Ep. 3050 - TBT: Lawn Sign Biz Expands to Wedding Décor Rentals
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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This week’s Throwback Thursday feature tells the story of a third-grade teacher who grew her creative lawn sign business into a go-to source for wedding décor.
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada |
| 0:02.7 | Lemonada |
| 0:02.8 | Law and sign business expands to wedding decor rentals. |
| 0:15.3 | Welcome friends, welcome to Sight Usul School. |
| 0:17.5 | Welcome as well to Throwback Thursday. |
| 0:19.4 | My name is Chris Gillibbeau, your host, |
| 0:28.7 | episode 350, 3050. In this episode, well, in this segment, we take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. Throwback Thursday, last week we heard from a college student |
| 0:33.5 | who scaled from fixing cracked screens like cracked iPhones. We've all done that. We've dropped |
| 0:38.1 | our phone. This guy gets paid to fix them. But he evolved from that business to creating a buyback |
| 0:43.0 | platform that turns over $20,000 in inventory each month, even better than just fixing individual |
| 0:48.4 | phone screens. Today in our latest feature, we've got a similar evolution, or at least an evolution |
| 0:53.4 | of some kind. |
| 0:54.7 | We're going to hear from a third grade teacher who grew her creative lawn sign business into a |
| 1:00.2 | go-to source for wedding decor. Her name is Nicole. What's happened since we first featured her |
| 1:05.1 | long ago? Let's hear directly from Nicole. Can I pass the mic to her? I'll come back at the end |
| 1:09.3 | with a few words of a wrap-up. |
| 1:24.3 | I'm Nicole, a third-grade teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, and my side hustle started as a fun way to bring smiles to my neighbors during the pandemic. |
| 1:32.3 | It began with colorful, oversized yard signs for birthdays, graduations, and other milestones. |
| 1:39.3 | At first, I'd spend my weekends delivering signs, setting them up in front lawns, and picking |
| 1:44.6 | them up the next day. |
| 1:46.7 | Business was steady, but everything changed after a customer asked if I could create a custom |
| 1:51.9 | sign for her backyard wedding. |
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