#815 - Personal Problem Leads to Profitable Project
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Thousands of women struggle to pee while wearing shapewear after a surgery. This side hustler and her product designer husband invent a no-mess solution!
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| 0:00.0 | We can talk about all kinds of things here on the program. |
| 0:11.6 | This is side hustle school. |
| 0:12.9 | Sometimes we talk about personal problems. |
| 0:15.2 | Personal problems indeed of real solutions. |
| 0:16.8 | And sometimes where the solution can be found there's also some profit, okay? |
| 0:20.4 | Sometimes a lot of profit. |
| 0:21.4 | Now today's story, not surprisingly, given the setup, is all about a personal problem |
| 0:25.4 | that affects a lot of women who wear shapewear. |
| 0:28.4 | Are those tight fitting undergarments like spanks and similar, also some clothing |
| 0:32.4 | that women have to wear after surgeries? |
| 0:34.3 | So what's the problem? |
| 0:35.3 | Well, again, let's be real here. |
| 0:37.0 | The problem is it's hard to pee while wearing those tight fitting undergarments. |
| 0:41.0 | And our side hustle features a mom who sets out to tackle this problem by making a unique |
| 0:44.8 | device. |
| 0:45.8 | I'm going to tell you all about this device today. |
| 0:47.5 | It provides restroom relief to women and effectively creates an all-new category on Amazon.com |
| 0:52.2 | and elsewhere. |
| 0:53.8 | So with no intention of irony, we can be just perfectly descriptive by saying this is |
| 0:57.6 | no-mess-peeing produces private, productive profits. |
| 1:01.6 | Or we could say it's a personal problem that leads to a profitable project. |
| 1:05.2 | Whatever it is, the whole story is coming up after this message from our sponsor. |
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