ITL155: How I Grew My Blog into My Full-Time Job – Interview with Special Guest, Crystal Paine

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, we have Crystal Paine, “THE Money Saving Mom,” in our studio to answer a few questions about how her business has grown into what it is today.

How did this all get started?

My husband and I committed to stay out of debt while he went to law school.
We were literally living on beans and rice, but we started finding ways to stretch our dollars because we had to.
I was a new mom and started blogging about frugal topics, and there was a lot of interest from outside people.

How did it all evolve into what it is today?

I had already established myself as an expert with frugal living.
Within 3 months we had 16 thousand views on the blog, and within a year we were making a full time income off blog.
Today we have about 1.5 million unique visitors to the site per month.

How did the book, Say Goodbye to Survival Mode, come about?

The book was a result of two things…
People telling me they were just trying to survive and figure out how to get their life in order
My own personal journey of hitting rock bottom and the steps I took to climb out of that pit.

What are some of the things you’ve had to overcome?

Humbling myself and bringing on help in my business and at home.
Learning how to respond with grace to criticism.

“My long-term vision is to impact as many lives and help as many people to get their finances and life in order so they can live their life on purpose and influence their communities and ultimately the world.”

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective
0:06.5	with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews.
0:10.4	Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:13.0	Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews.
0:16.4	I'm your host, David Loy and Andy, we have a special surprise today.
0:20.5	I'm very excited about this. My wife is very excited about this. Yes. Yeah, probably is excited.
0:25.1	We have, this is a friend. I was about to say new friend, but we've known her now for, gosh,
0:31.9	over a year, but now she is local to us. We're just south of Nashville, and Crystal Payne, money-saving mom,
0:40.4	and her family have recently relocated from Kansas to Nashville. So Crystal, welcome to Nashville,
0:46.1	and welcome to our podcast. Thanks for joining us. I am honored to be here. Thank you for having me.
0:50.6	Absolutely. I am very excited. She's not just a mom who saves money. She is the
0:54.9	money-saving mom. Absolutely. And if you're not familiar, if you're out there listening,
0:59.3	make sure you go to money-savingmom.com. Crystal is first and foremost, a wife to a great husband,
1:05.8	Jesse, mother of three beautiful children. Oh, and by the way, she happens to be a New York Times best-selling author.
1:12.2	Yeah, man.
1:13.1	I mean, because the book, I mean, the book came out in January, say goodbye to survival mode,
1:19.7	and people are eating it up.
1:22.1	Absolutely.
1:22.6	A huge success.
1:23.5	You're, I guess, I don't know what the term is, but Thomas Nelson published her book.
1:28.1	Thomas Nelson publishes your book.
1:29.7	So there's a, you're related in that sense.
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