There was up. This is critical about your host for recital school. Listen, I've got a great story for you today I mean every day. I have a good story, for at least I think so, but today stories pretty amazing. Have you ever wanted to where I swore ASCII Crystal bikini, I mean who hasn't I wake up pretty much every morning and I think I can get my coffee first of all got to record the show for you and then its bikini time and who wants to wear an ordinary bathing suit when you can wear one, that's handset, which were ascii crystals not to those three things are true. I guess someone's. I don't always at my coffee right away. Maybe it could be an hour later, so But listen today story is about an electrical engineer. A woman who sells these eight hundred dollars were ascii crystal bikinis. Her primary market is fitness models. So, if you're looking to strut your stuff on competition, state she's got you covered literally with those hands

Kenny's she made almost fifty thousand dollars last year. Doing this on the side and she's also got a pretty busy life in general to begin a story with a wonderful what we heard from her and our interview say in addition to the day job in the fifty thousand dollars a year, bikini side, hustle she's also got a family, she started and other business fitness competitions of her own she's remodeling, her house inside all these things. I think, of course, well. How does she do it and here's this quote. She said my life is a beautiful kind of insanity. It makes me excited to wake up every morning, big dreams, big goals and a big appetite for success, a beautiful kind of insanity that makes me excited to wake up. I love that philosophy. I say thank you to our sponsor. It's not rocky crystal by the way that just part the story, then I'll tell you all about this project

FR. It is the regional director for an engineering firm in Tucson, Arizona, ass. She puts it she's a nerd when it comes to electric utilities. Have you ever almost got into a car accident because you are staring at the equipment on a powerful of course but nobody has except for Amanda, and it happened actually more than once. But the word around the office is that Amanda has a new passion and has nothing to do with electrical engineering as exciting as those power poles are when she gets home and sheds recur. Life at the door. She starts working on her side, hustle customize, fitness, competition, bikinis and not just any bikinis. These outfits or handset with ferocity crystals

can be quite the interesting conversation topic when you work in an industry dominated by middle aged men. It's also a rumour starter. For those too scared to approach the topic. She once had a customer from our day. Job say: hey. I heard you own a lingerie company, not quite, but she supposed it was pretty close to out of his come to be well. Madame started the swimwear Business Amanda, Louise Swimwear, after participating in a fitness competition herself for the first time she ordered a hundred sixty five dollar crystal incrusted bikini online and eagerly awaited it too have all, but when it finally came and she was not impressed with equality, she had both man and grandma, who had taught her how to so and when she wasn't training for competitions or looking at power pause. She found herself hanging out at the quilt shop. She thought he could totally makes em they like this, and not only that I could make it so much better. Still as any not a seamstress will tell you stretch, fabrics are the bane of their existence. Without the proper experience and techniques. You could find yourself

in the midst of a spandex field, nightmare tremendous did what any resourceful person would do. She went online if there is a blog post on swimsuit construction. She's read it so many times that she probably knows it by heart. My came with a learning curve, but after several attempts she finally had something suitable enough to wear onstage onstage that day she qualify for nationals, but it wasn't just the judges whose attention Amanda had caught her fellow fitness competitors were in awe of her custom. I suit several asked me to make one them and a man to sign up to eighty to provide a higher quality option for a community. She loved, but first things. First reading it a website. Since she had learned a bit of computer science encoding in college, she decided to go with word press and she built her sight all by herself over the course of a single day and right from their. She started accepting orders since the quality of the states with something it bother from the beginning. Getting the right materials was crucial. She purchased crystal straight from swore, ascii or one of their accredited vendors fabric and connect your pieces. She originally purchase

from a manufacturer in China, but the quality was not up to par, so she found a? U s manufacturer and even though those costs are much higher than what she was paying for the overseas components, she decided it was worth it. No one great thing about starting aside hustle is that, since Oliver orders or custom made, especially in the beginning shouldn't have to buy many materials until someone actually purchased a suit to restart it. Costs were just a couple hundred bucks these days. She keeps more stock on hand simply because she gets more last minute orders, but in the beginning she never had to make any purchases out of pocket, hoping that someone would buy. Something are speaking of start up costs. Let's talk more about. Money, these bikinis do not come cheap. They can range from one hundred and eighty six dollars to eight hundred dollars. That is right at eight hundred dollars, bikini, hey, listen! It's going to buy a bikini with swarovski crystals, go big or go home. That's my thinking! Anyway. I guess I'm still waiting for my sample to come this site is less profit is not under the sea. It actually brought in close to fifty thousand dollars last year. This is why she's working order

Shot and doing how much other things, which I mentioned briefly to second, it's a long list, but I do Note as well that Amanda says the best part of it is the community that is built up around her brand she'd been able to provide about. Thousand women with a more high quality option, and not just high quality but also high class. So what's the worst part was the challenge will Amanda says: impostor syndrome is the worst part to challenge the fittest. Market is so niche. The people have been at the top of been there for a long time, and there are a lot of politics at first. She felt she had to do what they were doing, nor to get ahead. She had to focus on getting a ton of Amsterdam followers and get famous people to wear her suits. You realize you she felt much better when she was actually connecting with her customers ensuring their journey with them, instead of just selling them a suit or talking about liberties. This led to a podcast because she's not busy enough called confessions of a fit chick and also a bad ass, bikini entrepreneurs program that does spell out babes her name, not mine,

loud women to earn commission on sales is basically a brand ambassadorship with a private facebook group where people can chat, she can hold lie videos that everyone can share with the working on. What else does she do while she has a husband they have a ten month old. They have two dogs, one cat and one house remodel in the works. No big deal she's also teamed up with her realtor and her husband. To start a company called open house executives. The go with that project is a serve local realtors into son. We don't have much time to talk about that since were keeping to focus on those crystal bikinis it still. How does she do all these things? Well, I think first, while she loved what she does, she is genuinely excited about all these things perhaps will go back to ask her about her productivity secrets. Like does she ever sleep, but.

We could say that a major success proves that, if you bring it, they will come what a funny story you know here we are at a pursuit foreigners and thirty nine satisfy school. I never really started, and people like how you have come up with more stories are going to run out of step to talk about after month, one While no, there are so many different things. You can do so many creative projects, so many directions. You can go in to do something, it's fun and meaningful. That helps other people to other people appreciate, and it also makes money for you real money, not just a small amount of money by something that, potentially change your life? If you been listening for a while, you know that is the mission of status of school to both inspire and empower you to have a story like this for yourself, and I want to go back and read this quote from Amanda just one more time since I like

much. How do you do it Amanda? She says my life is a beautiful kind of insanity that makes me excited to wake up every morning, big dreams, big gauze and a big appetite for success. I like that recipe, I'm inspired myself and I have someone out there uses this to take action on a dream of theirs. If you'd like to learn more about her project, her maybe order one of those bikinis yourself who knows just come to see Moscow, dotcom slashed for three nine, by the way before someone complains about an affinity for her my retirement plan as it based on selling you crystal bikinis, but it is core to check it out. If you have a comment or question for the show were answering these questions each week during the weekly recap- and we also just like to hear my folks are working on just giving on a hustle hotline. That number is eight for four nine hustle believe a quick little voice mail for four an hustler eight for four nine, four, eight, seven, eight five, three! Thank you so much. I hope you have a blameworthy day, I'm crystal about recital school.