My SGV Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Scott Warmuth, lawyer and the co-host of the podcast, shares his life story in this 3-part series. In this second part he shares his journey as a young adult looking for self-discovery. As he travels away from Washington and eventually to California, Scott encounters people who influence him greatly. On his path of life that deviates from the standard young adult, Scott went from...

Send us Fan Mail David Cutter comes from a lineage of great teachers and brings the artistry of playing the piano to his students. After years of formal instruction, performance experience and hard work, he has learned many of the secrets to playing the piano and he shares this rich oral tradition with his students. Over the last seven years David has gone back to studying classical music, working...

Send us Fan Mail With over 35 years of civil litigation, business, and dispute resolution experience, Rande Sotomayor takes a down-to-earth, common-sense approach to helping people solve problems and conflicts. Tenacious, intuitive, and with exceptional ability to perceive and manage the emotional component of any conflict, Rande’s approach delivers consistently excellent results. With significant...

Send us Fan Mail Scott Warmuth, lawyer and the co-host of the podcast, shares his life story in this 3-part series. In part one he tells of how his childhood influenced him to be who he is today, from growing up in the Seattle area, going to Catholic Schools, and having to help when the family hits hard times. Scott gives the journey from a boy who believed a cardboard airplane can fly to the yout...

Send us Fan Mail Jay Chen was recently reelected to his second term of the Board of Trustees for Mt. San Antonio Community College (Mt. SAC). Prior to Mt. SAC Jay served eight years on the board of education for Hacienda La Puente Unified School District (HLPUSD), the largest school district in the San Gabriel Valley, and was twice elected Board President. The child of immigrants from Taiwan, Jay...

Send us Fan Mail Lara Arslanian, J.D. is a full time REALTOR® and Broker with in Pasadena. Lara combines her exceptional educational and professional training when assisting each of her clients with their real estate transactions. She became a licensed California Real Estate Broker in 1998 after receiving her Juris Doctorate from the University of La Verne College of Law. Prior to that, she receiv...

Send us Fan Mail Eszylfie Taylor is the founder and president of Taylor Insurance and Financial Services located in the financial district of Pasadena, California, and serves as financial advisor to individuals, business owners, and high net worth families. He attended Concordia University on a basketball scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management. Pr...

Send us Fan Mail Christian is the eldest of three brothers that run the longest Filipino family owned business in San Gabriel Valley “CHAASTE Family market” Established in 1987, in the beautiful city of roses. CHAASTE family market, has one simple mission, to keep the filipino culture alive through food and service. For over three decades, this  down to earth family has been serving the city of pa...

Send us Fan Mail Joseph Del Toro is the owner and manager of Matador Performance Center. His family immigrated to Lincoln Heights, California in the 1970s from Mexico when Jospeh was a baby. When he was 14 years old his mother passed away due to an autoimmune disease. Because of that significant event in Joseph's life he eventually dropped out of High School when he did not have football to e...

Send us Fan Mail Albert Chiang is the CPA, ABV, and the CFF officer of Hsu, Yao, Thuang, and Chiang Certified Public Accountants. He is a Korean-Chinese immigrant, a graduate from National Taiwan University, and got his Masters from California State University, Northridge. During the Chinese Civil War in the 1940s his family ran from China to Korea.  Due to their escape members of the family were...

Send us Fan Mail Sandy Rosco is the Executive Director of the San Gabriel Chamber of Commerce. She loves and is passionately committed to helping small businesses grow. After Sandy Rosco lost her sister she was hired by the Chamber of Commerce which helped her find new footing. In 2006 she helped start the Business Expo that is now held every year free to the public. Since then she has also starte...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Julian is the head coach at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center. He helped coach Jason Lezak before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. In 2015 Jeff Julian was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. While going to different doctors he was losing hope because all they saw a dead man and wouldn’t consider a treatment beyond the standard care. He about lost all hope when he finally found a...

Send us Fan Mail Eva Lin is the broker and owner of Lin Realty Group, a boutique real estate brokerage in Pasadena. Through her journey of immigrating to America at 13, helping her parents in their restaurant, working her way through college studying entrepreneurship, interning and learning the ways in how she does and does not want to conduct business, Eva Lin has been able to build an honest sol...

Send us Fan Mail Rob (Robert) Haw is a JPL systems engineer who has worked on exploration missions spanning the solar system from Mercury to Pluto. His official title of Interplanetary Navigator describes how he and his team are responsible for navigating the course through space for missions such as the exploration of the planet Mars. Rob's love of space was born during the time of the well...

Send us Fan Mail Angel Yin is an American professional golfer currently playing in her 5th season (2020) on the LPGA Tour. As a junior golfer, Angel won the 7–8 year old Junior World Golf Championships, won the California State Women’s Amateur as a 12 year old and again as a 14 year old, was the youngest player at the 2011 U.S. Women's Amateur, was co-medalist at a U.S. Women's Amateur,...

Send us Fan Mail Marcus grew up in the San Gabriel Valley and attended Alhambra high school. Following high school, he attended the University of California at Irvine where his life took a drastic turn. He was kicked out of college and disowned by his parents with only $100 to his name. Through grit, determination, and the support of friends, Marcus developed the skills would use later on in life...

Send us Fan Mail Cassie and her family moved from Vietnam, seeking a better life. They settled down in Monterey Park where Cassie was surrounded and grew up around the diverse immigrant population that the San Gabriel Valley is known for. She later attended Mark Keppel high school in Alhambra before leaving for college at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Cassie then entered the work for...

Send us Fan Mail Council Member Andrew Rodriguez is a lifelong resident of Walnut. When elected and sworn-in, Andrew was California’s youngest council member serving in municipal government at the time. He was elected to serve as Mayor in July 2019, making him the City's youngest Mayor in history. During his tenure on the Walnut City Council, Andrew has worked to provide exceptional service t...