Megan Di Martino is a New York girl deep in the heart of Texas! A lifelong creator of beauty with a serving, mentoring spirit. She has started, scaled, sustained and sold 2 seven figure businesses in the Skin Care-Spa Industry. Her purpose is to build teams that in turn build businesses. In January 2020, her book went to number one on Amazon. In April 2020, her award-winning skin care line, Novita Spa Clinicals, was nominated in the Product Innovation Category, for the Austin Women's Way Awards. Megan is now continuing to speak, write, coach and consult with businesses and individuals to help them reach their dreams, goals and desires. "Novita...New Birth...New Life...Always Something New...That's My Promise."
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episode 65: Unique Leaders: Rebecca Contreras
Rebecca was born in El Paso Texas. She grew up in a border town. There were a lot of challenges in the area. She was one of 4 children. Her siblings all had different fathers. Her mother struggled with addiction, with drugs and alcohol. She had her identity with men and drugs. One day her mother left her and her siblings. Her younger sister was 6 months at the time. They were all living in their apartment for 3 days alone before their grandmother came to get them.Her mother did come to knowJesus and became clean when Rebecca was 9. She took the kids back and moved to Austin, TX. Even though her mother was clean she still had mental trauma she was still working through. As Rebecca got older she began to get into drugs, alcohol and gangs. She became a product of her environment. She became pregnant at 17. By the age of 19 she started to change her life and worked to change the path she was following.She started to go to a small local church where she met her husband. Through this time she met a lot of encouraging people and she believes this helped her to get her life together. They got married and she started her state job which led to her to be working for the Governor, George W. Bush, who soon became the president. When. He was nominated her and her family moved to DC and worked with the president. After the presidential terms they moved back to Texas where they stared their non-profit.