WEBVTT - CECE VALENCIA - Real Talk and Comfort Food 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.920 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.280 Your host Coleen Witt, and today we have very special 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:12.040 guest TV and radio personality, CC Valencia is in the 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.360 building from ninety three point five KD shout out, but 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:16.479 super excited. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:17.920 They have you so excited? 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.800 Yes, I was like calling text in bothering people. 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:21.840 Was on it. 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:23.919 I have to say that she was on it like 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.480 a true woman was. I was an email text calls, annoying. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.200 I will not stop until I'm like she better. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:32.479 Please please God no. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.240 And then when I've heard the concept of this show, 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.200 I just thought it was so amazing because I never 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.199 seen anything like this before. So I was like, oh, 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.360 this is really a one of a kind, Like I 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:43.800 love this. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:44.479 Yeah. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:46.640 I used to think it was like all about inspiring 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.400 then Underdog, But the more I hear like fans talk, 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.640 They're like, Yo, this is like a real chance to 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.280 get to know the people that we like, we watch 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.680 and right admire, Like we get to really and get 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:58.400 in here from you. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:00.440 Yay. You know what I mean that you we have 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:01.520 never heard before? 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.800 Exactly absolutely so speaking of stories we ain't never heard before, 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.720 cee ce, Yes, what is the broke dish. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.280 You are gonna have me eating today. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.120 Okay. So the broke dish that I used to eat 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:17.920 while growing up was my mom would cut tortillas and 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.560 we would fry them, and then we would add a 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.679 little bit of sea. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:23.560 We didn't. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.120 We had these, okay, and we ate these with everything, 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:26.760 even white bread. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:28.040 Is that chicken hot dogs? 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:28.200 Right? 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:29.000 Chicken hot dogs? 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.520 Slice them and then you fry them and then you 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.600 put the egg and I promise you it. I know 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.880 it's a broke meal, but it's like the most delicious 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:44.240 broke meal you ever had. It's all the flavors. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:53.360 Teach me, show me. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.480 Okay, I stand up to do this. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:56.440 Alright, let's go. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.920 It's so funny. So Jared shout out to Jared. Everyone 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:02.800 no one ever gets to see Jared. He's like the 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.440 guy from Home Improvement behind the fence. Yes, but Jared 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.519 is Mexican, so like he understands it to a certain degree, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:11.440 way better than meal. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:12.919 Yes his life. Yes. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:14.760 He was like, I was like, Jared, can you set 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:15.040 it up? 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.200 He had cutting board, eggs, everything, Like I was like, okay, 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.640 he knows what the and I was like, do we 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:21.160 need butter? 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.600 He's like, I got the oil. Yeah, Jar understands the 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:26.400 struggle to stay in my lane. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.520 Ra absolutely, and then here pass me that cloth just 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.079 in case we accidently turn on the wrong burner. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:33.800 We're good. 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.160 So take me back to this time in your life 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.720 when you were eating hot dogs and chickennout dogs and 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.960 the eggs and corn tortillas. By the way, this taping today, 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.640 all of my guests, all of their meals came to 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.560 twenty dollars combined. Why and that's with inflation. So I 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.040 know all the stories today I'm about to hear are amazing. 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.480 Yes, take me back, Take me back. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.040 Okay, So growing up, we moved around a lot. My 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:06.440 parents were divorcing, so basically my mother was trying to 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.720 we're basically staying with people that could house us, right, 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.760 So it went from Compton to Lynnwood to watts back 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.440 to Compton to Southgate, and she didn't have a lot 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.480 of money. And at the time, we grew up on 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.960 what people called food stamps. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.360 Right, I remember few sands stamps. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.160 You had the colorful ones right, the money right, Yes, 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.560 I wish they had the debit cards in our time, 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:29.760 by the. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.880 Way, yeah, they didn't. We had to literally pull out 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.760 in front of everybody. Everybody in the county line would 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:35.560 give you dirty looks. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:35.839 Yeah. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.280 Yeah, So that's how we grew up. And we were 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:44.000 just really really poor at that moment. I remember I 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.440 just told your story off camera where uh you know, 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.040 my mom would buy us vans every beginning of the 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.080 school year, and we were growing up fast, and at 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.080 one point we're like, Mom, they don't fit us anymore. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.840 And she had no money until the next paycheck. So 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.560 what she did was she put vasoline on our feet 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.960 and shoved our feet in there and made it work 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.480 for like a week and a half until she got paid. Wow, 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.640 and then she went ahead. But she did what she 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.800 could do because it was just us. And the one 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.240 thing that I love about my mother is that she 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.680 raised us. Like even when me and my sister would argue, 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.440 She's like, ah, stop, we all we got because when 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.360 I'm gone, she's gonna be the only person that's gonna 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.679 have you. So we just really grew up with love 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.839 in our household. And we listen, I'm cutting this up 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:27.480 into triangles. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.440 Okay, by the way, yeah, I was not expecting that. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.159 So I'm about to learn a good hack from my 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.480 own personal I think that's more than enough. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.440 Okay, So I was just gonna say, well, I'm gonna 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:39.320 cook for Jared too. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:40.960 He had this when growing up. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.640 Just so you know, we always throw food back to 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.160 Jared off camera. 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.880 The second is Jared, you want to eat something, but yeah, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:49.720 you need to turn it up. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.040 Yeah, I'm gonna turn it up. We're good. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.839 So are these gonna end up coming out like tortilla chiphina? 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.159 But then what you do is that they're like tortilla chips. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.120 Then we're gonna end a little bit of the hot dog, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:00.840 and then we're at the egg over it. 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:02.880 It's going to be so good. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.159 Yes, show me a good morning hack, because when I 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.039 say I'm running out the door, I never know what 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:08.440 to make. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:09.719 But this looks like a good. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.360 Super easy, super easy. I'm just waiting for the oil 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:13.880 to get hot, so I'm just tensing it right now, 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.000 but super easy. My mom made this for us all 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.120 the time growing up. And it's crazy because now that 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.240 you know, I consider myself a successful radio person. I 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.600 view twenty years, twenty years, twenty years, I've been doing 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.520 it and I still creep this. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:30.919 Oh so you still eat it? 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.360 I still eat it? Yes, I could eat botsa nova 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.719 and I could eat this like it doesn't bother me 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.479 at all. Yes, yeah, it's getting hotter. We're working this out. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.560 But you know what, Colleen, I never growing up struggling. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.200 I never felt sorry for myself. I honestly thought everybody 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:47.760 grew up like that. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:48.640 You know. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.320 We used to go shopping at the second hand and 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.719 in Spanish we call it the segunda, so my family 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.560 shortened it and called it the Gundi. It was like 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.200 a cute little name. So they'd be like, oh, we're 0:05:58.200 --> 0:05:59.760 going to go to the Gundi. So when I would 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.280 go to school, I would be like, oh, you got 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.520 that at the Goondi. I thought everybody shop the way 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.359 we shop. I only started noting the no seeing the 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.240 difference when I was in the seventh grade. And then 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.960 I started getting teased for the way that I was dressed. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.719 And then I noticed other than that, I was happy. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:18.920 My mom was like, listen, as long as you guys 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.120 are fed, you got a roof over your head, and 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.919 you're happy, and you're healthy, and nobody's touching you or 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:24.320 anything harming, you're good. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.800 Yeah you know what I mean. So that's really how 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:27.760 was your father. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.440 I'm just genuinely curious was your father, Like, did he 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:32.640 just disappear or. 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.200 No, my dad was in and out of prison. Okay, 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.479 So my dad and my mom are both from Compton 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.280 and they grew up in that lifestyle. It is what 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:46.000 it is. And my dad was gang banging and you know, 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.000 drug dealing all that, and got caught up in that 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.840 life and it was did a lot of time like 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:55.480 it was either in to had to be wayside, you know. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.520 But at the end of the day, it's weird because 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.839 people are like, you grew up kind of well rounded. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.280 And I said, well, yeah, you know what, I had 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.960 a father that wasn't afraid to say he loved me either. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:06.840 He'd be like, I love you so much, baby, grad love. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.960 I just knew my dad loved me, and I don't 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:11.880 know if it was just the God in me with 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.440 my mom, but I also realized my dad didn't have 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.720 a father figure, So my dad didn't know how to 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.000 be a dad. He didn't have a dad, He didn't 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:21.480 have a dad that raised him, so he didn't This 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.160 was all foreign to him. But my dad loved me 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.960 and always showed me, you know, whether he'd be out 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:29.680 on the streets for a couple of days, come home, 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.840 visit us, whatever, it was always full of love. You know. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.880 I started, as I started growing up and developing into 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.360 a young women, I started noticing, like, Okay, you're out, 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.800 You're not with the You're not with us all the time, 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.240 you know. But I never held a grudge or anything 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:44.560 like that. 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.480 You didn't feel like you were and you didn't. And 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:51.400 this is again genuine curiosity. So when your father was 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.200 not when you started to realize that he wasn't always present, 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.840 did you ever compare like the way your mom loved 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.640 and the way he loved did you ever go through 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:00.000 it like. 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.920 You know what? No? I loved. I was always Daddy's 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:09.800 little girl, so I I growing up, I think I 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.960 was more towards my dad. And then once I started 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.280 developing into a young women, I started seeing my mom 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.160 was the one that was really making all the struggles 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.440 for her household. My mom was the one that was 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.680 always sacrificing. So I always still loved Dad because I'm 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.360 Daddy's I was Daddy's little girl. However, I became more 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.120 protective of my mother. I never nobody could ever speak 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.000 bad about her, although they didn't. She was an angel 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.920 but I never let anybody speA because I'm like, listen, 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.760 my mom has paid the bills. She's taking two care 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.560 taking care of two kids on her own, she's working 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.400 two jobs. My mom was a welder because it was 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.360 the only job she could have gotten at that time. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:50.400 And I remember just saying, listen, Mom, you. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:50.800 Know what I mean. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.000 Whatever you need, we got you. We would clean the house. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.280 It was a partnership on me and my mom would 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.720 be like, listen, miha, you're the oldest. I depend on 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.560 you the most. You have to help with the house. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:01.959 You have to help me with your sister. We are 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.480 all we got. I love that and that was how 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:05.360 she raised us. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.880 And she never talked bad about your dad either. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.600 You know what's so crazy about that is that I 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.520 recently did an interview and it kind of went viral, 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.839 and it was surprising to me. My mom never talked 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:20.120 bad about my father, and people were shocked about it. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.160 But my dad, in turn, never talked bad about my 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.920 mother because he'd be like, that's the mother of my children. 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.760 Regardless of what we got going on. She makes sure 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.839 that my girls are okay all the time, and they 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.560 got clothes and she was on their back. So my dad, 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.559 although they were divorced, was still protective of my mother, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.520 which I thought was super cool. And my mom was like, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.160 no matter what, that's your father. And sometimes when he 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.240 couldn't come to see us, she would drop us off 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.560 so we could visit him. And people would be like, Oh, 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.040 you need a hive for chand support. You need to 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.719 get in for this, and She's like, my kids, all 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.400 they know is they need their dad in their life. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.560 That's all they know. That's all they care about. They 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.719 don't know bills, they don't know this, they don't they 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.839 know their dad. So I need my daughters to have 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.520 a father figure in their life. They need to understand, 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.360 you know what I mean, how a man is supposed 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.480 to treat them. And so it worked out and they weren't. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.400 They weren't bitter or anything. It just I think I 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.480 was blessed in that sense. But I feel good because 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.000 that's me and my sister grew up with. You know, listen, 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.080 daddy was out there in the streets. Daddy's doing what 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.760 he does. But you know what, he loves us, not 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.200 gonna change. I'm just gonna love him. 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:31.120 Yeah, and that's unconditional love. Yes, Now, when did we're 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.040 gonna start inching towards who you became the first twenty 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.240 the first half of your twenty years. How did you 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:39.520 start getting into radio? 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:40.040 How did you? 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:45.280 What inspired that that point of I'm interested in this field, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:46.079 you know what. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:51.960 I was working in television, and I was working in 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.320 television and I had said something about being in the 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.920 IE at the time, and there was a radio station 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:03.079 that was developing and they hired me through a message 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.720 on the phone. It was crazy. So I went and 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.319 I was like, well, if I can do TV, I 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:12.160 can do radio. No wrong. You have to understand that 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.560 when you do television, even when you change your facial 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.120 expression this, it says a lot. In radio, we have 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.320 to amplify. We have to get excited and talk like 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.240 this and get you to understand what we're doing. So 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.679 the first couple of weeks I couldn't do that, and 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.640 I was like, Oh, this ain't for me at all. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.280 And what were you doing in TV before you were 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.800 hosting at LA TV? So LA you said hosting is 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.760 different from radio because hosting you don't have to do 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:39.840 as much amplification. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.839 No, because it's a lot facial expression. So I'm talking 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.280 like this and you're watching me, but when you're listening 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.080 on the radio, you can't see me. You have to 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:53.200 feel my expression. So it was hard. And I gave 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:57.280 my three weeks or my two week notice, my third 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.000 week in radio twenty years ago, and God bless my 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.480 program director at the time. He said, see, see, if 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.520 I didn't think you could do this, I wouldn't have 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.080 hired you. Give it six months. If you feel the 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.800 same in six months, I will accept your resignation letter. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.240 And I said, okay, fair enough. It's been twenty years. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.679 Wow, yes, and I love it. 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.720 And and the more that I learned and I grew 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.160 and and I understood you know what I mean that 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:23.680 I had. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.559 To Did you end up getting mentors in the game. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.280 Or yes, I did. I had a mentors. I had 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.800 a mentor named Chris Lops that actually came from a 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.160 station back in the day called The Beat. Ok yeah, 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.880 ninety two point three The Beat, no color lines. He 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.480 was there, I'm gonna put this right here because that 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:39.840 is what people do when they broke. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:45.920 And uh, he would, uh this looks legit, by the way, guys, 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:52.960 it's like little tortilla or anything. Yeah, I'm gonna stay 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:53.840 out of your kitchen. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.200 Yeah, don't you worry, girl, You're gonna love this. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.160 So so you you're you end up saying in radio 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:02.959 you did get mentors that helped you. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.960 Kind of in the game. 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.280 In the game, okay, And I. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.560 Had mentors in the game, and I learned from them 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.800 and they taught me. And I even had the DJs, like, 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.240 because I was a radio personality, it was kind of 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:23.280 cool to learn from DJs because when you're on the 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.400 radio and you're talking, you have a screen and it's 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.640 the countdown of the music and what's coming up next. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.960 I was so focused on that and being perfect and 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.599 hitting every break. I remember a DJ came in the 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.240 studio put tape over the screen and said and I 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:37.640 was like, what are you doing. That's my countdown when 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.679 I'm talking on air right now. And he was like, 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:41.840 you don't need that. You go to the club. You 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.120 know hip hop, you know music. Listen to the beat, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.680 listen to the beat. See, you need to start thinking 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:47.160 like a DJ. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:48.760 And I was like, oh, I'm not a DJ. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.680 I killed it and I started learning like that, and 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.719 then once I started blending my boards and really excelling, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.320 people were like, Wow, you're really good at blending your boards. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.520 And I said, because I learned from a DJ, and 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.000 shut up to that DJ, mister Swift, because he really 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:07.760 helped me focus and and showed me how to be 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.640 a better radio personality. So I did have a couple 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.840 of mentors. Adrian Scott, who does all the concerts in 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.640 Los Angeles. You see how the Wess won Crush Group. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.800 He was a radio personality program direct for a long time. 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:25.840 He taught me a lot about my worst and also too. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.520 He talked you a lot about your worth, yes, like 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.640 on a professional level or on. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.680 A professional level, or like a professional level, he was like, 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.680 ask for this, always be about your money, get your money, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.320 know your wor sy like you know you know how 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.400 to do this. Like he never cut me any slack, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.280 And a lot of times I thought he was hard 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.320 on me, but he was hard on me because he 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:49.040 saw the potential in me. So once I started accepting 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.040 the constructive criticism and writing with it, I just became 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.760 this beast and I and then I worked for Jennifer 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.880 Lopez and that was something in itself, and I did 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:04.960 Collective on newbou TV at the time, and my first 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.320 check that Jlo gave me for interviewing. I thought it 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:12.040 was a mistake and I remember I was like, oh shit. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.360 So I remember asked somebody else. I was like, hey, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.400 is this about right? They got paid. They're like, yeah, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.360 that's what you get paid. And I was like, oh 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.560 my god. And I remember her sister, Lindelopez was like 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.560 to say, this is what you're worst. I was in 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:29.520 a dressing room. It was huge. I had makeup person, 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:34.360 hair person, stylists, pa, a runner, and I'm like, all 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.840 this for me. You got to remember I grew up 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.320 in a trailer. I lived in a trailer in watts 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.320 We grew up in Compton. Look at what I'm making. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.760 So I'm like, I don't need all this. Like I 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.080 could do my own hair, I could do my own 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.680 make up, I do my own shop because it's what 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.320 we have to do. And they're like, no, no, no, no, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.280 you're the talent. This is how you're supposed to be treated. 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.640 And once I accepted that, I think it was the 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.600 imposter syndrome. I don't belong here. You know, I grew 0:15:58.680 --> 0:15:59.960 up like this. I don't belong here. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.040 And also I'm just backtracking. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.200 When you got the JLO gig, where you also kind 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:06.600 of like in that position of. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.000 H like I'm so thankful to be in the room 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:11.840 kind of. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.560 Yes, okay, I went okay, so like, oh, this is 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.680 Jalo soul, like so yeah, this is. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.520 Jayloh the most beautiful woman on the planet. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.480 So and just a sidebar, is she as beautiful as 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:21.800 she is? 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:22.080 Yes? 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:22.640 Yeah, okay. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.560 So I start really quick about Jennifer is that you 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.600 see all these little memes on Instagram and it's like 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.160 this like wrinkled looking face that is all like people 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.760 that do that editing because I went to her house. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.440 She invited us for barbecue. I was working for at 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.480 the time, and I remember sitting down and I was 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.720 just like, oh my god, and I was taking my 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.880 moment of man, this is where I grew up super poor, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.200 my mom putting vasilaine on my shoes feet so I 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.400 can fit into shoes. And I'm sitting with like the 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.840 number one international artist in the world, right like Jennifer Lopez. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.880 She comes to me, she sits down and she's like, 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.520 are you good, CC, do you need anything? Did you 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.360 get yourself a plate to eat? Like, you know, because 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.880 it's a barbecue. And I remember looking at her like 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.760 I'm looking at you, and I was like, oh my gosh, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:05.720 she's so perfect. 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.639 Oh my god, money but money can buy. 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.520 Like it's just like I was like, I bet you 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.600 she's using the best lotions, the best serum. But she 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.680 was just so flawless. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.119 Really, but she was. 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.760 She was hospitable, it sounds like very hospitable, but also too, 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:24.560 she very healthy really. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:28.720 Yeah, she doesn't hear alcohol, right, nope. And I was. 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.159 There somebody was trying to smoke a cigarette on her 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.040 property and she made them walk across the street because 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.600 she said no smoking at her house. So yeah, so 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.639 she didn't play. But when I got hired there, I 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.840 mean listening, you see what I'm eating, right, So, so 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.920