August 11, 2025 • 60 mins
KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter on Mon, 11 Aug, 2025
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This is Robert Porter and I Beyoni Locker with the
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Beyond a Robert Porter, jo Will blessed to be alive.
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How about yourself, brother?
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Incredible weekend. I had fun. I drove all over the
Sammerdio Mountains.
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What about you? You know what? I couldn't even tell
you what I did this last weekend. It's a blur.
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Yeah, well that means that means that much.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 12 (08:13):
No, it couldn't be mean that I'm overworked and now
I don't get the rest In all jokes. We got
to celebrate my mom's birthday. My mom and her twin sister.
Their birthday is actually tomorrow, but we went to Benny
Hannah's this past Saturday. I love your little the dainty
clap or the silence, but we went to Bennie Hannah's.
It was about fifteen family members that came through and
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it was a wonderful time. So just I know she's listening,
So happy birthday, Mom, Happy birthday on Sandra, love you
and am thanks for everything.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Mom.
Speaker 13 (08:44):
Where's my doggie bag?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
As much as you spend to eat there?
Speaker 12 (08:50):
We were just talking about that earlier today, ain't nobody
leaving nothing much? Then? Yeah, as much as you pay
for that food, you're paying for the theatrics.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And we're talking about theater earlier. That's what you're.
Speaker 16 (09:02):
Paying you or your mom catching any shrimp or chicken?
Did you or your mom get a tossed any chicken
or shrimping?
Speaker 12 (09:08):
Did you guys count Now, we didn't. We didn't do
We didn't get tossed anything, you know what I mean.
But they did do the volcano. And it's funny because
I was telling my mom, it's each one of the
chefs are different with the volcano, because ours was very
you know, tame, And.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Then we looked over at the next table. The dude
almost seemed like he let the whole restaurant on fire, bro,
and he was waving his hand through the fire like
you was doing it and stuff.
Speaker 12 (09:33):
It was like, so they had a better performer, but
we had the chef cooked the food.
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Well yeah yeah, and you survived the experience.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, and my wallet did to the lord.
Speaker 13 (09:45):
Well, let's dedicate this show to your your mom and
our twin sister.
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Yeah, aunt, that is awesome.
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And then all the August birthdays whoever you may are,
if you're listening, Happy birthday, Happy birthday.
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or that something that I should say, it's a wonderful
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Community Foundation for the work that they do, hosting amazing
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Foo right on, and I do have a quick history
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this is the history of Waterman Avenue. If you guys
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A guidepost to history concerning origin and place in street
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for one of two citizens of Samernadino County whoever became
governor of California. It is interesting to note that no
bibliography of him appears in any standard works of reference
on prominent early residents. Robert W. Waterman was elected to
the post of Lieutenant Governor in eighteen eighty six, and
upon the death of Governor Washington, Bartlett took the governatorial chair.
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He served as governor until eighteen ninety one. In the
spring of eighteen eighty seven, the California legislature provided an
increase in the National Guard, and the efforts of Governor
Watermen resulted in the formation of the Waterman Rifles, it
being his aim that they eventually being mustered into the
state service. The company was mustered in as Company e
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seventh Infantry in eighteen eighty seven and remained with them
until the formation of the ninth Infantry when they became
well known as Company K. Company came won fame in
the Spanish American War and saw valiant service in the Philippines.
Governor Washington was also instrumental in securing the third State
building for southern California with a purchase of land and
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beginning of the Insane Asylum later known as Patton in
hot In Highland, Waterman had become wealthy as the owner
of the famous Waterman silver mine pictured at right. It
was located on the desert just north of what is
now Barstow. Because of this mine, the Barstow railway station
was originally called Waterman Junction. When our road was built
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up the beautiful Canyon to Sana Renodino Mountains in the
eighteen eighties, doctor Ben Barton and his associates named the
canyon after the famous Waterman silver mine.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Awesome, that's very interesting. We got a governor there and
silver apparently.
Speaker 13 (16:38):
Yeah out there in you know, we got gold up
in Big Bear and silver out in Barstow, and the
silver over and Big Bear too. There's a lot of
heavy metals throughout our area.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Definitely.
Speaker 12 (16:48):
I don't know why that story made me think of
but my dad used to talk about, you know how
when you go over to the over the wash tours
rialto he was saying, a long time ago, there was
like like a bank heist that happened and that people
hit money in the little you know, the little party
drive over the little wash area. That money was hidden
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out there. And back in the day when when this
quote unquote happened, it used to be like people that
would go down there and scour and try to find
the money. You know what I mean, have you ever
did you ever hear that?
Speaker 13 (17:21):
Well, I've never heard that, but I mean was the
story before metal detectors.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Well, if it's paper money, it's not gonna.
Speaker 13 (17:30):
I mean, but like there could have been on the
they had ties on them.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And yeah, and we bought my dad at metal.
Speaker 13 (17:39):
Yeah, like there's always a chance that archaeologist in me
is starting to wake.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Up, Like, don't call the police when you see me
down there.
Speaker 13 (17:45):
That honestly, if you found it, you might want to
turn it in.
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Have a great oh for you today, team, and thank
you for staying tuned in.
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What do we have going on today?
Speaker 12 (18:05):
Dude, we have some amazing guests here to talk to
you about a range of topics as well as entrepreneurship.
And then one of the common threads that we all
share around this table is that we're all poets. So
that's a great thing. But I'll let them introduce themselves,
starting with the gentlemen. The distinguished gentleman, Sir Green, you.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Know my right.
Speaker 18 (18:25):
Hi, I'm Jeff Green.
Speaker 15 (18:27):
I'm Associate director of the Inland Equity Community land Trust,
and I am part of the Inland Empire Tenant Union.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
Sir Green, not Nick Green. Okay, that's an inside joke
from earlier.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Definitely definitely.
Speaker 19 (18:43):
Hi everyone. My name is Nila Davis. I am the
proud owner of Nilis Bath Ice Cupcakes. We specialize in
gourmet stuffed cupcakes. I'm also the owner and founder of
the Bookmark in Arts and Culture Accelerator. I'm very excited
to build and grow and talk about today.
Speaker 13 (19:00):
Wait a second, that business has been around for twelve years.
Speaker 19 (19:05):
Yes, Fast Cupcakes has been around for over twelve years. Actually,
I've miscounted because if I was fourteen turning fifteen, that
means this would be the thirteenth year of us being
a business.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Awesome.
Speaker 19 (19:20):
So I've been a business owner longer than I've been
a grown up.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
There you go, or driving as well?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Or driving?
Speaker 19 (19:25):
Yes, I got my business license first before I should
be Listen.
Speaker 13 (19:30):
You should own your own business before you drive, you
on your own car. That would be amazing because.
Speaker 19 (19:35):
I definitely have learned a lot of different business development
and personal development just in my younger years and in
my you know, my adulthood now. So I have a
very expansive My portfolio is very long. I have a
wide set of information and now I'm just at the
crespo like, Okay, I get to use all of this
now because I'm an adult. People take you seriously.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
When I going to offices now I will. You don't
look like one, but hey, that's a good thing. That's
a that's a blessing.
Speaker 19 (20:07):
I'll take all the commers where I can get it.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
There you go.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
Well, with that being said, we're gonna we're gonna start
with brother Jeff, and then we'll dive into your journey
of entrepreneurship and your theater background and and and so
much amazing things that you've cultivated. But I'm Jeff knowing
that you're the executive director of Associate director Associate director
of My apologies of this community land trust effort. Can
you please explain what community land trust is, the whole
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concept behind it, and then share about the work and
the upcoming housing houses that you guys are going.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
To be building in the high Desert. Yeah.
Speaker 15 (20:42):
So a community land trust is a way for the
community to own land and the person buying the home, uh,
just buy the structure. So it's a model that was
created over in different iterations over the last hundred years.
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The first community land trust that was used for housing
specifically was the Burlington Community Land Trust in Vermont and
was started as part of an initiative of Bernie Sanders
when he was mayor. It's now they have thousands of
houses in the community land Trust and it's a place
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where you know, the housing crisis isn't crushing people like
it is here in southern California. And a lot of
the board members and those of us who initially started
the inland Equity Community land Trust, we're big fans of
that model and wanted to try and do something like
that out here. There are community land trusts in Los
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Angeles County. Now there's here in San Berdandino, there's US
and in Phs. Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services is building some
community land trust homes in Palm Springs and our homes
we're building are in Adelanto. We got a piece of
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land very inexpensively from somebody else who loves the community
land trust model.
Speaker 18 (22:19):
As far as the.
Speaker 15 (22:20):
Model goes, you can think of it kind of like
maybe a condo, but it's not apartment structure. These are
individual like three bedroom houses, and again you own the house.
The property itself is owned by the nonprofit. And we
were September we should have our first certificate occupancy on
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the first home. We're building four up there and they
will be available for sale by the end of September,
and we're hoping we're going to be basically sell them
for the cost to build them, and market value on
them is about four four hundred and twenty thousand, depending
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on what the appraiser does. When we finally have a
certificate of occupancy and we're trying to get in there
right now, we're on target to be at about three
hundred and thirty thousand dollars a house, and so that's
a you know, significant difference, and the way we're structuring
it is we're going to lock in that difference between
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the actual price that the homeowner pays and the market.
Speaker 18 (23:32):
Value and call that an equity share.
Speaker 15 (23:35):
That equity share is going to be passed on to
whomever the person sells their home to, and it'll stay
permanently below market rate forever as long as the community
land trust nonprofit lasts and they build wealth, they build
equity as they pay down their loan.
Speaker 18 (23:53):
They want like, what does that mean last?
Speaker 15 (23:57):
So well, I mean it's a ninety your ground lease.
I'm sixty, so in ninety nine years I'm not going
to be around.
Speaker 18 (24:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 15 (24:07):
So so the same kind of structure, right, We're going
to have the residents that live in the house serve
on our board. We're going to hopefully, you know, have many,
many more homes and eventually that's the community that's going
to run their own land trust. And so like a
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home association, you can think of it as a home association,
but it's yes, and technic the nonprofit does and that's
important for tax reasons. But it's a very interesting model, yes,
and it's it's different. So if you're if you want
to learn about them. I've basically learned everything from an
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organization called Grounded Solutions. There's the DNA in Boston or
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Beautiful Community land Trust project that
started several years ago. There's Beverly Vermont Community land Trust.
If you want to look at like multifamily and how
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they've structured, there's people at Beverly in Vermont and Los
Angeles right now paying six hundred dollars a month for
an apartment. So you know, that's that's what community land
trusts are capable of achieving, and that's what we want
to do here in San Bernadino and Riverside Counties.
Speaker 17 (25:29):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I love that.
Speaker 13 (25:30):
I mean I think we need that in like twenty
thousand different other ways.
Speaker 12 (25:35):
Yeah, you're totally correct, But what I love about it
is just the creative ingenuity as well as the communal approach,
right and to me, it's an approach that makes sure
it's kind of like a village mindset, right well, making
sure that we take care of the whole community, that
everyone has affordable housing, that can enter into housing, that
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can have opportunity to build some generational wealth. Right to me,
I love the structure because to me, it just it
just screams that.
Speaker 18 (26:03):
It's not a commune.
Speaker 13 (26:05):
So like that's like, you know, like it's kind of
taking that concept. But like you still own the house, right,
so that's cool, so you can still build your generational
wealth a little bit.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Right.
Speaker 15 (26:17):
So the way it's structured is they will basically, you
make a down payment on the house, you pay down
your loan, that equity.
Speaker 18 (26:26):
Builds up, you take all of that with you.
Speaker 15 (26:29):
If the market continues to go up and your house
appreciates by one hundred thousand, then you get seventy five
percent of that and then twenty five percent is shared
back with the community land Trust, so you get the
vast majority of the appreciation. However, again, we're trying to
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bring back the idea of a home as a place
to live as opposed to an investment instrument. And so
it's strategy to try and uh stabilize that uh pricing insecurity.
Speaker 20 (27:05):
And it's an excellent model for if it could help. Certainly, yes,
and it is big enough in places like Burlington is
now the Lake Champlain Community Land Trust, and they perform
like all of the functions that housing authority would in
the County of Champlain.
Speaker 18 (27:26):
And they're.
Speaker 15 (27:29):
You know, they're a beautiful history to look at and
what they've achieved, and we're hoping to, you know, do
something like that.
Speaker 18 (27:37):
Out here in the i E. Where it's desperately.
Speaker 12 (27:41):
Needed, totally, totally, totally. And then on on the wave
of housing, tell us a little about the Inland Empire
Tenants Union.
Speaker 15 (27:52):
So that's an another that's a project of the Inland
Equity Community Land Trust and we UH, because we're doing
the Community land Trust. A few years ago, people figured
we knew everything about housing, and you know, they reached
out to us for help.
Speaker 18 (28:11):
And it's UH.
Speaker 15 (28:12):
When she worked for Uplift Sanmbordadino, it was Karen Suarez
who reached out to us on behalf of some tenants
that live on Date Street by Date and UH del Rosa,
which the yeah, but the that's where the Sambordadino Tenant
Union started and so UH it's led by Deborah Harmon
(28:36):
who is now serving on the Community Land Trust board,
and she and other tenants in her building were basically
they had UH a sewage pipe that was draining above
ground and leaking across their apartment complex. They had a
whole bunch of habitability issues and so you know, we
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got together and started canvassing and we just recently did
a rally outside of PAMA offices.
Speaker 18 (29:08):
The PAMA.
Speaker 15 (29:10):
You know, they own thirteen hundred buildings.
Speaker 18 (29:14):
In this city.
Speaker 15 (29:15):
They have like over three thousand of the rental units
in the city of San Marnandino are run by PAMA Management.
Mike Najar is the billionaire that owns that company. He
doesn't he lost his real estate license for being a
slumlord in about five years ago.
Speaker 18 (29:30):
And so it's a cycle.
Speaker 15 (29:34):
And they focus on communities where housing is especially like
it's distressed, and they buy them up and package them together,
much like they did before the two thousand and eight
financial crisis, and try and monopolize housing. And I think
that they're driving the prices up, so rents are skyrocketing.
(29:57):
And they're not the only ones. PAMA is, So Zillow is. Yeah,
there there's you know, there's a bunch of like Bridge,
High Tower and Palmer are all the same company owned
by Mike Najar. There's you know, there's Westland, there's others
operating in the same business model.
Speaker 18 (30:17):
But it's a business model now they.
Speaker 13 (30:18):
Want there's there's a value increasing the price.
Speaker 15 (30:21):
Right, well, but there's also they're preying on people that
are well, they're removing stoves.
Speaker 13 (30:28):
Okay, the billionaires get love and we get the shafts.
Speaker 15 (30:31):
Yeah, and so that's the it's it's a the TenneT union.
You know, we're focusing on trying to assert right.
Speaker 18 (30:40):
So did you have a you have a lawyer and
you're so.
Speaker 15 (30:45):
The Attorney General of the State of California is suing
Mike Najar.
Speaker 20 (30:50):
Yes, but that's a little bit cheaper than hiring own
We Yeah.
Speaker 15 (30:57):
This is the issues renters we can't afford to turn
and the way the laws are constructed, Uh, they require
you to hire an attorney to assert your rights. So
it's very difficult for renters to assert their rights. So
people are not fighting evictions when they shouldn't be being evicted.
We're first then the tenant union. We're helping people write
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answers to evictions. We're helping people find attorneys that will
do you know, habitability lawsuits and those kinds of things.
We are trying to get lawyers wherever we can. We've
work to.
Speaker 13 (31:31):
Ask about a lawyer and you mentioned the best lawyer
in all the way I want. You're doing a good job.
Speaker 12 (31:38):
Definitely, definitely Wow awesome, awesome efforts on both of the
land the land Trust as well as the Tenants Union.
How can our community connect with either one of those entities,
because I know that there's many that live in slum
like conditions that want to.
Speaker 15 (31:54):
We we meet every other Saturday, So not this coming Saturday.
Speaker 18 (31:59):
We just last Saturday.
Speaker 15 (32:00):
So two weeks from last Saturday, we meet at Ecclesia
Church on Date Street.
Speaker 17 (32:06):
That is.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, shout out to Beckley.
Speaker 18 (32:15):
Yes, yes, thank you and thank you so much for
that space.
Speaker 15 (32:18):
Yes and everywhere and yeah, and we canvas every other Saturday.
Speaker 18 (32:23):
So we looked for volunteers.
Speaker 15 (32:25):
One of the ways you can become a member of
the Inline Equity Community Land Trust is if you don't
have money, you can volunteer for seven hours. You're a
voting member, you can elect our board, you can be
a full participant. One of the ways you can volunteers
come out and canvas with us for the Tenant Union.
Meet your neighbors, talk to them about their renters' rights
and you know, get involved and uh, it's going to
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take a lot of us to address this housing crisis,
and I think that, you know, the community really needs
to get involved.
Speaker 13 (32:55):
One one quick question, are you putting pressure on the
politicians who he's giving all the money to? Like I
heard he gives money just everybody.
Speaker 15 (33:06):
I don't know how much I want to go into
exactly what our plans are politically, because it's uh, okay, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
You know, we want to keep the five oh one
C three and four status.
Speaker 12 (33:19):
So I toltally you get that as we close out
this said, what is the poetry piece that you're going
to be sharing with us?
Speaker 15 (33:25):
Okay, well see, and this is gonna just forget everything else.
I just said, just pay attention to this.
Speaker 13 (33:33):
It was. It was very interesting, by the way, Thank
you very.
Speaker 18 (33:36):
Much for sharing that.
Speaker 15 (33:37):
All Right, So I found a poem that doesn't have
the curse words, and so here it is. Uh it's
called the commercialization of Jackie o NASA's blowing or nose.
What happened to the news coverage or even posts on
four chan about those electoral the electrical substations. Some say
it was Antifa that shot up the substations, because Antifa
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was already spinning stories about how some substations were shot
up before the police were even called. The police say
they found bullet casings, but not much else. Say the
whole grid goes down.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That's it right.
Speaker 15 (34:16):
That bell can't be unwrung. There's no way of localizing
power because it's all sourced from dams and electricity farms
and nuclear power plants or other large operations which are
already high value targets. The experts will say, don't fear
longer or exaggerate about how bad it'll be. They say
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Americans will work together and get through it somehow. They
don't understand human suffering. They have no experience dealing with
starving people. Starving people in America will act no different
than starving people in Mogadishu. In fact, they'll likely act
much worse. Americans have never seen true hunger. They didn't
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grow up Starving Americans will be viciously angry when they
get hungry. They will have no experience with the mental
hallucinations brought on by hunger. Looting, raping, pillaging will be
the norm.
Speaker 18 (35:16):
I don't care.
Speaker 15 (35:16):
If they fix the electrical grid. A year later, most
Americans will be dead and the only ones left will
be survivalists, the extremely lucky, the larger, more well organized
gangs of looters, the strongest and most brutal, who left
their souls at the starting gate and did horrible things
to survive. Who will the engineers fix the grid for?
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Will we all forget what transpired and go.
Speaker 18 (35:44):
Back to work?
Speaker 15 (35:46):
How do you get warlords to give up their new
positions of power and their soldiers and their harems of slaves.
The day the electrical grid goes down, America ceases to
exist unless everyone has a predator three hundred and fifty
watt super quiet inverter generator from Harbor Freight.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
There you go, get your generators now people can get.
Speaker 13 (36:16):
Definitely, definitely, man, that almost sounded like like twenty eight
days later a little.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Bit, you know, it casts a.
Speaker 12 (36:26):
Uhalyptic dystopian kind of vision.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Definitely, well, thank you brother, Thank you brother. Great.
Speaker 13 (36:34):
Yeah, now I have to talk to chat GPT about this.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Man. What are you doing to me?
Speaker 17 (36:38):
Dude?
Speaker 12 (36:40):
Definitely definitely no, thank you for and shout out to
Marabell Nunias as well. And yes, the you know the
work your partner and the work that you direct executive
director and partner as well, and the work.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
That you guys are doing Nyla. How you doing today's.
Speaker 19 (36:54):
Sister, I'm doing good, you know.
Speaker 12 (36:58):
Amen, blessed be alive, but day above ground, God is good,
Amen all the time.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Tell us about you, know you you started off as
an entrepreneur so young, so.
Speaker 12 (37:07):
Share with us about Please share the name of your
company and how did the origin story of your company?
Speaker 19 (37:14):
Like every great story, I'll start it with this, so.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Boom, so boom.
Speaker 19 (37:20):
I am about thirteen years old and I get this
letter from a group called People to People. It is
a student program that invites students to study abroad for
four to three and a half weeks in other countries
to give them, you know, a cultural engagement experience. And
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they have teachers who nominate students for this opportunity based
off of different honors, classes and programs that you're in.
So I had happened to be, you know, a daughter
of a teacher and a legacy of teachers, so obviously
I'm in all the hard classes. I'm taking classes at
our junior college every other and so I got nominated
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by one of my teachers, and so my mom's like, oh,
this is such a beautiful opportunity.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I say.
Speaker 19 (38:07):
This tuition for him is about seven thousand dollars. I
know you don't have seven thousand dollars on your pillow.
Otherwise we need to talk. But I know I don't
have it right now. I want you to see the world,
but this is a lot at thirteen and a half.
We might need to we need to pray on this
for a little minute. And so I was really determined
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because that recently my aunt had been she had left
to come. She had been in Europe because she had
lived there for a while. My grandmother had gone, and
my mother had gone. And so I'm just like everybody
getting on these planes and going out of the countries
where the monther I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Yeah, And I got a little golden.
Speaker 14 (38:48):
Ticket in my hand. Wait a minute, So I met
a deal with my mom. I'm like, Mom, let's say
I get good grades this summer with this program that
I'm in, can I can? I try to go And
she's like, not that you get straight a's through your
three summer classes.
Speaker 19 (39:05):
We'll play with the idea of fundraising. So I came
home with straight a's and I was like, Okay, So
I'm figuring out how am I going to get this money.
I'm already the you know, the quiet student in the class.
So I'm like, hmm, people know I cook be cause
you know, class pot looks I bring something cute or whatever.
And my mom's like, okay, you can try to cook something.
Let's do brownies, let's do cookies. I'm like, let's do cupcakes.
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And she's like, go into class, do a pitch. Yeah,
and make sure everybody who I'll believe you if everybody
who orders something does a one dollar deposit. So I
was selling cupcakes for three dollars and she's like, if
everybody makes a one dollar deposit, I will help you.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Okay.
Speaker 19 (39:47):
So I had a teacher who had tried something of mine,
and she, you know, she was she loves the underdog,
and so she's like, you're my quiet, little good student.
I'll give you the first three minutes of class. And
so I get in front of my class, I gave
my pitch. I had this little paper that goes around
the class. I left that class and went just went home.
My mom was like, all right, how many deposits do
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you have. I showed her sixty dollars. She's like, oh,
that's sixty dollars. The people who are already paid in full.
I'm like, no, these are sixty one dollar deposits. She's
like oh, I'm like yeah, I have more people ordering tomorrow.
They're like, oh, so from then on a year now,
class man, when I tell you that Friday, that became
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the new, you know, development of Nyla the girl from
English class to Nila the Cupcake Girl. So I had
spent a year and a half and I made it
to that trip, and I had made over fifteen thousand
cupcakes to the fundraise for that trip, and that paid
for all of my licensing, my DBAs and you know,
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a little spending money. But that didn't stop. I became
Nihila the Cupcake Girl. And so I had had a
state pablished business and I had ran it all the
way until I had went to college, and there I
did my little Hannah Montana moment. Because running the business
when you're a teenager it sounds cute, very true, Jackson VP,
very Hannah Montana, until you become the cupcake girls. When
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you're walking around now that you have cookcakes, Now where
are you doing wherever?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
You're going to supply?
Speaker 19 (41:21):
Now now I'm a supplier. It's a little different when
teachers are trying to get you to do their nieces
and nephew's birthday parties in between classes.
Speaker 13 (41:30):
I'm like, you know, and where's our cupcakes?
Speaker 19 (41:36):
Listen? Now Nila is grown and she got an Instagram.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
You can order some.
Speaker 19 (41:43):
Because cupcakes sound great until I tell you. Okay, So
this is myself and so yeah, we are very close
to reaching our one million baked and sold mark. So
we are at the fire I know one hundred. So
that means we have baked over nine hundred and ninety
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nine thousand to the nine hundred. Okay, And so it
has been an interesting career of growth, development and cupcakes.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
No, that's beautiful.
Speaker 12 (42:14):
For any other young entrepreneur out there, what would be
your words of encouragement? Because I often tell the youth
all the time, you don't have to wait till you're
older or adult to make money, to create a business.
What words of encouragement would you offer two of the youth?
Speaker 19 (42:30):
Honestly, I would give them a couple of words. Honestly,
I would say do what you love first. I am
a multi hyphen it artist and so colony of arts
is a love language that was definitely taught. I grew
up in a blended and split family. So my mom
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and my dad had different households, different patterns, But one
of the things that was very similar is that my
grandmother's and my aunties on my mother's side, they show
a lot of their love through food. So we had
the practice the formal tea talk parties with my Auntie Donna,
learning how food grows from my me mommy my mother's mother,
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and my grandma and my granny and my father's mother
watching her cook and the love that she put. This
is a woman who from the age of like three,
she literally served breakfast on like a silver chafing dish
with a teapot and everything. And that's something that she
did for all her grandchildren. Every grandchild she had, she
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would buy a new tea set and she will make
sure you got served with your plate, served with your fork.
Speaker 14 (43:37):
She it was.
Speaker 19 (43:39):
Food is such a love language that I think because
you know, we buy food, you know, get your little
in and out burger or whatever, you know, get it,
gotta eat, gotta go right. You get your smash burger,
you eat it and it's done.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Deal.
Speaker 19 (43:54):
But food is one of the most intimate things that
you can do for somebody. You're a part of their healing.
You're a part of their nursuring. You don't let nobody
in like that until you're a therapist or a doctor.
You and it always stasts better. You gotta be good
to the people who love you, and you didn't have
it's the labor of it.
Speaker 13 (44:14):
It may be something primitive too, because like if you
were you know, didn't want to eat someone else's food,
you could have died back in the day.
Speaker 19 (44:22):
Absolutely so somebody offering you food, especially prepared food prepared
and then the advancement of taste and palace, and it's
just something so human about sitting down and we're like,
we have all the means to take from each other,
but we're gonna sit down on this table and serve
each other. It just opens people up in a way
that few other things compare.
Speaker 13 (44:43):
It gives you all the good feel good hormones and
everything right, because you're like, soon as some sugar hits
my belly.
Speaker 19 (44:50):
Right, you're not gonna argue about what we talked about yesterday.
We have banana pudding in front of us. That's gonna
change the entire conversation. And my cupcakes are definitely influenced
by my culture and by my family, and almost every cupcake.
Speaker 13 (45:07):
Has a specifics famous cupcake.
Speaker 19 (45:10):
Oh the banana pudding by far and.
Speaker 13 (45:13):
What what is the web?
Speaker 19 (45:14):
The Instagram again NILA's ft cupcakes. The ethnity started for
fat thighs, but Nyla's f T cupcake fads is a
childhood nicknack and mine because I was a little chunky baby,
and so I used that brand aid to my advantage.
And we're still here.
Speaker 12 (45:29):
Hey now, hey, now, definitely definitely And you said you
shared a little about your theater background and being a
multi talented in many of art spaces.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Could you share a little about about that.
Speaker 19 (45:43):
Yes, So I always love entertainment, you know, I always
love like performing arts. I definitely am somebody who grew
up watching American Idol on Thursday nights with my uncle
Bou and my mom. And then I also remember getting
DVDs of Like the Tire Tyler Perry plays before he
had a bunch of Like Medea movies and seeing the
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plays growing up, and so performing arts was just a
part of just like the core of who I was.
I knew what I would find it, but it found
me in such a unique way. I went to school
to un LV University in Nevada, Las Vegas, and I
needed a multicultural arts class while I was pursuing a
hospitality degree, and so I took this theater one hundred class.
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And when I tell you just the care that went
into building a world. And I was already someone who was,
you know, a little not anti social, but kept to herself.
And so a lot of my emoting and expression would
come through different movies and come through different TV shows
that I watched. But listening to a professor, listening to
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peers really take the time to talk about how the
lighting affect the mood of the scene that we're watching,
Where in the body are the characters holding stress and
how do we as actors portray that? And so I
made a beautiful shift and had my major change from
solely hospitality studies to interdisciplinary studies because I wanted to
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understand that how does this performing culture and the art
of servicing people meet each other? And it's the humanity
we're feeding people, humanity and life from very different directions.
And being in Las Vegas is one of the best
combinations of studies that you can get. And so for
my thesis I talked about I made an observation about
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how many areas have theaters and how the theater's location
was in prominently black and brown communities. I did my
studies specifically in the Oakland and NorCal area, and I
looked at these theaters and the people who lived in
the community didn't match the people who were audience goers
of the theater. And considering the history of theater being
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a place to express feeling and thought, especially like just political,
just like out or from what's happening in the in
the world, I was like, this is kind of backwards.
It's like we see movies all the time. How many
streaming subscriptions do I have? When I really needed to
go outside and I could I go watch a showm
And as an actor, why am I not getting picked
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up with auditions and stuff that's happening in my own backyard.
I didn't know when my own local theaters was. And
that was as someone who grew up partially in La
County as well as I. That was the first thing
I missed. I was in like Lulu's dance academy. There
was like two or three arts programs at my elementary school,
and the first thing that I noticed was missing. I
was like where's our choir, where's our where's our Caribbean
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like music class? Where's Those are the first things that
I couldn't translate in that proper language because I was
about a fourth fifth grader, but it was I noticed
it along with the you know, I make the joke
that I was the whole popul whole black population of
my fourth grade class. Granted there was only four of us,
but when the teacher says, our black students in our
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fourth grade division need help reading, I'm like, Okay, you
could have just sent me wanted me I but culinary
arts and theater arts helped me in my college career
and building the world that I really wanted to see,
and I was able to foresee that very well, especially
in the pandemic, where I felt like I should have
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had my my living single moment, you know, twenty something
years old, and I'm gonna go get that arts program job,
and they're gonna let me be in this cute, beautiful
office and I'm gonna inspire all the beautiful brown and
black babies to do all the artsy things. But then
the world shut down, so I'm like, oh, how I
end up back in my mo house? Oh my goodness.
So that is what inspired the the resurrection of Nihlispatis Cupcakes,
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as well as the bookmark the art Accelerator, the art
and culture accelerator that was birth out of that shelter,
cared it.
Speaker 20 (49:59):
It was still burned, you know.
Speaker 12 (50:01):
There you go on the on that note I I
know that you brought a couple of poetry pieces that
you would like to share with us.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
And then you're also a singer as.
Speaker 18 (50:09):
Well, and.
Speaker 13 (50:11):
Did you ever integrate the theatrics with the uh making like.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
That might be a podcast?
Speaker 19 (50:24):
You know, I'm not going to give away too many
of my goodies. But what we've not always has a notebook,
you see, I got to right here. So I got
a plan. Don't just like, now can we make I've
already written it down. When do you want me to
do it? I know, I know my mic.
Speaker 12 (50:42):
There you go, there you go. Excellent, Definitely, definitely the
mic is yours for your poetry.
Speaker 19 (50:49):
Thank you. So I got a book called Write the Poem.
I like any book that encourages you to write and express.
So this is the one of the many I filled.
And so this poem is called the Peach. Okay, freedom
is a peach, to desire without resistance, to bring your
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truth to lips and fall to the call of indulgence,
to smell, to feel, to act, to bite. The ability
to bear one's teeth is reserved for some, yet primal
to all. Why spare the opportunity? This is no cattle
to rear in range. If I inherit my liberation, what
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halts my progress? My theory? My theory is that we
eat as big as the gardens we can see. We
choose to have the peach rought in our hands rather
than witness our last bite. We start ignorant to the
pit that was meant to build our orchards. We sink
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into the soil that was meant to feed our kin,
prey with them to find another stone fruit. We do,
and yet the cycle continues.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
That's powerful and just just around. I love the line where.
Speaker 13 (52:16):
It's like a lot of humans, Yeah, their gardens are
too small. They think your garden could be so much
bigger as their own making, and they don't. They keep
it small.
Speaker 12 (52:29):
To let it rite in your own hand instead of
consuming it. What it's meant to nourish you in that
that seed at the at the middle of it is
meant to be planted, to increase a yield, to continue to.
Speaker 17 (52:40):
Which I have done.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Yes, you have, amen. But it's it's so much, so much,
so many layers to it.
Speaker 19 (52:46):
It's so many layers. It's I've I've had this feeling
so often and so many times, especially as a young entrepreneur.
And my truth is like I was like, oh my goodness,
I'm the cupcake girl. But it was that was my peach.
I'm just like, oh my gosh, this is my only peach.
If I don't do anything with it. But what if
I want what if I need lemons? What if I
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need grapefruit? But I was so focused on this is
my only pitch. I couldn't see the soil around my peg. Man,
you feel me?
Speaker 2 (53:16):
No, I feel you.
Speaker 12 (53:17):
I hear you, sister, But real, amazing, amazing. What is
the title of the second piece that you're gonna bless
us with?
Speaker 19 (53:24):
So the title of the second piece? Oh, it's called
the future? Ok, just no life after the show. I'll
look where I am from where I'll go so fond
of where it all began, before the bands and the cars.
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It was a dream that took me far. When God
speaks about my destiny, when you're walking in the dark,
keep your faith and leave the rest to me. Walking
down this road, every weight shift feels cold. I'm too
young or too old to hold so much hope but
so much regret, to be determined, but lack the confidence.
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Others run lapse around me, anxious, like there's a bunch
of traps around me. One wrong step and I bleed
an opportunity that I can't see. I pray at the
end of the day that whatever prophecy he wrote for me,
that I'm taking the steps that I'm supposed to be.
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I believe in the voice he has chosen for me
is meant by fate to spread love, not hate. And
so long as I can maintain my mental I can
focus on my craft and learn to love my potential.
Speaker 12 (54:41):
Beautiful, beautiful, five minutes left. I love your poetry. It
seems so intro spect, you know, diving within yourself and
seeking and learning yourself. You talked about how that theater,
being exposed to theater made you really look at who
you were and discover who you were, or house to
carry that energy or your stress at certain times, or
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your joy, and and how you talked about your emoting
and how you are demonstrative with your your your gestures,
your hand. Movie.
Speaker 19 (55:11):
Theater imitates life, so to study theater is to study
life intimately, you feel me, I hear.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
Now, that's that's that's that's amazing.
Speaker 12 (55:21):
Do you have any books or anything of poetry that
you publish or is that on the that.
Speaker 19 (55:28):
Is that is one of the This is two of
many notebooks, but that is very much it art poetry expression.
Of course, theater and film are a part of the
beautiful world of Nyla that I hope to build. So
that is very much your building that I am building,
break by brick every day.
Speaker 2 (55:46):
Amen. Amen, definitely, definitely. For definitely.
Speaker 13 (55:57):
Are those old prices, yes.
Speaker 19 (56:02):
Is almost six dollars? Now my cupcakes three dollars no more.
Speaker 17 (56:06):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 19 (56:07):
I would love to do three dollar cupcakes again, we
don't live in that more.
Speaker 2 (56:15):
Definitely, definitely.
Speaker 12 (56:16):
Well for for both of our guests, I want to
just say thank you for for both being here and
if you could share with our audience one more time,
and we'll start with Jeff.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
How to get in contact with the i E.
Speaker 12 (56:27):
Tenants Union or the Inland Equity Community Land Trust.
Speaker 15 (56:33):
Well the Tennant Union website is I E t u
dot org. And uh, the Community Land Trust website is
Inland Equity c l T dot org and my email like,
I don't know should I give up my email.
Speaker 2 (56:49):
Or if you're comfortable or you don't have to?
Speaker 15 (56:51):
Okay, Well, I mean you could get a hold of
us there on the all the forums. We'll definitely you know,
fill out any one of those forms, especially if you
have renter issues on I E t U dot org.
We've got a bunch of helpful resources on there and
if you need help, we have volunteers that help write
answers to evictions, help do all kinds of different things.
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And you know, so hope to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (57:17):
And shout out to Ashley who was the MC for
the rally.
Speaker 15 (57:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Ashley Dile who is member of the Sambordino.
If you saw her as the MC, you could come
meet her on Saturday and join us at the meeting
on Date Street. Not this coming Saturday, Next Saturday, Next
Saturday at Eclesia Church.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
Awesome ten am at Ecclesia Church.
Speaker 18 (57:39):
Over the off We have donuts and coffee there.
Speaker 12 (57:42):
You need to have some cupcakes there, brother, Yes, Nyla,
how can people get in contact with you to purchase
some of those scrumpches cupcakes as well as I find
out more about your career, artistic and creative endeavors.
Speaker 19 (57:55):
Well, you can reach me at Nylaspathys Cupcakes dot com
absolutely for any of your sweet treats needs. You can
also reach me at my next event that'll be the
Titty and Tea event celebrating Black women and nursery months.
So I'm working with the sant Bridino Mom's Walk Club
(58:17):
and I'm so excited to do that, And for any
other means, you can reach me on our Instagram at
Nyla's ft Cupcake on Instagram.
Speaker 13 (58:25):
Is that we got to get this together?
Speaker 2 (58:29):
And is that event open to everyone? Because I like
both of those things.
Speaker 19 (58:33):
So that event is open especially to moms and little ones.
That is a family friendly event, and I encourage everyone
to sponsoru Mama, anybody who has had little ones or
growing little ones. This is a beautiful event to celebrate motherhood,
especially Black motherhood.
Speaker 2 (58:47):
Amen beautiful, beautiful, and this has been a great show.
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You put together something very interesting for me today.
Speaker 2 (58:54):
I learned a lot there you go. I thought you
would be interested with the community.
Speaker 13 (58:58):
Land that's just something different to me, Like I always
am interested in out of the box thinking because there's
not enough of it. Yes, and fat dies cupcakes. What's
your second favorite.
Speaker 19 (59:11):
The chocolate chip cookie?
Speaker 2 (59:15):
Right? All right, there you go.
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How about yourself, brother?
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Incredible weekend. I had fun. I drove all over the
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What about you? You know what? I couldn't even tell
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Yeah, well that means that means that much.
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It's been a lot of fun.
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No, it couldn't be mean that I'm overworked and now
I don't get the rest In all jokes. We got
to celebrate my mom's birthday. My mom and her twin sister.
Their birthday is actually tomorrow, but we went to Benny
Hannah's this past Saturday. I love your little the dainty
clap or the silence, but we went to Bennie Hannah's.
It was about fifteen family members that came through and
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it was a wonderful time. So just I know she's listening,
So happy birthday, Mom, Happy birthday on Sandra, love you
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Where's my doggie bag?
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As much as you spend to eat there?
Speaker 12 (08:50):
We were just talking about that earlier today, ain't nobody
leaving nothing much? Then? Yeah, as much as you pay
for that food, you're paying for the theatrics.
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And we're talking about theater earlier. That's what you're.
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Paying you or your mom catching any shrimp or chicken?
Did you or your mom get a tossed any chicken
or shrimping?
Speaker 12 (09:08):
Did you guys count Now, we didn't. We didn't do
We didn't get tossed anything, you know what I mean.
But they did do the volcano. And it's funny because
I was telling my mom, it's each one of the
chefs are different with the volcano, because ours was very
you know, tame, And.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Then we looked over at the next table. The dude
almost seemed like he let the whole restaurant on fire, bro,
and he was waving his hand through the fire like
you was doing it and stuff.
Speaker 12 (09:33):
It was like, so they had a better performer, but
we had the chef cooked the food.
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Well yeah yeah, and you survived the experience.
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Yeah yeah, yeah, and my wallet did to the lord.
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Well, let's dedicate this show to your your mom and
our twin sister.
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Foo right on, and I do have a quick history
chidbit so I'll get to reading it right now. And
this is the history of Waterman Avenue. If you guys
heard Watermen, the main thoroughbad down in Samarandino, all right.
A guidepost to history concerning origin and place in street
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for one of two citizens of Samernadino County whoever became
governor of California. It is interesting to note that no
bibliography of him appears in any standard works of reference
on prominent early residents. Robert W. Waterman was elected to
the post of Lieutenant Governor in eighteen eighty six, and
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He served as governor until eighteen ninety one. In the
spring of eighteen eighty seven, the California legislature provided an
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Watermen resulted in the formation of the Waterman Rifles, it
being his aim that they eventually being mustered into the
state service. The company was mustered in as Company e
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seventh Infantry in eighteen eighty seven and remained with them
until the formation of the ninth Infantry when they became
well known as Company K. Company came won fame in
the Spanish American War and saw valiant service in the Philippines.
Governor Washington was also instrumental in securing the third State
building for southern California with a purchase of land and
(15:59):
beginning of the Insane Asylum later known as Patton in
hot In Highland, Waterman had become wealthy as the owner
of the famous Waterman silver mine pictured at right. It
was located on the desert just north of what is
now Barstow. Because of this mine, the Barstow railway station
was originally called Waterman Junction. When our road was built
(16:20):
up the beautiful Canyon to Sana Renodino Mountains in the
eighteen eighties, doctor Ben Barton and his associates named the
canyon after the famous Waterman silver mine.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Awesome, that's very interesting. We got a governor there and
silver apparently.
Speaker 13 (16:38):
Yeah out there in you know, we got gold up
in Big Bear and silver out in Barstow, and the
silver over and Big Bear too. There's a lot of
heavy metals throughout our area.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Definitely.
Speaker 12 (16:48):
I don't know why that story made me think of
but my dad used to talk about, you know how
when you go over to the over the wash tours
rialto he was saying, a long time ago, there was
like like a bank heist that happened and that people
hit money in the little you know, the little party
drive over the little wash area. That money was hidden
(17:10):
out there. And back in the day when when this
quote unquote happened, it used to be like people that
would go down there and scour and try to find
the money. You know what I mean, have you ever
did you ever hear that?
Speaker 13 (17:21):
Well, I've never heard that, but I mean was the
story before metal detectors.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Well, if it's paper money, it's not gonna.
Speaker 13 (17:30):
I mean, but like there could have been on the
they had ties on them.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And yeah, and we bought my dad at metal.
Speaker 13 (17:39):
Yeah, like there's always a chance that archaeologist in me
is starting to wake.
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Up, Like, don't call the police when you see me
down there.
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That honestly, if you found it, you might want to
turn it in.
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Have a great oh for you today, team, and thank
you for staying tuned in.
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What do we have going on today?
Speaker 12 (18:05):
Dude, we have some amazing guests here to talk to
you about a range of topics as well as entrepreneurship.
And then one of the common threads that we all
share around this table is that we're all poets. So
that's a great thing. But I'll let them introduce themselves,
starting with the gentlemen. The distinguished gentleman, Sir Green, you.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Know my right.
Speaker 18 (18:25):
Hi, I'm Jeff Green.
Speaker 15 (18:27):
I'm Associate director of the Inland Equity Community land Trust,
and I am part of the Inland Empire Tenant Union.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
Sir Green, not Nick Green. Okay, that's an inside joke
from earlier.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Definitely definitely.
Speaker 19 (18:43):
Hi everyone. My name is Nila Davis. I am the
proud owner of Nilis Bath Ice Cupcakes. We specialize in
gourmet stuffed cupcakes. I'm also the owner and founder of
the Bookmark in Arts and Culture Accelerator. I'm very excited
to build and grow and talk about today.
Speaker 13 (19:00):
Wait a second, that business has been around for twelve years.
Speaker 19 (19:05):
Yes, Fast Cupcakes has been around for over twelve years. Actually,
I've miscounted because if I was fourteen turning fifteen, that
means this would be the thirteenth year of us being
a business.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Awesome.
Speaker 19 (19:20):
So I've been a business owner longer than I've been
a grown up.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
There you go, or driving as well?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Or driving?
Speaker 19 (19:25):
Yes, I got my business license first before I should
be Listen.
Speaker 13 (19:30):
You should own your own business before you drive, you
on your own car. That would be amazing because.
Speaker 19 (19:35):
I definitely have learned a lot of different business development
and personal development just in my younger years and in
my you know, my adulthood now. So I have a
very expansive My portfolio is very long. I have a
wide set of information and now I'm just at the
crespo like, Okay, I get to use all of this
now because I'm an adult. People take you seriously.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
When I going to offices now I will. You don't
look like one, but hey, that's a good thing. That's
a that's a blessing.
Speaker 19 (20:07):
I'll take all the commers where I can get it.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
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Speaker 2 (20:09):
There you go.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
Well, with that being said, we're gonna we're gonna start
with brother Jeff, and then we'll dive into your journey
of entrepreneurship and your theater background and and and so
much amazing things that you've cultivated. But I'm Jeff knowing
that you're the executive director of Associate director Associate director
of My apologies of this community land trust effort. Can
you please explain what community land trust is, the whole
(20:34):
concept behind it, and then share about the work and
the upcoming housing houses that you guys are going.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
To be building in the high Desert. Yeah.
Speaker 15 (20:42):
So a community land trust is a way for the
community to own land and the person buying the home, uh,
just buy the structure. So it's a model that was
created over in different iterations over the last hundred years.
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The first community land trust that was used for housing
specifically was the Burlington Community Land Trust in Vermont and
was started as part of an initiative of Bernie Sanders
when he was mayor. It's now they have thousands of
houses in the community land Trust and it's a place
(21:28):
where you know, the housing crisis isn't crushing people like
it is here in southern California. And a lot of
the board members and those of us who initially started
the inland Equity Community land Trust, we're big fans of
that model and wanted to try and do something like
that out here. There are community land trusts in Los
(21:52):
Angeles County. Now there's here in San Berdandino, there's US
and in Phs. Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services is building some
community land trust homes in Palm Springs and our homes
we're building are in Adelanto. We got a piece of
(22:14):
land very inexpensively from somebody else who loves the community
land trust model.
Speaker 18 (22:19):
As far as the.
Speaker 15 (22:20):
Model goes, you can think of it kind of like
maybe a condo, but it's not apartment structure. These are
individual like three bedroom houses, and again you own the house.
The property itself is owned by the nonprofit. And we
were September we should have our first certificate occupancy on
(22:44):
the first home. We're building four up there and they
will be available for sale by the end of September,
and we're hoping we're going to be basically sell them
for the cost to build them, and market value on
them is about four four hundred and twenty thousand, depending
(23:05):
on what the appraiser does. When we finally have a
certificate of occupancy and we're trying to get in there
right now, we're on target to be at about three
hundred and thirty thousand dollars a house, and so that's
a you know, significant difference, and the way we're structuring
it is we're going to lock in that difference between
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the actual price that the homeowner pays and the market.
Speaker 18 (23:32):
Value and call that an equity share.
Speaker 15 (23:35):
That equity share is going to be passed on to
whomever the person sells their home to, and it'll stay
permanently below market rate forever as long as the community
land trust nonprofit lasts and they build wealth, they build
equity as they pay down their loan.
Speaker 18 (23:53):
They want like, what does that mean last?
Speaker 15 (23:57):
So well, I mean it's a ninety your ground lease.
I'm sixty, so in ninety nine years I'm not going
to be around.
Speaker 18 (24:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 15 (24:07):
So so the same kind of structure, right, We're going
to have the residents that live in the house serve
on our board. We're going to hopefully, you know, have many,
many more homes and eventually that's the community that's going
to run their own land trust. And so like a
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home association, you can think of it as a home association,
but it's yes, and technic the nonprofit does and that's
important for tax reasons. But it's a very interesting model, yes,
and it's it's different. So if you're if you want
to learn about them. I've basically learned everything from an
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organization called Grounded Solutions. There's the DNA in Boston or
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Beautiful Community land Trust project that
started several years ago. There's Beverly Vermont Community land Trust.
If you want to look at like multifamily and how
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they've structured, there's people at Beverly in Vermont and Los
Angeles right now paying six hundred dollars a month for
an apartment. So you know, that's that's what community land
trusts are capable of achieving, and that's what we want
to do here in San Bernadino and Riverside Counties.
Speaker 17 (25:29):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I love that.
Speaker 13 (25:30):
I mean I think we need that in like twenty
thousand different other ways.
Speaker 12 (25:35):
Yeah, you're totally correct, But what I love about it
is just the creative ingenuity as well as the communal approach,
right and to me, it's an approach that makes sure
it's kind of like a village mindset, right well, making
sure that we take care of the whole community, that
everyone has affordable housing, that can enter into housing, that
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can have opportunity to build some generational wealth. Right to me,
I love the structure because to me, it just it
just screams that.
Speaker 18 (26:03):
It's not a commune.
Speaker 13 (26:05):
So like that's like, you know, like it's kind of
taking that concept. But like you still own the house, right,
so that's cool, so you can still build your generational
wealth a little bit.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Right.
Speaker 15 (26:17):
So the way it's structured is they will basically, you
make a down payment on the house, you pay down
your loan, that equity.
Speaker 18 (26:26):
Builds up, you take all of that with you.
Speaker 15 (26:29):
If the market continues to go up and your house
appreciates by one hundred thousand, then you get seventy five
percent of that and then twenty five percent is shared
back with the community land Trust, so you get the
vast majority of the appreciation. However, again, we're trying to
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bring back the idea of a home as a place
to live as opposed to an investment instrument. And so
it's strategy to try and uh stabilize that uh pricing insecurity.
Speaker 20 (27:05):
And it's an excellent model for if it could help. Certainly, yes,
and it is big enough in places like Burlington is
now the Lake Champlain Community Land Trust, and they perform
like all of the functions that housing authority would in
the County of Champlain.
Speaker 18 (27:26):
And they're.
Speaker 15 (27:29):
You know, they're a beautiful history to look at and
what they've achieved, and we're hoping to, you know, do
something like that.
Speaker 18 (27:37):
Out here in the i E. Where it's desperately.
Speaker 12 (27:41):
Needed, totally, totally, totally. And then on on the wave
of housing, tell us a little about the Inland Empire
Tenants Union.
Speaker 15 (27:52):
So that's an another that's a project of the Inland
Equity Community Land Trust and we UH, because we're doing
the Community land Trust. A few years ago, people figured
we knew everything about housing, and you know, they reached
out to us for help.
Speaker 18 (28:11):
And it's UH.
Speaker 15 (28:12):
When she worked for Uplift Sanmbordadino, it was Karen Suarez
who reached out to us on behalf of some tenants
that live on Date Street by Date and UH del Rosa,
which the yeah, but the that's where the Sambordadino Tenant
Union started and so UH it's led by Deborah Harmon
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who is now serving on the Community Land Trust board,
and she and other tenants in her building were basically
they had UH a sewage pipe that was draining above
ground and leaking across their apartment complex. They had a
whole bunch of habitability issues and so you know, we
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got together and started canvassing and we just recently did
a rally outside of PAMA offices.
Speaker 18 (29:08):
The PAMA.
Speaker 15 (29:10):
You know, they own thirteen hundred buildings.
Speaker 18 (29:14):
In this city.
Speaker 15 (29:15):
They have like over three thousand of the rental units
in the city of San Marnandino are run by PAMA Management.
Mike Najar is the billionaire that owns that company. He
doesn't he lost his real estate license for being a
slumlord in about five years ago.
Speaker 18 (29:30):
And so it's a cycle.
Speaker 15 (29:34):
And they focus on communities where housing is especially like
it's distressed, and they buy them up and package them together,
much like they did before the two thousand and eight
financial crisis, and try and monopolize housing. And I think
that they're driving the prices up, so rents are skyrocketing.
(29:57):
And they're not the only ones. PAMA is, So Zillow is. Yeah,
there there's you know, there's a bunch of like Bridge,
High Tower and Palmer are all the same company owned
by Mike Najar. There's you know, there's Westland, there's others
operating in the same business model.
Speaker 18 (30:17):
But it's a business model now they.
Speaker 13 (30:18):
Want there's there's a value increasing the price.
Speaker 15 (30:21):
Right, well, but there's also they're preying on people that
are well, they're removing stoves.
Speaker 13 (30:28):
Okay, the billionaires get love and we get the shafts.
Speaker 15 (30:31):
Yeah, and so that's the it's it's a the TenneT union.
You know, we're focusing on trying to assert right.
Speaker 18 (30:40):
So did you have a you have a lawyer and
you're so.
Speaker 15 (30:45):
The Attorney General of the State of California is suing
Mike Najar.
Speaker 20 (30:50):
Yes, but that's a little bit cheaper than hiring own
We Yeah.
Speaker 15 (30:57):
This is the issues renters we can't afford to turn
and the way the laws are constructed, Uh, they require
you to hire an attorney to assert your rights. So
it's very difficult for renters to assert their rights. So
people are not fighting evictions when they shouldn't be being evicted.
We're first then the tenant union. We're helping people write
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answers to evictions. We're helping people find attorneys that will
do you know, habitability lawsuits and those kinds of things.
We are trying to get lawyers wherever we can. We've
work to.
Speaker 13 (31:31):
Ask about a lawyer and you mentioned the best lawyer
in all the way I want. You're doing a good job.
Speaker 12 (31:38):
Definitely, definitely Wow awesome, awesome efforts on both of the
land the land Trust as well as the Tenants Union.
How can our community connect with either one of those entities,
because I know that there's many that live in slum
like conditions that want to.
Speaker 15 (31:54):
We we meet every other Saturday, So not this coming Saturday.
Speaker 18 (31:59):
We just last Saturday.
Speaker 15 (32:00):
So two weeks from last Saturday, we meet at Ecclesia
Church on Date Street.
Speaker 17 (32:06):
That is.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, shout out to Beckley.
Speaker 18 (32:15):
Yes, yes, thank you and thank you so much for
that space.
Speaker 15 (32:18):
Yes and everywhere and yeah, and we canvas every other Saturday.
Speaker 18 (32:23):
So we looked for volunteers.
Speaker 15 (32:25):
One of the ways you can become a member of
the Inline Equity Community Land Trust is if you don't
have money, you can volunteer for seven hours. You're a
voting member, you can elect our board, you can be
a full participant. One of the ways you can volunteers
come out and canvas with us for the Tenant Union.
Meet your neighbors, talk to them about their renters' rights
and you know, get involved and uh, it's going to
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take a lot of us to address this housing crisis,
and I think that, you know, the community really needs
to get involved.
Speaker 13 (32:55):
One one quick question, are you putting pressure on the
politicians who he's giving all the money to? Like I
heard he gives money just everybody.
Speaker 15 (33:06):
I don't know how much I want to go into
exactly what our plans are politically, because it's uh, okay, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
You know, we want to keep the five oh one
C three and four status.
Speaker 12 (33:19):
So I toltally you get that as we close out
this said, what is the poetry piece that you're going
to be sharing with us?
Speaker 15 (33:25):
Okay, well see, and this is gonna just forget everything else.
I just said, just pay attention to this.
Speaker 13 (33:33):
It was. It was very interesting, by the way, Thank
you very.
Speaker 18 (33:36):
Much for sharing that.
Speaker 15 (33:37):
All Right, So I found a poem that doesn't have
the curse words, and so here it is. Uh it's
called the commercialization of Jackie o NASA's blowing or nose.
What happened to the news coverage or even posts on
four chan about those electoral the electrical substations. Some say
it was Antifa that shot up the substations, because Antifa
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was already spinning stories about how some substations were shot
up before the police were even called. The police say
they found bullet casings, but not much else. Say the
whole grid goes down.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That's it right.
Speaker 15 (34:16):
That bell can't be unwrung. There's no way of localizing
power because it's all sourced from dams and electricity farms
and nuclear power plants or other large operations which are
already high value targets. The experts will say, don't fear
longer or exaggerate about how bad it'll be. They say
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Americans will work together and get through it somehow. They
don't understand human suffering. They have no experience dealing with
starving people. Starving people in America will act no different
than starving people in Mogadishu. In fact, they'll likely act
much worse. Americans have never seen true hunger. They didn't
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grow up Starving Americans will be viciously angry when they
get hungry. They will have no experience with the mental
hallucinations brought on by hunger. Looting, raping, pillaging will be
the norm.
Speaker 18 (35:16):
I don't care.
Speaker 15 (35:16):
If they fix the electrical grid. A year later, most
Americans will be dead and the only ones left will
be survivalists, the extremely lucky, the larger, more well organized
gangs of looters, the strongest and most brutal, who left
their souls at the starting gate and did horrible things
to survive. Who will the engineers fix the grid for?
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Will we all forget what transpired and go.
Speaker 18 (35:44):
Back to work?
Speaker 15 (35:46):
How do you get warlords to give up their new
positions of power and their soldiers and their harems of slaves.
The day the electrical grid goes down, America ceases to
exist unless everyone has a predator three hundred and fifty
watt super quiet inverter generator from Harbor Freight.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
There you go, get your generators now people can get.
Speaker 13 (36:16):
Definitely, definitely, man, that almost sounded like like twenty eight
days later a little.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Bit, you know, it casts a.
Speaker 12 (36:26):
Uhalyptic dystopian kind of vision.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Definitely, well, thank you brother, Thank you brother. Great.
Speaker 13 (36:34):
Yeah, now I have to talk to chat GPT about this.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Man. What are you doing to me?
Speaker 17 (36:38):
Dude?
Speaker 12 (36:40):
Definitely definitely no, thank you for and shout out to
Marabell Nunias as well. And yes, the you know the
work your partner and the work that you direct executive
director and partner as well, and the work.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
That you guys are doing Nyla. How you doing today's.
Speaker 19 (36:54):
Sister, I'm doing good, you know.
Speaker 12 (36:58):
Amen, blessed be alive, but day above ground, God is good,
Amen all the time.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Tell us about you, know you you started off as
an entrepreneur so young, so.
Speaker 12 (37:07):
Share with us about Please share the name of your
company and how did the origin story of your company?
Speaker 19 (37:14):
Like every great story, I'll start it with this, so.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Boom, so boom.
Speaker 19 (37:20):
I am about thirteen years old and I get this
letter from a group called People to People. It is
a student program that invites students to study abroad for
four to three and a half weeks in other countries
to give them, you know, a cultural engagement experience. And
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they have teachers who nominate students for this opportunity based
off of different honors, classes and programs that you're in.
So I had happened to be, you know, a daughter
of a teacher and a legacy of teachers, so obviously
I'm in all the hard classes. I'm taking classes at
our junior college every other and so I got nominated
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by one of my teachers, and so my mom's like, oh,
this is such a beautiful opportunity.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I say.
Speaker 19 (38:07):
This tuition for him is about seven thousand dollars. I
know you don't have seven thousand dollars on your pillow.
Otherwise we need to talk. But I know I don't
have it right now. I want you to see the world,
but this is a lot at thirteen and a half.
We might need to we need to pray on this
for a little minute. And so I was really determined
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because that recently my aunt had been she had left
to come. She had been in Europe because she had
lived there for a while. My grandmother had gone, and
my mother had gone. And so I'm just like everybody
getting on these planes and going out of the countries
where the monther I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Yeah, And I got a little golden.
Speaker 14 (38:48):
Ticket in my hand. Wait a minute, So I met
a deal with my mom. I'm like, Mom, let's say
I get good grades this summer with this program that
I'm in, can I can? I try to go And
she's like, not that you get straight a's through your
three summer classes.
Speaker 19 (39:05):
We'll play with the idea of fundraising. So I came
home with straight a's and I was like, Okay, So
I'm figuring out how am I going to get this money.
I'm already the you know, the quiet student in the class.
So I'm like, hmm, people know I cook be cause
you know, class pot looks I bring something cute or whatever.
And my mom's like, okay, you can try to cook something.
Let's do brownies, let's do cookies. I'm like, let's do cupcakes.
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And she's like, go into class, do a pitch. Yeah,
and make sure everybody who I'll believe you if everybody
who orders something does a one dollar deposit. So I
was selling cupcakes for three dollars and she's like, if
everybody makes a one dollar deposit, I will help you.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Okay.
Speaker 19 (39:47):
So I had a teacher who had tried something of mine,
and she, you know, she was she loves the underdog,
and so she's like, you're my quiet, little good student.
I'll give you the first three minutes of class. And
so I get in front of my class, I gave
my pitch. I had this little paper that goes around
the class. I left that class and went just went home.
My mom was like, all right, how many deposits do
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you have. I showed her sixty dollars. She's like, oh,
that's sixty dollars. The people who are already paid in full.
I'm like, no, these are sixty one dollar deposits. She's
like oh, I'm like yeah, I have more people ordering tomorrow.
They're like, oh, so from then on a year now,
class man, when I tell you that Friday, that became
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the new, you know, development of Nyla the girl from
English class to Nila the Cupcake Girl. So I had
spent a year and a half and I made it
to that trip, and I had made over fifteen thousand
cupcakes to the fundraise for that trip, and that paid
for all of my licensing, my DBAs and you know,
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a little spending money. But that didn't stop. I became
Nihila the Cupcake Girl. And so I had had a
state pablished business and I had ran it all the
way until I had went to college, and there I
did my little Hannah Montana moment. Because running the business
when you're a teenager it sounds cute, very true, Jackson VP,
very Hannah Montana, until you become the cupcake girls. When
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you're walking around now that you have cookcakes, Now where
are you doing wherever?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
You're going to supply?
Speaker 19 (41:21):
Now now I'm a supplier. It's a little different when
teachers are trying to get you to do their nieces
and nephew's birthday parties in between classes.
Speaker 13 (41:30):
I'm like, you know, and where's our cupcakes?
Speaker 19 (41:36):
Listen? Now Nila is grown and she got an Instagram.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
You can order some.
Speaker 19 (41:43):
Because cupcakes sound great until I tell you. Okay, So
this is myself and so yeah, we are very close
to reaching our one million baked and sold mark. So
we are at the fire I know one hundred. So
that means we have baked over nine hundred and ninety
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nine thousand to the nine hundred. Okay, And so it
has been an interesting career of growth, development and cupcakes.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
No, that's beautiful.
Speaker 12 (42:14):
For any other young entrepreneur out there, what would be
your words of encouragement? Because I often tell the youth
all the time, you don't have to wait till you're
older or adult to make money, to create a business.
What words of encouragement would you offer two of the youth?
Speaker 19 (42:30):
Honestly, I would give them a couple of words. Honestly,
I would say do what you love first. I am
a multi hyphen it artist and so colony of arts
is a love language that was definitely taught. I grew
up in a blended and split family. So my mom
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and my dad had different households, different patterns, But one
of the things that was very similar is that my
grandmother's and my aunties on my mother's side, they show
a lot of their love through food. So we had
the practice the formal tea talk parties with my Auntie Donna,
learning how food grows from my me mommy my mother's mother,
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and my grandma and my granny and my father's mother
watching her cook and the love that she put. This
is a woman who from the age of like three,
she literally served breakfast on like a silver chafing dish
with a teapot and everything. And that's something that she
did for all her grandchildren. Every grandchild she had, she
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would buy a new tea set and she will make
sure you got served with your plate, served with your fork.
Speaker 14 (43:37):
She it was.
Speaker 19 (43:39):
Food is such a love language that I think because
you know, we buy food, you know, get your little
in and out burger or whatever, you know, get it,
gotta eat, gotta go right. You get your smash burger,
you eat it and it's done.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Deal.
Speaker 19 (43:54):
But food is one of the most intimate things that
you can do for somebody. You're a part of their healing.
You're a part of their nursuring. You don't let nobody
in like that until you're a therapist or a doctor.
You and it always stasts better. You gotta be good
to the people who love you, and you didn't have
it's the labor of it.
Speaker 13 (44:14):
It may be something primitive too, because like if you
were you know, didn't want to eat someone else's food,
you could have died back in the day.
Speaker 19 (44:22):
Absolutely so somebody offering you food, especially prepared food prepared
and then the advancement of taste and palace, and it's
just something so human about sitting down and we're like,
we have all the means to take from each other,
but we're gonna sit down on this table and serve
each other. It just opens people up in a way
that few other things compare.
Speaker 13 (44:43):
It gives you all the good feel good hormones and
everything right, because you're like, soon as some sugar hits
my belly.
Speaker 19 (44:50):
Right, you're not gonna argue about what we talked about yesterday.
We have banana pudding in front of us. That's gonna
change the entire conversation. And my cupcakes are definitely influenced
by my culture and by my family, and almost every cupcake.
Speaker 13 (45:07):
Has a specifics famous cupcake.
Speaker 19 (45:10):
Oh the banana pudding by far and.
Speaker 13 (45:13):
What what is the web?
Speaker 19 (45:14):
The Instagram again NILA's ft cupcakes. The ethnity started for
fat thighs, but Nyla's f T cupcake fads is a
childhood nicknack and mine because I was a little chunky baby,
and so I used that brand aid to my advantage.
And we're still here.
Speaker 12 (45:29):
Hey now, hey, now, definitely definitely And you said you
shared a little about your theater background and being a
multi talented in many of art spaces.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Could you share a little about about that.
Speaker 19 (45:43):
Yes, So I always love entertainment, you know, I always
love like performing arts. I definitely am somebody who grew
up watching American Idol on Thursday nights with my uncle
Bou and my mom. And then I also remember getting
DVDs of Like the Tire Tyler Perry plays before he
had a bunch of Like Medea movies and seeing the
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plays growing up, and so performing arts was just a
part of just like the core of who I was.
I knew what I would find it, but it found
me in such a unique way. I went to school
to un LV University in Nevada, Las Vegas, and I
needed a multicultural arts class while I was pursuing a
hospitality degree, and so I took this theater one hundred class.
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And when I tell you just the care that went
into building a world. And I was already someone who was,
you know, a little not anti social, but kept to herself.
And so a lot of my emoting and expression would
come through different movies and come through different TV shows
that I watched. But listening to a professor, listening to
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peers really take the time to talk about how the
lighting affect the mood of the scene that we're watching,
Where in the body are the characters holding stress and
how do we as actors portray that? And so I
made a beautiful shift and had my major change from
solely hospitality studies to interdisciplinary studies because I wanted to
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understand that how does this performing culture and the art
of servicing people meet each other? And it's the humanity
we're feeding people, humanity and life from very different directions.
And being in Las Vegas is one of the best
combinations of studies that you can get. And so for
my thesis I talked about I made an observation about
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how many areas have theaters and how the theater's location
was in prominently black and brown communities. I did my
studies specifically in the Oakland and NorCal area, and I
looked at these theaters and the people who lived in
the community didn't match the people who were audience goers
of the theater. And considering the history of theater being
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a place to express feeling and thought, especially like just political,
just like out or from what's happening in the in
the world, I was like, this is kind of backwards.
It's like we see movies all the time. How many
streaming subscriptions do I have? When I really needed to
go outside and I could I go watch a showm
And as an actor, why am I not getting picked
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up with auditions and stuff that's happening in my own backyard.
I didn't know when my own local theaters was. And
that was as someone who grew up partially in La
County as well as I. That was the first thing
I missed. I was in like Lulu's dance academy. There
was like two or three arts programs at my elementary school,
and the first thing that I noticed was missing. I
was like where's our choir, where's our where's our Caribbean
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like music class? Where's Those are the first things that
I couldn't translate in that proper language because I was
about a fourth fifth grader, but it was I noticed
it along with the you know, I make the joke
that I was the whole popul whole black population of
my fourth grade class. Granted there was only four of us,
but when the teacher says, our black students in our
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fourth grade division need help reading, I'm like, Okay, you
could have just sent me wanted me I but culinary
arts and theater arts helped me in my college career
and building the world that I really wanted to see,
and I was able to foresee that very well, especially
in the pandemic, where I felt like I should have
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had my my living single moment, you know, twenty something
years old, and I'm gonna go get that arts program job,
and they're gonna let me be in this cute, beautiful
office and I'm gonna inspire all the beautiful brown and
black babies to do all the artsy things. But then
the world shut down, so I'm like, oh, how I
end up back in my mo house? Oh my goodness.
So that is what inspired the the resurrection of Nihlispatis Cupcakes,
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as well as the bookmark the art Accelerator, the art
and culture accelerator that was birth out of that shelter,
cared it.
Speaker 20 (49:59):
It was still burned, you know.
Speaker 12 (50:01):
There you go on the on that note I I
know that you brought a couple of poetry pieces that
you would like to share with us.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
And then you're also a singer as.
Speaker 18 (50:09):
Well, and.
Speaker 13 (50:11):
Did you ever integrate the theatrics with the uh making like.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
That might be a podcast?
Speaker 19 (50:24):
You know, I'm not going to give away too many
of my goodies. But what we've not always has a notebook,
you see, I got to right here. So I got
a plan. Don't just like, now can we make I've
already written it down. When do you want me to
do it? I know, I know my mic.
Speaker 12 (50:42):
There you go, there you go. Excellent, Definitely, definitely the
mic is yours for your poetry.
Speaker 19 (50:49):
Thank you. So I got a book called Write the Poem.
I like any book that encourages you to write and express.
So this is the one of the many I filled.
And so this poem is called the Peach. Okay, freedom
is a peach, to desire without resistance, to bring your
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truth to lips and fall to the call of indulgence,
to smell, to feel, to act, to bite. The ability
to bear one's teeth is reserved for some, yet primal
to all. Why spare the opportunity? This is no cattle
to rear in range. If I inherit my liberation, what
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halts my progress? My theory? My theory is that we
eat as big as the gardens we can see. We
choose to have the peach rought in our hands rather
than witness our last bite. We start ignorant to the
pit that was meant to build our orchards. We sink
(51:55):
into the soil that was meant to feed our kin,
prey with them to find another stone fruit. We do,
and yet the cycle continues.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
That's powerful and just just around. I love the line where.
Speaker 13 (52:16):
It's like a lot of humans, Yeah, their gardens are
too small. They think your garden could be so much
bigger as their own making, and they don't. They keep
it small.
Speaker 12 (52:29):
To let it rite in your own hand instead of
consuming it. What it's meant to nourish you in that
that seed at the at the middle of it is
meant to be planted, to increase a yield, to continue to.
Speaker 17 (52:40):
Which I have done.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Yes, you have, amen. But it's it's so much, so much,
so many layers to it.
Speaker 19 (52:46):
It's so many layers. It's I've I've had this feeling
so often and so many times, especially as a young entrepreneur.
And my truth is like I was like, oh my goodness,
I'm the cupcake girl. But it was that was my peach.
I'm just like, oh my gosh, this is my only peach.
If I don't do anything with it. But what if
I want what if I need lemons? What if I
(53:08):
need grapefruit? But I was so focused on this is
my only pitch. I couldn't see the soil around my peg. Man,
you feel me?
Speaker 2 (53:16):
No, I feel you.
Speaker 12 (53:17):
I hear you, sister, But real, amazing, amazing. What is
the title of the second piece that you're gonna bless
us with?
Speaker 19 (53:24):
So the title of the second piece? Oh, it's called
the future? Ok, just no life after the show. I'll
look where I am from where I'll go so fond
of where it all began, before the bands and the cars.
(53:47):
It was a dream that took me far. When God
speaks about my destiny, when you're walking in the dark,
keep your faith and leave the rest to me. Walking
down this road, every weight shift feels cold. I'm too
young or too old to hold so much hope but
so much regret, to be determined, but lack the confidence.
(54:09):
Others run lapse around me, anxious, like there's a bunch
of traps around me. One wrong step and I bleed
an opportunity that I can't see. I pray at the
end of the day that whatever prophecy he wrote for me,
that I'm taking the steps that I'm supposed to be.
(54:29):
I believe in the voice he has chosen for me
is meant by fate to spread love, not hate. And
so long as I can maintain my mental I can
focus on my craft and learn to love my potential.
Speaker 12 (54:41):
Beautiful, beautiful, five minutes left. I love your poetry. It
seems so intro spect, you know, diving within yourself and
seeking and learning yourself. You talked about how that theater,
being exposed to theater made you really look at who
you were and discover who you were, or house to
carry that energy or your stress at certain times, or
(55:04):
your joy, and and how you talked about your emoting
and how you are demonstrative with your your your gestures,
your hand. Movie.
Speaker 19 (55:11):
Theater imitates life, so to study theater is to study
life intimately, you feel me, I hear.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
Now, that's that's that's that's amazing.
Speaker 12 (55:21):
Do you have any books or anything of poetry that
you publish or is that on the that.
Speaker 19 (55:28):
Is that is one of the This is two of
many notebooks, but that is very much it art poetry expression.
Of course, theater and film are a part of the
beautiful world of Nyla that I hope to build. So
that is very much your building that I am building,
break by brick every day.
Speaker 2 (55:46):
Amen. Amen, definitely, definitely. For definitely.
Speaker 13 (55:57):
Are those old prices, yes.
Speaker 19 (56:02):
Is almost six dollars? Now my cupcakes three dollars no more.
Speaker 17 (56:06):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 19 (56:07):
I would love to do three dollar cupcakes again, we
don't live in that more.
Speaker 2 (56:15):
Definitely, definitely.
Speaker 12 (56:16):
Well for for both of our guests, I want to
just say thank you for for both being here and
if you could share with our audience one more time,
and we'll start with Jeff.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
How to get in contact with the i E.
Speaker 12 (56:27):
Tenants Union or the Inland Equity Community Land Trust.
Speaker 15 (56:33):
Well the Tennant Union website is I E t u
dot org. And uh, the Community Land Trust website is
Inland Equity c l T dot org and my email like,
I don't know should I give up my email.
Speaker 2 (56:49):
Or if you're comfortable or you don't have to?
Speaker 15 (56:51):
Okay, Well, I mean you could get a hold of
us there on the all the forums. We'll definitely you know,
fill out any one of those forms, especially if you
have renter issues on I E t U dot org.
We've got a bunch of helpful resources on there and
if you need help, we have volunteers that help write
answers to evictions, help do all kinds of different things.
(57:15):
And you know, so hope to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (57:17):
And shout out to Ashley who was the MC for
the rally.
Speaker 15 (57:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Ashley Dile who is member of the Sambordino.
If you saw her as the MC, you could come
meet her on Saturday and join us at the meeting
on Date Street. Not this coming Saturday, Next Saturday, Next
Saturday at Eclesia Church.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
Awesome ten am at Ecclesia Church.
Speaker 18 (57:39):
Over the off We have donuts and coffee there.
Speaker 12 (57:42):
You need to have some cupcakes there, brother, Yes, Nyla,
how can people get in contact with you to purchase
some of those scrumpches cupcakes as well as I find
out more about your career, artistic and creative endeavors.
Speaker 19 (57:55):
Well, you can reach me at Nylaspathys Cupcakes dot com
absolutely for any of your sweet treats needs. You can
also reach me at my next event that'll be the
Titty and Tea event celebrating Black women and nursery months.
So I'm working with the sant Bridino Mom's Walk Club
(58:17):
and I'm so excited to do that, And for any
other means, you can reach me on our Instagram at
Nyla's ft Cupcake on Instagram.
Speaker 13 (58:25):
Is that we got to get this together?
Speaker 2 (58:29):
And is that event open to everyone? Because I like
both of those things.
Speaker 19 (58:33):
So that event is open especially to moms and little ones.
That is a family friendly event, and I encourage everyone
to sponsoru Mama, anybody who has had little ones or
growing little ones. This is a beautiful event to celebrate motherhood,
especially Black motherhood.
Speaker 2 (58:47):
Amen beautiful, beautiful, and this has been a great show.
Speaker 13 (58:52):
You put together something very interesting for me today.
Speaker 2 (58:54):
I learned a lot there you go. I thought you
would be interested with the community.
Speaker 13 (58:58):
Land that's just something different to me, Like I always
am interested in out of the box thinking because there's
not enough of it. Yes, and fat dies cupcakes. What's
your second favorite.
Speaker 19 (59:11):
The chocolate chip cookie?
Speaker 2 (59:15):
Right? All right, there you go.
Speaker 13 (59:18):
And this is Robert Porter and I be on your
locker with the I Love Sarnel County rad Show.
Speaker 17 (59:21):
And we all and we're still live on the Facebook.
Speaker 2 (59:42):
I'm the man who.
Speaker 3 (59:46):
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