what's up and welcome to a brand new weak upsizing school. This is your host critical about I'm so excited to feature something that. We have never talked about for the show. Seven hundred and sixty five episodes in This is the side hustle of being an auctioneer. What is your life like how much you get paid to do it. How can you get qualified to do it and how you get the get? now, not only that this story actually features to people. A dynamic sister duo and this dynamic sister do oh bids up profits for charities. These sisters harnessing unique skill to help organisations get in on the auction right. The auction, like the action and their call, the auction sisters, ok make that when up myself, that's actually what they go by so stay tuned. Can I get ten seconds? Can I get twenty seconds about thirty? Two, I see thirty. Ok, I see thirty seconds and soul

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One night around one, a dot m Katie Fitzsimmons, received an urgent phone call from her sister Missy Missy, said, buckle update. I figured out our future. Let's back up a little Katie and Missy grew up working in the family, landscaping business Kenny. I work full time as director of student affairs in the North Dakota University system. She's also a mother to two young children her sister Missy is a jewel of all trades, working, mostly as a radio and event DJ in Bosnia Montana, on this particular evening that inspired the late night phone call, Missy had been teaching a charity event and there she watched a female professional auctioneer walk in and owned the room. Missy recall she was unbelievable when it was all said and done. She had raised three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Miss was in both my montana in forty minutes. It's unheard of

auctioneer had walked in their peace, walked out and then jump on a plane to go home me. While I miss you been at the event for twelve hours, setting up her career playing music, emceeing warming up the crowd and then loading out Oliver to your after midnight in the snow and cold, and that's why You know what I want to be the auctioneer. So that's how it started she caught up. Kid one on that night after you bring your gear home and told her with determination, you and are going to be auctioneers. I was a bold statement, of course, but she turned out to be right on the money Katy had years of experience in the nonprofit sector, as well as higher education

joint fund raising for good causes. Despite having zero experience, an auction hearing it seem like it could be a good fit, but wait let's back up more time. What is the art of auctioneer and auctioning is like stand up comedy mixed with selling mixed with supporting a worthy cause, at least in the case of charity auctions and sisters. First step was training, so they signed up with the misery auction school which prides itself as the Harvard of auctioning in Saint Louis Missouri by the wayside. Note your listening to the Harvard of cider soap, outcasts, it's also the community college and set up a podcast. We are equal opportunity back to the Missouri auction school. It's a one week in residence program, cost about one thousand five hundred dollars per person, plus food hotel and Airfare and Missy were not the typical students at auction school. Every other participant came from families that have been in the auctioneer business for generations. Most of them would go into livestock, auction, inc or estate sale,

just a totally different world from charity work. The sisters were also in the minority in another way to get a sense of what the one week auction school entails check out. The Utah but he had been a link up in our show notes is an amazing awesome. Video pity and Missy will be easy to spot fairly. Only to women there on the third day of auction school Missy happen to get a call from a contact backing Bozeman wanting to book the two sisters for their first ever live auction of it. A client was a nonprofit group. It helps female entrepreneurs. It was the perfect furs. Yet they had minimal expectations and they wanted to support women, especially women, in a male dominated field. That's

so was now officially in business and they d themselves the auction esters, the first gig went well and they learnt a lot since then they done forty auctions between them. They worked together whenever possible, they raise money for charities organizations, scholarships, political groups, individuals and specialised causes, and twenty a teen Katy did seventeen events, some of them on her on some other sister. She typically charges a flat fee prevent around three or dollars working locally and Bismarck, and other events that include travel have paid up to twenty five hundred dollars so far, Katy and our sister have raised over one point: two million dollars for charities in just over two years start up costs were approximately twenty two hundred dollars per person. This included that auctioneer training licensing and a few nicer outfits to wear it events. They were both able to recoup the start up costs within the first year of the hustle fork, Etienne Messy every event as an audition for the next kick. Each appearance on stage typically generates about one two three cause for another opportunity: there simply doing liege innovation while getting

So did they hope to do this full time one day? No, not really! That's not the gall Katy as a family. She doesn't want be away from home too much, and the auction sisters are a great example of aside hustle. It's fun. It's meaningful. They get to use this unique skill. They ve learned a lot along the way. Charities raise a lot of money and they're getting paid, so you could say there auction, speak louder than words. Well last week, I wanted to start a marimba rental business, but is a story about this guy running out marimba. There's like I will do this. There is no reason in the world. Why should go out and stop what I'm doing and started marimba rental business, but I just now fun, and now I wanna be an auctioneer. So this video I mentioned, are on Youtube

using. I watch it like to every times our link it up in the shadows out highly encourage you to check it out, nothing for sale. It's just like a behind the scenes of how the auction school works, and you know so many different ways to make money episode. Seven hundred sixty five never really talked about becoming an auctioneer again, it's a perfect side us all for them, because you know it's not about necessarily quitting your job to go full time, and this, like you, can be a fool I'm auctioneer some people do. That is a lot of travel involved, but for them they just like the idea of doing something different and using their skill to benefit charities and also as men it's a very male dominated field trip for them actually started it benefits. You know what you going to that field to be able to stand out, and you know just presented. A different perspective good for them. Congratulations, Katy and Missy Superfund business. Let what you guys are doing, and we wish you all the best artlessness inspiration is guide, but inspiration with action is so much better

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