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🗓️ 6 November 2025
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In this week’s Throwback Thursday segment, learn how one fitness fan turned flipping gym equipment into a small media business. He now sells setup guides and curates weekly home gym deals for thousands of subscribers.
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| 0:48.2 | Lemonada. Sometimes the best business ideas start with solving your own problems. |
| 1:01.0 | We've seen this time after time throughout the series of more than 3,000 episodes. |
| 1:06.4 | And it's very helpful to make a list of your problems or things that are bugging you, |
| 1:10.7 | annoyances, difficulties, hardships, and so on because your solution could be somebody else's solution and therefore your side hustle, your business, whatever it turns into as well. |
| 1:20.7 | Not always the case, of course, but often it is. |
| 1:23.0 | So today's story features someone who wanted to build a garage gym, but didn't want to spend thousands of dollars doing it. |
| 1:29.6 | I think this was partly during the time of the pandemic when, you know, there were supply chain issues and everybody kind of wanted the same thing. |
| 1:37.1 | Well, he'll share more about it. But basically, instead of buying new, he started hunting around for used weights and benches. |
| 1:42.2 | And then he learned from that process and began reselling, which ultimately turned into a new kind of hustle. I think we first talked |
| 1:49.6 | about him, where we first had a question from him years ago when he was doing the buying and |
| 1:53.4 | selling thing. Now he has packaged everything he's learned into a guide. So this is part of our |
| 1:57.9 | throwback Thursday series last week. In this series, we heard how a creative project for a friend in recovery became a business |
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