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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3161 - STORY: Curated Gift Boxes for Breakups and Baby Bumps

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A breakup brings two sisters together to create one happy side hustle.

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0:00.0

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0:26.3

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0:30.0

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0:35.3

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0:46.6

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0:52.3

editing images, designing presentations, generating code, debugging code,

0:56.0

summarizing meeting notes, finding files, managing your schedule, responding to Chuck's long emails.

1:02.4

Chuck doesn't actually send long emails. But the point is, leaving all the time in the world

1:07.0

for the things you actually want to do. And no offense, Chuck. Get a new Dell AIPC at Dell.com slash AI-PC. How those ahead, stay ahead. Lemonada.

1:37.2

Curated gift boxes for breakups and baby bumps.

1:38.6

This is a fun story.

1:39.2

Welcome friends.

1:40.4

Welcome to Side Ussel School.

1:45.4

The story is about a breakup that brings two sisters together to create one very happy side hustle. And I'm not just being punny by calling it a happy side hustle. That's actually the

1:50.0

name of the business. Well, the business is called Happy Box, I believe. We're going to hear all about

1:55.4

it. This story first came to us in 2018. We've got a little bit of a remix here, an updated version, re-recorded, of course, for your benefit. We always want to give you something new and fresh and might include some updates to the story as well. So if you're out there and you're trying to figure out what's my next side hustle, how can I, in fact, turn ideas into income? Well, that's why I bring you so many different stories and case studies and questions and answers, all designed to get you thinking and taking action. Thinking and taking

2:22.3

action. So the story, as I said, features two women who sell gift boxes for all sorts of reasons,

2:28.1

breakups, baby bumps, just because they're focused on reaching other millennial women. At the time

2:33.0

we first featured them, they were selling hundreds of boxes a month, and they're still going strong. So I'll bring you that story, the story of Happy Box, in fact, right after this quick message from our sponsor.

2:45.2

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