Who's Next Door?!
Ninoy Sadorra
(chef)
“I thought I would just be here for a few months, but it ended up being a lifetime.”
“The number one thing that I like is we try to help the young generation and show them how to work like a family-oriented business. At the end of the day everyone is happy.”
jude jean-pierre
(pharmacist)
“Sometimes it’s not all about money, it’s about opening a path in the community for others who are coming behind me.”
“Overall, it’s serving community, serving humanity. The primary goal is to make sure people get better, feel better, and live longer.”
Wood
(barber)
“I really like working with kids, I’m happiest in my day when I’m interacting with children, they are just so open and they don’t have any set ways of life.”
“I can be exactly what I needed as a child and help them through that. Despite what background you come from like what country you are coming from those barriers are very similar.”
Anitha kongkeo
(welder/tattoo artist/mechanic)
“I grew up liking taking things apart and putting them back together. It’s very fascinating, very satisfying.”
“In the car aspect women aren’t taken seriously, so when I was working as a technician it took me so much more to reach the level of respect that everyone else got, but It’s all about your work ethic I feel like.”
Che Correa
(Artist)
“We’ve built our own little world within our world.”
“We get up every day and try again.”
“Trust. Trust your journey, trust it. Everything that is meant for you is coming.”
Terrance
Wilder
(chef)
“July 3rd 2023 will be my 30th anniversary cooking in restaurants.”
“My grandfather started me out in the backyard barbequing when I was 5.”
“If running your own business was easy everybody would do it.”
Mark Ferrell
(photographer/printermaker)
“ that was my first lesson in previsualization. Visualize what you want, acting like you’re already there and it becomes real.
Salma sanchez
(non-profit worker)
“There is still a huge stigma in the Latina community for mental health and receiving mental health services especially as a first-generation Latina. I was raised that I don’t have anything to be sad about because you are in America.”
Mariana russell
(painter)
“ Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”
Mikayla
Weinkauf
(Hair stylist)
“It’s neat being able to show people who you are without using words.
Accept what steps in front of you, don’t look at the big picture all the time, where ever you are is exactly where you need to be.”
Leila P
ertl
(music teacher)
“ Their ideas about a thing and the creative spirit around it are important and not to bury those things for fear of imposter syndrome because their ideas might be the very thing that someone needs to hear.”
Krista Powell
(teacher)
“Being vulnerable and asking for help because we all need help. Letting people see the humanness, I believe as humans we’re both masterpiece and mess. And letting the people that are close to me into that and not trying to hide it. We all have our differences of how much we want to be with others
“Your life should demonstrate inhaling and exhaling and so I think for somebody who is very wired to love people and help people I have to be very intentional but that’s exhaling, and I love that but I have to also be intentional about making sure I’m taking time for myself and inhaling.
Kristen Gondek
(non-profit worker)
“I didn’t think that college was for me. I ended up listening to all the people that just hated me, and I didn’t go to school. I still want to help people realize that maybe did grow up like me and thought they couldn’t do something that when you’re passionate about something you can do anything, and you can move mountains for yourself and for others.
Anthony stone
(designer)
“I finished school and got a job as a pattern cutter, working for Tokyo fashion week and it was crazy wasteful. You would make things and rolls of fabric tossed, so that kind of reestablished the fact that I wanted to focus on something that was doing something a little more sustainable.”
Alyssa jones
(jeweler)
“When I was 5, my dad used to pay me in one-dollar bills to draw jewelry for him.”
“Do what you love in life, don’t just get a job to get a job or do something because other people want you to do it. Do what you want to do and what you enjoy.”
Chilly Pete
(tattoo artist)
“Try to learn from people that have came before you, I think that we can learn so much from our history, especially when you are looking at a craft. It’s really easy to be impressed by the new thing but it’s important to understand where we came from.”
Ayak Deng
(refugee resource manager)
“I really like working with kids, I’m happiest in my day when I’m interacting with children, they are just so open and they don’t have any set ways of life.”
“I can be exactly what I needed as a child and help them through that. Despite what background you come from like what country you are coming from those barriers are very similar.”
Crusty
(chef)
“I’m really inspired by home cooked meals, family recipes, and going to Mexico to really experience what it is to make do with not much.”
“Don’t get comfortable, because once you get comfortable, you start getting uncomfortable with things that used to comfort you.”
Phill Brown
(chef)
“The biggest struggle is being patient for success, which is so funny because I’m typically a very patient person. I know where I came from and things don’t happen overnight, but they’ll happen if you work hard enough.”
“Never too late to start something you love.”
Geremu German
(student)
“Shine light on people who are in the darkness and bring them into the light, because everyone has a burden. Everyone has knowledge to spit good or bad it’s how you use it.”.
Natali
herrera
pacheco
(photographer/musician)
“Stop judging yourself every single moment believing that there is a right way to do something and then you will figure it out.”
Pita koto-
balavu
(musician)
“My mission is to try change as many people as we can and try to think of the world as one because the world right now is going to a very bad spot and either you’re going to be a bystander or a leader.”
“You cannot help somebody, if you cannot help yourself.”
Pegasis records llc.
(musicians)
“Take yourself seriously and believe in yourself. No one else is going to do it for you, so you have to do it yourself.”
Irineo medina
(painter)
“There’s not enough time in the day you know, and once you use it its gone. You can’t earn it back, you can’t do nothing. Time, the most important commodity”
Dvsn1
(streetwear company)
“ I think that’s happiness, it’s just waking up working towards something better every day and enjoying every minute of it. The speed bumps. The struggles. We make it look easy but it’s all part of the happiness for real.”