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Side Hustle School

#2518 - TBT: Blankets from Nepal Continue to Sell

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Small Business, Business, Side Hustle

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from a U.K. importer of cashmere blankets. Two years after starting her business, it’s going stronger than ever!

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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


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

friends, listeners, amazing people of the internet, amazing people who are subscribed to Sidessel School or

0:17.0

tuning in today at least, I want to say happy Thanksgiving to you.

0:21.0

I am very thankful for you, very grateful for you. Here in the U.S. we are celebrating the holiday known as

0:26.2

Thanksgiving. Canada gets it a few weeks earlier. Other countries don't get

0:30.8

Thanksgiving, but as I always say I encourage you to eat some pie.

0:34.6

Pie is one American export that I think we can actually be proud of, all right?

0:39.1

So I wish you a wonderful holiday weekend and of course you might be familiar with Black Friday no matter where you are in the world

0:44.7

because that is a shopping holiday another American export perhaps of more questionable value than

0:49.9

pie but I will try to stay on track today. Of course we have a regular episode. This is

0:55.0

Throwback Thursday. Thanksgiving happens to fall on a Thursday, pretty much every year.

1:00.8

Every year in fact, and in Throwback Thursday we take a look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them

1:07.2

So let's see we heard from a car parts reseller in Missouri last week. He's been growing his side-lle all the way to six

1:14.2

figures. So well done. That was great, Tom. Today, because we are a global

1:20.2

community, we're going to hear from someone in the UK. So her name is

1:23.9

Fiona. Fianna has been selling high quality cashmere blankets from Malaysia and

1:29.6

Nepal. She'd been doing this for several years now,

1:32.8

blankets and scarves, I should say.

1:35.0

So we talked about the origin of her business before.

1:38.1

Let's look at how things have developed,

1:40.3

how has it grown, what's going well? Any particular challenges and changes and such?

1:44.8

That's the whole point. So I'm going to hand it over to Fiona. I'll be back with a little wrap up for us at the end. Hi everyone, my name is Fyona and I've been running a business selling high quality cashmere blankets and

2:04.6

scarves important from Nepal and Malaysia.

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