Hey, hey, what's up? Thanks so much for tuning in today. It's Chris Bell about your

host of Side Usual School, a daily podcast, all about making extra money about quitting

your job, becoming an entrepreneur or not. You don't necessarily have to be a capital

E entrepreneur, but it is very helpful to create more than one source of income. So that's

what we're all about here and welcome as well to Thruback Thursday. Our weekly segment

where we take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured

them. Now, last week we heard from the longtime parking lot striper, parking lot striper,

not to be confused with parking lot stripper, who has also written the definitive How-To Guide

on the topic. He's been in that business a long time, interesting feature last week,

but of course today also interesting. And this feature running here from Vincent Salinto.

He is the founder of mantra medallions. We featured him maybe 700 or 800 days ago. So it's

been quite a while. Let's hear from him about what's new, what's happened, how is his business

changed and evolved. I'll come back at the end with a quick wrap up.

My name is Vincent Salento. I was originally featured on episode 1317 of Side Usual School.

At that time, we were in Jersey City and New Jersey, but we've since moved to Los Angeles.

My side hustle is called mantra medallions, and we sell pocket-sized medallions that have

positive uplifting and inspirational phrases on them. So we got started a few years ago

because I have a similar medallion from one of my favorite authors, the name is Ryan

Holliday. It has the phrase, the obstacle is the way on it. It's just a basically a reminder

to lean into discomfort that any difficulty you encounter is more of an opportunity for

growth. So my girlfriend at the time, now fiance Amy, she saw it and wanted something similar

for herself. So we talked about what she wanted it to look like, what mantras would encourage

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