#1699 - TBT: Matchsticks Made in Heaven (and Georgia)
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ ? minutes
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In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from a former H.R. manager who now sells matchsticks full-time. That’s right—it’s a perfect match.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:35.1 | Greetings hello and welcome to Sideosal School. My name is Cristile Bo, your host, |
| 0:39.6 | welcome as well to our throwback Thursday segment weekly segment where we take an end-up look at |
| 0:45.1 | someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. Now last week we heard from |
| 0:50.5 | Mickey Palmer, she is the founder of Pep Talker, Pep Talk Her, an app that has helped more than 60,000 |
| 0:57.0 | users, mostly women, negotiate a pay raise. So that's pretty cool. Today in our latest feature, |
| 1:03.9 | we'll hear from Melissa Moore. Melissa is from Atlanta. She's the founder of Strike a Match. |
| 1:09.2 | We first featured her in episode 665, which was what? Like a thousand episodes ago. |
| 1:14.5 | Chemical analyst strikes a side hustle matchstick. That is indeed her business selling matchsticks. |
| 1:20.9 | And you might think, can you actually make money doing that? Don't matchsticks cost just pennies |
| 1:25.8 | and aren't they essentially a commodity? Well evidently she has figured something out because |
| 1:31.3 | since we first told her story more than a thousand days ago, not only is she still going, |
| 1:36.2 | she is now doing it full-time and she sells on her own website through Shopify, I believe, |
| 1:41.9 | on Etsy and on Amazon. So she actually has three stores. And in fact, she stays so busy during the |
| 1:48.0 | fourth quarter, Q4, that she sometimes has to close the website, like close the website to sales |
| 1:53.8 | and say, hey, you know, too much business is coming in, which is of course a good problem to have. |
| 1:58.4 | And I thought that part was especially interesting as I was working on this update. So let's hear |
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