#2312 - First $1,000: “BritBox” Sends British-Themed Goods Worldwide
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s First $1,000 segment, we hear from the founder of BritBox, a service that sends British-themed goods to lonely expats around the world.
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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 | Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels. |
| 0:07.0 | But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business. |
| 0:15.0 | So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill. |
| 0:21.0 | On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh, that's nice. |
| 0:26.0 | Search zero with an ace. Because healthy business is beautiful business. |
| 0:40.0 | I've got a fun one for you today to kick off the month of May. It is episode 2,312. |
| 0:47.0 | My name is Chris Gill about your host of Side Us All School. |
| 0:50.0 | In today's episode, the caller you're going to hear from today, we're going to hear a story specifically. |
| 0:55.0 | Part of our feature we call your first $1,000. It is in fact about how someone made their first $1,000. |
| 1:00.0 | Although we might want to retitle it for today because it's kind of like how someone made their first $1,000. |
| 1:06.0 | Like their first 1,000 British pounds. I'm not sure if they actually got paid in pounds or dollars or how that works. |
| 1:13.0 | But the important part of the story is we're going to hear from someone from Manchester, England. |
| 1:19.0 | Like I said, this is a fun one because he is the founder of Britbox, Britbox, a service that sends British themed goods to lonely expats around the world. |
| 1:30.0 | In these features, we look at how does somebody get going? What's the origin story? |
| 1:34.0 | A business could be making lots of money now, but how do they make their first $1,000? |
| 1:39.0 | I just use the word business, but really I'm talking about an individual. |
| 1:43.0 | Side hustle school is all about empowering individuals, not startups, not companies. |
| 1:48.0 | I just like to look and see what can the average person do. |
| 1:53.0 | For more than 2300 episodes now, we've heard from all kinds of awesome but regular people out there, they're awesome, but they're not usually full time entrepreneurs. |
| 2:02.0 | They're people who just had an idea and decided to pursue it and to see what they could do to create extra income for themselves. |
| 2:09.0 | Usually in the form of some kind of product or service that's helpful to others as well, which is so cool. |
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