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Side Hustle School

#1032 - Breast Cancer Survivor Creates Seatbelt Covers for Patients

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A breast cancer survivor makes a seat belt pillow for herself, and then turns it into a handmade business.


Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. 

 

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0:00.0

Not everything has to scale, not everything has to grow, not everything has to be complex

0:12.8

or complicated.

0:13.8

In fact, if you have never started any sort of business, or let's say if you've never

0:17.5

sold anything online or otherwise, it's probably better to start very small and simple.

0:22.8

And then what you need to do is just apply some business basics, the things I talk about

0:26.3

every day here, to get that project up and running.

0:29.0

So it all starts with an idea, what are you going to sell, what is the product of the

0:31.8

service, and then it's all about implementation.

0:34.4

You know, what do you need to make that idea happen?

0:37.0

What are the very basic, very minimum things you need to do to have that product out the

0:40.8

door?

0:41.8

So today's story is an example of that.

0:43.6

A breast cancer survivor makes a seat belt pillow for herself and then turns it into

0:48.4

a handmade business.

0:49.6

So very practical, helpful item, simple project, and it's doing well for her while also helping

0:54.5

other people at the same time.

0:56.6

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1:00.0

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