Ep. 3340 - STORY: Proud Mainer Brings Whoopie Pies to the World
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
After her kids went off to college, this former stay-at-home-mom began baking whoopie pies in bulk. She now makes them by the tens of thousands, selling more than $25,000 in creamy inventory each month.
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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
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| 0:52.6 | Lemonada. After her kids go off to college, this former stay-at-home mom begins baking whoopee pies in bulk. |
| 1:08.2 | She now makes them by the tens of thousands, selling more than $25,000 in creamy inventory each month. |
| 1:15.3 | Welcome, friends, welcome community. This is Sidesol School. I'm your host, Chris Gilleboh. Today's story, |
| 1:20.4 | Proud Manner brings whoopie pies to the world. So here at Sidesl School, we're all about bringing you |
| 1:25.9 | case studies, stories, actionable ideas, things you can do or things you can model your business idea on, even if you've never thought about starting a business before. |
| 1:34.2 | I believe everybody has something they can do, something you can do to earn extra money, to create a income generating project of your own using your existing skills, which is exactly what |
| 1:45.7 | this person, today's featured case study, did. So we're going to go to the great state of Maine. |
| 1:51.0 | I've been to Maine for book events a couple times, and it both stops. I had readers bring some |
| 1:56.9 | whoopee pies to my events. I don't think I'd ever had one before. At a lot of my book events, |
| 2:03.6 | readers bring cupcakes, which are pretty fun and cool. But in Maine, they're like, we're going to do |
| 2:07.8 | something local. I'm not sure if they brought this particular type of whoopee pie, perhaps in the |
| 2:13.1 | future it will happen. But the point is, I'm not the only person who appreciates these treats. |
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