Show notes
Today's episode features Christine Hughey who owns A Little Local Flavor food tour business.
Christine navigated several cities and years to land her dream job in Nashville.
Then shortly after, Christine would be celebrating a new marriage and devastated by their household income dropping from $120k to $35k.
At the bottom, she took a challenge to start her own business and in no time had created a six-figure food tour company that is growing at leaps and bounds.
Listen, learn, and let us know what you think about Christine's amazing turnaround.
Episode Summary
Christine's background
* She feels like she had a better than average financial understanding growing up
* Christine would go visit who are Grandmother who tasked them with tracking stock prices
* Her Grandmother would also buy them small stocks in companies they understood
* It gave them something to chat about over their times apart
* Christine admits that she took all those lessons for granted until much later
* When it was time to go to college, Christine wanted to get into the print industry
* This ended up requiring her to get an engineering degree at the college she was at
* From there she moved to Colorado and got a job she did not enjoy
Journey Towards FI
* In 2006 she is making around $35k per year and saving around $200 per month
* She also realized a true engineering job wasn't going to be there for her in Denver
* From there she moved to a small town in Texas for a few years
* Then her dream job opened up in Nashville, TN
Things Begin to Fall Apart
* We're now entering 2013 on the journey and Christine is hitting her groove
* Until she is shocked to find out that she'll be losing that dream job quickly after starting
* Leading up to this, they had tried to push more and more work on her with no increased pay
* Christine's husband helped her through this down period
* Then she got a new contract for a dream job as an engineer and things were looking up
* Then six weeks after their honeymoon, that new contract got pulled and she was unemployed
* On top of this, her husband lost his largest income-generating gig
* Six weeks after their honeymoon they saw their pay get cut from $120k to $35k
* They started cutting all expenses and downsizing their house
* Christine admits that the whole experience was crushing
* She vowed to never let one company be the source of her income
The turnaround
* Christine finally finds work at a food tour company in Nashville
* The hours are long and the pay had gotten cut in half
* Then January 2018 happened and her life completely changed
* This was when she attended her first financial independence event
* Christine attended CampFI down in Florida
* At the conference, she was challenged to start her own food tour company
* When she got home, she quit her job and started her own business that May
* This was the start of A Little Local Flavor
Building a Six-Figure Business
* Christine admits she was out of her comfort zone
* What got her through was just taking one small step every day
* Most of her education came from podcasts
* It took some time for her to shed being an engineer as her identity
* As she built her team she had several keys she wanted to hit
* Some things she wanted was to fair pay, have strong values, and a good work environment
* She then layers in lots of bonuses into her employees' pay
Christine navigated several cities and years to land her dream job in Nashville.
Then shortly after, Christine would be celebrating a new marriage and devastated by their household income dropping from $120k to $35k.
At the bottom, she took a challenge to start her own business and in no time had created a six-figure food tour company that is growing at leaps and bounds.
Listen, learn, and let us know what you think about Christine's amazing turnaround.
Episode Summary
Christine's background
* She feels like she had a better than average financial understanding growing up
* Christine would go visit who are Grandmother who tasked them with tracking stock prices
* Her Grandmother would also buy them small stocks in companies they understood
* It gave them something to chat about over their times apart
* Christine admits that she took all those lessons for granted until much later
* When it was time to go to college, Christine wanted to get into the print industry
* This ended up requiring her to get an engineering degree at the college she was at
* From there she moved to Colorado and got a job she did not enjoy
Journey Towards FI
* In 2006 she is making around $35k per year and saving around $200 per month
* She also realized a true engineering job wasn't going to be there for her in Denver
* From there she moved to a small town in Texas for a few years
* Then her dream job opened up in Nashville, TN
Things Begin to Fall Apart
* We're now entering 2013 on the journey and Christine is hitting her groove
* Until she is shocked to find out that she'll be losing that dream job quickly after starting
* Leading up to this, they had tried to push more and more work on her with no increased pay
* Christine's husband helped her through this down period
* Then she got a new contract for a dream job as an engineer and things were looking up
* Then six weeks after their honeymoon, that new contract got pulled and she was unemployed
* On top of this, her husband lost his largest income-generating gig
* Six weeks after their honeymoon they saw their pay get cut from $120k to $35k
* They started cutting all expenses and downsizing their house
* Christine admits that the whole experience was crushing
* She vowed to never let one company be the source of her income
The turnaround
* Christine finally finds work at a food tour company in Nashville
* The hours are long and the pay had gotten cut in half
* Then January 2018 happened and her life completely changed
* This was when she attended her first financial independence event
* Christine attended CampFI down in Florida
* At the conference, she was challenged to start her own food tour company
* When she got home, she quit her job and started her own business that May
* This was the start of A Little Local Flavor
Building a Six-Figure Business
* Christine admits she was out of her comfort zone
* What got her through was just taking one small step every day
* Most of her education came from podcasts
* It took some time for her to shed being an engineer as her identity
* As she built her team she had several keys she wanted to hit
* Some things she wanted was to fair pay, have strong values, and a good work environment
* She then layers in lots of bonuses into her employees' pay