I love gritty and gutsy women who make it in business against all odds. I am one, and so I am always drawn to the same.
We all have stuff. We all have crap. We all have horrific things that happen to us emotionally and financially that make us think, how the hell am I ever getting out of this? Often you don’t even know where to begin.
Sometimes just listening to someone else’s story lends a clue. Especially when it’s a real-life lesson in resilience and survival. This story I’m about to share is very powerful. Because it’s about the power of believing in yourself.
Today you’re going to hear the extraordinary story of Marcie Manfredonia. This now successful entrepreneur rose from extreme emotional and financial hardship. You will be inspired. She turned nothing and I do mean NOTHING, into something else!
Three Successful businesses now and counting. Nationwide Maintenance, Custom Candle Co. and CBD Live Natural, with plans for plans for more entrepreneurial ventures in the hopper. She’s Unstoppable.
Most amazing is that she never even learned how to read or write as she had to drop out of school young to take a job to help support her family.
This is one of the most authentic interviews I have ever done with one of the most authentic people I have ever met. If you’re not a Marcie fan after listening or reading, I’ll eat my hat.
I do think you should listen to this one vs read about it. Why?
Well, let’s just say Marcie’s story told in her deep voiced Bronx Italian accent might just remind you to never judge a book by its cover. I’ll take the liberty to say that because I’m also Italian (American), have been judged wrong along the way by many, and also have a pretty deep voice for a female. I often talk a little too NY fast for some, but if you want to hear two gritty and gutsy female entrepreneurs talkin’ no BS about how to push through when life gets tough – you should listen.
Also, in the spirit of May being Mental Health Awareness Month and knowing full well how many people struggle with emotional, financial and relationship challenges – I felt showcasing Marcie’s story would encourage a whole lot of people – to never stop believing in themselves!
I had met Marcie Manfredonia some years ago at an event held at her cool store in Bedford Hills, NY. She held a sort of networking party and I was invited by a lovely friend so I went. I was in awe of her beautifully designed store filled with magical candles and gifts on one side (Custom Cando Co.) and on the other an entire classy line of CBD and related products (CBD Live Natural)The party was set up father back in the store where there was a bar set up and beautiful appetizers and art.
Then there was Marcie. To say Marcie has a presence that stands out would be an understatement. She’s tall and attractive, always dressed a little sparkly, and has a unique deep voice with a Bronx Italian accent. She bubbles with enthusiasm, confidence, and compassion.
That day I overheard her telling another guest about her years of suffering from fibromyalgia and anxiety and trying every possible way to get out of pain to no avail – until her son suggested she try CBD which she didn’t understand and was afraid of but tried out of desperation. It worked and changed her whole life. Thus, her decision to start her CBD Live Natural store to try and help others get out of pain. Marcie spends a lot of time trying to help others.
In fact, I learned it was at a American Cancer Society fundraiser that she threw in her late mother’s honor to raise them some money, that a women from Whole Foods flipped out over her table decorations. Marcie made impressive centerpieces filled with candles flowers and candy out of recycled pink bottles that her son found in NYC which she cut and polished.
When that someone said wow you should make this into a business – Marcie did. Her company Custom Candle Co. will take any bottle of wine or champagne that represents a memorable occasion to you (wedding anniversary, birth) and cut it and polish it and fill it with any one of her long-lasting great smelling candles in any scent you want.
Marcie’s candle business has sustainability at the core and all her candles are made from soy and recyclables – often bottles donated from restaurants so they don’t go to the landfill. There are custom candles for every occasion possible and they will personalize. Her candle company gives five dollars to The American Cancer Society for every candle sold. To date her companies have raised over $40,000 to contribute to the efforts of ACS.
Marcie and I only spoke briefly that day at her party, but we had one of those good energy connections and both agreed we should stay in touch.
But years went by, until last month in a clothing store in Scarsdale, NY. I heard her voice. Blocked by racks of clothes that kept me from seeing her, I thought, hey that’s Marcie from the party that I met, and I loved. So, I went over to her, and she was like “Debbie what happened to you?” “I always thought we should connect it again”. “I even asked my friend who invited you what ever happened to that woman?”
So, we start talking, and I asked her to share a highlight of what’s going on with her, and she mentioned she’d just won a bid for a job she was excited about. Who knew she owned a big construction company too?
Wow I’m thinking there’s a lot more to this woman than Candles and CBD. So, I’m telling her a little about my ventures and of course my show where I always feature innovators and she said, “I’ll be a sponsor”. And I realized at that moment we were a perfect business match.
She is the epitome of gritty and I’m the epitome of gutsy and we both always come from the heart. Together business wise I thought, wow we could be dangerous. (Dangerously fun too.)
I understood Marcie’s businesses, but I wanted to understand Marcie better, so I invited her to sit in the studio with me. I always try and go above and beyond to help people who support me and often end up making exciting strategic business matches for them they didn’t see coming. But I like to understand the person I’m dealing with first, not just the business.
Like me, Marcie lost her dad when she was young. Never easy. I was 23 but she was only 16 when her dad passed.
“What happened was I didn’t really go to school. I had to help my mom take care of my dad. So, growing up it wasn’t easy because I had to go get a job. I worked at Woolworths, McDonald’s whatever I could do.”
“When my dad passed away, I felt like, now what am I going to do? I met my first husband and we got married at 18 because I thought I needed somebody to take care of me. And I always felt stupid because I didn’t go to school. I couldn’t spell or read. And then I got into that relationship. I stood 18 years, but it wasn’t a good relationship.”
“And I always heard, you’re no good, you can’t do nothing.”
“You go through the battering. And you stay, and I stood just to raise my children.”
Marcie one of 4 girls herself, had four boys. Her mother was a widow and was a stay-at-home mom, Italian, typical, back in the day, whose official job was housewife and who did her best at that job, but then her mother got breast cancer.
“I think I was thirty-three. And I juggled and took care of her, going back and forth to chemo. I hate to get emotional. I’m sorry. I think it’s okay. I would have my four little boys; one I would have on the backpack of me. I would walk, go there, take care of her, get my kids to school, and it was a lot. It was a lot. And I just stood until the day she passed. That was the day I knew I was able to have the strength to leave my ex-husband. “
About to be a single mom, scared to death but knew she had to leave the abusive relationship. Like many women in abusive relationships, it’s hard to explain it to anybody. Which is why I’m talking about this loud on the radio during this conversation during Mental Health Awareness Month. Thank God the world is talking about these kinds of crazy awful situations now and encouraging people to talk about these situations and get some help because they are not alone. There was no help back in the day.
“You buried this stuff, and if you talked about it , what happens is people think you’re crazy, or you have those older people, your family would say, you know, just take it, where else are you going to go, you have a house, you have a roof over your head, and that’s what they would always say, and then you would think to yourself, maybe I should be a little nicer, maybe I do deserve it, and you start thinking that, but when you try to get away, it’s even harder. I always found myself going back. You know you don’t want to go to shelters and sleep on the floor and so you always find yourself going back. And I was so I was at the breaking point, and I had to get out even though I realized I have no backup plan. But I knew if I was gonna get out of it and get my kids out of it, I had to do it.”
Talk About A Risk It or Regret It! Moment.
Marcie went and got financial assistance. She wanted to get a small little apartment. She was on public assistance for six months. But she said she felt belittled.
“I hated going down there. I had to go down to 61st Street. The kids would sit on the floor while we waited to get a check. The only reason why I did that because my boys had asthma and I needed the health insurance. One day I went back down and said, listen, I don’t want to be on this because if I stay on public assistance, I’m going to be like everybody else. Could I just have the health insurance? The guy said it’s all or nothing. And I don’t know where the guts came, but I said, then it’s nothing.”
And just like that with four little kids with no money, Marcie borrowed money from a Shylock to get though. She juggled and paid it back.
Marcie told me she then called a job ad for a power washing company she saw in the paper and when the guy answered the phone she said,
“I’ll never forget this in my life, if you give me this job, I really need it because I want my son to go to St. Teresa’s to be able to go to a public or Catholic school and I need some extra money. I promise you, three weeks I’ll work for you for free. Just give me the opportunity. I don’t really spell it or write well, but I can sell anything if I believe in it. I made more money in those three weeks for him than he had with eight girls in the office.”
But the guy kept not paying her commissions, so after a year Marcie proposed they go partners and she buy into his company. He laughed at her. So, she quit and opened her own power washing company. Cleaning and Power Washing. Her first company!
“I bought a broken-down truck and a power washer, and my son Santino left school he was gonna go be an accountant, but he had to come out of school at 16 to help me. I had like one of those little Jeeps, because I had to make the kids go to school in the morning. The only way I was able to do the estimates was to drive around Manhattan at night and look at the awnings and write down the prices. And the boys were asleep, so I’d go home in the morning, dress them, and bring them to school. After getting the jobs my son would go out and clean awnings. And we did that for a year and we started making good money. But then, winter came…
Then the truck she owned was in a bad accident and she lost everything.
So, Marcie went to a Shylock again and borrowed money. And off she went again to figure out how to survive. With her never wavering belief in herself, and with powerful passion to create a better life for herself and her kids, Marcie Manfredonia figured out how to do way more than power washing.
“So, then I said oh my god what am I gonna do? So, I started doing painting and my first contract was Rite Aid and I worked with them for 10 years. I did all their painting, I did all their plumbing, I did their emergency services, I did all their work. I was their GC. They came to me for everything, which was great. That’s how I started building up my company. Then I went to work with the USPS, postal service also. That’s how I met my second husband, because I hired him to work for me.”
“I used to hire painters to watch them paint, sit outside and watch them figure out their man hours. Because see, when you don’t spell and read really well, you’re very visual. I could look at something, tell you how long it takes, and I would just watch them, see what they use, then I would watch somebody else. Then when we got the concrete, I would go out there, watch them flow concrete. I just learned just by watching.”
Marcie Manfredonia learned a LOT about construction and maintenance and business in general. She’s very visual so she learned by watching others do. And she hired people to do the things she needed help with, like read and type for her.
Now 25 years later, Marcie’s company Nationwide Maintenance is a huge success, and she employs a whole lot of people.
Her company does design and remodeling, custom woodwork, floor tile installation, flood and fire damage, window replacement, general repairs, painting, plumbing, electrical construction, cleanups, demo.
Her company also does exterior services; asphalt and blacktop, concrete, driveway, masonry, stonework, fence installation, painting, retaining walls, retaining walls alone, please, tree removal and pruning, drainage systems, roofing, trash removal, demo, power washing and landscape design.
Her newest additional service is rodent prevention. Helping restaurants stay compliant. They seal things up vs having ongoing pest control.
Marcie is also now an award-winning female entrepreneur constantly being honored for her business success and her integrity in business.
I’d never bet against her.
“When you can talk from your heart to sell something, and you have passion that’s what matters, she said. I never was one of those people that could go to the door and sell a vacuum if I didn’t believe in the vacuum.”
And if you know me, I won’t take a sponsor on my media platform that I don’t believe in.
I not only believe in Marcie Manfredonia I am more than proud to represent her and her companies. She’s still the first one on a job and the last one to leave with all her endeavors.
A triple threat entrepreneur with three companies you might want to check out.
Nationwide Maintenance – Nationwide Maintenance is a full-service Facility Maintenance and Construction Company that helps manage and maintain the day to day operations of your business. Their WBE, WBNEC & School Certified Construction staff is fully licensed and insured and ready to serve you in your maintenance and construction needs. Conveniently located in Bedford Hills in Westchester County NY and accessible to the NY CT NJ Tri-State area.
Custom Candle Co.– On Site and online
CBD Live Natural – On Site and online
All her companies and her offices are on North Bedford Road in Bedford Hills, NY. Her custom candle company shops nationwide. If she’s there when you stop in, she’ll come out to help you herself to help you. You can also connect with her here on Linkedin.
This woman is a true testament to what I’ve always known about people. I truly believe each of us is born with an innate gift. Something that comes naturally to you that you take for granted.
For Marcie it’s that she’ sees’ things and then just ‘acts’!
Recently deeply saddened and pained by the end of her second marriage which lasted 18 years, Marcie admitted to days ‘you had to drag me off the floor’ but I knew that tomorrow was going to be a better day. And you don’t know what tomorrow’s going to bring. ”
A good example is that surprise phone call Marcie got one day to be on Bravo’s ‘Below Deck’ TV Show. LOL Talk about a divorce distraction! You can catch her in the last episode of the season.
Marcie’s doing really good again these days. Actually, better than good. She’s doing great and she’s full of self-love.
“I finally found out who I am. I’m in control of my own life. Nobody can tell me what to do and make decisions. I feel peaceful. I love that I can do what I do best, my businesses.”
Marcie’s advice to others who may be struggling with a difficult life circumstance?
“All I want to do is help people know that there is tomorrow. Whatever you got to do today to get through it, like I said I had days you had to drag me off the floor, but I knew that tomorrow was going to be a better day. Just never stop believing.”
“Never be afraid to try new things or be afraid to fail, because with faith, hard work, and dedication, you can accomplish anything.”
-Marcie Manfredonia.
Enjoy this full show podcast of my live conversation with Marcie Manfredonia on The Debbie Nigro Show. It’s about as good a story as you could hear about making it against all odds. If you’d rather read than listen the transcript is below.
AUDIO TRANSCRIPT:
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It’s time for the Debbie Nigro Show with Debbie Nigro, who says she’s still a babe, or at least she thinks she still is. That’s right, attitude is everything, and Debbie’s delusionally young. No one sees the glass of Cabernet half full like Debbie. She’s fresh air with a magnetic flair. Some day has arrived, and as far as she’s concerned, it’s time to roll.
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Alright, another great episode of the Debbie Nigro Show. You know, some days are better than others over here in the studio. Today’s going to be one of those really good ones.
So glad you guys tuned in. Hi, this is Wellness Wednesday. I do this one show once a week where I try and put the live back in alive, give you information to keep you alive. I want you to know things that are going to give you a better opportunity for a better
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journey. Sharing information that Ive learned myself that might help you is what I like to do. . I’m a nut job information crazy person, so why should I keep this to myself? I’m also a collector of extraordinary people. I have the great gift of being able to talk to a lot of people and when they talk back and I hear things that are, you know, really stand out, I’m like, wow. So I have a woman in the studio today. She is an exceptional guest and I’ll introduce
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you in just a second. And why I thought it would be a good time to have her in the studio today is because A, it’s Wellness Wednesday, B, it’s Mental Health Awareness Month. And, you know, whose phone is that? You? The guest? All right, that’s okay. You turn that off. Anyway, I couldn’t think of a better guest to feature today besides her,
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where I’m going to introduce you in a second, because life is filled with challenges for all of us, right? And often we have to dig deeper than we thought even possible to survive what has been thrown at us. And in order to learn, we listen to other people’s stories and hopefully we pick up a little something that will inspire us to figure it out.
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Okay, so today you’re going to hear Marcy Manfredonia’s story of rising from extreme emotional and financial hardship and you will be inspired because she didn’t stay there, man. She turned nothing into something else. Hey, Marcy. We need a microphone, Bob. Yeah, OK. OK, well, what the heck is going on today?
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How you doing, Marcy? I’m doing wonderful. Thank you for having me here. I’m so honored, and especially to meet you is amazing. OK, so let’s tell everybody how you got back into my life, because I don’t just invite anybody to come and spend
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a whole show with me. And I’ll explain to you how she’s going to be in my life for quite some time. I met Marcy at an event at your place, Marcy, at your location in Bedford Hills, New York You had a big party and I was invited by some friends and I just showed up and I was like wow this woman is
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something I walked into your store and It’s like was like you know when something is just so beautiful and exciting like I was excited to be in there Tell everybody the name of your store. It’s custom candle Co and CBD Live Natural. Okay, but that’s not all who you are. So that’s the store I go in. And you know, you connect with somebody who loves each other.
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I’m like, okay, great, we’re going to stay in touch. Bye. Years, a couple of years go by, I’m in a store in Eastchester or Scarsdale about a month and a half ago, and I hear the voice. Now I have a recognizable voice, but so do you. Yes, I do.
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Okay. And I’m like, that’s Marci from the store that I met, that I loved. So I came over and she was like Debbie what happened to you I’ve been trying I thought we should connect it again this is so great so we start talking about the show and she says to me I’ll be a sponsor and I was like you’ll be a sponsor like like really and then I thought about it we are a perfect match
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we are perfect match because she is the epitome of gritty and I’m the epitome of gutsy and together we’re like dangerous so her story and why it matters today and why you should continue to listen. Marcy is a stand-up for how she got through so many things. We all have stuff. We all have crap. We all have horrific things that happen that you think,
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how am I ever getting out of this? You don’t even know where to begin. But let’s begin when you were younger. You got a beat, a bad beat. I thought mine was a bad beat, losing my father at 23. But your father died when you were 13?
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At 16. 16? He was sick at 13, he passed away at 16. So what happened was I didn’t really go to school. I had to help my mom take care of my dad. So growing up it wasn’t easy because I had to go get a job.
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I worked at Woolworths, McDonald’s, Juggal, whatever I can. When my dad passed away I felt like, what am I going to do? I met my first husband and we got married at 18 because I thought I needed somebody to take care of me. Right. And I always felt stupid because I didn’t go to school.
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I couldn’t spell or read. And then I got into that relationship. I stood 18 years, but it wasn’t a good relationship. And I stood because… Yeah. Yeah.
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You go through the batter. Yeah, yeah. You’re no good, you can’t do nothing. Really? And you stay, and I stood just to raise my children. Then I finally got away.
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Wait, hold on a second. How many kids did you have? Four boys. Yeah, she’s got four boys. Okay. And your mom, you were one of how many kids?
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Four girls. Okay, so this is an important piece of the story. Your mother now is a widow. She was a stay-at-home mom, Italian, typical, back in the day, husband worked. She was the official housewife who did her best job, but that was a tough job. You have one of four girls and now you have four boys. Then your mother gets breast cancer. And how old were you then?
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Thirty, thirty, I think I was thirty-three. And I juggled and took care of her, going back and forth to chemo. I hate to get emotional. I’m sorry. I think it’s okay. I would have my four little boys, one I would have on the backpack of me. I would walk, go there, take care of her, get my kids to school, and… It’s a lot.
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It was a lot. It was a lot. And I just stood until the day she passed is the day I knew I was able to have the strength to leave my ex-husband. Isn’t that interesting. Now stop there.
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So you took care of your mother. You have four little boys. You’re about to be a single mom, but scared to death. And you were in an abusive relationship, would you say? Mentally abusive? Yeah.
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Yeah. I have been in one of those not pretty no because you can’t really explain it to anybody and Like where were you gonna get help for that today? We’re talking about and why we’re having this conversation loud on the radio is because it’s mental health awareness month And thank God the world is talking about These kind of crazy things and where to get some help for it right because there was no help
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There was you buried this stuff, and if you talked about it What happens is people think you’re crazy, or you have those older people, your family would say, you know, just take it, where else are you going to go, you have a house, you have a roof over your head, and that’s what they would always say, and then you would think to yourself, maybe I should be a little nicer, maybe I do deserve it, and you start thinking that, but when you try to get away, it’s even harder, because
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you always found myself going back You know you don’t want to go to shelters and sleep on the floor and things you always find yourself going back And it was so the breaking point when you realize you have there’s no backup plan This is you if I was gonna get out of it and get my kids out of it I had to do it so now what I understand, and I mean this is an amazing story You went for assistance right you had no choice yet
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But you broke off and you went and got financial assistance and where did you move to? Did you keep the house? Were you able to stay there? You didn’t leave, right? No, I had to stay. I wanted to get a small little apartment. I was on public assistance for six months.
Okay. And I went down there. I felt belittled. I hate going down there. I had to go down to 61st Street. The kids would sit on the floor while we waited to get a check. The only reason why I did that because my boys had asthma and I needed the health insurance.
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So I went back down and said, listen, I don’t want beyond this because if I stay on public assistance I’m going to be like everybody else. I don’t want this. Could I just have the health insurance? He said, it’s all or nothing. And I don’t know where the guts came, but I said, then it’s nothing.
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Wow. Just like that. With four little kids with no money. Four little kids, nothing. I borrowed money from a Sherlock. See, these are the stories that are real.
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And I really borrowed money. I juggled and paid it back. So what did you start? Tell everybody the company you started, because now you’re like, I’ve had it, everybody’s dead, I can’t take another minute, I’m not living this life, I’m smart enough to go figure it out.
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So you started a power washing… No, not yet. No, not yet? I called and aired and the guy answered the phone and said, listen, I’m really good in sales, I don’t have a resume, if you give me the opportunity, I’ll never forget this in my life, if you give me this job I really need it because I want my son to go to St. Teresa’s to be able to go to
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a public or Catholic school and I need some extra money. I promise you, three weeks I’ll work for you for free. Just give me the opportunity. I don’t really spell it right really well, but I can sell anything. Oh, you’re funny, man. If I believe in it.
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Yeah. He brought me in and I worked on commissions and I made more money in those three weeks for him than he had with eight girls in the office. Ah, yeah, baby. All right, so the story continues with Marcy Manfredonia. My new, my new, I don’t know, I’m like you’re, if you’re running for something, I’m voting
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for you. I don’t care what you’re running for, but you know, she’s running three businesses, the biggest of which is a company now in business for 25 years, nationwide maintenance, grown into a really big company that offers a whole bunch of services. And you can’t believe what she does. It’s crazy.
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We’ll get to that. She’s got a CBD company. She’s got a candle company. These are all shipping around the country, you know, nationally, Mother’s Day is coming up. You can go right on her website right now. customcandleco.com is one of them sites and personalize
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something and send it to your mother, hot mama, happy birthday, happy Mother’s Day, grandma, whatever you want. But come on back more about why I’m showcasing Marcy today in mental health awareness month, because if she can get through all this stuff whatever you’re going through you can get through to a little inspiration from the Debbie Nigro Show
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and now back to the Debbie Nigro Show it’s the same old story, coming round again. What is done is done. Well, it’s not the same old story, but the stories, well, they go on and on, and some sound similar. And when you listen to somebody else’s story, especially the hard ones, and they tell you the story of how they once were there, but now they’re here,
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I love to bring in real people, tell real stories. Down and Dirty Today is really what I’m showcasing here with Marcy Manfredonia in the studio. She’s an entrepreneur, triple threat, three businesses, started with zero, less than zero, and we’re continuing her story. I love your quote, Marcy, that said, ìNever be afraid to try new things or be afraid to fail, because with faith, hard work, and dedication, you can accomplish anything.î And I think
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you are the poster girl. Thank you. Yeah. Where do we leave off? All right. So we talked about your rough childhood.
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Then you were now you finally had the guts to leave an abusive husband with four little boys and you told the people at, you know, public assistance, screw you because I can’t take it. You went and sold for the guy with no education. He had no education. You couldn’t spell or write, but you told some guy in a business, give me three weeks.
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I’ll work for you free. And then I will show you you should hire me and you said as we closed the last segment that you outsold his whole entire office in three weeks. And I launched his company. What was it? Oining, Cleaning and Power Washing and that’s the first company I started.
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Oh baby. I actually asked him after a year because he kept on not paying the commissions and stuff. Oh really? I said listen, let’s go partners here. You know I’ll buy into your company.
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He laughed at me and said no. So I actually opened my own company up. Oh you are a trip. All right so now you start a power washing company. Yep. What is like what did you have to buy? So I bought a broken down truck and a power washer and my son Santino left school he was gonna go be an accountant but he had to come out of
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school at 16 to help me. He worked on the truck with one of the guys and we went out in the middle of night I sold the job saw the kids slept in the back of the car and my son would go out and clean awnings. And we did that for a year and we started making good money. But then, winter came… Were the kids sleeping in the back of the car?
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I had like one of those little Jeeps, because I had to make them go to school in the morning. So the only way I was able to do the estimates was drive around Manhattan and look at the awnings and write down the prices. And the boys were asleep, so I’d go home in the morning, dress them and bring them to school. I mean, come on, just that visual alone, of a single mother in the middle of the night with kids sleeping in the back to be able to scout potential jobs so you can make money for your family.
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That is gritty stuff, girlfriend. That is unbelievable. It is. Like, when I go back and think about it, I can’t even believe all the things I’ve done. You know, and that’s just called survival. Like, who was going to take care of me and my boys?
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And then my mom, you know, and then my dad. So everybody’s dead. Now you were driving around the middle of the night with four kids sleeping in the back. You left the abusive husband. Now what? So now you start the power washing company and after a year
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what happens now you so now I actually the first year the truck that I owned actually was in a bad accident one of the guys behind I lost everything seriously yeah everything so I had no truck no nothing I went to a Shylock and I borrowed money oh my gosh you’re from the Bronx whatever a couple of them might be located you know the money one of the things you said in your blog that you write them and Marcy men for Joni calm is don’t judge a book by its cover.
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Now, I’m Italian so I can talk to you like this. You hear somebody with an Italian sound like they’re from the Bronx, you just say, oh, I never went to college, I didn’t read or write, they’d be like, yeah, okay, right? Meanwhile, when people say, do they ask you now, do you read, do you write? What have you learned differently since you have When you’re living with somebody that always makes you say you’re stupid you can’t read or something you stop believing that like you believe you need
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somebody but when you have You feel it in your heart, and you know like I’m smarter than that like reading guess what now I hire people to type for me Like I listen to either um you’re funny my god What’s his name Steve Harvey? Yeah, same thing. I don’t spell or write. Guess what? I hire them now. You know him too, really? Yeah, really. It limited me a lot before. I would go home, try to do the test to try to read.
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Yeah, but it never came to me like… Because you didn’t go to school, you didn’t have the education. You were working to help your family survive. But when you can talk from your heart to sell something and you have passion. Like I never was one of those people that go to the door so I’d sell a vacuum if I didn’t believe in the vacuum Oh, I mean, I don’t know anything that I don’t believe yeah And I won’t even take a sponsor on this show that I don’t believe
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I’m just I haven’t had sponsors on my show in a while Bobby will tell you why I don’t know I’ve been using the show, you know, I guess it’s my therapy I don’t know and I use it for business and I use it to share information and I have a you know I’m an entrepreneur and I have a lot of other things I do but Why aren’t I sponsoring my show? What am I not worth?
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I do great work here, but it’s hard. It costs money, and I’m doing favors for everybody. People are like, Debbie, can I be on your show? I’m like, yeah, okay, fine. So I didn’t realize how many favors I was doing. At some point, you have to pay for it.
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It costs some money. It’s like going into a restaurant and you ask somebody, can I have another free steak? Listen, can I have… You don’t mind if I come in and just have free dinner, right? No, come on, have free dinner. So I said to myself, all right, because of the world changing and the radio and the podcasting and the social media, I’m helping a lot of people and yes, it’d be nice to have some sponsors. You, my darling, are my first sponsor back on in a very long time and the
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reason I wanted you is because you are everything I believe in and your company is everything. You’re the kind of woman that makes me proud to represent you. I appreciate that. Thank you. Oh my gosh, yes. All right, so now let’s keep going with the nationwide. All right, so now you’ve sold everything from your heart. You’re on your way.
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Now, 25 years later, you have this nationwide maintenance. I have an ad that you gave me that was in one of the local papers, but it’s nationwide. So you do interior services, exterior services, everything from kitchen, bathroom, design and remodeling, custom woodwork, floor tile installation, flood and fire damage, window replacement, general repairs, painting, plumbing, electrical construction, cleanups, demo. I’m like, and you’re standing there with this like sexy look with the shoes and the, like wow, I would trust her.
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And then you went on to talk about your exterior services, asphalt and blacktop, concrete, driveway, masonry, stonework, fence installation, painting, retaining walls, retaining walls alone, please, tree removal and pruning, drainage systems, roofing, trash removal, demo, power washing and landscape design. How the heck do you know about all this? Well, I started doing awning cleaning. Right. But then what happened was the winter came and we couldn’t work and we had no money again because under 32 degrees, the water freezes. So I said, oh, funny, you should say that. Oh, no, no, no.
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I said, OK, that part you can’t say. Oh, God. I used to drive around with my daughter and do 32 degrees makes water freeze that’s what I told her about freezing water. So then I said oh my god what am I gonna do? So I started doing painting and my first contract was Rite Aid and I worked with them for 10 years. Rite Aid? You were a painting company for Rite Aid? I did all their painting, I did all their plumbing, I did their emergency services, I did all their
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work. I was their GC. That’s crazy. They came to me for everything, which was great. That’s how I started building up my company. Then I went to work with the USPS, postal service also. That’s how I met my second husband, because I hired him to work for me. This is really great. So what you didn’t know how to do, say that Dwight A.
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I learned. You learned it, or you hired somebody who did well? I used to hire painters to watch them paint, sit outside and watch them figure out their man hours. Because see, when you don’t spell and read really well, you’re very visual. I could look at something, tell you how long it takes, and I would just watch
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them, see what they use, then I would watch somebody else. Then when we got the concrete, I would go out there, watch them flow concrete. I just learned just by watching. Unbelievable. And that’s how I brought people in, I brought my guys in, and I would be at all the job sites, so I would kind of see. Then after a while, it’s like second nature, you know it, you know? It’s unbelievable. It’s still a little hard when you go out there in the corporate world
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Like if I’m going on a job site, yeah, and I’m looking at the guy saying now that’s up for doesn’t look too good And they look at you. You know what? You don’t know what you’re talking about. I stand back, you know, so it’s still challenging Yes, but I love it. I really love it. And every day I’m learning new things now. I’m into this damn epoxy like oh my god She could just got we don’t to talk details But she just got a really big job, some really big mansion, some really big thing for retaining wall for this.
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It was a bid job, right? And you were up against quite a few contracting companies and you won the bid. Yes, I did. And that’s a conversation we had in the clothing. We can throw out a shout out to Fox’s Clothing Store because we both happened to love that store.
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And that’s where I caught up with you. And that’s the story. You told me that. I said, what’s up? Give me something. What’s new?
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Give me a highlight. And you told me you just want a bid and that’s how I started to realize well She’s a lot more interesting than I gave her not that I didn’t give you credit for but I didn’t know about you You can only knew what I saw in your store, which I thought was brilliant You have a great sense of design and art. You’re very artistic like when you walk in your stores It’s so beautiful. I feel inept like I feel more beautiful standing amongst your stuff and
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Some people just have a gift for design and how things should be balanced. So you must have that innately. So that’s what I wanted to do when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an interior designer, fashion designer. You got that. I couldn’t go to school.
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So now what I do is I design my places with that. I’ll take that. I love clothes. Yeah, you look adorable. You and me are very sparkly babes. I love to dress and I love to decorate my home and I like that.
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So that’s where I can get to do the extras, that my outlet is, that’s what I like. You had an interesting medical situation in your life. You said you were very sick at one time with something. I had fibromyalgia. Yeah, and it was torturous on top of everything else. But seemingly CBD, which is why you got into it, somehow made your life better.
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It changed my life. You might want to tell that little story. So about eight years ago, it would go in remission a little bit, but they diagnosed me with fibromyalgia because I got hurt at the gym. And depression, pain, people like to say, oh, I’ve got fibromyalgia. You don’t know what it’s like.
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Like somebody comes into my store, like I have compassion. I know. You don’t even want to get up. There might be tomorrow, you say, oh, I’ll meet you tomorrow, but you don’t know how you’re going to feel. The pain shoots everywhere.
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Your head might hurt, your arm might hurt, your foot. It’s just everywhere. Depression, and it started all over again with the construction and I had the candle store at that time and then things weren’t working out too well when me and my husband, so I knew ex-husband, I started getting into a depression, they would give me anti-inflammatory, they would give me depression pills, pain pills, I went for acupuncture. When people say they tried everything, I tried and I got into a part where I didn’t want to get out of bed
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and my son said, Ma, you know what? You got to try this stuff. It’s called CBD. It’s going to help you. I said, no. I’m going to be like, they gave me a joint one time.
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I was in the hospital. The lady said, which one was yours? I said, I smoked a joint. I think I took a puff. And I said, I can’t take this stuff. He said, you got to try this oil.
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So when you have anxiety also, you’re afraid to take new things. I was at a point, I was so depressed, I said, I got to try this. So I took a drop, then I tried a little bit more. CBD is not THC, obviously. Yeah, no THC. And I started noticing I wasn’t feeling funny.
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Okay, let’s try this. This is your last resort. So I did it in the morning, I did it at night, and then I started noticing, Debbie, it wasn’t the pain that went away, I was sleeping really good at night.
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It’s all crap. I didn’t know I was not sleeping good. The sleep made me feel better. And all of a sudden I started feeling, my joints were feeling better. I gotta tell you eight years I think I had one anxiety attack in eight years before I would have anxiety attacks like every minute
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I wouldn’t go in elevators. I flew to Italy like it’s just amazing. Yeah, and but everybody’s different So it has to build up in your system and you have to make sure you’re taking you know quality quality You know CBD so it’s because of how it healed it saved you. That’s how I got into it. That’s how you got into the business. And you consider yourself a compassionate CBD store because you take the time with everybody to talk about the different things.
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And I’m amazed at the selection. Again, very classy. You’re a very classy girl. And how much care goes into making sure people find things that feel better. I’m going to tell you something. Last time I saw you, I’m blowing a body part a week.
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You heard me say that so I thought that particular moment I’d blown the knee like I got what what is this it’s like I don’t know what’s going on she says here try this stuff so you handed me gifted me some CBD was like a freeze thing now let me just say this my other half he’s falling apart too we have that’s why we love each other which like you know every other week somebody’s falling apart and then we nice to the person who’s falling apart for that week
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so he’s got a shoulder problem. He had an operation. It didn’t go good. They went in. I think it ripped. He’s freaking out, went for the MRI.
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He’s been in agony for about, I don’t know, two months, a month and a half, whatever. And we’ve tried Hotpacks, Coldpacks, this, that, all kinds of medication. I said, why don’t you just try this stuff that Marcy gave me?
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Maybe it’ll help you. You know what he told me? He said, this is the first time I’m out of pain in two months. I cannot believe it. So whatever you gave me helped him you want
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you want to help people feel better every we all want to help people feel better this you know sometimes it’s it’s a pill sometimes it’s an ointment sometimes it’s talk therapy right are you feeling good being on my show today I am all right you catching on but it really did feel good oh no he was to saved him he’s gonna have another operation I have until until he gets there he don’t need to anyway. All right. Hold on. We can’t save the whole world
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All right, hold on one drop at a time. We’re gonna come back here on the Debbie Nigro show It’s Wellness Wednesday joyful guest in the studio more see man for Dhonia. She’s a triple threat entrepreneur She has a company called nationwide maintenance, which if I was gonna fix something I’m calling her first She has a CBD store. That’s a really CBD CBD natural, live natural, and of course custom candle company. We’ll talk about the candle company because you do something very interesting and then
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a little about your philanthropy and then we’re going to wrap it up. You’re listening to a combination of gritty and gutsy here and some resilient skills for you to pick up on to maybe help yourself along the way. Come on back. And now back to the Debbie Nigro show. Welcome back to the Debbie Nigro show. We’re going to tail end here. Oh, no, we’re in the second half of the show.
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Actually, where are we? Yes, we got to go We have more time my guest in studio Marcy Manfredonia She is just a real standout in the people I’ve met along my way as far as random run-ins and just people who are fabulous in general in general And I really wanted to tell her whole story. I’m glad she’s here joining me in the studio today to do that. Marcy is three time
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three-time successful Entrepreneur and I’m talking against all odds here this woman against all odds single mom You know mental abuse death in the family You know having every every roadblock put in front of her she figured out how to get past it and I want to tell you about
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One of the other things she started before we leave each other today Marcy the whole custom candle thing when I first saw that I was like wait are those liquor bottles that you’ve cut in half and put candles in? What’s that whole thing about? It’s recycled liquor bottles, and it was the most weirdest thing how I started it. It was just crazy. Like a champagne bottle, like a famous, like a tequila bottle, whatever that’s your famous whatever you drink that could be your thing as a gift for somebody she can recycle that bottle and make it to a gorgeous candle. So what we did was I am at it was at the same time I opened CBD
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is we my guys are always in the city so that my son used to pick up these old bottles that they would throw out and he would cut them and you know we would polish them I said my god these are awesome so my uncle was Danny Aiello the actor before he passed away. That was your uncle? Yeah. Uncle Danny. And my cousin’s Michael K. He lives in Connecticut. Really? So what happened was my son made these great pink, I think they were Don P bottles, cut them. I said, Oh my God, these are awesome. I said, we should put candles in them.
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So we did, I did an American Cancer Society. I joined and I made an event to raise some money. Sponsor and raise some money, yeah. And I asked my uncle Danny if he would sing. So my son, we said, Oh God, what am I going to do for the tables? I said, what about those pink bottles? Let’s use them to make centerpieces. And we put flowers and candy and then we put, you know, candles in it.
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And one of the women from Whole Foods was at the event and she said, these things are amazing. You should do this as a business. Oh, that’s funny. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. And then we would get the bottles donated from restaurants so they wouldn’t go to the
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landfill and we would save the bottles. This is a girl who didn’t go to school, didn’t go to college, didn’t learn to write or read, who now hires everybody else because her ideas are so spectacular, and she sees it all. That’s the most amazing part of the story. I think we’re all born with a gift. And I ask people who come on this show, often, what’s your genius?
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What’s the thing you were born with that comes naturally to you that you just know is something you do great. I just, I don’t know, I just see things and I don’t think about it. I just do it. I don’t know what it is, I just jump in and do it. Like, there’s so many more things I want to do and people say, oh, you know, you’re older, you should be, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah,
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And you know, I create a lot of jobs, which is, you know, another bonus and give back. But I’m saving the planet, helping people with the health. My construction maintenance company, to me, is amazing because I truly, like most of my clients are commercial, but I truly give 100%. Like when they call me, they know that the job is going to get done. It’s not like I’m going to be able to do it.
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So have you got some advice for others , whatever you know that got you through about finances, emotional stuff whatever a little tip something little tips that got you through “I really never never stopped believing faith over everything like you know that I’m divorced the second time and it was on I
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was laying on the floor crying thinking what am I gonna do and I get a phone call to go on below deck for Bravo oh yeah so like things like that don’t happen, but if you really believe like I don’t know where my next dollars coming from sometimes But when you truly truly believe don’t doubt it one bit and it’s not just that you got to put the work into it Also, right, you know, but my faith has always been there like he He’s gave me so much and I look back for where I came from And all I want to do is help people know that there is tomorrow. Whatever you got to do today to get through it, like I
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had days you had to drag me off the floor, but I knew that tomorrow was going to be a better day. Tomorrow’s another day. And you don’t know what tomorrow’s going to bring. It’s funny, I’ve had similar experiences. No one to hold them, no one to fold them. Just some days you just got to just let it go because it’s just not happening. New day,
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new page. Just amazing. And my faith. And your faith, yeah, it’s great. Just never stop believing. Whatever your faith is, whoever is listening, we all have different things that we have been raised to believe and is our way of believing. Just don’t stop believing in whatever your way is. I think that’s really the message here.
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Don’t stop believing in yourself and believing that there’s an answer. There’s an answer. No, truly. Amazing. All right, so can you just give me a second on below deck? You went on a reality TV show?
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What the heck was that about? You flew to Italy, you’re neurotic, you can’t really fly. Right. So I just got three months into my divorce. Right. I get an email. You’re playing on the floor, you’re thinking your life, and here we go again, I’m down the bottom, and now you’re invited to be on a reality show in Italy. So I was featured in Power magazine of Woman of Tumor, and they called me up and said, hey, we’re going to be on Below Deck. I actually like that show a lot. I don’t know what Below Deck is but I cannot be doing it. I’m in the middle of a divorce.
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She said just go on the interview and we’re all on Zoom and you hear all these girls going I need this and I need this and I need that. I can’t be on this and I’m like this could you believe this? I don’t realize I’m on TV and I said thank you anyway but this is not for me. The next morning the radio station calls me up and says, the TV station calls me up and says, would you reconsider, we want to pick you to be one of the people on Below Deck. I said, oh my God, I can’t believe this and I needed a diversion from my divorce.
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Yeah, you needed a diversion. And I said, I’m going to go. It was a blast. It was so much fun and I couldn’t tell anybody for a year that I was on it. Yeah, you have that episode somewhere? I’d love to watch it.
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for I’m giving him a 10. Meanwhile, I’m against myself, right? But it was one of the funniest things I ever did do. And it was on many years ago, but people were calling me from all over the world going, Daddy!
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I go, I know! The best laugh I had was bringing my late mother and my late aunts, who they were my joy. My family is everything, to my house to sit on my couch to watch me on TV on a cooking show. When I was the last person in my family you’d have called for the cooking show.
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My mother was a great cook. Everybody could cook. But my mother was like, I don’t believe you’re cooking. So that was funny. I had to make dinner. You would have loved it. I made my super secret eggplant parmesan with hidden things inside of it. And I had stromboli going. And you had to pick out a game to have. And my whole theme was an Italian festival. I had a ring toss on my deck, 16 stories high in my building.
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People actually had to throw their rings, take off their rings and throw rings at champagne. I had some famous sponsor. I don’t know what I did. But anyway, I’ve got to find that video. We’ve got to sit down and have a drink one night and share our videos. That would be hysterical. All right, the reality is we’re here in real life now.
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And life is not really a reality show. It’s a real show of the reality that some things don’t go great all the time, some things are fantastic. What is going beautiful for you right now? Because you deserve all beautiful things. Tell me about your kids, four boys.
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Are they all working with you? I have four boys. Four boys. They’re all grown up now. All grown up. Four boys, three grandsons.
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Oh, yeah. Everybody, thank God, is doing well. I’m actually going to say that this is the first time in my life that I’ve been not in a relationship since I’m 16. Okay. And it is the best time of my life.
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I finally found out who I am. I’m in control of my own life. Nobody can tell me what to do and make decisions. I feel peaceful. I found my God that I call God, you know. And I just love it.
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I love that I can do what I do best, my businesses. I can go out if I want to go out. I don’t have to go out. Look at you, girlfriend. You don’t have to account to anybody. There is something nice about not accounting to anybody.
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It is. Everybody who’s ever been in a relationship where there was accounting knows that when you get a free time, you’re like, oh, I don’t have to tell anybody what I’m doing. I can just eat ice cream on the couch or just stay up all night or whatever. And yes, it’s nice to find somebody who matches your heart, but it’s also great to have really good space to figure out who you are first. I have to go to I am I think every breakup should be followed by a time of like, you know
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Self-imposed sort of like step back and just be and find out who you are You can’t hear who you are when you’re always trying to help everybody else and serve everybody else near a giver You’re always given to everybody else. So this was really a good time for me. Yeah, but also before you it said something I just want to back on that. Yeah, when I first got divorced I used to have vision boards. I love to do vision boards. I always wanted to have a vision board. So my vision board…
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But my ADHD, I would go to pieces by the board and never hang it up. You’ve got to help me out with that. I had Italy on there. Yeah. I want to be on TV. Oh, that’s fine.
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And I want to find self-love. Boom, boom, boom. And my ex-husband goofed about it and said to somebody, she has a vision board. She thinks she’s going to go to Italy. Watch her go, oh, and be on Times Square. Boom, I was on Times Square for Women Empowerment. I went to Italy and I was on TV.
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Oh, yeah, you really found it. And I found self-love. So, you know what? If you put it out there and you believe and you visualize it, it’ll come. Congratulations. I heard you’re just being honored again, being chosen as one of how many entrepreneurial great women or faces of Westchester County? What is that? Westchester Home Magazine. I was featured for Westchester Home and the Bedford New Canaan.
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There are a lot of great things coming up in the ranks, so don’t worry about that one. You’re going to find out the next one that we’re going to be doing. If somebody wants to get in touch with Marcy, and I imagine you might want to do some business with her because she delivers, her one company, Nationwide Maintenance, you can find it nationwidemaintenance.com. Her other companies, her offices are on North Bedford Road in Bedford Hills.
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Her construction company is there, but she’ll come out to the front which houses both the CBD company and the candle company herself, if she is there, and guide you through whatever you might want to have. What I loved about the personalization of the candles is that for any occasion, this is a beautiful gift because nobody doesn’t like a candle and there’s a couple of musical ones you have beautiful gift packages very
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reasonably priced I mean anybody can can get this to their special person and this Mother’s Day obviously people can call up and ship but on any occasion somebody calls your company or orders online you ship around the country around yeah okay great and we do you have a warehouse somewhere you do that we have free local delivery. Yeah, I’ll be looking to read and shipping Around the country cool, and we do corporate gifting and corporate gifting too as if you don’t do enough son of a gun Thanks, you cannot ships. Do you ship CBD through the mail? Yeah?
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You can do this can’t no Delta. No no marijuana can’t be no none of that stuff It’s amazing how the laws of everything are evolving and changing it’s hard to keep up. But is there anything I’m missing about telling the world about you, Marcy? We have a little more time in the show. Are you enjoying being here with me? I really am. I really am. It’s really, really a nice day and I love talking and I love that people could hear this and I could, if I could just help one person, I made it. Whether she can help you feel better or build a retaining wall. I mean,
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she’s happy and you’re going to be happy. Come on back. This is the Debbie Nigro show. We have just one more piece of the puzzle. We always do a last story of the day and then an inspirational send off on my Wellness Wednesday show, taking great time to spend with a quality time with Marcy Manfredonia because I really wanted you to hear how somebody else has, against all odds, through every possible mental and emotional challenge you can think of has gone forward in the journey to become successful especially during Mental Health Awareness Month. Great entrepreneur, great girl.
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I trust you. You trust me? See, trust is everything. It always comes down to trust. Nobody goes near nobody. All right, one more thing next on the Debbie Nigro Show. Come on. And now, back to the Debbie Nigro in studio with Marcy Manfredonia, whose companies are really worth knowing about. She’s an amazing, trustworthy entrepreneur, nationwide maintenance, 25 years after starting
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this company out of desperation. Does amazing things from interior services to exterior services. She’s winning every bid. She’s outbidding some of the classiest, I mean she’s a classy girl, but got some other little new thing you’re doing for restaurants you just said.
Oh we do rodent prevention. This is a really big problem. So rodent prevention we just started this year which we are succeeding in so many different ways
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because we’re helping the restaurants stay compliant without the mice and the rats coming in especially in the city. It’s a really big problem and you know nobody wants to talk about it but you know having a pest control come over and over, that’s not going to solve the problem. You seal it up, you have a whole new way of doing things. That’s one thing you do.
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I’m moving over to the candle company, which is, I can’t believe how many things you manage. One thing you do for a lot of people is when they have a very special occasion or a special bottle of wine or champagne, to keep the memory, you take the bottle, polish it down, make it a candle and as a memento for a wedding, for an anniversary, a celebration, that’s cool. Thank you. Very cool.
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And for anybody who is suffering with things that nothing is working for, you might want to just trip over to Marcy’s website on their CBD site and it’s live, not live, cbd, live natural dot com. Yes. Because there’s stuff that she knows about, she cured her fibromyalgia herself and that is people are going wow nothing ever worked before this she’s got some secret she knows you can just stop by and say hello to her
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she’s really worth meeting if you want to go say hello if she’s there at North Bedford Road in Bedford Hills and again I just um I don’t know what to do with you except just keep telling everybody about you just amazing all right did I leave anything out single mom raised four boys took care of everybody didn’t read didn’t write hired everybody just figured it out herself. Mamma mia, you’re gonna be just something going forward.
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The next phase of your life is to have a special name. I don’t know, people say, oh, I have another act in me. This is a big act you got coming. I have a big act coming. Me too, I got a big act, I just need an outfit. Oh my gosh, Bobby, it’s time for that inspirational send-off, okay?
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At the end of the show… Attention everyone, it’s the Daily Toast on the Debbie Nigro Show. I’m going to leave it to you. I know you said, what do you want me to say? Cheers. I always send people off with some inspirational thought, and you have too many things.
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Why don’t we just do your quote, which says, never be afraid to try new things or be afraid to fail, because with faith, hard work, and dedication, you can accomplish anything. Quoting Marcy Manfredonia. Thank you. It was great having you. Did you have fun? You too. I had fun. Thank you so much.
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All right, so she’ll be hearing more about her in Nationwide Maintenance Services and all her companies. She’s a new sponsor of the Debbie Nigro Show. I couldn’t be prouder. And lots of people are contacting me to be on the show lately, so you know how to get me, right? My website, DebbieNigro.com. You’ll see a way to sign up for my free newsletter, which people get a kick out of because I tell a lot of personal stuff besides the stuff you may have missed during the week. That’s at debbienigro.com. I’m on Instagram at the real Debbie Nigro. I’m going to pick up speed over there. Posting, I’ve been a little lax. Facebook,
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The Debbie Nigro Show. I’m over on LinkedIn. I get a lot of action from LinkedIn. So you want to connect with me there, I’d be honored. Okay. And we’re here on WGCH 1490 in the New York, Connecticut area. We are live with the digital live stream WGCH.com. You can hear it all over the country and actually the globe. Podcasts of my interviews go up on all the major podcast platforms and of course out to social media land.
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I’ll see you guys next time. Be well. 🎵
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