Thriving on the Homefront, a deployment hobby to successful business, with Navy Wife Emily

We are rounding out our Holiday Mil Spouse Shop series with Emily from Thriving Homefront.

Emily is a Navy wife and mom of 2 littles who was looking for a little more after leaving her teaching career to stay home with their kids. 

Like so many of us do while our spouses are deployed, Emily picked up a new hobby and taught herself to sew on a sewing machine.

She started to make headbands for her and her daughters and people kept asking about them, so she opened up a shop and took off running!

Emily had a lot of success early on with being connected with a subscription box company and talks about the trials and tribulations of wholesale orders and volume and difficulty finding material during the pandemic.

Thriving Homefront has lots of holiday themed items for you to check out! Hair accessories make great teacher gifts and stocking stuffers!

We then shift gears quite a bit to talk about potential PCSing, and orders changing mis PCS, that challenges of being on a flight schedule and having such limited time with your spouse and the effects all of those things have on home based businesses.

This past year Emily decided to homeschool her kiddos. We talk about that decision and what homeschooling looks like for them. Emily also shares an amazing program if you are a FL resident and homeschooling where you can get up to $8000/per year per kid in financial assistance!

Connect with Emily on Instagram @thrivinghomefront

Visit her website: www.thrivinghomefront.com

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