Anthony and Jhanilka Hartzog joined Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour to tell the story behind Maids 2 Match, the home cleaning company they built after climbing out of a mountain of personal debt. The Dallas couple turned a shared struggle into a business that now supports their family and, through Cleaning Business University, teaches other aspiring owners how to do the same.
Their conversation with Sean Kelly moves through the specifics of paying down debt, the early grind of building a service business from nothing, and what comes next now that the company has found real traction.
About Anthony & Jhanilka Hartzog
Anthony and Jhanilka Hartzog are the husband-and-wife team behind Maids 2 Match, a residential cleaning company they built in Dallas, Texas. After paying off roughly $114,000 in debt in under two years, the couple channeled that discipline into growing a cleaning business from the ground up.
Beyond running Maids 2 Match, the Hartzogs founded Cleaning Business University, a program built to help other entrepreneurs start and scale their own cleaning companies using the same systems that worked for their own business.
What Anthony & Jhanilka Hartzog and Sean Kelly Talked About
- How Anthony and Jhanilka Hartzog paid off roughly $114,000 in debt in under two years
- The early steps they took to launch Maids 2 Match with limited resources
- Why the couple decided to build Cleaning Business University to teach others their model
- How they divided responsibilities and stayed aligned while building a business as partners
- Lessons from scaling a home service business into a full-time family income
- What systems and routines the Hartzogs credit for their fastest growth
- How they think about balancing family life with running two ventures
- Their advice for anyone starting a service business from a place of financial strain
Why This Conversation Matters
The Hartzog family's story pairs a real debt-payoff journey with a practical business built to help others do the same. For couples building side by side, or anyone considering a service business as a path out of debt, this conversation offers a grounded, step-by-step look at how they did it.
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