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Side Hustle School

#1105 - Librarian Invents Eco-Friendly Dental Floss

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A lucky in-flight conversation leads a librarian on a twenty-year quest to start a half-million dollar oral health brand.


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0:00.0

Welcome back. This is Chris Gillabo, your host, Rastadastel School. I want to welcome all of our

0:09.1

new listeners and say, as well, shout out to all of our long-term listeners. You guys are amazing.

0:14.0

I hope you're enjoying the newly remixed year of interaction. I've got more stuff to roll out soon,

0:18.5

but pretty much what you've been hearing for the past few days. Three or four out of seven days,

0:23.3

each week we're going to have questions and updates from listeners. Just kind of a back-and-forth

0:27.7

process and we'll be able to follow along and see what happens with their projects as we go.

0:31.6

My hope is that you can learn by proxy. So obviously we're speaking to one person's question,

0:36.9

but a lot of the questions I've been getting, they're pretty common. So I'm hoping that they're

0:40.8

going to relate to a lot of people's issues and concerns. Okay, today we have a story, a case study.

0:46.0

Now long ago, in episode 572, we looked at the story of a college student on a mission to reinvent

0:51.5

mouthwash. We've also featured someone selling luxury toothbrushes. That was episode 230. It produced

0:57.3

some perfectly polished profits. We should connect these two aspiring side oscillars with today's

1:01.7

oral health pioneer because in this story, small steps and a lucky inflight conversation lead a

1:08.0

retired librarian to found a half million dollar brand of eco-friendly dental floss.

1:14.2

Eco-friendly dental floss, it is. That story is coming up after this shout out to our sponsor.

1:19.0

Stay tuned.

1:19.9

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1:26.4

Don't need a proper plan. I wouldn't enjoy it while we can.

1:32.8

Hello, can you hear me? The blue. The blue! We're waiting you!

1:38.0

I don't know where we are. Oh God, he's dead! He's dead!

1:43.8

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