FL306 – How to Start an Online Business When You Don’t Have Time

In today's episode, we help Grant make time for his online business.

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Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's podcast we help Grant make time for his online business.

Shane Sams: 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 that 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? All right, let's get started.

Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. We are super excited to welcome another member of the Flip Your Life community onto the show so that we can help them take their online dream to the next level.

Shane Sams: Our guest today is our good friend Grant Downes. Grant, welcome to the program.

Grant Downes: Hey guys, thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it.

Jocelyn Sams: We are very excited to talk to you today. You are coming to us from your vehicle, is that correct?

Grant Downes: That's true. So, I am securely fastened here in the van in the garage, which hopefully will insulate me from the kid sounds that are upstairs.

Shane Sams: Hey, listen, there is no better acoustics, or there are no better acoustics than inside of your car, inside of your garage. When I first started creating our courses, the very first course I ever created, it was the same thing, it was just chaos, kids running around everywhere. I tried every room in the house, from the basement to our bedroom.

Jocelyn Sams: And then you listen to it back and it's like oh, kids screaming.

Shane Sams: Oh, just terrible. I can hear kids. So, I went out and locked myself in the garage, got in the car, sat in the back seat in the middle, so I could be as far away from anything as possible, and it sounded great. So, if you're struggling to find a place to record anything, go to your car.

Jocelyn Sams: And just remember, please do not run it inside your garage.

Shane Sams: Yes, don't turn it on if it's cold. We don't want you to do that.

Grant Downes: Yeah, pro tip.

Shane Sams: And don't record while you're driving, that's, unless you got a lapel mic or something like that on so it's all good.

Jocelyn Sams: All right, so you are at home. You have a family. Let's hear a little bit about them and your background.

Grant Downes: Yeah, so I am in eastern Ohio. I live with my wife, Sarah, and my three kids, Charlotte, Henry, and Brenna. I grew up on a tree farm kind of around agriculture, a beautiful 300 acres of rolling farmland here in eastern Ohio, went to school for horticulture, which is basically plant stuff, and then worked kind of a couple different jobs in the plant industry. So, I worked at a nursery for a long time, did a little bit of landscaping, also spent time in agriculture, actually, a feed mill. Now I work as a pesticide and fertilizer inspector for the Ohio Department of Agriculture.

Grant Downes: And then what's really awesome about that position, actually, is that I am based out of my house. So, I have a nine county territory that I run around in, and I do inspections, and I meet with people, and investigate complaints, and give tests, and all sorts of things. But I come home every day, start at eight AM in my basement, run out and do what I'm doing, come back home, and then I'm done by 4:30 and I'm already home, so it works out pretty well.

Shane Sams: So you're not actually working in your home a lot, you're actually out on the road like going to farms. Do you inspect like the plants, or do you inspect like the chemical barrels of chemicals that they're doing? Like, what do you do?