Christine Hughey's guest appearances

Christine Hughey

The Financial Independence Show

Corporate School Dropout: Inspiring Stories of Ditching the 9 to 5

Your Personal Brand

Vincent Pugliese

Rachel Richards

Dan Hinz

Ken Hoops

Tori Dunlap

Andy Hill

Paula Pant

Chris Hutchins

Robert Farrington

Joe Saul-Sehy

Eddy Garcia

Emily Williams

John Lee Dumas

Chris Mamula

Nick Loper

OwlTail

Episode 67 - Creating a Five Star Experience, with Christine Hughey

EP 062 - Christine Hughey, the founder of A Little Local Flavor, left her career as a process engineer and built a business around her mission to support small businesses in her Nashville community.  She believes wholeheartedly in the idea of creating community by bringing strangers around a table to share a meal.  Trading her days working in manufacturing plants for days filled with sharing stories, creating community, and dining at Nashville's best restaurants has been the best decision of her life. Grab a pen and paper for this episode, Christine gives so many actionable steps on growing your business by focusing on the customer experience.   If you're enjoying the podcast, please  Rate and Review on Apple podcast   Join the networking group for aspiring female dropouts! The Dropout Social Network. This group is specifically designed to build a community and support system for ladies as they pursue their dropout journey.   Learn more about Christine and connect with her  Show Notes   Do you want to work with Lauren on your dropout journey? Visit the Website to connect with Lauren.

EP 062 - Christine Hughey, the founder of A Little Local Flavor, left her career as a process engineer and built a business around her mission to support small businesses in her Nashville community.  She believes wholeheartedly in the idea of creating community by bringing strangers around a table to share a meal.  Trading her days working in manufacturing plants for days filled with sharing stories, creating community, and dining at Nashville's best restaurants has been the best decision of her life. Grab a pen and paper for this episode, Christine gives so many actionable steps on growing your business by focusing on the customer experience. If you're enjoying the podcast, please <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/corporate-school-dropout-inspiring-stories-ditching/id1457910763" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Rate and Review on Apple podcast</a> Join the networking group for aspiring female dropouts! <a href="https://www.corporateschooldropout.com/community" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Dropout Social Network.</a> This group is specifically designed to build a community and support system for ladies as they pursue their dropout journey. Learn more about Christine and connect with her <a href="https://www.corporateschooldropout.com/episodes/christinehughey062" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Show Notes</a>   Do you want to work with Lauren on your dropout journey? <a href="https://www.corporateschooldropout.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Visit the Website to</a> connect with Lauren.

EP 062 - From Senior Engineer to Tourism Business Owner - Christine Hughey

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Today's episode features Christine Hughey who owns A Little Local Flavor food tour business.Christine navigated several cities and years to land her dream job in Nashville.Then shortly after, Christine would be celebrating a new marriage and devastated by their household income dropping from $120k to $35k.At the bottom, she took a challenge to start her own business and in no time had created a six-figure food tour company that is growing at leaps and bounds.Listen, learn, and let us know what you think about Christine's amazing turnaround.Episode SummaryChristine's background 	She feels like she had a better than average financial understanding growing up 	Christine would go visit who are Grandmother who tasked them with tracking stock prices 	Her Grandmother would also buy them small stocks in companies they understood 	It gave them something to chat about over their times apart 	Christine admits that she took all those lessons for granted until much later 	When it was time to go to college, Christine wanted to get into the print industry 	This ended up requiring her to get an engineering degree at the college she was at 	From there she moved to Colorado and got a job she did not enjoyJourney Towards FI 	In 2006 she is making around $35k per year and saving around $200 per month 	She also realized a true engineering job wasn't going to be there for her in Denver 	From there she moved to a small town in Texas for a few years 	Then her dream job opened up in Nashville, TNThings Begin to Fall Apart 	We're now entering 2013 on the journey and Christine is hitting her groove 	Until she is shocked to find out that she'll be losing that dream job quickly after starting 	Leading up to this, they had tried to push more and more work on her with no increased pay 	Christine's husband helped her through this down period 	Then she got a new contract for a dream job as an engineer and things were looking up 	Then six weeks after their honeymoon, that new contract got pulled and she was unemployed 	On top of this, her husband lost his largest income-generating gig 	Six weeks after their honeymoon they saw their pay get cut from $120k to $35k 	They started cutting all expenses and downsizing their house 	Christine admits that the whole experience was crushing 	She vowed to never let one company be the source of her incomeThe turnaround 	Christine finally finds work at a food tour company in Nashville 	The hours are long and the pay had gotten cut in half 	Then January 2018 happened and her life completely changed 	This was when she attended her first financial independence event 	Christine attended CampFI down in Florida 	At the conference, she was challenged to start her own food tour company 	When she got home, she quit her job and started her own business that May 	This was the start of A Little Local FlavorBuilding a Six-Figure Business 	Christine admits she was out of her comfort zone 	What got her through was just taking one small step every day 	Most of her education came from podcasts 	It took some time for her to shed being an engineer as her identity 	As she built her team she had several keys she wanted to hit 	Some things she wanted was to fair pay, have strong values, and a good work environment 	She then layers in lots of bonuses into her employees' pay 	This small step really incentivizes them to do great work 	By the end of 2018, they had over $60k in sales 	But then 2019 grew like crazy 	She grew her team to include 8 employees 	They also saw the number of visitors grow to 4400 and sales to $330k 	With that, they took home 23% as profit 	Christine expects to grow that margin and increase tour types and locations 	Her 2020 goal is $500k for the company 	She also hopes to be able to scale back her involvementKey Takeaways 	Social Currency: Christine talks about how to put ou...

Today's episode features Christine Hughey who owns A Little Local Flavor food tour business. Christine navigated several cities and years to land her dream job in Nashville. Then shortly after, Christine would be celebrating a new marriage and devastated by their household income dropping from $120k to $35k. At the bottom, she took a challenge to start her own business and in no time had created a six-figure food tour company that is growing at leaps and bounds. Listen, learn, and let us know what you think about Christine's amazing turnaround. Episode Summary Christine's background 	She feels like she had a better than average financial understanding growing up 	Christine would go visit who are Grandmother who tasked them with tracking stock prices 	Her Grandmother would also buy them small stocks in companies they understood 	It gave them something to chat about over their times apart 	Christine admits that she took all those lessons for granted until much later 	When it was time to go to college, Christine wanted to get into the print industry 	This ended up requiring her to get an engineering degree at the college she was at 	From there she moved to Colorado and got a job she did not enjoy Journey Towards FI 	In 2006 she is making around $35k per year and saving around $200 per month 	She also realized a true engineering job wasn't going to be there for her in Denver 	From there she moved to a small town in Texas for a few years 	Then her dream job opened up in Nashville, TN Things Begin to Fall Apart 	We're now entering 2013 on the journey and Christine is hitting her groove 	Until she is shocked to find out that she'll be losing that dream job quickly after starting 	Leading up to this, they had tried to push more and more work on her with no increased pay 	Christine's husband helped her through this down period 	Then she got a new contract for a dream job as an engineer and things were looking up 	Then six weeks after their honeymoon, that new contract got pulled and she was unemployed 	On top of this, her husband lost his largest income-generating gig 	Six weeks after their honeymoon they saw their pay get cut from $120k to $35k 	They started cutting all expenses and downsizing their house 	Christine admits that the whole experience was crushing 	She vowed to never let one company be the source of her income The turnaround 	Christine finally finds work at a food tour company in Nashville 	The hours are long and the pay had gotten cut in half 	Then January 2018 happened and her life completely changed 	This was when she attended her first financial independence event 	Christine attended CampFI down in Florida 	At the conference, she was challenged to start her own food tour company 	When she got home, she quit her job and started her own business that May 	This was the start of A Little Local Flavor Building a Six-Figure Business 	Christine admits she was out of her comfort zone 	What got her through was just taking one small step every day 	Most of her education came from podcasts 	It took some time for her to shed being an engineer as her identity 	As she built her team she had several keys she wanted to hit 	Some things she wanted was to fair pay, have strong values, and a good work environment 	She then layers in lots of bonuses into her employees' pay 	This small step really incentivizes them to do great work 	By the end of 2018, they had over $60k in sales 	But then 2019 grew like crazy 	She grew her team to include 8 employees 	They also saw the number of visitors grow to 4400 and sales to $330k 	With that, they took home 23% as profit 	Christine expects to grow that margin and increase tour types and locations 	Her 2020 goal is $500k for the company 	She also hopes to be able to scale back her involvement Key Takeaways 	Social Currency: Christine talks about how to put ou...

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