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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3337 - TBT: The Mushroom Kingdom of North Carolina

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Small Business, Entrepreneurship,, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Side Hustle, Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this week's “Throwback Thursday” segment, we hear from the business manager of Phenomenal Fungi, which sells tinctures, cultures, and mushroom merch. It's been a busy year in the land of shrooms! 

Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.

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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.


Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

The easiest way to scale your business is to stay connected and not just with your team,

0:05.2

but also your money, your cash flow. That's why you want to make the switch to Intuit QuickBooks

0:10.3

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0:15.3

together in one platform. You get real-time insights and visibility. You can see the cash

0:20.6

coming in, going out. You can see your

0:22.8

vendors, what you need to pay, what you can expect. This has been a problem for me sometimes in the

0:27.4

past. So I love the idea of having just simple clarity. Reclaim that clarity and control so you can

0:33.3

grow your business with QuickBooks Money Tools today. Learn more at QuickBooks.com

0:37.6

slash money. Again, that's quickbooks.com slash money. Terms apply. Money movement services

0:43.2

are provided by Intuit Payments Incorporated, licensed as a money transmitter by the New York State Department of Financial Services.

0:52.6

Lemonada. The Mushroom Kingdom of North Carolina.

1:04.9

This is a fun one.

1:06.1

Welcome back, friends.

1:07.1

Welcome to Side of Soul School.

1:08.2

Welcome as well to throwback Thursday.

1:11.5

In this segment.

1:15.9

We do a little bit of a look back, an update on somebody whose story we first featured often long ago. Last week, we heard from Janet LeBlanc. She is the spreadsheet seller who,

1:23.0

well, she was an accountant. I think she's still an accountant, but she made a product for Etsy sellers,

1:29.4

a product to help them with their finances and tax planning and so on. I think she actually made

1:32.9

multiple products. Ended up creating a really successful side business that made money while she

1:38.0

was doing other stuff, which is great. So that was a good update. That was episode 3,330. Today, here we are seven days later.

1:46.8

We're focusing on the phenomenal fungi business from Asheville, North Carolina.

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