Hello, hello friends, listeners, community. I hope you are well as we are heading into

the holidays. I am now underway with my annual review, which I have been doing for about

10 years now. I think actually more than 10 years. Just kind of looking back over the

year and looking ahead, setting goals in a number of different categories, creating

a theme, a mission statement for the year that's to come. And as I do this reflection,

I just continue to be aware and grateful that you are out there and that I have the chance

to tell you these stories every day. And if you're new to our community, basically what

I'm doing is I'm telling stories of real people who find a way to create a new source

of income for themselves. And sometimes they do it in kind of a crazy way or an unconventional

way or just something that seems really off the wall. Other times it might be more normal.

But the key theme is that most people are using a skill they already have, just perhaps

in a different way. They're not spending a lot of money or at least they're not going

into debt and they're not necessarily trying to quit their jobs. So this is something

that is truly unique to side of school. And once again, I'm glad that you are part of

it. All right, so let's jump in. And today's story, a spousal birthday gift becomes a $40,000

card game or a tabletop game, if you will. It starts as a creative gift for this guy's

wife, but the game ends up making a lot of other people happy too. Now it's not an overnight

success. There's a ton of work that goes into this and just about every other project

that I tell you about. But this hard work is paying off now that the game is out in

the world and being played, not just played, but also purchased. That is critical by a

lot of people. Last but not least, this is also a family story. Our protagonist realizes

he can't go it alone. So he ends up hiring two of the people closest to him to work

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