There is a question that Lim Bances asked himself many times: “But why, God?”
The answer, according to what he says, was always the same: “Because he is coming.”
Perhaps that is why, when Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning salsa singer Tony Succar decided to turn the life story of this Peruvian businesswoman based in the New York metropolitan area into a song, the title seemed to be waiting for them: “Lo Bueno Come Ya.”
The song, which is part of ASUCCAR, Succar’s new album performed by his mother, Mimy Succar, was not born from a story invented for a lyric. It was born from Lim’s life: from a deprived childhood in Peru, from his arrival in New York as an immigrant, from the times when he had to sleep on the floor and from the times he had to start over.
But it was also born from a conviction that Lim built over the years: that a fall does not necessarily mean the end.
“For me it was so, so important to bring this message to all the people who want to give up, who don’t trust themselves, who bully them,” he explains. “There is always hope, don’t give up, there is always a path to follow.”
That’s what Tony Succar found in his story.
The song before the success
When Lim came to the United States, he says, he did so “with one hand forward and one behind.” She and her family slept on the floor. He did not have a college degree and English was not his first language. Even so, he had something that ended up being more decisive than any credential: “the hunger to learn, the hunger to get ahead.”
That drive led her to the world of real estate.
He took the exam to obtain his license six times. Broker’s, ten.
For a while he thought he just wasn’t smart enough. Then he discovered that the problem was not his ability, but his way of learning.
“As the years passed, I understood that it wasn’t that I was intelligent, but that my way of learning was different,” he says.
At real estate auctions he found another challenge. It was a predominantly male world and, according to her, some tried to intimidate her. On his first purchases he had to pay thousands of additional dollars.
“They wanted me to be afraid of returning,” he remembers.
Return.
And he continued.
What was left out of the song also counts
Today Lim Bances runs Lim Bances Realty, as well as Lim Bances Academy and Lim Bances Property Management. Its real estate office has more than 50 agents. He also carries out philanthropic work through The Bances Foundation.
But when he talks about all of this, Lim returns again and again to the same idea: purpose.
“I found my greatest purpose to be helping people,” he says. His foundation supports people facing hardships, including veterans and children with autism or Down syndrome.
Therefore, for Lim, success is not measured by the properties he has purchased either.
“True success is changing a person’s life, putting a smile in a look, and what a legacy you will leave,” he says.
The moment of finding yourself
The video clip for “Lo Bueno Come Ya” travels between Lima and New York and brings two versions of Lim face to face: the girl who grew up in Peru and the woman who managed to build a business life in the United States.
That scene was the most difficult to relive.
“The most difficult moment was when the little Lim meets the adult Lim, who was already able to close that cycle,” she says.
The scene he was most proud of was seeing his own company in the video. The building that appears represents, for her, much more than a property: it represents the work built together with her husband and daughters.
When he saw the final result, he cried.
“That day of the launch I was crying so much that I couldn’t stop crying because it was a dream come true.”
And perhaps that is the reason why a song could tell his story better than a biography.
Because “The Good is Coming Now” does not just talk about arriving. He talks about waiting when you still can’t see the exit. To continue when something goes wrong. To come back after a fall.
“There is always a light at the end of the tunnel, there is always hope and keep moving forward,” says Lim.
And then he adds the phrase that summarizes not only the song, but the path that led to it:
“If I could do it, everyone is capable of making their dreams come true. Because the good things are coming.”
