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RUNNIN' VEGAS - The John McNamara Podcast
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RUNNIN' VEGAS - The John McNamara Podcast
From Family Recipe to Vegas Farmers Markets: Building a Salsa Business One Sample at a Time with Yasmeen Gaerlan
hey guys, john mcnamara host run in vegas. We're talking local sports, business, real estate. If you guys like me see, please subscribe. Follow us on a big podcast. Today we got a special guest, yasmine garland, that's owner.
Speaker 2:Yasmine salsa in the house hello, how are you?
Speaker 1:yeah, thanks for being on thanks for having me. I appreciate it super excited to have you on um. Tell us more about you, your story, where you're from.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm kind of a little bit of a long story, so long story short. I'm from the Middle East actually, so I'm kind of a little over the world. I'm the owner and operator of Yasmine Salsa. As you already could see my background in the salsa specifically, I actually learned from the kitchen, so I brought that to going from a panning recipe to let's start a business and see where it goes.
Speaker 1:Wow yeah, that's fun, that's exciting. So what have been kind of like your challenges, your growth moments to? Because it sounds like it's been about a year you've been doing this, so tell us a little about that like starting your own business the biggest challenge is getting your name out there honestly because, as a small business, it's getting people to know you and trusting the product.
Speaker 2:So, with starting at the farmers market, that's usually what I first started is sampling. So the biggest thing was sampling with customers. The second they started, they started sampling it, it they were hooked. So, like, okay, how much can I get? Where can I get it from? And then from there it started like popping up randomly where, instead of doing one event a week, I started doing two to three to four and I'm getting booked back to back to back. So it's been really fun.
Speaker 1:Wow, okay, and I think we got some samples today that we'll try a little bit, but they're spicy.
Speaker 2:Yes, so I'm going to wait till then just in case this goes sideways.
Speaker 1:It's too early.
Speaker 2:And you're going to need a little bit of water.
Speaker 1:I got water right here, so we'll get it, just in case. Okay, cool. So where can we find your products? And you know, you kind of elaborate a little bit that you're, you know, helping with businesses. It's getting out there, so tell us a little bit more about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I've been lucky enough to collaborate with a lot of businesses. So, being in the farmer's market, it's expanded out to like other markets so there's special events. So, like a company called Market in the Alley they're actually a local company here and she actually has owner has a store downtown called Akin Cooperative which she allows you to do sunday pickups there so every sunday.
Speaker 2:You could order from my website through yasminesalsacom. You could do a pickup local order and it gives you I deliver it on sunday fresh every time and they do different events throughout the city. For example, this coming saturday, august 2nd, will be at be at Uncommons. They do events downtown Summerlin. They call it the Sunday Stroll. That one's really fun. They do it actually. It's coming up in September. They also do Green Valley Ranch. There's another company called Maker's Hive. They're local and they actually do other states too. I've done some of their markets in California. Those are so much fun. The vibe there is insane too. I've done some of their markets in California. Those are so much fun. The vibe there is insane. Those are Green Valley as well.
Speaker 1:They do some of the movie nights at Green Valley during the summer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they do movies at the Green. Yeah, those are really cool.
Speaker 1:Fresh 52 is another one that I do on like a weekly basis at St Rose, on Sundays as well.
Speaker 2:Where else do I go? There is another company called Prevail. They do different apartment complexes and whatnot. Uh 702 markets. There's just so much companies out here. Yeah, there's another one called uh craft lv, I believe I'm not mistaken. Yeah, they're all throughout the town, throughout the whole, throughout the whole year. It's not like just seasonal that you could do, so you can go so many different ways. I also do, uh, deliveries and pickups and I actually do if there's ever a, a party or what. Now I do salsa bars and stuff.
Speaker 1:I keep it fun. Yeah, all right, cool, we're definitely going to use you. Yeah, and you said farmer's market downtown summerland or what. What uh, farmer's market, uh, do you do?
Speaker 2:I do all of them.
Speaker 1:I do yeah.
Speaker 2:I do downtown summerland, I do green valley, I do saint rose. Yeah there's even some in Inspirada at like Solista Park.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, awesome, Okay, they're really fun. So what is?
Speaker 2:like what is your creative process of making salsa? Well, honestly, the salsa, the way it started, was actually my husband, so my classic red salsa was my husband's recipe. I just tweaked it a little bit. We were it was during COVID actually so we were bored one day and he wanted to make salsa, so he went to the store. Instead of buying salsa, he bought just a couple of ingredients and just whipped it up and from there it kind of sparked an idea for me, and I've had some family recipes that just I've been making in my kitchen and never really thought of, you know, putting two and two together. The second I tasted a salsa. A full-on idea just sparked in my head and I kept telling my husband like I think we should do something with this. And four years later, here we are.
Speaker 1:That's phenomenal. So how many different salsas do you have?
Speaker 2:I have a variety of six right now.
Speaker 1:Six Okay, and what are those?
Speaker 2:I have my red classic salsas, which come in mild, medium and hot. The hot is really hot because a lot of people tend to ask me that, so it's actually fairly spicy, is that the one today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh god.
Speaker 2:So you don't even need some water for it. Oh my gosh. Because I do use fresh habanero in it. Oh, nice, yeah, so that's where your kick is gonna come in. Okay, I also make an avocado dip, which is my most popular item. It's kind of like a guacamole with a twist.
Speaker 1:It's super good.
Speaker 2:I also make a serrano salsa. That's my spiciest one and that's my grandma's recipe, so I'm kind of biased to that one because it's my favorite. And the last one is my corn salsa.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's a fresh corn salsa. So what is your favorite one? Is it the one that you're?
Speaker 2:talking about. Yeah, I'm kind of biased to it just because I grew up with it oh yeah okay, I love it so much.
Speaker 1:Okay, and what's the hottest one? Is it that?
Speaker 2:the serrano actually okay, yeah because the serrano is pretty much mostly pure peppers. Uh, but for the red salsa because it has, like the habanero, kick you'll.
Speaker 1:It starts to like slowly kick in a good one, though, so we're gonna see my face get redder and redder. A little bit yeah.
Speaker 2:My husband just starts to tear up, that's all that happens to him. It's allergies, I swear. So we'll leave it till the end.
Speaker 1:Cool. Do you have any new ones that are going to be coming up, or are you just kind of sticking with these six right now?
Speaker 2:Oh, I actually do some seasonal items as well, so I do some for the holidays, which are really fun. I do a spicy cranberry sauce.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's fun.
Speaker 2:It's super good. It grows great with Thanksgiving food and Christmas food and all the whole nine. I also make a mango habanero, which I just finished making. It was like the season of it is over because mango kind of you have to wait for it to be sweet, Because I don't like the crunchy one.
Speaker 1:I need more like a sweeter juicier type mango.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I'm very specific of how I make my salsas sounds like it, yeah, so I'm making sure it's like the way I like it or I'm not, just not doing it at all right, yeah, even my avocados, like I, have to wait till they're ripe like the perfect ripeness, otherwise I'm not even selling it, yeah it's my reputation. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1:I like, like that. I like that You're about quality versus quantity. Oh yeah, cool.
Speaker 2:And then, um, what's my other seasonal ones? I have a oh I'm, I might be doing a sweet salsa. I'm not going to give the information away, cause I'm still working on the recipe for that one. There might be a sweet salsa coming around.
Speaker 1:Awesome, yeah, wow, you got some good stuff coming on, okay, so what has been the biggest win this last year for you guys in the business?
Speaker 2:oh my gosh, uh I when I got the call for the salsa bar for penta constructions oh that was my all-time favorite thing to do. It was my first big deal that I was able to make a whole like the salsa bar that I wanted to do. They gave me full um creative freedom of what to do and how I wanted to make it. And just here's the money.
Speaker 1:Do what you need to do wow, yeah, so many more of that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was great yeah, I had a great time and I got to spend two hours just watching the board, just talk about stuff in their business, so I got to learn a lot too that's great, okay.
Speaker 1:So what is the future? Look for you guys here, because you're, you're. It's only been a year You're off and running. So what is the next five years? Where do you guys see yourself? What are your goals? What are you going to attain?
Speaker 2:The goal is in the next I would say in the next two years is to be fully functional with supermarkets and trying to get into restaurants to have our salsa put into their recipes or how they decide on making it. And then in five years I am hoping to have manufacturing only in a way that I would like it, because I do our products with no preservatives or additives or any sugars. So I want our product to be specifically how I want it to be and for it to stay fresh and only fresh okay that's so.
Speaker 2:That's the goal. There's where. That's where the challenge comes into place, because a lot of the manufacturing uh either would put like citric acid or some sort of preservative because they want a longer shelf life.
Speaker 1:Interesting yeah.
Speaker 2:I am not for that. I want to keep it fresh. That's the whole goal of the of the product, it's freshness.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, so what does that look like? I said that was my next question Like what's your biggest challenge? And it sounds like you guys want to get bigger, but it sounds like logistically that might be kind of difficult. Are you guys going to stay hyper local or do you have plans to, like grow it out to different markets eventually down the road?
Speaker 2:Eventually. Yes, so that would be probably in our ten year plan. As of right now it will probably will stay local because of when I looked into it, it would probably require for me to do my own manufacturing, which will cost a good dime for me to do. I'm fairly small at the moment. So until that time comes around, I travel myself, I take it to California, I do markets there. If I could put it in supermarkets there.
Speaker 2:I'd have people that could deliver it, at least for the time being, but we'll put a pin on that for now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Well, california's market is good too, because I've seen a lot with a lot of businesses that come out, especially real estate. It's kind of similar. There's so much money out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Might find a good investor or something out there, Maybe you never know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hope so I hope there's someone that sparked an idea and be like, hey, this is something I want in. I was actually at a market one time at second PCH with the makers hive and you know, with California there's like you never know who you're gonna meet, yeah. So this lady came up to my booth and just was trying to take this tasting the salsa, and she fell in love with it and she was actually a promoter for a, a reality show about small businesses helping them get their name out there, whatnot. So she told me to apply.
Speaker 2:So I applied for it and, I guess, waited to hear back to see what happens.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, we're waiting for that. That's cool, yeah, is there anything else you want to tell us about your business and its growth, or?
Speaker 2:uh, well, I would. As far as the business itself, have you guys ever looking to do any special parties? You know you guys are interested in a salsa bar. We're definitely all for that. I take care of pretty much everything for you. I set it up and pick up and clean so you don't have to worry about the mess. If there's any local realtors that are actually looking for little gift baskets for the new homeowners or looking for little snacks that they do while their open house is available, I'm all here to help out as well. So I support local businesses. I also um go to dispensaries as well, so I do cross promotions with them and help them out.
Speaker 2:Nice, yeah, I'm all for local businesses, because even my yeah, because even for my produce is actually provided by a local owner, so I don't go any mass manufacturing or to big name grocery stores. I keep it all local. So I try to support as much as possible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're the same way. Yeah, we got to keep it in the community for sure, right, so awesome, yeah. So tell us more about you, like what are your personal goals? What do you do for fun?
Speaker 2:My personal goals was starting a business. So I've actually wanted to start a business a very long time ago, but I never knew what I wanted, wanted to do. So I'm glad this idea sparked in my head and I was able to do something about it. Personal hobbies my husband. I love mountain biking. We have a three-year-old boy that we love to do outdoor activities with. He's pretty much our whole life and he's actually the logo of the business right now yeah okay, he's actually, I could show you right here, okay, cool that's, that's our boy I love it
Speaker 2:yeah, so he's our the center of our attention right now, so he keeps us entertained, for sure. So we travel a lot with him. Um, we are trying to do as much outdoorsy things as possible, as I was saying. We do like mountain biking with him. We go, uh, we go to the pool a lot. He finally learned how to swim on his own. Actually, he didn't want any help, he just jumped right in and just started doing it. It was really cute. Um, we travel, as I was saying, and then, um, I just started getting my husband to roller skating, so let's see if he doesn't fall too much have you ever gone on the roller rink?
Speaker 1:that's like on the east side? Yeah, that's really fun.
Speaker 2:My brother and I used to do that. I don't know I like that they do like 90s, 90s, 80s thing. Yeah, those are really fun.
Speaker 1:He actually he's like seven years old. He's got a young soul. He's a good guy. But, he had his like birthday party there. It was cool, kind of brought us back in time it was fun. So what do you like to? Where do you guys go for outdoor activities and like, what are your favorite places to travel?
Speaker 2:Outdoors activities. We used to go to Big Bear a lot because there's a snow summit there, so there's a lot of mountain biking out there A lot of Big Bear. Yeah, there's even I think it was last year they opened it Lee Canyon at Mount Charleston.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's another low mountain biking area. Oh.
Speaker 1:Lee uh, low mountain biking area.
Speaker 2:Yeah it's really cool and they turn into, uh, snowboarding during the winter. Yeah, yeah, um other activities, uh, we like to go out on pretty much on the weekends. We have like a yelp list of all new restaurants that we want to try out, so we kind of have as our date night.
Speaker 1:So we go like once or twice a month to different restaurants I don't even know why I didn't put that together, because obviously you're a foodie.
Speaker 2:Yes, big time.
Speaker 1:So I have a lot of foodie friends, but I'm not a foodie, so I live through foodies, yeah. So what are like your favorite restaurants and your places, if you don't mind sharing?
Speaker 2:them? No, not at all Give the secrets out. There is, I'll give you. There's different categories. So there's this pastry shop on Eastern called Tour du Jour I might be butchering the name because it's in French, but it's like this Vietnamese pastry shop. Fantastic, they make it all fresh. It's super good. We also like Korean barbecue. So there's a place called Goong G-O-O-G-N or G-O-O-N-G, sorry, so I went to a korean barbecue.
Speaker 1:I had another guest on uh, there's a good friend in the show and we went to the one down the street and uh, I don't get korean barbecue. I was super excited. It looked really good yeah and there was flames coming from the bottom yeah and I was concerned and they were just sitting there.
Speaker 1:It was George and Trish. I was just on her podcast this morning and they're just sitting there like it's normal. I'm like I'm leaving, like this is not, and it literally the table went on like fire and smoke and we had to leave. The restaurant was on fire. Oh my gosh. This happened two weeks ago and we we set it on. We didn't set on fire, but it was just a crazy interaction. That's my last experience. Now I'm a little nervous. The rice was phenomenal. That's hilarious, uh. But yeah, so be careful. If it goes on fire, leave. Okay, do not sit there like they did. I'm like there's propane under here. What are you guys doing?
Speaker 2:that was never my experience, because I've been to Korean Korean barbecue plenty of times.
Speaker 1:So that never happened to me. Don't go with me, I'm bad luck apparently.
Speaker 2:Oh man, we do also love sushi. There's this place called Soma Sushi. They just opened up a sushi hot pot place too. Oh cool. Yeah, their food is delicious, super fresh. That's the best part about like seafood.
Speaker 1:Where is that located? Their sushi seafood um their sushi spot is on next to the roads ranch area. Oh, wow, okay, yeah, it's really cool, your name and all this food I've never even heard of.
Speaker 2:This is awesome, that's good stuff you definitely put on your yelp list. It's a place that you kind of have to knock one place at a time sometimes, but it's super good.
Speaker 1:See, I always use the yelp app and I just get super overwhelmed, like I'm the one that always looks for the things, but it's just like I don't know. It's a lot yeah so what is your like process of yelp of? Like to make it easier, because I get overwhelmed I do too, so instead of looking for categories.
Speaker 2:uh, on youtube, you know, there's a bunch of influencers that live here in vegas. There's this girl called norma hilly, okay, another girl named lydia I think they're friends because they're on each other's videos all the time, so they talk about stuff on the strip and off the strip. So I kind of go based on that and their recommendation. I look it up and with Yelp, whenever you bookmark a place, it kind of gives you recommendations for other places.
Speaker 2:So I look at their reviews. So I try not to get overwhelmed. So I look at one category and just book two or three and that's it and then on to the next thing. Next time, if I ever feel I want to try something new okay, yeah, that's a good method, awesome it gets over well, because there's so much like vegas is such a good foodie spot there's so much good restaurants out here. It's impossible to finish them all, and I've been here for 15 years and there's still new places.
Speaker 1:I haven't tried. So you're like a true local, then yeah, yeah. So how do you like Vegas? You've been here for a long, 15 years.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Before Vegas. Where were you?
Speaker 2:I was in Jordan, actually Jordan, wow, that's so cool. Yeah, all the way across the world.
Speaker 1:So what was like? Was there a little bit of culture shock?
Speaker 2:to that I mean like A little bit because I'm a little ignorant. People from Jordan, okay, but in reality I was actually born in Anaheim, california, oh okay. So I lived there until I was about eight years old and then my parents moved us to Jordan because they're both Arabian, so I graduated high school from there around 17. I was able to graduate early and came back to Vegas Going from Jordan. Being there for like eight years, I wouldn't say it was a little bit of a culture shock, because you're going from like it's not like a um, it's a very traditional city, let's put that because it's a muslim city coming to sin city, it was like that.
Speaker 2:That was a big shock for me that was a big shock, uh. But once I kind of got the hang of it in the beginning I didn't really like it because I was still underage I didn't really have much to do here. You couldn't go to bars or any place. That was actually fun at the time. Now it's a little more kid friendly. So the last seven years I said I actually fell in love with Vegas.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I definitely love the city now, especially now the community Ever since I started my small business, my perspective with the people in general. I fell in love with it so much because I came from corporate America, so corporate America was a different perspective as far as viewed customers.
Speaker 1:Okay, what were you doing previously?
Speaker 2:I worked for AT&T oh okay, cool, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's the one thing I love about. So I'm not Jordan, but upstate New York, which is not too far off. But yeah, vegas is a totally different culture. But I will say this in terms of like community and growth, it's a good place to start a business, 100%. So it sounds like you're getting some good vibes from it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the fun part I noticed about Vegas there's a lot of money here, yes, which is mind boggling to me because I thought the money was kind of like, let's say, you're chasing the money, it was in california. In reality it's not vegas. There's a good chunk of people here that are more than happy and willing to support and help out and get your name out there, and the second you're in with like a big contract, your name is in the stars yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's interesting because I was talking on the show this morning as well, because when I moved here gosh 17 years ago, the market was crumbling. You know, the real estate market was terrible. We had a lot of low. Now we have so many californians that have moved here, the cult and one big, because we've been in real estate recession now for about three years yeah prices haven't gone down because the culture we have good culture here in terms of people believe in taking care of properties, investing, uh, building businesses.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's, and you know the joke now is la 2.0. We get the traffic and everything right, I see that everywhere. I swear last year, though I hate to be that guy. I'm like that local now.
Speaker 2:That's like run, you know, like, oh, the traffic, I'm definitely that guy now I swore I would never be that guy, and now I'm that guy I agree, because I was on the 15th of the day. I'm like you got to be kidding me. Like, are you 10 minutes just to get from one end to the other?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, well, it's the same with like charleston and even like taking a left into this podcast some days. I'm just sitting there for like five minutes. I'm like I can't even take a left here anymore. But yeah, the culture is cool. So, yeah, you're a knights fan, or?
Speaker 2:oh yeah big time I go to at least two, three games a season oh, okay yeah, I'm like I was telling my husband I'm like if we go to so many games, why aren't we season holders? He's like I don't know. I'm like I was telling my husband I'm like, if we go to so many games, why aren't?
Speaker 1:we season holders. He's like I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'm like exactly. We should just get the season and call it a day. They're fun, yeah, I definitely wanted to go to the Silver Knights games too. Those are really fun, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I haven't been to the new arena but I've heard there it's really nice. Have you ever gone down to like the water? Probably you've been a water district, right? Yeah, oh, okay, cool, because they have that little, you know, that rink and everything and so that's good for families. But I heard the arena is really good especially for, uh, young families. Yeah, so you're not spending like all the money to go to a knights game, yeah, and it's like it's it's priced well, but you get like the knights experience to have with your family, right that's the best part.
Speaker 2:Like I was looking at tickets, they're like 18 bucks oh, that's awesome super affordable yeah and like, even if you spend, like your snacks and fees and whatever else you have to pay, you're walking out like, let's say, for the family of four, yeah, spending no more than 75 bucks. It's not that's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not bad at all.
Speaker 2:And then on the off seasons too, they always have like some like different concerts. I actually did a um, they had a live orchestra playing the star wars movie one night oh, yeah, it was super fun, so they'd always do like family events there.
Speaker 2:They actually do, uh, not farmers market, but they do vendor events, so they have like food trucks out there. I believe they do it every tuesday, if not mistaken, for taco Taco Tuesday. They can change it on their schedule on their website. Oh, cool, uh, but yeah, there's always like every time I pass by there, there's always something going on. It's really fun.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I'm glad we brought it up too, cause, yeah, especially with inflation, things have gotten crazy. Um, and you having a family, like what are, what are the things that you guys do to kind of keep costs down but have a good time as well, like anything you recommend to families out there?
Speaker 2:yeah, I actually look a lot of like the free stuff and the local stuff uh so the free stuff that I'm talking about is you could always walk the strip, obviously, but I don't like the traffic too much with the strip so the outdoorsy stuff, which is what we love. So we just take our bikes and just head down our our community, because I live inirada area, so there's a big community there.
Speaker 2:Thank you. They have a bunch of parks and anybody is available to come. They have like a skate park, they have a basketball area and they do like. Sometimes we take our son to go see like little leagues, so they're playing like flag football or something like that.
Speaker 1:Oh fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we go to watch their games and we ride around, we go to the pool, well, and those stuff. Like we try to find, like the restaurants I was talking about, because there's some that are expensive, there's some that are like the corner taco places. They're like $3 a taco, super good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's kind of one thing. That's family, you know friendly, because that's the one thing about the strip when because we it sounds like you and I moved here at similar time- yeah used to be very affordable to live here, and now it's like in the last couple of years. It's like you get an entree and a beer and it's like over 50 bucks and then easy yeah, you're with your buddy or your partner or whatever.
Speaker 1:It's over 100 bucks. So one thing I'm not minding what's going on in the economy, because it feels like there's better pricings out there happy hours. So just be aware of it yeah, it's.
Speaker 2:It's definitely starting to come back, which I'm very after. I love to do, um, and then when you go to, like, for example, the markets that we do at green valley, there's always people there. There's like live entertainment, there's like all these types of events. You could just go, you don't have to buy anything. Like you could definitely support your small businesses and your vendors. We definitely love your support. But just even walking down, up and down the the vibes there is what makes it so much fun. We see kids just running around and smiling. That's what makes us so happy, because it just it makes people want to like be out, out and about, not just staying at home.
Speaker 1:For sure, yeah, yeah, it's good to get outside enjoy the sun here, especially downtown summerland does a really good job with it too, with families in the park. They have a farmer's market on the weekends. Um, they have free music I think it's on the lawn which is uh wednesday nights, and then they do like a free yoga class or boot camp on Tuesdays. So there's a lot of activities, so look out for those for sure, yeah, there's a bunch of free yoga classes.
Speaker 2:They do movies as well. There's movies at the Green on Green Valley. They do it at downtown Summerlin as well and, I believe, town Square.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, town Square too. Yeah, they do the movies there.
Speaker 2:I could be completely wrong as far, because I last time I saw was last year. I don't know about this year if they did it, but I remember seeing it last year oh okay, yeah, I know, you said, you bike a lot.
Speaker 1:Do you do anything, uh, outside like yoga?
Speaker 2:you brought up yoga, so I do yoga every once in a while. I just don't have the time for it sometimes because when I try to do it, my son is literally thinking that I'm a roller coaster. He's trying to put his cars on my, yeah that's hard to do when he's there, yeah, but now that he's actually going to be starting school, I'm going to be back into it, because I did a lot of zumba too zumba was really fun.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's cool zumba classes, because they actually do zumba classes for free. Oh, did they oh that's awesome then you can join on their live cast on youtube sometimes okay or they even do it like like at some gyms randomly. You can get like a free entry and then just go in for a class.
Speaker 1:Awesome, those are good. Yeah, yeah, I do. I used to be really big on True Fusion last year. This year I probably go once or twice a week.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I love the heated room. See the yoga. Send you out. I just feel.
Speaker 2:I need that right now? It's definitely because my son is driving me crazy. I love my boy, but he's at that toddler age where the energy is at an all time high, so I need something just kind of calm my mind a little bit, because there's always so much going on in my head.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, you got to have you time too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's almost impossible with running like, especially when you start a business, when you're brand new to it, there's all these like different types of things you have to do.
Speaker 1:That's behind the scenes that a lot of people don't see yeah so all the behind the scenes stuff is what actually drives me crazy making the product logistics yeah, making the product and being at the market that's actually my zen place, but behind the scenes where I go crazy yeah, I'm kind of the same way because I like to go get the deal, get the listing, get the sale and it's like the business part of it and that's why I'm really lucky to have director of operations george on the team to really help me with that stuff, because that's not the sexy part of the business.
Speaker 2:No, that's why I'm like I'm so thankful for my husband, because without him like honestly, I'm going to give him the credit he's the one who did all the paperwork and the permits, because there's a million other things that you have to do, especially with the health department. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:Oh, I bet, yeah, yeah, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:So I'm very thankful that he took care of all of that, which eliminated a lot of anxiety for me, and he takes care of a lot of logistics too. But there's still stuff that I have to take care of too, because most of the questions as far as, let's say, booking um dispensaries- or whatnot I had to take care of, because the questions are mostly come to me.
Speaker 1:For that so I'm glad you brought this up so say you're out there, you're somebody's watching this pod right now. They want to start a business, they want to get into food. What does that process take to to get accomplished, because I'm sure that takes a little time. When you were just talking about that, your husband took care of that. What's like the time frame or what are recommendations you give somebody out there if they want to start their own business?
Speaker 2:um, first thing I would recommend is start early and then make sure you just have some funds saved up. If you're looking to leave your job and just go all into it, it does take a little bit of time, so make sure you have some money to live off of. Um time almost honestly depends on the business itself for you looking to do, because it's categorized. So the first thing I would recommend to do is, once you're actually wanting to do it, uh, make sure you got your logos and the whole thing done first, contact the health department as far as which permits are required for your business and be specific on what you're doing, what the process is, because after you have everything applied, they give you the different types of permits you could do, because I have three permits myself.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, depending on a lot of products. Yeah, and I have a commercial kitchen and the whole nine. It's a. It's a. It's a thing. And you have a specific type of fridge you have to use. Everything has to be nsf compliance, so it's a thing, and you have a specific type of fridge you have to use.
Speaker 2:Everything has to be NSF compliance, so it's a certain type of grade that they use, that all the equipment, so everything stays clean.
Speaker 1:There's no foodborne innocence, which I can understand why that makes sense, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just the equipment is really expensive. That's the thing, like for example, there's a food blender that I specifically use for one of my salsas. That one was like 800 bucks.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:So contact the health department? Yeah, so make sure you contact the health department to get all your permits that's required. Once that's done, they go through the approval process. It may take a month or two or three, depending on how busy they are. They come out to do your inspection at the kitchen and then they come out to do inspection at your market. Make sure everything's up to code, they grade you the whole nine and then good luck to you at that point. What is, how long did that take you?
Speaker 1:since I was putting a good like pressure on it, it took me about three months it can take up to six months, yeah, yeah all right, we're gonna do the taste test right now I'm a little more nervous let's see how he likes it it's already hot outside. You got me the hottest. Well, I'm actually kind of happy you got me the house too, because I like it.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna try not to spill this on me okay, because you asked me how spicy is my spicy. So I'm like you know what?
Speaker 1:let me just have you try it and you tell me I trust you all right.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I just met you today, but I trust you it won't kick your socks off, promise I make it more for the general public, where it's definitely tolerable and delicious but definitely kick in.
Speaker 1:It's good, good it's good, good. All right, we're going to wrap this pot up, nazmin, thank you for being on. If you guys are looking for the best local salsa, contact this gal. She's for the best local salsa, contact this gal. She. She's got the best salsa in town. Guys from Vegas, take care of yourselves today. Thank you.