Damian Maldonado

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan · From Homeless Shelter to Building a Billion-Dollar Mortgage Company | Damian Maldonado | E146 · 19 Feb 2026 podcast

But as a secretary, most she's made is in the low 30,000s back in the day.

And I don't know how you support four boys at the time by yourself.

We lived in Puerto Rico, ended up going to Texas, then Florida for a short stint.

Finally ended up in Colorado, which I still have my main business there.

She ended up at one point losing her job at the FBI.

We lived with the family at some point for a very little short time.

And eventually, you know, she ran out of money.

So we ended up being homeless, ended up having to live in a shelter for a few months.

At this point, I'm 10.

Well, we're in a homeless shelter.

This was interesting to me because we came from Puerto Rico, ended up going to Colorado, didn't have a lot of money, but we ended up going to this area called Aurora, which is not by any means like a rich area.

But in my eyes, like, wow, we're in a rich neighborhoods now.

This is crazy.

All these homes with two car garages.

It was really eye-opening, but I didn't know.

It's really middle class, but for my eyes, it was like, this is a rich area.

So eventually, after she lost her job, this shelter is called Samaritan's Shelter in downtown Denver.

It's still there.

I've gone to visit it several times since then, and I've done some volunteer things there.

But I thought it was normal because I was 10.

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