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Side Hustle School

#1029 - The Cultic Coffee Shop in Aberdeen, Scotland

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Careers, Small Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship, Business, Entrepreneurship,

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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By tapping into the power of their community, two coffee shop owners built a big-city hot spot in their small town.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Side Us All School. My name is Chris Gill about your host. Today we will look at

0:13.5

a cult-like coffee shop in Aberdeen, Scotland. It's started by a couple who believes their

0:18.2

city deserves better when it comes to coffee. Now we don't usually consider such stories

0:22.3

on the show, and it's not because I don't respect coffee. I actually respect it very much.

0:26.9

But because opening a retail coffee shop is not exactly a low-risk, low investment endeavor.

0:32.0

Still, the story won me over, and there are at least two good lessons in it for us. So

0:36.8

pay attention by going all in on their vision and tapping into the power of their community.

0:41.4

This couple have now built a big city hotspot in their small town. Along the way they

0:45.8

had to commit to that vision and understand that it won't be for everyone. So it is the

0:50.4

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1:20.4

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Not everyone starts a side hustle with dreams of endless riches, quitting their day job. Sometimes

2:11.0

it's just a matter of filling a need. That's what led Louise and Paul Robertson to open

2:15.7

the cult of coffee nearly three years ago. Louise and Paul were frustrated with the difficulty

2:20.8

of finding a coffee in their city of Aberdeen, Scotland. The few spots that did have finer

2:25.8

roasts also add a bit of an elitist attitude in their service that left them feeling lukewarm.

2:31.3

It was from that frustration that their own coffee shop was born, built from the ground

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