May 13, 2025 • 53 mins
In this episode, Martha Harrington tells her story of how she overcame poverty, divorce, bankruptcy, and created a lucrative Home Renovation Business. She shows us her new project, where she is renovating a house that was horrifically burned down.
“Breadcrumbs to Miracles" is a powerful new series of in-person, visually recorded and audio-captured stories that illuminate the unseen threads connecting everyday life to the extraordinary.
Through deeply personal accounts, each episode highlights moments of synchronicity—those meaningful coincidences that feel like gentle nudges from something greater. These are the “breadcrumbs” that lead toward transformation, healing, and sometimes, the miraculous. Available both as a podcast and on YouTube, this series invites listeners and viewers to open their eyes and hearts to the subtle ways GOD speaks.
The purpose is to support men and women while giving them the tools and space to heal emotionally, psychologically and physiologically.
Mental Health is a Lifestyle Podcast with Andrea Wise-Brown, is where we discuss practical strategies for managing mental health and wellbeing. Thank you for listening to this episode of Mental Health is a Lifestyle Podcast. We hope you found these practical tips helpful and encourage you to continue prioritizing your mental health and wellness.
If you have any questions or suggestions for future episodes, please email us at mhialpodcast@gmail.com.
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Remember, Mental health is a Lifestyle!®️😘
“Breadcrumbs to Miracles" is a powerful new series of in-person, visually recorded and audio-captured stories that illuminate the unseen threads connecting everyday life to the extraordinary.
Through deeply personal accounts, each episode highlights moments of synchronicity—those meaningful coincidences that feel like gentle nudges from something greater. These are the “breadcrumbs” that lead toward transformation, healing, and sometimes, the miraculous. Available both as a podcast and on YouTube, this series invites listeners and viewers to open their eyes and hearts to the subtle ways GOD speaks.
The purpose is to support men and women while giving them the tools and space to heal emotionally, psychologically and physiologically.
Mental Health is a Lifestyle Podcast with Andrea Wise-Brown, is where we discuss practical strategies for managing mental health and wellbeing. Thank you for listening to this episode of Mental Health is a Lifestyle Podcast. We hope you found these practical tips helpful and encourage you to continue prioritizing your mental health and wellness.
If you have any questions or suggestions for future episodes, please email us at mhialpodcast@gmail.com.
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Follow The Podcast At @mentalhealthisalifestylepod Mhialpodcast@gmail.com I want to know your opinions…….
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This podcast is not a substitute for a relationship with
your mental health professional. Hello family, I am Andrea Wise
Brown and welcome to the first, the inaugural episode of
You Can't Make This Ish Up. I want you to
(00:21):
please join me on a journey of listening to this
powerful woman's story. Her name is Martha Harrington, and I
want you to take some notes so that you can
write down, jot down the bread crumbs that have happened
in her life, because those bread crumbs is what led
her to be the successful entrepreneur that she is. And
(00:44):
the reason that I'm doing this is because you have
those bred crumbs too. So come on, come with me,
Come on, trust me, I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hello miss Martha Harrington.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Hello, I'mcrea. Hi.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hey, Hi.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
So to start this off first, please because I know you,
it's so many things like you know. I know you
as a powerful business woman. I know you as in uh,
an awesome mother, a beautiful wife, and I also know
you as someone who renovates million dollar houses. That's what
(01:25):
I know you as and a sweetheart. But what I
don't know what would your title be? What would you
what would you call yourself? If I were to say
to tell somebody else about you, what would I categorize
Martha Harrington as?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh my god, that is a very good question. It's
a deep question.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Go deep. You know I love deep.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You know I don't. I don't. I don't want to
use a title on me because what I do, Andrea,
I move with the flow. I go in life and
do whatever I feel doing, like because you know I
(02:15):
when I went to college, I graduated as a business major,
and then I wanted to do a psycho psychologist and
then I started a cleaning business and then the construction.
So what I can tell you is that I can
(02:38):
I cannot describe myself as something specific, but I can
tell you that I can. I am somebody who can
take every opportunity to innovate or to something that is
(03:01):
gonna challenge me.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay, oh that's so good. That's really good.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So we're not going to skip around because I heard
what you just said. You started talking about college and
this we going back. You know, I like to go
back to the root of it, right, And so I
know we did a podcast episode where you kind of
gave me, me and the listeners a glimpse of your life. Well,
(03:27):
so right now, you know, because you're doing something huge,
as you know, as we can see behind us, like
this is, this is and it's not that, not to
minimize anything else that you've done, but this right here,
it is huge. But before we get here, we have
to go all the way back to where it started.
(03:48):
So what I can remember is you telling me a
story about this little girl. And at what age was
it when your father told you that there was nothing
for you here in Mexico?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
How old were you?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I was seventeen, seventeen, Yes, when ride after my graduation,
my high school graduation, when my father said there's nothing
else for you here, It's like and I cannot help
you anymore. So it's time for you to look for
(04:28):
whatever you want to because that's it. I don't have
the money, I don't have the resources. I guess my
father saw since the beginning that that little town wasn't
for me. As I told you before, I was so
mad at him for that.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You had to be hurt, yes, yes, because if anything,
what we know is a father is supposed to support you, right, Yes,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
He's always supposed to be your strong place.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, And so at that moment he's telling you like,
I can't now have anything for you, but not even
giving you a plan of how to move forward, this
little girl at seventeen, not even an adult yet.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And then what you tell me you did?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So after that, whenever he said that, and you know,
after this, now if I had an aha moment, okay,
after I think that's why I cannot describe myself because
he right there, Yes, he planted the seed to take
(05:39):
whatever life gives you and to make it the best
you can with the that whatever you are going through
because nothing is given, nothing is for granted. So that
started date. I think whenever he said that that I
(06:01):
had to improvise. You see, I had to take whatever
I had and make the best of.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Make something out of it. Yes, oh that's so good.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So whatever he whenever he said that, what I did
is there was a city close to my town. My
town was a little small town and city it's like
an hour and fifteen minutes. So I told my mom
I'm living going and taking the bus to that city
(06:37):
and because there's nothing here for me. And I was
feeling the big tim right because my father just said
that to me, and I.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Feel like a victim. Yes, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So I lived there. My mother was like, what are
you doing. You don't have anything, you don't even have
a job. Where are you going to stay?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
With what money?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
All the questions.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yes, And I just you know, I just told my
mom that there's something waiting for me. I know that
there's the word that is opening, and I just know
that I have to do that. I just I just
know that I have to go. I just know that
(07:25):
I have to go there. And then there's no plan
after that, something else is going to open. And don't worry.
I even told her, don't worry. I will come back
in two weeks. I told her, I'm gonna come back
in two weeks and you'll see that I'm gonna be okay.
But I'll come back to seek her so she will
(07:46):
know that I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So, yes, what I I got there, I got a
newspaper and I look for jobs opportunities.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And wait, hold on, Martha.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And this was act that you get on the bus,
you at the bus bus station, and you're just sitting
at the bus station.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And I took the boss to that city.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Right to the city, and then when you get to
the city, you see the board is a board where
they have jobs.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Posted in the newspaper, and you get a newspaper, okay.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And then there was a job opportunity to be a
to clean a house and to be a nanny. And
for this, you know cleaning houses, didn't I started cleaning
houses at eleven from my town, come on down. So
I knew that I could do that. And it was
(08:40):
also because we were so poor, so at the eleven
I had to do something. I had to help my
mom to do something. So I had the background that
I wasn't afraid of.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That you had a skill. I'm already already from eleven.
From eleven, another magical moment, okay, come on.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And so for me that wasn't hard. So whenever I
saw in the newspaper somebody was looking for a stay
home cleaning lady and I stay home nanny. So I
called and I said I am calling for the job,
and she said, come on now I can interview you.
(09:24):
And then she gave me the job and she gave
me a place to stay, and then I said, okay.
I was so happy because I said this is the beginning.
I mean like and then two weeks after that, I
promised my mom that I was when I will see her.
(09:45):
So I went back to my town and I saw her.
I saw her, and I bought a bunch of groceries
for her. From the money that I got, I buy
a branch of groceries, and I said, you see, I'm
gonna be okay.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And took the groceries back to my mother.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And see this, this is the point of us even
doing this is because everybody has those moments in their life, right,
those magical moments when God brings things together. It's synchronicity.
But to me, those are like God moments, right, magic.
So look at there you go. Although you were fearful,
(10:29):
very very scared, but you did it anyway, found a
way and was able to bring money back to them
within two weeks.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And you already claimed two weeks you'd be back. Okay, amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So now you start going to college there, you go
to college in the.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
States, right, I went to college there.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But then after that, at some point you came to
college in the States, right all right?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Then you get married.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yes, okay, And now that you're in this marriage, y'all
have two children, Okay, two children? You get you have
a construction business right with your ex husband. Okay, and
it's doing really well.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yes, yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Then yes, construction Okay. So I came here to after
that the little Okay, after I got to that city, yes,
I And again I'm telling you, it's just like I
move and and things present to me and I just
(11:38):
take them. It was very difficult to go to college
because I didn't have any money, right, so I was
going by a hotel and then in the lobby I
saw outside. I saw that there was a there was
a college speaking there for people who wanted to go
(12:01):
to college. And then I saw it and I said,
I'm gonna goat like, I'm gonna go in to see
what they say. Maybe I can go to college because
that was my thing to go to college too. But
it presented and that at that moment. So I went
in and and it happened that it was a very
(12:22):
good college in Mexico, a very expensive college. So I
was there and I was like, in my mind, whenever
they tell me, I mean like, if okay, the difficulty
is presented when they said it's expensive, but then I
move up. I said, if it is suspensive, okay, I'll
(12:44):
find the way. Okay, I'm here now I'll find the way.
So and I knew that only good grades you could.
You had to have good grade it's from high school
to get into that college. So I said, okay, I
(13:06):
got that. And then the lady talked to me and said,
and we have a test coming for you to if
you want to go in, maybe you can go in
and maybe you can get a scholarship. So I said, okay.
We after I took the test and I got in
(13:27):
and I got a scholarship, and it was just like
you see, it's just like moving taking what like is
you at that moment and stop thinking about how you're
gonna do it. It's just because if the opportunity presents
to me, yes, then the resources are also gonna present
(13:49):
to me.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I mean like that. It is very hard because I
learned that from when I was literal and that thing
with my father. It just like set the tone right there,
like you have to find a place to go, you
have to find something to do because I'm done. And
then knowing that the opportunity and the war and everything
(14:13):
is gonna present to you. So yeah, I got that,
and then so I started going to college for this.
My parents didn't even know that I got into the college.
You said, well, now I'm gonna move to another city
because I went in. I got into this college. They
didn't have any idea what college was that. And and
(14:37):
but it's the best college in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Best college in Mexico. Still without no money to do it,
but just the will.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yes, just the will.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yes, the will.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And although there were obstacles supposed right, money wasn't that
was a barrier, but.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You said it was alone.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But you said, I don't care. I'm sure I went up.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yes, because if I show up, then God is going to.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Give me by provide the house.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yes. Oh that's so good.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
And that's something Andrea, that I always have in the
back of my head. Yes, that if an opportunity, even
if it is huge, yes, presents to you, it is
because God puts you in that place. Yes, at that moment. Yes,
(15:32):
then he will provide. Yes, there's the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
That's right, and I know that's the only thing certain
for me.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Oh that's good. Okay, No, that's good.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Or nothing else is certain.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh but that, but that's right. Oh that's so good.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So yeah, So I then I graduated from college for
these My parents didn't even know how big the school was.
But after they came to my graduation because I never
asked for money to them, ever, ask for money to
pay for my college for that.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Ye, well, I'm gonna say I understand because your father
already set the tone.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
There is nothing here for you.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
While However, what I do know is is that you
had to have some a lot of internal challenges because
you were alone, trying to make all of this happen
alone but yet of course with God, but still right
and as a human being, just alone. So I'm sure
that had to be difficult, but you still push through.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It was very difficult. Andrea, I always have two voices
in my head, Okay, come on, one saying come on, Martha,
what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Sick?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Come on? They just lay lone. Oh that's good, just
to just just like Lord, don't go for the big one.
It's like come on. But the other one that says,
if I put you here, I will show you how.
(17:15):
And and that's the voice that I keep following all
the time, even if I get into so much like
no trouble, it's like uncomfortable, because challenges are uncomfortable, like
whenever I was in this very expensive school with no support,
(17:40):
I kept thinking about my older sisters comfortable at home,
like and I was like, what don't you go back there?
And I'm like, but also my dad knew I'm telling
you I had so I always was so recentful with him.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Of course, of course.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
But now I say, I mean like after he passed away,
and I'm like, how much love you have to have
for you? So right? Don't you keep to know how
the potential they have and to say to them.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Come only absolutely?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
And now I see it like he saw, yeah, so
much love because he knew I wasn't for that town.
I needed charlenge. So yeah, then I go.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Ahead, go ahead, go ahead, what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Then after college, I again I came to the US
to get a master's degree. Uh and and with I again,
I run into SMU. Whenever I came here, I run
(19:06):
into SMU, and I saw this university. Whenever I see something,
I don't see it at the beginning. I don't see
it as difficult. I just see it. I just had
the feeling, and I said, okay, go for it. So
I apply and I got into SMU.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, and I just need to say for anybody watching
and listening that SMU is a prestigious school here in Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, so I could see where.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, that could be intimidating, but like you said, no,
I saw it.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I decided that's where I want to go, and so
I applied to go. So you went, I went, you went. Yeah,
And then.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I got married, You got everything. Things happened so fast.
I got married, I got pregnant, have my babies. In
two thousand and eight, the recession. My husband was in
the construction business. My ex husband wasn't the construction business.
So the recession hit in two thousand and eight, and
(20:15):
again write an opportunity. Then he came home that day.
I don't remember what day, but there was a big
day where everything close on two thousand and eight, all
the construction site closed. He came in, he said, we
are in trouble. No more construction for a while. Everything
(20:37):
is closed. All my payments got frozen, and I don't
know what to do. So that day, after that, I
decided that I was going to open a cleaning business.
So I started cleaning houses.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And I remember in two thousand and eight was when
there was the first what is it? The crash in
the housing market. Okay, I got you, all right, I'm
tracking in the real estate market.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
So after that, you use that as an opportunity to
open up a business, a cleaning business.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yes, all right, and he was it got to be huge,
a huge one. Hey.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Let me say this.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I just need to interject because I need to just
because I really want everybody to know that you two
have these bread crumbs in your life. So when you
were eleven years old, you learned how to clean, right,
So that was a skill that you had. That was
also the skill that saved you when you went to
that little town. And so now again when your husband
(21:49):
at the time loses the construction business and he says,
like your father, there's nothing else, there's nothing else here,
that little girl, who now is a woman, a wife,
a mother, says, okay, yeah, I'm going to open up
what I'm a cleaning business.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And then it gets big. Okay, Martha, keep going.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Then you know that after in COVID.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Okay, so that was two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yes, So now the business is big, You're doing well,
You've saved the family, you can pay bills.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
COVID comes and I have to close twenty and you
have to close the businesses completely.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Okay, lord, I'm so interested as to how gods get
ready to show up now.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
But come on, So the COVID business, the COVID recession
or crisis, we have to close the cleaning business from
one day to the other, just like that. You know.
I realized from one day to the other, everything happens
that one day to the other it closes. So I
(23:04):
had to tell everybody no more business for until. I mean, like,
we stopped cleaning houses completely.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Because people didn't want you in their houses anymore. I
remember I was one of them, Yes, go ahead, not.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You, but yeah, no, no I know. So. But then
the next day after that, I have one client from
the cleaning calls me and says, I have a building
that are just bad. I need you to come and
clean it. And maybe it was so maintenance because I
don't want the business the building to be empty. Nobody goes.
(23:43):
Nobody wants to drive right now. But it was like
one day after or two days after, we closed the business.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Two days after Come on, God.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Then then I want I was one of the ones
that full drive because I was cleaning. So I was like, yeah,
the police, you know, remember that you couldn't be on
the street. Yes, right, yes, So I said, okay, it's
a cleaning business, so I can drive. So I went
to the building. And this customer of this guy tells
(24:14):
me after that little do you know somebody who can
help me with this hole in the wall? And do
you know somebody who can do some construction little maintenance jobs?
And I say, yeah, I can do it.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You can do it now, you cleaning this building middle
of COVID.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Just you drive there while.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You're in there, just cleaning the building, right, just going
for the opportunity that God presented you with.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Right, okay, all right?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
And you know I felt so blessed, so blessed every
time that I find an opportunity. Yes, the difficulty comes,
and then I find the resources of the opportunity to
overcome that a difficulty. I feel so blessed. I don't
feel like what am I doing here cleaning? I feel like.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Grateful, God, grateful.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
What a great opportunity. Wow, it's just like that, And
what a great opportunity to have be able to me
have this business and go clean even if I had
to do it on my own, because I have to
do it myself to clean that big building. So I
was like, what a great opportunity. And then a little
(25:33):
construction jobs started coming, like a little construction.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Opportunity, opportunities in.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
That building and started coming right, like to close a
hole in a wall, yes, you know how somebody who
can do it?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yes, But wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
This is what I want to say, because when you
went to do that, this was in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Were you still married?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
No, I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
This is what that's huge, right, that's right. So within
that time from two thousand and eight, when y'all construction
business closed, right, and you started cleaning and your business
started to grow, then everything shut down in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
By that time, you were divorced.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Wow, So now you're a single mom with two girls.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
With one boy and one girl with one boy.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And one girl. Okay, so then you get this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
He says, come clean the building, right because you taking
care of your kids. So you go there, and when
you're there cleaning the building because you took the opportunity,
there's a hole in the wall and he's like, well, listen,
why you here, can you fix that hole in the wall?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And instead of you saying I'm a cleaner, I can't
fix no hole in the wall.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
You go and I did it.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, I'll fix the hole in the wall, and you
fix the hole in the wall.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah, I mean I got somebody to fix it. But
I never said no to that opportunity. Yes, because I
knew that if I had the if I was asked
or I was presented with something, that I was going
to have the resources to do it.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
So I asked by this for this, I have I
know a lot of people and the Hispanic peoples and
construction and everything. So I asked somebody who I knew
to come with me. I fixed that wall, and then
little jobs like that started coming, little jobs like that,
(27:39):
and I started getting more knowledgeable.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
And then a friend told me, come, I have a
house in Highland Park that I need I'm remodeling. Can
you come and give me an estimate?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Okay, pause, because I just need to make this that
Highland Park here in Texas is an affluent area. So
this wasn't some little teeny house that somebody just said, Oh,
here's that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
No, no, no, no, no, you.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Get this opportunity to go do some renovation or cleaniness
in a Highland park house. Okay, we track and keep going.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
And again I he asked me this in an opportunity presented,
come on now, and I knew. I always know, like
there's some boys in me that always tells me, if
you got presented with this, it means that you will
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find the resources to get it going. So I say
yes for this. I went to see the job and
everybody was there, all the electrician, plumb every contractor. And
I was there to give a price for painting. Okay.
(29:05):
So I got there and everybody in a huge, beautiful
home and only guys constructing construction construction. Yes, And I
was there without knowing anything, having an idea of how
to do anything. But then I got there and I
was like, okay, if you are here, because.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
You're supposed to be here, you follow that voice.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
That's supposed to be Okay, we'll find the way resources.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I love it. They're gonna come with you, They're gonna
meet you.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yes, okay, So yes, I I gave a price, I
got the job, and that's how my construction business started
to take out, like one job after that, one after
that one, and I haven't stopped since then.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Ever since, and each job gets big, bigger and bigger.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
And more difficult and more challenging, and yes.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
And the checks get bigger and bigger and bigger.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
It's so good because you're following what God is presenting
you with. It's that magic. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You're not stopping, You're not saying no, you're not thinking
about the trauma that's slowing you down and telling you
all the things that, oh, this is not here.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
You may not have the resources.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
No, like you're following that voice that says, if I
give it to you, you just show up and I'm
going to give you every single thing that you need
to get it done, and.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Then stay true to it and true to me, and
I have something else for you after that, something else.
You know that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
But I need you to say this because you don't
have to give us the number unless you want to
give us the number. You don't have to, Okay, But
I remember you saying to me that when you ask
when they ask you for an estimate, and you went
to give them an estimate, you said, I didn't even
know like what to even give them, right, And I'm
(31:13):
this woman and it's all these many here and I'm
here to paint or want to paint the house. Right,
And so you said you gave him a number of
whatever it was. He took your number, right. But she
told me that that was the biggest check that you
had ever seen, the.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Biggest check I ever seen. And I was like, you know,
I got the check and the first thing I do
it took a picture of that check and I send
it to my sister and I said, please show this
to my mom. Show that to my mom and help.
(31:50):
Because my mom, every time that I had something big presenting, yes,
she will lead a candle always to show me the light,
a candle to show me the way. She will she
will say, I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna pray
to God the same that if he is giving you
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this opportunity, he's gonna guide you to get it done,
and this candle is gonna like lead the way for
you to to follow. And so whenever I have something
big like that presented, my mom will be like the
one to hear it and then she will do that.
(32:38):
And it's like it's like a do you say whenever, Yeah,
it's my what I do all the time when something
big presents yeah, I remember that, and and it's it
was a big deal for me.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
It was a huge deal, big deal.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Okay, all right, So then you get jobs, you get jobs,
you get jobs, and so then I saw you at
Susie's house and she was showing the renovation, right, but
there was also like a mini concert there, okay. And
then you and I see each other because we were
in the class together some time ago. Write a live
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O s And I'm like, you say, how are you doing?
And I'm like, oh good? And then I said how
are you doing? And you said good?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
And then you go, I said, isn't it beautiful?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Here?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I said, can you believe this place? It is beautiful?
And you go, I did it. I'm like, you did it?
Is this something that you like? This is what you do?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
And then you were just telling me about how you
got into this business and how you literally had to
go into your fear of the whole what is it
face the bankruptcy thing? Yeah, you say, said, this is
what you told me. I remember this. You said, in
order for me to get here and to even have
(34:05):
this opportunity, I had to face my fears of holding
on to other things. And you told me you said,
the lower that you go, I had to go all
the way down.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
And that's what actually brought me way up.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yes, and I'm like, okay, wow, Yeah, so that job,
that was a huge job. And I know you will
always tell me that that job was a very challenging
job for you, but you said it taught you so much,
so much.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, yeah, it was one of because whenever you work
with creative people, oh good it is. It is very
and I'm creative too, okay, and it gets very challenging
because they give you an idea and you have to
make it to life. You have to bring it to life.
(35:00):
And and and that you saw the house. It's a
beautiful place, yes, and but it had so many it's
because of that. They they have are so creative that
not everybody can.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Meet their expectations. That got you of creativity, creativity.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Yes, So that was that that taught me so much
and give me it gave me more confidence and what
I can do in that and in that real firm
that I wasn't the right place because I knew it
(35:47):
was taking me to something bigger. That's so I just
knew it. And the moments that you got so difficult, Yes,
I said, this is taking me to something bigger. I know,
I know, I feel it, I can see it.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, so it was teaching you so many things about
your business, about renovation, creativity and working with people.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yes that you just knew. It was again preparing you.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
For something girl, for what was next.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Okay, so after Susie's renovation, amazing place is beautiful, then
you get all these other calls. So you and I sat,
we sat and met for lunch one day and as
we're sitting down and we're talking and we're catching up,
and you go, what are you doing? And I told you,
(36:42):
And then you said, I said, what are you doing?
And you said, well, I think I want to start
buying houses now and renovating the house from the bottom up. Yeah,
empty houses from the bottom up. I'm like, oh my gosh,
I'm in state.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I want to do that too.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
You're like, yeah, okay, Well it's a house that I'm
really trying to put a bit and I'm trying to buy.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
However, this other guy bought it first.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But I'm talking to the owner and I'm asking her,
like we both tried to buy it at the same time,
and I'm wondering, why did she give it to him
and didn't give it to me. And you said, but
I really want that house. There's something about the house.
I go, okay, so what's the deal with the house?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
And then you go, well, it was burned.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
It was it was the house that is burned down,
and I really want to renovate it. And while we
are sitting there talking, a phone rings, phone rings, and
then you look at me and say, you got to
take it.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
I'm like, girl, take take the call. You take the call.
You speak to the woman and it is the woman
who owns the house.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
And in that moment, she tells you, you know what,
I'm not selling it to that guy.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I'm gonna sell it to you.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
That's a very magic moment, yes, which you know I
didn't know, you know, all of the background at the time.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
So you look at me and you say to me like,
I'm telling you this, and she calls right. I'm like, really, okay,
because it's supposed to happen another moment magic God how
he shows up.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Okay. So then from that moment until now we are
at the house.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
And this is so good because I want to share
this house as it is now. I want you to
walk us through it because I literally feel in my
body that this your process in doing this is going
to inspire so many men and women out there to
(39:01):
follow that thing that's inside of them and don't be
afraid to push through fear. So we're going to take
a walk through the house and I want you to
show us.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
You know what's going on in the house.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
So, Andrea, this is this is the place, and I
want you to see the plans we are adding besides
restoring the place, because you can tell this historical. It's
one hundred years old. And we are restoring the windows
and bring the bringing the windows to the original, the original,
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the way they were designed, the original way.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
So did you say, so that's not this is not
a regular window.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
No, this is not, and that's what we are recreating again. Uh,
this just has a different I don't know how you
call it, but this is this is the way that
you to do the windows before and we are recreating
that again. They didn't they couldn't open. Now we are
making them to open again. And also we are doing
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all these windows ourselves and they are gonna be the
same as the old windows.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
And we're gonna put them in the new construction.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, so you're gonna keep the pool.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
We're gonna keep the pool. We're gonna renovate the pool,
and we're gonna make a beautiful backyard. But yeah, everything,
all of that has to be renovated.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Wow, okay, so the lady had you please take take
me upstairs?
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Oh this is so so these windows here this.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
We're gonna keep them because we can't. This is a
historical home. So in historical homes they are protected. We
cannot much changes the outside. The outside has to say
the same the way it is, and the new addition
has to be the same way with the same design,
the same windows as the old I got, so we
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cannot change much on the outside. So those windows, we're
just gonna change the glass. But we're gonna keep them.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I got you. They're beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Keep keeping them right and as as you can see
it right now, we are building these windows building this way.
So we're gonna build these windows they are already there,
and the downstairs as actually yes them and then uh,
we're gonna replace some of this. They getting damaged with
(41:50):
the fire, and we're gonna restore them the same. And
we are we are building the new ones the same
way the old ones were built.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Wow, the same way with the pull down.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
The same way.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Beautiful.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
And also we are gonna restore the chimney. It's closed,
so right now we're gonna we're gonna restore it to
its original.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Because there is a fireplace downstairs. Yes, girl, I'm just imagining.
This is be beautiful. And then you can look out
and see the pool. Oh, I can't wait. How many bedrooms.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
It's gonna be five bedrooms?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Five bedrooms? How many bedrooms? Four? Did you add another bedroom?
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Yeah? Okay, so this is another another room. And you
can you see the windows. Those are the windows that
we're gonna place. Yeah, as I told you, they are
made the same way the old ones. It's as a replica.
And the new addition the whole way or the way.
(42:54):
The whole way for the new addition is this way.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
This is gonna be above.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Oh a bathroom okay, wow, so this is going to
literally be a hallway.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Oh, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
The bedroom is gonna be right there, wow, on top
of the kitchen. Come on, now, I'm learning how to
build a house. Okay, but wait, you know I have
to ask you this you'll tell me.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
I thank you.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
So.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
How much did you have to pay for the house?
Speaker 3 (43:39):
You pay for the house?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Three hundred and ninety thousand, yes, and what's the proposed
value after renovation.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Proposed of the renovation of one hundred and one million
and two one.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Million and two hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Wow, you see this right?
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Yes, this is what makes us so. It's a huge projects.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
It's a lot of people depending on me. Oh, that
needs me makes me scare.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
It's your anxiety.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
The fetish is gonna be there always. It's my friend.
I mean, like I know it is there and I
don't fight it.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Yes, I put.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Another thing, like just like another round.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yes, like you said to choose it. Uh huh, you
get you come on this far?
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Yes, it's because you gaved h He's giving me the
way to performance.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (44:54):
All the resources will come. Look at you. We were
just sitting and having li in November. I don't even
know if I should say that, but but in November,
and you were talking about this is what you wanted. Yes,
and that lady called you after saying no. Right there,
and we are right here now telling your story so
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other people can hear the story.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Oh my god, Martha, Like I can't believe it. I
cannot believe that. Well you know what, Yes I can.
I can believe that you took this someone. Yes, and
I'm so excited to see what's going to come of it.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
But this is the thing.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
I need you to say this because I know that
many people who are watching this and listening to this
are going to want to try things and go after
things and look for those magical moments.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
That we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
What God tells you to do it, and you get it,
you're afraid, and you do it anyway. So what I
want you to do is to just talk for a
moment about that fear, because we all have.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
It, that fear that comes up. And when it comes up,
what do you do with it? What do you do
with it?
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Because I'm just imagining after going through this house, I
know you wanted it, but just being in this house,
fear has to come up for it, does it?
Speaker 2 (46:30):
And then what do you do about it?
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Well? Yes, so many, so many, so many things. Because
remember I don't know everything. I don't know everything, but
I know people who know, okay, So I always I
don't live the no knowing and stop me. And I
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have to depend on a lot of people. It's a teamwork.
And I cannot do this alone. I mean, and I
cannot take the whole credit myself. The thing, I am
the leader of this, yes, and and and I know
what I want. I have the picture in my head
(47:17):
of what I want. The only thing I have to
do is to guide them, to tell them what I want.
And everybody does it, so I'm not alone. That's the
part that I have to understand, okay, and and and
and also one of the challenges that I that I have,
(47:40):
it's the neighbors. And and I'm working my not to
take things personal, because I do take a lot of
things personal. But this is helping me to grow up
on that aspect because they are not doing it to me.
They are doing it because other things. And I have
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to take the whole thing into consideration. Good, but they
can I tell that.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
An incident, I want you to please.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
There was one time with my guy from one of
the constructions, the concrete guys beat the gas pipe and
then but I was coming on my way here when
he called me, and whenever I was like two minutes
away from here when he called me, So I pull over,
(48:37):
and I have all the neighborhood, the neighbors, a lot
of neighbors outside waiting on me. As soon as I
got out of my car. They were like concerned and
screaming and telling me that I don't know how to
do stuff, These things shouldn't happen, that I need to
(48:59):
have more were uh, that I needed to do things different,
and all those voices. Yes, they kept telling me and
telling me, and I just kept walking straight without answering
anything because I knew that they not to take it personal.
(49:22):
And I just went straight to my guy and I
told him if accidents happened, and that now we have
to fix it, and how can we fix it? What
was the next step to fix it? So I did
the step step to call nine one month to call
at most, to call everybody. And the only thing I
told the neighbors is I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna
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fix it.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
I'm gonna get it fixed.
Speaker 3 (49:47):
I'm gonna fix it. And I'm sorry for all the
difficulties that are business costing you. But and of course
they are said, and they are exclaiming, and they are afraid,
and and I just kept moving forward because that's all
you have to do I mean move forward through every difficulty.
And that was one of the hardest moments for me.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
Tell me why, tell me why it was so hard?
Speaker 3 (50:13):
Because I hear those voices all the time, and I
mean it was I echoed all the voices. I hear
it myself. What are you doing? Why are you doing
this laying no, you don't have a lot of experience.
Come on, just do the cleaning business, just like but
(50:37):
I they were echoing all my voices. But then the
other one. Come on, if I put you here, yes,
I will show you how to do it, and you
already have all the resources.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yes, just keep going, just keep walking.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
Yes, and but yes. So you see there's a lot
of woman's that are teaching and that are making me
not only a better construction person, but a better versional
(51:16):
Yes to becoming All the difficulties that I have, the fears,
the traumas, everything, everything all together is teaching to go
through that.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
I love that because that is the reason why we
are on this journey called life.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
It is to actualize and to become our best self.
Speaker 1 (51:51):
And all of this may look like the neighbors construction
bankruptcy divorces in the wall COVID.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
It looks like that, but that ain't it at all.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
It's moving forward in spite of all of that and
believing and knowing that God has already given you every single.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
Thing that you need to succeed. That is amazing. Well,
thank you so much, Martha for even for letting me
come here, for sharing this place with me, with the
with the viewers and the listeners. I appreciate you so much.
Speaker 1 (52:48):
Yeah, and I really appreciate and am grateful to get
to know you and your beautiful spirit.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
And you you are invited to come again.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Okay, we'll be back
This podcast is not a substitute for a relationship with
your mental health professional. Hello family, I am Andrea Wise
Brown and welcome to the first, the inaugural episode of
You Can't Make This Ish Up. I want you to
(00:21):
please join me on a journey of listening to this
powerful woman's story. Her name is Martha Harrington, and I
want you to take some notes so that you can
write down, jot down the bread crumbs that have happened
in her life, because those bread crumbs is what led
her to be the successful entrepreneur that she is. And
(00:44):
the reason that I'm doing this is because you have
those bred crumbs too. So come on, come with me,
Come on, trust me, I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hello miss Martha Harrington.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Hello, I'mcrea. Hi.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hey, Hi.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
So to start this off first, please because I know you,
it's so many things like you know. I know you
as a powerful business woman. I know you as in uh,
an awesome mother, a beautiful wife, and I also know
you as someone who renovates million dollar houses. That's what
(01:25):
I know you as and a sweetheart. But what I
don't know what would your title be? What would you
what would you call yourself? If I were to say
to tell somebody else about you, what would I categorize
Martha Harrington as?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh my god, that is a very good question. It's
a deep question.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Go deep. You know I love deep.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You know I don't. I don't. I don't want to
use a title on me because what I do, Andrea,
I move with the flow. I go in life and
do whatever I feel doing, like because you know I
(02:15):
when I went to college, I graduated as a business major,
and then I wanted to do a psycho psychologist and
then I started a cleaning business and then the construction.
So what I can tell you is that I can
(02:38):
I cannot describe myself as something specific, but I can
tell you that I can. I am somebody who can
take every opportunity to innovate or to something that is
(03:01):
gonna challenge me.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay, oh that's so good. That's really good.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So we're not going to skip around because I heard
what you just said. You started talking about college and
this we going back. You know, I like to go
back to the root of it, right, And so I
know we did a podcast episode where you kind of
gave me, me and the listeners a glimpse of your life. Well,
(03:27):
so right now, you know, because you're doing something huge,
as you know, as we can see behind us, like
this is, this is and it's not that, not to
minimize anything else that you've done, but this right here,
it is huge. But before we get here, we have
to go all the way back to where it started.
(03:48):
So what I can remember is you telling me a
story about this little girl. And at what age was
it when your father told you that there was nothing
for you here in Mexico?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
How old were you?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I was seventeen, seventeen, Yes, when ride after my graduation,
my high school graduation, when my father said there's nothing
else for you here, It's like and I cannot help
you anymore. So it's time for you to look for
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whatever you want to because that's it. I don't have
the money, I don't have the resources. I guess my
father saw since the beginning that that little town wasn't
for me. As I told you before, I was so
mad at him for that.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You had to be hurt, yes, yes, because if anything,
what we know is a father is supposed to support you, right, Yes,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
He's always supposed to be your strong place.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, And so at that moment he's telling you like,
I can't now have anything for you, but not even
giving you a plan of how to move forward, this
little girl at seventeen, not even an adult yet.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And then what you tell me you did?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So after that, whenever he said that, and you know,
after this, now if I had an aha moment, okay,
after I think that's why I cannot describe myself because
he right there, Yes, he planted the seed to take
(05:39):
whatever life gives you and to make it the best
you can with the that whatever you are going through
because nothing is given, nothing is for granted. So that
started date. I think whenever he said that that I
(06:01):
had to improvise. You see, I had to take whatever
I had and make the best of.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Make something out of it. Yes, oh that's so good.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So whatever he whenever he said that, what I did
is there was a city close to my town. My
town was a little small town and city it's like
an hour and fifteen minutes. So I told my mom
I'm living going and taking the bus to that city
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and because there's nothing here for me. And I was
feeling the big tim right because my father just said
that to me, and I.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Feel like a victim. Yes, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So I lived there. My mother was like, what are
you doing. You don't have anything, you don't even have
a job. Where are you going to stay?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
With what money?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
All the questions.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yes, And I just you know, I just told my
mom that there's something waiting for me. I know that
there's the word that is opening, and I just know
that I have to do that. I just I just
know that I have to go. I just know that
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I have to go there. And then there's no plan
after that, something else is going to open. And don't worry.
I even told her, don't worry. I will come back
in two weeks. I told her, I'm gonna come back
in two weeks and you'll see that I'm gonna be okay.
But I'll come back to seek her so she will
(07:46):
know that I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So, yes, what I I got there, I got a
newspaper and I look for jobs opportunities.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And wait, hold on, Martha.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And this was act that you get on the bus,
you at the bus bus station, and you're just sitting
at the bus station.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And I took the boss to that city.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Right to the city, and then when you get to
the city, you see the board is a board where
they have jobs.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Posted in the newspaper, and you get a newspaper, okay.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And then there was a job opportunity to be a
to clean a house and to be a nanny. And
for this, you know cleaning houses, didn't I started cleaning
houses at eleven from my town, come on down. So
I knew that I could do that. And it was
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also because we were so poor, so at the eleven
I had to do something. I had to help my
mom to do something. So I had the background that
I wasn't afraid of.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That you had a skill. I'm already already from eleven.
From eleven, another magical moment, okay, come on.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And so for me that wasn't hard. So whenever I
saw in the newspaper somebody was looking for a stay
home cleaning lady and I stay home nanny. So I
called and I said I am calling for the job,
and she said, come on now I can interview you.
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And then she gave me the job and she gave
me a place to stay, and then I said, okay.
I was so happy because I said this is the beginning.
I mean like and then two weeks after that, I
promised my mom that I was when I will see her.
(09:45):
So I went back to my town and I saw her.
I saw her, and I bought a bunch of groceries
for her. From the money that I got, I buy
a branch of groceries, and I said, you see, I'm
gonna be okay.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And took the groceries back to my mother.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And see this, this is the point of us even
doing this is because everybody has those moments in their life, right,
those magical moments when God brings things together. It's synchronicity.
But to me, those are like God moments, right, magic.
So look at there you go. Although you were fearful,
(10:29):
very very scared, but you did it anyway, found a
way and was able to bring money back to them
within two weeks.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And you already claimed two weeks you'd be back. Okay, amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So now you start going to college there, you go
to college in the.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
States, right, I went to college there.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But then after that, at some point you came to
college in the States, right all right?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Then you get married.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yes, okay, And now that you're in this marriage, y'all
have two children, Okay, two children? You get you have
a construction business right with your ex husband. Okay, and
it's doing really well.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yes, yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Then yes, construction Okay. So I came here to after
that the little Okay, after I got to that city, yes,
I And again I'm telling you, it's just like I
move and and things present to me and I just
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take them. It was very difficult to go to college
because I didn't have any money, right, so I was
going by a hotel and then in the lobby I
saw outside. I saw that there was a there was
a college speaking there for people who wanted to go
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to college. And then I saw it and I said,
I'm gonna goat like, I'm gonna go in to see
what they say. Maybe I can go to college because
that was my thing to go to college too. But
it presented and that at that moment. So I went
in and and it happened that it was a very
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good college in Mexico, a very expensive college. So I
was there and I was like, in my mind, whenever
they tell me, I mean like, if okay, the difficulty
is presented when they said it's expensive, but then I
move up. I said, if it is suspensive, okay, I'll
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find the way. Okay, I'm here now I'll find the way.
So and I knew that only good grades you could.
You had to have good grade it's from high school
to get into that college. So I said, okay, I
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got that. And then the lady talked to me and said,
and we have a test coming for you to if
you want to go in, maybe you can go in
and maybe you can get a scholarship. So I said, okay.
We after I took the test and I got in
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and I got a scholarship, and it was just like
you see, it's just like moving taking what like is
you at that moment and stop thinking about how you're
gonna do it. It's just because if the opportunity presents
to me, yes, then the resources are also gonna present
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to me.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I mean like that. It is very hard because I
learned that from when I was literal and that thing
with my father. It just like set the tone right there,
like you have to find a place to go, you
have to find something to do because I'm done. And
then knowing that the opportunity and the war and everything
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is gonna present to you. So yeah, I got that,
and then so I started going to college for this.
My parents didn't even know that I got into the college.
You said, well, now I'm gonna move to another city
because I went in. I got into this college. They
didn't have any idea what college was that. And and
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but it's the best college in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Best college in Mexico. Still without no money to do it,
but just the will.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yes, just the will.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yes, the will.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And although there were obstacles supposed right, money wasn't that
was a barrier, but.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You said it was alone.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But you said, I don't care. I'm sure I went up.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yes, because if I show up, then God is going to.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Give me by provide the house.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yes. Oh that's so good.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
And that's something Andrea, that I always have in the
back of my head. Yes, that if an opportunity, even
if it is huge, yes, presents to you, it is
because God puts you in that place. Yes, at that moment. Yes,
(15:32):
then he will provide. Yes, there's the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
That's right, and I know that's the only thing certain
for me.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Oh that's good. Okay, No, that's good.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Or nothing else is certain.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh but that, but that's right. Oh that's so good.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So yeah, So I then I graduated from college for
these My parents didn't even know how big the school was.
But after they came to my graduation because I never
asked for money to them, ever, ask for money to
pay for my college for that.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Ye, well, I'm gonna say I understand because your father
already set the tone.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
There is nothing here for you.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
While However, what I do know is is that you
had to have some a lot of internal challenges because
you were alone, trying to make all of this happen
alone but yet of course with God, but still right
and as a human being, just alone. So I'm sure
that had to be difficult, but you still push through.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It was very difficult. Andrea, I always have two voices
in my head, Okay, come on, one saying come on, Martha,
what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Sick?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Come on? They just lay lone. Oh that's good, just
to just just like Lord, don't go for the big one.
It's like come on. But the other one that says,
if I put you here, I will show you how.
(17:15):
And and that's the voice that I keep following all
the time, even if I get into so much like
no trouble, it's like uncomfortable, because challenges are uncomfortable, like
whenever I was in this very expensive school with no support,
(17:40):
I kept thinking about my older sisters comfortable at home,
like and I was like, what don't you go back there?
And I'm like, but also my dad knew I'm telling
you I had so I always was so recentful with him.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Of course, of course.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
But now I say, I mean like after he passed away,
and I'm like, how much love you have to have
for you? So right? Don't you keep to know how
the potential they have and to say to them.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Come only absolutely?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
And now I see it like he saw, yeah, so
much love because he knew I wasn't for that town.
I needed charlenge. So yeah, then I go.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Ahead, go ahead, go ahead, what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Then after college, I again I came to the US
to get a master's degree. Uh and and with I again,
I run into SMU. Whenever I came here, I run
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into SMU, and I saw this university. Whenever I see something,
I don't see it at the beginning. I don't see
it as difficult. I just see it. I just had
the feeling, and I said, okay, go for it. So
I apply and I got into SMU.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, and I just need to say for anybody watching
and listening that SMU is a prestigious school here in Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, so I could see where.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, that could be intimidating, but like you said, no,
I saw it.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I decided that's where I want to go, and so
I applied to go. So you went, I went, you went. Yeah,
And then.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I got married, You got everything. Things happened so fast.
I got married, I got pregnant, have my babies. In
two thousand and eight, the recession. My husband was in
the construction business. My ex husband wasn't the construction business.
So the recession hit in two thousand and eight, and
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again write an opportunity. Then he came home that day.
I don't remember what day, but there was a big
day where everything close on two thousand and eight, all
the construction site closed. He came in, he said, we
are in trouble. No more construction for a while. Everything
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is closed. All my payments got frozen, and I don't
know what to do. So that day, after that, I
decided that I was going to open a cleaning business.
So I started cleaning houses.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And I remember in two thousand and eight was when
there was the first what is it? The crash in
the housing market. Okay, I got you, all right, I'm
tracking in the real estate market.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
So after that, you use that as an opportunity to
open up a business, a cleaning business.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yes, all right, and he was it got to be huge,
a huge one. Hey.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Let me say this.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I just need to interject because I need to just
because I really want everybody to know that you two
have these bread crumbs in your life. So when you
were eleven years old, you learned how to clean, right,
So that was a skill that you had. That was
also the skill that saved you when you went to
that little town. And so now again when your husband
(21:49):
at the time loses the construction business and he says,
like your father, there's nothing else, there's nothing else here,
that little girl, who now is a woman, a wife,
a mother, says, okay, yeah, I'm going to open up
what I'm a cleaning business.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And then it gets big. Okay, Martha, keep going.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Then you know that after in COVID.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Okay, so that was two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yes, So now the business is big, You're doing well,
You've saved the family, you can pay bills.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
COVID comes and I have to close twenty and you
have to close the businesses completely.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Okay, lord, I'm so interested as to how gods get
ready to show up now.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
But come on, So the COVID business, the COVID recession
or crisis, we have to close the cleaning business from
one day to the other, just like that. You know.
I realized from one day to the other, everything happens
that one day to the other it closes. So I
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had to tell everybody no more business for until. I mean, like,
we stopped cleaning houses completely.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Because people didn't want you in their houses anymore. I
remember I was one of them, Yes, go ahead, not.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You, but yeah, no, no I know. So. But then
the next day after that, I have one client from
the cleaning calls me and says, I have a building
that are just bad. I need you to come and
clean it. And maybe it was so maintenance because I
don't want the business the building to be empty. Nobody goes.
(23:43):
Nobody wants to drive right now. But it was like
one day after or two days after, we closed the business.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Two days after Come on, God.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Then then I want I was one of the ones
that full drive because I was cleaning. So I was like, yeah,
the police, you know, remember that you couldn't be on
the street. Yes, right, yes, So I said, okay, it's
a cleaning business, so I can drive. So I went
to the building. And this customer of this guy tells
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me after that little do you know somebody who can
help me with this hole in the wall? And do
you know somebody who can do some construction little maintenance jobs?
And I say, yeah, I can do it.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You can do it now, you cleaning this building middle
of COVID.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Just you drive there while.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You're in there, just cleaning the building, right, just going
for the opportunity that God presented you with.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Right, okay, all right?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
And you know I felt so blessed, so blessed every
time that I find an opportunity. Yes, the difficulty comes,
and then I find the resources of the opportunity to
overcome that a difficulty. I feel so blessed. I don't
feel like what am I doing here cleaning? I feel like.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Grateful, God, grateful.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
What a great opportunity. Wow, it's just like that, And
what a great opportunity to have be able to me
have this business and go clean even if I had
to do it on my own, because I have to
do it myself to clean that big building. So I
was like, what a great opportunity. And then a little
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construction jobs started coming, like a little construction.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Opportunity, opportunities in.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
That building and started coming right, like to close a
hole in a wall, yes, you know how somebody who
can do it?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yes, But wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
This is what I want to say, because when you
went to do that, this was in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Were you still married?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
No, I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
This is what that's huge, right, that's right. So within
that time from two thousand and eight, when y'all construction
business closed, right, and you started cleaning and your business
started to grow, then everything shut down in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
By that time, you were divorced.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Wow, So now you're a single mom with two girls.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
With one boy and one girl with one boy.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And one girl. Okay, so then you get this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
He says, come clean the building, right because you taking
care of your kids. So you go there, and when
you're there cleaning the building because you took the opportunity,
there's a hole in the wall and he's like, well, listen,
why you here, can you fix that hole in the wall?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And instead of you saying I'm a cleaner, I can't
fix no hole in the wall.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
You go and I did it.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, I'll fix the hole in the wall, and you
fix the hole in the wall.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah, I mean I got somebody to fix it. But
I never said no to that opportunity. Yes, because I
knew that if I had the if I was asked
or I was presented with something, that I was going
to have the resources to do it.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
So I asked by this for this, I have I
know a lot of people and the Hispanic peoples and
construction and everything. So I asked somebody who I knew
to come with me. I fixed that wall, and then
little jobs like that started coming, little jobs like that,
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and I started getting more knowledgeable.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
And then a friend told me, come, I have a
house in Highland Park that I need I'm remodeling. Can
you come and give me an estimate?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Okay, pause, because I just need to make this that
Highland Park here in Texas is an affluent area. So
this wasn't some little teeny house that somebody just said, Oh,
here's that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
No, no, no, no, no, you.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Get this opportunity to go do some renovation or cleaniness
in a Highland park house. Okay, we track and keep going.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
And again I he asked me this in an opportunity presented,
come on now, and I knew. I always know, like
there's some boys in me that always tells me, if
you got presented with this, it means that you will
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find the resources to get it going. So I say
yes for this. I went to see the job and
everybody was there, all the electrician, plumb every contractor. And
I was there to give a price for painting. Okay.
(29:05):
So I got there and everybody in a huge, beautiful
home and only guys constructing construction construction. Yes, And I
was there without knowing anything, having an idea of how
to do anything. But then I got there and I
was like, okay, if you are here, because.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
You're supposed to be here, you follow that voice.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
That's supposed to be Okay, we'll find the way resources.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I love it. They're gonna come with you, They're gonna
meet you.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yes, okay, So yes, I I gave a price, I
got the job, and that's how my construction business started
to take out, like one job after that, one after
that one, and I haven't stopped since then.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Ever since, and each job gets big, bigger and bigger.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
And more difficult and more challenging, and yes.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
And the checks get bigger and bigger and bigger.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
It's so good because you're following what God is presenting
you with. It's that magic. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You're not stopping, You're not saying no, you're not thinking
about the trauma that's slowing you down and telling you
all the things that, oh, this is not here.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
You may not have the resources.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
No, like you're following that voice that says, if I
give it to you, you just show up and I'm
going to give you every single thing that you need
to get it done, and.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Then stay true to it and true to me, and
I have something else for you after that, something else.
You know that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
But I need you to say this because you don't
have to give us the number unless you want to
give us the number. You don't have to, Okay, But
I remember you saying to me that when you ask
when they ask you for an estimate, and you went
to give them an estimate, you said, I didn't even
know like what to even give them, right, And I'm
(31:13):
this woman and it's all these many here and I'm
here to paint or want to paint the house. Right,
And so you said you gave him a number of
whatever it was. He took your number, right. But she
told me that that was the biggest check that you
had ever seen, the.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Biggest check I ever seen. And I was like, you know,
I got the check and the first thing I do
it took a picture of that check and I send
it to my sister and I said, please show this
to my mom. Show that to my mom and help.
(31:50):
Because my mom, every time that I had something big presenting, yes,
she will lead a candle always to show me the light,
a candle to show me the way. She will she
will say, I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna pray
to God the same that if he is giving you
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this opportunity, he's gonna guide you to get it done,
and this candle is gonna like lead the way for
you to to follow. And so whenever I have something
big like that presented, my mom will be like the
one to hear it and then she will do that.
(32:38):
And it's like it's like a do you say whenever, Yeah,
it's my what I do all the time when something
big presents yeah, I remember that, and and it's it
was a big deal for me.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
It was a huge deal, big deal.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Okay, all right, So then you get jobs, you get jobs,
you get jobs, and so then I saw you at
Susie's house and she was showing the renovation, right, but
there was also like a mini concert there, okay. And
then you and I see each other because we were
in the class together some time ago. Write a live
(33:21):
O s And I'm like, you say, how are you doing?
And I'm like, oh good? And then I said how
are you doing? And you said good?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
And then you go, I said, isn't it beautiful?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Here?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I said, can you believe this place? It is beautiful?
And you go, I did it. I'm like, you did it?
Is this something that you like? This is what you do?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
And then you were just telling me about how you
got into this business and how you literally had to
go into your fear of the whole what is it
face the bankruptcy thing? Yeah, you say, said, this is
what you told me. I remember this. You said, in
order for me to get here and to even have
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this opportunity, I had to face my fears of holding
on to other things. And you told me you said,
the lower that you go, I had to go all
the way down.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
And that's what actually brought me way up.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yes, and I'm like, okay, wow, Yeah, so that job,
that was a huge job. And I know you will
always tell me that that job was a very challenging
job for you, but you said it taught you so much,
so much.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, yeah, it was one of because whenever you work
with creative people, oh good it is. It is very
and I'm creative too, okay, and it gets very challenging
because they give you an idea and you have to
make it to life. You have to bring it to life.
(35:00):
And and and that you saw the house. It's a
beautiful place, yes, and but it had so many it's
because of that. They they have are so creative that
not everybody can.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Meet their expectations. That got you of creativity, creativity.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Yes, So that was that that taught me so much
and give me it gave me more confidence and what
I can do in that and in that real firm
that I wasn't the right place because I knew it
(35:47):
was taking me to something bigger. That's so I just
knew it. And the moments that you got so difficult, Yes,
I said, this is taking me to something bigger. I know,
I know, I feel it, I can see it.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, so it was teaching you so many things about
your business, about renovation, creativity and working with people.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yes that you just knew. It was again preparing you.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
For something girl, for what was next.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Okay, so after Susie's renovation, amazing place is beautiful, then
you get all these other calls. So you and I sat,
we sat and met for lunch one day and as
we're sitting down and we're talking and we're catching up,
and you go, what are you doing? And I told you,
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And then you said, I said, what are you doing?
And you said, well, I think I want to start
buying houses now and renovating the house from the bottom up. Yeah,
empty houses from the bottom up. I'm like, oh my gosh,
I'm in state.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I want to do that too.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
You're like, yeah, okay, Well it's a house that I'm
really trying to put a bit and I'm trying to buy.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
However, this other guy bought it first.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But I'm talking to the owner and I'm asking her,
like we both tried to buy it at the same time,
and I'm wondering, why did she give it to him
and didn't give it to me. And you said, but
I really want that house. There's something about the house.
I go, okay, so what's the deal with the house?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
And then you go, well, it was burned.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
It was it was the house that is burned down,
and I really want to renovate it. And while we
are sitting there talking, a phone rings, phone rings, and
then you look at me and say, you got to
take it.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
I'm like, girl, take take the call. You take the call.
You speak to the woman and it is the woman
who owns the house.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
And in that moment, she tells you, you know what,
I'm not selling it to that guy.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I'm gonna sell it to you.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
That's a very magic moment, yes, which you know I
didn't know, you know, all of the background at the time.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
So you look at me and you say to me like,
I'm telling you this, and she calls right. I'm like, really, okay,
because it's supposed to happen another moment magic God how
he shows up.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Okay. So then from that moment until now we are
at the house.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
And this is so good because I want to share
this house as it is now. I want you to
walk us through it because I literally feel in my
body that this your process in doing this is going
to inspire so many men and women out there to
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follow that thing that's inside of them and don't be
afraid to push through fear. So we're going to take
a walk through the house and I want you to
show us.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
You know what's going on in the house.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
So, Andrea, this is this is the place, and I
want you to see the plans we are adding besides
restoring the place, because you can tell this historical. It's
one hundred years old. And we are restoring the windows
and bring the bringing the windows to the original, the original,
(39:41):
the way they were designed, the original way.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
So did you say, so that's not this is not
a regular window.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
No, this is not, and that's what we are recreating again. Uh,
this just has a different I don't know how you
call it, but this is this is the way that
you to do the windows before and we are recreating
that again. They didn't they couldn't open. Now we are
making them to open again. And also we are doing
(40:12):
all these windows ourselves and they are gonna be the
same as the old windows.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
And we're gonna put them in the new construction.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, so you're gonna keep the pool.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
We're gonna keep the pool. We're gonna renovate the pool,
and we're gonna make a beautiful backyard. But yeah, everything,
all of that has to be renovated.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Wow, okay, so the lady had you please take take
me upstairs?
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Oh this is so so these windows here this.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
We're gonna keep them because we can't. This is a
historical home. So in historical homes they are protected. We
cannot much changes the outside. The outside has to say
the same the way it is, and the new addition
has to be the same way with the same design,
the same windows as the old I got, so we
(41:15):
cannot change much on the outside. So those windows, we're
just gonna change the glass. But we're gonna keep them.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I got you. They're beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Keep keeping them right and as as you can see
it right now, we are building these windows building this way.
So we're gonna build these windows they are already there,
and the downstairs as actually yes them and then uh,
we're gonna replace some of this. They getting damaged with
(41:50):
the fire, and we're gonna restore them the same. And
we are we are building the new ones the same
way the old ones were built.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Wow, the same way with the pull down.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
The same way.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Beautiful.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
And also we are gonna restore the chimney. It's closed,
so right now we're gonna we're gonna restore it to
its original.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Because there is a fireplace downstairs. Yes, girl, I'm just imagining.
This is be beautiful. And then you can look out
and see the pool. Oh, I can't wait. How many bedrooms.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
It's gonna be five bedrooms?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Five bedrooms? How many bedrooms? Four? Did you add another bedroom?
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Yeah? Okay, so this is another another room. And you
can you see the windows. Those are the windows that
we're gonna place. Yeah, as I told you, they are
made the same way the old ones. It's as a replica.
And the new addition the whole way or the way.
(42:54):
The whole way for the new addition is this way.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
This is gonna be above.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Oh a bathroom okay, wow, so this is going to
literally be a hallway.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Oh, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
The bedroom is gonna be right there, wow, on top
of the kitchen. Come on, now, I'm learning how to
build a house. Okay, but wait, you know I have
to ask you this you'll tell me.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
I thank you.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
So.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
How much did you have to pay for the house?
Speaker 3 (43:39):
You pay for the house?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Three hundred and ninety thousand, yes, and what's the proposed
value after renovation.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Proposed of the renovation of one hundred and one million
and two one.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Million and two hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Wow, you see this right?
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Yes, this is what makes us so. It's a huge projects.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
It's a lot of people depending on me. Oh, that
needs me makes me scare.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
It's your anxiety.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
The fetish is gonna be there always. It's my friend.
I mean, like I know it is there and I
don't fight it.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Yes, I put.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Another thing, like just like another round.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yes, like you said to choose it. Uh huh, you
get you come on this far?
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Yes, it's because you gaved h He's giving me the
way to performance.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (44:54):
All the resources will come. Look at you. We were
just sitting and having li in November. I don't even
know if I should say that, but but in November,
and you were talking about this is what you wanted. Yes,
and that lady called you after saying no. Right there,
and we are right here now telling your story so
(45:16):
other people can hear the story.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Oh my god, Martha, Like I can't believe it. I
cannot believe that. Well you know what, Yes I can.
I can believe that you took this someone. Yes, and
I'm so excited to see what's going to come of it.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
But this is the thing.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
I need you to say this because I know that
many people who are watching this and listening to this
are going to want to try things and go after
things and look for those magical moments.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
That we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
What God tells you to do it, and you get it,
you're afraid, and you do it anyway. So what I
want you to do is to just talk for a
moment about that fear, because we all have.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
It, that fear that comes up. And when it comes up,
what do you do with it? What do you do
with it?
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Because I'm just imagining after going through this house, I
know you wanted it, but just being in this house,
fear has to come up for it, does it?
Speaker 2 (46:30):
And then what do you do about it?
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Well? Yes, so many, so many, so many things. Because
remember I don't know everything. I don't know everything, but
I know people who know, okay, So I always I
don't live the no knowing and stop me. And I
(46:55):
have to depend on a lot of people. It's a teamwork.
And I cannot do this alone. I mean, and I
cannot take the whole credit myself. The thing, I am
the leader of this, yes, and and and I know
what I want. I have the picture in my head
(47:17):
of what I want. The only thing I have to
do is to guide them, to tell them what I want.
And everybody does it, so I'm not alone. That's the
part that I have to understand, okay, and and and
and also one of the challenges that I that I have,
(47:40):
it's the neighbors. And and I'm working my not to
take things personal, because I do take a lot of
things personal. But this is helping me to grow up
on that aspect because they are not doing it to me.
They are doing it because other things. And I have
(48:01):
to take the whole thing into consideration. Good, but they
can I tell that.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
An incident, I want you to please.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
There was one time with my guy from one of
the constructions, the concrete guys beat the gas pipe and
then but I was coming on my way here when
he called me, and whenever I was like two minutes
away from here when he called me, So I pull over,
(48:37):
and I have all the neighborhood, the neighbors, a lot
of neighbors outside waiting on me. As soon as I
got out of my car. They were like concerned and
screaming and telling me that I don't know how to
do stuff, These things shouldn't happen, that I need to
(48:59):
have more were uh, that I needed to do things different,
and all those voices. Yes, they kept telling me and
telling me, and I just kept walking straight without answering
anything because I knew that they not to take it personal.
(49:22):
And I just went straight to my guy and I
told him if accidents happened, and that now we have
to fix it, and how can we fix it? What
was the next step to fix it? So I did
the step step to call nine one month to call
at most, to call everybody. And the only thing I
told the neighbors is I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna
(49:46):
fix it.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
I'm gonna get it fixed.
Speaker 3 (49:47):
I'm gonna fix it. And I'm sorry for all the
difficulties that are business costing you. But and of course
they are said, and they are exclaiming, and they are afraid,
and and I just kept moving forward because that's all
you have to do I mean move forward through every difficulty.
And that was one of the hardest moments for me.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
Tell me why, tell me why it was so hard?
Speaker 3 (50:13):
Because I hear those voices all the time, and I
mean it was I echoed all the voices. I hear
it myself. What are you doing? Why are you doing
this laying no, you don't have a lot of experience.
Come on, just do the cleaning business, just like but
(50:37):
I they were echoing all my voices. But then the
other one. Come on, if I put you here, yes,
I will show you how to do it, and you
already have all the resources.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yes, just keep going, just keep walking.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
Yes, and but yes. So you see there's a lot
of woman's that are teaching and that are making me
not only a better construction person, but a better versional
(51:16):
Yes to becoming All the difficulties that I have, the fears,
the traumas, everything, everything all together is teaching to go
through that.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
I love that because that is the reason why we
are on this journey called life.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
It is to actualize and to become our best self.
Speaker 1 (51:51):
And all of this may look like the neighbors construction
bankruptcy divorces in the wall COVID.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
It looks like that, but that ain't it at all.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
It's moving forward in spite of all of that and
believing and knowing that God has already given you every single.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
Thing that you need to succeed. That is amazing. Well,
thank you so much, Martha for even for letting me
come here, for sharing this place with me, with the
with the viewers and the listeners. I appreciate you so much.
Speaker 1 (52:48):
Yeah, and I really appreciate and am grateful to get
to know you and your beautiful spirit.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
And you you are invited to come again.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Okay, we'll be back
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