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Kathleen Martinez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
417 total appearances

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Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

Because most of them are like moms and students and parents. And so I wanted to stay in that pandemic friendly kind of workplace because I really liked working from home because I had kids. And I was like, no one has to go to an office with immigration. All of it's like virtual anyway. Right. Yeah.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

So I have satellite offices where I work and I meet clients, but all of my staff, they work from home and it's like, it's very mom friendly. We have a lot of moms like, and a lot of people who are in school or they can't afford like, you know, to drive the office every day. It's really inconvenient. So we have little satellite pink offices everywhere. But all of them actually work from home.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

So I have satellite offices where I work and I meet clients, but all of my staff, they work from home and it's like, it's very mom friendly. We have a lot of moms like, and a lot of people who are in school or they can't afford like, you know, to drive the office every day. It's really inconvenient. So we have little satellite pink offices everywhere. But all of them actually work from home.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

So I have satellite offices where I work and I meet clients, but all of my staff, they work from home and it's like, it's very mom friendly. We have a lot of moms like, and a lot of people who are in school or they can't afford like, you know, to drive the office every day. It's really inconvenient. So we have little satellite pink offices everywhere. But all of them actually work from home.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

And you just had this idea to do it that way or it just kind of played out that way? It kind of played out that way. And we had thought about, like, do we want to do a big in-person office? But, like, my best employees work all over the country.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

And you just had this idea to do it that way or it just kind of played out that way? It kind of played out that way. And we had thought about, like, do we want to do a big in-person office? But, like, my best employees work all over the country.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

And you just had this idea to do it that way or it just kind of played out that way? It kind of played out that way. And we had thought about, like, do we want to do a big in-person office? But, like, my best employees work all over the country.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

Yeah. I mean, it's huge. Cause like, you know, with, with my husband, he's sort of the opposite of how he was raised. He was like, you know, he was born in Mexico and his family was very conservative and a little bit like machista, right? Like traditional, like his mom is that way. But he's like the opposite. He is like, he was the one that told me to make pink my brand.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

Yeah. I mean, it's huge. Cause like, you know, with, with my husband, he's sort of the opposite of how he was raised. He was like, you know, he was born in Mexico and his family was very conservative and a little bit like machista, right? Like traditional, like his mom is that way. But he's like the opposite. He is like, he was the one that told me to make pink my brand.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

Yeah. I mean, it's huge. Cause like, you know, with, with my husband, he's sort of the opposite of how he was raised. He was like, you know, he was born in Mexico and his family was very conservative and a little bit like machista, right? Like traditional, like his mom is that way. But he's like the opposite. He is like, he was the one that told me to make pink my brand.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

He was, cause we're designing, like I was doing my own like DIY website with like wigs. Yeah. And I was using like Google photos that I shouldn't be using of like an American flag. It was horrible. And he was like, you know what? Why don't you just make it all pink? And I was like, that's why I got fired. I can't do that.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

He was, cause we're designing, like I was doing my own like DIY website with like wigs. Yeah. And I was using like Google photos that I shouldn't be using of like an American flag. It was horrible. And he was like, you know what? Why don't you just make it all pink? And I was like, that's why I got fired. I can't do that.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

He was, cause we're designing, like I was doing my own like DIY website with like wigs. Yeah. And I was using like Google photos that I shouldn't be using of like an American flag. It was horrible. And he was like, you know what? Why don't you just make it all pink? And I was like, that's why I got fired. I can't do that.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

And he was like, he's like, do you think your clients care if your website's pink? And I was like, No, probably not. Only the men that I worked for gave a shit about me wearing pink, right? And I think it's because they were bad at their job and I was better and they didn't like that I didn't look like them and I was better at their job.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

And he was like, he's like, do you think your clients care if your website's pink? And I was like, No, probably not. Only the men that I worked for gave a shit about me wearing pink, right? And I think it's because they were bad at their job and I was better and they didn't like that I didn't look like them and I was better at their job.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

And he was like, he's like, do you think your clients care if your website's pink? And I was like, No, probably not. Only the men that I worked for gave a shit about me wearing pink, right? And I think it's because they were bad at their job and I was better and they didn't like that I didn't look like them and I was better at their job.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

Yeah, I'm a woman. Like they just couldn't stand it. Is your husband also in law? No, he's an engineer.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

Yeah, I'm a woman. Like they just couldn't stand it. Is your husband also in law? No, he's an engineer.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

Yeah, I'm a woman. Like they just couldn't stand it. Is your husband also in law? No, he's an engineer.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

He wears pink. He bought a pink suit. Like he's so like, he does not care. Like he was like, and then I was, I was, I was like, how do I, I want to do my first billboard. And he was like, you're going to do bright pink. And I was like in Dallas, which is very conservative. Right. Cause you know, all the billboards in Dallas are like Texas hammer or like these PI attorneys. Camo.