Izzy Battres

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We're Out of Time · Rock Bottom to HGTV: Izzy Battres' Journey of Faith and Redemption · 13 May 2025 podcast

I don't think I'm famous. HGTV is a great channel. Like, when I think of fame, I think of Kelsey's old lady. Taylor Swift? Yeah. The way that you're going to get ahead is you work. You don't complain. You don't do any of that. You just work. And if you work hard enough, then you're going to be able to build something.

Everybody's shocked right now. But it's a redemption story. And that's why I'm here. Because there's a lot of people out there that find themselves in that place and they think they're never going to get out. There's no hope. And I'm just here to tell you guys that there is hope. And there was men with my background that could relate to me. And they started telling me, this is your new walk now.

You're not going to go back to the neighborhood. You're not going to go back to the streets. We're going to start this walk together. I see you. You matter. You have purpose. I think that's everybody's desire is to be seen.

All right. Raised by my mom and dad. Migrated, immigrated from Mexico, Durango, Mexico, and Oaxaca, Mexico, to the city of Santa Ana, Orange County, California, back in the 60s. They met in the 60s. And their life, you know, just like anybody's life, trying to seek a better place, was pretty rough. You know, murder. In Mexico. In Mexico.

You got to come over here, support the family, all that story that you hear. Now, people are just trying to find refuge, right? Right. So they found refuge here in Santa Ana, California. They met and... I grew up poor. I wouldn't say dirt poor. My wife grew up dirt poor. But my parents, they made it work, got married. They had kids and they raised three boys, one girl.

And it was my life was something of you got easy because you were born here. Right. You know, you don't know what it is to struggle. You don't know what it is to suffer. And the way that you're going to get ahead is you work. You don't complain. You don't do any of that. You just work. And if you work hard enough, then you're going to be able to build something.

So I had the example on my mom's side as she worked. My dad was a hustler. My dad hustled. And, you know, when you think of the word hustler in this day and age, you know, it could be described as many things, right? Right. But my dad, you know, at seven years old was, you know, just like what you see, the little kids selling cheeklets and all that. He was selling newspapers.

He was selling everything. And so that hustle never left them. That entrepreneurship never left them. So he dabbled. In a lot of different, I'm going to say markets. Your dad was drug dealing? Your dad was drug dealing?

He can't say it. It hasn't been proven 100%, but he dabbled in a lot of different areas. Right. And he hustled. He worked hard. Nine to five jobs. He did construction. He worked for the labor's union. He was in the labor's union. He poured concrete. He did all of that. We built our home, you know, ADUs before they were called ADUs. That's how you learned construction. Oh yeah, we did.

I remember my mother calling somebody to come fix the house. Most disrespectful thing you could do to a Mexican father is call a white contractor over to fix the house. You call a white contractor? My mom called up like, hey, I know somebody. And then once my dad seen the bid, he's like, no, we're not doing this. So we fixed up the whole house. We roofed it, I think, three times.

And the time we were there, we converted the garage before they were called ADUs, right? Yeah. We built in a dish and we did all of that. That's how we learned construction.

Yeah. That's awesome. And I hated every minute working with my dad. Because, you know, they're impatient. And there, they train you to, you know, you're just, they talk to you the way men talk to you.

Yeah, I think as a society, we start realizing how you see like the greatest generation that was before us and you see our grandparents, right? And you see how they built this country and, you know, 18, 19 going to war fighting and then coming back and building things. Um, and then that's slowly making it, making it easier for their kids.

I K I don't want them to go through that, what they went through and then us now doing it to our kids. And so you think of as a nation, as a, as a, um, As a country, we're young, 200 plus years. And you see these empires that they've been around for generations, like generations, hundreds, hundreds of years. And you kind of see it like what you just said right now, or your boy, the comedian.

Jimmy. Yeah. How things become a little bit more diluted and it becomes a little bit more softer. I don't like using the word soft, but that's the word that keeps getting thrown at me.

And are they going to be resilient? I'm sure they're resilient in their own way. So that's one of the balances in running a business. Yeah. Especially with my daughter is having that balance and my son having that balance of You know, once you use the towel, right? And once you use the rod, right? having that balance. Cause the ways.

Is it heavy? Well, the towel after you're on a fight, you know, you're in a fight in the boxing ring, you do the towel, you, you know, take care of them, you throw it, you know, take care of them, stuff like that, you know? So it's a balance that I don't think I've, I've, I've, you know, mastered, you know, so especially running a family business.

Okay. My pops wasn't in the picture lot. He was there, but not there. Well, he was working every day. He was working every day. Sometimes, you know, his work would take them out of the household for a few months and Right. You know, but when he came home, like a good Mexican wife, she'd have the food ready, the tortillas ready.

Dad has seen him in weeks sometimes and he'd come home and he was dad and you respect your dad. That's the way you were raised. That's awesome.

well in the very beginning it was great right because you're just i mean you're having fun

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