My parents are from Guatemala, and they came to this country in the early 1980's. My mom came from a small village in a town called Nueva Santa Rosa, it's about 3 hours away from the capital. My dad is from a town in Guatemala city. My mom had other family members who had come a few months earlier so adapting wasn't much of a challenge short of the language barrier since they spoke predominantly Spanish. Besides all that though they my name is Cedric, and I'm from Los Angeles born and raised mostly grew up in the Koreatown area. I have two sisters Denisse and our youngest sister Sofi. Denisse is a dietician for the school district in the inland empire, and Sofi is a student at Amherst College majoring in Biology. Now let's get back to me, my name is Cedric Trillo. I've worked in my different things, I have a background in general construction and painting because I come from a family who's been doing that for many many years. I always sought to get away from it because whatever I did to provide for myself or my family I was eager to earn and not have it handed off. And they taught me at the age of ten, and even worked during any days off from school. So I worked at Universal, Subway, Staples Center now known as Crypto.com arena, Westlake Financial, Giorgio Armani, did Uber and Lyft pre covid. During covid I did Uber eats, Postmates, and Doordash. Currently I work at adidas as a visual merchandiser, sales associate, and logistics and operations team. Recently I decided to pursue a career in plumbing because I've always enjoyed manual labor and constantly being on my feet and working with my hands. Plus its one of the few trades that's needed in any economic climate, it's always been important for me to not allow myself or my family starve. Plus I have friends who are in property management and are always looking for plumbers so I'd have a $0 Cost of Customer Acquisition if I ever turn it into a business, which one day I plan to do. It's also a trade I want to teach my children and my lifelong friends' children.

Oddly enough I come from a family who's grandfathers, father's uncles have done it all in construction. Whether that was digging the holes to putting down the beams and other supplies necessary for plumbing, electrical, HVAC, draw blueprints on scratch paper just because they weren't very literate in computers. So naturally I've retained some of the knowledge that I retained as a child and a young adult whenever I would go to work sites with them. Even though there was and to this day still is no shame to take on any of these as a full time occupation, I always ran away from it because I just wanted to find my way through whatever doors would open for me that God determined. So I did attraction operation for about a year at Universal Studios while being a full time student, and I had another part time job at the Universal Amphitheater for about the same time. Then I briefly contemplated being in the military, but that became something I no longer became interested in. Then I worked at Subway for about 6 months. After my job in fast food, I got an arena job in retail at the Staples Center (currently known as Crypto.com Arena.) Worked there for 11 years learned retail, logistics, warehouse operations, cash handling, adapting on my feet, having contingencies and constantly having to put them into action. Event coordinating, setting up multiple points of sales whether for sporting events, concerts, and any other events that came about. I gained a lot of work and life experiences that I still carry with me tto this day. At this points its 2016 and I'm working for a company that does Financing for Automobile dealerships, both big and small.Was an account manager for about a year until downsizing happened because of it. Then I went back to luxury retail for almost 3 years. I went through alot of highs and lows in life even went as far as being a recipient of a new liver in late August of this year after having waited for 10 years. Let's backtrack a little though, earlier this year when so many communities were burned to the ground because of the onslaught of fires I realized when the reconstruction of those communities happened the economy would boom due to the scarcity of people qualified to do the jobs of rebuilding. In that I saw an opportunity and a vision for a future beyond me when I'm gone. So I took a test to join a union and make an effort to find a company that would give me work, but I also dealt with health issues along the way because I was nursing an unhealthy liver that was on the brink. The change and impact that I plan to make not just in the community, is to work with partners and companies that produce goods and services in the US. I want to slowly but surely start buying up all these for lease properties, and put something there. Whether that's churches, homes you name it. I want to use my knowledge of these trades to learn the ins and outs of this business and turn the capitalist machine on its head with how my companies do business.

My Mom has had the biggest impact in my life, because she's taken care of me even when the circumstances of our lives weren't ideal. And even though I resented some of the choices she made regarding my upbringing, as I've gotten older I begin to understand those choices. Presently she's taken care of me as I recover from a liver transplant. Because that's the biggest thing that impacted my life. When I first was told by my physicians that I'd have to be on a transplant list, there was so much uncertainty that would loom for the next 10 years not knowing if I'd receive this organ or not. My relationship with God had deepened, there was friction between family and I but in spite of those things we've managed to work things out for the betterment of our dynamic as a family. When I got sick recently I had no idea about the incredible journey I was going to forego, because my health had drastically detriorated. I went in for something that was none liver related even though it was hanging on by a thread. It turned out that my gallbladder had stones that were obstructing the function of it. So I had a procedure where they remove them so that it can continue to function optimally. Within a few days a gallbladder became available, many procedures later I finally had the organ that I thought I would die never having received. The road to strengthening and recovery was long and ardous but Praise the Lord I lived to tell the tale. How my Mom stayed strong in the midst of all that uncertainty is beyond me. And hoow much people had rallied to not only get behind Me, but her in the role of facilitator and leader. She took on many labels, and I recently celebrated her birthday which coincides with mine. Her legal documents say she was born on October 27th because our grandpa at the time went to the town square they told him that for her to be recognized on the actual day of her birth he'd have to pay a fee. Because our family was farm folk and very poor that wasn't something that was a priority to spend money on. You see at the time pregnant women often gave births wherever they were, just because hospitals were out of reach. Times are different now, but these among so many others are the reason my mom has had the biggest impact on my life.