Welcome to Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur podcast. Join the podcast mogul Phil Better as he interviews successful entrepreneurs that make their living in the digital world. Now let's join your host Phil Better and his special guest today on Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur podcast. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of invest in yourself, the digital entrepreneur podcast. I'm, of course, your host, Phil Better the podcast, Mojo. And today, we have a truly inspiring guest whose journey and achievements will motivate you and educate entrepreneurs at stages at all stages of their career. Our guest today is a powerhouse in the world of ecommerce. I love ecommerce because it's pretty much simple.

Not only is she a multi 6 figure Etsy seller, but she is also a dedicated military spouse and mom of two small boys. Her, success on Etsy Etsy has been life changing, setting her family on a path of building generational wealth by their early thirties. In 2022, she took her expertise to a new level by launching the ultimate Etsy course, which quickly gained popularity even before it becoming its official launch. Like, can you believe that she before she launched it, it was already a hit. Within a year, the program enrolled over 1,500 students driven by the authentic ecommerce strategies she developed during her time at Zappos and Zuoys. The success of her students has fueled organic traction, created a vibrant community over over 68,000 YouTube subscribers, and, of course, a top Etsy podcast. Let's go podcasting for the win, which is called Etsy success with our guest. I'm not gonna say her name, which has amassed over 150,000 podcast downloads, which is an amazing accomplishment.

She's probably already hit, half a half a million already, I bet. So listeners, get ready to be inspired by her remarkable journey and the invaluable insight into into the world of entrepreneurship that she brings. So it's with a great pleasure I bring to the podcast, Dylan. Dylan, welcome to the show.

Thank you. Thanks for having me. That was a great intro.

Thank you. I, my audience knows, and I I keep repeating this, but I love hype men for rap stars of the early nineties, how we hyped up the crowd. So that's what I look to do, hype up the main guest, the the main star who is you. So, Dylan, I wanna thank you so much for being here, and I'm excited to talk to you about, the ultimate Etsy course, how you got into entrepreneurship, all that, and and what you're doing now and about your podcast, of course. But first question, like always, is why? Why did you become an entrepreneur? What spurred you to be an Etsy entrepreneur?

Yes. So, really, my both of my parents were entrepreneurs. So my mom had her own dental practice. My dad had a fencing construction business. So they both did that for over forty years. So I grew up with it. It wasn't weird or foreign to me. And I saw how lucrative it can be when you're your own boss.

You know, we could still take vacations. You know, you they kind of did the work thing. They could choose their hours. And, you know, it was it was really nice as as a kid. And then I did get into corporate ecommerce out of college because, you know, I was thinking, do I go get my MBA, or do I go get some experience? And I did think at the time experience would be a little bit more valuable.

Uh-huh.

So I went and I worked for Zappos, then worked at Zulily up in Seattle and did did that. But then I moved I got married and I moved to San Diego. I had a really hard time finding a job. Ecommerce is not as big down here as up in Seattle, and it was tough. So I was start starting all these side hustles. Like, if I can just cover my expenses with, like, side hustles, like, okay. That's step one. And then one of them, I started taking my corporate background, applying what I knew from that to ecommerce, and it just took off.

And I thought I will never work for someone else again. I can work I can make way more money working for myself. I can have my babies, you know, be there. And, like, why would I do anything else? Yeah. So I was 20 let's see. 26 at the time.