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The Mother's Day That Made Olga de la Cruz Walk Away From Corporate for Good

46 min · 18. touko 2026
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EPISODE SUMMARY What do you do when you're three years into a demanding international travel role, working on Mother's Day with no response from your boss, and your husband has been running a painting company that could really use your marketing brain? You quit without a plan, pick up a laser measuring tool, and figure it out as you go. Sabrina sits down with Olga de la Cruz, co-owner of HQ Painting in Salt Lake City, for a warm, candid conversation about building a business alongside your spouse, learning an industry from scratch, and the quiet power of relationships over everything else. Olga came from marketing, fund development, and international consulting. She married a painter with nearly 30 years of experience, stepped into estimating with zero technical knowledge, and built the sales and business development arm of a thriving residential and commercial painting company. She's also raising rental properties on the side and building something in Mexico. Olga is just getting started — and she knows it.

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