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Hidden Gems: Meet Jasmine Viola of Mother Hustler Liquidation

Today we’d like to introduce you to Jasmine Viola.

Jasmine , we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
Mother Hustler Liquidation started about seven years ago with a simple love for finding great deals and turning them into opportunities. What began with flipping pallets and bulk purchases to family and friends quickly grew into something much bigger. With the encouragement from my family and the support of those first loyal customers, I took a chance and turned my side hustle into a real business. Today, Mother Hustler Liquidation has grown into an amazing community of thousands of customers, both locally and online. We’ve expanded into live selling while staying true to what got us here: great deals, genuine relationships, hard work, and giving back to our community. At the end of the day, the name says it all. I’m a mom, I’m a hustler, and I built this business from the ground up with a whole lot of determination and an incredible community behind me.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It definitely hasn’t always been a smooth road, but every challenge has been part of the growth. We started out working from my garage, making the most of the space we had until we were able to move into a warehouse. Transportation was another challenge there were plenty of times we needed more room to haul inventory than our vehicles could handle. Eventually, we were able to upgrade to a small transit van, which felt like a huge milestone at the time!

Looking back, each of those challenges reminds me how far Mother Hustler Liquidation has come. We didn’t start with everything we needed, we worked with what we had, reinvested in the business, and upgraded one step at a time.

Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Mother Hustler Liquidation is all about great deals, staying ahead of trends, and making shopping FUN. We’re best known for our LIVE shows, where I like to say we take the concept of “virtual shopping” to the next level. You truly never know what I’m going to have on a show, and that’s part of the excitement!

What really sets us apart is that we’re always thinking outside the box. One of my proudest ideas has been The Squishy Van. We filled our transit van with more than 20 different kinds of squishies and traveled between Toledo and Elyria, bringing smiles to hundreds of children. It was the first concept of its kind, and seeing how much joy something so simple brought to families was incredible.

Mother Hustler has never been about just selling products. It’s about creating an experience, building a community, finding ways to give back, and proving that a small business can do things differently.

Is there something surprising that you feel even people who know you might not know about?
Something that surprises most people is that my college degrees are actually in criminal justice. I never went to school for business. Everything I know about running and growing a business has been self-taught through research, trial and error, and simply figuring things out along the way. I’m constantly learning, adapting, and challenging myself to try new things. I think that’s a big part of the Mother Hustler story, you don’t always need the “perfect” background to build something successful. Sometimes you just have to be willing to learn and put in the work.

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