#481 - Aussie Man Eats Only Potatoes for 365 Days
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
A man in Australia spends a year eating nothing but potatoes to conquer his food addiction. Along the way, he loses 121 pounds and gains a $1,500 a month side hustle.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh hey, welcome back. This is Chris Yelbo for Side Hustle School. I have an amazing story |
| 0:10.1 | for you today, an amazing and most unusual story, let's say. In fact, today's Side Hustle |
| 0:15.4 | story never intended to be a side hustle. It was in the beginning strictly a personal quest |
| 0:21.5 | and a most unusual one. Like all of the stories I bring you, this is a true one, |
| 0:25.7 | and it's also a crazy one. So let's call it a crazy true story that results in life transformation, |
| 0:30.6 | which was the main goal of the project. That's why he did this in the first place. The guy |
| 0:34.0 | I'm going to tell you about, but then along the way, as so happens from time to time, he started |
| 0:38.4 | making money from it. Okay, now go ahead and tell you what it is because there's no way in the |
| 0:42.5 | world you're going to stop listing. Like you're going to wonder like, what, how does that work? |
| 0:46.1 | Is that even possible? So here's the deal. This story is about an Australian who spends a year |
| 0:51.4 | eating nothing but potatoes. That is correct. Nothing but potatoes. He does this to conquer |
| 0:56.3 | his food addiction. Like, stay tuned. I'll tell you about it. Along the way, he loses 121 pounds |
| 1:01.3 | and eventually gains this money making side hustle that I'll also tell you about. |
| 1:05.8 | So you never know where you're going to get on side hustle school. Today, you're going to hear a |
| 1:08.1 | story of somebody who eats potatoes and only potatoes for an entire year. At the end, I'm also |
| 1:13.2 | going to give you a tip on making videos. It actually comes directly from his story and I think |
| 1:16.6 | it's going to be helpful to a lot of people. Anyone out there who's like, man, I want to make |
| 1:20.0 | videos, but like it's so hard and you have to be so good at it. I don't have the tools, the technology |
| 1:25.0 | or the know how. Well, this guy figured it out and I think his lesson is going to help somebody |
| 1:29.6 | out there. So stay tuned all about potatoes and a bonus tip of making videos right after this |
| 1:34.1 | quick thank you to today's sponsor. For Melbourne native Andrew Taylor, food addiction was |
| 1:50.0 | a real problem. At 36 years old, the PE teacher and former junior Australian champion marathon |
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