Ep. 3105 - STORY: Aussie Man Eats Nothing But Potatoes for 365 Days

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Life in general can be chaotic. Do you ever experience chaos in your life or your business? I certainly do. I was recently on book tour and trying to manage a whole bunch of other stuff at the same time. And so I'd get ready to go out and speak with a crowd and audience of awesome people, perhaps including some of our listeners out there. And then I'm also thinking about other things I need to do
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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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