I've been working since I was eight. Today I run marketing and operations for a family restaurant, I founded FLX Create LLC, and I open a food truck at six in the morning. I show up, and I finish.
Lawns, trimming, planting, irrigation, cleanup — outdoors in all weather. I learned to run equipment safely, keep a job site organised, and handle scheduling and customers. The work doesn't move because the day is hard.
I lead the marketing and business development strategy for a woman-owned heritage restaurant — a 12-month roadmap targeting 40% foot-traffic growth, a catering pipeline of $1K–$20K contracts, lead-generation across corporate and direct channels, and the brand across Google Business Profile, social and SEO. I also handle pricing and operations.
My own company. I built an AI-assisted platform that walks small businesses through entity registration, domain and email setup, and launching a site — and I own all of it: positioning, design, front-end, back-end, and integrations like Stripe and the Namecheap Reseller API. It runs on a self-hosted Node.js stack I migrated it to myself.
A high-volume floor through peak rushes — food prep, register, accuracy, cleanliness and food safety. Fast rooms teach you things slow ones can't.
I open and close the truck, 6AM to 6PM — inventory, restocking, register, and bilingual service through the rush. I also make the menus, the promo material and the social content, which took it to 50,000+ organic views in its first month.
I was born and raised in Altadena, in a small family. I started helping my dad with work when I was eight, and I haven't had a summer off since — it's been either work or school, every year. I can count the trips I've taken on one hand.
I've always wanted to build things. Between fourteen and eighteen I started more than ten businesses. Most went nowhere, and for most of that stretch the honest reason was my age — there are doors that don't open for a sixteen-year-old no matter how good the idea is. That excuse has run out now, and I'm glad.
So I stopped waiting for permission. I helped run and scale several of my family's businesses and ended up holding roles people with college degrees compete for — marketing strategy, operations, pricing — because the work was there and so was I.
Now I have the company I wanted: FLX Create LLC. It builds tools meant for everyone, and it's where the creative side lives too — content, design, anything that ends with something existing that didn't before. Creating is the part I'd do whether or not anyone paid me for it.
I'm grateful for every one of those failures. They're most of what I actually know. The way I see it, the key to success is trying enough times to finally beat failure.
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