Ep. 3215 - First $1,000: Board-Game Date Nights in a Café Basement
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s First $1,000 segment, hear how a board-game collector transformed an unused café basement into a candle-lit playground for couples.
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| 0:50.8 | Picture an old coffee house basement. You've got some exposed brick walls, some mismatched |
| 0:59.8 | couches, more cobwebs than customers after 6 p.m. For most people, it's wasted square footage. |
| 1:06.2 | But for today's storyteller, a lifelong board game collector, it looked like the perfect venue for a new kind of |
| 1:12.8 | date night. Welcome to side hustle school, Chris Gillibow, your host here. This episode is part of a feature |
| 1:18.1 | we call your first $1,000. As you might guess, as you might surmise, as you might already know, |
| 1:23.9 | it's about how somebody makes their first $1,000 with a new side hustle or small |
| 1:28.7 | business idea. How do they get to that point? How do they take that idea and turn it into a |
| 1:33.0 | money-making product or service? Today, let's hear this story. A board game collector transforms |
| 1:39.2 | an unused cafe basement into a candlelit playground for couples. Two sold out weekends with shuffled |
| 1:45.5 | card decks and fresh lattes proved to be very rewarding, both for his clients, those couples on |
| 1:52.3 | board game date nights, as well as somebody that he partnered with. So he'll tell you about that in |
| 1:57.5 | this story. I'll be back at the end with a few words of wrap up. |
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