Greetings and welcome to Side Usel School.

So glad you're here.

My name is Chris Gillibon, your host.

Today's story is about a substitute teacher who earns an extra $1,500 a month making wooden

signs.

I recently read a book that I really liked.

It was called Life of the Party, the remarkable story of how Brownie Wise built and lost

a Tupperware Party Empire.

This book is a biography, but it's almost one part story of this woman, Brownie Wise,

and one part story of the Corporation Tupperware.

It's a really interesting story because this woman almost single-handedly built the Tupperware

business, or at least helped grow it to what it became, a huge, huge company.

But then, like the subtitle implies, she also lost that empire.

So she herself is a fascinating character with a lot of complexity.

But I was also interested in learning about the business model of Tupperware Parties.

And if you've never heard of this before, one way to think of it is Tupperware Parties

or anything like that, they were essentially the social media of the 1950s.

One person would be a host.

They were kind of like an influencer, a local influencer, and they would host a party.

And then a bunch of other people would come to the party and they would hang out and gossip

and play games, have a good time.

But then there was also the sales component of the whole thing where people were more or

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