Arcadia’s Hidden Champion: From Drifter to Business Owner to Kids Books

Christine Zito: 0:04

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Christine Zito: 1:56

All right, For your information, I have someone very special in studio. Can you name this person Number one? She is a business owner. She’s in downtown Arcadia, she’s a photographer, she’s an author of a book and we’re going to be talking about that. But wait, there’s more. She’s a former professional race car driver. Let me introduce to you Nadine. Now, Nadine, you have to let me know if I get your last name right Nadine, Sachiko, Sachiko, Sachiko, Shu, yeah, Shaku, Because you own Shaku. Wait a minute, I was practicing this before you were coming here. Now that you’re here looking at me, I’m like, Okay, I won’t look at you, nadine Sachiko-Sue, just say that, Sachiko Studios.

Christine Zito: 2:50

Yes, Sachiko Studio yes, and where is it located? Your business?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 2:55

I’m on Santa Clara right, pretty much near Santa Clara and First, and yeah, I’ve been there since 2017.

Christine Zito: 3:05

Wow, and you know, know, I have to say, for your information, she was in the same building and moved out, and then I come in. That’s right, you moved to a bigger. You moved to a bigger because I like your studio.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 3:16

Oh, thank you, thank you but yeah, it all started here and on First Avenue.

Christine Zito: 3:21

Yeah, and if you, go to my P ure Media Marketing website, because I also do websites and do online video. The pictures, what do you call it? The portrait that’s on there. You took that picture.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 3:32

I love it. Thank you for using that.

Christine Zito: 3:36

Well, you do some really great photography.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 3:39

All right, I’m going to ask you some.

Christine Zito: 3:41

This is getting to know, Nadine. All right, Nadine. What is your favorite board game?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 3:47

Ooh, Monopoly.

Christine Zito: 3:48

That is so easy.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 3:50

When I was growing up I would play Monopoly and I wouldn’t know the rules. And then I’d play with my little brother and I would make up rules and we’d go in lightning round and I’d be like, oh no, he’s going broke. Okay, lightning round.

Christine Zito: 4:09

And I would just like dump the bank and like give it to my brother. So yeah, monopoly, I could not. That’s one game. That’s one game I could say that I did not enjoy, but when I did play it, I’d take all the railroads. Yes, where were you born and raised?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 4:15

Arcadia, California. I was born at Arcadia Methodist Hospital when it was called. Arcadia Methodist and I went to Temple City High and I also went to Arcadia Methodist and I went to Temple City High and I also went to Arcadia High and went to Longley Way Elementary, First Avenue Junior High and finished at Arcadia.

Christine Zito: 4:32

So I never left, you never left. Native Californian, native Arcadian. Do you have family, married, single?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 4:39

Wish you were single, I am very happily married and I have four daughters. No, yes, yes, oh wow.

Christine Zito: 4:48

Yeah, you look okay. Can I say you, you look, you look great as a mom. Thank you, okay. How old are they?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 4:56

My oldest is 28. My and then I have a 17 year old, 11 and, yes, struggling to remember their ages. There’s too many. I think that. I think that’s right, pretty sure all right.

Christine Zito: 5:11

Okay, are you a dog person or a cat person?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 5:13

cats all day. I grew up with cats, um, I always had about three cats, got married with cats, um, and it’s really funny because in my book there’s no cats. So we’re working on the third book and guess what? There’s cats. There’s going to be a cat. You obviously have cats. I’m giving you the exclusive because nobody knows that this is actually.

Christine Zito: 5:35

I’ve never said this to anybody Say anything until it’s published.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 5:39

Shh, don’t tell so you obviously have cats at home. I did, I did. So you obviously have cats at home. I did, I did. And you know we lost one recently. It’s kind of sad, but you know that’s pet ownership.

Christine Zito: 5:50

Do you have any pets at home?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 5:51

Not right now, still mourning.

Christine Zito: 5:55

I can’t. And then I can’t ask you the next question Do you believe that love is blind?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 6:04

Love is blind. Now that I think about it, I do, and and it’s funny, because I ended up falling for a guy that drives a really nice car, like you know, cause, see, I’m a car person I would judge people, you know, based on what car they drove. And I really liked his car and he’s he’s cute, but like furthermore, he was like too good to be. Really liked his car and he’s he’s cute, but like. Furthermore, he was like too good to be true, and and he was so beautiful inside as well. So I really got lucky. But I think if I hadn’t even met him in person, it’s just I would have met my soulmate without seeing him. It would be the same because he’s just that’s what really connected us.

Christine Zito: 6:44

Yes, wonderful, the love of my life.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 6:46

Yeah, benson we met from racing. Do you believe in heaven?

Christine Zito: 6:52

oh yeah, it’s there, it’s there all right, okay, so we can continue on now with the with the interview good questions all right, I know well there’s. There’s like what? Six pages there?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 7:01

I don’t want to give them all to you.

Christine Zito: 7:03

There’s so there were some. I was looking at them all. I think they do it like these, oh yeah okay, first question I I need to talk about this because you know, I love sports okay, okay, I am go Dodgers. Yes, I mean totally yep, yep, go Rams. I love their anything Los Angeles. So I want to talk about your professional driving days yes, yes you would okay. Someone told me you you were a drifter. Is that what it’s?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 7:28

called yeah, yeah. So I joined drifting. I was the first female in the United States to pursue drifting, thank you. And guess where it all started? It started at Irwindale Speedway. Yes, and long live Irwindale Speedway recently closed, but yeah. So my first drifting experiences were at Irwindale Speedway and those were the first sanctioned drifting events in the United States of America and I was really lucky to be the first female to stomp on those grounds and I eventually met some other girls.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 8:05

I started mentoring a lot of women because I didn’t like being alone and, come on, like, drifting is fun, it’s like going bowling to me, but it’s with your car and you slide in your ice skate with your car. But it’s a professional motorsport in Japan that migrated over here to the States back in the early 2000s and so I pursued that and I went pro and I drove the national drifting series called Formula Drift and I was a 14 sponsored back driver and, yeah, I had endorsements and I would ship my car all over the United States and represent my sponsors and I was brand ambassador for many companies like Yokohama Tire, kumho Tire. And I was brand ambassador for many companies like Yokohama Tire, kumho Tire and lots of other like Sparko, the people who make the racing suits, hjc helmets. So yeah, I had a lot of really cool sponsors and I competed and you know then I retired.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 9:02

I mean, did you win championships? I think I was really successful at the smaller, local, non-pro competitions. Professional driving is so nerve wracking and it’s not. It all of a sudden separates the people with the strong head game versus the people that like they have great skills. But you’ve got to have both. You’ve got to be thinking like a killer, like a champion and you know I crashed a few times and it really kind of messed up my confidence and you know it just gets in your head and you see it in the movies but like it’s a real thing. So then, any time I would ever see K-rails when I’m drifting, I would think about the time that I ran into a K-rail and it was just like messing with my head and people paid me a lot of money to drive and you have a lot of pressure. So when it’s not fun you don’t want to do it. So I love driving local drifting competitions and whooping everyone’s butt so much fun. Do you still drift? I still drift to this day.

Christine Zito: 9:56

I want to be invited.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 9:57

Yeah, I should throw a little chamber Arcadia Chamber of Commerce drifting event that would be really funny. We should, I know right, Karen McNair, are you listening? And Santa Anita racetrack I need your parking lot.

Christine Zito: 10:09

You know what? Pete, pete. Where’s Pete? We need to get Pete, yeah we need to have a talk.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 10:15

Yeah, we need to.

Christine Zito: 10:15

Yes that is just you know. I just think that is just a cool part of your life, yeah it’s so interesting it’s.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 10:21

It’s a lifestyle and it was a chapter of my life, but it’s a lifestyle that I’m currently still. It’s still very much a part of my life and we’re going to talk about your car and where’s that?

Christine Zito: 10:30

at a little bit later, because I do want to get into what I really brought you in here for Thank you.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 10:36

You wrote a book. I wrote a couple books.

Christine Zito: 10:39

Yes, you wrote a couple of books and I’m holding both the books, both of them. Oh man, okay, this is so unique. Okay, I’m telling you this is when I grow up, I would like to be Nadine. I mean, she’s a photographer, business owner, first woman to be a drifter in car racing, and she’s an author of two books, and they’re children books. And so let’s talk about the Bully.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 11:04

Yeah, sachiko and the Bully. This book I wrote and these books are all tightly based on my experiences in racing. And I wrote this book because I was bullied and it was really difficult being one of the only females in my drifting field to go out on the track. So I was bullied on the internet and a lot of people said some really mean things about me, but of course they weren’t there with me driving, it was like behind their computer screen and I. It was very difficult because when you’re the only one, it’s kind of like the reputation of all women are on your shoulders yes and so that, like, my time wasn’t very easy, and so I wanted to write about that.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 11:47

So I I didn’t say the internet in this book, because it’s kind of weird, because it’s a kid’s book, so I just said there’s a bully named Ned, but Ned is a representation of the haters on the internet that I had to deal with. But, um, you know, it’s a very, very true story and I had people laughing at me, um, talking behind my back, whispering about me, and and you always feel that all eyes are on you when you’re kind of the spectacle, which I was at the time. So, you know, it’s not always like easy peasy and fun, and it’s not fun being a trailblazer, and so, yeah, that’s what the book is about, but it’s got a really happy ending actually.

Christine Zito: 12:26

You know this is I do. Yeah, it does have. This is a serious issue. So, just talking about that bullying, yep, did it take you down a road of, I’ll just say it, depression and you know, trying to find your identity. I mean, and then did you get help, Did you? I mean, what would you say to somebody? You know, I go through this.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 12:52

Yeah, a lot of it.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 12:54

It magnifies your self-doubt and it magnifies your imposter syndrome, because we all have it right To a certain extent right, and it just balloons it and it becomes so overwhelming that then you don’t realize what’s truth and what’s actually something you’ve made up in your mind, because one person said something that was hurtful but it’s really not indicative of, like, what the world thinks and also, what do you care about what they think? And so that was a big thing in racing was trying to remember that like it’s about your driving. It’s not about what people think about you and and bullying, it’s just. Like it’s about your driving. It’s not about what people think about you and and bullying it’s just like it’s the same thing. It’s like I don’t really yeah, so you don’t like me, and this guy’s threatened by me, and so that’s why he’s taking out on me and bullying me. But it’s like trying to make sure that you keep that perspective that he may be struggling with something and maybe that’s why they’re saying something but how did you, you get there?

Christine Zito: 13:46

I mean, you didn’t do that right away? No way, no way it can take you down.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 13:51

It can take you down.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 13:51

But I really looked to my friends and told them, and I opened up to them about how I felt and they they instantly told me they’re like why do you look to put salt in your wounds and keep reading all those bad comments about you?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 14:08

And and I just I couldn’t. It was like also my fault, for I just kept going to look for the bad things, all the bullying comments, and I got a lot of reassurance from not only my friends but my mentors and they really told me the most important thing was to just focus on moving forward and not worry about what people think of me. And they kept saying it over and over again and they said if you’re not having fun, you’re not going to drive well and you need to remember that. And so it was very difficult for me and I think that’s probably why I didn’t continue professionally racing, because the bullying was too much for me. So then I kind of retreated and kind of went back to my roots and realized I have more fun just competing locally and having fun with my friends and I don’t want all this pressure and I don’t like the spotlight because it brings this and my mental wasn’t like the A game, so I think over time, did you?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 15:06

ever want to quit All the time.

Christine Zito: 15:09

All the time.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 15:09

Every time I failed, like if I had a bad race or if I crashed, or you know, everybody has bad days, that’s. It was like you know what? I think I should just stop. And I told my significant other, benson, who I’m now married to, and I would tell him every time and he’s like just go to bed and like we’ll talk about it tomorrow and if you feel like that again tomorrow or in a week, let’s talk. But right now you’ve really got to get out of your head. And so I needed someone to kind of remind me like you are talking nonsense, wake up and um, and so that was. It was really hard.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 15:44

But and then when I would spin out, if I do a drift, and then I wouldn’t finish it immediately, i’m’m just like you’re so dumb, you’re so dumb, this sucks. I’m so stupid. Everyone’s watching me, I should just go home. So it was like a constant fight. And how did you overcome that? Failing so many times and realizing this is a part of my progress, and I would mentor other women who were going through it and that kind of brought me out of it. Because then I’m like I know exactly how you feel and let me tell you it’s not right, you? You’re getting in your own head. No one’s watching you and no one really cares, it’s only you. And then I started mentoring that and then all of a sudden you become a better teacher when you teach people.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 16:26

Yeah right, I was just gonna say yes, it does make you stronger when you can share. That’s right. So I think when I was mentoring my students, I think that’s what really, you know, healed me, yeah, and I went on to do many more, greater things than just driving and to me it was like a stepping stone that gave me this really strong foundation to rock it off of, to do amazing things like write books and start a business and start another business. And you know like I feel like racing to some people is huge, but to me it was just like it was a stepping stone and I owe a lot to drifting, but I’ve gone so much further.

Christine Zito: 17:07

I think it just set the stage to where you’re at today. You know life, how life does that.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 17:11

It was the obstacle course. Yeah, you know, I passed.

Christine Zito: 17:14

Yeah, well you did, because look at now, from racing you married the dream of your life and then here you got these books, yeah, and you can share with other children that life is scary.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 17:28

Yeah.

Christine Zito: 17:29

But you can work through it.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 17:31

Yeah, and also I want to show children that girls race cars and I want to normalize that, because so many of the kids that I read to they go this is not real right and I go no, sweetheart, no, that’s me Like this book is about me, and they’re like wait, you, you drive, and so just kind of teaching kids that like don’t judge a book by the cover. And yeah, plenty of women race cars, it’s very common, and so that’s that’s what I aim to get. Like you know what I hope to do with these books, and I’ve I’ve had a lot of opportunities to go to schools, both public and private, to read these books and I get such a good response from not only the girls but the boys too.

Christine Zito: 18:13

Yeah, because Ned ends up coming around.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 18:16

Oh yeah, the bully.

Christine Zito: 18:18

I don’t want to give it away, but yeah, but yes, I mean it’s a good book and I think it’s a great book for any parent to give to their child they’re having problems in. Probably I would say I, I don’t know. You can tell me I I bully starts in elementary, but I could be younger, younger, yeah that’s right. I think this is a great book. Now on the back of your book it says drifting pretty yes who are? Who are these people? So these are yeah, that’s my.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 18:47

I ran Drifting Pretty. I founded it in 2003, a year after I started drifting, because I wanted to get more women onto the racetrack, and so a lot of these females that I met, we kind of got together and we’re like I’m going to do Drifting Pretty, we’re going to meet every month, we’re going to work on cars together. We’re going to work on cars together. We’re going to get cars together. We’re gonna get sponsors, we’re gonna go driving together. We’re gonna support each other and, um, learn together and kind of come up in the ranks together, um and so, uh, those are the girls that are in drifting pretty today.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 19:21

It’s still around. They’re all racers, their cars look like that in real life and I love, I love them and we’ve become such great friends and they’ve went on to do so many more amazing things than just drifting like they need to do a book on their little story yes, stories of the drifters and there’s a couple of guys in there yeah, we my husband Benson, and he was our head instructor, that kind of like helped mentor the ladies and and then Mark, okay, I’m showing this.

Christine Zito: 19:51

If you’re watching this on YouTube. I’m bringing this up there and I’ll put a and I’ll blow it up, and so this is her husband right here and I’m taking these are your children. Yeah, oh man what a beautiful family, thank you.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 20:03

I’m jealous.

Christine Zito: 20:05

Oh, there’s your wedding.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 20:06

Yeah, we got married. And my husband and I got married and we both brought our own race cars to the wedding, so our cars got married at our wedding and then a car magazine covered our wedding, so our photos ended up in a car magazine.

Christine Zito: 20:22

Whose car is faster, yours?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 20:24

or yours. Oh, mine all day, all day, girl All day. Okay, so that’s the bullying.

Christine Zito: 20:29

I want to talk about Go Racing.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 20:31

Yeah, sachiko Goes Racing is my origin story, so this is kind of how it all started, because I dreamt about it, I watched it and I would sit passenger in the seat and it just wasn’t the same. I was like you know what? I’m going to just do it myself. And then it talks about just going through daily life, anticipating what’s going to happen at the racetrack, and you’re scared and you might crash your car and you’re doubting yourself and you’re getting a stomach ache because you’re getting so nervous. And then you know, at the end of the book Sachiko goes to the racetrack and you’ll have to read the book to find out.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 21:08

But that’s kind of how it started with me and I was in my head a lot, and I don’t know if it’s my personality or me being a female or what, but you know, instantly when I think of something new, I think of all the bad things that are going to happen, because I feel like an imposter. Right, I’m not owning, I’m not a driver, I’m an imposter. And it’s like OK, I think I might crash. Oh, okay, I think everyone’s gonna watch me. Oh, I think I might get hurt. And then it kind of ruins it, right, and then it’s you should, but you should really just look forward to it. So it’s it. We kind of talk about that in the, in the book.

Christine Zito: 21:42

I do like. Okay, on one of the page pages it says it’s my favorite page. It’s a picture of you and your thinking. There’s these pictures of these thoughts. One of them are like these ghostly demons, and another one is a car crashing up in flames. And this is what she’s thinking. At school, she daydreams about racing her car. And then she started worrying what if I’m not good at racing? What if people laugh at me? What if I crash my pretty car? Her tummy hurt and her hands got sweaty. Was she ready?

Christine Zito: 22:18

You’ll have to read the book to find out, you’ll have to read the book yeah, I’m sorry, but here it is right here, I’m showing it again up into the camera.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 22:27

And that page I got feedback from a lot of the the kids that have my book is that that’s actually the scariest page in the book. It is, and so some kids skip that page because they’re so scared of the pictures of, like you know, the demons and the car burning.

Christine Zito: 22:45

Those are true pictures that’s exactly what was going through my head of fear fear.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 22:48

That’s right, because our minds go really far and it’s just silly that stuff didn’t happen and it never did all the times I’ve gone drifting. But it’s just your mind creates this weird.

Christine Zito: 23:00

What do they say? That your fears, most of them, never happen. Yeah, they only happen in our mind.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 23:05

That’s right. Minds are a funny thing, aren’t they? They are Right. Minds are a funny thing aren’t they, they are Stop it mind, I know, is there a way we can?

Christine Zito: 23:11

train them. I just you know what, during my fears, I just ask God, please, please, give me your peace. And you know, the reason why I bring this up and we have this conversation is because when I started in the entertainment industry, my first time ever on the air it’s funny how we remember, out of all the years almost 17 years I remember the first call from a listener, the very first call, and I pick up the phone and she says why are you so happy? Oh, what? You think that we want to listen to happy people? And it’s, and to this day, I day, I can hear her voice, I can hear her tone and it’s weird that our mind, and you know then all the other calls that came in that said oh, we love you didn’t even, yeah, you latched on to the one anomaly.

Christine Zito: 24:03

Yeah, the one that was just so negative. And you have to learn in the entertainment industry and I’m pretty sure in any type of sporting you just have to have, you just have to learn in the entertainment industry and I’m pretty sure in any type of sporting you just have to have, you just have to let the water roll off a duck’s trickle off.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 24:15

Yeah, that’s right just.

Christine Zito: 24:17

I had to learn. I’m not saying I’m perfect at it. I’ve been away from the industry for a while and, being a business owner, you’re in a whole new world yeah, of negativity that’s right and you just have to just work past that. That’s right. And speaking of having your own business, you’re a photographer, I am.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 24:37

I am.

Christine Zito: 24:37

I have a portrait studio let’s talk about how you got into. Okay, so you go drifting. Yeah, you’re an author and you’re a photographer. Now you have this business it’s all linked.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 24:48

It’s all linked from drifting, because when I was in drifting, I would always be photographed by these guy photographers that were really bad. And you know, being a female driver, I want to be known for my driving. I don’t want to just be sexy, I’m not a model, I’m a driver. And so they would always be like show me sexy. And I’m just like what Can I just show you happy? They’re like unbutton your racing suit and I’m like, oh my God, you guys, these are the worst. And so it really.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 25:12

And then I would photograph my students in Drifting Pretty and I’m like you know what this is cool, like photographing people and making them feel comfortable in their own skin, because that’s my thing is, these guys did not know how to photograph me Right, they were just like treating me like I was meat and so, um, I that kind of became my specialty and I kind of learned from my students like what worked best in in photographing girls who hate being photographed. And then, um, and then I had kids and then I was very inspired by like just wanting to document things. And then people started asking me and I’m like you know what this might not be a bad job, because this is, I find, passion. I’m passionate about making people feel comfortable in front of the camera and, um, I felt like there wasn’t enough nice photographers that do that. They’re more just like arty people that don’t look at you as a human, but they look at you as like a subject.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 26:07

And so, um, I started Sachiko Studio in 2011 and a few years later, I got a studio in this very office building and, um, yeah, and I, I grew, I doubled the the space in two years and then I quadrupled the space another year later because of the demand for these kind of portraits like people. Really, it really resonated with people. Like this is actually it makes photography like getting photo shoots like fun and addictive rather than like a chore, right, Do you think that writing stories, your pictures, tell stories?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 26:46

Yeah, yeah, I mean my, when I’m, I don’t illustrate these. I have an illustrator, but when I have her illustrate my stories, they’re my illustrations in my mind and I tell her and everything becomes one in the book. So I’m just I wish I could draw. But if I drew, this is exactly what was in my mind and I don’t kind of let them deviate and um.

Christine Zito: 27:13

I think it’s great. I have to say this that when I first met you and I was going to my first photo shoot with you uh-huh, you sit me down and you and I the very first thing I said to you I don’t like studio, I just don’t want to be in the studio because I feel like it doesn’t reflect me.

Christine Zito: 27:31

Yeah, you were damaged. I was damaged, yeah, yes, and you’re all in. And you were just like I just don’t want to be in the studio because I feel like it doesn’t reflect me. Yeah, you were damaged. I was damaged, yeah, yes, and you were just like okay, I’m pretty sure you already had it all set up, but you were so good at changing plans, oh, thank you. So we went outside and we did outside and I felt like I felt great, yeah. But then I liked your honesty. When we were getting ready to do the second one, you’re like OK, I’m doing your makeup, I’m doing your hair, because I want there’s more to you. Yeah, that is great.

Christine Zito: 27:57

Yeah, nadine, that you you look beyond when it comes, and that’s why I asked you the question about story, because you’re good. You’re a good storyteller, thank you, and you know how to share that in a picture of somebody to tell their story. Thank you. Yeah, I’m passionate about it, but I think it comes from being photographed right. Yes.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 28:22

But I want to tell their people’s stories, pictures tell a thousand words. They do If they can only talk, right yeah.

Christine Zito: 28:29

That’s true Only if they can talk. So where can people find your?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 28:32

book. You can find my book online at SachikoGoesRacingcom that’s S-A-C-H-I-K-O. Goes Racing dot com. Also at the Santa Anita Mall, if you’re there at Kinokuniya, it’s a bookstore next to Adidas, on the second floor across from See’s Candy. They also carry my book um, they’re one of my biggest distributors. And also at the peterson automotive museum in los angeles. They’re another big distributor of mine and that’s what we’re getting to.

Christine Zito: 29:00

and, by the way, I just want to let you know also too, if you go to arcadia fyicom, I’ll have all this information on there also. Your car is in a museum?

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 29:12

Yes, it’s going there. She’s getting packed up right now. Yeah, my car, my original race car that I got in 1998, that’s when I got it and it traveled with me and I crashed a million times and changed the color three times. But I’m in an exhibit with the Japanese American National Museum and there’s an exhibit at Art Center in Pasadena called Cruising J-Town and they’re featuring Japanese Americans in the automotive industry and I get to be in that exhibit in my car and it’s yes.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 29:53

Thank you. Thank you, it’s an honor. We’ve been working on the exhibit for five, six years. I know that it’s even longer in the making, but that exhibit runs July 31st through November 12th. You can visit janmorg for more information on Cruising J-Town that is the name of the exhibit.

Christine Zito: 30:15

Okay, and I’ll get more of that. Yeah, thank you so much.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 30:19

Thank you, Christina.

Christine Zito: 30:21

For being on Arcadia FYI and for your information. You can her you also your website to your photography.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 30:30

Yes, it’s SachikoStudio. com, that’s s-a-c-h-i-k-o studio. com, and again it will also be on arcadiafyi. com

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 30:41

thank you so much thank you, Christina success and FYI, this is super fun.

Nadine Sachiko Hsu: 30:46

Thank you so much for the invitation. It’s an honor to be here and long live the city of Arcadia. I love Arcadia, born and raised, never left, not going anywhere. Thanks, guys.

Christine Zito: 30:58

Isn’t Nadine the greatest right here, an Arcadian in the city of Arcadia? For your information, you can find all the information that Nadine talked about at ArcadiaFYI. com, as you will for all the guests that come on this show. Remember, you can hear Arcadia FYI at ArcadiaFYI.com or on your favorite podcast channel like YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music iHeart radio , and if you have anything you want to hear, I want to hear about it and you can do that by going to ArcadiaFYI. com. Fill out the form and I will get in touch with you and work on getting that show on Arcadia FYI. I would like to thank our Longo Toyota in El Monte. You got to stop by. They’re on this huge acreage, it’s like a mall. You just got to check it.

Christine Zito: 31:52

Star 7 Financial with Francine Chu. I love you. The Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Chelsea. You are wonderful. Pete’s even going to be on. Pete Siberell is going to be on talking about the Olympics and other things that you probably don’t even know that. Go on at the Santa Anita Park. It’s really a lot of fun. And to Gabby and Blanca over at the Le Méridien Pasadena Arcadia Hotel. They’re great people. I love that hotel. You got to go to the bar, you got to go to the restaurant. There’s so many things that happen in Arcadia. Until next time, on Arcadia FYI, be blessed and make it a great day. Make it a great week.