#845 - Canadian Moms Invent Baby Monitors for Active Toddlers
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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This Canadian mom woke up to find her son cuddling a sprinkler she’d left on the porch the night before. The realization her son had left the house in the middle of the night prompted her and a friend to create the next stage of baby monitors.
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| 0:00.0 | Introducing Toddler Monitor |
| 0:09.0 | Introducing Toddler Monitor, the next stage of baby monitors. |
| 0:13.6 | Most baby monitors are designed to keep track of kids in their crib. |
| 0:17.1 | Be on the baby stage though, what if you've got a toddler who likes to sleepwalk or just |
| 0:21.5 | explore out in the big world after everyone else is asleep? |
| 0:24.1 | There's not a great product to keep an eye on that, at least there wasn't, there hasn't |
| 0:28.1 | been, until two Canadian moms made it their mission to solve this problem. |
| 0:32.7 | These moms had never had a side hustle before, but in the spirit of active parenthood, the |
| 0:36.8 | DIY ethic, and those hearty Canadian winters, they succeed. |
| 0:40.9 | Project goes on to raise more than $50,000 on Kickstarter, gets them on national TV, and |
| 0:45.6 | they're now bringing in six figures a year from it. |
| 0:49.4 | Exciting report for you here on Side Hustle School today. |
| 0:51.6 | My name is Chris Gillibot, thanks so much for tuning in, and I'm going to bring you |
| 0:54.3 | this whole story along with some analysis, some details, all kinds of fun facts right |
| 0:58.1 | after the shut out to our sponsor. |
| 1:00.3 | Stay tuned for Canadian moms and then baby monitors for active toddlers. |
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| 1:14.2 | Jack Northover, you cook me an hour for your fine rock show and all the way through, |
| 1:17.9 | just like the stick of rock. |
| 1:19.3 | Chipy C-Hack. |
| 1:20.3 | Doesn't matter where your father you are, they've built something which is beautiful. |
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