From Financial Advisory to Home Safety: Gloria's Unique Journey

What if one career pivot could redefine your entire work-life balance?

Join us for a captivating conversation with Gloria Cordoves, the managing partner of Precise Home Inspection Services. Gloria takes us through her fascinating journey, starting from her early days in the banking sector during the volatile 80s and 90s to her transition into financial advisory and finally, to the successful establishment of her own home inspection business. With over two decades of experience, Gloria's story is a testament to resilience and adaptability, showcasing her unwavering dedication to her clients and her family.

Gloria Cordoves

• Email: gloria@precisehomeinspection.net
• Website: http://www.precisehomeinspection.net/
• Telephone: +1 (305) 805-1990
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/precise-home-inspection-services/

We also explore some critical and timely issues, such as the impact of 9/11 on financial portfolios and the challenging decisions Gloria made to prioritize her family's well-being. Adding an unexpected twist, we delve into the tragic incidents on film sets involving firearms, discussing the Alec Baldwin manslaughter trial and the crucial need for stringent safety protocols in the industry.

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This episode is a blend of professional insights, personal triumphs, and thought-provoking discussions on accountability and safety, offering listeners a rich and multifaceted experience.

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Chapters

• 0:03 Business Professionals Discuss Growth and Support
• 5:59 Entrepreneurial Journey Through Adversity
• 13:36 Film Set Safety Protocols and Accountability

Transcript

Voiceover: 0:03

Tales from the wild, stories from the heart. A journey into the mind and soul of fired up business professionals, where they share their vision for the future and hear from a different non-profit organisation every month as they create awareness of their goals and their needs. Dive into a world of untamed passion. As we join our host, Shireen Botha, for this month's episode of Friends from Wild Places.

Shireen Botha: 0:36

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Tanya Scotece: 1:53

I am ready for the weekend. I am all about R&R these days, so just taking some respite and relaxing, recharging, refreshing that's all I'm doing, so looking forward to it I love that.

Shireen Botha: 2:04

I love that we also have doing so, looking forward to it. I love that. I love that we also have some great news for you listeners that Tanya and I are coming up with some extra content, some bonus content for you guys. So if you go to friends from wild places. buzzsprout. com that's friends from wild places. buzzsprout. com you can go and subscribe for only five dollars a month and you can get some really cool, juicy, deep dive content that we don't post anywhere else. So we're excited about that, right, Tanya? We like something new. So yes, yes, yes, we have some really really good topics to talk about that we've really wanted to talk about for a long time. But because it's really raw and real, we might want to put a paywall around it so that people know that this is not for children, it's for adults and it's real life situations that especially us women deal with. You know, and we're here to support each other as business owners and entrepreneurs. We're also here to support each other with the real issues that a lot of us have to come face to face with in our everyday lives. So we are super excited to introduce Gloria Cordoves.

Shireen Botha: 3:26

She's a real estate inspector and owner of Precise Home Inspection Services. Gloria is managing partner of Precise Home Inspection Services and has been providing top-notch inspections for residential and commercial properties for over 21 years. As a successful woman-owned business, precise has built a reputation for excellence and trustworthiness in the industry. Her dedicated team of inspectors are committed to ensuring top quality inspections of properties, and their extensive experience is a testament to their unwavering dedication to their clients. Outside of work, gloria cherishes her quality time with family. You often find her making any excuse to gather with loved ones and friends, sipping on some fine wine and cooking while listening to some nice music, enjoying and creating lasting memories. The beach boating and spending time is the majestic blue, rich mountains has a hold, a special place in her heart, providing the perfect escapes to rejuvenate her spirit and reconnect. So welcome welcome, gloria. We are so happy to have you.

Gloria Cordoves: 4:46

Thank you so much for having me, ladies. I greatly appreciate it and looking forward to this.

Tanya Scotece: 4:50

For sure. Yes, I'm super excited, gloria. I have so many questions. It's an area that I know very, very little about and also just getting to know you personally and your story and yeah, so why don't we start there, gloria? Why don't you just share with us and our listeners about you know who? Who is Gloria Cordova's nice?

Gloria Cordoves: 5:11

Oh, thank you once again, ladies, for having me. This is kind of a worldwide podcast. You have going that I've been enjoying for quite some time. So for me it's a privilege once again to to be here and to be able to share my story with you, beautiful ladies, again to be here and to be able to share my story with you, you ladies. I am a native from South Florida. I'm born in Miami Florida. I've been married for a few years now with my loved one. I have three children, adult children and two grandchildren.

Gloria Cordoves: 5:46

My background initially, before I commenced into the business that we've been managing for the last 21 years, was in financial services. I was a banker by trade. My family, my mother, my brother were all bankers back in the day, so it was something that I just naturally fell into and I very much enjoyed. But as things started changing here in South Florida and you know we here in South Florida we had particular, we always have a particular autonomous way of doing business right, we're the gateway to the Americas and back in the you know 90s, late 80s, there was a lot of you know craziness here going on with the you know Scarface sort of scenes and drug scenes and what have you? So banking got a little complicated and I didn't want to be a part of. You know. It was very difficult to know who my customers were, where they were coming from, et cetera. So I went ahead and started doing financial advisory as a broker and I left banking and after about seven or eight years, when 9-11 came around back in 2001, you know, I had my clients, portfolios that were quite affected. Everybody's lives were affected by the tragedy to begin with, and it was something that really bothered me a lot because I had really, you know, tried to advise my clients in a non selfish way, you know, customized to their real needs for their future, for the retirement, for their estate planning, and I was very frustrated when I saw that their portfolios had almost disappeared to more than 50%. So that's when and I had been sick and tired of I traveled quite a bit to Latin America and the Caribbean for work. At that time my clients were high net worth individuals in those areas and in the interim I had children that I had to take care of and I would always have to travel and not be around for all those milestones or first time they walked or they said a word, etc. And I got pregnant simultaneously during that time with my son, who is exactly as old as Precise Home Inspection Services, the company 21 years old and I told my husband listen, I don't want to do this anymore. I really want to finally do what we've always thought of doing since we were very young. We got married and opened up our own business. So that's basically how, kind of, in a nutshell, precise came to be.

Gloria Cordoves: 7:56

It was turn of the century, in 2001, very difficult time after 9-11. One very difficult time after 9-11. And a child right. So I mean it was a really cool reason to kind of transition and do a life change. That's what we did.

Gloria Cordoves: 8:12

We were fortunate enough to open up the company.

Gloria Cordoves: 8:15

The reason why we opened up this company, in particular for real estate inspections, as you mentioned earlier, tanya was because we had been successfully investing on a personal level in real estate and, you know, buying and flipping homes, and we were good at it.

Gloria Cordoves: 8:30

My husband had a vision for that as well and for fixing things up and what have you. So we kind of gravitated towards the inspection business because it wasn't something that was that much on the radar back then in 2003, when we opened up the company and found our own business, became a woman-owned business when my eldest daughter became a partner and she's been on board with us for eight years, ali, and we're very proud of how we have evolved. We're going into second generation now, so super excited about the future and I'm super excited about seeing you know a small business you know have being able to survive all the difficult you know economic, you know great recessions and all the difficulties that that they have to confront and still be standing, like Elton John says you know, welcome on the show, and we're going to get into the nitty gritties soon to get to know more about you and the quote of the day, which is normally on the next step.

Shireen Botha: 9:37

But before we do, let's get a little bit more relaxed, have a little bit of an icebreaker. I don't know, gloria I'm sure you might know this already about myself and Tanya but we are true crime fans, and so we love to follow all the true crime channels, and so we're going to just touch on one of the trials that's been ongoing and it's actually recently closed, and that's the the rust, the rust movie shooting, which is quite crazy actually too, if you know what actually happened, and I'll get into that now. But yeah, alec Baldwin manslaughter trial has just closed and it was dismissed. So Alec is obviously very happy about that. But the basic details, and I won't get into too much of this. It was a typical recording day on the Rust movie set and somehow there ended up being a live ammunition loaded in one of the guns that they were using on the set, and this particular gun was passed over to Alec and he was practicing his lines. And whatever the case may be that you do before you three, two, one action, and I don't know how it went off. He claims that he never pulled the trigger. It went off and it went straight through the cinematologist and hit the producer. Unfortunately, the cinematologist has passed away. I think it was either the producer or the director. He made it. He's fine.

Shireen Botha: 11:32

So two people were ultimately well, one person was arrested. That was the armourer, miss Reed, and then obviously, alec was up for manslaughter as well. Both of them were, and so the two cases ran consecutively. The first case was miss reed with her manslaughter case, and basically the the two sides were she, they tried to make her, you know, look like she was reckless and and granted, it should never have happened and we'll get into that but they made it out to be that she was reckless, she didn't check the guns, which is true she'd, she obviously didn't check it properly, um, and that she was actually taking drugs on the sets and what, what, what, what, what and so on.

Shireen Botha: 12:30

Obviously, the opposite side was, you know, trying to to say that she had been asking for more people on deck to assist and no one was listening to her. So there was two sides of the argument, as there always is, and then, so that's, I think, is still actually still underway. I've still got to hear about what happens to Miss Reed, but it was dismissed for Alec. But regardless, let's just chat about it, because I'm sure this is not the only time something like this has ever happened on a set right, it isn't what are your what are your thoughts, Gloria.

Gloria Cordoves: 13:10

It isn't. First of all, I think that women, as women, we have a tendency. My husband always says that he would always freak out because I would always watch all the crime documentaries and anything to do with crime. And he was saying you're setting me up for disappearing one day. And I'm like, no, I think it's women. Women, we love that. I don't know, it's just like part of our wiring in our head, so to speak, in our brain. So I'm also a big fan of that, those type of of topics.

Gloria Cordoves: 13:36

But anyway, back to this. The rust, yeah, that tragic, right, super tragic. You know there's always three sides to a story. You know the, the prosecutor, defense and the reality, what really happened, right, which we most of the time, sometimes we would never really know what really happened. Yes, you mentioned going back. It's happened before. Back in 1993, actually, a famous martial artist and actor, bruce Lee's son, brandon Lee, was killed by a dummy bullet as well on set. The movie's name is the Crow. It's kind of a has a following and you know the actor that you know that did shoot the, the gun off, had no clue that there was anything on it, and back then that was many years ago obviously, back then like nothing really happened to them, meaning the sense brand Brandon died. He was 28 years old. So Bruce Lee died young. His son, you know, was an actor and died. He's also a martial artist, died young as well. So there definitely has happened, you know, before.

Gloria Cordoves: 14:39

Unfortunately, I don't know the extent of how much the investigation went back then. But regarding Rust, it's very sad. You know, the family has lost a mom, a wife, a daughter, and it happened so tragically, it was just suddenly and they were right there. There was no way that they could save her. It was something that was instant. What's going to happen?

Gloria Cordoves: 15:00

Alec got off, obviously, you know, off the manslaughter. He's a producer, I believe, of the Rust movie. So he was held responsible. You know you're responsible if you're the CEO of any company, right. So, and on top of the fact that he did have, you know he did supposedly something happened, whether he pulled the trigger or not, but somebody did something. You know, somehow, some way it got out.

Gloria Cordoves: 15:24

Regarding Ms Reed's situation, I, you know, I feel bad and a young person, you know, in a business that is a very special, specialized, right, and she had the opportunity to be working on on these type of sets with these type of big names in the industry, perhaps her, her crew, her team, you know, didn't do the right thing. Due diligence, obviously somebody messed up, but usually when you have big fish and little fish, little fish always end up, you know, getting, you know, harder, harder penalties and harder punishment. And that's about all I can say at this point. From what I've seen, um, I don't, I personally find it difficult to not believe that's the trigger wasn't pulled, but that's, you know, I'm not the jury right right, right Tanya what do you think?

Tanya Scotece: 16:15

so this, you know it's funny. As much as I like watching these, you know kind of investigative, you know crime stories, this one I, you know, I I did all my best to stay focused on it. For some reason it just it was hard to get into. It was just like it did not captivate me and I don't know like I had to watch it, like re-watch it like two and three times, which is kind of out of character for me. So I finally got to the part where he was, you know they actually found him guilty and he was prosecuted. My question is so what has happened that he's been kind of released it? What they? Was it an appeal? Like I don't even understand, like I couldn't even follow what happened?

Shireen Botha: 16:56

as far as I know, alec was the.

Gloria Cordoves: 16:58

His case for mansfield was dismissed yeah, so the family, the family is appealing now, obviously the uh the cinematographer I think her name was.

Gloria Cordoves: 17:07

You know, it's funny, you, you look kind of you're, you know shireen, you're, you know you're built and you're, you know color, and everything else reminds me a little bit of her and and looking at you. But anyway, I understand that the family is going after they're going to appeal it, obviously like anybody else can. But I think that alec, like what you saw recently, that was the actual trial and and it was dismissed. Now, why was dismissed? Honestly, I don't know the intricacies of it. I I don't know. I have no idea if it was something that you know was circum and circumstantial evidence. I have no idea what happened, something you know, something technical that many times happens, I don't know.

Shireen Botha: 17:49

I wish it's a tough one.

Shireen Botha: 17:50

It's a tough one because and I tell you, for me we're living in 2020 you know we should be having like strict standard processes that every gun needs to go through, and that's what they were saying in the trial.

Shireen Botha: 18:05

You know, there are actually things that tests that have to be done that weren't done when the gun eventually got to Alex hands, so, like there's a lot of things that would just slip through the cracks and for that, I think whoever should be held responsible for simply for not sticking to the procedures that are put in place for safety reasons and should be abided by because of that, anything above that, like you know the power thing. You know, if, if you, he's got big power, big money I don't know if that's coming to play a little bit here with the reason why it was dismissed, but I'm glad the family, and the family needs to come to peace with this at the end of the day, and you know, if they want to appeal it, then they need to do what they need to do, you know so just so I'm clear, because I was watching it, I mean pretty intently so the he was actually not found guilty, like right out the gate.

Tanya Scotece: 19:06

Is that correct? Because initially it was kind of headed that he was going to be found and then it just like all of a sudden it was dismissed. So is that what happened? And now they're appealing it? The?

Gloria Cordoves: 19:17

family we recently just saw was his trial and in the end it was dismissed. And, yeah, he was. It looked like he was going to be found with something, right, because it was one of those where it was leading up to it, and then all of a sudden which I guess behind the scenes, you know something came up that they were able to tag on and be able to dismiss it, so that that I think, like you said, tanya, it hasn't been too clear, right, or to describe well to the public per se, but it's a little frustrating, right. So you know, back to like, we're talking about businesses. You know, a movie set is a business, right? I mean, there's a budget and everything, a budget, everything else. So you know, protocols have to be followed. Obviously, they weren't followed. But then you start thinking, you know, as a business owner, right, I'm thinking well, did they cut corners? You know, were they paying very little for this particular part? There's so many components to doing a movie that we can't even imagine. That's why we have so many of those. Credits are like gazillions of people, because even the smallest minute detail has to be taken into account. So it's, it's a big production, right?

Gloria Cordoves: 20:20

Um, but something happened and the only thing I can, you know that I'm hoping and praying for the sake of the families uh, you know that have been affected, like I mentioned many, many moons ago, this other, you know, the lee family that something is done once and for all, like we're always talking about this right, that protocols are really, you know, taken into account and that this particular part of that something is done once and for all, like we're always talking about this right, that protocols are really, you know, taken into account and that this particular part of any moving forward movie or they're acting, you know, with quote, unquote blanks, that is, the protocol is much stricter and that they put more money into making sure that they have more experienced people or the proper crew, et cetera. So I'm sure that this is going to be negative. Things that happen to others are always something positive that comes out of it, the silver lining. So I'm hoping that moving forward, that's at least something that's going to happen.

Shireen Botha: 21:07

A hundred percent, and I think what attracted me to the whole thing is I'm from the aviation industry. Safety is a very big thing on board the aircraft and we go through extensive training to avoid any sort of accident or incident on board, what to do if it happens, and then afterwards. And so it is hectic for us, you know. And granted, we're not talking about on board a plane with hundreds of people, we're talking about a movie set, so it's a different circumstance. But either way, you're dealing with safety. Safety is a big concern when you're going to be dealing with different weapons and dangerous weapons and stunts that could possibly hurt people. You know you've got to have these protocols in place, like you say, gloria. So anyway, it was, uh, it's interesting and I'll continue watching. You know, not the one of the best I've followed, I've got to agree with Tanya, not one of the best, but nevertheless I'm interested to see what, what happens yes, well, certainly that's.

Gloria Cordoves: 22:14

that's the delicate matter and that's going to go on for a while. I'm sure we're going to hear more about it.

Tanya Scotece: 22:20

Right, of course. So, gloria, I have some. When you were sharing, you know, just as far as you know, your little bit about yourself. So I don't know too many native Floridians. So you are a native, miami born girl. Huh, like, that's amazing no-transcript.

Gloria Cordoves: 23:04

Very short stint up there, but most of my life obviously has been here and my business has been here and my life and my family and my friends. So it's uh, it's pretty cool. Miami has evolved into a ginormous beautiful city.

Tanya Scotece: 23:18

Tune in next week for part two from Friends from Wild Places.

Voiceover: 23:23

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