THE Fat Pack

What’s your favorite thing to do at card shops?

If you read all that, thank you!! I haven't been very active on this platform yet, but I'm making it a goal to document my journey more this year and do everything I can to keep spreading the joy cards brings me!

Every day I grow more confident that this is what I was meant to do. With the support of my husband, grandmother, two beautiful boys, incredible team, and all of you, I get to build a business that I love; one that spreads joy and community through cards.

I first decided to start Mama Breaks as a side hustle. But after a year, I was more passionate about it than ever, began to see opportunities I never imagined and decided I would make the jump to leave teaching and pursue building the business of my dreams.

I started collecting. I started opening packs, joining breaks, and being an active part of the online hobby community. I enjoyed every aspect of it. I especially loved creating content and facilitating breaks. I started doing this while I was still teaching.

During quarantine I was teaching from home and decided I would buy my Stepdad a sports card for his birthday. From that day on I have not stopped falling in love with this hobby and have continued to immerse myself in it as much as possible.

My childhood baseball heroes were Jennie Finch, Eric Gagne, and Adrian Beltre. Since then I opened baseball cards here and there but never knew there was an entire world of collecting sports cards until I became an adult.

My journey in cards started when I was eight years old. I loved Pokemon and collected binders full of my favorites (Water, Fossil, and Psychic types). I attended my first in person baseball game about a year later and fell in love with the game.

Hello Hobby Twitter! Allow me to formally introduce myself, my name is Stephanie Garcia. I am a former middle school teacher, and now founder and CEO of Mama Breaks LLC, a card breaking and hobby media company. (Continued)