I am José Ignacio Eslinger Caloca.

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I was Born and raised in Ensenada, Baja California, México by a single mom.

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Spanish is my first language. My wife and I speak it at home. But we need to do a better job of teaching it to our kids.

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When I was 8 my mom bought me a chemistry set. I made "perfumes" with God-knows-what skin-burning ingredients and sold them to the ladies in my neighborhood. Business was good. 

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At 15 we moved to Hawaii for 4 years. Unfortunately, I watched JAWS much too early in life so I was terrified of the ocean. The sane was fun though. Humuhumunukunukuapua'a.

After a few years of figuring stuff out (I sold knives and vacuum cleaners door-to-door, worked at Blockbuster, at a radio station as an on-air intern, trained to become a Muay Thai fighter, took care of middle-schoolers at a pre and post school program, amongst others things) I landed in the Ad Industry in Los Angeles in 2008.

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Two years later I met Carissa and have been on this wild ride with her ever since. We are indeed "work married."

I think I was some sort of a clown-type of person in another life as I find that making people smile, laugh and overall just feel good is a passion of mine in this life. It's something that I must always try to do. I hope you can see that in my work.

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Every so often I stop for a second and just think about how lucky I am to be able to do what I do. 

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