Ep. 3401 - STORY: Art Director Turns Passion For Puppets Into Profit
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
An advertising exec discovers the world of puppet fabric and unlocks a new career.
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| 0:57.9 | Hello, friends. What's up? |
| 0:58.4 | Welcome back to another episode of Sidosol School. |
| 1:01.8 | Did I mention yesterday? |
| 1:03.1 | In fact, I'm pretty sure I did, that we have just completed 3,400 episodes. |
| 1:08.0 | This one is, in fact, 3401. |
| 1:28.8 | Thank you so much for being out there all this time, or even if you're new. Thanks for joining us. I'm excited to bring you new stories every day. Today, an art director turns passion for puppets into profit. Passion for puppets into profit. She is in fact an advertising executive who discovers the world of puppet fabric and unlocks an all-new career. She turns her passion for puppets into payables. |
| 1:34.5 | I should have put that in the title as well, payables profit. Whatever it is, she's found a way to do |
| 1:40.1 | something she enjoys and get paid for it, which is, if we're going to be really simple and |
| 1:44.5 | reductive, the entire point of side hustle school. I want you to be able to do something you enjoy |
| 1:49.2 | and get paid for it. Okay. So when you hear these stories, think about how you might apply this |
| 1:54.5 | kind of thinking or the practical steps that the person took, how you might apply that to your |
| 1:59.8 | own idea, your own side hustle idea, |
| 2:01.9 | your next business idea, something you're working on. And of course, it could be completely |
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