#1807 - Expat Teacher Draws Up Personalized Woodworks
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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A teacher from New Zealand moves to Japan and creates custom wood art based on personalized memories.
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| 0:35.0 | In this story, a teacher from New Zealand moves to Japan and creates |
| 0:39.6 | custom wood art based on personalized memories. |
| 0:43.7 | How do you get started in a business like this? How do you grow it? |
| 0:46.8 | What do you need to learn along the way? What is she learned? |
| 0:49.5 | And by the way, this artwork is beautiful. It is sanded and stained on surfboards, |
| 0:53.9 | or large circles. It all comes together to tell a story. |
| 0:57.9 | It's a wonderful gift item and personalized based on this experience of keeping the past |
| 1:03.2 | alive, telling a story of a generation or an ancestor. |
| 1:06.1 | So we'll also look at how this artist struggled a bit in pricing, |
| 1:09.3 | which is normally, especially with some kind of unique art, where there's not really an obvious |
| 1:13.0 | comparison piece. But of course, that doesn't mean it's impossible. |
| 1:16.7 | So let's look at the story. X-PAT teacher draws up personalized woodworks. |
| 1:20.8 | Got the story, some details, a little bit of analysis, all in a short action-packed episode, |
| 1:24.7 | less than 10 minutes. Thanks for tuning in today. That story's coming right up. |
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