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She is sure, she is true, she is straw is straw,
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she is true, is true, she is praise, pray is
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she is you.
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Hello, everyone, welcome to today's Word of Mom Radio. Here
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on the Word of Mom Media Network. I'm your host,
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Dori Di Carlo, and you know we are here week
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after week, show after show, breaking those myths that morepreneurs
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and business women, especially those of us building our businesses
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from home, that we're just dabbling in between bake sales
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and getting our nails done. We're not. We are smart,
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we are savvy, and we are sharing the wisdom of
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women in business and in life. And I'm excited about
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bringing today's guest into our business spotlight. Jennifer Gligrich dedicates
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her time to reviving businesses, empowering leaders, and helping business
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owners reclaim their vision while unlocking their full potential, and
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serving in the government cabinet for the world's first digital nation.
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She's a certified coach, consultant, entrepreneur, one of the Super
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Clinic Project podcast hosts, and works with clinic owners across
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the US and Canada as a growth manager. I can't
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wait to hear about your journey, So Jennifer welcome to
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Word of Mom Radio.
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I am so excited to be here, and I always
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love talking to women entrepreneurs and of course mompreneurs because
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I am one, and so you're my peeps. So I'm
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glad to be here.
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I'm right there with you. So I would love for
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you to take us on your journey that has led
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you to what you are doing to revive businesses and
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helping owners reclaim their vision.
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Well, I started out, well, I'll take you all the
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way back back to the beginning, right. So my mother
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was an incredible entrepreneur. So she was a single mom
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of five kids as one of the only I have
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a very huge family. In fact, you'd probably think I
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had a silver spoon in my mouth. We have a
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reunion every single Christmas and it was our ninetieth this
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last year, and like two hundred people showed up. That
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is like a big We have a big family unit.
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So divorce didn't happen. So it was a big deal
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for her to get a divorce and she needed to.
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It was not a good relationship. My dad was not
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good at that time. They were not good with each other,
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but he was he went through his bad guy phase.
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I would say, the father I knew when I grew
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up had sobered up, met the love of his life,
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who he was with for thirty one years, and was
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the kindest person ever. My brothers and sisters, who are
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much older than me, have a very different story because
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he was a different person. Anyway. I grew up with
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my mom. She had a staffing firm. I went to
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work at a very young age, like I'm thinking third grade.
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I was the one who put the ladies in front
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of the electric typewriter because you know, and say, we're
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going to do your typing tests, and they would put
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the cigarette in their mouth and they'd light it be
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hive and then they'd not at me, and I'd just
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be fascinated, waiting for that ash to fall in It
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never did. They had it timed perfectly, and I would
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give them their spelling tests, and I'd also listen, you know,
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the power of work and how it transforms people, you know,
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people that really wanted a job, you know. And I
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knew how to interview, which so I got these skills,
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and then things happened. Addiction came into my little household.
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My brothers and sisters were all married by the time
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I was five, and so it was just me and
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my mom, and she had gotten really really sick.
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Right.
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She's recovered now, but at that time wasn't. It was
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really bad, really really bad.
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And I ended up.
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Homeless, went to college homeless as a homeless kid, and
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that was well as horrible as you can imagine it
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being being all by myself and shelter. Sometimes I didn't
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have a shelter. And I made it through that. And
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the only reason I made it through is because I
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had those early year skills of knowing how to interview,
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knowing how to be a worker and how to go
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and work, and also too valuing entrepreneurship, and so I
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basically just worked and I got as much value as
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I could until I hit a ceiling. And for women,
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it happens pretty quickly, you know. Well it used to,
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let me put it to you, it used to happen
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really quick. And I was really good at figuring that
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out before I'd move on. I would never stay anywhere
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where I knew that there was no place else for
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me to go, right, And so I did that until
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I landed in Roles, where I was helping transform companies,
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and I was very good from being homeless right of blending,
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blending in because when you're a young girl, the best
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thing you can do is not being seen when you
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don't have protection and you don't want people to notice you.
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I mean. And there were times I would be on
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campus literally having slept in a bush because I had
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no other place to sleep, and if somebody said, like,
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what are you doing? Oh, it was a wild party
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last night, and just you know, don't buy by the aha,
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and then I'm going to my class, right And I
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was good at that, and so that became good as
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a consultant in a crisis intervention person, which is what
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I was. I did crisis intervention for businesses where I
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physically in service based businesses and clinical practices. So I've
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done everything from you know, just working in the service
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based brick and mortar and then digital scaling after that
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and being able to sit and work at all those
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little jobs that I had learned along the way and
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seeing where was the problem. And in every single case,
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it wasn't the widgets they sold or services. It was
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mostly services, but it wasn't their marketing, it wasn't their sales,
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it wasn't the scapegoat they've decided was the scapegoat ruining everything.
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It was always with the boss. It was an hr issue.
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They were managing the people, poorly, paying them the wrong way,
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just putting them in the wrong position. And there was always,
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especially the smaller businesses, a family component that made it
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a little bit toxic. And so just started having really
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great success getting non performing business assets back on track.
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A lot of times business brokers would reach out to
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me or investors, you know, I had vcs or angel
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investors saying we have a non performing business asset, please
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come in and let's do a turnaround. And so I
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did that, and now I'm mostly specialized just with certain
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service based business owners and then clinics, and that's what
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I do. And as far as as Gardia goes, well,
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that's a whole other story and I'll go into that
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if you'll hear about it.
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I was going to ask you about it because I
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was looking at your site.
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Yeah please, Okay, So for as Gardia, it's pretty interesting.
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I've always you know, I grew up in I live
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in Galveston, Texas. Now I grew up in this area.
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My sister actually worked with astronauts, you know, she has
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she's a scuba certified, so she'd be in that big
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in the Johnson Space Center, the big pool that everyone sees,
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and she would be down there, you know, helping them
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get ready for waitlessness there and then in Florida. My
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dad worked as a pipefitter at NASA at one point,
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so just growing up in that atmosphere space has always
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been interesting to me. And I had found this group
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I think I had seen someone making fun of them
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on a late night TV show. It was probably Samantha
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Bee really making fun of this group of people called
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this Guardians that were creating a digital nation, and she
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was like, I mean, she was really making fun of them,
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And I thought, but they seem pretty cool, Like maybe
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this is a lark, you know, kind of like, well, Larfa,
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you know what a space world will be. But I'm
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a real person that believes that one person can make
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a difference and that hope is not off the table,
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that the world is not really so corrupt and terrible.
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I mean, it's bad, but not so bad that one
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person or a group of people can't make a difference.
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So I thought, let me learn about it. So I
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went online and they have all these different groups and
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they said, well, we're looking for people in Parliament, and
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I was like, oh, that would be cool, you know,
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we'll make laws. And I started getting into it and
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I made a video and I campaigned to be on
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Parliament and then I was voted in by almost a
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million people and I entered in with about one hundred
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and fifty parliamentarians and the first meeting it was on zoom.
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It was alembic Opic, who is the speaker, head of
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Parliament and all these other people. And he's a British parliamentarian.
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I mean he's famous. His parents are world famous mathematicians.
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He dated a Spice girl, he was a coach on
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Big Bro Brother. I mean like we're talking really well
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known people. And then other people came up and they're
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like when I won the Nobel Prize when I was
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in space, because there were cosmonaut and astronauts, and then
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there am I, an entrepreneur business coach. And I immediately went,
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oh crap, this is real, this is real. And then
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I thought I can be of service because they don't
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have one like me. So I had this imposter syndrome
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for just a little bit and then I went, but
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I know how to do things. They don't have an intranet.
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They don't have a way to share things. So I
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built one from scratch, just using Google Sites to where
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any parliamentarian around the world could go in and see
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what laws were already be put in place. Because the
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idea is we need to have a human born in space.
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We need to fix that because of radiation the Corallonis effect.
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You know, if you tilt your head all of a sudden,
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you're spinning infinity, which a lot of people don't know.
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It's a big problem in space, and how are we
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going to do that? But how are we going to
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protect Earth in the meantime, and how are we going
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to protect space from militarization. The last thing you want
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is the Coca Cola wars, and that's what would happen, right,
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I mean, we know how it can go really really bad,
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so we can work on it now. And if we
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can do it multination then it won't. Then then that
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has a lot of power, right, And so I started
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just working and it was noticed, and so the actual government,
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the cabinet noticed me, and I was invited to be
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a minister of one of the twelve Ministers of Cabinet.
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So now I'm the Minister of equity and resources. And
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I meet with the incredible Lena de Wynn, who's our
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uh she's actually our prime minister. She headed up all
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of Europe's UNICEF for quite some time, and she's done
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a children's author. Her husband is a cosmonaut. She's very
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involved in space agencies and and things like that. And
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everyone there is pretty pretty luminary. They're really impressive. And
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then there's me championing my Verican American I guess ideals
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of we can do it, we can change the world,
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and we can make this for everyone, not just a
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couple of people. So that's what I do.
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Why is this important? Why is this something that could
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bring hope to millions of people?
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Well, I work, like in my daily work, I work
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with ethical entrepreneurship, and I think it can change the world.
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But I think for space it is very important. Like
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right now there are some major things happening with Space
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Force in the space race. So es Gardia was interesting.
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We're an unofficial un observer, but we're also invited to
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a lot of these things with NASA and with different
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countries as they grow. And it's the lawyers that are
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going to win space and what's actually happening is pretty
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interesting but also pretty scary. Like a lot of people
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don't realize China set up a ten story rocket, but
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it was ten stories and then they lost complete control
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of it. They didn't abide by any of the rules,
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any of the noticing to any other. They were just
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doing what they're going to do. And it came down,
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and the crash site was this huge belt which included
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New York City and all these cities around the world,
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and it could have wiped out millions of people. It didn't,
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thank god, it hit an ocean. But it was just luck.
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And that happened like a year and a half ago.
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So if we don't if we don't work to say, hey,
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you know what, there's a lot of us on this planet,
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maybe you know, we should care about that, and care
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about the space junk and care about all that other
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stuff and put things forward for that that is for everyone,
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then it's just going to become for a very select few.
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So even America. They want it for Americans, right, which great,
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I'm an American, But what if you're somebody else. You
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don't want, you know, American space junk to wipe out
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an entire country, you know, on the continent of Africa
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right now, that would be pretty bad. But if you
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don't think about those things, and you don't have legislation
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and there's people working on it right now for everything,
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then if you don't get your foot in the door,
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now it's going to be a deal. It's going to
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be a deal and you're not going to be protected.
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And so we've been able to change some things and