Reseller Hangout Podcast With Amy PowlisonIf you are interested to see if Flipper University is right for you - check out our FREE Workshop: https://courses.fleamarketflipper.com/flipper-university-workshop-webinar Other resources at www.fleamarketflipper.comTranscript:Rob: Awesome today, guys. We're so excited to have Amy Powlison join us. She is a Flipper U alumni. So we're very excited to dig into kind of her success story and her journey. So, Amy, thank you so much for jumping on here and joining us for the show. Amy: Thank you so much. This is exciting. Rob: Awesome. Melissa: Welcome, Amy. We're so glad that you're here and that we could spend a few minutes with you today and yeah, learn about some of your business. Rob: Cool, let's dive in, let's get into the [00:01:00] meat and potatoes of the interview for sure. Melissa: So, we'll just start off with a little bit about your background and how did you get into this whole flipping thing?Amy: I mean, it's kind of crazy. So the, the short version is that, I have a master's degree in exercise science and at some point in my life decided that didn't work and family and all those things happen. We have one seven year old. That's plenty. I don't know how you guys do like, but congrats. That's awesome.One's plenty for us. But as that kind of progressed, we decided that, you know, it didn't fit and it wasn't as lucrative as it, I needed it to be, or we needed it to be. So then I started working in restaurants, which I always did on the side, so that I managed really small places. I bartended really small places.I managed places that did $20 million a year. So I've done, like I've done one end of the spectrum to the other with that world and loved it, and then the world shut down. So, you know, the world shut down 20 [00:02:00] months ago and things changed for everyone. And one day I had a job and my owner literally said to me, you need to go online and figure out what the process is to apply for unemployment, because there's a really good chance we're going to be closed.And it was less than 24 hours later and everything was closed. So in the interim, it was one of those things where, okay. I don't, now what? Like my husband's a fireman, so his life never changed. Actually, the only thing that changed is he worked more. We saw less of him because he went to work more stayed later there, like it was crazy. I say everything works out for a reason. Like he was able to do that because I was able to be home and take care of our little and provide that virtual, I call it home schooling, but it was like that virtual education. Because I don't know what we would've done if we both would have been working.So. Then as that kind of happened, I've been saying [00:03:00] forever, I could do this. I could totally do this. Like, I've been doing yard sales since I was kid. I go to, I love a flea market, you know, like love a flea market and love a yard sale. And I buy stuff secondhand and we resell stuff on Facebook marketplace and I'm like, I can do this.So my husband finally said, "You're out of reasons, not to. You're at home. You're not like, you're home." So that's kind of how it started. I mean, prior to that, you know, I'd throw something on and forget about it and then have to find it, or like I put stuff on Facebook marketplace and you know, that that's kind of a different breed, cause it was a lot of in-person versus not.And then it was like, well, you can't meet anybody. So, it really came out of like pick yourself up by the, pick yourself up, put on your big girl pants, pull up your bootstraps and like figure it out. And here we are. So it's been a crazy ride, but a great ride. Rob: That's awesome. And yeah, we're so glad that you actually did.You, [00:04:00] you looked back on, you know, that you had done yard sales, you love flea markets and that's where you jumped in and you went feet first. So we're very, very, we're very excited for you and to see your journey for sure. Melissa