#314 - Substitute Teacher Earns $1,500/Month Making Wooden Signs

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In a sign of the times of how popular side hustles are becoming, this substitute teacher hosts Tupperware-style parties where attendees use her stencils to make handcrafted signs. Rise and sign! Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. You need a hustle! Share: #SideHustleSchoolShow notes: SideHustleSchool.comTwitter: @chrisguillebeauInstagram: @193countries To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings and welcome to Side Usel School.
0:09.0	So glad you're here.
0:10.0	My name is Chris Gillibon, your host.
0:11.6	Today's story is about a substitute teacher who earns an extra $1,500 a month making wooden
0:16.6	signs.
0:17.6	I recently read a book that I really liked.
0:19.5	It was called Life of the Party, the remarkable story of how Brownie Wise built and lost
0:24.1	a Tupperware Party Empire.
0:26.2	This book is a biography, but it's almost one part story of this woman, Brownie Wise,
0:31.0	and one part story of the Corporation Tupperware.
0:34.3	It's a really interesting story because this woman almost single-handedly built the Tupperware
0:38.2	business, or at least helped grow it to what it became, a huge, huge company.
0:42.7	But then, like the subtitle implies, she also lost that empire.
0:46.0	So she herself is a fascinating character with a lot of complexity.
0:49.4	But I was also interested in learning about the business model of Tupperware Parties.
0:53.0	And if you've never heard of this before, one way to think of it is Tupperware Parties
0:56.7	or anything like that, they were essentially the social media of the 1950s.
1:01.2	One person would be a host.
1:02.5	They were kind of like an influencer, a local influencer, and they would host a party.
1:07.0	And then a bunch of other people would come to the party and they would hang out and gossip
1:10.2	and play games, have a good time.
1:12.0	But then there was also the sales component of the whole thing where people were more or
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