Hey friends, what's up? It's Chris Gellipot, your host of Side Us All School. Thanks for tuning in today.

I'm excited to bring you our latest throwback Thursday feature. This segment is where we take an in-depth look at someone who's

story has evolved since we first featured them. We've been making this podcast for more than 2,000 days in a row,

so we have a wealth of archival material to pull from. Of course for each feature we do a fresh interview, what we hear about those updates, what has gone well, what's been challenging.

Last week we heard from Justin Onyabu in Raleigh, North Carolina. Justin is the founder of Lazy Jar, an app that makes fitness pay, at least for Justin, because the tagline is,

it's like a gym where you only pay if you don't go. It's a fun project, it's going along well as you've heard or you may have heard from Justin last week.

Now today in our latest feature we'll hear from Dave Simpson in Calgary, Canada. Dave is the founder of Honolua, Yucolaylies.

So let's hear a bit more about that. What's happened since we first featured Dave in his Yucolayly business, he's trying to make premium yukes,

high quality instruments that are not toys, but actual instruments for adults and kids.

Anyway, Dave will give us the story, I'll come back at the end with a quick wrap up.

My name is Dave Simpson, I'm from Calgary, Alberta in Canada and my side hustle Honolua Yucolaylies was first featured on episode 1221 called Ultimate Yucolaylies, tune up underrated side income.

I started Honolua Yucolaylies after we were in music stores over 10 years and knew that a lot of people were trying out Yucolayly as their first instrument, some adults, some kids.

Many of the affordable options were really built cheaply and I just knew they were giving a Yucolayly player a great chance of having success with it and continuing on in their musical journey.

So I started designing yukes that cost just a little bit more than those really cheap options but with upgraded materials, better components, real instruments instead of toys was kind of the idea.

I still work for the music store that I was working at when I started Honolua but my role with them has changed a lot.

I work from home now on a pretty flexible schedule and really I'm kind of sort of a e-commerce contractor for them just helping them grow and manage all their online sales.

Since I spoke with you guys in 2020 I've been focusing on expanding our products.

We started with one model of Yucolayly and we're at almost 30 now.

We have a new limited edition program where we design a new Yucolayly out of one of our popular models but we use new exotic wood combinations and make just a small amount of them and when they're gone they're gone.

So that's been really fun.

This is a big new product called Yucnite and it's a fun social group Yuclasson that I built to teach people that have no musical experience, how to play about 10 songs on a Yucolayly in one event.

We offer that program as a ticket event to the public so anyone can buy a ticket to come to one and we also do them as corporate team building events.

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