#1800 - The Blog That Laid the Golden Egg
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
A Wall Street accountant hatches a million-dollar business around raising chickens in her backyard.
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| 0:34.9 | I'm so glad you tuned in today. What's up? Welcome. This is episode 1800 of Side Us All School. |
| 0:41.1 | 1-800-1,800. Look how far we've come. I'm so grateful for you being out there. |
| 0:47.1 | I hope to keep serving you with inspiration, education, and maybe even some entertainment. |
| 0:51.9 | Speaking of that, we have put together a very special story for you today in honor of 1800. |
| 0:57.3 | In honor of you, we're going to call it the blog that laid the golden egg. |
| 1:01.2 | Why do I call it that? Well, long, long ago, in the first two weeks of Side Us All School, |
| 1:06.2 | so that goes back, you know, 1790 days or so. |
| 1:10.0 | In that time, I told the story of a woman in Colorado who makes and sells chicken saddles for a good |
| 1:15.4 | profit. If you don't know what a chicken saddle is, they are vests, like little vests that you put |
| 1:20.2 | on chickens to give them a better life. True story. Not making it up. She makes a lot of money from it. |
| 1:25.1 | And that became one of the classic references that I use and other people have used when talking |
| 1:29.4 | about the show. Like, I don't want to feature startups here. I want to feature people making lots of |
| 1:34.0 | money from selling something you never thought of before. You think of it as just totally wild and |
| 1:38.6 | crazy, but yeah, it's actually working out well for them. And, you know, maybe there's something |
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