Summary: <br> In this Best of Episode, we re-visit Chapter 1 of the "Our story" series.<br> <br> We'll be sharing our entire "Our Story" episodes in the Saturday "Best of" releases over the next few weeks.<br> <br> You don't want to miss these! We'll be giving you all the juicy details of who we are, where we began, and how it all happened!<br> <br> This episode was originally published on October 10, 2017. You can check out the original episode here: <a href="https://flippedlifestyle.com/podcast164/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://flippedlifestyle.com/podcast164/</a><br> FULL TRANSCRIPT<br> Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We’re your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams.<br> <br> We’re a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright. Let’s get started.<br> <br> What’s up, everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Great to be back with you again today. This is going to be a solo show with just me and Jocelyn. We are not going to have a guest on the program today. As we continue to tell you a little bit more about our story, about how two normal people from Kentucky were able to start an online business with no money, no time, while working full-time, raising kids, and basically, how maybe you can do it, too. That is what we are doing today, we are talking about the next chapter in our story.<br> <br> Last week, we told you a little bit about our early life about where we came from, where we grew up, before Jocelyn and I knew each other. The next chapter in our story is actually about how we met in college at the University of Kentucky.<br> <br> Jocelyn: Alright, in our last episode, we were talking about how young I was when I went to college. At the time, I thought I was all grown up and independent but looking back now, I realized how incredibly young and naïve I really was.<br> <br> Shane: You technically were not even legally of age. You are not even 18 years old when you moved away from home. But could not even vote when you moved out of your hometown and moved to the big city in Lexington.<br> <br> Jocelyn: And the scary thing about that is I think about how my son is eight. I was nine years older than him when I went to college. That is just scary. I can’t even picture my son being that age. I know there is a big difference between 8 and 17. But still there is not as big of a difference as you think.<br> <br> Shane: It is scary. There is no way we would ever let our kids– like Jocelyn, her birthday is on March 27th. My birthday is actually on March 28th. Funny story about that, we will talk about that soon. I will tell you about that later. Jocelyn was born on March 27th. She turned 17 on March 27th of her senior year. Did you move in June? Or when did you move?<br> <br> Jocelyn: I think it was probably like early August of that year.<br> <br> Shane: Yeah, okay.<br> <br> Jocelyn: When I moved into the dorms. I could not wait, I was counting down the minutes. I was just a very independent person. I knew that it would not be a problem. Honestly, I never even really went home. I went home sometimes. You know how sometimes people in college, they will go home every single weekend? Yeah, that was not me. I went home maybe once a month if I had to. Again, it is not because I had a bad home life or anything like that. I was just that fiercely independent. I just wanted to do my own thing.<br> <br> Shane: So you graduated in 97? I had already been in college a year then, right, when you came to college?<br> <br> Jocelyn: Yeah, you were a sophomore when I got there.<br> <br> Shane: I graduated in 1996, and I was kind of the same way. I had a dream my whole life to go to the University of Kentucky.<br>
