Best of: Our Story – Chapter 4: How a Lawnmower and 11 Cents Changed Our Lives Forever

In this Best of Episode, we re-visit Chapter 4 of the "Our story" series.

This episode was originally published on October 31, 2017.  You can check out the original episode here:  https://flippedlifestyle.com/podcast167/

FULL TRANSCRIPT

Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work.  We’re your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams.

We’re a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online.  And now, we help other families do the same.  Are you ready to flip your life?  Alright.  Let’s get started.

What's up, guys!  Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast!  So excited that you joined us today.  We're getting into another chapter of our journey talking about how we basically went from employees to discovering online business to where we are today, living the Flipped Lifestyle.

And on the last episode, we talked a lot about how we decided that we were going to try to do something different.  We had settled in for the long haul, 27 years of teaching on each of us until we could retire.  Life events happened that showed us that that was not the life that we wanted to live.  We had a terrible experience with our child in a daycare center where they were mistreating him and then an awful experience with a boss at our workplace that basically made us say, "Hey, this is not the life for us.  We are going to do something else, we are going to find something different."

Jocelyn: And if there is one thing about us that you will realize from listening to all these stories and even things that we've done since then, we don't mess around.  When we decide to do something, we find a way to get it done.

Shane: That is really where we pick up today is, figuring out what we were going to do.  We knew the result that we wanted.  We had talked about it, and I think that I wanted this a little more than Jocelyn, a little more passionately this time.

Jocelyn: Well, because my situation wasn't terrible.  Aside from my child having a terrible experience at daycare, we got him out of that situation.  He was in a better situation where I knew he was safe.  At that point, my school was okay.  I had to continue to work because we had to pay our bills.  We had bought a house, and the only way we could pay for that is if I had a job.

Shane: At this time, I was so furious, I was kind of like, "To heck with it.   Let's just quit.  I'm done.  Let's just quit tomorrow.  We will figure it out."  And Jocelyn, ever the pragmatist said, "We have to keep our lights on and buy food."  And I was like, "Oh yeah.  That!"

Jocelyn: Yeah, those pesky things.

Shane: Those pesky things that you have to do in life.  Jocelyn is very good at channeling my craziness I guess is the best way to say it. There is this awesome meme that Jocelyn sent to me one time it was like two stick, and one of the stick man was throwing up a rainbow on the other stick man's head.  And the next scene, the stick man used the force to stop the rainbow--

Jocelyn: Did some calculations--

Shane: And in the next scene, she was writing math problems on a board.  And the next scene, she had a welder's hat and a hammer and was forging something, and in the next scene, it was like a bucket.  It was catching all of the rainbow into this machine she had created and then in the last scene, it was the stick man who was throwing up the rainbow.  The other stick person put a hat on that person, and it was a laser beam of a rainbow.  Jocelyn and I are like, "That sums up our entire relationship at all times.  Puking the rainbow."  Basically, that is what we did here.  Jocelyn was like, "Look, I get it.  I know where you are coming from.  I understand.  But basically,