#517 - Teenage Fitness Fan Jumpstarts Athletic Apparel Brand
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
An 18 year old in the UK goes from idea to action with his fitness-meets-fashion athletic brand in just over a year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and greetings, friends, listeners, side hustle school community. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | My name is Chris Gillibot. |
| 0:10.4 | I will be your host and I sometimes hear from young side hustlers who are worried about |
| 0:15.2 | being taken seriously. |
| 0:17.1 | I always love to feature stories of people starting at a young age, creating a business for themselves, |
| 0:21.6 | even if they're working a regular job or plan to go to school or whatever it is they want |
| 0:24.8 | to do. |
| 0:26.3 | And this question comes up a lot at events I speak at or emails that come in and they've |
| 0:30.8 | got a good idea but they're just worried like, you know, are people going to think this |
| 0:33.8 | is a real business? |
| 0:34.8 | You know, if I am 16 or 12 or whatever the age is, and my response is usually twofold. |
| 0:40.8 | Like, first of all, I think it can be a strength. |
| 0:42.9 | If you're starting a business as a teenager, then that's interesting to a lot of people. |
| 0:46.4 | It's not necessarily something that's unattractive, it could be the opposite. |
| 0:50.3 | But also, you know, the thing is, it's the internet, okay? |
| 0:53.0 | So if you're selling a physical product, certain kinds of products or even a number of |
| 0:56.5 | services, does anyone really need to know? |
| 0:59.6 | If you're searching for shoelaces, let's say, and you go online and you find the perfect |
| 1:03.5 | shoelace store, they've got the color and style you want, they can get it to you in |
| 1:07.2 | three days, you like the price, you make your purchase, right? |
| 1:11.5 | You don't necessarily care like who's behind the curtain or do you need to know. |
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