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Side Hustle School

#677 - Tennessean Meets Nepalese Sherpa on Lyft Ride, Sells Adventure Trips

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A chance meeting inspires a couple to start a company that provides packaged treks to Nepal. 

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0:00.0

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0:09.6

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0:13.9

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0:17.8

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0:21.4

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0:27.3

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0:38.5

A communications director and a Nepali Sherpa walk into a bar.

0:42.2

Or actually they don't walk into a bar they meet in a lift in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

0:47.4

This is a crazy but true story.

0:48.8

It's also an adventure story of trekking the Himalayan mountains in Nepal.

0:52.4

As I sometimes say, once you go down the road of adventure, you don't always know where you'll end up.

0:57.1

Welcome to Side Us Little School.

0:58.1

My name is Chris Kill about so glad you're here.

1:00.4

Now in every story we feature on the show, we always ask the person,

1:03.1

hey, what is your advice?

1:04.6

What about all those people out there who want to do something like what you've done?

1:07.9

What would you suggest to them?

1:09.4

This person whose story I'll tell you about in just a moment,

1:11.7

he said, the biggest lesson I can impart is to learn to recognize opportunities and then act on them.

1:17.4

Even things that seem nearly impossible.

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