Ep. 3105 - STORY: Aussie Man Eats Nothing But Potatoes for 365 Days
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
An Aussie man spends a year eating nothing but potatoes to conquer his food addiction. Along the way, he loses 121 pounds and gains a $1,500 a month side hustle.
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| 1:30.7 | Aussie man eats nothing but potatoes for 365 days. You heard it right. You heard it correctly. An Australian guy spends a year eating nothing but potatoes to conquer his food addiction. This is a pretty |
| 1:36.2 | wild transformation story. Along the way, he loses 121 pounds. He also gains a side hustle making |
| 1:43.0 | money from this. We're all about really interesting, |
| 1:46.1 | crazy projects that you don't hear about anywhere else on the podcast. My name's Chris Gillebough. Welcome |
| 1:50.3 | to side hustle school. This year, I'm bringing you some remixes of our early stories from 2017, |
| 1:56.5 | 2018. If you happen to have an incredible memory, each one is being re-recorded. We'll also include |
| 2:02.5 | some new updates in some cases. So when I was thinking about which stories to include, I was like, |
| 2:08.5 | this has got to make the cut here. The Australian guy who eats nothing but potatoes, it was never |
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