We recently connected with Jocelin Jaramillo and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Jocelin thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love for you to start by sharing your thoughts about the pros and cons of family businesses.
My thoughts on family businesses are two separate pathways: it could be beneficial or it could be detrimental to the family. The detrimental side of it could be that your father or mother may want the kids to go into the same business but if the children don’t love it like the parents do they won’t enjoy doing it and therefore make their lives more stressful and possibly failing the business and not taking it to its full level of growth. The different personalities in the family and religions may have a big impact in family businesses causing friction between siblings and eventually parting ways taking that family unity away.
Money sometimes becomes an issue in family member because some believe they are doing more work than others so they should be getting paid more. Greed gets in the picture and the trust and love that they are suppose to have to one another gets put on the back burner and with time create distance.
It could be positive and create a team with everyones fortes and build and push the family business’s grow to be an empire. With it comes a unified family that has emotional support among one another and don’t have the pressure of doing it alone. It being family gives the security of trust automatically not having to question if you want what’s best for me or not because we both have a similar interest at hand which is to carry out a family legacy and show unity to our children hoping they can continue with the family business and have a secure future.
My family helped me shape my view on family businesses. My families culture believed that only man could be an entrepreneur and that women could never be over it and we as women felt undermined and didn’t believe to have a secure future for our future family. It became difficult in the marriage when you started your own family but your father continued to see/treat you like his baby girl. We decided to go our own individual way and we are doing good for ourselves but when I see my siblings I see different fortes that could have worked together and completed a good team/company.
Jocelin, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I am a happy mother of two beautiful girls and happily engaged to my high school sweetheart. I grew up working for my dads business and seeing how every client I would accompany my brother to meet with would be unhappy with the house they purchased or unhappy with who they hired to do a job or simply not being born here and not knowing what to do and or how to do it.. All my life I felt like I wanted to be a surgeon because I loved helping people and I also loved the medical world. I started my mission to become a surgeon and my father could never understand why I chose to go that route instead of continuing to be under him and his business. Then I had children and a huge change of plans and change of how I saw life. I had to make some life changing choices without having much knowledge on the “adult world” as I used to call it. I knew how hard it was for me growing up in the USA with parents that didn’t know English and had never gone to school past the second grade in Mexico. It was trial and error which brought me back to working with my dad and how a lot of people trying to live in this busy life had to make life changing decisions and many not having the right knowledge under their belt to possibly making the best decision and being pushed to making a decision that hindered the speed of their growth. I became a Realtor because I believe owning your own house is security for your family/ investment for the future and biggest 1st financial decision you make when you’re entering this adult world. I then got my insurance license to be able to continue helping people enhance their families security not knowing the future plans of life that lie ahead. I am currently developing a consulting firm that gives you guidance depending on your lifestyle and needs. I want to be able to help someone focus on what is important for them and feel good going to sleep at night knowing they got all the information they needed to make the right decision. I figured that out when I was a realtor and was able to connect good people with one another to for services they needed done.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
Coming to the United States young and not knowing the language was a challenge. My parents did not know the language either and therefore going to school was always about figuring it out ourselves and having to learn the language fast to be able to help our parents with translating. I look back now and I saw it as a challenge then but I do see it as a blessing now because it prepared me and made me more responsible and I see every challenge the same way.
Where do you think you get most of your clients from?
The best source of my new clients have been word of mouth. I try to make a relationship with all my clients and help them the best way that I can so they know that even after a transaction I am still available for any question or concerns they may have or future help. When you do things the right way and genuinely care about people they make sure to let the people they know about you because they trust you and that is what makes it all worth while for that when I meet my client they already know im going to do what is best for them.
Contact Info:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jocelinrealtor/