please and stuff like that, like
Speaker 1: those are stuff that I guided her with, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had no manners. I'm not saying that my parents
Speaker 1: never taught me manners, but sometimes like when you're out
Speaker 1: with public people or like other people that have like
Speaker 1: a higher position like around you, like you know, I
Speaker 1: would know, Oh my god, who say please? I don't
Speaker 1: say thank you? And it comes off rude, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know how Mexican fand they're very potos. Like
Speaker 1: it was like they don't really care, like like like
Speaker 1: what do you mean, Like I said, come home, like
Speaker 1: there's certain in a way. Yeah, like I don't think
Speaker 1: every day with my parents or my mom and dad
Speaker 1: I said please or thank you. They recreated things, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't for like a lot of things, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah, And I think it's like I
Speaker 1: just feel like I want to be acknowledged like even
Speaker 1: if I send a message, I'm like, okay, well where's
Speaker 1: your response or um here, thank you or please. I'm
Speaker 1: very very like that. I think it was because my
Speaker 1: mom was so tough on me. So I feel like
Speaker 1: everything I've learned and I learned with my mom, I'm
Speaker 1: teaching on me because I kind of went into it
Speaker 1: like that too, Like I was an assistant from one
Speaker 1: day to another, and I was just like, okay, what
Speaker 1: do I do? Like I didn't know how to write
Speaker 1: a check, and my Mom's like, I don't know, figure
Speaker 1: it out, go deposited. Well how do I do that?
Speaker 1: I don't know, figure it out? And that's kind of
Speaker 1: like your favorite work now, Yeah, like it's just like
Speaker 1: figured out, you'll figure it out, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I have been tough. I have been tough on
Speaker 1: on on me. I try my best not to ever
Speaker 1: with anyone, not just with with Omi or the people
Speaker 1: that work for me, even people at restaurants, whether you're
Speaker 1: the janitor or the cleaning lady, the bus boy, I
Speaker 1: don't care. I like to treat people all the same,
Speaker 1: so I never feel like, oh I'm the boss and
Speaker 1: you do as I say. Like I like to lead
Speaker 1: by example. I've said, Naiomi, I'm so sorry I I
Speaker 1: sent her a message and I'm like, I apologize that
Speaker 1: was rude, and I give her that open space to say, hey,
Speaker 1: if something hurts your feelings, feel free to tell me
Speaker 1: to text me. We do a lot of texting, even
Speaker 1: if we're like in in the same house in two
Speaker 1: different rooms, will text each other like, hey, that wasn't cool.
Speaker 1: Or we've learned throughout these years and through that little
Speaker 1: break we had, I think, to respect each other's boundaries,
Speaker 1: to respect each other's wishes, and I think we've learned right. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I think that break was definitely needed for us because
Speaker 1: I think you grew in a way and I did too.
Speaker 1: And I think you learned to appreciate things, and so
Speaker 1: did I. Now, like when I started working for you again,
Speaker 1: like things were like a lot different, I think, and
Speaker 1: I learned certain things during that time, and so did you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think it was more like communication. I think now,
Speaker 1: like if something bothers you, you tell me and I
Speaker 1: tell you and and like we fix it, you know,
Speaker 1: instead of kind of like leaving it under the rug, right,
Speaker 1: and not just because it's like, oh I'm her boss.
Speaker 1: She's not going to tell me hey, like I didn't
Speaker 1: like that or whatever. So I think that it's important,
Speaker 1: like you said, communication in every relationship. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if it's a professional or a personal relationship. And like
Speaker 1: I said, like, sometimes you hear so much then you
Speaker 1: start believing and you don't ask the person, so then
Speaker 1: you start saying things. You know, but it's like sometimes
Speaker 1: people only do that to see what you say, to
Speaker 1: go say exactly. So that's why now like whenever somebody
Speaker 1: says something, I'm like okay, Like I either say a
Speaker 1: lie to see if it comes back to me or
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm very careful. There's probably I could
Speaker 1: help with one hand of people that I trust. You know, yeah, no, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And that's just part of maturing both for you owe
Speaker 1: me as well as me. That it's just like, okay,
Speaker 1: it taught us a lot, I think. And some people
Speaker 1: may think like how or why did you you know,
Speaker 1: let her back in your life. Well, for so I
Speaker 1: missed her, you know, she was I was really close
Speaker 1: to her. And then she apologize to me. She and
Speaker 1: that's sometimes all we need is just hey, I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I also told her, hey, I apologize. We apologize to
Speaker 1: each other, and we kind of just said, okay, it's
Speaker 1: the past. And it has been a little difficult. It's
Speaker 1: been a work in progress to find that trust, you
Speaker 1: know again. But I've always been very honest with her,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is how I feel, and she's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I just have to prove myself to you, to prove
Speaker 1: that I've changed, I've matured, I've grown up. And I
Speaker 1: believe her because it is very different now, it really is,
Speaker 1: and I think it was necessary in order for us
Speaker 1: to be where we're at now, to have to go
Speaker 1: through that moment of us missing each other and reflecting
Speaker 1: and growing and maturing. But yeah, sometimes I feel like
Speaker 1: I want to get another assistant just to help her
Speaker 1: out because it is a lot, guys. I mean, in reality,
Speaker 1: she does help me a lot. And I try my
Speaker 1: best to be like, okay on me, like try to
Speaker 1: go home and release so that because sometimes she's here
Speaker 1: until ten ten pm. She gets here at nine and
Speaker 1: she's here until ten. But I'm very mindful of her spirit,
Speaker 1: her soul, like I do my best to be like,
Speaker 1: oh me, make sure you pray, and but she has
Speaker 1: I think you you learned to pray with me too, huh,
Speaker 1: And yeah I have. I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: things I learned, like to be more connected even to God.
Speaker 1: Like it's crazy because before, like for us and my
Speaker 1: growing up, going to church was like insanea as Baptism,
Speaker 1: I would never watch church, you know, believe in God
Speaker 1: and everything, you go to rosaries and all that. But
Speaker 1: I think I got with you. I went more to
Speaker 1: the Christian side. I don't consider my self Christian, but
Speaker 1: I understand it better in that way, I guess I
Speaker 1: can say. But you know, I did become more more
Speaker 1: spiritual connected even with God and stuff. So I think
Speaker 1: that's something else you taught me to And ballery to
Speaker 1: battery has a lot to do with that too. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So so you feel like you've learned a lot, I
Speaker 1: learned a lot. I think everything I've known I know
Speaker 1: because of you, even the people I know, my knowledge
Speaker 1: and the everything. Even my dad always says it, like
Speaker 1: my dad was always scared when I came to working
Speaker 1: for you, because obviously I left school and he you
Speaker 1: know how grateful he is for you. He saw everything
Speaker 1: I've learned, even even when you were we weren't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wasn't working for you. Like he always saw like
Speaker 1: what I learned from it, like mentally, emotionally, he saw everything.
Speaker 1: And so this day, you know how much how much
Speaker 1: my dad is grateful. My mom too, but you know,
Speaker 1: my dad's more like vocal about things. But I really
Speaker 1: learned everything with you and I you know, I'm grateful
Speaker 1: because I got free um schooling. I always say, you're
Speaker 1: my professor. You're my professor. Yeah, I went to the
Speaker 1: University of Genemuring. It's crazy because it's like what I
Speaker 1: say about my mom and she's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's how I feel. That's how I feel. Like you're
Speaker 1: definitely my professor. Like it's not just I teach her everything,
Speaker 1: like I'm like I want her to know and then
Speaker 1: if one day I'm not here, like she she knows
Speaker 1: what to day. I'm just saying, like, if one day
Speaker 1: I'm not here something like people out of town, right exactly,
Speaker 1: like I go out of town, okay, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you guys, how down on me is if I
Speaker 1: need something at two in the morning and I call
Speaker 1: her and I have before. I think it was one
Speaker 1: time I had to go to hospital. She rushed me
Speaker 1: to the emergency room. I was like, come get me,
Speaker 1: oh my god or whatever, and she took me to
Speaker 1: the emergency room. There's been times where I give her
Speaker 1: the day off, the day off, and I'm like, oh me,
Speaker 1: I need this, and I'm like, I'm so sorry to
Speaker 1: bother you on your day. Actually, don't worry. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm here for. She's like always there. Like I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I got a little tipsy, I can't drive. She'll go
Speaker 1: pick me up. It doesn't matter where it's at. Like, dude,
Speaker 1: this girl is down. This girl is down for me,
Speaker 1: and I just need people to know that. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: feel like there's not a lot of people like oh
Speaker 1: Me around and I'm just grateful for you. Oh Me,
Speaker 1: I really am thank you. I'm also grateful for you.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people always say if they
Speaker 1: just play around, you know that they say that you
Speaker 1: treat me wrong. That it's not true. Guys, I'm here
Speaker 1: to clear it up. But she does hit me on
Speaker 1: the weekends. I'm kidding she honestly, you know, she's a
Speaker 1: great person. And I always get messages from fans it's
Speaker 1: funny and they're like Oh my god, You're so lucky
Speaker 1: to be nick like to be near you or whatever
Speaker 1: to work for her, And like, I think those messages
Speaker 1: are good because I think I'm like damn, like sometimes
Speaker 1: I forget who I work for because I always when
Speaker 1: I'm with you, you're always Jenny, not cheekies, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, you know, and that's the person I
Speaker 1: admired to. And and like I said, like, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be here still working for you if you didn't treat
Speaker 1: me the way you treat me. And one thing I
Speaker 1: can say, like you always thank me for things. And
Speaker 1: I think it's nice to work for people that thank
Speaker 1: you and appreciate the work you do, because I know
Speaker 1: many people that work for other people or you know,
Speaker 1: a regular job and they never get to thank you
Speaker 1: or you know what I mean. And I think I
Speaker 1: thank you go far uh, you know, far out or
Speaker 1: even like you. I think you gave me two races
Speaker 1: in the past year and that doesn't happen anywhere. And
Speaker 1: the fact that you see my work and you're you
Speaker 1: appreciate what I'm doing, I think that what fulfills me
Speaker 1: and and and you know, it makes me want to
Speaker 1: keep growing and want to do more with you, and
Speaker 1: you know, I see where you're going and you still
Speaker 1: have a long future ahead of you, and sometimes you
Speaker 1: don't believe it because you doubt yourself a lot. And
Speaker 1: I think that I know that I'm here for a reason.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not just here just to be here.
Speaker 1: I know there's more to work where you're gonna go.
Speaker 1: Thank you lovely, And just to pick you back a
Speaker 1: little bit on what she was saying, I do feel
Speaker 1: like it's important to have an attitude of gratitude. I
Speaker 1: always say that, like it doesn't matter, Like I know
Speaker 1: that without a team, I can't do everything that I do.
Speaker 1: Everything that I all the balls that I juggle sounds weird,
Speaker 1: All the balls that I juggle like, yeah, but all
Speaker 1: the I guess I should say, all the hats that
Speaker 1: I wear you like you like to juggle balls anyways,
Speaker 1: all the hats that I wear, like on a daily basis, Like,
Speaker 1: I am well aware that I cannot do it without
Speaker 1: the team that I have and always a huge part
Speaker 1: of that. So I believe in always being grateful and
Speaker 1: always giving back and sharing the blessings God has given
Speaker 1: me with the people around me. And her being one
Speaker 1: of them. Of course, is there something like super crazy
Speaker 1: that comes to mind that you feel that I've made
Speaker 1: you do, or that you've had to do or whatever. Besides, yeah,
Speaker 1: computer is gonna die. What do I do? Oh? Sho,
Speaker 1: let me the charger. It's five seconds. Hold on, see
Speaker 1: there she goes. Alright, So I think we can both
Speaker 1: agree that the craziest thing you've ever had to do
Speaker 1: is white my butt, right, white my ass when I
Speaker 1: had surgery? Or is there anything else? Yeah, craziest, I
Speaker 1: think so. Yeah. I mean that's probably the crazy in this.
Speaker 1: It's not that crazy when um, you really wanted to
Speaker 1: Saturday Corona and that I worked that day and I
Speaker 1: was at home, which back then I lived in Carson.
Speaker 1: I lived in Carson. That sounds cool to say. I
Speaker 1: had a drive to Corona to get her the salad,
Speaker 1: and she didn't want me to drive all the way
Speaker 1: to her house, so she had me put the salad
Speaker 1: in the uber, and the salad cost two for the uber.
Speaker 1: And the salad was only like yes, because it was
Speaker 1: I was craving the damn salad from like where I
Speaker 1: where I used to work, the place that I used
Speaker 1: to work out in Corona. I freaking want the salad.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it sounds so good. Oh my goodness. Anyway,
Speaker 1: so I was like, please hold me, I wanted, I wanted.
Speaker 1: She went over there and then also, dude, she's been
Speaker 1: there through a lot of crazy shit. This one time
Speaker 1: something I didn't talk about in my book, but um
Speaker 1: with my ex his you know, I shouldn't say his name. Anyways,
Speaker 1: but we had like a little situation and she was
Speaker 1: in the middle of it, trying to get me away
Speaker 1: from it, and it was crazy. She even I think
Speaker 1: got ruffled up a little bit her in the middle
Speaker 1: of the whole situation. Huh. Yeah, it's been a lot anyways,
Speaker 1: let's just leave that for another day. Okay, me, I
Speaker 1: was going to ask you what you like about me
Speaker 1: and not so much. Okay, Well I'm gonna start. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start first, Okay. So what I love about Amen
Speaker 1: is that she's always down, that I know that if
Speaker 1: I need her at whatever time, if I need her
Speaker 1: to take a craziest trip to Arizona just to go
Speaker 1: take something and then come back like she would like.
Speaker 1: She's done some things that I'll never forget, like driving Buncho.
Speaker 1: Buncho is my dog. For those of you that may
Speaker 1: not know, Buncho is my baby boy. He is a
Speaker 1: little over a year now. He's an old English sheep dog.
Speaker 1: You guys can follow him on his Instagram. What's his instagram?
Speaker 1: Mommy King Pancho. Yes, King Banto Matin. So one time
Speaker 1: I had to do a photo shoot or something like that,
Speaker 1: and yes, I asked her to drive him to San Jose. Well,
Speaker 1: actually she offered. She's like, well, what do we do.
Speaker 1: She's like, you know what, I'll just drive him. So
Speaker 1: she drove him left in the morning, drove him all
Speaker 1: the way to San Jose because he had to go
Speaker 1: to his good boy camp because he was a bad
Speaker 1: boy for a while. He still is kind of like
Speaker 1: a bad boy, but anyway, so I sent him to
Speaker 1: drain camp and Omi took him, okay into San Jose
Speaker 1: all in one day. She drove him and then she
Speaker 1: came all the way back. Call me, yeah, I drove
Speaker 1: him and then I flew back and then I went
Speaker 1: straight to your shoe. Yep. But she can stayed to
Speaker 1: my shoot, dude. So I'm telling you that's one of
Speaker 1: the main things, or probably one of my favorite things,
Speaker 1: is that I feel like I can count on her
Speaker 1: for anything, to be honest. So and one besides her
Speaker 1: kind heart, she's very giving. She is a very like
Speaker 1: honestly she I could say she's she's a good friend.
Speaker 1: So those are kind of like my favorite things about
Speaker 1: on me. And then one of my least favorite things,
Speaker 1: oh um, maybe that she's forgetful. She kind of forgets.
Speaker 1: She's kind of forgetful, right only? Or no, yeah, I
Speaker 1: know it's true. And yeah, she's getting a lot better.
Speaker 1: And I tell her, only make sure you don't forget.
Speaker 1: Make sure you write it down because I'm not gonna lie. Guys.
Speaker 1: I will send a voice note with like ten different
Speaker 1: things that need to be done and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: make sure you write it down. Yeah, twenty things it
Speaker 1: is because that's stuff with me, squirela guys, Like that's
Speaker 1: how I learned. My IM was like, okay, this, this
Speaker 1: isn't that, and it's all about organizing yourself. And she
Speaker 1: has really been good at learning that. Okay, O me,
Speaker 1: it's your turn. What is your favorite thing at least
Speaker 1: everything about working with me or about me? Okay, let's see,
Speaker 1: my favorite thing about working with you is that I
Speaker 1: guess that work doesn't seem like work. Sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like fun. I feel like it's like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like fun. It's something i'd like to do. I like
Speaker 1: the fact that every day or something new either, if
Speaker 1: it's something that I can use towards my life. Nice,
Speaker 1: you know, being around you, Like, I think that's something
Speaker 1: I like. I love that. Okay, And the least favorite thing,
Speaker 1: least favorite thing I'm seeing. Oh, Johnny right, Johnny's right here.
Speaker 1: He's like, it used to be me. Yeah, it used
Speaker 1: to be Johnny. Johnny. Johnny was a nightmare. He was
Speaker 1: he was the only what do you call it, the
Speaker 1: only bumping the road I had to get over and
Speaker 1: finally I got over it. And now she makes them.
Speaker 1: She likes Johnny. Johnny's right here. He's saying he doesn't
Speaker 1: know who got it worse, her or Julie. My Mom's
Speaker 1: assisted with me. He knew not to play with me.
Speaker 1: But oh my god. Yeah, okay, but okay, my least
Speaker 1: favorite thing. And I want to know. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think about it. Um, let me think besides
Speaker 1: the many tasks that I give you all in one voice, note,
Speaker 1: I think, because no, that's not that's not that's not
Speaker 1: something I don't like about you. Um that I could
Speaker 1: be moody. Yeah, maybe maybe that, but then I don't.
Speaker 1: It's because I don't. I wouldn't say it is my
Speaker 1: least favorite thing because like, yeah, sometimes you do get moody,
Speaker 1: but then like it's not your fault because I know
Speaker 1: there's something going I know why you're moody, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I'm not just moody like to be moody.
Speaker 1: There's a reason. Yeah, But then I know, like at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, like I'm always with you,
Speaker 1: so if you're gonna be moody, like I have to
Speaker 1: take it, you know what I mean. And I sometimes
Speaker 1: like I apologie. I'm like, you know what, I'm in
Speaker 1: a bando today. Just everyone know, like there's a lot
Speaker 1: going on, I'm stressed out. I'll kind of let it
Speaker 1: be known. And then sometimes like she'll have them like,
Speaker 1: oh me, what's wrong with you today? And it's funny
Speaker 1: because she always knows something's wrong with me and be like, no,
Speaker 1: nothing's wrong with me. Oh yeah, it's annoying. I know.
Speaker 1: But I guess that's probably the least favorite thing. But
Speaker 1: like I said, it's I can't think of it. I'm
Speaker 1: not to think of it now. Yeah, I think of
Speaker 1: it and then um then let us know, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, because it's gonna come after. But you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, I really appreciate it because today
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy. Like sometimes I'm like, Okay, She'll be like,
Speaker 1: can I give you a hug? I feel like you
Speaker 1: need a hug today, and she'll give me a hug.
Speaker 1: That's one of my favorite things are hugs. And today
Speaker 1: I was like, oh me, I think you need a hug.
Speaker 1: And I gave her a hug and she's like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I feel like you need one. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: let's just hug. So we hug. Sometimes we hug and
Speaker 1: I tell her don't tap me and just hold me.
Speaker 1: I don't like to be tapped when im being hugged.
Speaker 1: And he's like okay, yea, yeah, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: tapping my my back. But anyways, it's been a beautiful
Speaker 1: journey guys, the good, the bad, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: all part of life. We have learned from each other
Speaker 1: and it's been great. So oh me, I want to
Speaker 1: say thank you so much for being on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you and thank you for sharing your story
Speaker 1: with us, you know here on the Cheeks and Chill podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being an amazing assistant. You know sometimes
Speaker 1: you know, I think we want to pull each other's hair,
Speaker 1: but it's normal, right, yeah, yeah, it's normal. And thank
Speaker 1: you for being a great friend. Thank you know, I
Speaker 1: honestly I want it's I think the podcast was great
Speaker 1: because you don't know how many times I get answer
Speaker 1: that question, especially when I do a little questions on Instagram,
Speaker 1: how did you meet Cheeks? Like all the time they
Speaker 1: always asked me. So I think this is perfect because
Speaker 1: everyone always wants to know, like the story of how
Speaker 1: I started working with you and how I met you
Speaker 1: and all that. So I think this is going to
Speaker 1: help you know all the people that always ask. But
Speaker 1: I also want to say thank you to you and
Speaker 1: to everybody behind the podcast that I know you guys
Speaker 1: putting your hard work, like Brianna and Baby, because just
Speaker 1: so know everybody that puts in, you know, their little
Speaker 1: piece to make this podcast happen. That is helping millions
Speaker 1: of people around the world. I know it does because
Speaker 1: I get emails. For example, people don't think that what
Speaker 1: they go through that she might go through, and then
Speaker 1: they hear her podcasts are like, oh wow, like she
Speaker 1: goes through this too. So you know I'm not the
Speaker 1: only one. It's an honor to be part of here
Speaker 1: and be working for you. I always told you, like,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it for any other person, even though
Speaker 1: you think if Carol you would ask me. I was senious.
Speaker 1: You know she is obsessed with Carol, you guys. So
Speaker 1: I was like, I see Carol, but it's whatever. I
Speaker 1: want her to be happy regardless. So we're always yeah,
Speaker 1: but no, like honestly, like Janette always told you, like,
Speaker 1: you're a great person. You have a great heart. I've
Speaker 1: seen from the bottom of your career, how it started,
Speaker 1: and everything you've gone through, the many times you doubt
Speaker 1: it yourself, the million times or two billions that you said,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sing anymore. I'm not gonna do this
Speaker 1: no more. I'm gonna go back to in a salon.
Speaker 1: I think it happens at least once a month all
Speaker 1: the time, and I'm like, oh, her parents around the corner. Yeah, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm a cancer. What can I tell you? I'm emotional,
Speaker 1: but you know what, I think you're here to change
Speaker 1: a lot of people's lives, and you know, I admire you,
Speaker 1: I love you, and I just want to say thank
Speaker 1: you for everything you've done for me, for allowing me
Speaker 1: to be here in your life to help you. You've
Speaker 1: you've helped me so much in this past year that
Speaker 1: my mom passed away. Oh my Omi, of course, what
Speaker 1: do I always tell you? God allowed me to go
Speaker 1: through it first, I can help you through it. Sorry, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's okay, you're gonna make me cry, no, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful to have you and you know that you
Speaker 1: helped me along that part of my life and still
Speaker 1: to this day, like sorry, I don't even I don't
Speaker 1: want to, I don't know what I'm okay, it's okay,
Speaker 1: like I was saying, till today's still to this day,
Speaker 1: like you've had patience with me and and yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to cry no more, but yeah, I just thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for attill of course, of course if the
Speaker 1: feeling is mutual, and you know I love you and
Speaker 1: cheers too many many more years to come, And thank
Speaker 1: you for being on the podcast for real and inspiring
Speaker 1: other people because I'm sure I've get it a lot
Speaker 1: actually at autograph signings are like, I want to work
Speaker 1: for you chickies, how do I do it? And hey,
Speaker 1: you never know, maybe the next Carol g assistant or
Speaker 1: I don't know is listening to the podcast and they're
Speaker 1: going to get inspired by you. So thank you. And
Speaker 1: with that, we are going to close out today's episode
Speaker 1: with our usual motivational quote, which I want to do
Speaker 1: a little different. I want oh Me to share a
Speaker 1: motivational quote with us. So do you have one? I
Speaker 1: do I have two? Can I read too? Yes? Oh
Speaker 1: my Godeah. Of course. The first one says, a leader
Speaker 1: takes people where they want to go. A great leader
Speaker 1: takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but
Speaker 1: out to be. Oh I love it nice. You do
Speaker 1: that to a lot of people in their lives. And
Speaker 1: the second one is not many people have the privileged
Speaker 1: work under someone as caring and understanding as you and
Speaker 1: grateful for that. And if I had to pick a
Speaker 1: boss again, I'll definitely pick you. Is that really a
Speaker 1: cool or does it really? Yeah? I think that's cute.
Speaker 1: Thank you? Thank you, oh Me? Oh I love you.
Speaker 1: I love you too, And to all of you listening,
Speaker 1: thank you. You're listening you guys every Monday, and I
Speaker 1: hope you guys have an amazing week. Kick ass and yeah,
Speaker 1: I see you here next week. Bye bye not. This
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