Business can be a lonely game, but it doesn't have to be.

Welcome to Boutique Chat, where we explore community over competition and how to scale your company with the balance and the happiness that we all seek.

We'll hear from product-based businesses of all types, retailers, e-commerce, and wholesale brands,

along with industry experts shaping the future of our industry.

I'm your host, Ashley Alderson from the boutique hub, and I can't wait to chat.

Hey, guys, welcome back to the podcast this week.

Becca, I'm so excited that you're here. Thanks for

just so excited to be here. So I'm sure everyone knows like we record these podcasts in advance.

And you happen to be somewhere special today while we're recording. You want to tell us where you're at?

I am on 30A. We are in Seagrove Beach for the Array Beach Market. So we paused market for a little bit so we could come do this.

Well, I was so glad that you had an opportunity to jump on and join. And we'll talk about 30A and your business and how things are flowing. How did you get there all the things in a minute?

But I go back to the beginning. We always have to have the origin story.

So tell me how you first got into business. Where did this all start for you?

Okay. So my grandfather had a store growing up. He had a salvage store, which I don't know if you know what that is. But back in the day, he actually started, he worked at a grocery store and he like dropped there was like

damaged canned goods and he would sell those damaged goods at a discount and that kind of spurred his

idea to start this salvage business and then it turned into where they would buy from insurance companies say

my boutique called on fire and the waterheads went off and so nothing was really burned but

we filed an insurance claim on that that insurance company then goes and tries to sell those items

to get some of their loss back and he was one that would buy those deals. So it was

originally called his, his original store was called the fire sale store, which I think,

you know, came from that. And then it evolved into merchandise warehouse, which was the name of it.

And then my dad took over it. So my whole childhood was, I was, I ran this store.

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