FL 110 – Our Quit-iversary Special: 3 Years of Living The Flipped Lifestyle

Flipped Lifestyle™ Podcast

Shane Sams

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Our journey wasn't the easiest one. The road we took to get to where we are now wasn't paved with just rainbows and sunshine. We did not rely on luck, there was no Magic Pill and we didn't have a "parachute" to bail us out if we failed… we are just simple folks who wanted to have more time to spend with our kids and live our lives to the fullest. It has now been 3 years since we left our regular nine-to-five jobs to become full-time online entrepreneurs, be our own boss for a change and have that freedom. We learned so much and we keep learning as we go through our daily responsibilities. You know what? Life has been so much more rewarding. All the risks we took and sacrifices we made eventually paid off. Sure, it gets difficult at times, but it's also such a gratifying experience to reach out and help so many people. We also get to enjoy our time with the kids, be there for them when they need us the most, it's how we knew that this was the right fit for us. Today is what we fondly call our "Quit-iversary," so we're going to celebrate this milestone by flipping this episode with our take on living the Flipped Lifestyle 24/7, talk about life and dive into very interesting and inspiring stuff. Let's get this show on the road y'all! [Tweet ""We're not going to wait until the end of our lives to live our lives.""] [Tweet ""When you do those big things, even bigger things happen.""] [Tweet ""Being successful is taking a chance when you don't know it's alright.""] You Will Learn: Some of our views in life. How we started our online business journey. Plus a lot more! [Tweet ""Roll the dice and see what happens. If you never roll the dice, you can never roll a seven.""] [Tweet ""Take chances, you get so much more when you take risks and make sacrifices.""] Links and resources mentioned in today's show: Elementary Librarian Flip Your Life Membership 2nd Year Quit-iversary (2015) Our 100th Podcast Episode where Shane talks about our humble beginnings Our early podcast episode that showed our old car held together with duct tape Our success story on Forbes! Patt Flynn invites us over @ SPI: From Teachers to Totally Rocking it Online Entrepreneur on Fire: Shane & Jocelyn Sams share how their AH-HA moment led to freedom! More of our Success Stories here! :-) [Tweet ""If you want the rewards, you're going to have risk some things upfront.""] [Tweet ""Baby steps will get you closer to your goal than standing still.""] Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may read yours on the air! Can't Miss Moment Today's "Can't Miss Moment" is buying our new house. We are closing in approximately two weeks. And, we are really, really excited about it. You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week! Can't listen right now? Read the transcript below! Jocelyn: Hey y'all! On today's podcast, we celebrate the 3rd anniversary of Flipping Our Lives with online business. Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where Life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright. Let's get started. Jocelyn: Welcome to today's show. Today is a very special day and we are changing things up here on the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. I even get to do the introduction.

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all, on today's podcast, we celebrate the third anniversary of flipping our lives with online business.
0:06.3	Welcome to the Flip Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes to forward.
0:12.2	We're your host, Shane and Jocelyn Sam.
0:16.2	We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online.
0:22.8	And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right. Let's get started. Welcome to today's show.
0:31.4	Today is a very special day and we are changing things up here on the Flip Lifestyle podcast.
0:36.8	I even get to do the introduction. This was part of the deal when we decided to do something different today. Jocelyn's like, I'm starting the show. You always start the show, not the day. Yeah, so I just went through like a five-minute thing if I didn't even know what to say because I never do this. This is take four of Jocelyn trying to start the show because she's not used to doing
0:55.0	it. So, but it's started now. So let's go. All right. So normally on the Flip Lifestyle podcast,
1:00.8	we bring on our Flip Your Life community members and we do a live consulting call. But today's a special
1:06.6	day. Today is September 27th. And it is actually the third year anniversary of us leaving our teaching
1:13.9	jobs, which is awesome. So we wanted to do a special show and we left on September 27, 2013. So today's a
1:21.5	three year anniversary of that. And we also did a second year, what we call our quitt anniversary
1:27.3	podcast back in 2015. So if you want to go back and listen to that, we'll put a link to that in today's show notes. For me, it's just really hard to believe that it's been three years. Yeah, I know what you mean. Like, in some ways, it's been like a whirlwind where it seems like we blinked and we've gotten to this point. But then in other ways,
1:44.7	like this has just become so much the way our life is. And like we love the way that we get to work
1:50.7	online. We're location independent. And just all the things that come with running an online business
1:55.3	that like I can't even imagine our life being anything different. And it seems like another lifetime or just another world when we used to do that kind of nine to five grind. We had that job. We had to show up at every single day. You know, we had to stand in the hallways and you couldn't go to the bathroom until it was a, you know, in between classes. Things like that. It just, it seems like such a lifetime ago. I can't even really remember almost
2:18.5	what that was like. Yeah. And the thing I love about online businesses and not like it was at school.
2:24.1	Like I feel like for us, honestly, that the sky is the limit. Like there's always so many more things that we
2:29.8	could be doing and just so many ways to improve. And it's so exciting to work on your own projects and
2:36.3	improve them rather than going somewhere and working on somebody else's work. Yeah, I always felt
2:41.1	like there was a ceiling in our careers before when we worked for other people where, you know,
2:45.6	there was a certain pay scale you could only make for your entire life. And you could do certain
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