For years now, I have followed Patty Delgado's journey as the founder and CEO of the beloved brand,

Ija de tu madre.

Now Patty's expanding her vision, celebrating our cultures with her new leather company,

Father.

Patty and I talk about harnessing the power of her ADHD, why despite various offers,

she has decided to continue to be 100% self-funded, and the first-gen kids' eternal search

for home.

Thank you. and the first-gen kids eternal search for home. Patty, finally.

Hi, I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I feel like I've put this off so that I could savor it when it finally happened. So it was meant to be. I'm trying to figure out where your

story begins because the story often gets told as though you get fired from a job and you take $500 in that last paycheck and then you begin the process of launching Iha of Tu Madre.

I think the story is actually a little bit more complicated than that, which is I sense a young woman who's very much in process before she is fired.

And I know from you that there's a lot of living in Mexico,

living in the United States.

Where do you, in your heart, start this story?

Oh, my goodness.

I think so much of where I am today is a story of like tripping and falling,

tripping and falling, getting back up, tripping and falling.

And I think it could even start as soon as being like a young teen.

I've always been this black sheep in my family.

I'm the daughter of two Mexican immigrants.

I'm also the eldest daughter.

So like throw that in with conservative Mexican parents.

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