Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Overcome for podcast. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Jennica Lopez. Thank you guys so much for watching and
Speaker 1: listening from where where you guys are at and choosing
Speaker 1: this episode today. I'm so excited to have such an
Speaker 1: amazing conversation with this amazing couple, Jen and Christian Garcia. Yes,
Speaker 1: there you go. We're gonna be just having a good
Speaker 1: chit chat and getting to know each other. I want
Speaker 1: to be very honest and I want to be very
Speaker 1: respectful in all aspects, and you know, approach everything, so
Speaker 1: I apologize if I you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: offend or in any way. This is like first, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to let that, let that be known, and
Speaker 1: that way we can address it and just talk about
Speaker 1: it like normal people, and that way, you know, that
Speaker 1: way everybody knows too, like we're cool. I'm excited because
Speaker 1: this is obviously my first time meeting you guys. I've
Speaker 1: heard so much about you. Actually, one of my best
Speaker 1: friends told me, like, get them on the podcast, owe me,
Speaker 1: and which I'm so happy that we got it to
Speaker 1: work out. I don't know, talking about learning new things
Speaker 1: and talking to new people is something I've learned to
Speaker 1: enjoy and to hear everybody's story differently, and especially you guys.
Speaker 1: You guys have a unique relationship. I want to know
Speaker 1: how you guys met, how all that worked out. You
Speaker 1: guys have a podcast. We have a lot of things
Speaker 1: to talk about here, you guys, so let's get into it.
Speaker 1: I want to know how you guys meant. This is Jen,
Speaker 1: this is Christian.
Speaker 2: You guys.
Speaker 1: You guys are cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah them.
Speaker 3: I don't think you would.
Speaker 1: Anyway, No, but I would love to, like just to
Speaker 1: get to know you guys, and you know your guys'
Speaker 1: story and how you guys grew up and all that
Speaker 1: all right, and that he's a talker.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I talk a little too much coming off.
Speaker 3: You need to go ahead, you start, because.
Speaker 2: Should I say, my version has more crazy?
Speaker 3: Go ahead, take the wheel.
Speaker 2: So we actually met, you know, when we were in
Speaker 2: our party era. There's sauce and stuff everybody. So yeah,
Speaker 2: so he was in his thing, I was in mine.
Speaker 2: And when I first met him, I actually didn't like
Speaker 2: him because I thought he was a no, like cocky
Speaker 2: and he was like see like he would always be
Speaker 2: like you know, mister MG daddy, and I was like
Speaker 2: secrets you know, and so eventually, like we just continued
Speaker 2: hanging out. I wouldn't talk to him at all because I,
Speaker 2: like I said, And one day, you know, we went
Speaker 2: to the car, like it was those times where you
Speaker 2: go somewhere, you go to the car to drink and
Speaker 2: then like allowed drinking inside, yeah, like a pregame thing.
Speaker 2: And he happened to be in the car. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, great, he's in here. I'm like,
Speaker 2: but whatever, I gotta get my drink, you know. So
Speaker 2: I went in the car and he was there and
Speaker 2: we just drank and then I think he started the
Speaker 2: conversation and I was just and I don't know what happened,
Speaker 2: but like the conversation flowed so smoothly and we just
Speaker 2: talked like I don't even think we got out of
Speaker 2: the car. After that, we.
Speaker 3: Didn't do another great Yeah.
Speaker 2: Two babies, I know ten years later believe that. And
Speaker 2: like we just we're talking the whole time. And even
Speaker 2: our friends when they would come to the car, they
Speaker 2: were like, what the hell like that you know.
Speaker 1: Each other friends of friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so your friends and our friends were kind
Speaker 2: of tripping like are they really talking because they knew
Speaker 2: that I didn't like him because I would always be like,
Speaker 2: you know, like talking about you know.
Speaker 3: I have that riis you know what I'm saying for
Speaker 3: a reason what I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the rest is history. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: we played our little game hard to get and stuff,
Speaker 2: but that's my version.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was playing real hard to get. But you know,
Speaker 3: I already know how it. I knew that was in
Speaker 3: the bag already, but I gotta take some time. But
Speaker 3: this is so confident like that, and I think that's why. No, look,
Speaker 3: you'all look at mins and I do this in that
Speaker 3: battle at the end of the day. It's not like
Speaker 3: I'm not cocky at all. You know, I'm a humble person.
Speaker 3: I know where I come from, you know, but that's
Speaker 3: just how I carry myself. And I think it's it's
Speaker 3: it's good, you know, I think it's good. And it
Speaker 3: ended up getting it ended it ended up getting her.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so that's how we met and we just
Speaker 3: started talking. Everything flowed really good, and the rest I
Speaker 3: guess it's history. But yeah, she was playing hard to get. Look,
Speaker 3: it's crazy because let me put this far because he didn't
Speaker 3: put this part. We met, I mean, we met, we
Speaker 3: started talking a little bit more at this party we
Speaker 3: were at where we were like actually kind of flirting
Speaker 3: a little more, and then we got kicked out of
Speaker 3: there because my friends were acting up and we got
Speaker 3: kicked out of this party. So yeah, I hung out
Speaker 3: with some bad boys. So when we got kicked out
Speaker 3: of the party, you know, as I was on my
Speaker 3: way out, I still didn't have her number. So I
Speaker 3: was like, hey, like, let me get your number, and
Speaker 3: she didn't really want to get. She was still playing
Speaker 3: hard to get. She didn't want to really give it
Speaker 3: to me. So then I was like, hey, you know what,
Speaker 3: get my number down. Get So I grabbed her phone,
Speaker 3: her phone, and I put my number in there. And
Speaker 3: then yeah, I was like, now let's if she's really interested,
Speaker 3: she's gonna hit me up. Yeah, so you know the
Speaker 3: traditional way, I guess you get the girl's number, but
Speaker 3: I gave her my number. I was like I ain't
Speaker 3: losing this one, you know what I'm saying, And yeah.
Speaker 2: You give me your number. I was like, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to give you a.
Speaker 3: Mind playing hard and then uh yeah, we just started
Speaker 3: texting and then started hanging out without the friends, and
Speaker 3: that's when we knew, like Oh, so we're kicking it
Speaker 3: without the you know something, and yeah, the rest is
Speaker 3: kind of history. I guess you guys, uh, twenty one,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, I was twenty. Yeah, we're thirty.
Speaker 2: No, well I had I was nineteen about it turned
Speaker 2: twenty and you had turned twenty one?
Speaker 1: Did you guys ever get like obviously judgment and he
Speaker 1: looks anything like, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because for the viewers out there who don't know,
Speaker 3: because I'm sitting down, I don't know what you can tell.
Speaker 3: I'm a little dude, Like I'm four feet tall. I
Speaker 3: have dwarphism. It's not a disease. It is a condition.
Speaker 3: Just to educate people out there. Obviously she's five for five,
Speaker 3: and yeah, it's definitely different for someone like her being
Speaker 3: with someone like me, because in today's world, in today's society,
Speaker 3: you know, you get a lot of judgment, you know, like, oh,
Speaker 3: you're with the little guy, like oh that's funny or
Speaker 3: that's crazy. But you know, it's it's easier at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, Yeah, for sure. And at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, you know, I thank God for
Speaker 3: you know, putting this amazing woman my life. And we
Speaker 3: have an amazing family. We'll talk more about that in
Speaker 3: the episode, but I'm super blessed to have.
Speaker 2: When we first met, actually it was it was something
Speaker 2: that I had to get used to because everywhere we went,
Speaker 2: all eyes were on us, you know, and I wasn't
Speaker 2: used to that. He was used to that, but I wasn't.
Speaker 2: So I would tell him like, oh my gosh, like
Speaker 2: I think it would bother me more than it did
Speaker 2: to him, that the looks, yeah, the looks. And I
Speaker 2: would always want to fight people, you know, like we
Speaker 2: were looking at like I would be like what like
Speaker 2: And then one day like he told me like why,
Speaker 2: Like if it's not bothering me, why does it bother
Speaker 2: you so much? And I was like That's when it
Speaker 2: hit me and I was like, oh my gosh, that's true,
Speaker 2: Like I'm probably making him feel bad, you know, And
Speaker 2: that's when I kind of calmed down, and it was
Speaker 2: it was, it was. It took me time to adjust,
Speaker 2: but now like now we go out and I don't
Speaker 2: even pay attention to people unless I see someone like,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to be funny and like take pictures,
Speaker 2: videos and stuff. Of course, especially now that I have
Speaker 2: my kids, you know, I do.
Speaker 3: Like the other day, Mama Bear stands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the other day I had to, you know, go
Speaker 2: after a lady and tell her to delete. She was
Speaker 2: taking pictures and videos of my kids and I told her, like,
Speaker 2: you better delete those pictures right now, like and she
Speaker 2: had her kids with her. That's what made it even worse.
Speaker 3: But it's not. It wasn't like taking pictures because they
Speaker 3: recognize us on social media, which is one of those
Speaker 3: where like because for those out there that don't know,
Speaker 3: our kids are also little like myself, my son and
Speaker 3: my daughter Camilla and Matteo, so you know we're we're different.
Speaker 3: Obviously you know, it does catch a eye. But yeah,
Speaker 3: she was just trying to be like you know, on
Speaker 3: the Loki, trying to film and like you know, and
Speaker 3: then she's seen I told her, look that ladies take
Speaker 3: it's uncomfortable. So look and it is. It is. You know,
Speaker 3: we're here to educating and we're not trying to We
Speaker 3: don't try to be like, you know, like rude to people.
Speaker 3: But when people do stuff like that, you know, it
Speaker 3: does bother you because they're kids, you know, do whatever.
Speaker 3: We mean, take pictures of me, but like when you
Speaker 3: start taking pictures of innocent child and trying to I
Speaker 3: know their intentions with it. It's it's not and it's
Speaker 3: just weird, like, oh, you're trying to take picture of
Speaker 3: my kids and like, yeah, so it is. But yeah
Speaker 3: she went after I made her delete.
Speaker 1: No, I would too, and I mean it's kind of similar.
Speaker 2: But whatever.
Speaker 1: There's people that obviously like record my families or whatever,
Speaker 1: Like there was someone that was recording me eat the
Speaker 1: other day. Oh I'm saying, it's just uncomfortable. Like I think,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, don't matter what it is,
Speaker 1: nothing nothing. You are human to treat everybody as a human,
Speaker 1: be kind. That's as simple as it is.
Speaker 2: That's so sad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was so disappointing.
Speaker 2: That was the first time too that I actually caught
Speaker 2: someone to pictures of my kids, like it's and it's
Speaker 2: different like my kids to him. Yeah you know, so
Speaker 2: I was so mad.
Speaker 1: Obviously when you had your kids, I don't know, so
Speaker 1: please educate me as well. Did that did you know
Speaker 1: that they were going to come out the same way
Speaker 1: or was it like a possibility?
Speaker 3: So, so the way that works, like the science behind it.
Speaker 3: When it's a little person like myself with a contradplasure
Speaker 3: is the correct term, which is like the most common
Speaker 3: form of dwarfhism because it's like hundreds like because I know,
Speaker 3: you see different types of little people to defend in there,
Speaker 3: and they have different but the what I have is
Speaker 3: called a contraplasure. It is not a disease, is a condition.
Speaker 3: Both of my parents are average heigh and you know,
Speaker 3: so you know, yeah, I'm the only little person in
Speaker 3: my family. I have a brother and a sister. I
Speaker 3: am the oldest, but I'm the only little person in
Speaker 3: my family. So my parents had no idea till I
Speaker 3: was like three months. But I was born like you know,
Speaker 3: obviously a little baby. But at three months are like, oh,
Speaker 3: he's kind of growing a little slower than the regular
Speaker 3: you know, so then they already you know, kind of
Speaker 3: checking out. They're like, oh, yeah, he's going to be
Speaker 3: little and things like that. So now imagine then that
Speaker 3: they have no resources kind of like I mean, like now,
Speaker 3: so they're like, oh, so what does that mean? You know,
Speaker 3: is he healthy? Is he what's gonna Yeah, everything's good.
Speaker 3: He's just his limbs on his arms and his legs
Speaker 3: are a little short than the normal person or the
Speaker 3: average person and that's just how it is. So when
Speaker 3: it comes to me and my wife, since I'm little
Speaker 3: and she's average high, the chances are just fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3: So we know, yeah, there's those possibilities of having someone
Speaker 3: with a contraplace like myself or an average high baby.
Speaker 3: But but yeah, so I guess I don't know. I
Speaker 3: guess my jeans are stronger or something. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's just kind of how it happens. So yeah, we
Speaker 3: could have had someone of average height, but that's just
Speaker 3: how God wanted it. And you know, we're very blessing.
Speaker 1: They're healthy.
Speaker 3: You know, they're healthy. So yeah, we're super boy boy
Speaker 3: and the girl. Yeah we have our son Matteo, he's
Speaker 3: three years old, and then our daughter Camila, who is seven.
Speaker 3: Super super beautiful kids. We're so blessed, happy family, happy families.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're I was it growing up for you?
Speaker 2: For me?
Speaker 1: For you? And like, how would you implement that on
Speaker 1: your kids? Because I feel like the world's a little
Speaker 1: bit more harsher now or less. I mean, obviously it
Speaker 1: might be different, but you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: how would you help teach them because obviously they got
Speaker 1: to go to school and all that, and I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I couldn't imagine how to like tell them or talk
Speaker 1: to them.
Speaker 3: Well, Ma, Thios three, you know, he understands some things.
Speaker 3: But Camilla, she's already seven. She has more of an
Speaker 3: understanding of things when we tell her and explain to her.
Speaker 3: But ever since she was younger as well, you know,
Speaker 3: we've always told them like, you know, you guys are different,
Speaker 3: this is this is what it is, but don't let that,
Speaker 3: you know, hold you back for whatever it is, and
Speaker 3: not trying to like sugarcoat things, but we tell them like,
Speaker 3: you know, it's going to be. It's a rough world
Speaker 3: that we're living in, and you know, the world we
Speaker 3: live in is not adapted to us, so we got
Speaker 3: to find a way to accommodate and just make it happen. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: we teach them to do things on their own and
Speaker 3: be very independent because you know, we're not going to
Speaker 3: be there forever. So yeah, we teach them that then.
Speaker 3: And Camilla, she's she takes that so very very good.
Speaker 3: And yeah, so me growing up, I grew up in
Speaker 3: like an urban environment on the block with the homies
Speaker 3: and my friends, and so I was the only little
Speaker 3: person in my group and young man, I'm talking to
Speaker 3: the meno, So no one's gonna call me harder than
Speaker 3: my homies, you know what I'm saying. So like that
Speaker 3: made me tough skin Like I grew up on the block,
Speaker 3: drinking forties whatever it can take, forty ouns bigger than
Speaker 3: me and stuff. But I never took life too serious.
Speaker 3: I knew I was different, but I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make the best of it. And I just
Speaker 3: always been very confident ever since I was like younger.
Speaker 3: My mom always told me, like, you know, even when
Speaker 3: she would try to help me with things like okay,
Speaker 3: that use like no, Mom, like I got this. I
Speaker 3: got this just because I think being little and being different,
Speaker 3: I've always wanted to prove myself to show the world like,
Speaker 3: you know what, I can do this. It might be
Speaker 3: ten times harder or whatever, but I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm I need to prove to myself really that I
Speaker 3: could do this, and you know, not be soft and
Speaker 3: like oh I need help and things like that. So yeah,
Speaker 3: grow gowing up honestly like I always taught gen. It
Speaker 3: sounds crazy, but I feel like I was kind of
Speaker 3: the bully. I was the bully, Like I didn't you know,
Speaker 3: if someone try to be mean to me, all was
Speaker 3: like I would stand my ground and be like yeah,
Speaker 3: like but I never you know. I think that is
Speaker 3: just the environment I grew up. All my friends were
Speaker 3: average high and they didn't treat me any different, you
Speaker 3: know they. I think that's what made it, like made
Speaker 3: me the person today too. Besides you know, my parents
Speaker 3: and things like that. But growing up on the block
Speaker 3: with the homies and them not treating me any different,
Speaker 3: still involving me with everything and just still doing bad
Speaker 3: stuff together and everything all around. I think that just
Speaker 3: made it like different for me. So I think it
Speaker 3: all allow us to do with how you're raised in
Speaker 3: the sense of like don't I mean, everyone's parents different.
Speaker 3: This is how I think, you know, how we do things.
Speaker 3: Don't like and close them too much, don't protect them
Speaker 3: too much because you're gonna not you're gonna make them soft.
Speaker 3: But like they gotta know, like it's a crazy world
Speaker 3: out there, you know. And I think sometimes some kids
Speaker 3: grow up to be very babied and very like oh
Speaker 3: no me, like, don't go out there. Like I was
Speaker 3: outside I was getting that vitamin d you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like I was outside twenty stuff. But I
Speaker 3: think in the long run, like it like it made
Speaker 3: me like who I am?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's how it was for me growing up
Speaker 3: school Everything was cool. And I'm not gonna sit here
Speaker 3: and say like, oh I was bullied, Like I just
Speaker 3: think it all comes down to how you carry yourself.
Speaker 3: And I mean obviously if you're I don't know different
Speaker 3: and you don't speak up and compose it, I mean,
Speaker 3: not compose yourself, carry yourself well, you know, because the
Speaker 3: bully's gonna Because people tell me, all right, how are
Speaker 3: you gonna have kids like that? If you know they're
Speaker 3: gonna get bullied. I'm like, look, it starts at home, dude.
Speaker 3: Worry about your kid. Make sure he's not gonna be
Speaker 3: a bully, you know what I'm saying. And whether the
Speaker 3: kid is little or big or small or wide or
Speaker 3: whatever it is you want to the bully's gonna be
Speaker 3: a bully regardless whether he has new shoes on or
Speaker 3: old shoes on. The bully's gonna find a way or so,
Speaker 3: you know, I think, just it just starts at home.
Speaker 3: Raise your kids to be good human beings, and that's
Speaker 3: just how I see it.
Speaker 1: You You're very confident, which I like, and I think
Speaker 1: that's what got her because if I can't imagine the
Speaker 1: way you was her like, all right, you guys, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go on a quick break and we'll be back
Speaker 1: with the Garcia family. Welcome back. Were you at any
Speaker 1: point like worried or scared?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It was. You know, it was new to me
Speaker 2: too as well, you know, so I was I did
Speaker 2: a lot of research.
Speaker 3: Oh how did the question Google? How did the question
Speaker 3: you freaking Google? But this is this is funny, Like.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I mean, of course, like anyone, you know,
Speaker 2: I didn't know anyone who was little. Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: I've seen other little people, but I didn't really know
Speaker 2: much about you know. When I met him and I
Speaker 2: like started feeling things for him, I was just like,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously it's different. You know, he's different. So
Speaker 2: I started, you know, googling, like, you know, like, at
Speaker 2: what age do they die? You know, you know stupid question, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Is it gonna be around long enough?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know, because I'm like, I don't want to
Speaker 2: fall in love and then he dies in like two
Speaker 2: years or something, you know. So I started, you know,
Speaker 2: just researching and like they're pretty much you know what
Speaker 2: to expect, you know, and if he were we were
Speaker 2: to have kids, like what can I expect? You know?
Speaker 2: And then that's when I found out, like it's a
Speaker 2: fifty to fifty chance and pretty much you know, it's
Speaker 2: just they could live a pretty healthy, normal life and
Speaker 2: obviously you know, it can come with complications just like
Speaker 2: anybody else. So yeah, I had to do my research,
Speaker 2: you know, before I got committed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so but you know what, like it makes sense though,
Speaker 3: because like if I put myself in her shoes, like
Speaker 3: I probably would have done the thing. It's like I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh wow, like you know, because you're not educating. And
Speaker 3: then I think that's why, Like on our podcast Love
Speaker 3: a little podcast, that's kind of what we like to
Speaker 3: push and educate people on, like you know, on doorfism
Speaker 3: and the different things and things like that, because a
Speaker 3: lot of people get a misconception of what it really
Speaker 3: is and because a lot of us little people are
Speaker 3: like it's like a gimmick on TV. What you see
Speaker 3: like you'll see like like him thinking of side, Like
Speaker 3: you'll see like they use us as something funny or
Speaker 3: like oh, you're an elf, like an elf in a movie,
Speaker 3: or you know, we're also business people. You know, we
Speaker 3: have regular families just like other people, and a lot
Speaker 3: of times the world doesn't see that, you know, And
Speaker 3: I think that's what we're here to do and use
Speaker 3: our platform to educate the world and like let everyone know,
Speaker 3: like you know, we're I'm a hustler too, I'm a
Speaker 3: business owner. You know, my beautiful wife, I got two
Speaker 3: beautiful kids who were capable of doing above and beyond,
Speaker 3: like you know, so yeah, I think it's very important
Speaker 3: to just educate the world. Then I always tell you
Speaker 3: it's not. There's never really like dumb questions on us.
Speaker 3: You know, your intentions are to be bad. But like
Speaker 3: I love when people are like, oh, what's the correct
Speaker 3: term for you guys? Or do we call you guys?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it which we don't really like to
Speaker 3: use because I'm here to educate, Like, oh, midget's like
Speaker 3: midget is not a correct term, and we take it
Speaker 3: very well. I want to say, like a fan, like
Speaker 3: it's just not a proper It just sounds it's derogatory,
Speaker 3: you know, it just sounds bad. So what we would
Speaker 3: like to be referred as is by our names, just
Speaker 3: like everyone else names Kia and that's Jen. But you know, obviously,
Speaker 3: if you're referring you know, you could say little person
Speaker 3: or the you know, LP or whatever. But the m
Speaker 3: where we don't like to use, just because in the
Speaker 3: little people community is just it's kind offensive, you know,
Speaker 3: because when they refer to someone, it's usually like they're clown, like, oh,
Speaker 3: look at the midget. It's it's like almost like they're
Speaker 3: referring us to an object. It's like look at the midget,
Speaker 3: like look at the like what the heck? Bro, Like
Speaker 3: that's weird. Yeah, you know so, and yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3: You know, we're here to educate the world. And it
Speaker 3: it's going to take us. It's day by day, little
Speaker 3: by little, but you know, a baby step is better
Speaker 3: than those steps, you know, which.
Speaker 1: I appreciate because that's why, like I want it. I
Speaker 1: opened up. I was like, you know what, I want
Speaker 1: to address it. I want to be you know, very
Speaker 1: respectful and I think in any any situation in general,
Speaker 1: like I want to I want I'm entering your world
Speaker 1: and I want to understand you guys and to see
Speaker 1: you know your guys' point of view, because obviously I
Speaker 1: don't understand a lot of people don't. And that's the
Speaker 1: point I love, and I love that you guys are
Speaker 1: educating people and that you take it very not lightly,
Speaker 1: but very gracefully. You're not like harsh about it, like
Speaker 1: you're an asshole about it. No, like you're just like,
Speaker 1: this is what it is and how you want to
Speaker 1: educate people, because I think people deserve to know, because
Speaker 1: you're right. The only way I knew about little People
Speaker 1: was on TLC and people would make fun of it
Speaker 1: and whatever. I don't I don't make but you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like it was like it was, it
Speaker 1: was taken as a joke, and I don't I don't
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think it's I don't think it's cool.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody has their own thing. It's like the way God wanted,
Speaker 1: the way God intended things, and that's why it is.
Speaker 1: And you have your purpose and your plan and you're
Speaker 1: living out your purpose and it's you know, educating and
Speaker 1: bringing light and obviously this is normal for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. People have this life and it's okay, and
Speaker 1: it's just.
Speaker 3: Ye, you're a little different, a little different, but you know, doesn't.
Speaker 1: Change who you are, doesn't change. It doesn't define you either.
Speaker 1: You mentioned you guys own a business. What business?
Speaker 3: Oh so I have? Well, I have a barbershop. I
Speaker 3: own a barbershop, and then we have have my own
Speaker 3: clothing brand and then we do the social media thing
Speaker 3: and all that.
Speaker 1: So okay, So yeah, you guys mentioned the podcast and
Speaker 1: obviously you guys talked about your social media. How did
Speaker 1: that all start too?
Speaker 3: So I've been talking.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. My family already knows that when he's around,
Speaker 2: I have to raise my hands.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm I'm kidding.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, actually it's funny. I started around COVID. Well
Speaker 2: before COVID, we kind of had started, like people just
Speaker 2: started asking me on Instagram like, oh, you guys should
Speaker 2: like film and do blogs and stuff. And for a
Speaker 2: long time we had the camera like I'm not gonna lie,
Speaker 2: like for a whole year, but we never like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, we just it wasn't like our dream or
Speaker 2: goal like oh I want to be an influencer or yeah.
Speaker 2: So then people kept telling us and one day we
Speaker 2: were like, finally you picked up the camera. After like
Speaker 2: a year, and we just started blogging and filming and
Speaker 2: sharing like our life and people liked it. People liked it,
Speaker 2: and then covid came around. I uploaded a video of
Speaker 2: my husband getting home from work because he used to
Speaker 2: work construction. Okay, yeah, he used to be a supervisor
Speaker 2: at a like big construction company, and I just filmed
Speaker 2: him with like one of those songs and it blew up,
Speaker 2: It blew up, and it went viral like all over
Speaker 2: Instagram and TikTok and and then you know, more people
Speaker 2: just started following us, and we just kind of took that.
Speaker 2: We're like, okay, you know, and then that's when TikTok
Speaker 2: kind of had just came in. Our biggest platform is TikTok,
Speaker 2: and we just continued uploading like tiktoks of us and
Speaker 2: then it worked out. Yeah, and it worked out.
Speaker 1: And in the podcast, you also mentioned that you were
Speaker 1: working in the medical field. You left that what was
Speaker 1: happening during that time or was it because of this
Speaker 1: that you that you decided.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I was working in the medical field. And
Speaker 2: then when I had my daughter, you know, we were
Speaker 2: kind of struggling with like daycare and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and I don't know. When I would leave her at
Speaker 2: day my eye is to take care of her, and
Speaker 2: then when I would come pick her up, she didn't
Speaker 2: want to leave sometimes, so that broke my heart. And
Speaker 2: I started getting like anxiety and stuff because she didn't
Speaker 2: want to be with well, not that she didn't want
Speaker 2: to be with me, but since like they were so
Speaker 2: good to her too there, you know. And I was
Speaker 2: like and I would tell him, like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: Like every time I talk about this, I get emotion.
Speaker 2: No I don't know why, but I know it's just hard,
Speaker 2: like having someone else raised your kid, you know. So
Speaker 2: and even like when I just talk to him about this,
Speaker 2: I always get emotional. Sorry, but like I never wanted
Speaker 2: to leat for my kid because me growing up, my
Speaker 2: mom was always working too, you know, so like I
Speaker 2: didn't I don't want my kid to go through what
Speaker 2: I went through. And I started getting anxiety. I would
Speaker 2: sometimes go to the heart hospital because I thought I
Speaker 2: was like getting a heart attack because just because of
Speaker 2: my daughter. Think because we had to put in a
Speaker 2: daycare and you know, you just think a lot of
Speaker 2: a lot of things. So my husband was like just quit,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I can't you know, I'm so
Speaker 2: used to having my own money, not that I couldn't
Speaker 2: rely on him, but when my parents raised me, yes,
Speaker 2: and my parents always raised me to like never depend
Speaker 2: on a matner, Like I had that mentality. So when
Speaker 2: he told me I was and then he's like, do it,
Speaker 2: I was like sure, He's like yeah, I called and
Speaker 2: I said I'm not coming back, and I didn't go
Speaker 2: back on him. And yeah, ever since then, I've been
Speaker 2: a stay at home mom, and you know, luckily social
Speaker 2: media was kind of you know, picking up for us
Speaker 2: and we're doing good. That's good. And then he quit
Speaker 2: his job like years after.
Speaker 1: Okay, but in the same part, I think it was
Speaker 1: the same where you said that you weren't able to
Speaker 1: get a job because they didn't want.
Speaker 3: To hire you with Oh yeah that was another Yeah
Speaker 3: that was a but that was prior to that job. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I had. I had went. It was a time where
Speaker 3: we were I really needed work. It was like desperate,
Speaker 3: you know, desperate times like I need a job with
Speaker 3: a different job, better paying job, whatever. Because I left
Speaker 3: I had just left some other job and I went
Speaker 3: to this job agency. Right, but you know, obviously I
Speaker 3: look different on my appearance on You know, I'm a
Speaker 3: four foot tall grown man, you know, and it's like
Speaker 3: I walk into this agency and I'm like, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm looking for work. I can do this, I can
Speaker 3: do that. This lady, the lady there comes up to
Speaker 3: me with like a paper and like a list of
Speaker 3: other job agencies. Right, It's crazy. This is real. This
Speaker 3: is real stuff. This is kind of stuff we gotta
Speaker 3: deal with as well, not just as little people, but
Speaker 3: being like different. You know. She came up to me
Speaker 3: and she's like, oh, we can't hire you here, but
Speaker 3: here's a list of other agencies that can hire you.
Speaker 3: And then I was just like like I didn't like
Speaker 3: really get crazy about her. And then I was just like,
Speaker 3: oh why not. She's like, oh, we can't tell you.
Speaker 3: And I was just like all right, and but I
Speaker 3: didn't know, what's the thing. I'm just like at the moment,
Speaker 3: I was just like, oh whatever, you know, onto the
Speaker 3: next because I don't get like, but her easy. I'm
Speaker 3: just like I'm not gonna sit there and cry and
Speaker 3: be all depressed and emo.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, Oh, it is what it is. They
Speaker 3: can't hire me. I'm gonna so then I left and
Speaker 3: then I like, I see with my wife talking to her.
Speaker 3: I was like, hey, so they they told me they
Speaker 3: can't hire me there because they just can't. They said
Speaker 3: they didn't give me a reason. So she the fend that,
Speaker 3: like she backs me up like crazy. She's like so
Speaker 3: she's like, oh no, that's not right, like that's not normal,
Speaker 3: Like you don't do that. But you know what, I
Speaker 3: think they seen me as a liability there, like they
Speaker 3: see me like it's I'll out, he said, said, I'm like, bro,
Speaker 3: I can do you know. And so long story short,
Speaker 3: one of her family members worked at that agency, but
Speaker 3: for a different state. Ironically, right, she called up that
Speaker 3: office and like was tripping, like what the heck you know,
Speaker 3: like and then they knew they weren't like like I
Speaker 3: could have done something, you know, but I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: do that. I could have like suit or whatever. Pressure.
Speaker 3: But long story short, because I did need a job.
Speaker 3: I mean I should have been like no, I don't
Speaker 3: want to work for you guys, but they I did
Speaker 3: end up working and then yeah, I got a job
Speaker 3: with them for a little bit. But yeah, long story short,
Speaker 3: people will judge you by your appearance.
Speaker 1: Which and I feel like they also judge you right
Speaker 1: because of all of everything. Yeah, but you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know what you signed yourself up for. Have you
Speaker 1: ever feeled like have you ever felt like damn, like
Speaker 1: any moment of like maybe doubt or like obviously you
Speaker 1: seem like the types of beut of the offense. I like,
Speaker 1: you know, because I would too, like but a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't understand why so obviously when you signed obviously,
Speaker 1: when you got with him and all that, and you know,
Speaker 1: you're you guys are in the community and you guys
Speaker 1: are in a beautiful family and it works for you.
Speaker 1: What is your take on obviously, you know when things
Speaker 1: like that happened, because to him, it's like whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, like it is what it is. But for you,
Speaker 1: like what runs through your mind?
Speaker 2: Well, when that happened, I was upset because I was like,
Speaker 2: you know, they're discriminating him. You know, they're discriminating him
Speaker 2: off of you know, his appearance, his disability condition, whatever
Speaker 2: you want to call it. And you know that's why
Speaker 2: now with our kids, you know, we're raising them to
Speaker 2: know that they're different, and then that's going to happen,
Speaker 2: that that may happen you know, and that's also why
Speaker 2: our purpose of us of us doing social media, you know,
Speaker 2: to educate people. And you know, just just because you're
Speaker 2: different doesn't mean that, you know, you're uncapable of So
Speaker 2: we're pretty much you know, just want to open people's
Speaker 2: minds up. And obviously it upsets me, I think more
Speaker 2: because maybe once I was also naive. You know, sometimes
Speaker 2: you when, like he says, when you're not educated, you know,
Speaker 2: about a topic or something, you can be very naive,
Speaker 2: you know. So now that I'm educated on you know,
Speaker 2: which is Dwarfism, and I have an open mind, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm hoping that others, you know, can see that as well,
Speaker 2: and next time they run into someone who's different, whether
Speaker 2: it be Dwarfism, blind, whatever, anything that makes them different, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's you know, let them give them that opportunity to
Speaker 2: prove themselves, to show you what they really cap rather
Speaker 2: than just having like being close minded.
Speaker 1: Of course, how was it explaining that with your family
Speaker 1: and friends? Was that?
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, it's actually pretty funny. I always
Speaker 2: get this question, and my family was very supportive. They
Speaker 2: at least to my face. They never told me anything
Speaker 2: negative about him or about having a family.
Speaker 1: With him, anything about the kids.
Speaker 2: No, never, like I said to my face, behind my back,
Speaker 2: who knows, you know, I'm not sure. But when I
Speaker 2: actually because I'm really close to my oldest brother, so
Speaker 2: when I.
Speaker 3: She's the only girl.
Speaker 2: By the way, no, I'm not the only girl. I'm
Speaker 2: the youngest youngest girl. Yeah. So I told my brother,
Speaker 2: you know, like, hey, I'm at a I and you
Speaker 2: know he's short. You know, I just said he's.
Speaker 3: Short, and then he was like okay.
Speaker 2: He was just kind of like okay, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: he's like really short. And then he's like they didn't
Speaker 2: know who he was or no, they hadn't met him.
Speaker 2: And this is when I knew, you know that I
Speaker 2: was like serious, you know that I wanted to be
Speaker 2: with him and stuff, and he was just like okay,
Speaker 2: like so w be short. And then I didn't know
Speaker 2: how to tell him that he was a little person
Speaker 2: because I was scared of, you know, to get like
Speaker 2: a bad reaction, you know or something. And I told
Speaker 2: him I'm like, he's a little person, and then I
Speaker 2: think he was like, oh, you know, like okay, okay,
Speaker 2: and he was just he was like, well if if
Speaker 2: that if you're sure about it, like then you know
Speaker 2: it is what it is. And one thing he told
Speaker 2: me is he's like, I just hope it's not like
Speaker 2: you just getting an experience or or like playing with him,
Speaker 2: you know, as like a joke or like a fun thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like a fetish, you know, because many people, let's talk
Speaker 2: about it. Well yeah, well, I mean, you know, people
Speaker 2: have fetish for everything. But like I get a lot
Speaker 2: of comments like on my socials like, oh, she must
Speaker 2: have a fetish, Like, no, I don't have a fetish.
Speaker 2: I've never been with another Yeah, I've never been with
Speaker 2: a little person before him, Like I'm just never into
Speaker 2: little people. Like if me and him or something, he
Speaker 2: was not here anymore, Like, no, I probably would not
Speaker 2: date another little person because it's not a fetish, you know.
Speaker 2: So let's clear the air. Yeah, and I because of yeah,
Speaker 2: because of him, you know. And my parents. When I
Speaker 2: told my mom, she was very like, okay too, Like
Speaker 2: she was like, well, actually, my my mom where she
Speaker 2: grew up in Mexico, I think that was like a
Speaker 2: family of little people. So it wasn't like us because.
Speaker 1: We've kind of understood it more right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I always talk to. I'm like, because in
Speaker 2: my school there was two little people as well. I
Speaker 2: was like, it was God preparing future.
Speaker 1: What's going to happen?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always tell him. I think God was preparing
Speaker 2: me for my future, you know. And my dad this
Speaker 2: it's a funny story. Okay, I'm pretty sure your mom
Speaker 2: probably performed. Okay, yeah, I don't know if you remember
Speaker 2: back then, but they used to have little people, you know,
Speaker 2: bull fighting like a show Torrero's, prior to like the singers. Well,
Speaker 2: my dad used to take us a lot like.
Speaker 1: This was yeah, this was God.
Speaker 3: Okayn, little people here, someone here. Yeah, given a couple
Speaker 3: more years, I'll bring another one out.
Speaker 2: Okay, So they would take you, he would yeah like
Speaker 2: that was like he used to love taking us and
Speaker 2: we used to like going too. And so when I
Speaker 2: told my dad, I didn't know how to tell him, right.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, Dad, you know, I just wanted
Speaker 2: to tell you because my dad was always like the
Speaker 2: I don't want to meet no guy unless it's serious,
Speaker 2: like you know type of guy. So this it was serious.
Speaker 2: So I was like, Okay, how did I tell him?
Speaker 2: How the time? I was like, Dad, you know, I
Speaker 2: just wanted to tell you that I have a boyfriend.
Speaker 2: And he was like okay. And then I was like,
Speaker 2: but he's different. Like he's like, yeah, well you guys
Speaker 2: all say that.
Speaker 1: You know he's thinking of guys.
Speaker 3: He's different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like, no, like he's really different guy.
Speaker 2: Like I'm like he's short. He's like again, okay, so
Speaker 2: what if he's short? I'm like, I tell him. So
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like, dad, remember when he used to
Speaker 2: take us to lesson Anita start at us And he's like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, I remember. And I'm like and then I'm like,
Speaker 2: he's short like that, like you know, and he's like,
Speaker 2: oh it's I'm like, you knowsmo, Like he's he's short.
Speaker 2: He's like okay, He's like he told me that, yeah,
Speaker 2: And I was just like okay. But you know, it
Speaker 2: was just so funny the way, like how am I
Speaker 2: gonna expect? I'm like, okay, well, and I need it
Speaker 2: as like that's the only way. Even even I got nervous.
Speaker 2: But you know, my family loves him. All my family
Speaker 2: loved him, and they I mean, he can tell you
Speaker 2: for himself, like I don't think they've ever made him
Speaker 2: feel different or uncomfortable. And I'm glad. I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, I think I talked to her family
Speaker 3: and everyone super like we're like, yeah, it's it's they're
Speaker 3: very very good people.
Speaker 1: All Right, you guys, we're gonna go on a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be back with the Garcia family. Welcome back.
Speaker 1: You also have like a period when you I don't
Speaker 1: know which one, but they had mentioned like maybe you
Speaker 1: shouldn't keep your baby right, Oh yeah, how was that
Speaker 1: for you? And like what went through your head? Obviously,
Speaker 1: because that's I don't think any person ever wants to
Speaker 1: hear those things, you know what I mean? And especially yeah,
Speaker 1: no one ever wants to hear them. So like what
Speaker 1: was it? What did like what was that time for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So it was actually you know, when you're pregnant
Speaker 2: and they're measuring your baby. Yeah, so that's when they
Speaker 2: tell us, like that's when they could tell if they're
Speaker 2: going to be little.
Speaker 3: So they could tell yeah, yeah, especially now, I mean
Speaker 3: it's different because I'm the dad is little too, so
Speaker 3: they know the possibilities.
Speaker 2: But I think it's they start measuring like their limbs
Speaker 2: and everything, make sure that everything is good. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: the doctor. I remember he stepped out and came like
Speaker 2: you know, so I was like, okay, what's going on?
Speaker 2: You know, at this point, I'm thinking, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 2: like my baby probably died or doesn't have a brain
Speaker 2: or something. You know, I'm thinking the worst. And then
Speaker 2: he tells me that, you know, my daughter, it was
Speaker 2: my firstborn, that she's going to be little. So I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, okay, you know, because my husband's little.
Speaker 2: I mean I knew he didn't I know that, but
Speaker 2: I don't think he knew, or I don't think he
Speaker 2: looked at my chart to see that I had put
Speaker 2: that he like, my husband was little. So she told me,
Speaker 2: and I was just like okay, and he's like are
Speaker 2: you okay? And I'm like yeah, like you know, because
Speaker 2: it's I tell Christian, I think it's different. You know,
Speaker 2: when a first time mom, for example, like his mom,
Speaker 2: and they were to tell her, her reaction would probably
Speaker 2: be more different, you know, more scared. But since I knew,
Speaker 2: I wasn't scared. I mean, you know, this was the
Speaker 2: first or yeah, my first, my daughter. So he was like,
Speaker 2: you know, you can still terminate. And I was already
Speaker 2: halfway through my pregnancy. I was twenty weeks, you know,
Speaker 2: at this point I could already feel her and stuff,
Speaker 2: and I was just like no, and then he's like, okay,
Speaker 2: like if you change your mind, let me no.
Speaker 1: But there was no reason why, like no, it's just
Speaker 1: because she wasn't because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just because she was Pasia.
Speaker 3: You didn't know that, like the dad is a little person. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was different.
Speaker 2: So I was like, no.
Speaker 1: Maybe if he knew.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, but they still probably.
Speaker 1: Would they still have suggested it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah they would. And people do terminate at
Speaker 2: that age when something, you know, comes. But I told her,
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, I like if I would have
Speaker 2: been him, I don't think I would have my satter
Speaker 2: like that, know, I think I feel like it's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's almost it was they want you to. Like,
Speaker 3: I feel like sometimes someone's like are you sure, like
Speaker 3: are you really? Yeah, you know money, and it's like
Speaker 3: are you sure, and then it's like are you sure?
Speaker 1: It's yeah, that's like supers.
Speaker 2: That's how I felt like.
Speaker 1: This is like this is a baby, like yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: like you know, I can not to see if you did,
Speaker 1: if that doctor really got in your head.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was so upset to and then I told
Speaker 2: him like, yeah, can you believe he told me like
Speaker 2: if I wanted to terminate, I'm like, I could feel
Speaker 2: my baby like, no, I don't want to terminate, And
Speaker 2: you know, I was upset. I was, you know, but
Speaker 2: I guess that's their job, right or whatever. And a
Speaker 2: lot of times, you know, women do want to terminate
Speaker 2: if there's something different or wrong with their babies. So
Speaker 2: but yeah, it was. I still remember, and when I
Speaker 2: was pregnant with my son, I made sure not to
Speaker 2: get him. Yeah, I'm like, no, I don't want him
Speaker 2: again because yeah, and thank god both of our kids
Speaker 2: are healthy. You know, my son he was when he
Speaker 2: was younger, he did have to have surgery, but it's
Speaker 2: a very common surgery with little people and with average
Speaker 2: hype people. But thank god they're both healthy.
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, because when I was like that, I
Speaker 1: just obviously I get I get passionate about like you know,
Speaker 1: doctors or whatever like that, because I just feel like
Speaker 1: they're not doing it correctly. Yeah, it's like they're very
Speaker 1: negative when they're supposed to be the total opposite exactly,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I think as a woman, like,
Speaker 1: it's just no one ever, like I said, no one
Speaker 1: ever wants to hear that. And it's just like you said,
Speaker 1: money talks, money talks, just like it's just disappointing. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, like it's just I think overall, if
Speaker 1: everybody had the same respect for each other, like and
Speaker 1: accepting I guess nature and the way God wants everything, like,
Speaker 1: I feel like it'd be just I don't know, the
Speaker 1: world would be a better place like and I just
Speaker 1: I have Maybe that's just me, but I have a
Speaker 1: lot of love and respect for whatever type of person
Speaker 1: any you know, little average gay, lesbian, all this like
Speaker 1: whatever you want to be man, woman trands like I
Speaker 1: just feel like it comes back to you good karma
Speaker 1: like and I think God also honors and respects like
Speaker 1: people that have good intentions, good hearts, and that would
Speaker 1: be my hope. As for I guess, you know, doctors,
Speaker 1: the people that we give all our money to like.
Speaker 2: And trust right exactly like the ones you trust exactly.
Speaker 1: So like, I don't know that that's just so disappointing
Speaker 1: and I can't imagine like what you guys obviously go
Speaker 1: through every day and every it's different for everybody. How
Speaker 1: do you guys handle because obviously you guys have a
Speaker 1: good support system on social media and everybody loves the content.
Speaker 1: But obviously there's always the best people, the haters and
Speaker 1: the people that talk shit and are probably mad that
Speaker 1: you guys are a happy couple and live a normal
Speaker 1: life and don't understand it. That's you know, how do
Speaker 1: you guys handle all that? Man?
Speaker 3: All right? So you know, we're here to spread positivity.
Speaker 3: That's why we use a platform. So you know, obviously
Speaker 3: sometimes you do see comments and I'm like, man, I
Speaker 3: want to roast it so bad or I want to
Speaker 3: get back on him, you know, But I'm like, you
Speaker 3: know what, No, that's not what I was placed on
Speaker 3: this start to do. I'm here to spread positivity. I'm
Speaker 3: not supposed to hate on them.
Speaker 2: Back.
Speaker 3: Let him do his thing. And there's like a picture
Speaker 3: of a cat and he's like commenting some crazy stuff.
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm not going to entertain something that
Speaker 3: you know shouldn't be. So like we just kind of,
Speaker 3: I guess put on the back man, and we just
Speaker 3: let it be, let it do this thing. And then
Speaker 3: since we do have a really dope support system like,
Speaker 3: and they're in the comment section fighting and we don't
Speaker 3: even respond sometimes like they'll be like a negative comment
Speaker 3: and then you see our like people that you know,
Speaker 3: like supporters or whatever, just attacking and we're just right there, like, wow,
Speaker 3: look at people really are going crazy over there. But
Speaker 3: other than that, I think to do this social media thing,
Speaker 3: you can't be like soft skin like. And I say this,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, everyone in the in the social
Speaker 3: media world, it's it's it's not an easy it's not
Speaker 3: an easy thing to put your life out there because
Speaker 3: especially if you get if you get very hurt with
Speaker 3: like with like negativity, if you're sensitive, you're not gonna
Speaker 3: survive out there. That's all. Like I say. They will
Speaker 3: chew you up, spitch you out, They will say things
Speaker 3: about your kids, say things about you, say horrible things.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, you know, you
Speaker 3: know who you are as a person through and I
Speaker 3: think that's what matters most. Because people could say things
Speaker 3: it doesn't you know, sticks and stone, they break my bones,
Speaker 3: I always in but freaking words gonna harm me.
Speaker 2: They're mad over like behind the screen, and we're like
Speaker 2: living life happy and you know.
Speaker 1: Exactly you're happy, and they're probably, yeah, very unhappy.
Speaker 3: And I think the crazy thing about it is I
Speaker 3: can't sometimes because I like to see things in every
Speaker 3: perspective and every you know, and I try to put
Speaker 3: myself in like a negative person's shoes. Right, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 3: they're hating on me because you know, I have my
Speaker 3: wife and I have my kids, and I'm like, you
Speaker 3: know what now that I think they have every reason
Speaker 3: to hate me because look they see me that I'm different,
Speaker 3: quote unquote, I'm a little dude, right, and then I'm
Speaker 3: like with my beautiful wife and then I have my
Speaker 3: beautiful kids and like my life is going pretty well,
Speaker 3: you know, and they're like, man, I'm pretty quote unquote normal,
Speaker 3: Like when is that gonna happen for me? Like, and
Speaker 3: then they're just hating on me because you know, I'm
Speaker 3: like doing all right in life. So like I get it,
Speaker 3: you know, like they're mad, you know, and but I
Speaker 3: mean that ain't my problem, you know.
Speaker 2: Just I just uploaded a video last week that went
Speaker 2: like pretty viral too, and all the comments are like, oh,
Speaker 2: like if he can do it, like what's wrong with me?
Speaker 2: You know, like those type of comments and I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's your problem, Like you're like trying to be superior
Speaker 2: to someone who's different instead of just like worrying about yourself,
Speaker 2: you know, or like or like I can't even get
Speaker 2: a text back. I'm like, because you have that mentality,
Speaker 2: that's why I want, you know.
Speaker 3: So it comes down to like how you are as
Speaker 3: a person. People think, like I said, because they're normal
Speaker 3: and chastic, but they're jerk, so they're probably like a
Speaker 3: horrible person. And it's like, why does he get that?
Speaker 3: And I'm still in my room, like just not doing nothing.
Speaker 3: It's like, bro, it's how you carry yourself, how you
Speaker 3: are as a person at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: you know, That's what it comes down to. How you
Speaker 3: treat people if your intentions are good, you know. And yeah, people,
Speaker 3: you know, we get a little bit of everything, but
Speaker 3: we take it. And I say, I don't know a blessing,
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, of course of course.
Speaker 1: And both of you this is like your full time
Speaker 1: job now, yeah we do yeah the barbershop.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we have like a little barbershop and stuff,
Speaker 3: and then we have our like clothing brand and yeah,
Speaker 3: this is what we've been doing for the past. Was
Speaker 3: it three years, four three or four years, and we're
Speaker 3: very blessed. I mean it's not easy because you know,
Speaker 3: having your own things is hard. You know, you clock
Speaker 3: in whenever you want, but at the same time, you
Speaker 3: never clock out. You're always in it. You're always in
Speaker 3: and you risk a lot more, you know. Sometimes I
Speaker 3: I that's the thing, Like sometimes I tell myself, like,
Speaker 3: because you know, I've worked in construction. I used to work.
Speaker 3: I know it sounds excited out. I meant like excited out,
Speaker 3: but like I was working sixteen hour shifts, seven days
Speaker 3: a week, like crazy, like slave stuff. Like I was
Speaker 3: in there all day every day. That's when she quit
Speaker 3: her job, you know. So I already know what it's
Speaker 3: like working out there, you know. And and respect and
Speaker 3: a huge shout out to all the people working out
Speaker 3: in the sun, all the hard workers, all the chefs,
Speaker 3: all the doctors still look at you know, putting in hours.
Speaker 3: My salute to you guys. I really like I respect
Speaker 3: every single hard worker out there, you know. But yeah,
Speaker 3: this is it's not easy, you know. And I'm not
Speaker 3: saying it like because I know people get roast, like
Speaker 3: influencers get roasted on him and be like, oh, it's
Speaker 3: not easy. All you gotta do is film came with
Speaker 3: the camera and stuff. But you know there's a lot
Speaker 3: too it. You know, you're sacrificing a lot. You know,
Speaker 3: you're putting a lot on the line because it's like
Speaker 3: it might work, it might not, but like if you
Speaker 3: really believe in it and you go one hundred and
Speaker 3: ten percent, you know it can go very well. You know,
Speaker 3: so for.
Speaker 1: Sure, and it's obviously worked out for you guys after
Speaker 1: a good reason. Yeah, And I think that more importantly,
Speaker 1: it's like, like I've always said, like you guys have
Speaker 1: the greatest intentions and ultimately wanting to educate and sure
Speaker 1: your guys's lives, you know, like the I feel like
Speaker 1: the real side, like this is what goes down, this
Speaker 1: is what happened, this is how we're raising our kids,
Speaker 1: and this is what it works out for you. And
Speaker 1: I salute you guys because I'm sure it's not easy.
Speaker 1: And the comments and you know, people and reactions and
Speaker 1: going stepping outside it's probably like you know, do you
Speaker 1: guys ever like think about like do I want to
Speaker 1: step outside today?
Speaker 2: Sometimes? Noah?
Speaker 3: That never No. I honestly like I love because now
Speaker 3: we're getting how to say it, not saying like that.
Speaker 3: But now we're getting started out for different reasons because
Speaker 3: we've gotten some recognition on social media. So now it's
Speaker 3: more like people come out to like, hey, you know,
Speaker 3: can we take a picture? And it feels good and
Speaker 3: I think that's why we're also doing this, so we
Speaker 3: can get like we can have the presence of like,
Speaker 3: you know, being able to give that positive message out,
Speaker 3: you know. And now they when they see us, it's
Speaker 3: more like, oh, that's Christian and Jaen in the Garcia family,
Speaker 3: Like we love them because of what they do, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's what we're here for. But we love it.
Speaker 3: People come up to this all the time, and you know,
Speaker 3: I think at the end of the day, what matters
Speaker 3: is like changing one person's perspective, you know, like or
Speaker 3: just educating them because it's crazy. We get messages like like, man,
Speaker 3: I used to be depressed and I used to do
Speaker 3: this and that, and you know, I've thought about, you know,
Speaker 3: like ending my life or whatever. But when I see
Speaker 3: you guys, and I see like you know your purpose
Speaker 3: and I see the way you do things like you know,
Speaker 3: the they it gives them hope and I'm like, Yo,
Speaker 3: that's so crazy that we're changing people's lives, like we're
Speaker 3: literally like from you know, from our platform or the
Speaker 3: message that we put out. And I think that's amazing,
Speaker 3: you know, if we could change one person's life, like
Speaker 3: I think we already did what we had to do,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So so yeah, we're super
Speaker 3: blessed to be able to do that.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: And I feel like it's ultimately the plan and the
Speaker 1: purpose what you guys have to do, and you know
Speaker 1: what's cool. And I just thought about it right now.
Speaker 1: I've loved that you guys are Mexican. It was Mexican, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: where are you guys from.
Speaker 3: My mom's from Nayarit and my dad from and then
Speaker 3: my mom's from Sakkas and my dad's from Holly School.
Speaker 3: Were both born and I mean raised over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, California. But I say that because I've never met
Speaker 1: I've always seen it like you know, it's it's it's white,
Speaker 1: it's other people too, yeah, but it's still like like
Speaker 1: I feel.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, yeah, we understand it.
Speaker 1: Like it's like okay, and it's different because I don't
Speaker 1: think you I've never seen I don't think anybody has
Speaker 1: ever seen You're like little little person, little person, little dude.
Speaker 1: And you know, I see.
Speaker 2: Why we got a lot of a lot.
Speaker 3: Like they always ask like what are like, what are you?
Speaker 3: You know what people say, And I don't take this
Speaker 3: bad because you know, I don't get offended because you know,
Speaker 3: they refer me as an object like or whatever. They're like,
Speaker 3: Oh they come in Mexican too, Yeah, because it's a
Speaker 3: but you know, I mean, I don't take it bad,
Speaker 3: but it's like, but that's a good example. Like you know,
Speaker 3: you don't really, but that's what we're here to freaking
Speaker 3: you know, the world. Something a little big.
Speaker 2: You know what you got going on? Baby's name?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I got everyone right here.
Speaker 2: Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah did that? He shout out to my boy m
Speaker 3: V E m V underscore tattoos. I've just shown him love.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We you know she has some tattoos and stuff too.
Speaker 3: You know, we love. We're raised. Oh he's in Lancaster.
Speaker 3: We're we're out in the Carsion, like the Harbor area,
Speaker 3: like towards Long Beach. Shout out to my Carson people.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but we went to the same
Speaker 3: school together. That's how we kind of yeah, crazy story
Speaker 3: with her too. And then I've seen her because I
Speaker 3: used to come on and study at the doing stuff
Speaker 3: over there, and she has seen her with your sister
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. So yeah, I love Yeah. I
Speaker 3: was gonna say small world literally literally.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, obviously we talked about you know, your family,
Speaker 1: the struggles, the social media, and just education, educating on
Speaker 1: the topic in general. Ultimately, do you guys have any
Speaker 1: more anything that you guys want to do in the
Speaker 1: future that you're like, this is what this is what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do, This is what we're this is why
Speaker 1: we're doing this.
Speaker 3: We are like, I mean, we have a bunch of
Speaker 3: little projects. So like we have the clothing brand, which
Speaker 3: we do a lot of stuff for like, uh we do.
Speaker 3: I do a lot of I'm big on like the
Speaker 3: hat thing and stuff, and I put a lot of
Speaker 3: like Mexico States on there because I like to represent
Speaker 3: for our Mexicanos and the culture is beautiful. You know,
Speaker 3: you can't forget where we came from. So that's you
Speaker 3: know something that I that I hold deer in my heart.
Speaker 3: My our clothing brand, it's called brand by the way,
Speaker 3: because you know, at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 3: because we gotta do what we gotta do. And then
Speaker 3: also you know, we want to eventually just kind of
Speaker 3: I guess do like talks. I guess you know, kind
Speaker 3: of how we're doing now, but in a like uh,
Speaker 3: you know, travel the world and maybe talk to people
Speaker 3: and just let them know, like, you know, even though
Speaker 3: you're different, or get us a CEO. You know that
Speaker 3: it can be at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 3: all how you carry yourself and you know, not that
Speaker 3: weak this So, yeah, we want to be you know,
Speaker 3: we want to do something good for the world. I
Speaker 3: want to change it one day at a time.
Speaker 1: You know, what about you? Is there any like some
Speaker 1: type of piece of advice that you would give and
Speaker 1: you know, in your position, and it could go as
Speaker 1: far as like anything. It could be abortion, it could
Speaker 1: be being with him, it could be your your anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So my advice is don't judge a book by
Speaker 2: its cover. We go by that strongly, that's the best book. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And honestly, don't be scared to you know, try something
Speaker 2: new because you never know, you know, and for those
Speaker 2: that are always you know saying how you know they
Speaker 2: can't find love and stuff. Stop focusing on your dream man.
Speaker 2: My dream man was never a four feet tall guy,
Speaker 2: you know, but look at me. Honestly, I live a
Speaker 2: good life. I'm happy, you know, and I always tell
Speaker 2: him if if I had to do it again, I
Speaker 2: would do it again. Yep. So he's a writer, you know.
Speaker 2: Stop focusing on on looks, you know, the outside. You know,
Speaker 2: sometimes it's more than just that. Yep, that's my advice.
Speaker 2: That was cute.
Speaker 1: No, I want to thank you guys. I think that
Speaker 1: you guys have definitely inspired me, educated me, and I
Speaker 1: can imagine what you guys will do in the future,
Speaker 1: you know, think here, like if you guys ever want
Speaker 1: to come back, it's met too. Yeah, but for real,
Speaker 1: I I really appreciate you guys. Can feel like your
Speaker 1: humbleness and your genuineness.
Speaker 3: And thank you.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna support you guys. Thank you babies,
Speaker 1: and whatever you guys do in the future, I pray
Speaker 1: that God continues to bless it. Thank you, and that
Speaker 1: you know you live out your full purpose and what
Speaker 1: it was intended for and you know, pure happiness and love.
Speaker 2: For you guys. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Best of fuck on all your businesses and all your
Speaker 1: endeavors and share you guys on social media so they
Speaker 1: can find you and your business. Whatever you guys want
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 3: Share it your time, all right, Thank you, By the way,
Speaker 3: I truly appreciate that. Yeah, we have a couple of things.
Speaker 3: I mean, sorry if it's going to be long, but
Speaker 3: we have our podcast, which is Love a Little Podcast.
Speaker 3: She came up with the name, so love a Little Podcast.
Speaker 3: And then while there you can see our Instagram, both
Speaker 3: our instagrams in the bio, and then you can find
Speaker 3: us on YouTube and TikTok as the Garcia.
Speaker 2: Family love and thank you for having us. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I honestly it was so it was such a good conversation,
Speaker 1: Like I loved it. Maybe that's just you know I mean,
Speaker 1: but thank you guys so much. Thank you guys. Thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much for listening and watching. Makes you
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Speaker 1: the Garcia family. Be kind to everyone. It doesn't hurt
Speaker 1: to be kind. And I will see you guys next Tuesday.
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