In this episode, Sara chats with Amanda Heins about her journey from food service industry sales rep, to serial entrepreneur, to independent grocer. Amanda shares the story of her husband passing unexpectedly in 2018 and leaving her sole owner of the store; discovering detailed notes he'd made about upgrading the business; and carrying out and wrapping up his envisioned remodel the day before construction was halted due to COVID-19. Today, Amanda lives in Roslyn, Washington and owns The Roslyn Grocery, a business operating on the front lines during the coronavirus pandemic.
Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart. Sara and Amanda Discuss:- How they know one another
- Amanda attending Evergreen State College
- Working at a restaurant / spa
- Intending to become a doctor, but deciding against it
- Being offered a job with Food Services of America
- Moving to Roslyn, Washington
- Feeling the stress of working a commission-based job and being on the road all the time
- Having her children & her husband becoming a stay-at-home dad
- Realizing that her job wasn't working for her anymore
- Opening a gift shop
- Opening a candy store
- Selling her businesses to employees
- Opening the grocery store with the vision of Roslyn being walkable
- The long hours that they worked to get the grocery up and running
- How they made it work, financially
- Opening a restaurant across the street
- Selling the restaurant and gallery
- Her husband suddenly passing
- Helping her kids navigate grief
- Her store becoming passive income for her
- Taking on volunteer work
- Being her best self for her kids
- Doing a solstice ritual and letting go of her past
- Turning down an offer to move the store into a larger space
- Cleaning her house and stumbling upon old notes from her husband about expanding the store
- Securing the money to remodel
- Finishing up the remodel the day before the governor halted construction during coronavirus pandemic
- Ramping up security and stocking up the store for coronavirus
- Real talk on toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and gloves
- Her supportive mother-in-law
- Her longer term plan
- Her pleas for people who live in Western Washington to stay home
- Her many leaps of faith and refusal to live in fear of the "what-ifs"
- What this pandemic is teaching us
- Why she believes everything happens for a reason
- ...and more!
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