#2063 - TBT: Baseball Training School Slides Into Growth
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
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🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from the founder of a baseball training academy. During the pandemic, he opened an additional business selling training gear on Amazon.
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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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sadisle School. Welcome as well to Throwback Thursday, our weekly segment where |
| 0:12.9 | we take an in-depth look at someone whose story is evolved since we first featured them. |
| 0:16.5 | My name is Chris Gill about so glad you're out there. Thanks for tuning in wherever you are |
| 0:20.3 | in the world. Now last week we heard from the founder of local artists and foods offering delicious |
| 0:25.5 | French toast bites in Philadelphia and beyond. I believe they were on the road to Coachella, |
| 0:30.4 | which is pretty cool. Today in our latest feature we're going to hear from Mike Grady, |
| 0:34.5 | Mike as a teacher by day and also the founder of a baseball training academy. That training |
| 0:39.3 | academy is known as Grady's Pitching School and during the pandemic as you're going to hear he |
| 0:44.1 | opened an additional business selling training gear on Amazon. So let's hear directly from Mike about |
| 0:49.8 | those things as well as his current challenge. I'll come back at the end with a quick wrap up. |
| 1:06.4 | My name is Mike Grady and located out of Canter, Ohio. We were featured on episode |
| 1:12.5 | 2005 and my business is Grady's Pitching School and Velocity Sports and we focus on baseball and |
| 1:19.6 | softball training and instruction. So my business, my side hustle is a baseball training academy. |
| 1:27.0 | It's actually in the form of two separate businesses now so Grady's Pitching School is the training |
| 1:32.0 | side of that. We offer off-season pitching training programs and the program that is the most |
| 1:38.0 | popular is called VIP. It stands for Velocity Improvement Program because all pitchers |
| 1:43.2 | want to throw harder. We also offer individual training sessions and we actually now have five |
| 1:49.6 | separate baseball training products for sale on Amazon. The other business is close to that. |
| 1:55.6 | It's Velocity Sports. That's our building so that's our training academy and I'm actually a 50-50 |
| 2:01.7 | partner in that business and so we operate right now 1,400-500-square-foot facility. We open that |
| 2:09.8 | in 2016. We have 10 instructors and we actually offer both baseball and softball. Our customers |
| 2:17.3 | have the ability to become members. We offer team rentals and we even do birthday parties. |
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