Kelly Alhooie started her practice in a room with no running water or windows, using an upside-down Costco box as a table and kitchen lube from a Tupperware jar. Crickets infested the space, the carpet was stained, and she ran drills in a hallway because she couldn't afford a proper training area.
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I literally just had a table. I'm not kidding. I wish I had a picture of this. It's somewhere. I had a flipped upside down Costco box, okay, with lube that was in a Tupperware jar from my kitchen that I just squirted a little lube in, and I had to stick my finger in that with my gloves. I'm not kidding. And my gloves were in a plastic bag. And my sheets that I had were just in a garbage bag sitting off to the side of my upside-down cardboard box from Costco. And there were stains all over the carpet. It was so nasty. I had puzzle pieces underneath my table to try to cover that up with a fake plant in the corner, thinking that that's my decor. That's how I got started in my space. It was not cute, guys. Oh, by the way, had— yeah, humble beginnings. I had no running water there, crickets that were in the room with us, okay, and no windows in that space. And you know what I did? Because I was, I was real cheap back then, okay? I used the hallway to do running drills because I couldn't afford that space. That's how you— that's how you do things, just FYI, okay? That's how you save to be able to get money