#15: Kindred Solar Spirits with Abby Buchmiller

JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED

Jayson Waller

Business, Entrepreneurship, Society & Culture

4.4 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Empire Solar Group CEO Abby Buchmiller spent parts of childhood living in “camp trailers” with her family of nine. She didn’t finish traditional high school but still graduated faster than her peers. But all that moving around to places such as Alaska and Utah provided time for great character building, which has helped her navigate various bumps in business and life. Buchmiller talks with True Underdog Jayson Waller and co-host John LeBlanc about how she got into solar, and where her vision will take her next. Amid those discussions, you’ll be stunned how much Waller and Buchmiller are alike.

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0:00.0	Damn, damn, true underdog.
0:03.3	Damn, damn, unleash the power within.
0:06.4	Bam, damn, damn, damn, true underdog.
0:12.5	Damn, damn.
0:14.8	Jason Waller here, true underdog, unleash the power within.
0:19.8	Super excited.
0:20.7	We're still doing the COVID-19. We're still
0:23.1	staying at home and practicing social distancing. I've got my co-host John LeBlanc here. Say hi,
0:28.6	John. What's up, everybody? And we've got a special guest today. Our second female underdog,
0:35.7	she's an entrepreneur. She's built a business from the ground up. She is in the solar game, the same game that I'm in. And she is changing the world. One customer and one panel at a time. We're super excited to hear about her story. This is Abby Buckmiller. How are you doing, Abby? Hello, I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me.
0:55.1	Hey, thanks for getting on. So this is exciting. I told John, this is our third podcast this week.
1:00.8	And we're on the YouTube channel as well, True Underdog YouTube. And then True Underdog,
1:05.5	you get at IHeart, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. But third one this week, super excited about this, not only because you're a female entrepreneur, I've got three daughters, and I love to see females out there kicking some butt, but you're in the solar game. And we've never talked before this. We've messaged a few times. We've talked a little bit of business. First time getting to see each other. We're on Zoom. We're getting to chat.
1:28.4	We're getting to talk business. We're getting to hear your story. That's super exciting, right?
1:31.8	Love it. Solar Pride. So tell everybody, the listeners and the viewers, about your company right now.
1:38.9	And introduce yourself and let's hear the commercial about what you're doing right now.
1:43.7	All right. On the spot. Here we go. So Empire Solar Group, we are dealer focused, which means our entire sales force is dealer to dealer.
1:54.0	We have, gosh, upwards of about 140 dealers on our platform right now.
2:00.0	So I'm catching on like wildfire, partners are everything to us.
2:03.8	It's definitely how the business is built.
2:05.4	So it's very much a, we build your business, you build our business, it's dynamic.
2:10.7	And it's a great, great thing we've got going here.
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