Podcast Episode 212: How leaning into Data changed everything -with Trista Pagel

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About Trista:

Hello! I am Trista Pagel and along with my husband Jon we are proud Midwesterners. We currently live in Iowa. We have 5 little boys who are our pride and joy! I homeschool the boys :-) Personally, I have been selling handmade crafts since 2017. Growing up, my questions wasn't "Why?" it was "How?" Specifically "How do you make that." Over the years I've done pretty much every single side hustle imaginable. You name it, I've tinkered in it. And I always always always come to find my way back to homemade. 

Together, we've been in full time vocational ministry our entire marriage. Over the past several years we were introduced to this idea of owning a family business. We started asking questions like "what if we had a family business that supported the ministry INSTEAD of the ministry supporting our family?" 

Eventually, our time in ministry came to a close and we found ourselves completely unemployable. We had no work experience. No resume. We had no idea how to make money. We're a big family and we live in an expensive city, my husband finally got a job working insurance at the bottom of the totem pole. Our family vehicle died, our furnace system needed replaced, my husband had two back to back surgeries. And I will never forget the day I checked out at the grocery store and my debit card declined. When I called the bank, they informed me we were -$400 in the hole. And that brings me to our Etsy story! 

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She went from -$400 in her bank account to a thriving handmade Etsy shop within 4 months—completely changing the story for her large family. Tune in to hear how Trista followed my success steps one-by-one and used data based decisions to create one of the fastest Etsy success stories I’ve ever heard.

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