Laid Off at 59, Replaced Her Income in 6 Months | Built By Liquidation Ep. 13 w/ Dawn Sorrows

Dawn Sorrows spent over 30 years in logistics doing ocean imports and exports. In February she got laid off after ten years with the company, and she'd never been fired or laid off in her life. She was 59.

She had job offers. She turned them down and went all in on reselling instead.

Six months later she's paying herself a paycheck, she's made it to every family event she used to miss, and the community she built around her live sales raises thousands of dollars for families in need.

We get into the whole thing: why she jumped, what it cost her to learn, the pallets that lost her money, and the inventory problem nobody warns you about.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Why we do this podcast

1:40 The advice Zac ignored: "stay the size you are"

3:06 Dawn's actual goal: a small store and one truckload

9:13 Why cherry-picking pallets beats buying a truckload

11:35 Losing her mom, penny shopping, and the first live sale

13:00 Thirty years in logistics, then laid off at 59

14:26 "I was scared to death": six months to replace the income

15:25 The Deals with Dawn family and giving back

19:11 When her daughter told her she was proud of her

21:45 The first real struggle: inventory that won't move

23:33 What's in the Bag Wednesday

25:05 How resellers lie to themselves about inventory value

27:24 The pallets that lost her money

31:05 MSRP vs. what people will actually pay

37:47 Where to actually source: Freight Auctions and local

40:49 The 2,000-piece mistake

47:13 Replacing the paycheck

49:25 Twelve grandkids on the payroll

51:34 Why hiring is so hard right now

57:41 How Dawn tracks inventory, and what Zac would change

1:06:13 Knowing when to drop the price

1:08:50 Where to find Dawn

Find Dawn: Deals with Dawn, live on TikTok and Facebook.