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I ain't going nowhere special. I was just walking.
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I mean, that's perfect for me.
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So we'll just walk.
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Yeah, let's just walk together. What's your name?
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My name is Marcia. I'm from Barbados.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I do baby nurse, nanny, you know, But I'm not working right now. I'm looking for a job right now.
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And you said that you would, you'd want to do this to see if someone would want to hire you.
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You could ask my audience, because I'm a very good nanny. I'm very good at what I'm doing. I did it for 30 years. Over 30 years. I have somebody that's calling me.
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Okay, go ahead.
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Shawntea. Chantia, could I call you back? I'm here walking with a lady. I'm walking with a lady. I might be on YouTube. All right. Okay, I'm gonna call you back. All right, my love? Yeah. Okay, Tell us more. So I did. I have over 30 years of baby nurse.
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Wow. Okay.
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Baby nurse and nanny. I'm a very good nanny. I have very good references. All of my kids is very intelligent because I start from babyhood. You know, you read, you count. Even though they can't talk. But it all goes in the brain. When they begin to talk, you will be surprised things that come out their mouth. You hear what I'm telling you? My last little boy, I used to count till 12 going up on the elevator car. That was the 12th floor. I'm from 12 back down when I'm coming down. And by the time he began to talk me and he was skunking, yeah, he could real good. You know, it's all in the brain. Don't mind. They can't talk, but they sucks everything in. I think I'm a good nanny.
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I could tell you are. I know you are. I just know it. Do you mind if we turn right here?
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I don't care. I have nowhere to go. Okay, I'm walking.
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Okay. Do you enjoy it? Do you love it?
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I love it. I come from a big family, okay. I, I, my mother had six boys, two girls.
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Okay.
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And I was the oldest girl. So from young 13, 14, I've been taking care of my siblings, you know, when you from. From the West Indies, right? Especially from the poor side. A lot of the siblings, especially girls, have to do the work, right? You got to help out, you know? So I've been doing it for a long time, so I know a lot of remedies, even more than the doctors. Not medic like medicine, I think, but certain Things I could tell you what to take, you know, what to go and buy. Hi, how are you? All right. Okay. Yeah. I could tell you like if a stick. I could tell you what to buy to Robin with, you know, for fevers, like different things. You don't always have to do medicine. These rubs, you know, you rub down this other. I'm a herbalist really. I don't do a lot of the medicine. Medicine. I do a lot of juicing. I know a lot of herbs to boil for certain things, you know. I'm 67, I don't take pills. I'm 67 years old.
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What's the secret?
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I don't know. Good life. Being honest. Be nice to people. Yeah, that's my secret.
B
Yeah? Yeah.
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You know, last year I wasn't feeling. I went down get a reg, a checkup. And the doctor told me cholera took some pills at me. Never think of it. Start taking the pills. Six months into it, I couldn't get off my bed.
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Oh really?
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It gave me sciatica. I never know pain like that. And then they was trying to give me more pills. I said I went and got pull out my thing, find my juices. I start juicing all herbal teas now. I could do this, you couldn't do that, do that. You see these bones here? Never know a pain. Couldn't even. I feel like a brand new girl and you know, feeling good. It got me.
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And your cholesterol is good too now.
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Yeah, I can. Yeah. But it's all she had to tell me was cut down. I was eating a lot of cheese. Oh right. I love cheese. So I was eating a lot of cheese. And like every day I would have cheese and that, you know, and that. So I was eating that every day. And it wears the crush. Oh, she had to tell me is fall off. Yeah.
B
Why? Why didn't she tell you?
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Because a lot of people here, they like to throw pills.
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Yeah.
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And all that do is like a band aid. It don't really help the cause. It made me worse.
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Figured it out. That's good.
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Yeah. I figured out I could run, kick, do everything. So I lookin out for work. I gotta get back to work. It nearly killed me. I was out cold. Well, the hardest thing I've been through is when I first came here, it was kind of rough. Cause you know, you get a job, the only job you get in is sleeping in people's house cleaning and things. And some of those people. It ain't easy. Many times I cry in people's house, call the Kind of things they want you to do that, you know, any reasonable. No reason to do that.
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Right.
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You know, like scrub, scrub bathroom with toothbrush. And I went through a lot, you know, the rich when they got things there, you just do stuff. Yeah, I did. I went through a lot when I first come because I did a lot of sleep ins taking care of the kids and the thing. And some people are nice. You stay in there for five, six days, you come up with $200. But your not work to the bone.
B
Wow.
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And then I just fight my way through.
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Have you. Did you get to a point where life got easy or would you say still a struggle?
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Nah, life will always be a struggle if you don't have big, big money.
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Yeah.
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You know, but I still struggling. But I'm happy. You know, I could do for me and everything.
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Yeah.
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But I still would like a little piece of cash extra to save tuck away for rainy day. But everything expensive.
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Yeah, you deserve it.
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So you know, everything expensive. It ain't nothing that I can do in this place here. What I tell you? I had dementia patients. I work in Laundromat. Wash and fold all day from 6 till 6. I did a piece of everything. When you work and you know you're getting a good period and nothing could beat that be that memory.
B
So is your son still here? Are you still. Yeah, together.
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He is doing good. Yeah, he. He got a good job. He good.
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That's good, huh? You live with your son?
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Yeah.
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Okay, good.
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The two of us live together. What happened when he first come from the marines, his head wasn't too good, you know. He was out of the Victoria. He was in the Marines in the U.S. yes. So when he came out, things wasn't right. Only a mother would notice, you know.
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Yeah, he's gonna get it from the back.
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Yeah. Only a mother would notice. So I rally with my son for a lot of years. I used to call a cabman, came in to the vet building, you know, until I say, listen, we cut in the pills. I cut out all those pills he was taking and now he only takes one. And that is a pill he's take at night, maybe to sleep.
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Okay.
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But all the other pills take out. So you walk in, cough. I said, nah, nah, nah. These pills keeping you back? David, you aren't getting better. I cut everything out, throw some herbs, boil a lot of bush. Cause you know I get the bush come from Barbados, you know, Corioli, Cersei, blood vine. All those is bushes that you make and make tea. So the bushes Clean out all of that. And he good now. Good job.
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You should become like a doctor, like a natural holistic doctor.
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I know a lot of natural, cool stuff. And since now the Internet is so powerful, you could go on and find stuff, too. So, like Blood Vine. All them is good.
B
I'm not familiar with any of these.
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Oh, you don't know.
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You don't know herbs? No, I don't know.
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I thought, you know what I'm talking about. Like Cersei.
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So they all have, like, their purpose, they have purposes.
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And if you pull it up on the Internet, you can read it.
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Okay.
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The Internet have those. I'm gonna show you something now. Let me show you this. You see, like this, right? All these herbs have priority. They put some of these in the medicines, right? But then they put the other chemicals, too. So the other chemicals is what messes people up.
B
What was the one you said that you took so that you.
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I'm gonna show you it now. I have it on the phone. I got it. I ain't seeing it. You know, the devil is busy. When you want something, you don't get it. Yeah, the devil is busy. I ain't seen it. Greedy.
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Okay?
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And I can run a marathon. I'll be moving and Now I turn 67. I don't want to crumple, you know?
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When's your birthday?
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May 19th.
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May 19th.
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Yeah.
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Okay. Okay.
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So I'm a Taurus.
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You're a Taurus.
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Yeah.
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I'm a Leo.
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You're a Leo. Okay. July. Okay. Let me tell you, I have a lot of friends in July, and they are very sweet people. My two besties, they are 7, 26. July 26th.
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Okay. Yeah.
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They're all so. And they're awesome. You hear what I'm telling you? My son is July 9th. He's not far down. He's July 9th.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But I have other ones, and they're awesome people.
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I'm in good company, then.
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Yeah.
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I wanted to ask you. I'm curious. When. When you're a nanny and you take care of kids and then you're not their nanny anymore, does it make you sad that you never see them again?
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It makes. But some I still keep, some they still want to see me.
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Yeah.
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And they tell their mom, and I'll go, you know, make a weekend and go and hang out with them.
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Because I'd be so sad if I was a little kid and I had.
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You as my nanny. And then I didn't see my last kid. I don't want to go around him at all. Cause when I was leaving, they couldn't get him off my leg. He had me. And he said, massey, please, please, please. That hurt my heart. I was crying. Please, please, please don't go. Masi, I love you so much. And you ain't letting go. My father, he did not want me to go.
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Oh, you're so positive. And you. It sounds like you've, like, had a hard life. How are you so positive?
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Because I don't know. And I did have a hard life. I've been working from young, from 13.
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Oh, my God, you need a break.
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Oh, God. Well, maybe that's what got me so fit and my seat got me so fit. And, you know, I ain't hold no malice or nothing. You know, life is what it is. I just try to make the best out of everything. Cause I mean, if something. If it is something that you can't change, you could always try to make the best of it. That's how I see, you know, with a sense of being so sad. It ain't gonna change nothing. That's how I look at things, you know? I don't know if I'd be looking at it the right way, but. Oh, he's still there. Come on. You.
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Know? Yeah, I know. I get that. I'm. I'm a very positive person.
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Yeah. Especially now. You have to be positive. God, this is a messed up world.
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Yeah. It's tiring.
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It's very.
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I'm so tired.
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You don't know if you're going or you're coming. Every day you get up is something different.
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You said you don't know if you're going or you're coming.
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Sometimes you don't because you go sleep in. One thing when you get up is a whole different story. Yeah. So you. Sometimes you don't know if to go right or if to go left.
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What helps you make those decisions?
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I go with the flow. I don't. You know, I just go with my first mind. First mind is always right. You go against your first mind, something's happened. And you always said, dang, if I did just follow my mind. That don't happen to you. It does first. Mine is beautiful. Your first instinct, I learned, is always the best.
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With me, it's either my first instinct or whatever my mom says. If I ever go against something, my mom says I regret it.
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Really? But that means she know.
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Yeah.
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Why is. She's a wise lady.
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She is.
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Yeah. And I always tell my son, never, like I tell myself something, say, ma, if I don't listen to you. I say, you see.
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Sometimes you have to learn the hard way.
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Right? Right. But I just like to follow sometimes. I like to go with the first instinct.
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Yeah.
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Cause sometimes when you don't turn out right, then you say die.
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Yeah.
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Everybody go. Let me answer this, Maz. I here walking with somebody. I'm on YouTube. I'm walking with somebody. That got me on YouTube. This lady, nice lady. This one, my nanny friends. I work in the area. Used to work in the area. So you're not calling, huh? I'll see. I call you back. All right. Are you on a job right now? I used to talk a lot of. They like me because I make them laugh.
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You have a lot of friends, huh?
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A handful. Not a lot, but, you know, when you got a handful, you treasure.
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Yeah. You know, a handful of good friends.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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Not a lot, but I got a handful. Yeah, that I treasure them.
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Can I get you like a coffee or a tea or something on our walk?
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Yeah, I could do a coffee. You want to get coffee?
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Yeah, let's get coffee.
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We could go on down in a little coffee shop. If the woman there, I get mine free.
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Okay.
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Because what happen is when I'm working, when is she birthday or anything, I carry gift. That's the kind of body that I like to give. So I would carry. I would show up with flowers and things, right?
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I want to pay for it.
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I don't know if she. She might not be there, but that's my friend.
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Okay?
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This is somebody birthday. I like to show up with a little gift, little flowers, you know, that's just me because I never got it when I was growing up. So I like to give it now. I just like to give when I have it, I get my last.
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What were you like as a kid?
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A tomboy. I had all these brothers, you know. So when you see I done wash and cook and take, I go and talk with the boys. Climb trees, swim, ride bike, pitch marbles. Yeah, I was a tomboy. I ran with the boys.
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I think me and you would have been best friends.
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Yeah. Come on. Oh, he's behind us now. We're going around the corner.
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Okay.
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That's a famous bagel place. And the bagels is really, really good.
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Can I get you a bagel too?
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No.
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Please?
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No. Because what happened is I just left from eating a little snack. I had something. When you see me, I just come from eating something. I fall now I won't take it.
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Okay. Okay.
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Who are we going in here? No, this one it locked it close.
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There's people in there.
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You close, it's closed.
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What time I close?
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You close, it's close. Ask somebody if it's close. Oh, I supposed to push on guns. Thank you, my love. Oh, God. My buddy there. Hey, lovely lady. I bring some people for coffee there, I hear on a conference. So they wanted coffee. I said I'm gonna bring them under to my spot. Okay. Yeah, yeah, you can order your coffee.
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Okay, what do you get usually?
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I usually get a latte, but I'll take a coffee now. Just get me a regular coffee.
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Can I get a vanilla latte, small, please? Do you want anything? Okay.
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Yes, please.
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Yeah. Okay.
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Milk. Milk. Not half and half.
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I think if I wasn't doing YouTube, I might open the coffee shop.
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Do it and let I come and work.
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I'll open in New York. Just come.
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Yeah, you could. You got to be good. You see, they're famous. If you come in the morning, you can't get in. Oh, really long line, long line, line, line. They're really good. And everything is baked fresh.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you. Hon, you want napkin?
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Yeah, please. Thank you. Let me just put some sugar in this.
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Stop drinking white sugar, you stop drinking with sugar, you stop drinking white sugar. Always use brown.
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Okay.
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White is processed. Brown is straight from the canes. We do sugar in marabettas. Only do brown.
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Okay, I'll do that.
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Brown is good. Pull it up and read it. Brown is the best thing to take.
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Okay.
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Best sugar to use the white is everything is out of it. You know, it process it got to be brown before it get white, you know, so everything is processed out of that sugar. So, you know, if you could just stick with the brown sugar.
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Okay, you good? I'll do that.
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I'm kind of like a little half buff. I love a little health nut.
B
Have you always been like that, even when you were younger?
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Yeah, I always eat good and things, you know, listen, you don't have to eat meat to be healthy. You know that, right? You don't have to eat meat. And I really don't eat much meat now. And I buy my own chicken because if it's big, if it's bigger than my arm, I don't need it. You see how big the man the legs is?
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Huge.
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That's no good. You know, they don't inject those things. Yeah, yeah. Chickens don't grow that big.
B
But how do you, when you buy your chicken, how do you know if it's bigger?
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Because I, I, you can see. You can see it yeah. So, you know, the legs and everything. I. I see much. You know, if it's injected, steak is good. I just try to eat a piece of steak at least once a month.
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Once a month?
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Yeah. You know, I know the chicken. That is good. Good chicken.
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Yeah.
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You gotta watch the type of meat you buy.
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So we've been here for eight days so far. Today's our last day of filming.
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Wow.
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You're the last person I'm walking, so.
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You know, they always say the last should be first, right?
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The last is.
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The last is the best of everything. That's right.
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That's right.
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I glad to meet you too. I'm a people's person. You are. Listen, I just meet people all the time. And then you know how as a people person, I be sitting on train, people be telling me all their business. Wherever I go, people is be telling me their business. I was on a train this morning, me and this girl sat down together and we just end up exchanging deep conversations that I wouldn't tell nobody. And she. But once she start, I had something to put to it too. So we had a good talk.
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Yeah.
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And that was something personal. I won't go and tell nobody, but she was a stranger. But she bring what she told me. I said, wow. I said, me too. It happened to me too. I mean, she sit down on that train and we talk retro until she get off on 59th Street. I meet a guy there the other day and the guy ran up on me, was all the guy, he said, you are so beautiful. You are so beautiful. And he carry on and carry on trying to get my number. But I don't get out my number like that. Let's go. I'm single. My other half Covid taken. I sent my other half. Huh? Covert. Kill him.
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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And he went down in the first batch. And I haven't looked at another fella since. Yeah, Covid take my baby. Kill him in an instant. And. And I'm still here. But you see, I got a rare. I. I have universal blood. I could get everybody blood, but I could only take my own. So I don't really get sick.
B
So people with that blood type, they don't really get sick.
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Some probably do, but I don't. People with that kind of blood type, you see, when I get pregnant, I have to take Rogan shots. My blood could attack the uterus, you know, the baby. They say any foreign thing coming blood is attacking, you know, my blood would attack it. So when I was pregnant twice, and then all two of them times, I had to take Rogan shots to protect the baby. So anything like foreign jump in my blood, it is trying to take it out. You understand what I'm saying? So I have universal blood. If you fall down, I could give you blood, but I could only take mine.
B
How does that make you feel?
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Super that I could help people, you know, I feel good about it.
B
Yeah. Can I ask you a question? The love of your life, you said your other half.
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Yeah.
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Why were they the love of your life? Why were they your other half? What was it about them?
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Because he was the most. He was a very nice and caring. And he was his birthday 7 17, July 17th. Yes. He is a man that he would have called me every Sunday and Semaz get ready, let's go have breakfast for the church people fill up the diner. I would go out to eat. I might left and go to the bathroom. When I come back, somebody will be singing Happy Birthday to me. And I'll be with a little cake. And I say, well, hey, my birthday. They say, he says this. I said, well, okay then. That was the kind of person he was. That's the kind of person he was nice. And anytime I go anywhere, I could call you anytime of night and tell him come and pick me up. Yeah, one nice guy, you know, the nice guys always get taken away. Yeah, one nice guy, guy, girl, he was nice. And we were about to met. Well, you know, sometimes God has put people in your life. Even if it's just for a short time to make you happy. Yeah, that's what I believe. Because I was at a party, right? And this guy walking that time I was looking good. Not like, no, I don't lose the weight. You still look good. I tell my friend dad, boy, he look good. I know he tracking me too. And he told me, Sarah, could I. Could I. Could I ask you for dance or could I dance for you? I've been watching you for a while. I was happy. Then I said, I mean that's how we met. And we went from there. Yeah, but I don't watching him because I said my friend, boy, he looked good. Boy, I had my eyes on him too. He had the eyes on me too. So it was good. We had a very good relation. Covid took my man out. He was together for about six, seven years. And we was just getting ready to get in beer. She tell me he was buying a house in Jersey. He used to treat me really good.
B
Do you have. Let me wait for the sirens. It's a little too loud. Because this next question I think my audience is really going to want me to ask you. It's so loud in New York.
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Yes, very. Especially the city. Yeah, the city is very, very tame.
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I was gonna ask, do you have any advice, I guess for other young, young people who are looking for love. What should they look for?
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And like to me, I want anybody look for love. I will let love find me. Because sometimes you just look in the wrong places and you pick up the wrong people. But sometimes if somebody is there for you, you know, if that person is there for you, you will find them. They'll come. You don't have to, but you don't go looking. Because sometimes you look too hard. And sometimes everything that look nice is not nice. And you know that. So sometimes the people come to you and just don't jump. Why, why, why? Don't do. I just don't jump into anything. Somebody might like me. It take me a while. I score up, see what kind of potential. Because they're gonna come out at some time, you know. Some people, nah, in these times now, I don't even think the boys should be looking for nine. There's people crazy, I think. I don't know. I think if somebody come, let somebody come at you and then you figure it out, you know, if you want, you know, see how they move and stuff. But don't go looking for nothing now. Cause man, you go looking, people feel you want them more than they want you and they could use you, you know.
B
Nah, that's amazing advice.
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Yeah, that's really good advice. Sometimes when you go looking, people feel you want them more than they want you.
B
Yeah.
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And they'll use your. Everything. Now people is tricks. It's a different world, you know, like when we were growing up, you see what kind of stuff that's going on. It just don't even seem real. I can't even believe that these kind of things going on. I can't believe. Don't sound right. But money is the one to all evil, as they say. They got money and still the more money they got, they want more. What are they gonna do with all that money? Tell me.
B
It's so bizarre to me.
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I don't even got that much. And I just try to share and they got it all and they're trying to take what little bit people got. So I just don't get it. So you go from city to city?
B
No, mainly New York or New York. Every time I try to film this in another city, nobody walks.
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Oh my God.
B
New York is The only city, I would say maybe Boston, but you barely catch me.
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Cause I. I was now headed to go on the train, but now I ain't even gonna go on a train. I gonna call my ass and see. She might be in the park with a little boss, gonna hang out with her a little bit. Cause I ain't got nothing to do in the house, you know, no little kids, no nothing. It's just me. So I gonna go see what Marcy is probably. Hang on. Don't run around with the little kids before I go home.
B
Okay. There you go. Before you go, I just want to tell my audience, if you need a nanny, I'm gonna put my email in the description. Email me and only. Only reach out to me if you're, like, actually serious about it.
A
Yeah, baby nurse or baby nurse or.
B
Yeah, tell them what you're.
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Nanny, nanny. I do all, too. I got. I got a baby nurse certificate. Okay. I go in with the families when the baby's born and take care of the babies, help them out and everything. You know, it's just before a couple weeks. Some people might want you for a couple of months just to air the mother's out. When I was doing that, a lot of people started asking me to stay and be the nanny. So that's how I end up now doing the nanny thing.
B
Okay. Yeah, I'll get your number and then I'll reach out to her for you guys. But serious inquiries only, please.
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Yeah, Just saying. Cause a lot of crazy people out there, you know, a lot of bummy bums. And I know how to read them, too. I just read people good.
B
Okay.
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So I'm a good reader. Yeah.
B
And then you'll figure it out from there. So I'll connect whoever reaches out to me to you.
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And then you. Yeah, you would do it for me. Okay, send it to me. I'm a good. I have a good sense. I just read people and I. Listen to me. I would never really do this, but somehow my spirit connect to you and I say, okay, I want to do this. I'm telling you, I know me, but it's something. I don't know. And I don't know why I say yes, but it's something, something, something. Cause no, Julie, I'm on. I'm gonna be doing this. I said, what's wrong with her? You know, let me tell my friends. Yeah, I happy, too. I wasn't even supposed to be in up here. I just come up here on a fluke.
B
We weren't even supposed to be filming Today we were supposed to take the day off.
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Yeah, neutrally. I won't even be walking around with you. Things I won't really do.
B
Well, thank you so much.
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That was. It was supposed to be. Listen, God is. Do things. That's how I see it sometimes. That's how it was supposed to be. It was supposed to come out and meet you because, trust me, I'm going to be coming to San Diego. When I'm ready, I'm going to be calling you.
B
I can't wait. I can't wait.
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Yeah, if things go all right, I come down there for the Christmas.
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Okay. Yeah, let me know. I'm going to show you around. Leave my audience with one last message.
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Let me think about it.
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Yeah, take your time.
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The message of there is a different world right now. And I would love everybody to have compassion for people, try to love everybody, try to share things, because it's a different world. A lot of people is hurting. There's a lot of people here hurting. A lot of people don't have anything. And if we could just share a little something with somebody, it makes. It makes a different light. It makes a different day. Sometimes I might give somebody like a meal and you just see the light in their eyes light up. They probably didn't eat for two, three days. You know, I don't have it like that, but I like, at least if you could put a little shine in somebody face, you just feel the shine. That's how I feel. I'm a giver and I like to share. Might not have much. If we could love one another more, I think the world would be a better place. But we just haters. That's my last comment.
B
I love that. Thank you so much.
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Thank you, my love. So take my number. Let me get you here.
B
I'll text and call you once people start reaching out to me.
A
All right. If they do. Here the back of your thing.
B
Thank you.
A
All right.
B
And then here's your phone.
A
You'd program me already?
B
I think so. Make sure.
A
Let me see. Yeah, Good.
B
Okay.
A
Okay.
B
Thank you so much. Wait, and then let me give you.
A
Okay, Let me give. Come on, my love. Let me get a hug. Thank y'. All. Let me get a hug, too. I'm a hugger. All right. Okay. So we're gonna reach out. You'll call. Don't worry.
B
Yeah, give me a call.
A
Yeah.
B
And then let me see if there's anything else. I'll text you my Instagram so you can give it to yourself. And TikTok, that's what we're gonna.
A
I might download it. My best is on Instagram.
B
Okay, yeah, download it.
A
Have a good one. And be safe.
B
Thank. You.
Host: Thoraya
Episode: Can I walk with you, Marcia?
Date: November 25, 2025
Kicking off Season One in New York City, Thoraya walks with Marcia, a vibrant Barbadian woman with decades of experience as a nanny and baby nurse. In this candid, street-level conversation, Marcia shares insights into her life, career, and philosophies on health, resilience, love, and altruism, all colored by her warmth, humor, and island wisdom.
| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------| | 00:21 | “I’m a very good nanny. I’ve been doing it for 30 years. Over 30 years…” | Marcia | | 02:27 | “I’m a herbalist really…I’m 67, I don’t take pills.” | Marcia | | 04:59 | “Many times I cry in people’s house, cause of the kind of things they want you to do…” | Marcia | | 09:41 | “My last kid…they couldn’t get him off my leg…That hurt my heart, I was crying.” | Marcia | | 10:18 | “I just try to make the best out of everything…that’s how I look at things.” | Marcia | | 17:15 | “Stop drinking white sugar. Always use brown. White is processed. Brown is straight from the canes.” | Marcia | | 20:09 | “Covid take my baby. Kill him in an instant.” | Marcia | | 23:42 | “Don’t go looking, cause sometimes everything that looks nice is not nice.” | Marcia | | 28:36 | “If we could just share a little something with somebody, it makes a different light…” | Marcia |
Marcia is looking for nanny or baby nurse opportunities. Serious inquiries can reach Thoraya for a connection, per details at [26:18–27:18].
This episode offers a moving portrait of resilience, heart, and practical wisdom from a pillar of her community. Marcia’s life and world-view, rooted in compassion and old-school knowledge, make for a walking conversation full of laughter, honesty, and inspiration.