Quick Cash - Money's All Around Us

Welcome to Proof It’s Possible! In this episode, we’re diving into the often-overlooked abundance that’s already all around us—yes, even in your junk drawer. We explore how shifting your mindset and getting intentional about your space can uncover hidden financial opportunities right at home. Tune in to hear:

• Why money is more accessible than you think—if you know where to look.
•  How decluttering can lead to both mental clarity and unexpected cash flow.
•  Practical tips for turning unused items into real income.
•  The mindset shift that can open you up to more financial abundance.
•  How to start a business using what you already have at your fingertips.

Take a look around your space today. What’s sitting unused that could be bringing you cash—or even launching your next big idea? We’d love to hear!  DM us on Instagram @dayle_sheehan_designs & @jamiedfrancis! See you next time!

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Transcript

Jamie (00:00)
Hi guys, welcome back.

Dayle (00:02)
Thank you for being here.

Jamie (00:04)
Today we are chatting about money, my favorite topic, and how money is literally all around us.

Dayle (00:08)
Yay!

Yes, I say this all the time. I just was having a meeting with someone and I'm like, I wherever I go, I'm like, you know, it'd be a great business. Do you know what it'd be a great business? Someone should do this. We talk about this all the time. Like we always use the laundry example, but it can even be simpler than that. Like money is literally living in your home and you're not.

Jamie (00:24)
Yeah.

Dayle (00:37)
You're not doing the things to just treating it.

Jamie (00:39)
I think this all the time. Like if I had

time and energy, I could sell my clothes. Like the clothes I don't wear anymore. Some of them still have tags on them. But like they don't fit me right or they're too long and I don't want to pay to have them hemmed because I don't like it enough to pay that. know, just like silly things like that. Shoes that I've never worn because I'm like, you know what? They're not that comfortable and I just don't like them that much. ⁓ But they're nice for somebody else and they've never been worn. So they're in mint condition.

Dayle (00:46)
Yes.

Exactly.

Yep. Yep.

Exactly.

Jamie (01:09)
If I had extra time on my hands, I should be throwing those on Poshmark. I should be doing like kind of like the Gary Vee mentality that like there's there's truly money everywhere. If you just go garage sale and you can like buy that one thing and then sell it for 10 bucks more 30 % more than you paid for it just keep the cycle repeating until you have enough money to start your business or do whatever. Or maybe that is your business. Maybe flipping products is your business. But he's saying like start with the everyday like every household.

Dayle (01:16)
Yeah.

Jamie (01:38)
has every day, every garage sale has something of value. you know, Facebook thing can be, you know, there's golden nuggets on Facebook marketplace that you could buy.

Dayle (01:48)
Well, exactly. I mean, Facebook Marketplace is a wonderful place. Like there's Poshmark, there's Facebook Marketplace. There's all the different selling, there's eBay. And what's cool about it, do you remember the lady that was in the city that I live in, but not that you live in anymore? And she used to take people's stuff and like she just took a cut of what it was, but she did the hard work for other people. So you'd bring her like a bin of size two boys clothes. When Penn like grew out of that.

Jamie (01:53)
Mm-hmm.

Yes.

Dayle (02:17)
And then she would sell it. She put it all on Facebook Marketplace and like a sale, do all the like technical work and time of like taking the pictures, pricing it all, whatever. And then she'd give you whatever sold and take her 10 % or whatever the deal was. Like I don't know exactly what her deal was with you, but anyway.

Jamie (02:27)
Yes.

more than 10

% but still it took a lot of time and energy to sell that stuff so I was like happy to get anything for it and she was happy to make some cash from home.

Dayle (02:43)
Absolutely.

Well, for sure. And so it doesn't even necessarily have to be your stuff. If you started offering a service like that, they just got rid of people's junk for them. You know?

Jamie (02:55)
Do you ever do that? Like do you ever look around your closet and think like there is a lot of money just sitting here not being used or like Even your junk drawer or like your storage room. I always look in our storage room and I'm like there's like golf clubs. Nobody uses Because like we don't you know, someone got a new set of golf clubs or the kids grew out grew that like kids set of golf clubs So they don't fit anybody anymore, but they just we've never like gotten around to selling them It's like there's literally cash everywhere

Dayle (03:00)
⁓ yes.

Yes.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, exactly.

waiting, just

waiting for you to act, right? Like that's just it. And there's business ideas. And like, that's what I always think to myself, like money transfers hands every day, billions and billions and billions of times, you know, like it's constant. It is literally a constant moving flow of money. And, but then when we need money, like, or when somebody that's like at home, doesn't have a job, like doesn't...

Jamie (03:24)
If you

the way.

Dayle (03:51)
you know, is in that limbo stage where they're like, I don't know what to do. I don't know what kind of business I could start. I don't have any money to, I know what kind or, but I don't know what, how to get there. I don't know how to get going with it. Whatever the like story is, honestly, start in your drawer, start in your closet, start in your own world and be like, what do I have here that like, you know, and maybe, maybe you don't have all design and clothes and that's okay.

Jamie (04:09)
I'm gonna go home.

Dayle (04:19)
but your kids clothes or your clothes, say they're all sized medium and large, sell them to somebody for 45 bucks for the whole box. If you don't feel like they're super high value or they're really worn out or whatever, because there is somebody somewhere that is like, I'm just happy. What I consider a worn out dress or a worn out pair of sweats and a sweatshirt is like, it has one pill on it. Because to me,

Jamie (04:30)
Mm-hmm.

Dayle (04:48)
I'm like, ⁓ I don't really like stuff with pills on it. And I should just get a sweater shaver, but I'm like, I'm not gonna do that either. So I should sell it. Feels like too much work for me. So it's like, there are people that they're selling beautiful things all the time. And if you're willing to put in the work of cleaning something up, taking it, you know, like, and that's another thing. So.

Jamie (04:58)
Feels like too much work for me.

Mm-hmm.

Dayle (05:15)
Darren sells a lot of stuff. Like he loves buying something like a boat motor, fixing it and then selling it for what it's actually worth, not what the broken down price was. like, does he make lots of money because he's trading time? No, of course. But he makes money on everything he sells because he always takes the time. Like he's so good about taking the time and care with that item to like make it clean. When he got it, it was like oil stains from 20 years of...

Jamie (05:25)
Mm-hmm. ⁓

Dayle (05:44)
riding around on a boat, you know, so. But that's half of the battle. And it's like, if you are unemployed or you are looking for that like little infusion of cash to get the 350 bucks to put your kids into a sport or.

Jamie (05:48)
Yeah.

Or, or like, so here's a challenge. Remember back when our family went to Disneyland back, I want to say in like 2016 maybe? It was a long time ago. And I remember we like, I had been perpetually on Matt leaf for like, you know, a lot of years in a row. And

Dayle (06:03)
Okay.

Yeah.

Right.

Jamie (06:25)
It was like the middle of a recession for the industry that our business is in. So it was just like not great times. And I was like, I want to go to Disneyland. And Ray was like, absolutely not. And I was like, okay, well, I'm going to get enough money by selling just things we already have in this home to prove to you that like, this is going to have no financial impact on our life at all. Like I'll make it so that all of the trip will be paid for with cash you didn't even realize we had, you know?

And so that's what I did. Like if the kids grew out of something, like, rather than just like put it in the donation bin, I was like, okay, I'm going to take these Nike runners and I'm going to like wash them and I'm going to make sure the souls are looking really nice and white. And then I put them on marketplace and I did this for like six months and earned enough money to get to like pay for the whole trip. And I think that if there's like anyone listening, that's like, Oh, I have like this dream on my heart and I want to start a business and I need 500 bucks or a thousand bucks or I need a hundred dollars to buy the

Dayle (07:05)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Exactly.

Jamie (07:24)
you know, the e-course to learn how to do the thing I want to do. Challenge yourself to just like look around and see where you can find that money so that it has no financial impact on your bank account. So like you're not taking money out of your own bank account to start this business. You're not. If this is your worry that like or if this is your hump you need to get over, this is your excuse that you don't have the cash to start the business. I'm challenging you to use things that are already in your house.

Dayle (07:50)
Hmm?

Jamie (07:53)
that you already own, that you don't use, if it's the set of golf clubs in the basement, if it's the clothes your kids have grown out of, if it's the playpen your kids don't use anymore, or if it's the stroller, if it's the high-end shoes you've been wanting to wear but realize you don't wear them any at all, whatever it is, get on Poshmark, get on Marketplace, get on, send it to a consignment store and save that cash, keep it in a piggy bank or...

Dayle (07:55)
I agree.

The stroller. Yeah.

Okay.

Jamie (08:22)
something, save that cash and see how much after like a month of actually putting your mind to it, how much money you can get in that piggy bank.

Dayle (08:30)
Well,

and like the added bonus that I just want that I get so much joy out of is like space in your junk drawer, space in your garage, space in your storage room downstairs, space in your closet.

Jamie (08:37)
Awesome.

It's the space that's like, it's the stuff that's taking up space that's also clouding your mind.

Dayle (08:47)
Absolutely. And once you're on to this like money's everywhere and money is available to me, and I can always make more money. And that's what's the loop in your head. You will genuinely start making more money. And like, you'll have an idea after an idea. And like, I have to I have to stop myself from having too many ideas, because I love the idea.

Jamie (09:01)
Absolutely.

Yes.

Dayle (09:11)
creation part of like thinking up a new business, thinking up a new offering. And I have to like be like, do you have capacity to take on this new money making idea? Although you think it's a 10 out of 10 idea? Can you create that? Do you understand enough about that? Is it something that's reasonable for you to actually take on? And that's the point you want to get to because what will happen is once you have a whole bunch of irons in the fire,

Jamie (09:15)
Yeah.

We're here.

Dayle (09:39)
There's no such thing as a recession for you because you know how to always generate income. You know how to think outside of the box. You know how to use the skills that you have. And like I can hear you being like, I don't have any skills, know, wherever you are in your house, stop saying that right now because everybody is good at something. Like if you are using the like stay at home mom example, if you are the stay at home mom on mat leave, A you.

Jamie (09:57)
Yeah? Yeah?

Dayle (10:09)
you had a job very likely before you went on a mat leaving your life. So you did something as a professional. But let's just say you literally have never worked. But the one thing you do do is you make great snacks for your kids. Put out a little mini course that's your 10 best snack recipes that are healthy or easy or the kids can make themselves depending on their ages. Whatever that looks like for you, do it. Do the thing. Like create the thing. Like once you've made your

Jamie (10:37)
Yeah.

Dayle (10:39)
$500 or $1,000 from selling all this stuff in your house and you don't feel like you have anything left, take your money that you have and invest in a landing page that can sell your e-course. And that's all you need. I know I'm over, I'm making it sound so easy, but it's cause it's not that hard. Really not that hard.

Jamie (10:51)
Okay.

Mm-hmm. And

it's really just the like excuses in our head that stop us because I'm willing to bet 90 % of the people that are listening to this if you go look in your like old jackets, you would find cash right now. You go look in your old purses, you would find cash right now. Cash is literally like all around us. Everywhere we look, there is cash. And whether it's a liquid cash in that like, you know, there's a $20 bill sitting in an old purse you forgot about.

Dayle (11:11)
Absolutely. Yes. Totally.

Mm-hmm.

When you know something... Yeah.

Jamie (11:28)
or whether it's like that has cash potential, you just need to let it go. Like the glove clubs in the storage room or whatever that is.

Dayle (11:33)
Exactly. Well, and one fun

thing that I've been watching is I've started watching your kids take part in money a little bit more and like learn more about it. So Mila obviously has been doing it for a few years now. And she realized that like, if she set up a stand outside of grandma and grandpa's house, because there's lots of walking traffic, she could sell almost anything from that driveway. You know, so she for a while there, she was on a kicker. She's making bracelets. She had some cookies out there.

Jamie (11:42)
I'm sorry.

Mm-hmm.

had the

margarita maker out there one day and I was like, whoa kid, what kind of message are we sending the neighborhood?

Dayle (12:03)
Yeah. What are you doing?

And she's like, they're just Slurpees, God. And like people were buying them. And I thought, good for you. This is hilarious. And like, obviously adults can't make like lemonade stands and it's different. It hits different. Like the, the neighbors don't stop unless maybe it is a margarita. ⁓ but her interest in learning how to make money with her limited ability to drive herself anywhere.

have any capital to invest, any of that. The other fun thing that she did was she saw grandma and grandpa's big change bin that they've been collecting for a lifetime. not her money to use, but her mind, it was. So you probably have a change bin somewhere too. And the girl got hundreds of dollars out of that by taking the time to roll it. Because grandma said, if you will take the time to roll it, you can keep whatever you roll.

Jamie (12:51)
Mm-hmm.

Dayle (13:01)
It's literally like a burden in their life to sit down for the hours it's going to take to roll all the money. And she's like, I would love to. That sounds so fun. Okay. And she treated it like a crap project and she did it for weeks on end. Rolled money and every time she'd want like a fancy new backpack. You know, that girl was in the spare room rolling, doing her rolling work. And like, I honestly, I just love her for it because I'm like, good for you. Good for you.

Jamie (13:15)
Mm-hmm.

Hey.

Yeah, get

it girl!

Dayle (13:28)
You looked around and you thought, are their opportunities? You got the like permission you needed from the person who owned the item. You know, that's all you can do. So.

Jamie (13:35)
Absolutely. Absolutely. And

like I, you're right, people listening here probably have their own change bin that they've never rolled the money or they have, you know, Mexican pesos that they've never converted to Canadian. And like, these are just like tiny little ways that are small little pockets of money. But I feel like you're sending the universe a message that like I'm open to receiving money. So

Dayle (14:01)
Mm-hmm.

Jamie (14:01)
What seems

like, who cares? You rolled a roll of quarters and that's not worth that much. It leads to more opportunities to welcome in more money, more opportunities to welcome in more money. And if you actually, it's kind of like the, brings you joy, who's the author of that book? Like the declutter your home, Konmari. So like her whole premise is that in order to declutter your home, you have to go like item by item and be like, okay,

Dayle (14:09)
Exactly.

Conmari. Yep.

Jamie (14:29)
pull everything out. let's use jackets as an example. You pull everything out. So if you have a front closet, like front door closet that has some jackets, you have some in your closet, you have some in the storage room of jackets you no longer wear, but bring all of the things to a central location and then you make your decision about what stays and what goes. But if you keep compartmentalizing them, like this bare room, your room, your closet, the storage room, front hall closet, you never really realize how much there is.

Dayle (14:59)
Yes, exactly.

Jamie (14:59)
If you take

that premise and you put it with money, it's like, okay, well, if in your old purse you have 10 bucks and then you have $20 and change you've never rolled and you also have a lottery ticket, you've never, a scratchy ticket from Christmas that you've never actually cashed in, but it might have $50 on it. If you bring all of that together and you put it all in a piggy bank or you put it all in a special account, you would be amazed at how much there actually is.

Dayle (15:12)
Mm-hmm.

For sure. Well, and the way that I like when I'm cleaning out my closet, I get so much joy from the lightness of it. But I also feel very excited because like I max my closet out. So when I get overcrowded in my closet, I find that I don't even have one hanger left after I put away my laundry and it gives me like a bit of anxiety. And what's exciting is if I like go on

Jamie (15:27)
Yes.

Yeah.

Dayle (15:44)
to the mall and I find something new. And I know that I just got rid of like 30 pieces of clothing in all my different categories of clothes, like coats, know, shirts, dresses, pants, everything. Which 30 garments sounds like a lot, but when you say like, it's only two pairs of pants, it's only two dresses, it's five shirts, it's four winter coats that I just don't even like, you know, and you look at it like that, it's a few tank tops.

Jamie (16:03)
We did.

Mm-hmm.

Dayle (16:09)
it 30 pieces is not that many out of each category. It's literally just getting rid of the one or two things you don't wear. And so I also have the the the joy of coming home to be able to hang up the new excited ⁓ item that I just got in a like special spot with its own hanger. I don't have to be like, I'll unpack that bag later when I clean out my closet. So the

Jamie (16:32)
Yeah,

I truly feel like it almost steals some of your joy when you don't have like order in your life. And I feel like the same is true. Like we're using a closet as an example, but I feel like the same is true with your finances. Like if you don't know where they're at, like, cause you kind of just play a, you know, like hands off role with your finances, whether it's like the change in the jar or it's the in your old purse. If you just kind of never take a hold of it.

Dayle (16:34)
Make space.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Jamie (17:02)
It steals a little bit of your joy.

Dayle (17:04)
well, what it does is the unknown is scarier in my opinion, then knowing and then making a plan to change it, fix it, add to it, whatever you find out in your findings, right? Like, before I got a bookkeeper, I just kind of like, kept an eye on my bank account and prayed more money was coming, but I couldn't remember if it was didn't know who paid. Figure that all out at the end of the year. Craziness, you know, really craziness.

Jamie (17:18)
Mm-hmm.

with the wall.

Dayle (17:33)
And every time I think about my like accounting, or my bookkeeping, I was just like, it's too big to tackle. It's too big to tackle my problems there. I and like I always had money coming in. But what how much we never had them all up, you don't know what you know what each job got you, but you don't know how much you don't know when you don't know anything who's paid who hasn't paid. It was chaos and it felt

Jamie (17:49)
Yeah.

Dayle (17:59)
very, very, very overwhelming. And so when once I like smarten up, got a bookkeeper, the bookkeeper gives me a monthly report every time and I'm like, ⁓ down from a year ago, up from a year ago, whatever. Like I literally get a whole bunch of information and that information, even if it's like, you're down from a year ago, but last month you were up three times from a year ago. So like, you're okay, things are fine, you know.

Jamie (18:22)
Mm-hmm.

Well,

I also feel like feeling like you have a handle on it, whether that's, you know, the small things or the big things like your business finances, just the feeling of having a handle on it is such a like, place to be. Yeah, it's empowering to know that like good or bad, you got a handle on it, you know.

Dayle (18:40)
Yes, it's empowering for sure.

Yeah. Well,

and you want to know what else is very empowering. And I think it's kind of the point of this whole episode is if you change your mindset to I can always make more money flows to me daily. And these become your mantras. These become your realities. That is when you end up with money flowing to you daily. And think and I say that I say to myself, money flows to me daily. I you know,

Jamie (18:57)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Dayle (19:14)
opportunities are always on their way to me. ⁓ The people I am seeking are also seeking me. The money I'm seeking is also seeking me. Like I say these things over and over and over again, and it works. And then the phone rings and somebody hires me or I get a lead from something, you know, like, or somebody introduces me to their friend and that makes my day, you know, and that's how the world goes round. And

Jamie (19:20)
Mm-hmm.

Yes.

Yes.

Dayle (19:41)
Once you empower yourself to believe like there's always more coming, all I have to do is like be ready to receive it and put in my end of the deal, put in my end of the work to, you know, go through that closet and wash all the coats that I want to sell and then get them on to Poshmark, take the picture, give a price, you know, it is a way to make money before you've even figured out your proper business plan.

Jamie (19:48)
Thank you.

Yep.

Well, and it's sending the universe a sign. So more than it is the $20, like yeah, the $20 is nice, probably not gonna change your life. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. But more than the $20, it's representative of the fact that like you're open to receiving the money. And that is the biggest hurdle, I think, is that like people believe they're not gonna get.

Dayle (20:27)
Exactly.

Jamie (20:34)
the money, they're not worthy of the money, they're not going to the event, they're not, they don't have the cash for that. Like it's all these little things we tell ourselves that we're sending a message to the universe that we're not open to receiving. We're not worthy of receiving. We're not abundant. We're not all these things. So we're trying to reverse that by, by changing the narrative and saying like, I am open to receive. And you'll be shocked at how many times you'll like,

Dayle (20:35)
Totally.

Mm-hmm.

Jamie (21:00)
you know, go into your car and open up your glove compartment and find that old lottery ticket agent or scratchy ticket. And it's not going to be a ton of money. Well, knock on wood. I hope it is a ton of money for you. But it's that daily reminder that like money flows to all the time in the most unexpected places. So I really believe I'm putting this challenge out to our listeners that like make a goal. So whether that's like, I want to buy a ticket to this woman event, woman's event coming to my hometown.

Dayle (21:08)
We hope it is, Yeah.

for sure.

Jamie (21:27)
Or that's like, want to buy myself that $200 blazer that I don't, you know, I wouldn't normally spend the money on. Whatever your goal is, make it like a financial goal and say, I'm going to use money that I have already existing. So find a way to get that $200 to buy the blazer or the $500 to buy the ticket or whatever your goal is. But I want to hear all about it because this is fun.

Dayle (21:44)
Yes.

Yep.

Yeah,

it's very fun. We hope you guys have a great week. Thank you so much for listening. Bye.

Jamie (22:00)
Bye guys.