 Hey, what's happening man? Thank you for joining us the king penny podcast This is episode number two last week was dope. I appreciate you guys tapping in checking it out The views were great. The feedback was awesome. You know, I know there's a lot of stuff I need to work on and we're gonna get to it, you know, but this week. Let's try to make it better That's all we're gonna do week by week and we have a very beautiful special guest from here in Longmont, Colorado Miss Katrina Look, I don't have an applause button The sound guy to end the video guy look here, I can only do so Okay, we got it. All right, there we go. So, you know, I mean, we know your name is Katrina, right? So today we're gonna figure out what it is you actually do what's motivating you What's the overall goal and how you balance all of this? Great life questions. I think I was born ready. But yeah, let's do it Let's start. So where are you from? Originally, I'm from California. I was born in Palo Alto stayed out there for a few years My mom moved me here really young I went back and forth for a long time and then I just stayed out here had some kids made my own roots Okay, how many children I have three kids Probably the reason why this we could just jump into motivation But yeah, I have three children, so I Just forgot how there are 12 11 and seven That's what that's a single Mary none of your business I'm single and I'm not specifically looking because I just have more important things right now. Hey, I heard that. No, that's really good So what do you do for a living? I? Feel like the better question is what don't I do? I'm a woman with many hats. I get that all the time a woman with many hats I like to say I'm a catalyst of magic. So and not in the not in the way of like crystals and spells and all that I just like to be passionate about what other people are passionate about so I might do like a lot of content creation and photography and social media management I'm partner for a company called the knock 303 as well. Shout out to Kelsey and the knock That's the fan bam right there But and we do a lot of cool things together that you just really can't put into categories Other than create magic. I did come across that site for though and I was talking to you about that before we started What's it was actual like the hispanic Cypher or yeah, so it not necessarily hispanic, but we really wanted to Shout out the the hip-hop is in like everybody's culture So it may have started, you know in certain areas, but it's adapted to where like so many people can be a part of hip-hop and Um, you know for the most part a lot of people see music is colorblind So we really love that so we went and we called it our Chicano lineup Um, but yeah, so a lot of artists that um and some of them weren't even heavily like into their heritage like that But they were just like this is a great way for me to start and we went to um Culture a chocolate in Denver, which is like a hispanic chocolate factory And that was really cool. And the whole neighborhood is really just latino pride and um, we had a great time But yeah, please go to youtube and type in the knock 303 check out all of our ciphers. They're incredible It's too early for a plug I Got you though, but it is fire though definitely check that one out man. So You also so you wear all these hats But you also are in school. Yes. Yes. I am And what are you studying? uh business management with an emphasis on small business and entrepreneurship The idea is to be able to walk into any business and make it more successful and like more thriving and then walk out And just keep like a residual income from that business That way there's multiple streams of revenue generational wealth all those things. Oh, look at you thinking ahead thinking about what you got I have three kids. Yeah Three kids one income you gotta do something big. So how often do you meet with your team? Kelsey and I talk Kelsey I have multiple teams But Kelsey's probably my main um shout out to my boys at survival seven as well because they survival seven entertainment I run their social media And do probably about 80 percent of their content creation and promotion marketing and stuff like that Um, they're they're great. They are super great. Just they're I'm not as heavily in with them as I am with Kelsey like her and I we talk every day like seven o'clock in the morning She's calling me like so on today's schedule and I'm like, yep. I'm here for it. Let's do it Um, but realistically we try to meet twice a week because right now we have three projects that we're currently We have in motion and none of them are like in the same Realms, um, but you guys so mainly but you guys uh function in Denver though Yes. Yeah. So the knock three three is primarily at a Denver not to say that we don't pull from Wherever but that's just where the main music hub is so so an artist can reach out to you guys Just on instagram or um, so we have a link tree But instagram's probably our biggest way of pulling in artists. We do have in our link tree There's an artist submission form if you're an artist don't think because you're not from Denver You can't work with the knock. Um, we support like all creativity and drive an artist because we just think that Our artist community is really underserved and not represented in the best way Which was how this whole idea came to be and this is Kelsey's idea I just jumped in like halfway through when she was having a rough time and we just We are like yin and yang and work really well together And also too, I want a lungmon artist too to tap in in the comment section. You know, I mean and uh names of names You know, who's doing what I know my boy chris two times I'll be trying to get him on everywhere. You be rapping at my weight pile. Hey, my man He's doing this thing though, but I gotta try to get him going but so Well come see us on the instagram. I run it. So if you tell me pennies, ain't you Hey, man, but uh, so all those hats. So I want to know how do you balance all of this? Like how do you juggle everything that you have going on? All the answers I wanted to say are probably not appropriate for the audience that we're looking at But balance as of late, especially within the last couple months has really been a big word on my plate Because it's always a balance whether whether it's like work in private life Or whether it's like my two different two to five different jobs, you know, or balancing a schedule or keeping School and I really don't think I have an answer I just try to be really self aware of how I'm feeling because I can go and go and go just like a lot of people You know, we'll push ourselves into the ground but really being aware of You know, when I'm doing too much or when I need to find my piece, you know And that helps me find the balance like knowing that I'm getting to my limit helps me be able to anticipate the next round of when I So how did you how did you pivot or transition into this? Like all of these Like because I'm sure you had like a regular nine to five, right? Oh, I still have a nine to five too on top of my Yeah, yeah, I still work at nine to five shout out rise broadband Yeah, yeah, um, they're actually a great company I can't even lie. I've been with them for like four years And because of the stability I have with that company. I'm able to like Really explore like my schooling and things like that they work with my schedule to for my kids and they're just they're a great company I can't even okay, but so so you do that But how did you pivot from that to doing all the stuff all the other stuff? Like what got you involved in all the other stuff? man I know exactly what it was Shout out to one of my good friends. His name is PG. He's an artist in Denver I was originally a fan before him and I were ever friends And I started going to his shows and then we just really started communicating And he had done a show with the knock and I applied for their internship Right around the same time that I was doing a video with him Um, and then Kelsey just also happened to be in that video and we met and just really have been in communication ever since that moment But it's because of my good friend P and Kelsey that like a lot of doors have opened up to me In this area because before I was just another kid in the crowd like happy to be here Which I'm still immensely happy to be here like at any event that I'm at but um Yeah, yeah, that was that was the pivot probably doing my internship and being like number one fan for my good friend Nah, that's super cool. So this is always a tough question Because I want to know what's your least favorite part about everything that you do The least like what is the most? tedious the most nerve-wracking or the You know that really slows you kind of down Honestly, it's my nine to five Yeah, uh, if I don't know my nine if I if I could Be stable without my nine to five and really just do like the things that I love to do and impassioned a bit about That'd be great. But realistically, I just can't replace the income right now But my nine to five is probably the thing that I hate to do the most like when I wake up in the morning I'm like How to work from 8 30 to 5 30 Which I'm blessed to work from home and things like that but still I just you know, I could be Off networking or locking in venues or exploring other things that I can't do just sitting at this Never enough But so now that we got that out the way What is the favorite like what is the moment the moment that you like you really soak it all in like That's that's hard. I have so many of these moments lately Um, I recently picked up photography pretty heavily And so like when I'm going through the pictures and like seeing these incredible pictures Like that if I would see them online and be like dang who took that and I did I did that Um another moment like that is our studio nights with the knock Like when we have all the artists in the studio and they're creating and it's a vibe It is a whole vibe like I couldn't I couldn't put it into words But they should try to capsule that and sell it because it would be Phenomenal for people to be able to experience that kind of just camaraderie and like creativity Innovation all in one room between different people and so you so you're feeding that energy But I'm sure you're there's late nights Oh, yeah And then you have to get home and be mom and then get up We go to work and do that like you know what I mean like how What motivates you to get up like what is like What kind of because because late nights studio sure. I mean we've all had them like I used to make music a long time ago But no, but you gotta think so you're tired You know you come home and stuff like that and then the day doesn't matter what happened You know, it still needs to be attacked What's getting you out of bed? What's motivating you? What's what's that fire? Where is that coming from? The bad ass in me wants to say because that's just how I am Then if I I tell my friend all the time, no one else is gonna do it, you know what I mean? No one else is gonna do it, but realistically It's the God it's so many things. It's remembering five years ago when I didn't wake up in a bed Then I woke up on the floor, you know, it's uh My kids have their own beds to wake up and it's so many things that motivate me that So many people find me like inspirational in their life, you know and empowering like that keeps me going as well Just a just the push of wanting better You should always be Trying to do better and so that should help you wake up in the morning anyways Because it's just a new opportunity to have a better day than yesterday Better person than yesterday think a lot of people grind harder, you know when they see when they've seen the bottom Yeah, like if you've seen the bottom and you've been there, you know it Yeah, and so we don't ever want to go back. Yeah, and so it just makes people have like, you know that extra bit of dog in them Yeah, like, you know what I mean? And that's That's just my kids are so entitled like my I need a charger for my phone But I didn't even have a phone till I was in like 10th grade and I had to figure out how to pay for that and just All the things all the things but I'm blessed and my kids live in a world where like they don't even Know like a third of the things that I knew at their age, you know and not even in a bad way Like just they are those are my kids are the sheltered kids and I never had that luxury growing up You know the way people be texting we need to go back to that voice stream 10 cents a text Hey, look you're calling me. Yeah. Yeah Look I try to get stuff done. They I'm texting me. I'm like, hey this this this like, you know what I mean? I don't understand just call me and I can tell you what we're trying to do or tell you Aren't you like really old though too? I've been here for a couple moons I've seen my fair share. We're not gonna go there. You look great. You look what are you like 25? 27 That's not gonna land. So what what are your goals right here right now? Like I know they're every evolving But what is like say for instance a one year five year? What's what's the goal here? In a year, I'd like to be out of my nine to five and solely working off of like my entrepreneurial adventures Five years, I'd like for those ventures to have created some amount of wealth So I can purchase more properties and things like that to really expand on Some of my goals of businesses as well as already have like a few businesses that I've hopefully helped along the way Man that's such a hard question because I I really just want to be great. Like I just want to be great Look that's all you think I think about Yeah, gotta have one on you, you know, you know, I think I think like a king, but I do the work of a servant every day You know I serve the people I try to be one of the people And you know just try to be better try to treat people the way that I want to be treated and also to Opportunities man The opportunities come when you're when you're serving others when you're helping other people Find their way like you're doing you know as far as like just helping them with their business Helping with their dreams their ideas at the same time you get you're getting your bucket full and you're networking You're meeting other people and you're getting finding other avenues and that's the beauty of it I don't think a lot of people everybody just wants to check. Yeah And then you know I'm saying it's more than the check comes after for me Um, realistically both of my teams now You know, I work for the knock for free Just because I love what we do like I don't I don't catch a check I mean in Kelsey is like she buys the best gifts ever She I swear like once a week. She's got some cool little present like anything from just cool candles She bought me like a really cool like inspirational journal because I write but sometimes it's hard So it like gives you just like cool little inspirational points to pivot off of any writing and um She's very thoughtful in that sense But we're like we're in the trenches right now in both of my companies like survival seven My boys have been around for a while, but like we're still grinding all the time Um, I just barely I'm coming up on actually this year will be my first year under contract with them I'm first completed year under contract with them But before that like we were just doing it off the muscle because I believe in you and like what you do So the money is an afterthought everybody wants money and everybody wants to be successful and stable and be able to afford life But that's an afterthought to me. I want to serve the people This might not be a question you can answer and I wouldn't even want to put you on the spot about it But it's a question that I have and not just for you, but just for the colorado music scene Um Why is there no unity or why hasn't there been a push behind? Maybe one or two artists like just push them out there and then you kind of follow the leader type of You know what I mean? Like hey, he's on let's follow him Like let's go and then everybody else can come behind them and sign and I I see such And it's been going on for a while like why hasn't a colorado artist gained like serious like mainstream traction, right? And I don't and I can't I for the life of me I can't because I hear some of the stuff like I just I forget the artist name. I hit him up Like two days ago in the morning I heard like a clip a snippet of 30 seconds or something like that And then I hit him I was like hey man. That's really good. Yeah, yeah Like you know, I mean like hey, you're on to something here man. Keep grinding like and this is like six in the morning Yeah, yeah, you know like that's me. That's me an artist inbox like a six in the morning like you're Fantastic. And then anyway, like did you see I censored myself just now. Yeah, I appreciate you. You know I'm saying rule no I wrote it down. I wrote it right here five times. Please no cussing No, but yeah, but he hit me back at that gate like I appreciate it, bro And I told him I am a following man. See what you got going on. I wish you knew I forget his name I honestly do like just off the top of my head right here right now Here's the thing There's so many ways that that question could potentially be answered, but is there a right answer for it? I can tell you I'm at different events like I'm at Probably no less than two or three events. I try to go to an event every weekend at least And then I'm always in open mics and stuff and every event that I go to there is at least one artist that I've never heard of before And I and I work in the music industry and I've never heard of them before um A lot of people rephrase that question to why is there nobody big out of Denver? Like why does Denver not have its own sound or why does colorado not have its own sound but colorado? We don't really don't have our own anything like we're in the middle of everybody We have legal weed here. We have beautiful landscapes. We you know, most of our cities You know have some kind of give back to the community stuff going on So everybody wants to be here and so it's like this this melting pot like nine times out of ten when you meet an Artist, they're not even from here originally. They they're here by way of But there are incredible artists doing like incredibly loud things right now But I think it's that mentality more that people feel like oh, there's there's no real sound out of Denver But I'm like y'all haven't met some of my friends because like we have a sound and we have Crazy skill it blows my marbles that people like that I can just walk up to in real life aren't like swarmed by fans Like just musically There's a lot of talent here and not even just like rappers, but like we have singers We have people who play real instruments, you know our open mic nights that I go to are just Insane with like gifted people that I would have never imagined like that you would not be youtube famous or something in this day and age Or you know, there's so many different ways to get there, but Also, it's a very saturated industry as well Yeah, no Like I said, I didn't want to put you on the spot about answer because this is a tough question Yeah years in the making that nobody has figured here we are 2023 and glues really come out of here I mean and we have some artists that did really well like I'm trev what trev rich and atmosphere and stuff like that like they Actually, I don't think atmosphere is from here. So I just dropped his name in there But I'm like trev rich always comes to mind because I'm a fan of trev rich and he I hate that people call him like a b artist because I I don't feel that way But he also hasn't made it to the level of where like he's openly everywhere Like jz and wane and you know all the all the greats of our time, but it's also different Yeah, you stay at it. You'll find a way. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah It's finding your formula music industry. You could be in it forever. Then all of a sudden you got a day Just wake up one day a song you maybe made a while ago Starts getting is my boss hash hash got bars. He uh With survival seven he's been doing music for many many years and I am always like I don't understand like why you know And it's not him. It's just it's the society that could the culture that we're in, you know Because he is a phenomenal artist and he's very seasoned, you know Almost anybody who knows anybody knows who hashes At the open mic nights, you know at the um cipher nights and things like that and he's just an incredible artist But I don't know because he's in demper And that is also curious to me too. Like if these amazing artists uprooted and went somewhere where there's like a music Like hot spot so to speak. So like I I first thought of like Nashville or Atlanta or you know, new york things like that where there's there's like heavier polluted Opportunities for artists and things like that if they would skyrocket as comparison to here where Because we don't have anyone that's come big out of here. You know big super big recording labels or anything like that Here we just have a lot of talent Yeah, can't solve the music industry. It's going to do Let me not vent. I'll go on about it. We'll go on about it. So somebody who wants to Get in the field or wear the hats that you have or you wear What advice would you give them? Like like what would you how would you explain to them? Like what would you share with them? Um, I should be humble Be courteous like just be like a decent person it I can't really like speak to that because I can't I can't imagine one person doing what I do You know what I mean? Like maybe one of the things that I do, but I feel like regular people don't do 27,000 different ventures at one time But if that if you are that type of person if you're that one in a million like me Um make time to sleep find your peace and your balance always like always have a Like something that is like automatic peace for you. You know, mine's my dog. Like whenever Just that's just what it is whenever I'm stressed like she just knows and I'm she's my instant gratification Like when it comes to peace outside of music, I can always throw music on and find peace But I work in music too. So sometimes I Just want silence, but yeah find your sleep find your peace And drink your water stay hydrated stay hydrated. So and then also too how has Embarking on all these, you know, I mean projects and different things. How is it just affected your life? Or your path that on life Gosh, it's been nothing but blessings Since I decided that this is what I wanted to do like this is what I was gonna do This is what I'm good at Which I don't even know what that is specifically, but um I sometimes get referred to that I I fill in all the gaps like I just Whatever's missing like it's just me and I fill that in I mean, I liked that because I really I really do approach people with like, what do you need and like How can we make that happen? You know, even if it's something I've never heard of before Like I will I'll spend hours trying to figure it out before like ever just giving up on something And now I forgot your question because I just went Just how it like affected your path like so say for instance, like, you know salespeople, right? You know, like they go door to door Sometimes they get rejected by 20 houses that they still have that same energy on the 21st house Like they still push through they plug and plug away and I'm wondering how You're what you do and you know, I mean all the stuff that you help people with and all the things that you do How is it affected just your life? Like what have you taken from it? What have you? You know what I mean, what is it in steel? um Gosh, those are great questions I mean just to keep going like so the second that I decided to do this for myself really I just Blessings and blessings and opportunities and I'm a I'm a very big believer of the world The world gives you the opportunity to go the right way that you're supposed to go I personally believe in like a predestined path of and whatever that looks like And so somewhere it's already written what I'm supposed to do, but I just had to find it And so whatever I make a good decision. I'm rewarded with that by other blessings and other options And so I have just just I don't I don't really know. What have I instilled to trust myself? Um to trust my own two feet And then so so when that that answers actually my last question too because I want to know how it changed your life like You know like how it is I'm so much happier now and that's Not that I was miserable, but uh just life felt redundant and stagnant You know and I I always I like I've been in school for a minute And I knew that I wanted to do better, but things would just felt like they're just dragging on Now and like the last What two maybe three years like I I've just excelled excelled and everything that I do and The people that I touched do well and and that sounds really like cocky and conceited and I don't mean it to be I just I really try to add value to people's lives in general and in return it just it makes mine more fulfilling So the last question that I have is how can anyone listen into this podcast or people? You know within the city support you or you know, how can you know, they help you be a better you? Um Or reach your goal like how can yeah, I'm like realistically My both my companies need sponsorship right now So if anybody has related to anything I've said or you just want to have more conversations, please reach out to me um but otherwise Man just supporting, you know social media unfortunately is a is a really big part of what I do So, you know go follow my pages like the content that's coming out take time to watch the videos You know comment share all that fun stuff Um, I always share and show love back to people because I just reciprocity is a huge part of my world So don't use that our word here reciprocity Through my whole life up with that No, but definitely we're so at the bottom of this we'll plug all those um Who all you work with and who need sponsorships and stuff like that, but I wanted to know What else would you like to say? Who else would you like to plug? No, that was the time to plug Yes, yes, thank you. Um, so let's let's start with winning Wednesdays this Wednesday Um in Denver at the lifeline if you google lifeline, colorado, it pulls up the address. It's on Bayak or by I think by a grown in Denver, but um, we do it typically every other Wednesday But we have a metamorphosis gala coming up on july 1st So there's only one winning Wednesday this this june. So make sure you're at this one because it's huge We have like three different cooks donating food. There's going to be you know games there and people just hanging out services To help you heal like massage and um energy realignment and all all those fun things I did catch a glimpse that we're doing haircuts too. Yes, they do do haircuts. We have a barber shout out Caesar He's amazing. I was thinking about born over there get mine right, you know, like Yeah, you're gonna get a little theta No, you should you should definitely come back with a high top so many come volunteer for him So he can make it to winning Wednesday But uh, yeah, so shout out to them. They're amazing Natasha bar Shalom is incredible incredible Um, shout out to my boys at survival seven go follow Vinny T hustle Hash got bars mike steel and knowledge which his ig is freedom team Um, but they're incredible artists incredible human beings all of them have like a super packed summer lineup as well So if you're looking for some stuff to come out and do definitely plug in with them Shout out to the knock. That's uh, that's like my family home base goal Please go watch our most recent cipher all our ciphers watch all of them But our most recent one is really phenomenal and we just released it uh this last week So ready to run it up But and I'm sure I'm missing people shout out to every single person that I love and if you're watching this like damn She didn't say my name. This is that moment. I'm saying it. Just you don't know about it I got it right here. Yeah. You got my home girl Trina Uh Trina from what's uh, oh, yes, uh, please follow me Um long live the queen 23 on instagram Uh, Katrina obi on facebook hardly anyone, but this guy calls me Katrina though So you could he's just known me since I was like sporting long socks, but uh Yeah Support me and then that in return supports you because I'm gonna turn around and love all your stuff too Great photographer too by the way. Oh gosh. Yeah, I do so much stuff. I forget to like tell the world I'm gonna give this podcast to you to edit don't worry Two hours out of two three hours out of my life Uh, but yeah, thank you again for coming down to the queen thank you so much for having me and I appreciate You showing up being on time being professional I also want to tell you thank you for letting us in like letting us take a glimpse into your life And all that you have going on I'm gonna ask you some questions in the beginning you kind of poke pride a little bit But no, I appreciate you taking the time to answer them Appreciate all that you do for the community Everything and all the business that you help and like I said if there's anything that I can do or we can do anybody in my network Please do not hesitate to reach out Thank you for everything that you do what you do for the community You know providing a space for them to work out for free and like you're there to support and encourage like those things are Worlds when I started my weight loss journey just having someone to tell me did you work out today? Like was it it was a big deal So I appreciate what you do for people and I stay hawk in your instagram They all everybody looks like they're enjoying it and like really maxing out and I I appreciate that as well They're going to enjoy it till the 24th. Let me plug this got a squat competition got a men's max You know, I mean a women's max and a couple of rep off competition winners get cold cash And supplement products courtesy of king penny supplement company another plug But make sure you come down to the wave pile on the rockies 1610 main street Um, and that's all we have for this week. Hey stay tuned next week And like I said, we're going to try to do a little better. It's hard to top this one But we're going to try we're going to try to do a little better and stuff like that and reach more people Hey, thank you very much king penny podcast. We're out of here