Faith in Action—J&V Landscaping, August 3, 2026

Tune into Faith in Action at 9 a.m., Monday, August 3 on Channel 88.1 FM, Siouxland Catholic Radio. Host Joanne Fox talks with J&V Landscaping.

This program replays at 7 p.m. Saturday, August 8.

Faith in Action is brought to you by Mary's Choice, a Sioux City Pregnancy Resource Center. Previous Faith in Action programs can be found at siouxlandcatholicradio.com, on YouTube, and on several other podcasting platforms. Programming is subject to change.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

So listeners of Fantastic Radio Channel D point KFHC Podcast is State and K-O-I-A-Storm Light. Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to listen to this program. It's Faith in Action. And maybe it's 9 p.m. on Mondays. Or maybe it's 7 p.m. on a Saturday. Or maybe you went right to our website at CastricRadio.com, clicked on programs, clicked on local programs, and clicked on Faith in Action, and you're listening at your conveniences. Now our skill is also on Spotify and on a number of other podcasting platforms. That's all due to the Generosity of Mary's choice. It's City Pregnancy Resource Center, which is the exclusive underwriter for this child. So listeners I know I'm always curious. And things sometimes jump out at me and I say to myself, you know what, I think this might be a good radial program. So if you're asking about a new state of women's magazine, which honestly I have written in the past for, but I have since retired from writing it. So I always pick it up and I look at it. And then her magazine, which I have also written for, but again, I've retired and stepped away from the cover for two individuals who I kind of adult. And one of them is Ruby Sebastian, and the other one is her dad, Jose Sebastian. And bold person that I am, I emailed them and I said, I don't mean to be offensive, but at any chance you guys become Catholic. And they are. And I read their stories and they're so compelling. I've done other stories with individuals who talk about how they bring their faith into the workplace for their business or whatever. And I just thought this was a great story to talk about how you incorporate your faith into the workplace. So on the phone with me are uh Ruby and her dad, Jose. And uh Ruby, I'm gonna start with you first. And uh first off, uh thank you so much for taking your time out of your busy schedule because these two individuals run a business in Two City. So Ruby, I know you you're busy and you graciously and your dad said, yeah, we'll talk to you, Joanne. And I am so grateful. So thank you so much for taking time out of your day to chat with me.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Of of course, Joanne, we we appreciate you reaching out. And I know uh Jose, my dad, he he's the one who uh saw the email come through and he he I knew he like lit up because he he didn't take any offense, you know, when you you asked, and I actually have him here with me available now as well.

SPEAKER_00 2:52

Okay, excellent. Well, if Jose is right there, because Ruby, you do have a compelling story, but I gotta say, Jose, you have a maybe a little bit of a higher compelling story. So, Jose, again, thank you so much. I know you're running a business and you are so gracious to to chat with me. But Jose, why don't you tell the listeners a little bit about yourself, where you grew up and uh and your faith journey a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

Wow. First of all, thank you, Joan, for giving us the opportunity to uh do this. It's first time, and uh I'm a little nervous, I'll be honest. But uh at the same time excited. I'm really excited, so I appreciate that. So uh again, my name is Jose Sebastian, hi Fenere Juan. Sebastian is putting my dad, and Juan is from my mom. So uh I'm from Guatemala. My hometown is called uh Santa Eulalia. It's uh I think it's like 35 to 50,000 uh population. So uh it's it's it's kind of it's the town is growing, but uh I was born and raised uh for I mean out there for what till 14 years old, I think. So we just used to uh work the land with my uh parents, my siblings, and my grandparents. They help us out a lot. So we used to um we did uh a lot of harvesting of of uh corns, beans, and we helped them out and a little bit of coffee too. So it was a uh beautiful journey.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

And sounds like a good life, but uh now you're you're here in in Sioux City, Iowa. So what happened to that you said to yourself, I think I need to make a change in my life.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

When I first got to you yeah, it was just it was I don't even know if I could say it was a dream because I never being a young boy when I got here in the US, it was just okay, let's go live in there. I mean, so my my my parents brought me here and I didn't even know what to expect. I went to school for a few years, but um until that car accident, then I realized I had to go to work and uh worked my butt off every day, and I said, Okay, there's gotta be something better than this.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

So uh Oh Jose, you have to tell the listeners about the car accident.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

That was my my brother, my brother's car. My oldest brother's car. He's like as you know, being a teenager, like everybody I mean, I I see my daughter now, she wants to drive my car. I said, No way, you're not driving my car. So which yeah, my my my brother oldest brother, he made a mistake to let hand me the key his keys, and I took off to school one day, and uh I was working at the evenings out in the middle of Iowa.

SPEAKER_03 6:05

Sure.

SPEAKER_02 6:06

And these this these uh uh people they used to pick me up uh at work, I mean at the house after school, so one day I don't know what happened, but I got behind at school, so I rushed out. Once I got done with everything at school, I rushed out. That was a parking lot, but I I mean when it was in high school back then. I mean uh so I rushed out and next I didn't really pay attention to the traffic. Next thing I next thing I know, I was in the middle of a big accident, so good thing nobody got hurt, but uh my brother got really mad and uh he's like you need to pay off this car. I I didn't really want to pay the car, but my dad made me, so I said, Okay. That's how I quit school and went to work. Since then I guess I had to f learn the high work hard way, you know.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

Mm-hmm. Yeah. You did. And so uh you know, it's kind of an interesting um path that you took, you know, from Guatemala, you know, to doing a lot in what I would say the fields. And now you're here and yes, we do have uh, you know, fields here. But you know, uh how was it that you got uh kind of got into, and I should tell the listeners you have a landscaping business, which I'm aware of. So how did that happen? Well, I guess kind of tell us a little bit about the work you did before you decided to start your own business.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

So my last job, a couple of my la jobs that I kind of got me into the the what's it called uh the landscaping and mowing, because uh I I used to work with this fertilizing company, and I thought that was kind of a job, a place where I wanted to be. Like I I like to be outside, outdoor, like in the environment. I like the I mean being free. And that's what I did with this company, and then uh I want to start mowing, which I started doing that like 25 years ago, if not more. So I did that for 10 years maybe on the side, and I said, Man, that's not that's that's not life. I had two jobs, then I was I wanted to make it a little bit extra money, but I guess I just really ran out of time and not be with my family during the like the evenings or weekends, so but 15 years ago, my wife ended up without a job, so that got us more into it. So we just went on knocking on doors and stuff, so we just would I saw that that there was still people making money off of this job, so that got me into this a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 8:48

So we decided to like I said, my wife and I we just decided to knock on doors, and uh slowly people opened up their doors and their life to us, so yeah, it was a you talk about a leap of faith, you know, that you just uh started with just knocking on the doors. And uh I thought it was kind of interesting in the article. Um it said that uh the first mower I bought came from a yard sale. I paid $35. And then it burned up. And then you had to buy three John Deere mowers. And I you know, a lot of people don't understand what goes into starting a business like that. And it really is. I imagine many days you just uh ask God for some direction of some sort.

SPEAKER_02 9:38

A lot, a lot, because without him, I wouldn't, I mean, I wouldn't be where I'm at right now. So I pretty much like I all mentioned in that magazine, everything that I have, I owe it to him, to the support of my family, my kids, and and it was a fear, there's there was a lot of fear in my back, but I had to do it because I needed to show up for my family, for my kids. And uh slowly it started really becoming a dream to uh to just kind of work hard to har hard at it and which which it became it became reality, you know. It's it's really working out, things are falling in place now. So I like I mentioned again, it's it's thanks to uh our uh Lord's uh whatever I mean she has him. I mean I owe everything to him, so that's the truth, too.

SPEAKER_00 10:30

So before I get Ruby to kind of talk about her um journey here uh, you know, into this business, um Jose, why don't you tell the listeners a little bit about your family? Because that's kind of an interesting story as well, because you have kind of a blended family.

SPEAKER_02 10:49

Well, that's that's a big one right there, yeah. So we can't came from a dysfunctional, what do you call her?

SPEAKER_00 10:59

Yeah, we'll we'll go with that.

SPEAKER_02 11:01

Yeah, so I it I don't like that name, but I guess let's put it that way, because uh my wife uh came into the marriage with uh I mean my present wife because uh uh came she came into a marriage with uh three kids and I came into ours with with three of my own because we we both we had a previous uh uh life and uh automatically we when we core and I we got together, we got six kids, and then uh so we lost triplets fifty eighteen years ago pretty much, and uh after all we were with with three more kids, so we have a really good chunk of kids though. Yes, not at home, but we I mean when we gather, we just cannot have we don't have enough space where to see them, so just put it that way.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

All right, we will put it that way. And again, I thought it was so interesting that you know uh she uh your present wife was a widow and she comes with the three kids, and then you have the three kids, and and then it just seems to be getting more and more kids, and it reminded me of the old television show, The Brady Bunch, uh, where you know the families are together and you've got a lot of children now. So if you wouldn't mind just passing that phone over to Ruby, um because this is how we're handling this listeners, is we're gonna they're passing the phone back and forth because Ruby kind of tell me what it was like growing up with um well it's it's somewhat unusual circumstances in this day and age, maybe not unique, but tell the listeners a little bit about you growing up.

SPEAKER_01 12:38

Yeah, uh so I I'm I'm Ruby Sebastian Benitez, and um like my dad said, he gets Juan from his mom, I get Benitez from my mom, and Sebastian's from my dad. Um, but yeah, growing up, um there's not a lot I ever can recall, but from what I do remember, I know that my parents, you know, they split up at a young age. And so um I was little, like maybe seven or eight, and just wanted to live with both of my parents, you know, so that was difficult, and not being able to have both of them at home and not really understand what was going on. Like I could I could see what was going on, but it just didn't make sense a whole lot. So then it was um it was hard not being able to see my p my dad when I wanted to, because you know, let's say my mom was like, Oh, you're not gonna go this weekend, or oh, your dad's not coming this weekend. So it it did hurt sometimes. Um, and so then, you know, things weren't just going very well with my mom at home either, and we would write letters to my dad, and he, you know, finally one day he was like, Okay, but you know, this is this is enough. And so he he went to court with my mom, and next thing you know, my dad has custody of me and my two siblings, and uh we went to go live with him and my stepmom and my three stepsisters, and it was it was a little hard to adjust because you know, I'm at this point, I'm a teenager now, and I wanted to just stay with my mom with what I already felt like I knew, and so it was it was a hard adjustment on now. I have to share my room, now I have to shower every day because that's something my stepmom implemented on us and clean every day, and honestly, I'm really grateful for that because you know, I had I not learned any of those habits, I I would probably be a hoarder. And so I I am very grateful to my stepmom and my dad as well for um being able to keep up with me because I I I feel like I was kind of the black shape almost, you know, wanting to rebel out because I wasn't able to have both of my parents. And um little did I know God was giving me more parents, and so that's what I'm very grateful at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

Oh, very much so. And you know what? Your your story and Jose, your story, not that unique, honestly. So many of us, you know, have either loved ones or acquaintances or friends who are in these kinds of blended families with a lot of challenges. And so I am so grateful, you know, for you guys sharing, you know, some of these uh challenges in your lives. And listeners, if you're just tuning in now, of course, I'm grateful that you are tuning in. And so with Faith and Action, I'm your host, Joanne Fox. And on the phone with me are two very delightful people, Joseph Sebastian uh and his daughter, Ruby. Uh Sebastian Benite, and they're talking about uh kind of their journey uh into starting their their well, as I would say starting his business, JB landscaping, and then Ruby becoming a part of it. And I found out about them uh well, I kind of knew of them, but because I used to write for Two Land Woman magazine and for Tur magazine, and I pick it up all the time, and there they both were on their front cover, and I thought I gotta reach out to them. And one of the things that uh you talked about in the in your interview, Ruby, is um you know, something that almost all of us did, and that was sneak out of the house and uh hook up with friends and uh drink a little bit because that was kind of exciting to and kind of naughty, you know, to to you know, have an adult beverage when you were underage. But tell the listeners a little bit about that. I found that part of the article so compelling, it really touched my heart.

SPEAKER_01 17:07

Yeah, so I I feel like I started drinking at a young age, um, mostly just because for I guess if you want to say attention, you know. Um I remember like this Christmas party one time at my grandma's house. Um I was sneaking a few drinks, and then next thing you know, it was it came to be obvious that I was drunk and my parents or my dad and my brother had it carry me out of the car into our house. And I want to say I was maybe like 14, 15 around that age. So um it was just me drinking, and then I would, you know, either cry or laugh or have a good time. It it would go either one way or the other, a really good time or a really bad time. And um, you know, even when I would sneak out and go to parties with friends, it was either a really good time or a really bad time, and that pattern it it would just let up until I was 22, but I would just drink. Um I would drink on the weekends with friends, go to parties, and um sometimes I would black out and not know what happened, other times I I would remember certain details. And so it just wasn't great to hear stories from friends. Oh, you did this and this happened, you went to bed, and and it it was just not it was a good time then, but now recalling it, it it is a kid who was unsure of what to do with a lot of emotions that I I didn't, you know, know how to handle.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

Yeah, and again, I think listeners are nodding, going, Oh yeah, either they personally went through something like that, or they had a loved one or a child that went through the same thing. And so I don't want to leave Jose out of this whole conversation because uh in again the article um for Sur magazine what uh what kind of touched me, it's uh you said in uh November of 2009, my dad passed away and you had gotten a truck and he passed away and you had said you would pay for it. Why don't you and of course he passed away and you couldn't. Why don't you tell the listeners a little bit about that story?

SPEAKER_02 19:45

Well, so uh man I remember this this uh particular day I was traveling a lot with I I had this cargo van and he just died on me on the middle of the road pretty much like a lot every even every time that I drive drive it. So I really got tired of it and there was one day that happened to me when while my dad my dad was around and he's like, Man, you should get yourself a new car or something. So I said uh if I had the money, like why not? So which it's like you know, have this small truck that I just bought, so why don't you just go ahead and use it for the weekend or for a couple of days and then just make sure you bring it back? He said say no more. You know, I'll just I went and pick it up and uh used it yeah the whole week and he's like hey I need my truck back. I I call you know what, yeah, I will give it to you. Just let me finish this job, let me finish up this job. So that's how I did, and next thing he went out, I think a month went by and he's like, Hey, I need my truck. So I said, Okay, let's do this. Why don't you just can I just buy the truck from you? I'll make payment. And he's like, No, I just got the truck, I have not even used it. So he's like, I I just I begged, so which which he's like, okay, I'll sell it to you. So which which he did, and uh, you know, next thing we know, he just there was the accident. Uh he I mean accident by me, just he he uh passed away while we've been on vacation now in uh back home in Guatemala. So and uh I kept the truck and uh you know I paid it off of course. But I mean uh we talk my my siblings and I pretty much every time we talk about it, it's like hey, why don't you just sell it to us? We'll give you the money, uh just give it pri I mean with pro price, and I said, No way. I mean, this will stay with me forever. So I mean that's that's the story behind this. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

And it's a real interesting story because I think uh again, a lot of us and listeners as well. Have have done something like this. You know, have have used our folks to help us um grow, you know, in our work or in our business. And then the next thing, you know, for whatever reason they're taken away from us. And maybe we didn't get the chance to thank them or pay them back or whatever. And it kind of touches our heart in that way. So Ruby gave this incredible testimony about, you know, um how alcohol kind of affects her life and you know if she was heading down a certain path. But I was saying maybe you can talk about what you were seeing as all this was happening and how does a dad deal with this? Because again, most of our listeners and including myself, we have seen this with our children, our loved ones. And how did you handle this?

SPEAKER_02 22:53

Man, that's a tough one. I was just uh it was hard to see your your kid uh I mean going through the struggles because uh looking at Ruby now, man, it was just yeah, she has accomplished a lot, but while she was going through that, I mean it was anger and then sadness and uh I mean guilt. Because uh I remember when like we used to like gather with family and stuff. If we don't pay attention to our kids, maybe they will sneak one drink here and there, and next thing you know they're drunk, like Ruby mentioned, and I think that's what happened and uh the next thing, the hardest part uh I I just I found out that that she was became she keep became a c alcoholic already, and I said, Man, that guilt on me. I said, Man, I how how did it happen? Or I think you just pour yourself into a lot of like work, or you have yourself a lot of stuff going on, and let's think you the last thing you pay attention to is your kids, and I remember one day she was uh since she used to be my neighbor, just right across from us. So there was one day she came walking towards me on a on a on a daily, I mean like work day, and uh she was just shaking. She was just shaking and I just went and hugged her. But at the same time I just felt like man, I just want to kick your butt here, but I guess there's no an alcohol I could do so. But uh I mean uh she I mean it was a it was a tough one, but I guess we got I mean uh we we relied on God and we just we we we prayed out to him and uh slowly he she she returned she came back I mean she got more and more like what like she grew up and uh we got into this she she got healed. So uh my wife and I we prayed the rosary pretty much on a daily basis. And I've been uh doing that for maybe these last three years. I mean every once in a while I miss it, but I mean just try to get up at maybe around 4 a.m., 4 30 ish, and I do my devotions first and after I do whatever, like even the work out a little bit, but I guess my kids got me into a little bit for more praying for I mean, for every day, like grocery or the mass. We do we go to uh the mass every day as much as possible, you know.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

God, that is just wonderful. And I'm sure Ruby is sitting there listening to you saying this. So I I gotta um ask her if she thought dad had suddenly turned into some sort of Jesus freak. So hand the phone over to her so I can ask her that.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

Yeah, so it's interesting because um, you know, growing up, my dad he would always bring up um God or Jesus into the conversation. And um, I was a kid and or a teen that just didn't really know um what to believe in just yet. And I I knew I I grew up Catholic, my my parents baptized me, I did my first communion and everything. And um, you know, once I was like old enough to decide, you know, either if I do my confirmation or not, and so I I decided not to. And then my dad, you know, every every chance he was able to get, he would just bring up God, you know, why don't you pray to him? You know, why you know do do something? And um, and so I I just would kind of let it let it in one year and and not the other. And um, and and then it wasn't because I didn't believe, like I I knew God's there, I knew someone higher than me was always there. Um I just wasn't sure w what my dad was trying to tell me or what he he wanted me to do, and um and honestly now I'm just very grateful he's never stopped, you know, pushing God on me because now I have finally made the choice to go back and do my confirmation, and so I'm hoping to have it done by in October of this year. And so it's it's just nice to have that support of someone who's there because he told me he would tell me, Oh, your grandpa you you know, he used to bring up God on me and God has done wonders for my life, and I see I see where my dad's at, and and I agree, and I can just you know, I'm very proud of him, and um I know he says because of God and and and me too, like my life where it is now, it it is because of God, and he's just giving me the strength to be where I'm at now, and I'm just very, very, very blessed.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

Yeah, I would agree with all that, and um listeners know as well as I do that a lot of times our faith journeys aren't straightforward. Like you said, I was baptized, I got my first communion, and then for almost a lot of us we get uh confirmed right away, but not everybody. Sometimes you know we step away and we evaluate what's going on in our lives, which is what uh I'm hearing that you did. Um, Ruby, how is it that you came into the business? Uh maybe you could tell the listeners a little bit about that because your dad did a really good job explaining how he got J and V landscaping going, but how is it that you stepped into the business?

SPEAKER_01 28:50

Yeah, so that was actually um so I I used to, you know, live with with my mom when I was younger, and then my dad got custody at 14, and when I turned 18, he actually told me I was gonna start paying rent. And I love it. So I told him I told him, No, you're not gonna charge me rent. And so that's actually when I left the house at 18 and went back to live with my mom because she she was okay with me living with her and not paying any rent. And I think I was there with her maybe for like six months, maybe almost a year. Um, but it just got to be too too hard on me. Like my I love my mom more than anything, but she sometimes can be a little um passive aggressive, and so it got hard to be there. And at 18, um, I decided, you know, okay, I'm not gonna live with my mom, I'm not gonna live with my dad, and I went to go with live with my sister, and she's five years older than me, and so she had just started her own family, and so she was kind enough to let me let me live with her and and her husband and my niece, and I didn't have a job, and my dad, he didn't have a driver either. And so at this time I was I was 18, about to turn 19, and and so my dad, he's like, You can you can come drive for me. I need someone who's gonna drive with the trailer and you know, go out with the guys and mow mow the yards. And so I was like, okay, you know, I I can I can try it out. And you know, they had to teach me how to drive with the trailer, how to drive the mowers, and um I I I was outside for maybe three years and it was really great. Um at one point my dad did let me go because my drinking got pretty bad and I just wasn't a reliable person anymore. Um, so I was let go one year, and that year was was tough. I still drank and um lied about what I was doing and where I was getting money, and so it was just it was not a a good year for me. And then finally one day, um I needed money again, and so my dad um was kind enough to, you know, trust me, let me in again, and um then I think I was maybe outside for six months, and then he went to a conference in Colorado, and after he came back, he he's like, You're getting a promotion, or not not in those words, but that's what it felt like. He's like, You're going inside, I need help in this, I just learned this, this, and that, and I think you'll be, you know, the best fit for this. And so I I've been inside working for four years now, and it's it's been a great journey to be able to work alongside my dad and be able to help and get our team growing.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

Yeah, I would agree that that is just perfect. And one of the things um I it said in the article is you have a tattoo. And uh well, of course, my my children have tattoos too, so I uh I just acknowledge that I listeners do not have a tattoo, but I get where people are at with it. But uh Ruby, you've got to tell the listeners about the tattoo and what it is.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

Yeah, so the tattoo is actually um Philippians 4 13, and that is I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength. And um I actually got that in in Rome when I went to Italy with with my parents, and um we went on a pilgrimage, and it was just I don't know, I I I feel like I have this strength that is it surprises me. Like working at a at a golf course as a bartender or at the brewery as a bartender and I'm serving these drinks and I no longer drink, it just it really like it amazes me every day of how much strength I have not to actually drink a drink. And um I just had to get that tattoo. I I was in Italy and um I told my parents I was like, hey, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna let you go for a little bit, I'm gonna go do this. And like like you said earlier too, my dad he acknowledges it, doesn't like it, but you know, he's he's gotten with it and um yeah, so yeah, because it is it is something that just a reminder is kind of how I feel it, like a little trinket of this is what helps me push and keep going.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

So yeah, and of course that is gonna segue right into what I want to ask your dad, which is my attitude as well when my boys got their tattoos, is um you know you could have gotten a tattoo of anything, right, Ruby, and you got this tattoo. So Jose, why don't you tell the listeners what your initial reaction was to the tattoo?

SPEAKER_02 34:11

Uh I I guess my my uh problem here is because I my dad always taught us when we were young, I don't want to see any earrings or either I mean any earrings or pursing anything, uh including tattoos. So I grew up with that, and the next thing I know I'm seeing rule with this. I said, man. Come on. So I I I felt like what did I fail? I mean what what did I do wrong or what's going on? So not just her because I mean most I guess most of my older kids do they have uh tattoos except the three ones at home. But I mean I guess I'm not okay with it. I mean, don't ask me why. But I guess it's just my uh roots from my parents. I guess that's pretty much I can say about it. But I guess we all have different different ideas about it, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:08

And I know it you you might not have a tattoo, but I know you have a bracelet. And maybe you should tell the listeners about your bracelet.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

Man, so like Ruby brought it up, we there was one day I was struggling a lot. I was struggling a lot at uh with money, and uh thank God I I'm I'm still a bit financial stable now with with uh it's it's we have ups and downs, but it's gotten better. But there was one uh day I would say March of I don't know what year, but maybe three or four years ago. But I uh sat down at the what's it called stable art store kind of in Nebraska in Pierce. Sure. And I started watching this guy's video. His name is Tom River, and he he was talking about like knowing the numbers, knowing how to run a business and blah blah this. So that's and I developed so I I guess I spent a couple of hours in that parking lot, and then that got me his his uh that got me into this like uh going to going to a conference out in Colorado, and uh we got uh we got done with this conference and they gave us uh a a uh bracelet, this bracelet. It's called uh the fighter. Fighter, that's what it is. So I mean that kind of uh got into me and uh every time that I I I mean I struggle with anything or something that I'm going through, like rough draft days and stuff. I look at this uh bracelet and I say, okay, I'm a fighter. I need to fight for this, I need to fight for what's right, for whatever I want, for the dreams, or for my my family, or for whatever thing I so I I that's that's that's why I carry it. I'm a fighter. I fight I will fight for seeing Ruby success for my kids, and I I I know they they're not happy every once in a while with me bringing up to them, but I guess I will fight for them.

SPEAKER_00 37:14

So but that's that's the story behind the that's what we do as parents is we fight for our kids. So this kind of is is wrapping up, you know, another edition of Faith in Action. And what a remarkable life journey the two of you have had. Uh I am so grateful that you took time out of your birthday to chat with me for Sebastian and uh his very lovely talented daughter, uh Ruby Sebastian Bonito. And your journey, your face journey, uh your journey uh to uh you know having a successful business landscaping. It's it's it's also remarkable and like I told you the supported family. Something like that, and supported samples. So I can't thank you both enough for taking time to chat with us. And uh you you really are remarkable. And um, you know, Ruby and her tattoo with from Philippians and Jose, your fighter. I mean that you exemplify both you all of this. So thank you so very much for chatting with me and sharing your story, both of you, with our listeners. I am so very grateful.

SPEAKER_02 38:39

No, I really appreciate that your time and uh take the same same same to you uh that you're just taking time to give us the opportunity. So I just want to mention something real quick before we're done. I just uh I'm uh I'm grateful to the community, to excuse me, to the Seuland area. I'm really thankful. I really want to say gracias. Thank you, thank you all for trusting us with your uh business, with with just with making this opening up uh your door to us and stuff. So I'm doing my I mean as you see, as you hear my accent, it's it's not the best. But um I don't know if we I if you I wrote this on on the magazine or not, but uh this is English is my third language, so I'm uh um uh indigenous of Mayan.

SPEAKER_03 39:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:32

So my native lan my native language is called Cranjobal. So I have my I had to go to school to learn Spanish. So it's kind of a that's that's why I just that's the accent. So it's English is the third language. So I guess I'm I'm grateful to the country, to God most of all. I mean uh I'm grateful to everybody that has trust trust uh th along the way. So that's pretty much all your house.

SPEAKER_00 39:59

Well pass the phone over to Ruby because I bet uh she would like to uh give me some final thoughts as well about her gratitude.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:09

Yes, uh Joanne, I am also very grateful for you know the opportunity. I I like Jose said earlier in the conversation, he was a little nervous, not sure what to expect. Um, but it it was it was a good good conversation here and I appreciate anybody who is listening and I do pray that you know we all find the strength that we need to, you know, keep fighting and keep pushing forward and you know most of all make sure that we're living, you know, life the way we want to be living. And uh yeah, I'm just really am very thankful for for you, Joanne, for allowing us to to share a little bit about ourselves.

SPEAKER_00 40:53

Well, I am like I said, I'm so grateful you were both of you are willing to take the time out of your busy day to chat with me. It means a lot to me, and I I think the listeners too, because a lot of times we may feel, oh, you know, um I have some challenges in my life, I'm all alone. And then you hear your stories and you go, but they overcame them, and they're probably in a pretty good place right now. So, listeners, again, thank you so much for taking time to um access. It's one of the many wonderful local programs we have on uh KFHIA. Uh definers at every day at three o'clock with that office. Uh we have maps that we air every Sunday at 9 a.m. for Mother Day Fair, a life plan, which is a great skill for young people that is Sundays at 8 p.m. And then Catholic Ministry Professionals airs Tuesdays at 4 p.m. And that's with John and Ty, and they are delightful. John air with Fred and Tara Wednesdays at 4 p.m. And Father Noteback is every Wednesday at 9 p.m. So that's in addition to the international and national programming that we offer on 88.1 FM. And also you can go to our website you don't want to click on any of those because everything is podcasting. Um, I want to remind you that we can start at the website.com. We're also on Spotify and a number of other podcasting platforms. That's all data generated resources which is the extra effects. I want to remind you that Facebook reactions. It's still much better than that.