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🎙️ Weekly Podcast (UK Reselling): Behind The Listings (UK Reselling Podcast)

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How do you go from selling a few spare car parts at home to building a reselling business turning over around £55,000 per month? 🤯

This week we're joined by Hanli from We Sell Car Parts UK — and this is about MUCH more than the numbers.

Hanli takes us right back to the beginning: moving to the UK from South Africa, starting again with very little, discovering eBay while on maternity leave and turning a handful of her husband's spare car parts into the foundations of an incredible family business.

But the journey definitely wasn't straightforward.

We talk about the point where Hanli was weeks away from shutting the business down, the mistakes they made with sourcing, spending years building supplier relationships and eventually growing from the kitchen table into a 5,500 sq ft premises — while reaching the point where her husband could leave his job and join the business full-time. 🙌

We also get deep into something Hanli has become known for:

“Choose Your Hard.”

Why copying somebody else's business model can make you miserable, why bigger numbers don't automatically equal success, and why building a business around your own life, priorities and goals matters far more than trying to follow somebody else's blueprint.

We cover:

🚗 How We Sell Car Parts UK started
💰 Building a business turning over around £55K/month
📦 How they built recurring sourcing relationships
🍩 The brilliant story behind using donuts to find suppliers
📉 Nearly shutting the business down
💷 Doing £100K in sales and asking: “Where's the money?”
🧠 The dangers of comparison and hustle culture
🔥 The story behind “Choose Your Hard”
👨‍👩‍👧 Building a business around family life
🏭 Growing from the kitchen table to a 5,500 sq ft premises
❤️ Bringing her husband into the business full-time
🤖 AI and where reselling could be heading next
🏆 What success actually means when you strip away the numbers

There's a LOT to take from this conversation, whether you're just starting out or already trying to scale a serious reselling business.

Choose your hard. Build the business that works for YOU. 👊

👇 Let us know your biggest takeaway from the episode in the comments.