Hello and welcome. My name is Chris Killivou, you're listening to Side Usel School. We've been

making this podcast more than 2,000 days in a row. It's all about helping you make extra money

without quitting your job by using a skill you already have and without going into debt.

Those are kind of our core values. We've got an amazing community of people all over the world

who are putting these ideas into motion. I thank you for being part of that. If you've been around

for a while and if you're totally new, you can just jump right in. It's meant to be very simple. You can

just learn something every single day. That's pretty much it. Learn it and hopefully put it into action.

So, with that in mind today is Throbac Thursday. Every week we take a quick look at someone who

story has evolved since we first featured them maybe a few hundred days ago, maybe a thousand or more

days ago. And last week we heard from the founder of Mantra Medallions. Mantra Medallion's Vincent,

the founder, he sells Medallion keepsakes with inspirational messages. A pretty cool project.

Today in our latest feature we're going to hear from Brian Sonia Wallace in West Hollywood,

California. Another cool project here. He's the founder of Rent Poet. Rent Poet. I think it's

just Rentpoet.com offering typewriter poetry for events and custom commissions. So you can hire

him to be a typewriter poet at your wedding, your corporate event. He does all kinds of stuff. So,

as I said, really fun. What's happened since we first featured him, pre-pandemic I believe. Let's

hear directly from Brian. I'll come back at the end with a quick wrap up.

My name is Brian Sonia Wallace. I'm in West Hollywood, California by a side hustle is called Rent Poet

and was featured on episode 1156. So we bring poets on typewriters out to events, everything from

corporate parties to weddings to write poems for the general public based on the stories and the

words that they bring us. So I first wrote the poem for a stranger on the street back in 2012 and

in 2014 launched the full business. Really by accident I was trying to do a challenge where I was

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