Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

I Used to Sleep in a Parking Garage for My Business

12 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this video, Kelly Alhooie recounts the early days of launching her mobile business in Washington, DC. She describes hauling a heavy suitcase up three flights of stairs to meet clients, and how the inconvenience of commuting from her house an hour away led her to sleep in a parking garage’s second level. From her car she took calls and booked appointments, using the garage as a makeshift office and bedroom. Kelly frames this as a "hustle mode" experience and shares practical advice to avoid similar pain, recommending a backpack instead of a suitcase and emphasizing the importance of minimizing travel back‑and‑forth.

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For those that may or may not know my story, I started mobile. And as you can see in this bottom right-hand corner, there's me, okay, with my full-on suitcase and my table. It's freaking heavy as heck. I'm in Washington, DC. We got stairs going up and down. I had to climb 3 flights of freaking stairs with that thing. It was so freaking heavy. My back was so— oh, it was so bad. Okay, I don't recommend that. Just bring a backpack. Do not bring a suitcase. Like I had a full-on suitcase. Okay. Anyways, so in the left-hand side of the corner right here, this parking deck, this is where I literally used to sleep. I used to sleep here because I didn't want to go from my house. My house is like an hour away from DC. So I would have most of my clients down in DC. So I would just stay down there and I would just literally right here on the second level, I'd park my car in that corner and I would just sit there and be like, okay, let me take phone calls. Like you could see in my car right here, Let me take phone calls. Let me just try to book people. Let me try to call people because I didn't have time to keep going back and forth to my house. That's how I started. Okay, now that's the hustle mode. I don't want you guys to go through all that pain. Okay, it was painful.