Jacqueline Elliott built her business from a laptop without an office, using stacked boxes and a plastic Walmart table as her setup. She involved her kids early and created a work zone where they learned to wait until she was available.
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People ask me, like, when you have your kids, like, what do you. What do you do with your kids? Well, when we were building our business, we didn't have the money, but our kids were involved in everything. They learned entrepreneurship and business very, very early. So I worked off my laptop, and I. We didn't have an office. Andy shot videos by putting, like, stacking, like, file boxes and with his phone and all this other stuff so I'd be really quiet. And then we had to. Basically, I had, like. It looked like an FBI lab. I had, like, a table from, like, Walmart. Plastic table, like those ones that you put, like, you take to the park. And I up my computer on there, and my kids would come in. Mom. And I'd be like, just a minute. Yeah, mom, just a second. They knew that if I was in my little work zone, that designated area in the house, that that was a time where they had to have patience and wait, right? But as soon as I put that phone down or something, I put it down. And they'd be like, hey, mom, you know, whatever. I'm like, yes, tell me now. I'm ready. Like, mom, you know, this thing happened at school, and I. Oh, really? No way, dude. That's awesome. Candy, did you hear that? He.