Building Back Home in Barbados with Jackie

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.🎙️ Episode 0 — The Long Ground & The Deep Blue Building Back Home with Jackie In this special introduction episode of Building Back Home with Jackie, I take you back to where it all began. What started as a lifelong dream — building a home in the country where I was born — slowly became a journey filled with unexpected challenges, emotional moments, red flags, and hard lessons learned along the way. As a Bajan-born New Yorker with a professional background in Data and Document Control, I believed preparation, organization, and planning would protect the dream. But building from overseas introduced realities I never expected. In this episode, I share: 🌊 Why building back home meant so much to me 🏠 The 25-year dream behind the journey 📑 What it’s really like managing construction from abroad 🚩 The first warning signs that something wasn’t quite right ⚖️ Why contracts, communication, and documentation matter 🧭 H