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Speaker 1: It's kiss FM, Los Angeles. I'm a hustle.

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Speaker 2: It's time for a hometown hosts.

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Speaker 1: So why, why? What is this? And why? Here's what

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Speaker 1: this is.

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Speaker 2: Basically, you're going to work, You're doing your thing every

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Speaker 2: now and then you think, you know what, I'd love

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Speaker 2: to make the donuts. I like donuts. I just want

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Speaker 2: to go make the donuts or I want to go

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Speaker 2: you know. For me, it's like I want to learn

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Speaker 2: how to sell olive oil. I want to make it

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Speaker 2: and sell it. Right, it's process, but I want to.

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Speaker 1: Do it, and you're doing it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not selling it, but I'm learning how to make it,

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Speaker 2: giving it away his gifts for the moment. It's not

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Speaker 2: marketable yet anyway. But like, what do you love? Right? So?

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Speaker 2: Or like I love food, so I kind of would

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Speaker 2: love to do something in the world of food and restaurants. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's that's a passion. This is a situation where and hometowns.

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Speaker 2: So generally is somebody that like either does it it's

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Speaker 2: something they love, is a side hustle to add to

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Speaker 2: what they're doing, or they quit their job and go

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Speaker 2: do it full time.

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Speaker 1: This is kind of like a best of both worlds.

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Speaker 1: Michelle Villa Roelle is.

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Speaker 2: On with this now from anim She's our hometown hustler

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Speaker 2: from Ray and Leah Designs and she needed a creative outlet.

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Speaker 2: So what is your regular job your day job, Michelle.

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Speaker 3: I am actually a chief creative officer for a small

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Speaker 3: jewelry company that does licensee joy for like Harley Davidson

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Speaker 3: and other brands.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but you job.

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Speaker 2: You wanted more, you wanted to do something more creatively

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Speaker 2: and kind of have your own universe.

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Speaker 3: What did you decide to do so mid Covid, I

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Speaker 3: decided to open up a small jewelry brand that focuses

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Speaker 3: on budget friendly gold alternatives, so handmade gold jewelry and

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Speaker 3: that focus on my Filipino American culture.

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Speaker 1: This is what I love. It's in your heart.

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Speaker 2: It's there's like some some real significant meaning right and

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Speaker 2: intent behind it for you and that you don't. So

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Speaker 2: last year you designed and developed your first Filipino in

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Speaker 2: spart Joey collection called the what's the name Baianni Collection?

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Speaker 3: It's called Baiani Collection, which means hero. So my grandfather,

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Speaker 3: he is the first and only Filipino American to receive

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Speaker 3: the Congressional Medal of honor in the US Navy. He's

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Speaker 3: actually going to get a warship named after him. Well,

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Speaker 3: that was my inspiration for that collection.

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Speaker 1: What will the worship be called?

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Speaker 3: It's going to be called the USS tell us Boro Trinidad,

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Speaker 3: and my maiden name is Trinidad.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that must be the most incredible honor.

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Speaker 3: It is. It's so once they they announced the ship,

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Speaker 3: I had to do something to honor him, and it

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Speaker 3: was an inspiration. I used the Filipino son as an

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Speaker 3: inspiration for the whole collection to show, you know, the

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Speaker 3: pride I have for the culture. Very cool and my grandfather.

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Speaker 2: So why just get a piece of jewelry, Why why

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Speaker 2: get a piece of joy that has that story exactly,

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Speaker 2: not just I think it brings good karma. I'm really

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Speaker 2: I'm happy to hear that. And so what an amazing

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Speaker 2: story for your family.

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Speaker 3: I mean, especially especially nowadays, like this whole past year,

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Speaker 3: we've seen so much coming from Filipino artists like Bruno

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Speaker 3: Mars and her Olivia Rodrigeo. They're all parts Filipino, which

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Speaker 3: is like, it's so inspiring. So I wanted to do

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Speaker 3: something to show that.

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Speaker 2: Well, congratulations on your hometown house if people are listening

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Speaker 2: right now. How do they see what you're doing at

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Speaker 2: Rye and Leah Designs in Anaheim?

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Speaker 3: So, Ryan rian Ley, I just a little backstory on

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Speaker 3: my name. It's after my daughters, ry La and Aliyah,

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Speaker 3: and so they're the inspiration of it all. And so

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Speaker 3: I have an Instagram account at r r h y

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Speaker 3: dot and anb dot the l I a so Rye

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Speaker 3: dot and dot Leah. And then we have a website

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Speaker 3: www dot Ryan Lea dot com.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, congratulations, We're thrilled to meet you and keep

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Speaker 2: it up.

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Speaker 1: We'll stay in touch that. Yeah. And the collection nice

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Speaker 1: hometown hustler.

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Speaker 3: A hustle baby.

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Speaker 2: I like bracelets, Yeah, I like bracelets for men and

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Speaker 2: women like. I think bracelets are cool. A lot of

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Speaker 2: brain could look like a lot of bracelets on the

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Speaker 2: on the wrist, stack them up, very cool.

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Speaker 1: Looks good on you guys too.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna pay a bill in the five six to

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Speaker 2: two in one minute stand by