Today's Best of podcast takes us on an e-commerce trip from a Stanley Cup-winning Amazon wholesaler to a military veteran who has grown a Facebook audience to 17,000 people on the way to $200,000 of sales on Amazon.

How cool is that?

Pretty cool, I think. Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Syria Sellers podcast by Helium 10.

I am your host, Bradley Sutton, and this time we are actually going into another best-of-podcast episode,

your favorite episodes from the last month.

Now, one of my favorite things to do is show Amazon seller stories about people from

the growing e-commerce ecosystem.

And these people could easily be your neighbor, person next door, person who delivers your

mail, your children's school teacher.

Now, this first episode I'm going to highlight is not one of those stories. For this seller, it might have started out that way. After all, he was the son of school

teachers, but his life took a different turn. Stefaniel, who in addition to being a successful

wholesaler on Amazon, spent 15 years playing in the NHL and won two Stanley Cups. He has built a $3 million wholesale business, and he's full of great information that will

dispel the idea that focusing on private label is the only way to make money on Amazon.

Leaving any job after 15 years is difficult.

Here's what Stefan has to say about that.

Yeah, transition was tough for me.

You know, like, you kind of lose all your buddies, and all you know is hockey.

So I had to kind of soul search for a little bit to see what was of interest to me.

And opening a gym was kind of a good fit because I love fitness and

and I've been in that fitness space or hockey I guess for for a lot of years.

But then when you own a gym, there's a lot of stuff that comes into play as far as marketing

and other kind of business, uh, business aspects.

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