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Lemonada. Sometimes the best business ideas start with solving your own problems.

We've seen this time after time throughout the series of more than 3,000 episodes.

And it's very helpful to make a list of your problems or things that are bugging you,

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.

Not always the case, of course, but often it is.

So today's story features someone who wanted to build a garage gym, but didn't want to spend thousands of dollars doing it.

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.

Well, he'll share more about it. But basically, instead of buying new, he started hunting around for used weights and benches.

And then he learned from that process and began reselling, which ultimately turned into a new kind of hustle. I think we first talked

about him, where we first had a question from him years ago when he was doing the buying and

selling thing. Now he has packaged everything he's learned into a guide. So this is part of our

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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