New Member Claire Shares her Success at LandAcademy
Jack Butala: Today Jill and I speak with one our members, Claire Herriot. She started down the path with Land Academy. She's experiencing immediate success purchasing super cheap, unwanted rural land. She's a stay at home mom with a bioengineering degree accumulating cash flow from land.
Let's find out how she makes our program work for her. Students and Jill said something like this, "Well, Claire wouldn't do that. Claire wouldn't have a problem with that. Claire seems to not have issues with this." That's what happens all the time here. You are our logical first customer/member guest.
Claire Herriot: That is very funny. Make sure you're not buttering me up here.
Jack Butala: No, no. You already bought the pit and you're sitting over here. You already bought the whole program.
Claire Herriot: Right.
Jack Butala: Tell us a little bit about yourself and what led you to making the decision to come aboard with Land Academy.
Claire Herriot: Let's see. I think I ... Sorry, I'm at home with a four year old right now. My mind is always working and I needed something a little bit more adult to work on. I wanted to find a way to contribute financially to my family. Somebody sent me a podcast called Side Hustle and it featured one of your competitors. The business model sounded like too good to be true, but I started doing a bunch of research.
I actually don't remember how I came across you guys, but then I listened to your podcasts and you seemed really normal and honest. I don't know. This just seems like something I can do. I don't know. Its neat because I grew up in [Novin 00:01:56], Wisconsin and so I really love that place and I love ... I'm not going to say the middle of nowhere, but I like [crosstalk 00:02:05].
Jack Butala: That's an inside joke that we're going to have to explain now.
Jill DeWit: That's awesome. I love that.
Claire Herriot: Being doing something pretty interesting and working with people. I don't know how big I want to get, but just starting out I just want to have some successes and see where it takes me.
Jack Butala: That's great. The way I put it is like this. I want to go to the mailbox and get 10,000 or 15,000 dollars ... 10,000 or 15,000 bucks between the first and the fifth of the month, and then I want to pick my kid up at school every day.
Claire Herriot: Yeah.
Jack Butala: That's great and that's what I do. So does Jill.
Claire Herriot: Awesome.
Jack Butala: Cool. I only wrote down a couple of questions here. What was the worst job you've ever had?
Claire Herriot: Oh, that's an easy ... I was going to say that's an easy answer. It is pretty easy. I worked at McDonald's for my first job when I was 14.
Jack Butala: They hired you at 14 in Wisconsin?
Claire Herriot: Yeah, yeah. That's the age, but you can't run the fryer. You can't use anything hot and you can't cook, so I was just a cashier. I did not like that, but the funny thing was I probably looked like I was 11. I looked really young. The older gentlemen would try to give me tips. I had no idea that that happened at McDonald's, but it was really sweet.
Jill DeWit: That's hilarious. Hiss poor thing is forced to work at age 10 to help out her family. That's funny. All hands on deck. That's hilarious.
Jack Butala: I didn't know kids could work at 14. I want to make some ... We're going to have a talk tonight.
Jill DeWit: That's so funny though. I have a son, [Clarit 00:04:03], that has had one food related job in his life. He's 16 now and said,