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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3368 - STORY: Veteran Turns Sweet Compulsion Into Obsessive Candy Hustle

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

After completing 30 years of service in the Air Force, a veteran who struggles with OCD creates a new income source by selling candy.

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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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. 😎 🙏🏼 

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

Hey friends, what's up? Welcome to a story about the OCD Candy Company. Veteran turns sweet

0:11.8

compulsion into obsessive candy hustle. The OCD Candy Company, it is in fact not a joke.

0:17.8

One of their challenges is convincing people that it's not a joke because people

0:21.5

are like, OCD, candy. That's funny. And they're like, yeah, but it's also a business. It was founded

0:26.8

by an Air Force veteran of 30 years who struggles with OCD. After she got out of service, she wanted to make

0:32.3

some money. And like I often encourage our listeners, the way that she goes about doing it is by focusing on something

0:38.3

that's important to her, yet also connected to a broader community. So she has a skill and an

0:43.6

interest, but it's also something that is of interest to others. In this case, it is the

0:48.1

convergence of candy and OCD. Again, we're calling it veteran turned sweet compulsion into

0:52.8

obsessive candy hustle. If you are worried that

0:55.3

your focus is too narrow, if you think your idea is too small, compare it to this story and see if

1:00.0

you still feel that way, because sometimes narrow ideas, a tight market focus is the way to succeed.

1:06.5

Excited to bring you this story with lots of details, perhaps some inspiration for your own next idea.

1:11.0

That story is coming right up.

1:14.9

When you run a business, every minute counts. You don't have a lot of spare time, and you

1:19.9

probably know that accounts payable can take up way more time than it should. A simple task

1:24.7

can become all too complicated, but it doesn't need to be. That's why I

1:28.2

recommend Intuit QuickBooks Bill Pay. QuickBooks Bill Pay automates your accounts payable in QuickBooks

1:33.8

allows you to do more of what you want to do, so you're not sorting through invoices during your

1:37.8

spare time or when you'd rather be doing something else. No more manual bill entry. You instantly

1:42.6

see what's due, who needs to approve it, how it all works,

1:46.0

spend less time on admin, and more time keeping your business growing with QuickBooks Bill Pay.

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