Monique Rodriguez
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1,123 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Mar
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And he's like, you know, we'll have, you know, my corporate career to fall back on.
And he was working nights and it came to the point where like, you know, we were sacrificing sleep and, you know, time with our kids.
And there was just no way that we were able to like operate everything and still work corporate jobs.
So he finally decided that he was going to leave and we were not paying ourselves at that time either.
Wow.
Oh, it was impacted a lot.
Like our personal, we charged up credit cards.
We went into like credit card debt because we still had to like maintain.
And, you know, we tapped into our 401ks because our 401ks is kind of like what helped sustain us and got us over and also helped fund a little bit of the business as well, too.
So we hung on that until we couldn't hang on for any more.
And then once we got the opportunity to go into retail, we started to see a little bit of profit from our e-commerce platform because our margins were like great because you're, it's all you.
You're not, there's no middleman.
So we were able to like use some of those profits to kind of like sustain us as well too until we got into retail.
So when you get into retail, of course, they cut into your profit margins.
And then that's when we, you know, got into trouble.
Yes.
So, you know, we had one mentor at that time that we entered into retail, which happened to be our sales broker.
So she was helping to broker the deals in retail.
So she was kind of like a guiding angel in the beginning because she really helped educate us on the industry and retail distribution.
Where'd you find her?
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