Moniqueca Sims, owner of SSG Appliance Academy, got her first glimpse into the appliance repair industry while dating a man who worked in the space. "He worked all the time, seven days a week," Sims recalls, "so I used to go out with him just to spend time with him. I saw how easy it was for him to repair those appliances, and he was repairing them quickly."

Image Credit: Courtesy of SSG Appliance Academy. Moniqueca Sims.

Sims believes in "working smarter, not harder" and had the idea to hire technicians to help the man she was dating with repair calls. She did, but when he didn't slow down, she ended up with her own appliance repair company.

However, in running that business, Sims lost a significant amount of money purchasing parts. Many people she hired didn't actually know how to repair appliances — and would just switch out part after part in search of a fit.

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So Sims took matters into her own hands again. She enrolled in an online course to learn about appliance repair and started handling jobs herself, even taking her kids along sometimes.

"When you fix something, it boosts you up, every time you do........

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