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Jordan Parisse-Ferrarini Highlight
'Being real’ is helping your community, not hurting your community.
About Jordan
- I was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- We started a handyman company out of the trunk of a car with a bucket full of tools from the pawn shop—we passed out flyers and were able to pay the bills by providing small repair services.
- I saw my mom and brothers work so hard at the business that I took to it as well, seeing it was an opportunity and a way to get up and out.
- I invested in myself and my education in the construction trade.
- We eventually grew the business into renovations and started doing small-scale kitchen and bathrooms as well as basement restoration projects.
- What started out as a small handyman business from the trunk of a car grew into a nationally awarded brand in the luxury design build industry.
- As I became more successful, I realized that there wasn’t anyone else who looked like me succeeding in the industry, so I decided to do something about it.
- I started a nonprofit organization, Trades for a Difference, in order to give as many people from my community access to the same types of opportunities.
