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Side Hustle School

#797 - Bass Player Starts BassLayerz Clothing Hustle

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Sports fans have all kinds of options to showcase their love of the game through apparel. Why can’t musicians have the same? Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. Share: #SideHustleSchool Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com Twitter: @chrisguillebeau To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to SideHustle School, my name is Chris Gilapo, and today's story will look at

0:13.7

a bass player who starts a clothing brand slash hustle called Bass Layers.

0:19.3

This concept is interesting.

0:20.9

People routinely wear garments that show their passion for sports, school pride, or certain

0:24.9

labels.

0:25.9

Now this bass player, who is also a respiratory therapist by day, wanted a way to wear his

0:30.3

love for music in the same way that those students or sports fans would.

0:34.0

So, he got to work with a co-founder to create that clothing line to appeal to musicians

0:38.2

from all walks of life.

0:39.4

As a side note, making SideHustle School is like memory lane for me every week, because

0:44.0

in addition to all the different ideas I learn about that I want to pursue myself, I'm

0:47.8

often reminded of random projects over the years that I started or tried to start at one

0:51.9

point long ago I had a business called Cheap Bass Drinks.

0:55.4

I was a bass player myself in what feels like another life, and I resold electric bass

0:59.9

strings in bulk.

1:01.5

So I had that website, and sadly it never really took off, never really got in tune, but

1:05.6

I did it for I think about three to six months while I was doing some other stuff.

1:09.4

So fun fact, we're probably never going to profile cheap bass strings on SideHustle

1:12.6

School since it never really made any money, but it was something I haven't thought about

1:16.0

in a long time.

1:17.1

Alright, sports fans have options to showcase their love of the game through a peril.

1:21.4

Why can't musicians do the same?

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