Ep. 2972 - STORY: 13-Year-Old Australian Creates Schoolyard Lollipop Fortune
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This enterprising Aussie teen sells 50+ lollipops a day, earning a 100% profit margin and drawing a crowd of happy customers that follow the sound of her jangling pockets.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼
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| 0:49.5 | Well, this was a fun one to work on. |
| 0:55.6 | 13-year-old Australian creates schoolyard lollipop fortune. |
| 1:00.2 | That's right. |
| 1:00.6 | We've got all kinds of stories here on the podcast. |
| 1:02.6 | This enterprising Aussie teen sells 50 plus lollipops a day, earning a hundred percent profit |
| 1:07.6 | margin, drawing a crowd of happy customers that follow the sound of her jangling pockets. |
| 1:13.3 | Welcome to Side Ussel School. My name's Chris Gillibow. This year, I'm bringing you some remixes of our |
| 1:18.0 | very best stories over the years, especially from the early years, which was a long time ago. |
| 1:23.3 | If you were not listening back in 2017, these stories are completely new to you. And if you do happen to have an incredible memory, well, each one is being re-recorded and we'll also include some new updates in some cases. So as I said, this is a really fun one. One of the beautiful things about sidestle school, we have a community of amazing people all over the world, even in rural Australia, where this story comes from. I love Australia. |
| 1:45.7 | I've been there many times, but I usually tend to kind of be in the cities. This one comes from |
| 1:50.3 | rural Australia, North Queensland. I think you're going to like it. It focuses on the side hustle of |
| 1:54.7 | reselling, which in some ways hasn't changed in a couple thousand years. People have been buying and |
| 1:59.3 | selling with the goal of making a profit on the difference in price. |
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