Digital art reaches physical homes worldwide. Hey friends, what's up? Welcome to the podcast. Episode 3,404 here.

We've got a segment known as First $1,000. How does somebody make $1,000 with an idea?

Today we're going to hear from the co-founders of Wondercolors.

Wondercolors, great business name, great brand.

And together, working together, they produce digital art of iconic travel destinations.

It's important to note that this work is not AI generated.

It's digital.

They are making digital art, but they are in fact creating it themselves.

So just a key distinction to make in this day and age, right? Emily and Christine are in Toronto,

Canada. The co-founders of this brand, again, WonderColors offering digital art. We first featured them

way back on episode 1681. So that was, I don't know, 2000, not quite 2,000 episodes ago, but a lot of

episodes ago. They're still going strong, continuing to grow, but what about their first

thousand dollars? How did they make it happen? What did it feel like? And what did they learn?

We're going to hear today from both Emily and Christine, in fact. So that's cool. Get a little

duo appearance. I'm going to be back at the end

with a quick wrap up. Hi, we are Christine and Emily, the co-founders of Wandercolors, an online

travel art shop. We sell original hand-drawn digital paintings of iconic travel destinations as art prints, phone cases, and postcards.

You may have heard about us from a previous episode on Side Hustle School called Management Consultants Create Travel-themed Digital Art.

Today we would like to share with you our origin story and how we secured our first $1,000.

Since childhood, we both had a strong passion for the arts and attended specialized high school programs that were focused on visual arts.

However, we both ended up pursuing a degree in business and ultimately worked as management consultants upon graduation.

When the pandemic hit, we found ourselves reminiscing on our academic exchange and travels for our university years,

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