What's up? What's up Nick Lopper here? Welcome to the side hustle show because

Choosing what's next doesn't mean choosing what's forever along those lines

I've got a pandemic pivot story for you today featuring Timmy Bauer from dinosaurhouse.com. Timmy. Welcome to the show

Hey, Nick. Thanks so much for having me. You bet so if we

Rewind the clock a couple years Timmy you're making a living as a traveling children's book author doing book events readings speaking gigs at schools and

And income-wise you described it as just above the poverty line. I'm getting by but you know

It's it's fun work. It's rewarding work and then as we all know those in-person gigs

Get shut down and along with those most of the revenue, but you turned

Lemons in this case into lemonade by pivoting into what I think is a really creative new direction

I'm excited to get into because I think it illustrates the

Opportunities that aren't necessarily a complete 180 from where you're at sometimes. It's just this slight

Re-calibration like a couple degrees in one direction or the other that can really set you off on a new path and

That new path has turned into a six-figure business in the last 12 months

So stick around in this episode to hear how you might be able to take your

Existing skills and knowledge to serve just a different customer base and how to me got that done

Notes and links for this one are at side hustle nation.com slash Timmy

So maybe you kick us off with the big reveal. What was that pivot?

So I went from being a traveling kids book author to running a kids book production company

And basically I turn industry leaders into kids book authors

That's a very cool and we first connected I was like I have never heard of that. What a cool creative business

What was the inspiration to make that change aside from the

Necessity so first thing that happened was obviously all of the ability at tour was completely dependent on whether schools were allowing guests to come to their school

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