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Side Hustle School

#1972 - TBT: Mixed Media Artist Sews Up Side Earnings

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from a New Hampshire fabric artist. She’s built a seamless business while working a day job in IT.

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.

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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


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

Welcome to Side Usall School. Welcome as well to Throwback Thursday. This segment is also known as

0:13.6

Where Are They Now? It's where we take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we

0:18.0

first featured them. Now we have been going for almost 2,000 episodes here, so we've got all kinds

0:23.5

of stories in our archives. It's been really cool to hear lots of different updates from, you know,

0:28.2

wild successes to complete pivots, all sorts of things in between. Recently we featured a Boise Woodworker,

0:35.4

the founder of an e-commerce brand that sells gear for outdoor hockey, a guy who leads pizza tours

0:41.2

in Chicago, just to name a few. In fact, last week we heard from the founder of QD Foodie,

0:46.4

a kitchen tool collection that makes cooking fun. So quite a wide range of updates, just like we have

0:52.0

quite a wide range of stories. Today in our latest feature we're going to hear from Rula Rales.

0:57.2

She is a new Hampshire fabric artist, also an IT manager by day, working in an analytical field.

1:03.5

So by night or by weekend or by other times she has built her business socialite, socialite

1:10.2

spelled SEW, socialite, which sells all kinds of beautiful handmade sewn items. I bet you

1:16.0

wouldn't have guessed that, that her items are in fact sewn. Well, what's happened in the past three

1:20.4

years since we first told Rula's story, let's hear it from her. I'll be back at the end with a

1:24.8

very quick wrap up.

1:38.6

Hi, my name is Rula. I live in coastal New Hampshire, southern New Hampshire,

1:43.5

New York-Boritzin-Though-Hampshire. I'm in Greenland and I was featured in side hustle 656,

1:50.8

and my side hustle is transforming fiber, painting seashells and and beading. So it's a little

1:58.0

bit of a few different things. It's something that really fills my cup and that's kind of how

2:02.4

it really all started. It was something that I needed to do just for myself. I felt like I just

2:08.2

had this creativity and I love figuring out how things get put together and designing. So I actually

2:14.9

started the fiber art because we had just moved into our new home and I wanted to buy baskets and we

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