BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 If you live in Kern County, you\u2019ve probably seen Myah Salinas pop up on your social media feed.<\/p>\n
The 25 year-old content creator taking over the Bakersfield bubble. She first joined the workforce as a 9-to-5 marketing employee, but the more she worked with local restaurants, the more she wanted to cook up a different career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a lot of people thinking that I was crazy in my family, outside my family, friends being like, \u2018What are you doing? You have a full time job!’\u201d Salinas said. \u201cBut something inside of me, I really just trusted that gut feeling that this isn\u2019t right. I\u2019m supposed to be doing something else and something bigger.<\/p>\n
Her advice to anyone with that feeling? Just start. That\u2019s exactly what Salinas did.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was scrolling through my page, and I saw this girl that was talking about things that were interesting on social media,\u201d Heather Laganelli, a local restaurant owner, said. \u201cThe first thought for me is like, oh, I want to see that person again. I don\u2019t want that to end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with creating content, Myah started her own podcast to have a more candid, longform media space with her audience. She\u2019s become quite the busy bee, or in her own words, Bizzy Bean.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m developing canned, dairy free lattes that are organic, no seed oils, no natural flavors, no gums,\u201d Salinas said. \u201cThis really is just the simplest of ingredients. \u201c<\/p>\n
Over the past year and a half, Myah\u2019s had some help from the Golden Empire getting her business off the ground. With training from the Bakersfield College Launchpad program, she won the 2025 Bakersfield Women\u2019s Business Conference\u2019s Power Pitch competition.<\/p>\n
However, one of her biggest helpers through the process ended up being her own intuition.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until I changed my email name to a male name that I started getting responses,\u201d she said. \u201cThat just blew my mind, because I was like, how are we in 2026 and this is still happening? That was the biggest struggle for me, and it was really eye opening too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jokes on those companies though, because \u2018Justin\u2019 would use their recommendations with companies that responded to \u2018Myah\u2019.<\/p>\n
The go-getter wants to pay back the community that helped her get where she is now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to have my own co-manufacturing and co-packing space in Bakersfield to provide more jobs,\u201d Salinas said.<\/p>\n
From a home-schooled childhood to a self-employed adulthood, Myah credits much of her success to the women in her family who paved the way for her to #thrive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just really grateful that there\u2019s somebody in our space that\u2019s showing up in big ways for Bakersfield,\u201d Laganelli said. \u201cI feel like Bakersfield deserves that, and it\u2019s amazing to have a little testimony of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
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