Hey friends, listeners, community. Welcome to Side Us Little School. My name is Chris

Gillibot. Got an exciting episode for you here today. A pretty cool story at least. It's

part of a feature we call your first thousand dollars. This is a segment we've been running

every Monday, first day of the week at least for the past, I don't know, year and a half

or so almost. And as you might guess, it's all about how somebody makes their first thousand

dollars. Now, I love this topic in particular today because this is the story of an Indian

woman who helps Indian men improve their dating profiles. This is Priya in Bangalore.

Her side hustle is just as stated basically. So she's going to tell you a little bit about

how it came to be. She keeps pretty busy. There's a lot of clients out there who need some

help with their dating profiles. In particular, in India, it seems. I guess there's just a lot

of people in general there. So she has found a good market for herself without further

ado. Let's hear it from Priya and I'll come back at the end with a quick wrap up.

Hi, my name is Priya and I run a business helping men with their dating profiles. Yes,

you read that right. I am an Indian woman who helps mostly Indian men with all my dating.

It all started a few years ago when a friend of mine complained about the lack of success he was

having on dating apps. Being the nosy person I am, I asked to see his profile and was shocked

at how poorly it was put together. The pictures were blurry, the bio was uninteresting and he had

a grand total of two matches during five weeks of activity. I knew I could do better. So I offered

to help him out. We revamped his profile, added some better pictures and made his bio much more

interesting. Low and behold, he started getting more matches and even went on a few dates.

I mentioned I was nosy, so I started asking other male friends if I could take a peek at their

profiles. Before long, I had friends and friends of friends asking me for help. That's when I realized

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