About this episode

Nicole Becerra shares her journey from caregiver to developer of luxury memory care mansions, highlighting the challenges and triumphs along the way.

She watched residents cry alone on the floor, calls for help go unanswered, and a client ask her point blank, "Am I gonna die today?" That first shift as a professional caregiver didn't just break Nicole Becerra's heart. It gave her a mission. Instead of accepting that this was just how senior care worked, she asked a different question: what if it didn't have to be this way? In this episode, Nicole shares how she went from sitting bedside with dementia patients to acquiring raw land, navigating septic and zoning laws, and securing an SBA loan to build Mosaic Memory Care, a 16 room luxury memory care mansion in the Texas Hill Country. She breaks down what it actually took to move from caregiver to developer with zero real estate background: interviewing contractors until she found ones who would explain things in plain language, commissioning third party feasibility studies for her bank, and financing the entire project herself and her husband rather than bringing on outside investors. She also opens up about Builders of Care, the nonprofit she founded to help families afford quality senior care and to help other small operators get the capital they need to build homes like hers…

People in this episode

Host: Jen Josey

Guest: Nicole Becerra

Topics covered

• senior care
• real estate development
• memory care
• entrepreneurship
• nonprofit
• aging population

Keywords

• senior housing
• memory care
• land development
• real estate
• caregiving
• nonprofit
• Texas

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mosaic Memory Care, Builders of Care

Places: Texas Hill Country

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