A Life Changing Week...

Presenting their new home

It has been a week I’ll never ever forget!

Just back from 4 days in Baja Mexico where a group of us impact-driven entrepreneurs built a house in under 72 hours for a family who had been living in a mold-infested trailer with their 6-year old son, Irvin.  

Squalor is an adequate word.   We were shown images.

How hard someone works does not equate to fair pay and opportunity.  

The Ramirez-Lopez family are an amazing threesome.  Hard working.   Appreciative.   Dedicated.   Family-first values.  

We got connected to them through a friend’s organization – the Impact Circle.   And partnered with another organization called Baja Bound, who regularly connects groups with families and provides the blueprint and all the supplies (and a few builders!) to guide us in building the home.

As you might guess, this experience is life-altering.    You can’t watch a reel or read this blog and receive even close to the full impact – I don’t have the words to do it justice.  

One thing I can say is that the impact RECEIVED rivals the impact given to the family.  It’s more like the family gave US a gift, as much as we them.

A beautifully poignant moment was when the keys were handed over that final afternoon to the family (to mom Joanna), and because they had never lived in a home with a lockable door, there was a moment of figuring out how the key works.  It was just one of those moments that you could never recreate.

The next moment they are stepping into their new home – the true inside reveal!   New home.  New walls.   New beds.   New dinner table.   New clothes.   Groceries.  Their first floor that isn't dirt. 

A house as full as our hearts.

Their show of gratitude was more than repayment.  

This experience has changed me – I know this.   And I can’t even say I’ve had time to process the whole experience, even a fraction.   Or to say how I’m going to go about things differently – I just know that I will be.

I’ve already made a few changes in how I go about my day.   Less worry.   More gratitude.  Less hustle.  More belief.  Less performance.   More service.  

Those sounds like good lessons to me.

Thank you Ramirez-Lopez family.   My heart is forever bonded with yours.