#1047 - Event Planner Writes Her Way Into Custom Calligraphy Shop
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Her friends encourage her to open her own Etsy shop, but this event planner ends up going further by quitting her job and publishing a book.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels. |
| 0:07.0 | But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business. |
| 0:15.0 | So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill. |
| 0:21.0 | On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh, that's nice. Search zero with an axe. Because healthy business is beautiful business. |
| 0:39.0 | Can you start an online business with nothing more than a phone? Not even a computer. |
| 0:44.0 | I grew up in the world of desktop computers myself and in transition to working mostly on laptops. |
| 0:49.0 | But I'm aware that a lot of people in younger generations are growing up in the world of mobile first, |
| 0:54.0 | where phones are the primary devices. In fact, some people in some parts of the world may never actually work on a desktop or a laptop computer. |
| 1:01.0 | But they're able to do so much on their phone. I noticed that whenever I travel to Africa or much of Asia, not everybody has a computer, but just about everybody has a phone. |
| 1:09.0 | So I thought this was pretty interesting. In this story, an event planner writes her way into a custom calligraphy shop, |
| 1:15.0 | starting with nothing more than her iPhone and one Instagram follower, which was herself from her personal account. |
| 1:21.0 | But it grew. Her friends encouraged her to open an Etsy store and she ends up going even further, |
| 1:26.0 | eventually quitting her job and publishing a book. This year, in fact, she earned around $200,000. |
| 1:32.0 | It all started with a love of doodling. Great story. I really enjoyed working on this one. |
| 1:37.0 | I will bring it to you after this message from our sponsor. I'm going anywhere. |
| 1:41.0 | You hearing this? It sounds like time to tap into playoff mode that now stop. Call your way to the top. Give it off. You got type of thing. |
| 1:52.0 | From inside the paint to outside the arena. |
| 1:57.0 | Everybody's got to get in playoff mode and stay in playoff mode. |
| 2:01.0 | Every single round. The NBA playoff's presented by Google Pixel continue on ABC, ESPN and TNT. |
| 2:11.0 | The search is heating up for the people who make football better. People like Sarah Catriona. |
| 2:17.0 | Strength and conditioning is not just for the praise, it's for everyone. |
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