#1548 - Origami-Loving Musician Doesn’t Mind Paperwork
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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After canceling her concerts because of the pandemic, a working musician from New Zealand pays the bills with virtual origami lessons.
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| 0:00.0 | I told a story a few times of my friend, Britt Thomas, who was working in the field of |
| 0:09.1 | physical therapy in New Haven, Connecticut, and found herself out of work for several |
| 0:13.3 | months at the start of COVID times. |
| 0:15.6 | Fortunately, she had been working on the side, developing an online community called Liberated |
| 0:19.8 | Being, and ended up transforming it into an online meditation hub, making several thousand |
| 0:24.6 | dollars a month from it. |
| 0:25.9 | It's a great story. |
| 0:26.9 | We featured it in detail long ago on the archives. |
| 0:28.8 | I still think of it from time to time. |
| 0:30.7 | I believe that community is still going strong, even as she's transitioning back into her |
| 0:34.2 | original work. |
| 0:35.2 | Well, today I have another story that highlights a creative pandemic pivot. |
| 0:39.7 | It's also a very side hustle school story, and that it's something I had never heard |
| 0:43.4 | up before. |
| 0:44.6 | In this story, after canceling her concerts because of the pandemic, a working musician |
| 0:48.6 | from New Zealand pays the bills with virtual origami lessons. |
| 0:53.2 | Virtual origami, something we've never talked about before, on the podcast, always trying |
| 0:57.1 | to bring you something new and fresh. |
| 0:58.7 | So glad you're here. |
| 0:59.7 | My name is Chris Gillibot. |
| 1:00.7 | We're going to jump into this story. |
| 1:02.2 | Origami loving musician doesn't mind paperwork in just 30 seconds. |
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