Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
Speaker 1: Your host Coleen Witt, and today we have very special
Speaker 1: guest TV and radio personality, CC Valencia is in the
Speaker 1: building from ninety three point five KD shout out, but
Speaker 1: super excited.
Speaker 2: They have you so excited?
Speaker 3: Yes, I was like calling text in bothering people.
Speaker 2: Was on it.
Speaker 1: I have to say that she was on it like
Speaker 1: a true woman was. I was an email text calls, annoying.
Speaker 1: I will not stop until I'm like she better.
Speaker 3: Please please God no.
Speaker 2: And then when I've heard the concept of this show,
Speaker 2: I just thought it was so amazing because I never
Speaker 2: seen anything like this before. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is really a one of a kind, Like I
Speaker 2: love this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to think it was like all about inspiring
Speaker 1: then Underdog, But the more I hear like fans talk,
Speaker 1: They're like, Yo, this is like a real chance to
Speaker 1: get to know the people that we like, we watch
Speaker 1: and right admire, Like we get to really and get
Speaker 1: in here from you.
Speaker 2: Yay. You know what I mean that you we have
Speaker 2: never heard before?
Speaker 1: Exactly absolutely so speaking of stories we ain't never heard before,
Speaker 1: cee ce, Yes, what is the broke dish.
Speaker 3: You are gonna have me eating today.
Speaker 2: Okay. So the broke dish that I used to eat
Speaker 2: while growing up was my mom would cut tortillas and
Speaker 2: we would fry them, and then we would add a
Speaker 2: little bit of sea.
Speaker 3: We didn't.
Speaker 2: We had these, okay, and we ate these with everything,
Speaker 2: even white bread.
Speaker 3: Is that chicken hot dogs?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Chicken hot dogs?
Speaker 2: Slice them and then you fry them and then you
Speaker 2: put the egg and I promise you it. I know
Speaker 2: it's a broke meal, but it's like the most delicious
Speaker 2: broke meal you ever had. It's all the flavors.
Speaker 3: Teach me, show me.
Speaker 2: Okay, I stand up to do this.
Speaker 3: Alright, let's go.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. So Jared shout out to Jared. Everyone
Speaker 1: no one ever gets to see Jared. He's like the
Speaker 1: guy from Home Improvement behind the fence. Yes, but Jared
Speaker 1: is Mexican, so like he understands it to a certain degree,
Speaker 1: way better than meal.
Speaker 2: Yes his life. Yes.
Speaker 3: He was like, I was like, Jared, can you set
Speaker 3: it up?
Speaker 1: He had cutting board, eggs, everything, Like I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: he knows what the and I was like, do we
Speaker 1: need butter?
Speaker 3: He's like, I got the oil. Yeah, Jar understands the
Speaker 3: struggle to stay in my lane.
Speaker 1: Ra absolutely, and then here pass me that cloth just
Speaker 1: in case we accidently turn on the wrong burner.
Speaker 2: We're good.
Speaker 1: So take me back to this time in your life
Speaker 1: when you were eating hot dogs and chickennout dogs and
Speaker 1: the eggs and corn tortillas. By the way, this taping today,
Speaker 1: all of my guests, all of their meals came to
Speaker 1: twenty dollars combined. Why and that's with inflation. So I
Speaker 1: know all the stories today I'm about to hear are amazing.
Speaker 3: Yes, take me back, Take me back.
Speaker 2: Okay, So growing up, we moved around a lot. My
Speaker 2: parents were divorcing, so basically my mother was trying to
Speaker 2: we're basically staying with people that could house us, right,
Speaker 2: So it went from Compton to Lynnwood to watts back
Speaker 2: to Compton to Southgate, and she didn't have a lot
Speaker 2: of money. And at the time, we grew up on
Speaker 2: what people called food stamps.
Speaker 3: Right, I remember few sands stamps.
Speaker 1: You had the colorful ones right, the money right, Yes,
Speaker 1: I wish they had the debit cards in our time,
Speaker 1: by the.
Speaker 2: Way, yeah, they didn't. We had to literally pull out
Speaker 2: in front of everybody. Everybody in the county line would
Speaker 2: give you dirty looks.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's how we grew up. And we were
Speaker 2: just really really poor at that moment. I remember I
Speaker 2: just told your story off camera where uh you know,
Speaker 2: my mom would buy us vans every beginning of the
Speaker 2: school year, and we were growing up fast, and at
Speaker 2: one point we're like, Mom, they don't fit us anymore.
Speaker 2: And she had no money until the next paycheck. So
Speaker 2: what she did was she put vasoline on our feet
Speaker 2: and shoved our feet in there and made it work
Speaker 2: for like a week and a half until she got paid. Wow,
Speaker 2: and then she went ahead. But she did what she
Speaker 2: could do because it was just us. And the one
Speaker 2: thing that I love about my mother is that she
Speaker 2: raised us. Like even when me and my sister would argue,
Speaker 2: She's like, ah, stop, we all we got because when
Speaker 2: I'm gone, she's gonna be the only person that's gonna
Speaker 2: have you. So we just really grew up with love
Speaker 2: in our household. And we listen, I'm cutting this up
Speaker 2: into triangles.
Speaker 3: Okay, by the way, yeah, I was not expecting that.
Speaker 1: So I'm about to learn a good hack from my
Speaker 1: own personal I think that's more than enough.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I was just gonna say, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: cook for Jared too.
Speaker 3: He had this when growing up.
Speaker 1: Just so you know, we always throw food back to
Speaker 1: Jared off camera.
Speaker 3: The second is Jared, you want to eat something, but yeah,
Speaker 3: you need to turn it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna turn it up. We're good.
Speaker 1: So are these gonna end up coming out like tortilla chiphina?
Speaker 2: But then what you do is that they're like tortilla chips.
Speaker 2: Then we're gonna end a little bit of the hot dog,
Speaker 2: and then we're at the egg over it.
Speaker 3: It's going to be so good.
Speaker 1: Yes, show me a good morning hack, because when I
Speaker 1: say I'm running out the door, I never know what
Speaker 1: to make.
Speaker 3: But this looks like a good.
Speaker 2: Super easy, super easy. I'm just waiting for the oil
Speaker 2: to get hot, so I'm just tensing it right now,
Speaker 2: but super easy. My mom made this for us all
Speaker 2: the time growing up. And it's crazy because now that
Speaker 2: you know, I consider myself a successful radio person. I
Speaker 2: view twenty years, twenty years, twenty years, I've been doing
Speaker 2: it and I still creep this.
Speaker 3: Oh so you still eat it?
Speaker 2: I still eat it? Yes, I could eat botsa nova
Speaker 2: and I could eat this like it doesn't bother me
Speaker 2: at all. Yes, yeah, it's getting hotter. We're working this out.
Speaker 2: But you know what, Colleen, I never growing up struggling.
Speaker 2: I never felt sorry for myself. I honestly thought everybody
Speaker 2: grew up like that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: We used to go shopping at the second hand and
Speaker 2: in Spanish we call it the segunda, so my family
Speaker 2: shortened it and called it the Gundi. It was like
Speaker 2: a cute little name. So they'd be like, oh, we're
Speaker 2: going to go to the Gundi. So when I would
Speaker 2: go to school, I would be like, oh, you got
Speaker 2: that at the Goondi. I thought everybody shop the way
Speaker 2: we shop. I only started noting the no seeing the
Speaker 2: difference when I was in the seventh grade. And then
Speaker 2: I started getting teased for the way that I was dressed.
Speaker 2: And then I noticed other than that, I was happy.
Speaker 2: My mom was like, listen, as long as you guys
Speaker 2: are fed, you got a roof over your head, and
Speaker 2: you're happy, and you're healthy, and nobody's touching you or
Speaker 2: anything harming, you're good.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know what I mean. So that's really how
Speaker 3: was your father.
Speaker 1: I'm just genuinely curious was your father, Like, did he
Speaker 1: just disappear or.
Speaker 2: No, my dad was in and out of prison. Okay,
Speaker 2: So my dad and my mom are both from Compton
Speaker 2: and they grew up in that lifestyle. It is what
Speaker 2: it is. And my dad was gang banging and you know,
Speaker 2: drug dealing all that, and got caught up in that
Speaker 2: life and it was did a lot of time like
Speaker 2: it was either in to had to be wayside, you know.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, it's weird because
Speaker 2: people are like, you grew up kind of well rounded.
Speaker 2: And I said, well, yeah, you know what, I had
Speaker 2: a father that wasn't afraid to say he loved me either.
Speaker 2: He'd be like, I love you so much, baby, grad love.
Speaker 2: I just knew my dad loved me, and I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was just the God in me with
Speaker 2: my mom, but I also realized my dad didn't have
Speaker 2: a father figure, So my dad didn't know how to
Speaker 2: be a dad. He didn't have a dad, He didn't
Speaker 2: have a dad that raised him, so he didn't This
Speaker 2: was all foreign to him. But my dad loved me
Speaker 2: and always showed me, you know, whether he'd be out
Speaker 2: on the streets for a couple of days, come home,
Speaker 2: visit us, whatever, it was always full of love. You know.
Speaker 2: I started, as I started growing up and developing into
Speaker 2: a young women, I started noticing, like, Okay, you're out,
Speaker 2: You're not with the You're not with us all the time,
Speaker 2: you know. But I never held a grudge or anything
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: You didn't feel like you were and you didn't. And
Speaker 1: this is again genuine curiosity. So when your father was
Speaker 1: not when you started to realize that he wasn't always present,
Speaker 1: did you ever compare like the way your mom loved
Speaker 1: and the way he loved did you ever go through
Speaker 1: it like.
Speaker 2: You know what? No? I loved. I was always Daddy's
Speaker 2: little girl, so I I growing up, I think I
Speaker 2: was more towards my dad. And then once I started
Speaker 2: developing into a young women, I started seeing my mom
Speaker 2: was the one that was really making all the struggles
Speaker 2: for her household. My mom was the one that was
Speaker 2: always sacrificing. So I always still loved Dad because I'm
Speaker 2: Daddy's I was Daddy's little girl. However, I became more
Speaker 2: protective of my mother. I never nobody could ever speak
Speaker 2: bad about her, although they didn't. She was an angel
Speaker 2: but I never let anybody speA because I'm like, listen,
Speaker 2: my mom has paid the bills. She's taking two care
Speaker 2: taking care of two kids on her own, she's working
Speaker 2: two jobs. My mom was a welder because it was
Speaker 2: the only job she could have gotten at that time.
Speaker 2: And I remember just saying, listen, Mom, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Whatever you need, we got you. We would clean the house.
Speaker 2: It was a partnership on me and my mom would
Speaker 2: be like, listen, miha, you're the oldest. I depend on
Speaker 2: you the most. You have to help with the house.
Speaker 2: You have to help me with your sister. We are
Speaker 2: all we got. I love that and that was how
Speaker 2: she raised us.
Speaker 3: And she never talked bad about your dad either.
Speaker 2: You know what's so crazy about that is that I
Speaker 2: recently did an interview and it kind of went viral,
Speaker 2: and it was surprising to me. My mom never talked
Speaker 2: bad about my father, and people were shocked about it.
Speaker 2: But my dad, in turn, never talked bad about my
Speaker 2: mother because he'd be like, that's the mother of my children.
Speaker 2: Regardless of what we got going on. She makes sure
Speaker 2: that my girls are okay all the time, and they
Speaker 2: got clothes and she was on their back. So my dad,
Speaker 2: although they were divorced, was still protective of my mother,
Speaker 2: which I thought was super cool. And my mom was like,
Speaker 2: no matter what, that's your father. And sometimes when he
Speaker 2: couldn't come to see us, she would drop us off
Speaker 2: so we could visit him. And people would be like, Oh,
Speaker 2: you need a hive for chand support. You need to
Speaker 2: get in for this, and She's like, my kids, all
Speaker 2: they know is they need their dad in their life.
Speaker 2: That's all they know. That's all they care about. They
Speaker 2: don't know bills, they don't know this, they don't they
Speaker 2: know their dad. So I need my daughters to have
Speaker 2: a father figure in their life. They need to understand,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, how a man is supposed
Speaker 2: to treat them. And so it worked out and they weren't.
Speaker 2: They weren't bitter or anything. It just I think I
Speaker 2: was blessed in that sense. But I feel good because
Speaker 2: that's me and my sister grew up with. You know, listen,
Speaker 2: daddy was out there in the streets. Daddy's doing what
Speaker 2: he does. But you know what, he loves us, not
Speaker 2: gonna change. I'm just gonna love him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's unconditional love. Yes, Now, when did we're
Speaker 1: gonna start inching towards who you became the first twenty
Speaker 1: the first half of your twenty years. How did you
Speaker 1: start getting into radio?
Speaker 3: How did you?
Speaker 1: What inspired that that point of I'm interested in this field,
Speaker 1: you know what.
Speaker 2: I was working in television, and I was working in
Speaker 2: television and I had said something about being in the
Speaker 2: IE at the time, and there was a radio station
Speaker 2: that was developing and they hired me through a message
Speaker 2: on the phone. It was crazy. So I went and
Speaker 2: I was like, well, if I can do TV, I
Speaker 2: can do radio. No wrong. You have to understand that
Speaker 2: when you do television, even when you change your facial
Speaker 2: expression this, it says a lot. In radio, we have
Speaker 2: to amplify. We have to get excited and talk like
Speaker 2: this and get you to understand what we're doing. So
Speaker 2: the first couple of weeks I couldn't do that, and
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, this ain't for me at all.
Speaker 1: And what were you doing in TV before you were
Speaker 1: hosting at LA TV? So LA you said hosting is
Speaker 1: different from radio because hosting you don't have to do
Speaker 1: as much amplification.
Speaker 2: No, because it's a lot facial expression. So I'm talking
Speaker 2: like this and you're watching me, but when you're listening
Speaker 2: on the radio, you can't see me. You have to
Speaker 2: feel my expression. So it was hard. And I gave
Speaker 2: my three weeks or my two week notice, my third
Speaker 2: week in radio twenty years ago, and God bless my
Speaker 2: program director at the time. He said, see, see, if
Speaker 2: I didn't think you could do this, I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: hired you. Give it six months. If you feel the
Speaker 2: same in six months, I will accept your resignation letter.
Speaker 2: And I said, okay, fair enough. It's been twenty years.
Speaker 3: Wow, yes, and I love it.
Speaker 2: And and the more that I learned and I grew
Speaker 2: and and I understood you know what I mean that
Speaker 2: I had.
Speaker 3: To Did you end up getting mentors in the game.
Speaker 2: Or yes, I did. I had a mentors. I had
Speaker 2: a mentor named Chris Lops that actually came from a
Speaker 2: station back in the day called The Beat. Ok yeah,
Speaker 2: ninety two point three The Beat, no color lines. He
Speaker 2: was there, I'm gonna put this right here because that
Speaker 2: is what people do when they broke.
Speaker 1: And uh, he would, uh this looks legit, by the way, guys,
Speaker 1: it's like little tortilla or anything. Yeah, I'm gonna stay
Speaker 1: out of your kitchen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't you worry, girl, You're gonna love this.
Speaker 1: So so you you're you end up saying in radio
Speaker 1: you did get mentors that helped you.
Speaker 2: Kind of in the game.
Speaker 3: In the game, okay, And I.
Speaker 2: Had mentors in the game, and I learned from them
Speaker 2: and they taught me. And I even had the DJs, like,
Speaker 2: because I was a radio personality, it was kind of
Speaker 2: cool to learn from DJs because when you're on the
Speaker 2: radio and you're talking, you have a screen and it's
Speaker 2: the countdown of the music and what's coming up next.
Speaker 2: I was so focused on that and being perfect and
Speaker 2: hitting every break. I remember a DJ came in the
Speaker 2: studio put tape over the screen and said and I
Speaker 2: was like, what are you doing. That's my countdown when
Speaker 2: I'm talking on air right now. And he was like,
Speaker 2: you don't need that. You go to the club. You
Speaker 2: know hip hop, you know music. Listen to the beat,
Speaker 2: listen to the beat. See, you need to start thinking
Speaker 2: like a DJ.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, I'm not a DJ.
Speaker 2: I killed it and I started learning like that, and
Speaker 2: then once I started blending my boards and really excelling,
Speaker 2: people were like, Wow, you're really good at blending your boards.
Speaker 2: And I said, because I learned from a DJ, and
Speaker 2: shut up to that DJ, mister Swift, because he really
Speaker 2: helped me focus and and showed me how to be
Speaker 2: a better radio personality. So I did have a couple
Speaker 2: of mentors. Adrian Scott, who does all the concerts in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. You see how the Wess won Crush Group.
Speaker 2: He was a radio personality program direct for a long time.
Speaker 2: He taught me a lot about my worst and also too.
Speaker 1: He talked you a lot about your worth, yes, like
Speaker 1: on a professional level or on.
Speaker 2: A professional level, or like a professional level, he was like,
Speaker 2: ask for this, always be about your money, get your money,
Speaker 2: know your wor sy like you know you know how
Speaker 2: to do this. Like he never cut me any slack,
Speaker 2: And a lot of times I thought he was hard
Speaker 2: on me, but he was hard on me because he
Speaker 2: saw the potential in me. So once I started accepting
Speaker 2: the constructive criticism and writing with it, I just became
Speaker 2: this beast and I and then I worked for Jennifer
Speaker 2: Lopez and that was something in itself, and I did
Speaker 2: Collective on newbou TV at the time, and my first
Speaker 2: check that Jlo gave me for interviewing. I thought it
Speaker 2: was a mistake and I remember I was like, oh shit.
Speaker 2: So I remember asked somebody else. I was like, hey,
Speaker 2: is this about right? They got paid. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what you get paid. And I was like, oh
Speaker 2: my god. And I remember her sister, Lindelopez was like
Speaker 2: to say, this is what you're worst. I was in
Speaker 2: a dressing room. It was huge. I had makeup person,
Speaker 2: hair person, stylists, pa, a runner, and I'm like, all
Speaker 2: this for me. You got to remember I grew up
Speaker 2: in a trailer. I lived in a trailer in watts
Speaker 2: We grew up in Compton. Look at what I'm making.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, I don't need all this. Like I
Speaker 2: could do my own hair, I could do my own
Speaker 2: make up, I do my own shop because it's what
Speaker 2: we have to do. And they're like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you're the talent. This is how you're supposed to be treated.
Speaker 2: And once I accepted that, I think it was the
Speaker 2: imposter syndrome. I don't belong here. You know, I grew
Speaker 2: up like this. I don't belong here.
Speaker 3: And also I'm just backtracking.
Speaker 1: When you got the JLO gig, where you also kind
Speaker 1: of like in that position of.
Speaker 3: H like I'm so thankful to be in the room
Speaker 3: kind of.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, I went okay, so like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: Jalo soul, like so yeah, this is.
Speaker 2: Jayloh the most beautiful woman on the planet.
Speaker 3: So and just a sidebar, is she as beautiful as
Speaker 3: she is?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: So I start really quick about Jennifer is that you
Speaker 2: see all these little memes on Instagram and it's like
Speaker 2: this like wrinkled looking face that is all like people
Speaker 2: that do that editing because I went to her house.
Speaker 2: She invited us for barbecue. I was working for at
Speaker 2: the time, and I remember sitting down and I was
Speaker 2: just like, oh my god, and I was taking my
Speaker 2: moment of man, this is where I grew up super poor,
Speaker 2: my mom putting vasilaine on my shoes feet so I
Speaker 2: can fit into shoes. And I'm sitting with like the
Speaker 2: number one international artist in the world, right like Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 2: She comes to me, she sits down and she's like,
Speaker 2: are you good, CC, do you need anything? Did you
Speaker 2: get yourself a plate to eat? Like, you know, because
Speaker 2: it's a barbecue. And I remember looking at her like
Speaker 2: I'm looking at you, and I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: she's so perfect.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, money but money can buy.
Speaker 2: Like it's just like I was like, I bet you
Speaker 2: she's using the best lotions, the best serum. But she
Speaker 2: was just so flawless.
Speaker 3: Really, but she was.
Speaker 1: She was hospitable, it sounds like very hospitable, but also too,
Speaker 1: she very healthy really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she doesn't hear alcohol, right, nope. And I was.
Speaker 2: There somebody was trying to smoke a cigarette on her
Speaker 2: property and she made them walk across the street because
Speaker 2: she said no smoking at her house. So yeah, so
Speaker 2: she didn't play. But when I got hired there, I
Speaker 2: mean listening, you see what I'm eating, right, So, so
Speaker 2: what we grew up on. When I got hired there,
Speaker 2: I was the chubbiest girl and all the girls were
Speaker 2: like this skinny and freaking gorgeous, right, And I remember
Speaker 2: going like on this day, trying to lose weight, trying
Speaker 2: to lose weight, and I remember they pulled me aside
Speaker 2: and lindelp was.
Speaker 3: Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh girl, I'm losing weight. Thank
Speaker 2: thank you for hiring me. I'm gonna be the best
Speaker 2: for you. I'm making sure I'm good, and they're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: we hired you because the way you look like you're talented.
Speaker 2: But the way you look, there's more people that look
Speaker 2: like you than like them. Yeah, you have to understand that.
Speaker 2: And I didn't understand it at the time. And then
Speaker 2: I just learned to embrace the curves.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know what I mean. And you got a
Speaker 3: nice body, by the way, thank you.
Speaker 2: So I just embraced the curves with a little bit
Speaker 2: of meat on them because we do love to eat.
Speaker 2: It looks so good.
Speaker 1: Girl.
Speaker 3: Is the trick now? So now, this is the first
Speaker 3: time I've ever seen someone do this in front of me.
Speaker 3: So the trick isn't to put a lot of oil.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit. Yeah, okay, it's a.
Speaker 2: Little bit because you're gonna put the eggs in something
Speaker 2: and you don't want it to be too oily, so
Speaker 2: the tortillas will like basically soak it up and fry it. Okay,
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm doing right now. So what I'm
Speaker 2: doing is letting it fry a little bit more so
Speaker 2: it can soak up more of that oil and then
Speaker 2: when I put the eggs, we're fine. But I did
Speaker 2: put a little bit of oil.
Speaker 3: I love. I know it's a good lesson because I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go home and do this.
Speaker 2: It's so good. It's so inexpensive.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I literally like when I'm surprised you didn't
Speaker 1: add cheese or something, no, because we.
Speaker 2: Didn't have it, Like this is what we had, and
Speaker 2: of course we had some topatio, but we can, you know.
Speaker 2: And then people like think, um, crazy because I'll even
Speaker 2: put ketchup on this.
Speaker 3: Oh really I.
Speaker 2: Like it.
Speaker 1: No, you know what, when Jara switches the cameras, he'll
Speaker 1: probably bless us with some ketchup.
Speaker 2: I needed, and then we'll just add the egg over it.
Speaker 3: H wow, here that this is crazy. I'm learning so
Speaker 3: many hacks.
Speaker 1: If you're a single mom or a mom at home,
Speaker 1: these are like the best moments because you could like
Speaker 1: learn a quick hack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's is home today.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's like a little crunch and then you get
Speaker 2: your little meat in there protein and we did the
Speaker 2: chicken so it's not pork, and then that's it. And
Speaker 2: then when we did have cheese, we would do a
Speaker 2: little bit of cheese and then most of the time
Speaker 2: we would have like you know, green salasa or we
Speaker 2: call it salata or we'll have like the thapathio and
Speaker 2: we would just pour it on there and that was it.
Speaker 2: Sometimes though I was the only one of my family
Speaker 2: that would put ketchup and people make fun of me,
Speaker 2: but I loved it. But yeah, this was my broke
Speaker 2: meal that got me through like every place I've been to,
Speaker 2: Like I moved to Face to do radio. I did
Speaker 2: radio out there for five years.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: And this was my go to mel because single at
Speaker 2: the time, I had a studio apartment. I just moved
Speaker 2: to this new city and I was struggling and this
Speaker 2: was everything. And it's crazy because you know what the
Speaker 2: trick is too or onion powder.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Jared knew what he was doing because
Speaker 1: I promised you he laid out all those seasonings and
Speaker 1: I was like, it wasn't even on your call shee no, yes,
Speaker 1: And right.
Speaker 2: Now, like even when I was looking, I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I forgot to tell him that onion powder. Nah.
Speaker 1: He he blessed you. So what happened with the Jalo situation.
Speaker 2: The network went out of business and then I just
Speaker 2: continue to do radio because I was doing both at
Speaker 2: the time, and I went.
Speaker 3: From how did you take that blown?
Speaker 2: It was hard, but it wasn't. I wasn't the only
Speaker 2: one affected. So we had We were at Neuveau TV
Speaker 2: and that was Jalo's but at the time there was
Speaker 2: a bid for Fuse TV, so she bought that.
Speaker 3: But she bought that.
Speaker 2: Yes, so there was JAILO did ye okay?
Speaker 3: Boss?
Speaker 2: Yes? And I don't know how much percentage.
Speaker 3: I just know there was.
Speaker 2: I just know we got talked to and we were like,
Speaker 2: so they're trying to figure it out because Neuvau was
Speaker 2: in the West coast, Fuse was in the east coast,
Speaker 2: so they were saying that she was going to somehow
Speaker 2: try to take a She's gonna have to let go
Speaker 2: half here half theresolidated, and so we didn't know what
Speaker 2: was going on, but at the time they were just
Speaker 2: they said they placed the show on hold but never
Speaker 2: came back, So which was fine because radio was my
Speaker 2: love and I loved it, and honestly, like I took
Speaker 2: that as a lesson working with Jlo. She taught me
Speaker 2: a lot and I was able to walk away with
Speaker 2: what I figured with my work, and it showed me
Speaker 2: how to negotiate and how to move through the industry.
Speaker 2: So it was a big blessing and then I got
Speaker 2: a lot of gigs after that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So I loved it and I loved working for her.
Speaker 2: She was awesome. She was never rude to me or anything.
Speaker 2: Now people will say, well, she wasn't rude. She wasn't
Speaker 2: like in Spanish we was saying like gon Gardino, like
Speaker 2: you know, oh, I'm showing you everything, would love like
Speaker 2: hey girl, and I hugguess not like that. It was
Speaker 2: more like she was very like a polite she wanted
Speaker 2: to make sure you were good. But it wasn't like
Speaker 2: I'm very loving and it wasn't that. But I could
Speaker 2: only imagine she's probably been in the industry for so
Speaker 2: long and been around so many people, she has to
Speaker 2: be protective of herself. So I wasn't anything like that personal. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't take anything really personal. Yeah, but yeah, So
Speaker 2: it was like but it was cool because I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, Like I literally I remember living in
Speaker 2: a trailer in watts and we had to go to
Speaker 2: the bathroom. It was just a shell and we had
Speaker 2: to go to the bathroom because we're parked in front
Speaker 2: of somebody's house. So my mom was like, you have
Speaker 2: to go to the bathroom before they go to bed
Speaker 2: because you're not going to be able to use the
Speaker 2: restroom till they wake up.
Speaker 3: Oh, you mean you'd have to leave the house to
Speaker 3: go to their house, leave.
Speaker 2: The trailer and going there because our trailer was in
Speaker 2: front in the front yard. Wa.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And so it was Office of Moor and Watts. Our
Speaker 2: trailer was in front yard. And so my mom understood
Speaker 2: they were doing us a favor by letting us live there.
Speaker 2: So she was very always conscious about not disturbing them.
Speaker 2: So you go to the bathroom before they go to bed,
Speaker 2: and you don't get to use the restroom till they
Speaker 2: wake up because our camper was just a shell. It
Speaker 2: was not anything working in there. Wow. And so that's
Speaker 2: what we had to do.
Speaker 1: And then to go like, look at your life fast forward.
Speaker 1: That's got to be an incredible journey. How did your
Speaker 1: mom feel seeing all that growth?
Speaker 3: Comfortable?
Speaker 2: Well, she wasn't. She didn't understand it. She like my
Speaker 2: mom was had us when Chad me when she was sixteen,
Speaker 2: my sister when she was seventeen. You know, they're from Compton.
Speaker 2: She was just trying to survive. So I remember being
Speaker 2: at the house and she was on the phone with
Speaker 2: my aunt and she was like, oh, my poor baby,
Speaker 2: because I'm in radio at this time. She's like, she's
Speaker 2: trying to find herself. She don't, she don't trying to
Speaker 2: and I'm like, and I'm listening. I tell my siter,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know who I am, but I'm doing
Speaker 2: a different career path that my mom has ever imagined.
Speaker 3: She's all, welldre she's a hard work Yeah, she goes
Speaker 3: from a different time.
Speaker 2: Right, And all she wants is for me to have
Speaker 2: health insurance, dental insurance, vision coverage, four one K plan.
Speaker 2: To her, that's successful. Yeah, And to me, I wanted
Speaker 2: to really be who I was. So I just you know,
Speaker 2: I had to accept it, and I had to. And
Speaker 2: I remember my sister was there for me, and my
Speaker 2: sister was like, she doesn't understand it, but it's okay, sister,
Speaker 2: keep going. My sister is like, has went back all
Speaker 2: the time time, and I was like, okay. And then
Speaker 2: once I started climbing and making real money and big
Speaker 2: money and she started seeing the fruits of my labor
Speaker 2: actually coming together, then it changed from oh, my poor
Speaker 2: baby's trying to find herself too, Like, give me some
Speaker 2: shirts I could pass out to everybody on the radio.
Speaker 2: They're gonna listen to you, baby, I've been telling everybody
Speaker 2: she goes. She well, she used to because she's had
Speaker 2: strokes now, but she used to go to the ninety
Speaker 2: ninety cent store. She would shop all the time. There
Speaker 2: would be like ma, and she would be like, oh.
Speaker 2: I went to the ninety nine cent store and I
Speaker 2: told the manager that my daughter's on the radio and
Speaker 2: he likes your radio stations, So give me a shirt
Speaker 2: I could give to him, because this is how you
Speaker 2: get your listeners.
Speaker 1: I said, okay, Mom, go ahead, like go from one
Speaker 1: to the other extreme.
Speaker 2: Yes, wait, hold on, I gotta save some for Jared.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's save him a little spec And I'm Jared's
Speaker 1: gonna love this.
Speaker 2: There we go, save you some, Jared.
Speaker 3: Can you bring us some kedget ye, Jared to do
Speaker 3: that to you.
Speaker 2: Let's try this. Oh my god, I like it.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely gonna like it.
Speaker 2: She loved it.
Speaker 3: I'll give you my word. I will be doing this
Speaker 3: from my daughter at home.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: I'll give me my word.
Speaker 2: Isn't it easy?
Speaker 3: It's easy and it's so creative.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I didn't. I put pepper and I put onion.
Speaker 2: Some people can put seasoning and salt, but I don't
Speaker 2: put it a lot because I don't know what people like.
Speaker 2: But this is how I made mine, and literally, this
Speaker 2: right here would get me through so many mornings and
Speaker 2: people that even my friends, I'd be like, hey, do
Speaker 2: you mind if I make this real quick? They loved it.
Speaker 3: Let me join you.
Speaker 1: If I was your homegirl and I slide through, everyone
Speaker 1: always has that one home girl like a cooke, real good,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. If I was your homegirl,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, girl, I'm coming through, can you make
Speaker 1: that a tortilla egg?
Speaker 3: And you'd be like, why don't have the green? I
Speaker 3: got it, don't worry. I'll pick it up so good.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 2: If you want to get a little fancy, sometimes I'll
Speaker 2: do slice avocado on the side and then you eat
Speaker 2: it like that. That's a little fancy.
Speaker 1: You know what I like about this is it's different
Speaker 1: from your average but back crunch, right, it's the crunch.
Speaker 3: It's the crunch. It's a crunch. I don't care what
Speaker 3: you put on this it's that crunch with.
Speaker 2: The cruntry really does it.
Speaker 1: So if your back because on the show, I'm really
Speaker 1: supposed to be tasting, but everyone once we got a
Speaker 1: dish is so good.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to take a step. Che can continue hearing
Speaker 3: your story?
Speaker 2: No, you're good. But yeah, so my mom I would
Speaker 2: cook because my mom would have us cook, and these
Speaker 2: are the dishes that she would have us make. And
Speaker 2: from time to time, like like I said, we would
Speaker 2: take my mom out and we'll be like, Mom, where
Speaker 2: do you want to go? We'll take you to any restaurant.
Speaker 2: Me and my sister loves spoiling her because she struggled
Speaker 2: so much and we're very successful now, and but she doesn't.
Speaker 2: She's so simple, and I think that's beauty in her
Speaker 2: that she still craves these dishes. She has me making
Speaker 2: her every morning and a lot of yours will know this.
Speaker 2: She has me making her avenna and I was going
Speaker 2: to have you make get that. So basically avena.
Speaker 3: Is literally.
Speaker 2: Water, boil it, oat meal, put a little bit of
Speaker 2: milk in there, brown sugar no I'm sorry, cinnamon and sugar,
Speaker 2: and we mix it and then we would get like
Speaker 2: bean burritos, beans tortillas, roll it, and then you have
Speaker 2: your avenna with your bean burrito. That's how me and
Speaker 2: my family loved it. And then my niece is growing
Speaker 2: up now they like it with toasts, so they will
Speaker 2: make them the toast with the avenna.
Speaker 3: But it's like omeal, it's old milky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's so good and.
Speaker 3: It's almost like, yeah, I'm glad I got this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is so good. This is good.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: So let's get closer up to where you are today.
Speaker 1: Okay, what were some of the would you say, pivotal
Speaker 1: moments between the j Lo gig and where you're at
Speaker 1: today that kind of changed or re transitioned your trajectory
Speaker 1: because I see j Loo bern j and having that
Speaker 1: mentor really helped establish your worth in the industry and
Speaker 1: kind of break you through the imposter syndrome. But now
Speaker 1: that you established at worth, were there any points in
Speaker 1: your career where you had to like almost backpedal or
Speaker 1: renegotiate back to who you who, who you first envisioned
Speaker 1: yourself for versus no one you're worth now.
Speaker 2: No, I think my ride has been pretty smooth. I've
Speaker 2: had some bumps, but I think one pivotal moment was
Speaker 2: when I was actually looking to apply at a certain
Speaker 2: radio station, and I really believed that I was the
Speaker 2: perfect person. I grew up on that music. I loved it.
Speaker 2: I knew all the artists they were playing. They were
Speaker 2: looking for a Latina. I was like, oh, perfect, I
Speaker 2: know everything. Yeah, I'm from here, born and raised. We're good.
Speaker 2: I went to audition and I did my air, submitted
Speaker 2: my air chick, met with the UH manager and everything
Speaker 2: went good. Then I got a call from the guy
Speaker 2: who recommended me, and he said, you know, Ceci, I
Speaker 2: don't know how to say this. I'm not Hispanic, but
Speaker 2: you're like, you're awesome, but I you know, it's not me.
Speaker 2: But their vibe was that, and I just knew it.
Speaker 2: And I said, they're looking for a brown girl, but
Speaker 2: I'm too brown, and he said exactly. I said, you're
Speaker 2: looking for a brown girl that acts white maybe or
Speaker 2: has more white friends. And he's like, not my words,
Speaker 2: but you know, basically that's what they were looking for.
Speaker 2: So I didn't get the part. I wasn't upset, though.
Speaker 2: I was fine with it because I love being the
Speaker 2: brown girl, you know, what I mean, that's from southern
Speaker 2: California that's moved around because I know there's a lot
Speaker 2: of little girls like me. So I may not be
Speaker 2: accepted in that that specific job, however, but as.
Speaker 3: A radio personality, that's what they were looking for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so weird. Sometimes in radio they'd be looking
Speaker 2: for the weirdest shit. But that didn't bother me because,
Speaker 2: like I said, there's a lot and I told him,
Speaker 2: I said, I'm not offended. There's a lot of more
Speaker 2: little girls that look like me, and I gotta stand
Speaker 2: strong for them. I gotta stand strong for them. I
Speaker 2: cannot fold. I gotta keep ten toes down. So if
Speaker 2: that's if it wasn't for me, then that's okay, because
Speaker 2: God didn't want me there. What for me is for me.
Speaker 2: So that kind of went away, and that, you know,
Speaker 2: and from what I hear, it's not doing too well.
Speaker 2: But anyhow, now you know, and I'm at Kaye. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm at KADA and KD is owned by Marillo Media,
Speaker 2: which owns Powerwin No. Six A, Los Calle ninety three
Speaker 2: to nine. So when Marillo bought Power and we moved
Speaker 2: into the same building, they already had ideas of putting
Speaker 2: me in onto Power one O six to help pull
Speaker 2: in the draw in the community. So that's what I did.
Speaker 2: I did my job. It was cool. However, I did
Speaker 2: go back and I begged them to go and please
Speaker 2: let me come back to KD because I loved being
Speaker 2: at Power winto six and it was cool, like you know,
Speaker 2: trying to get them read. My goal was to get
Speaker 2: Power to be reattached to the community, and I think
Speaker 2: I did that. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: I still had to think about my brand and what
Speaker 2: I wanted, and what I wanted was to be at
Speaker 2: nine three five KD. My family's from La born and raised.
Speaker 2: We grew up on fifteen eighty am, you know, so
Speaker 2: I wanted to be attached to that station. I wanted
Speaker 2: the Tupas and the Snoop Doggs and the Ice Cues
Speaker 2: and the Nwa and the Nases and the Queen Latifa's.
Speaker 2: That's what I wanted. I didn't really have too much
Speaker 2: passion for, you know, to meet the new stuff at
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I still like that.
Speaker 2: It's hard. I mean, there's some new artists that I
Speaker 2: actually loved, but just there's nothing like that era, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I, you know, begged and begged and bagged, and
Speaker 2: they finally were like, all right, we could bring it back,
Speaker 2: you know. She she did what she did, and I
Speaker 2: was like, just please, I love Cada, and they're like
Speaker 2: all right. So I went back to kDa and I
Speaker 2: did the morning show with Romeo dominated mornings, and then
Speaker 2: pandemic hit and a lot of people were being furloughed,
Speaker 2: and I remember a lot of radio personalities were getting
Speaker 2: were able to work from home, but ours didn't allow us.
Speaker 2: So I was really nervous. I remember at that time
Speaker 2: when pandemic hit, we didn't know anything about COVID. You
Speaker 2: just knew, like you were so scared. You just knew
Speaker 2: if somebody got it, the probably died. Right.
Speaker 3: That was like the beginnings.
Speaker 2: So I remember sitting in my bed in the bedroom
Speaker 2: and they were like, you have to come in if
Speaker 2: you want to still get a paycheck. And I was
Speaker 2: crying and my fiance walked in and I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I love radio enough to die
Speaker 2: for it. And I was like, and That's where I'm
Speaker 2: at in my life right now. And I never thought
Speaker 2: i'd be here, but the station promised us protocols and
Speaker 2: everything would be clean. So I ended up doing it,
Speaker 2: and then they stretched me out from mornings to mid days,
Speaker 2: so then I was on from five point thirty to
Speaker 2: like two o'clock.
Speaker 3: In the afternoon.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also, what time do you have to go on when
Speaker 1: it's five thirty? Do you go in at like four three?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I go in at five only because I show prep
Speaker 2: everything the night before or right in the mornings before
Speaker 2: I get them.
Speaker 1: I have my main stories, so you're up early. I
Speaker 1: was always bedtime just random.
Speaker 2: When I was doing mornings, my bedtime was between eight
Speaker 2: and nine, and then I'd wake up at three o'clock
Speaker 2: in the morning because we still had to get camera read.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I did it for what almost almost twenty years,
Speaker 2: and then was doing mornings, and then when they stretched
Speaker 2: me out to middays, then they started realizing, oh okay,
Speaker 2: people are coming back out now pandemic is kind of over. Hey,
Speaker 2: workforst has changed now. Like before you'd have the nine
Speaker 2: to fivers and we were set schedules. Now because of pandemic,
Speaker 2: some people are working from home, some people working in
Speaker 2: the afternoons, some people are working at nights. Like the
Speaker 2: whole time has changed. So then they separated me in
Speaker 2: Rome and put me in the afternoons, and they're like,
Speaker 2: we need your energy in the afternoons. It takes people
Speaker 2: longer to get home from work than it does to
Speaker 2: get to work. So I went in the afternoons dominated it.
Speaker 2: I'm killing it. I mean, we just had talks about
Speaker 2: my show ratings. I'm like out the freaking gate with it,
Speaker 2: which is awesome. But what I love is that I
Speaker 2: have a team around me, and I stress to them
Speaker 2: the importance of being outside. And so people are like,
Speaker 2: what's your secret? You know, your ratings are so good,
Speaker 2: and your ratings have been good since the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Like I've always hit what does never mean to be outside?
Speaker 2: You got to be in the community. You got to
Speaker 2: be doing these community events, you got to be at it,
Speaker 2: you got to be at certain mixers because this industry,
Speaker 2: if you're not outside, you can't get mad. They'll forget
Speaker 2: about you if you're not at the top of their mind,
Speaker 2: and you can't blame them. They're around the people that
Speaker 2: they're seeing the mother and that that's what's coming to
Speaker 2: their minds. So you have to be outside. And I
Speaker 2: told people that I've said, you know, you can't run
Speaker 2: a radio show from behind the console like I could
Speaker 2: do this, but I also have to be outside too.
Speaker 2: I also have to be advocating for my show for KJA,
Speaker 2: especially nowadays because we got so much competition, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. So that's been my secret.
Speaker 3: Is just but that's also what your mom was. Also.
Speaker 2: My mom was about that.
Speaker 3: Yes she was oh yeah ninety nine said store less.
Speaker 2: And my mom was always about blessing other people, you know,
Speaker 2: and that's what's her thing. We would be like, Mom,
Speaker 2: we already have it, you're giving in and she's like,
Speaker 2: they have it worse than us. They have it worse
Speaker 2: than us. You need to stop thinking like that. Open
Speaker 2: your heart. Like my mom has always been that way.
Speaker 2: So I think that's where I come from. And people
Speaker 2: are like, Cecie, you're always in the community, like you're
Speaker 2: just and to me it's so natural that I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's not a big thing. That's how you live your life,
Speaker 2: you know. It's being outside, is being with them, is
Speaker 2: doing these fundraisers. I did fundraisers for the street vendors.
Speaker 2: Remember during the Pendic, they were getting beat up and
Speaker 2: getting assaulted. Ye I did a food drive in November
Speaker 2: for them, and I found out in doing this food drive.
Speaker 2: Did you know that street vendors we couldn't get them
Speaker 2: turkeys because they don't have refrigerators like you have a refrigerator.
Speaker 2: There's street vendors they have sometimes they only have an
Speaker 2: ice chest. Wow. Yes, So we had to get them
Speaker 2: dry goods, and we had to give them gift cards
Speaker 2: because they don't have the refrigerator space. And I remember
Speaker 2: there was a street vendor she was eighty two or
Speaker 2: eighty three years old, by the name of Daisy. We
Speaker 2: dropped off the food to her house. She didn't have
Speaker 2: no couch. She had an office chair and a TV
Speaker 2: and that was how she sat and watched her television.
Speaker 2: There was no couch. I mean, imagine being on your
Speaker 2: feet all day and you don't get to rest. She
Speaker 2: had one small refrigerator and like two three ice chests.
Speaker 2: We sat there, talked to her for a couple hours,
Speaker 2: you know, blessed her. And then when we were getting
Speaker 2: up to leave us already after nine point thirty, she
Speaker 2: gets up too, and I tell the girl that's working
Speaker 2: with me, where's she going? And she goes, where are
Speaker 2: you going? She said, why didn't make enough today? So
Speaker 2: I have to go back outside and sell. Imagine your
Speaker 2: eighty three year old grandmother being out at nine thirty
Speaker 2: at night in la and having to sell because she
Speaker 2: didn't make any money. And when we tried to get
Speaker 2: the directions, she didn't know her address, so we had
Speaker 2: to write it down, put on refrigerator and be like,
Speaker 2: this is your address when people ask you. So there's
Speaker 2: so much more in the community that goes through that.
Speaker 2: And I remember sitting outside and I was bawling, and
Speaker 2: I called my mom and I was like, it's not
Speaker 2: fair that people live this way, Mom, it's not fair.
Speaker 2: And she's like, I know, baby, but you know what,
Speaker 2: God has blessed you, and you're blessing her. And that's
Speaker 2: the only way that I have learned to keep my
Speaker 2: sanity and all this. I adopted an orphanage in Tijuana,
Speaker 2: and I did it because it was doable. It was
Speaker 2: forty kids. So what we did was they made Christmas cars.
Speaker 2: I would give you one, give Jared one, and you
Speaker 2: would be be in charge of that kid and they
Speaker 2: would tell you, hi, calling my What I like is
Speaker 2: I like Baretts, But what I need is underwear, that's
Speaker 2: all I Hey, I love soccer. I would love to
Speaker 2: have a soccer ball, but what I need is t shirts.
Speaker 2: So it's so crazy what their need was. And we
Speaker 2: would go deliver it and I would just say, hey,
Speaker 2: you just have to buy those two items, but decorate it,
Speaker 2: wrap it up because we want to give them the
Speaker 2: feeling of.
Speaker 3: A kid a wrap a gift.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So this is what I do, and.
Speaker 2: This is how it's so important for me to still
Speaker 2: be tapped in. I'm gonna be I'm trying to put
Speaker 2: together a trunk or treat for kids for Halloween, but
Speaker 2: we're doing it a step further. We're gonna have the
Speaker 2: trunk or treat. Have you ever heard of that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, So a lot of parents do because it's safe
Speaker 2: trick or treating for the kids. Churches do it, schools
Speaker 2: do it. So you get all these cars, they park
Speaker 2: in a parking lot, they open up the trunk, they
Speaker 2: decorate the trunk, and then the kids go around collect
Speaker 2: a nice candy and it's just a safe way of
Speaker 2: doing It's very controlled. But we're going to take it
Speaker 2: a step further and we have a DJ and everything.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do a sensory hour that our before for
Speaker 2: kids that have special needs, kids that are autistic, the
Speaker 2: music's too loud for them, it's too much. So we're
Speaker 2: doing something so we can include all children.
Speaker 3: Wow, where are you gonna do that at? I'm trying
Speaker 3: to do it at the Solfie Stadium.
Speaker 2: We're in talks right now.
Speaker 3: So okay, yeah, so Fa so fas tough stadium. Yeah
Speaker 3: so yeah, So I'm lying, I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you will be able to do it.
Speaker 1: It sounds really wonderful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I just think that that's part of being outside,
Speaker 2: that's part of being the community, and that is what's
Speaker 2: carried me through twenty years of.
Speaker 3: Radio and the where do you plan on going from here?
Speaker 2: With the producing producing documentaries. I just did something. I
Speaker 2: was in a documentary about Slim four hundred and you
Speaker 2: rest in Piece a good friend of mine. And now
Speaker 2: I'm working on something. I can't say the name of
Speaker 2: the title, but it is gonna it's uh looking like
Speaker 2: it'd be on Netflix or to b oh Nice has
Speaker 2: to do a hip hop and then there's a huge
Speaker 2: uh figure in La that does a lot of different events.
Speaker 2: If I said him a lot of people would know him.
Speaker 2: We're working and we've pitched him a documentary to do
Speaker 2: on him. So what I want to do now that
Speaker 2: I'm getting older is I still want to do radio, but.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I want to do more producing, more behind the scenes,
Speaker 2: more developing. I want to tell stories now.
Speaker 4: You know, well, you're a good story to thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm curious because we are so tight on time. I'm
Speaker 1: super sad about it though, because I feel like we
Speaker 1: didn't get to come. No, we're good, but I'm genuinely
Speaker 1: curious of any iconic moments in your career that you'd like,
Speaker 1: were either shocked by or just we're like, you know what.
Speaker 2: I think an iconic moment in my life was when
Speaker 2: I was interviewing Bone Legs and Harmony.
Speaker 3: And I love them. I love them, and.
Speaker 2: Lazy Bone comes up to me. He's like, Cecie, come here,
Speaker 2: I got something for you. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: and I don't know why. I'm just like, oh, they
Speaker 2: got me like either like a little and I don't drink,
Speaker 2: but people will bring me bottles. I'm like, maybe they
Speaker 2: got me a little bottle or something, right, No, they
Speaker 2: gifted me a bone, a bone thugs and Harmony chain and.
Speaker 1: I will the real what yes, oh hey, And I'm
Speaker 1: like they're so nice and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like lazy me and he goes, well why not, You've
Speaker 2: been supporting us for twenty years, and I was like,
Speaker 2: well why not. Let's do this so I'll wear you
Speaker 2: guys will see I'll be worried it from time time.
Speaker 2: And then when Snoop Dogg bought death Row records, they
Speaker 2: came down and gifted me not one, not two, but
Speaker 2: three death Row chains.
Speaker 3: Yes Snoop or bone Snoop no Snoops yes people.
Speaker 2: So they when Snoop bought death Row, because you know,
Speaker 2: he bought death Row, so the guys that run it
Speaker 2: came and he was like here you go. And I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: my fiance also shoots for New Dog so he works
Speaker 2: with him. So they but they came and gifted me
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: And I remember me Romeo.
Speaker 2: We're so excited and we're like, hey, are we the
Speaker 2: only ones in radio that got this. It's just a
Speaker 2: competitive of course, and they're like yeah, We're like yeah,
Speaker 2: we're just excited. But those are moments where I'm like,
Speaker 2: I just remember growing up listening to you guys I remember,
Speaker 2: you know, and because I am Mexican from Compton, like
Speaker 2: we grew up listening different music, Like I grew up
Speaker 2: on Chaka Khan, the Ohio Players, Teddy Pendergrass, you know,
Speaker 2: of course, the Ice Cubes, the Tupas, you know, the Whispers,
Speaker 2: Tina Marie, like that was my whole playground of music.
Speaker 2: And so it was just so surreal that I'm just like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, Like these people I call them my friends, yeah,
Speaker 2: and some good friends. And these are people I listened
Speaker 2: to growing up, and.
Speaker 3: I love that they value you back.
Speaker 1: I think there's nothing more special than a two way relationship,
Speaker 1: like the fact that they're thinking of yeah, ladies.
Speaker 3: By the way, we had Lazy I love Lazy Bone.
Speaker 1: The I call it the third best ramen on our
Speaker 1: No he did like all the ROMs we've had, he
Speaker 1: had the.
Speaker 3: Was it the third or second best? I think he
Speaker 3: was the second.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, I think he may have been
Speaker 1: the second best. He is the second best rama we've
Speaker 1: ever had. And you want to know what he put
Speaker 1: in his I think it was like a miracle whip
Speaker 1: or mayonnaise in it.
Speaker 3: I was tripping.
Speaker 1: I was like, bro, you gotta stop adding these ingreenent.
Speaker 1: It was like a spread type ramen.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It was delicious though, but the only thing he messed
Speaker 1: up with he put way too many peppers. But other
Speaker 1: than that, it was by far the best ramen and
Speaker 1: he had everything up in there. No watch that episode.
Speaker 1: People are still talking about how he was throwing down.
Speaker 2: Cool like what he does things? You know who also
Speaker 2: can cook?
Speaker 3: Warren g really, yes, he had Orang. We gotta get
Speaker 3: him on here.
Speaker 2: He has his barbecue sauce and then he also he
Speaker 2: he cooks like the ribs and.
Speaker 3: Really, what did you when you do for a long
Speaker 3: time like slow cooker, I mean smoker smoker smoke.
Speaker 2: Yess, yes, and they fall off the ribs so goodly.
Speaker 3: And he has his own barbecue sauce. Yes.
Speaker 2: Snip and Griffin's.
Speaker 1: Interviewed anything with jay I love a good jay Z story.
Speaker 1: You know what, I know you West Coast, but.
Speaker 2: I know I don't. I haven't done anything with jay Z,
Speaker 2: but I love jay Z. But I interviewed Rick Rock
Speaker 2: and Rick Rock is a producer and he told me
Speaker 2: a dope jay Z story where he went to the
Speaker 2: East Coast. Jay Z had heard his beat and was like,
Speaker 2: I like this kid, like come over and he's like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, jay Z flow to the East Coast. But
Speaker 2: then once he had his beats, jay Z was like,
Speaker 2: do you have anything else? Yeah? I don't like that anymore. No,
Speaker 2: I don't like it. No, do you have any And
Speaker 2: he was like, oh shit, and he showed him all
Speaker 2: his beats and then he saw a keyboard in the
Speaker 2: corner and he said, can I just play something? And
Speaker 2: he said yeah, and he was just playing and then
Speaker 2: he said that's it. I like it, and he was
Speaker 2: like but he was like at some point it was
Speaker 2: like okay, I'm running out of OX and I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, Like how crazy is that?
Speaker 1: Imagine you get that far in the room and only
Speaker 1: find out you get you know who?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: One of the kids that well he's grown now. So
Speaker 1: that's James Andre Jefferson Junior. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know James, but I remember Trevor Knall was tracking him
Speaker 1: or whatever and he like flew him out and he
Speaker 1: really wanted to.
Speaker 3: James did to make the cup. But I was like, damn,
Speaker 3: you got so close. Yeah, sometimes it's just what it is.
Speaker 2: But I think in this industry, the key is just consistency.
Speaker 2: Just keep going, just keep going, just keep going, Just
Speaker 2: keep doing it. You know, even if you fail that
Speaker 2: first time, keep doing it again, keep doing it again,
Speaker 2: because it'll grow, it'll get bigger, and people will, you know,
Speaker 2: catch on to it and really support you. So I
Speaker 2: think for me, I just as long as I don't stop,
Speaker 2: and I never look back at my highlights, I don't.
Speaker 2: Sometimes people got to ask me and I'll be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: the other day my assistant was like, oh, you interviewed
Speaker 2: that person I said I did. I don't even remember, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't really go back and look my highlight.
Speaker 3: You don't think that's good to do.
Speaker 2: I enjoy the moment really quick, but I have so
Speaker 2: much more I want to do, so I will let
Speaker 2: people tell me. You know what I mean, Oh you
Speaker 2: did good, did all right? Perfect? You liked it?
Speaker 3: Was it good to touch you? All right?
Speaker 2: Bet? And then I go into the next because I
Speaker 2: have more projects I have to do, so I never
Speaker 2: look back at it. And then one thing I've never
Speaker 2: done and I don't care. I stand by it. It
Speaker 2: doesn't bother me. I have never ever watched myself on
Speaker 2: television what never, Never, I don't. I will have my
Speaker 2: friends watch me, and I.
Speaker 3: Will says, your sister ever comment on your stuff?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, souse, sisters be they Oh my see that's
Speaker 2: the thing that my sister and sister you were the
Speaker 2: amazing You're so great. Yeah. Yes, I take constructive criticism
Speaker 2: for my friends, and I'm like, look, if there's something
Speaker 2: that you think I could do better, please tell me.
Speaker 2: You're my friend. I value it and I will listen.
Speaker 2: But I can't watch myself because me I will beat
Speaker 2: up myself. I will look at myself. I will tell
Speaker 2: myself I could have worn this, I shouldn't have did
Speaker 2: my hair like this. Why did I do my makeup
Speaker 2: like that? I didn't blend very well? Oh my god,
Speaker 2: I stuttered at this word. And I will depress myself.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy because I was sitting here thinking before
Speaker 1: you said that. I think one of the most beautiful
Speaker 1: things about you is the embracing of you, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: embrace you. So to hear you say that is crazy
Speaker 1: because on the outside, the way you handled your business,
Speaker 1: it seems like you embrace you. But to hear that
Speaker 1: there's this side of you, that there there yourself down
Speaker 1: is crazy because I'm sitting here like, I love how
Speaker 1: you love who you are and what you represent. Like
Speaker 1: I think that if I were to walk away from
Speaker 1: this whole interview, I'd say I love the way she
Speaker 1: loves who she is, and and.
Speaker 2: I do, and I think in those moments, I don't
Speaker 2: want to take that away because like I'll be at
Speaker 2: an event and I'll be so happy and I'll be
Speaker 2: like we did good and I loved it and everything
Speaker 2: came out good, and I'll see a video and the
Speaker 2: video I'm leaning a little forward when I'm walking, so
Speaker 2: it looks awkward and I'm like, why did I walk
Speaker 2: like that?
Speaker 3: So madam more like perist.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm such a perfectionist and so I I do
Speaker 2: that to keep my own sanity and my sanity at
Speaker 2: the house, so I don't watch anything. I will tell
Speaker 2: I tell people that all the time. So I'm like,
Speaker 2: what do you? And my friends always give me beautiful
Speaker 2: constructive criticism, but they're like you're good. See they're good,
Speaker 2: They're and they just say, I wish you would watch
Speaker 2: yourself one time, and yeah, and I get I have anxiety,
Speaker 2: like I'll get up. My mom has tried to make
Speaker 2: me sit down and watch and she's like, baby, just
Speaker 2: sit right here, just watch this real quick. And I'll
Speaker 2: sit there and then I'll get up and I'll like
Speaker 2: act like I'm making something because I need to be
Speaker 2: out of the room because I am looking through a
Speaker 2: different lens than my mother is. So those are that's
Speaker 2: just my thing. But I'm a perfectionist. But at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, I'm happy, like I I I
Speaker 2: I don't know, I just I'm happy. But I think
Speaker 2: that I'm also conscious of like other people around me,
Speaker 2: and I don't know how I am perceived to them.
Speaker 2: So I always want to be like extra loving or
Speaker 2: you know. I always wanted to take time and speak
Speaker 2: to people just because there was a time I met
Speaker 2: somebody and they were like, oh, cec I met you
Speaker 2: a couple times. I don't think you like me. And
Speaker 2: I said, I don't even know you, what are you
Speaker 2: talking about? And they're like, well, I wanted to take
Speaker 2: a picture with you at a concert and I went
Speaker 2: like this and you pushed my hand off you, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god. I was probably in
Speaker 2: a moment where I was going through something and I
Speaker 2: am some random guy and you touched me. I went like,
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, and I'm like, this happened two years ago.
Speaker 2: You carried this with you for two years. You think
Speaker 2: I don't even know you. What's your name? My name
Speaker 2: is Cecil. Let me introduce myself properly. And that bothered
Speaker 2: me because I felt bad and I was like, Wow,
Speaker 2: somebody really walked around thinking that I didn't like them
Speaker 2: when I was just in a moment and concert moments crazy.
Speaker 2: I was in a moment and they must have touched
Speaker 2: me and I didn't realize it and I pushed her hand.
Speaker 2: So I try to stay conscious.
Speaker 1: Look how approachable you are, though, because for the fact
Speaker 1: that they can come up to you and say that
Speaker 1: shows that probably they got they caught you when you
Speaker 1: weren't a party at somebody's party, we were able to
Speaker 1: talk to you about it. Yeah, I think you're a
Speaker 1: real beautiful genuinely beautiful, like it's vibrating, very loud, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite breakfast dishes on the show.
Speaker 3: Yes by far, I hope we could stay in touch.
Speaker 2: Yes, are you gonna make? You should make like a
Speaker 2: like a recipe book with all this we are.
Speaker 1: That's why I said, put to put your address very yeah,
Speaker 1: because we want to send out an Eating while Broke cookbook.
Speaker 1: It's so funny because I've talked to publishers about doing
Speaker 1: the cookbook, and when I send over the ingredients of
Speaker 1: all the celebrities, I mean, these are successful people, and
Speaker 1: I'm like sending over their their dishes spam and egg
Speaker 1: and cheese, and they're like, who's gonna buy this cookbook?
Speaker 1: I'm like, bruh, you It's not just it's the stories
Speaker 1: behind the cookbook. It's known that your favorite MC, your
Speaker 1: favorite author, your favorite entrepreneur started at this point. And honestly,
Speaker 1: most of these dishes these people still eat because now
Speaker 1: it's become an iconic thing. I used to tell people
Speaker 1: all the time, you don't you don't want to rush
Speaker 1: past your brokeness because I look back at my broke
Speaker 1: stories and I laugh and they bring me so much joy. Right,
Speaker 1: And when I hear like the success stuff just doesn't
Speaker 1: do it for me as much as like eating all,
Speaker 1: you know, like just just my old stories. I still
Speaker 1: joke about, like I used to search my car to
Speaker 1: make a whole dollar to buy like a dollar make chicken.
Speaker 3: Like I would be like, I.
Speaker 1: Know, there's a quarter somewhere in this car, and I
Speaker 1: just need one more quarter to buy this And I
Speaker 1: joke about it now, but like those stories like make
Speaker 1: me so happy and know like I came from this.
Speaker 1: But this dish is absolutely affordable, easy to make.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be my daughter's gonna be eating this tomorrow,
Speaker 3: probably for a long time.
Speaker 1: And I love that being on this show, I'm learning
Speaker 1: more and more on how to make tortillas work. Yes,
Speaker 1: And then one last sidebar we are definitely over time
Speaker 1: is how do the women DJs work with each other
Speaker 1: behind the cameras. Are you guys supportive or you guys
Speaker 1: hater ish? Like I'm genuinely curious both, because there's few,
Speaker 1: there's only there's a very few of them.
Speaker 3: There's very few. Mmm. Sorry, I know you got a mouthful.
Speaker 2: Some are supportive and some are haters, like you just
Speaker 2: have your you have both. You know, everybody's different. But
Speaker 2: I think that with the people that have been in
Speaker 2: radio for a very long time, where we like to
Speaker 2: say like we're the vets, we're kind of like the ogs.
Speaker 2: We're more supportive because we have more of an understanding
Speaker 2: how crazy, how hurtful, how judgmental, this industry can be
Speaker 2: so we have I want to say the girls that
Speaker 2: have been in it longer have a better understanding and
Speaker 2: support each other. I think the girls that are coming up,
Speaker 2: they don't have that understanding yet because they haven't experienced
Speaker 2: certain things. So I could be a little caddy, you know.
Speaker 2: I think once they sty they learn though, and they
Speaker 2: go through it, then they understand it. But I support myself.
Speaker 2: I surround myself with a supportive network with girls that
Speaker 2: have been in this business, whether they're promoters their concert
Speaker 2: you know, concert throwers, or their producers, or their fashion
Speaker 2: designers you know DJs. I support my I really have
Speaker 2: a small circle, very tight, very loving, and very strong.
Speaker 2: And that's how I move through the business. A lot
Speaker 2: of people know me, and a lot of people see
Speaker 2: she's so sweet. But you know what keeps me sweet
Speaker 2: on their radar? I don't. I don't. I don't out well,
Speaker 2: outwear my welcome. That's one thing I don't do.
Speaker 3: Outwhear you're welcome.
Speaker 2: You don't. I go to an event, I'm there. I
Speaker 2: mingle everything. I'm out. I'm not involved in the what
Speaker 2: we like to call it cheese man. I'm not involved
Speaker 2: in gossip I'm not involved in no petty stuff.
Speaker 3: I literally like, you do your time and your out
Speaker 3: and I'm out.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: I make a classic yes clastic and.
Speaker 2: I'm known for that. People like, oh Ce, she's in
Speaker 2: and out, and I think that's that's why a lot
Speaker 2: of artists like me too. Like when I go to events,
Speaker 2: Snoop will do stuff at the compound. We go to events,
Speaker 2: we don't outwear, are welcome. We're not the person that's
Speaker 2: sitting there and you're like, dang, they've been here for
Speaker 2: every they need to go home. Now why they're here?
Speaker 2: You know those people like that.
Speaker 1: You said you don't gossip because this is a very
Speaker 1: click clacking industry, and you're right. If you stay too
Speaker 1: long anywhere, gossip will be the conversation that comes up.
Speaker 2: It does, it really does. So if you go in,
Speaker 2: do your network, make sure you're seeing, take your pictures,
Speaker 2: what's up, you know what I mean, be very happy.
Speaker 3: Then we're out.
Speaker 2: We're good. I give myself a two hour window for everything.
Speaker 2: I'm like, we're gonna be there for maybe an hour
Speaker 2: and a half, So it's like an hour and a
Speaker 2: half to two hours, two hours. If I'm really enjoying
Speaker 2: myself and then I'm out because I and I think
Speaker 2: that's why I feel really in my heart, that's why
Speaker 2: a lot of people have respect for me because I'm not.
Speaker 2: I don't never get too close where we cross that
Speaker 2: boundary or that line. I'm very respectful in that sense.
Speaker 2: But I also love being home. It's my fortress. It's
Speaker 2: where I feel safe, you know. So I will go
Speaker 2: to an event and my fiances in the entertainment industry too,
Speaker 2: will go and then we're out and we're like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're home now, you know what I'm saying. We get
Speaker 2: to chill a little bit. Yeah. So it's been a.
Speaker 1: Balance and hearing your whole story, you can actually see
Speaker 1: where your mom's uh what do you call it foundation
Speaker 1: was laid even if you hear how you're talking about.
Speaker 1: And I'll stay in your welcome like so you guys
Speaker 1: living in the trailer and like, hey, be mindful of this,
Speaker 1: very mindful everything that you had you carried, if you
Speaker 1: actually trace it back, it's these little foundation seeds that.
Speaker 3: She planted right right right. I just think that's incredible.
Speaker 2: And my toughness that I have, I do have a
Speaker 2: tough exterior and you know it's for my father, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Because my father was out there
Speaker 2: doing what he.
Speaker 3: Did, gang banging, and he's still around right.
Speaker 2: No, he passed away, and it was it was due
Speaker 2: to his lifestyle, you know what I mean. He just
Speaker 2: he succumbed to the lifestyle. He lied, you know, so,
Speaker 2: but he passed away. But he taught me always to
Speaker 2: be strong. And he'd be like, my daughters ain't no suckers,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. My dad growing up, I
Speaker 2: don't know, just like you're, my daughters are gonna be
Speaker 2: in suckers. You girls are gonna know what's going on.
Speaker 2: When I was at a restaurant, my dad taught me
Speaker 2: you never sit with your back towards the door. You
Speaker 2: sit facing the door. You're a female, you know. I
Speaker 2: remember when I had a Nissan Center. Back in the day,
Speaker 2: we used to have something called Dayton's. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you remember that, the rims. But I was like, Daddy,
Speaker 2: I want Dayton's and he's like, no, you're a girl.
Speaker 2: You don't want to draw attention. People are gonna try
Speaker 2: to rob you. Like he always he was from the streets.
Speaker 2: He had me. I was very streets.
Speaker 1: Did he also teach you about man like players manibulation
Speaker 1: all that day?
Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, And my.
Speaker 2: Dad spoke to me like I was a boy, so
Speaker 2: with a lot of cussing. It was a lot of
Speaker 2: ulgarty you know what I mean. You're gonna You're gonna
Speaker 2: go this dude, This dude, don't give a funk about you. Like.
Speaker 2: But you got to understand, my daddy was from the streets.
Speaker 2: He didn't have a father to be like. You know.
Speaker 2: My mom used to have to remind him at you
Speaker 2: got daughter, he's ain't your homeboys, and he'd be like, read,
Speaker 2: I only know how to speak to them the way
Speaker 2: I know how to talk. This is one, you know.
Speaker 2: So I learned to accept that too. So I do
Speaker 2: have a rough exterior that people be like, oh, you're
Speaker 2: a little rough, But I'm very loving. But I feel
Speaker 2: like I have my mom's like heart, you know, and
Speaker 2: I try to apply it in everything that I do.
Speaker 2: And I know that we're blessed. You know. My sister's successful.
Speaker 2: I'm successful. My mother's had seven strokes, and we take
Speaker 2: turns taking care of her, and thank God, we have
Speaker 2: the ability to provide for her and to make sure
Speaker 2: she's good and she's taken care of and our thing
Speaker 2: was we don't want anybody else taking care of mom.
Speaker 2: Mom didn't have nobody take care of us. She did
Speaker 2: it by herself.
Speaker 3: I love that. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: So where can everybody keep up with CC Valencia?
Speaker 2: So you guys can follow.
Speaker 3: Me on how to be like you? Just so I
Speaker 3: don't know if you see, I'm like trying to add
Speaker 3: my little radio cute.
Speaker 2: I love it and I love your hair at I
Speaker 2: AMCC Valencia on all social media platforms and you can
Speaker 2: hear me every single day daily on KD from three
Speaker 2: pm to seven pm. I do the afternoon Ride and
Speaker 2: I'm the only girl doing afternoons in a hip hop format.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: I love everything about you than you, including your cooking. Okay,
Speaker 1: but you're still in La right, You're not Valley.
Speaker 2: I'm Valley.
Speaker 3: You are.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: No, that's good because I'm Valley.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could be like, yeah, girl, what's your cooking today?
Speaker 2: Yeah I'm Valley now.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, where as you said, I was happy, okay because.
Speaker 2: Because my friends would be like, girl, you move to
Speaker 2: the valley now, you brand new now, and.
Speaker 3: I'm like No, just worked really hard.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: People always hate on Valley, but I will say this,
Speaker 1: LA is very expensive. You get way more bang for
Speaker 1: your bucket Valley.
Speaker 2: Yeah you do.
Speaker 1: But no, I'm happy because you know I may hit
Speaker 1: you every once in all. Listen cool, whatever you need
Speaker 1: I got, He was banging. Shout out to y'all, thank
Speaker 1: you for tuning in to another episode of Eating While
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