September 29, 2025 • 20 mins
Say hello to my next guest on the Inventress Podcast, Chelsea Chong Kim! She has over a decade of experience in education and an inspiring author of the popular book "Carol the Carrot Bowls for the Salad Bowl"!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hi, everybody. I'm least asking the Inventress. I'm the CEO
and founder of Inventing a to Z AoE and here
on the Inventor's podcast. I am beyond excited to have
this incredible guest on our show. She's an author. I mean,
I want her to tell you, like a little bit
(00:26):
of her backstory. I can't even There's so much to
say about the wonderful, amazing entrepreneur who is ailing it
everywhere on social media and every bookstore, everywhere books are
being sold. Her name is Chelsea Chong Kim. That sounds
like a TV name, by the way, Oh, it sounds
like a star. And she is the author of I
(00:48):
don't want to mess it up, but it's Carol the
Carrots and what else about the bull?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Carol the cart Bulls for the salad bull.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm excited, Chelsea. I am so happy to have you
on my podcast. Beyond exciting. How the heck are you?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I'm doing fabulous on a Friday afternoon with Julisa. You're
in such an inspiration a rock star. I've been a
fan of you, following you on Instagram. You've been dancing
all in YouTube on Instagram. I'm such a fan of you,
and thank you. I'm such an honor to have you,
and like you know, i'm being on this interview with you,
(01:28):
I'm super happy.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'm super happy to have you here. So let's get
right to it. I have so many questions to ask,
So the first question I'll ask you is I'm gonna
get right to it for sure. This book, this book?
How did you come up with this amazing book? Why? Why?
What's the purpose?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, so the idea came from my combination and of
my personal childhood experiences and my ears of teaching. So
as a how I was always that shy, introverted kid
who found her voice through a small leadership roles like
creating clubs or organizing events. I remember I always remember
(02:14):
founding the first historical Korean club in high school. So
I always always found that there's no Korean club at all.
It was just very dry, just chess club. There was
only a dance club. And I don't hate on all
those clubs. I'm just saying there was no flavor in
that high school. I feel like there needed some more
like cultural clubs in the high school. So I was like, Okay,
(02:36):
you know what I'm going to create a first Korean
club in the high school. So it's which I did
in first history of ever in sixty years.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So I created one.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was like, why not, let's just go for it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
What where were you raised? Where did you live?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I live in Uh, well, I used to live in
Los Angeles and in that high school it was Culver
City in California.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Okay, so you lived in California, in California, Yes, that
is where you said, Okay, in Culver City. I know
what that is. Beautiful, Mike. Actually one of my cousins
lives out there. So you decided as he and how
old were you?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I was, I believe at that time was seventeen when
I first started making that Korean club. And actually I
don't know where it came from, where that determination actually
came from, which actually gave me the first taste of leadership.
Like I was like, where the heck am I going
to go with this? And I was like, you know what,
I'm just gonna go with it. I just grab all
(03:31):
my best friends. I'm like, you're going to be a secretary.
You're gonna be my vice president. Okay, you over there,
can you come be my secretary? I mean just grab
a paper and pencil. Okay, you all right, we're gonna
we're gonna play all the K pop music that I know,
and that in the twenty two thousands, I believe two thousands,
AND's I get. I think it's honest.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Whatever, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. This came from somewhere,
your parents, your aunt and uncle, you, because I believe
that that leadership comes from somewhere unless you're just like
baby I was born this way, which is very possible.
So for you at seventeen, you said you're very shy
(04:12):
prior to that, and then all of a sudden, I'm
coming out. You came out at seventeen and you decided
to start a club. Why why would you do that?
And wait, wait, wait, and what gave you the power?
Because something gives you the power when you're shy. Something happened,
(04:32):
you know what?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That was a really good question because because I had
no idea, I'm going to join the ASB. For those
who don't know what ASP is as a student leadership
body a student body leadership program in any high school
or middle school, you probably heard of it in your
school before I was just scouted, meaning like I was
just picked up hey, hey, you want to be in
(04:54):
student leadership. I was like, I'm sure. They interviewed me.
They're like, I like your attitude, I like your determination.
You're in. I'm like, okay, all right, I'm in. So
I went in there. I got the position and they're like, oh,
I like how you draw. I like your creativity. You
want to be a commissioner? Sure? Why not? And I
think God, like, I'm a believer and everyone who's out there,
I'm a Christian, I'm a believer. He I am just
(05:16):
like putting into these positions. And then that gave me determination,
this power of like, Okay, I guess I can just
go with this flow. And then I just I just
had this power of like this leadership. We're like, okay,
I guess I can go with someone with this. I'm
like all right. And then there was this moment where like, okay,
there's gonna be a senior I believe that was a term.
(05:36):
There was a time where there was a junior class
secretary position and I just did it. I ran for it.
I did that. And then there was a senior class
treasure position. I did that, and I ran for that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And then hold up, wait a minute. In your family
have to get back to that because I know that's
where it comes from, or I don't know, is anybody
in your family. There's gotta be leadership. Somebody has got
to lets you Again, if you were born that way,
you're born that way. But it took you until seventeen
to do that. Unless you did other things, I think
you're just a leader. I think as much as you're
(06:08):
saying you were shy prior to seventeen, I believe that
you were doing other things because as far as I know,
and I know this much, you were probably always a leader.
Who again, who your parents are they in leadership roles?
Is your mother a powerhouse? Silent, quiet powerhouse? I need
(06:32):
to know that background.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You know what, if you want to really know my family,
I guess it comes from my mom because my dad
passed away when I was ten years old. He was
he served his he served as a soldier in South Korea,
he fought. I don't know the whole history because he
passed away when I was super young, so I don't
(06:55):
know a whole background of that. Which, by the way, guys,
my second book is going to be based on him.
He's coming out as a character. This time and the
first book, Actually, my mom and brother comes out on
my first book. My mom Actually she is a powerhouse lady.
She was out.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Huh, That's what I'm talking about. There's no way like you, well,
you become the power. You become the power that you
are surrounded with. You have to have a superpower, superhero,
superpeople unless maybe I was born that way and so
and many of us are. But usually there's somebody who
(07:34):
elicits that energy. That's sleeping giant if you will, inside
of you, or you're watching you're watching your mom, watching
your mom, listening to the positive information that your mother
is feeding you without even knowing that she's encouraging you
that way.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, yeah, that really I like how you brought that up,
because I didn't really thought my mom will be that
leadership rolled that I will ever thought about because it
was always in my blood where it was always like defaulted,
like she's supposed to be like that. My mom was
supposed to be that type of role and I would
(08:12):
never thought like she was my leadership role model. I
always thought it was my fifth grade teacher. If you
were we're going to talk about, like, oh, who was
actually your role model? In your life, then it will
be my fifth grade teacher who actually was my role
model to become an educator. Then that was where I
actually had my education and my If there anybody asked
(08:34):
me like why did you become a teacher? What made
you become a teacher, I'm like, well, if you tell me,
then my fifth grade teacher was actually my role model
to become a teacher in the first place. And that's
how my whole journey became an educator. And she actually
taught me like Ms. Foster, if I don't know if
you're if you're still out there in the world, she's
absolute superstar. Shed what diversity was? She showed me like
(08:59):
it doesn't matter who who you are. She was a powerhouse,
like you know what, Like she danced while she was teaching.
She didn't care, Like if you didn't know what math was,
she was like, you know what math, I don't care
if you don't you hate math, Like you know one
plus one could be a dance movie. And I'm like,
oh my.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
God, that so but this is it. So not only
did you have it through your innately innately, because it's
through your genes. I promise you your mom was a
sleeping or quiet, giant right and probably still is right.
She doesn't brag about what she does. She doesn't say anything.
She gives you guidance and guide you through what's right
(09:39):
and what's power and that you will not and cannot feel,
but you will always win, and you will let others
up and teach and do all of these things. So
you were inspired by your teacher, that I absolutely love.
I was inspired by by one of my I was
my senior year. What I'm not gonna get it to me,
but anyway, but I was empowered by one of my teachers.
But I know through my family roots it was my mother,
(10:01):
my grandmother. The women of our family were powerhouses. So
you were not only taught by or helped and inspired
by this teacher, your mother. So now you become a teacher.
You have now decided to get order to let you
tell the story. But you said tell the story because
it's yours. You're not teaching, right, Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So yeah, like, well going based on this book and everything,
I started this Korean club in high school, which gave
me my first taste of leadership and even when I
wasn't like ready for it or wherever, this whole idea
of leadership came from or where this confidence came from. Later,
as a teacher, I saw so many students struggle with
the same feeling of self doubt. Like when I saw
(10:45):
students in my classroom all the years I taught from
K to twelfth grade. Like when I saw each students,
they all had a common denominator. There was too scared
to ask this question. They were too scared like, oh,
I can't be a class president. No, not me, because
I'm this, because I'm dead, because I'm blank. No, like
(11:07):
even like a strong, determined, big, macho kid, even that
kid was shy, even that kid was contributed in deep side,
deep in their heart. They have a giant saying like,
you can't do that because you're not saying that. So
I created this book where I wanted all this kid
to be like, no matter if you're a carrot, no
matter you have a bushy head like this, no matter
(11:29):
if you look like a broccoli or an egg plant,
or a tomato or a mandarin. Even though you look
like a mandarin, maybe look like an orange. You know,
doesn't matter your name, or your shape or your sizes,
or if you drew outside of the line, if you
drew inside the line doesn't matter. That's the concept of
the salable struck me and I was like, I gotta
make this book. I gotta make a salable concept. So
(11:50):
that's how the book came out.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And that's who we are, right. Yes, we are one
big mix of different salads and fruit and vegetables and whatever.
We're all a mix, and we're all a culture. We
see these things. We see how we come together in
tragic times. I mean, we're thinking over in California and
you know it happened throughout history. But I love this
(12:13):
book and I love how you explain it. I love
how you became the leader and you said this is it.
You've done so many things in your in your adult
life to inspire others. This book. I want you to
read a page, give us a page out of this book. Sure,
ooh oh, so do say I need this book. I
(12:33):
have to get it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh my goodness, I hope you do.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I do have to get it. I'm getting it tonight
because I need to live Island Ivy.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, there is let me see, there is my favorite
scene in this book, which is there's two scenes. There's
a bathroom scene. Uh huh after when they are like, ah,
making fun of her, get out of here, whatever, and
it's a bathroom scene.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
As she walked down the hallway, she heard someone sobbing
in the bathroom. She opened the door. Orange, are you okay?
Orange shook her head. I have lots of friend at
my old school, but not here. Why does everyone make
fun of me? Carol didn't know what to say. And
I'm not an orange, you know, I'm a mandarin, but
(13:24):
no one cares. I care, said Carol, do you have
another name? Mandy? Mandy the Mandarin. Don't laugh, I won't laugh.
I'm Carol the Carrot. They both laughed, and that made
it Okay, that's a bathroom scene. And then fast forward
(13:46):
to there was a scene that I really thought this
was the highlight of like the moment where they're like,
you know, it's okay, we are here as a team,
and I think this is a determination where they're like, oh,
this is doesn't matter if we make a strike in
bold you know the bowling term, if you make a
(14:06):
strike or spare or miss. I think this one was
the actual really good scene when they said this part
let me see, I think it was.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I think it is just it is so so so
so so so sweet as you look for the pages.
I love this so much because we're from a mixed
family and you're blended family, very very very blended, and
we've always been proud of that. There's never ever been
a moment. My kids are very proud. But this is
(14:38):
something that some people are not self confidence with with.
They're not confident with whatever what of the shape, the
color of this that. And I love this book because
you're telling everybody that no matter who they are, how tall,
how small, how big, whatever the color is, that they
are good. They need to be good with themselves.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yes, give that story.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
It's gonna be the last one I'm gonna share. And
then you guys could go hand out on Amazon and
go purchase it.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We will better believe it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
So this one, don't worry. Carol squeezing Mandy's arm. We're
just warming up. Carol threw several strikes in a row.
Mandy couldn't shake her nervousness and threw her ball into
the gutter many times. The others pairs were scoring strikes
and spars. Now whenever Carol and Mandy took their turns,
everyone jeered and made rude noises. I can't do this, Carol,
(15:35):
Mandy cried, you play without me. Listen to me, Mandy,
I can't be a team without you. Carol took Mandy's hand.
Think of all the practicing we did. Think about how
much you love this game. So this is about sportsorship, teamwork.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I love that, I love the characters, I love the shapes.
You know this, I really I have to go to
purchased three of them from my all three of my granddaughters,
because that is really they're learning. They're just starting to learn.
Olivia is two and a half, she'll be three in March,
but the baby is the twins that then'll be a
year old next month. But they all read, and they
(16:15):
all they're all different. And the twins I noticed yesterday
they're so different. They behave differently, they look different. They
they're fraternal twins. And Olivia just so smart and just understanding.
The other day she said to me, Grandmama, you look
like her, and it was Whoopy Goldberg, like she sees
colors now, like she's starting to see the shades of people.
(16:37):
It happened to be I had the view on freeze
frame and she says all, grandmama, you look like her
or you look like They're starting to see things and
understand the differences between people, and everybody should be accepted
no matter who they are what they look like. So
I love this. I love this. I love this. Say
(16:57):
the name of the book again. We have to repeat
it too and three times because I want everybody to
go out and purchase this book. Carol the carrot bows, bowls, bowls. Oh,
look at all, it's what is that? What is the
round thing? Is that a button? This is a pet?
I love this.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Original illugiation, the original like a regular bowling ball with
a regular pinouncy. No, can we actually have like the
actual salad concept? So I was like, can we switch
it up to a nut, because you know a salable?
We have a nut like a peeni you can mix
at You know.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You're the best. You are the best girl. I so
appreciate you. Thank you so much for being on this show.
And we're going to have you back on again because
we need to continue. I wanted to read the whole story.
Have you back on again in a couple of weeks, please.
I love this so much. When I purchased the book, Okay,
when I get the book, we'll get on and talk
(17:58):
about this again. So how can people reach out to
you and purchase your book?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, they can reach on me on Chelsea's Story Underscore
Nook on my Instagram, go follow me there. On my
latest update, you guys can go purchase it on Amazon
and on Ingram SPA if you guys want to order
on book. And for my latest update, I'm preparing my
second book on the series of Carol the Carrot, launching
in spring twenty twenty five. I am preparing it right
(18:25):
now at this moment, and my illustator just email me
right now and keep updating me at this moment. And
I also on offering several programs designed to boost your
child's confidence through leadership initiatives. And additionally, I provide faith
based community for women seeking a safe space to connect
and read Word of God. If you'd like me to
(18:47):
speak at your school or arrange in an author visit,
please visit my instagram and go to my link tree.
And if you're feeling shy, feel free to DM me.
I'd love to hear from you. Or if you personally
shy like me, you guys can email me and just
ask any questions you like, I would love to make
an appointment with you one on one and just email
me at Chelseastoryook at gmail dot com. Don't forget to
(19:10):
check out my podcast, Chelsea Story NUK podcast script. Subscribe
to my channel to say inspired. Plus, I have an
online merch store as you can see. Yes, love it,
my little cup here.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
You're so good. Well, you're amazing. You know how much
I love you, Chelsea. You know, you know, you know,
you are the absolute best. I so appreciate you. You're
coming to the conference in May and you'll have a
table with all of your books. Right, So you're coming
to the AOWI conference May third, Saturday, me third. So everyone,
(19:46):
if you want to see her in person here on
the East Coast, you'll come to the AOWI conference and
you'll meet her in person and she'll say a couple
of things too.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh my gosh, everybody, you have to go and see
Lisa your.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Shy place, because you got to be speaking at the conference.
You gotta be saying, Hey, I'm Chelsea and here's my book.
Here are my books. Chelsea. Thank you you are such
a blessing. Thank you so much for being here. Can't
wait to see you again, love you so much and
appreciate you. Thank you, Lisa, thank you, Beautiful, thank you.
Bye bye bye everyone, Bye,
Hi, everybody. I'm least asking the Inventress. I'm the CEO
and founder of Inventing a to Z AoE and here
on the Inventor's podcast. I am beyond excited to have
this incredible guest on our show. She's an author. I mean,
I want her to tell you, like a little bit
(00:26):
of her backstory. I can't even There's so much to
say about the wonderful, amazing entrepreneur who is ailing it
everywhere on social media and every bookstore, everywhere books are
being sold. Her name is Chelsea Chong Kim. That sounds
like a TV name, by the way, Oh, it sounds
like a star. And she is the author of I
(00:48):
don't want to mess it up, but it's Carol the
Carrots and what else about the bull?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Carol the cart Bulls for the salad bull.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm excited, Chelsea. I am so happy to have you
on my podcast. Beyond exciting. How the heck are you?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I'm doing fabulous on a Friday afternoon with Julisa. You're
in such an inspiration a rock star. I've been a
fan of you, following you on Instagram. You've been dancing
all in YouTube on Instagram. I'm such a fan of you,
and thank you. I'm such an honor to have you,
and like you know, i'm being on this interview with you,
(01:28):
I'm super happy.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'm super happy to have you here. So let's get
right to it. I have so many questions to ask,
So the first question I'll ask you is I'm gonna
get right to it for sure. This book, this book?
How did you come up with this amazing book? Why? Why?
What's the purpose?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, so the idea came from my combination and of
my personal childhood experiences and my ears of teaching. So
as a how I was always that shy, introverted kid
who found her voice through a small leadership roles like
creating clubs or organizing events. I remember I always remember
(02:14):
founding the first historical Korean club in high school. So
I always always found that there's no Korean club at all.
It was just very dry, just chess club. There was
only a dance club. And I don't hate on all
those clubs. I'm just saying there was no flavor in
that high school. I feel like there needed some more
like cultural clubs in the high school. So I was like, Okay,
(02:36):
you know what I'm going to create a first Korean
club in the high school. So it's which I did
in first history of ever in sixty years.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So I created one.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was like, why not, let's just go for it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
What where were you raised? Where did you live?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I live in Uh, well, I used to live in
Los Angeles and in that high school it was Culver
City in California.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Okay, so you lived in California, in California, Yes, that
is where you said, Okay, in Culver City. I know
what that is. Beautiful, Mike. Actually one of my cousins
lives out there. So you decided as he and how
old were you?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I was, I believe at that time was seventeen when
I first started making that Korean club. And actually I
don't know where it came from, where that determination actually
came from, which actually gave me the first taste of leadership.
Like I was like, where the heck am I going
to go with this? And I was like, you know what,
I'm just gonna go with it. I just grab all
(03:31):
my best friends. I'm like, you're going to be a secretary.
You're gonna be my vice president. Okay, you over there,
can you come be my secretary? I mean just grab
a paper and pencil. Okay, you all right, we're gonna
we're gonna play all the K pop music that I know,
and that in the twenty two thousands, I believe two thousands,
AND's I get. I think it's honest.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Whatever, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. This came from somewhere,
your parents, your aunt and uncle, you, because I believe
that that leadership comes from somewhere unless you're just like
baby I was born this way, which is very possible.
So for you at seventeen, you said you're very shy
(04:12):
prior to that, and then all of a sudden, I'm
coming out. You came out at seventeen and you decided
to start a club. Why why would you do that?
And wait, wait, wait, and what gave you the power?
Because something gives you the power when you're shy. Something happened,
(04:32):
you know what?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That was a really good question because because I had
no idea, I'm going to join the ASB. For those
who don't know what ASP is as a student leadership
body a student body leadership program in any high school
or middle school, you probably heard of it in your
school before I was just scouted, meaning like I was
just picked up hey, hey, you want to be in
(04:54):
student leadership. I was like, I'm sure. They interviewed me.
They're like, I like your attitude, I like your determination.
You're in. I'm like, okay, all right, I'm in. So
I went in there. I got the position and they're like, oh,
I like how you draw. I like your creativity. You
want to be a commissioner? Sure? Why not? And I
think God, like, I'm a believer and everyone who's out there,
I'm a Christian, I'm a believer. He I am just
(05:16):
like putting into these positions. And then that gave me determination,
this power of like, Okay, I guess I can just
go with this flow. And then I just I just
had this power of like this leadership. We're like, okay,
I guess I can go with someone with this. I'm
like all right. And then there was this moment where like, okay,
there's gonna be a senior I believe that was a term.
(05:36):
There was a time where there was a junior class
secretary position and I just did it. I ran for it.
I did that. And then there was a senior class
treasure position. I did that, and I ran for that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And then hold up, wait a minute. In your family
have to get back to that because I know that's
where it comes from, or I don't know, is anybody
in your family. There's gotta be leadership. Somebody has got
to lets you Again, if you were born that way,
you're born that way. But it took you until seventeen
to do that. Unless you did other things, I think
you're just a leader. I think as much as you're
(06:08):
saying you were shy prior to seventeen, I believe that
you were doing other things because as far as I know,
and I know this much, you were probably always a leader.
Who again, who your parents are they in leadership roles?
Is your mother a powerhouse? Silent, quiet powerhouse? I need
(06:32):
to know that background.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You know what, if you want to really know my family,
I guess it comes from my mom because my dad
passed away when I was ten years old. He was
he served his he served as a soldier in South Korea,
he fought. I don't know the whole history because he
passed away when I was super young, so I don't
(06:55):
know a whole background of that. Which, by the way, guys,
my second book is going to be based on him.
He's coming out as a character. This time and the
first book, Actually, my mom and brother comes out on
my first book. My mom Actually she is a powerhouse lady.
She was out.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Huh, That's what I'm talking about. There's no way like you, well,
you become the power. You become the power that you
are surrounded with. You have to have a superpower, superhero,
superpeople unless maybe I was born that way and so
and many of us are. But usually there's somebody who
(07:34):
elicits that energy. That's sleeping giant if you will, inside
of you, or you're watching you're watching your mom, watching
your mom, listening to the positive information that your mother
is feeding you without even knowing that she's encouraging you
that way.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, yeah, that really I like how you brought that up,
because I didn't really thought my mom will be that
leadership rolled that I will ever thought about because it
was always in my blood where it was always like defaulted,
like she's supposed to be like that. My mom was
supposed to be that type of role and I would
(08:12):
never thought like she was my leadership role model. I
always thought it was my fifth grade teacher. If you
were we're going to talk about, like, oh, who was
actually your role model? In your life, then it will
be my fifth grade teacher who actually was my role
model to become an educator. Then that was where I
actually had my education and my If there anybody asked
(08:34):
me like why did you become a teacher? What made
you become a teacher, I'm like, well, if you tell me,
then my fifth grade teacher was actually my role model
to become a teacher in the first place. And that's
how my whole journey became an educator. And she actually
taught me like Ms. Foster, if I don't know if
you're if you're still out there in the world, she's
absolute superstar. Shed what diversity was? She showed me like
(08:59):
it doesn't matter who who you are. She was a powerhouse,
like you know what, Like she danced while she was teaching.
She didn't care, Like if you didn't know what math was,
she was like, you know what math, I don't care
if you don't you hate math, Like you know one
plus one could be a dance movie. And I'm like,
oh my.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
God, that so but this is it. So not only
did you have it through your innately innately, because it's
through your genes. I promise you your mom was a
sleeping or quiet, giant right and probably still is right.
She doesn't brag about what she does. She doesn't say anything.
She gives you guidance and guide you through what's right
(09:39):
and what's power and that you will not and cannot feel,
but you will always win, and you will let others
up and teach and do all of these things. So
you were inspired by your teacher, that I absolutely love.
I was inspired by by one of my I was
my senior year. What I'm not gonna get it to me,
but anyway, but I was empowered by one of my teachers.
But I know through my family roots it was my mother,
(10:01):
my grandmother. The women of our family were powerhouses. So
you were not only taught by or helped and inspired
by this teacher, your mother. So now you become a teacher.
You have now decided to get order to let you
tell the story. But you said tell the story because
it's yours. You're not teaching, right, Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So yeah, like, well going based on this book and everything,
I started this Korean club in high school, which gave
me my first taste of leadership and even when I
wasn't like ready for it or wherever, this whole idea
of leadership came from or where this confidence came from. Later,
as a teacher, I saw so many students struggle with
the same feeling of self doubt. Like when I saw
(10:45):
students in my classroom all the years I taught from
K to twelfth grade. Like when I saw each students,
they all had a common denominator. There was too scared
to ask this question. They were too scared like, oh,
I can't be a class president. No, not me, because
I'm this, because I'm dead, because I'm blank. No, like
(11:07):
even like a strong, determined, big, macho kid, even that
kid was shy, even that kid was contributed in deep side,
deep in their heart. They have a giant saying like,
you can't do that because you're not saying that. So
I created this book where I wanted all this kid
to be like, no matter if you're a carrot, no
matter you have a bushy head like this, no matter
(11:29):
if you look like a broccoli or an egg plant,
or a tomato or a mandarin. Even though you look
like a mandarin, maybe look like an orange. You know,
doesn't matter your name, or your shape or your sizes,
or if you drew outside of the line, if you
drew inside the line doesn't matter. That's the concept of
the salable struck me and I was like, I gotta
make this book. I gotta make a salable concept. So
(11:50):
that's how the book came out.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And that's who we are, right. Yes, we are one
big mix of different salads and fruit and vegetables and whatever.
We're all a mix, and we're all a culture. We
see these things. We see how we come together in
tragic times. I mean, we're thinking over in California and
you know it happened throughout history. But I love this
(12:13):
book and I love how you explain it. I love
how you became the leader and you said this is it.
You've done so many things in your in your adult
life to inspire others. This book. I want you to
read a page, give us a page out of this book. Sure,
ooh oh, so do say I need this book. I
(12:33):
have to get it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh my goodness, I hope you do.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I do have to get it. I'm getting it tonight
because I need to live Island Ivy.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, there is let me see, there is my favorite
scene in this book, which is there's two scenes. There's
a bathroom scene. Uh huh after when they are like, ah,
making fun of her, get out of here, whatever, and
it's a bathroom scene.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
As she walked down the hallway, she heard someone sobbing
in the bathroom. She opened the door. Orange, are you okay?
Orange shook her head. I have lots of friend at
my old school, but not here. Why does everyone make
fun of me? Carol didn't know what to say. And
I'm not an orange, you know, I'm a mandarin, but
(13:24):
no one cares. I care, said Carol, do you have
another name? Mandy? Mandy the Mandarin. Don't laugh, I won't laugh.
I'm Carol the Carrot. They both laughed, and that made
it Okay, that's a bathroom scene. And then fast forward
(13:46):
to there was a scene that I really thought this
was the highlight of like the moment where they're like,
you know, it's okay, we are here as a team,
and I think this is a determination where they're like, oh,
this is doesn't matter if we make a strike in
bold you know the bowling term, if you make a
(14:06):
strike or spare or miss. I think this one was
the actual really good scene when they said this part
let me see, I think it was.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I think it is just it is so so so
so so so sweet as you look for the pages.
I love this so much because we're from a mixed
family and you're blended family, very very very blended, and
we've always been proud of that. There's never ever been
a moment. My kids are very proud. But this is
(14:38):
something that some people are not self confidence with with.
They're not confident with whatever what of the shape, the
color of this that. And I love this book because
you're telling everybody that no matter who they are, how tall,
how small, how big, whatever the color is, that they
are good. They need to be good with themselves.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yes, give that story.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
It's gonna be the last one I'm gonna share. And
then you guys could go hand out on Amazon and
go purchase it.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We will better believe it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
So this one, don't worry. Carol squeezing Mandy's arm. We're
just warming up. Carol threw several strikes in a row.
Mandy couldn't shake her nervousness and threw her ball into
the gutter many times. The others pairs were scoring strikes
and spars. Now whenever Carol and Mandy took their turns,
everyone jeered and made rude noises. I can't do this, Carol,
(15:35):
Mandy cried, you play without me. Listen to me, Mandy,
I can't be a team without you. Carol took Mandy's hand.
Think of all the practicing we did. Think about how
much you love this game. So this is about sportsorship, teamwork.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I love that, I love the characters, I love the shapes.
You know this, I really I have to go to
purchased three of them from my all three of my granddaughters,
because that is really they're learning. They're just starting to learn.
Olivia is two and a half, she'll be three in March,
but the baby is the twins that then'll be a
year old next month. But they all read, and they
(16:15):
all they're all different. And the twins I noticed yesterday
they're so different. They behave differently, they look different. They
they're fraternal twins. And Olivia just so smart and just understanding.
The other day she said to me, Grandmama, you look
like her, and it was Whoopy Goldberg, like she sees
colors now, like she's starting to see the shades of people.
(16:37):
It happened to be I had the view on freeze
frame and she says all, grandmama, you look like her
or you look like They're starting to see things and
understand the differences between people, and everybody should be accepted
no matter who they are what they look like. So
I love this. I love this. I love this. Say
(16:57):
the name of the book again. We have to repeat
it too and three times because I want everybody to
go out and purchase this book. Carol the carrot bows, bowls, bowls. Oh,
look at all, it's what is that? What is the
round thing? Is that a button? This is a pet?
I love this.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Original illugiation, the original like a regular bowling ball with
a regular pinouncy. No, can we actually have like the
actual salad concept? So I was like, can we switch
it up to a nut, because you know a salable?
We have a nut like a peeni you can mix
at You know.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You're the best. You are the best girl. I so
appreciate you. Thank you so much for being on this show.
And we're going to have you back on again because
we need to continue. I wanted to read the whole story.
Have you back on again in a couple of weeks, please.
I love this so much. When I purchased the book, Okay,
when I get the book, we'll get on and talk
(17:58):
about this again. So how can people reach out to
you and purchase your book?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, they can reach on me on Chelsea's Story Underscore
Nook on my Instagram, go follow me there. On my
latest update, you guys can go purchase it on Amazon
and on Ingram SPA if you guys want to order
on book. And for my latest update, I'm preparing my
second book on the series of Carol the Carrot, launching
in spring twenty twenty five. I am preparing it right
(18:25):
now at this moment, and my illustator just email me
right now and keep updating me at this moment. And
I also on offering several programs designed to boost your
child's confidence through leadership initiatives. And additionally, I provide faith
based community for women seeking a safe space to connect
and read Word of God. If you'd like me to
(18:47):
speak at your school or arrange in an author visit,
please visit my instagram and go to my link tree.
And if you're feeling shy, feel free to DM me.
I'd love to hear from you. Or if you personally
shy like me, you guys can email me and just
ask any questions you like, I would love to make
an appointment with you one on one and just email
me at Chelseastoryook at gmail dot com. Don't forget to
(19:10):
check out my podcast, Chelsea Story NUK podcast script. Subscribe
to my channel to say inspired. Plus, I have an
online merch store as you can see. Yes, love it,
my little cup here.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
You're so good. Well, you're amazing. You know how much
I love you, Chelsea. You know, you know, you know,
you are the absolute best. I so appreciate you. You're
coming to the conference in May and you'll have a
table with all of your books. Right, So you're coming
to the AOWI conference May third, Saturday, me third. So everyone,
(19:46):
if you want to see her in person here on
the East Coast, you'll come to the AOWI conference and
you'll meet her in person and she'll say a couple
of things too.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh my gosh, everybody, you have to go and see
Lisa your.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Shy place, because you got to be speaking at the conference.
You gotta be saying, Hey, I'm Chelsea and here's my book.
Here are my books. Chelsea. Thank you you are such
a blessing. Thank you so much for being here. Can't
wait to see you again, love you so much and
appreciate you. Thank you, Lisa, thank you, Beautiful, thank you.
Bye bye bye everyone, Bye,
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