Marie D.
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Birth month? March
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Marriage anniversary date? December 19th
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What is your family heritage? My mother is Filipino and my father is Dominican
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What is your spouse’s family heritage? Portuguese and German, his grandfather was adopted so partly unknown.
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How many children? 2 boys, 8 & 10
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Do you have pets? Lola - Kitty, Jameson - Kitty, Bella, Presa Canario Dog
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What is your occupation(s)? My husband outfits vehicles to turn them into Police & First Responder vehicles. I work part-time for a Boutique and fulfill online orders as well as populate items on their website for purchase.
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In the morning coffee, tea, or smoothie? Coffee
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In the evening wine, beer or spirit? A nice cocktail.
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What is your favorite phase when you get upset? Just breathe. I usually try to calm myself down and pray when I get upset. Unfortunately, God hears from me most at those moments!
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What makes you feel overwhelmed? Having a lot to do and feeling like it all falls on me. I'm a bad delegator.
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What gives you strength? God first and foremost. Knowing that I have a loving husband and children who will always have my back.
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Who inspires you most? What qualities do they possess that inspire you? There are too many people to list, but basically, anyone who has a strong resiliency inspires me the most. Whatever hard, impossible situation they are in, they seem to have the best attitude and that gets them through anything.
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What do people mostly ask your help with? Usually practical help, or help in picking out things!
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Complete this sentence with anything other than your job title: I am strong.
16. You want to write a book on? If I could write a book, I would probably like to write a fictional book about someone's life.
​17. If you had a warning label, what would yours say? Warning: Gets hangry if not fed.
18. What is your favorite movie of all time? Back To The Future. Fills myself with good childhood memories. It's a feel-good flick.
19. If you had to teach a class, what would you teach? A technical computer course.
20. If you could master one musical instrument, what would it be? The guitar
21. What is your guilty pleasure? Tilamook ice cream.
22. What fictional superpower would you like to have and why? Flying - because it must feel like the most freeing feeling ever.
23. What's your superpower, or what's your spirit animal? My spirit animal is a cat. I'm cautious. It takes me a bit to warm up to someone but when I do, I love them forever. Look out for these claws!
24. What would your autobiography be called? The Life of Marie Antoinette, the un-famous one.
25. What do you do for fun/relaxation? Go to the beach with my family, drink wine and have deep conversations with my girlfriends.
26. If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go? One of those huts on the water!
27. What's your favorite holiday? I don't celebrate holidays but I'd choose Xmas/New Year because of the stretch of days off!
28. If you could choose to do anything for a day, what would it be? Have one of those adventure trips where you get in the car and taste different foods at each stop.
29. If you could bring one fictional character to life, whom would it be and why? Tony Stark, because frankly who wouldn't benefit from having Iron Man in the world? Also because my 8 year old would love it.
30. If you could change your age forever, what age would you choose and why? 27 but with everything I know now! 27 was my fav age...had lots of good memories that year.
31. What did your parents teach you that you appreciate now? My mom taught me that when you stay at someone's house, you clean up after yourself as if you were never there, maybe even cleaner than when you came and that stuck with me.
32. If your name was on a product, what would that product be? An all-natural skin/body care line.
33. If money wasn’t an issue, what would you do with your time? I feel like everyone would say travel, but I would make sure I spend most of my time with my family.
34. What would you say is your proudest accomplishment to date? This may sound cliché but being a mother and working hard at it daily to give them the parent I never had is my biggest accomplishment.
35. What do you geek out about? Gadgets of any kind!
36. What or who has been your greatest influence in business, career and/or personal life and why? My best friend Flora, she's been the best sister I would ever have and has really helped me to grow to be the person I am today. Would definitely not be the same person without her in my life. She taught me a lot about knowing my worth and how to bounce back from the depths of despair!
37. What turns you on creatively, spiritually, or emotionally? My best friend Flora, she's been the best sister I would ever have and has really helped me to grow to be the person I am today. Would definitely not be the same person without her in my life. She taught me a lot about knowing my worth and how to bounce back from the depths of despair
38. What’s the best advice you have received in business, career, and/or personal life that you wish to pass on to our readers? There are no bad decisions. Every decision you make, you learn from it. So there are no bad decisions. Just take the growth and knowledge from every turn and keep going
39. What are some challenges, difficulties, and hardships you’ve overcome or are working to overcome? How can what you've learned to help others? Self-doubt is a huge thing for me. I am learning to trust myself more. And taking aloud and jotting things down certainly helps me really establish what I'm feeling. Because sometimes we repress emotions or don't really know how to express them. But with each shaky step, we gain more confidence. So I would tell you to take the first step and keep going. The more you do, the more you will grow in trusting your moves.
40. What advice would you give yourself 3 years ago? 3 years from now? It will happen. (3 years ago). Focus on your blessings no matter what life may throw at you (3 years from now)
41. What’s something you keep telling yourself you’ll do when you retire, or when you “have the time”? Get organized! Ha!
42. What’s something about yourself or your life that might surprise others to learn? I have a degree in Multimedia Design - I don't do any type of designing these days!
43. What’s your theme song? Why? I'm going to steal the Night Rider theme song because when I was a kid I used to love it so much!
44. What’s a quote that inspires you and why? Be the change you want to see. Another corny quote but with the way the world is, you rarely get treated how you want to be treated. So be the change!
45. What is one thing you really appreciate about your spouse? I'm a bad delegator, but when I ask him to do something to help, he does it without question. Really helpful to have.
46. What tv show(s) or movie(s) do you and your spouse enjoy watching together? We like to watch old Black & White TV, Bewitched, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Twilight Zone. Also current action movies.
47. What chores does your spouse help you with around the house you really appreciate? Taking out the trash and folding laundry!
48. How often would you like to go out on a date night? If I had it my way at least once a week!
49. If you were ruler of your own country what would be the first law you would introduce? 3 day weekends!
50. Is there anything else you’d like to share with our readers? Don't dwell on the past, always be forward-thinking. Use your inner voice to speak to yourself lovingly, as a friend. Pray constantly. Celebrate the small things. Don't make mountains out of molehills. Always show love.
Do those things and you should go to bed feeling good about yourself every night!
