Podbit · The Hidden Third
After locating three or four missing Ford heavy trucks on her first day, Michelle's mentor Brian suggested she start her own company called Unlimited Recoveries. She had no business experience — but an undeniable natural talent for finding anything.
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With the court case against her assailant resolved and her year at Texas State Specialties behind her, Michelle returned home to Lockhart, Texas, and tried to put skip tracing in the past. It found her anyway. A contractor named Joe Burleson called on behalf of Ford Motor Company, which needed three or four missing F-350 and F-450 trucks with car carriers located [1] — Michelle Gomez "After locating three or four missing Ford heavy trucks on her first day, Michelle's mentor Brian suggested she start her own company called…" 34:24 . Her former mentor Brian was on the call, sponsoring her return. Michelle hesitated — she didn't think she was ready to run her own operation. But she took the case and located all the trucks before the end of the day. Brian recognized what he was seeing and suggested she open a company called Unlimited Recoveries. Michelle had no business experience, but an undeniable natural talent. The conversation traces her journey from individual contractor to business owner, spanning a growing range of clients from financial institutions like Rush, Kubota, Freightliner, and Mack to high-stakes individual cases.
When Ford tasked Michelle with finding 3–4 missing heavy trucks with car carriers, she located them all before the end of the same day, prompting her mentor to suggest she start her own company.
Michelle obtained her Texas private investigator license in 2014, though she had been practicing skip tracing legally as a contractor for corporations well before that.
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