26,000 handmade hair scrunchies. That is the topic of the day here on Side Ussel School. Welcome, my friends. My name's Chris

Gillebaud, your host. This is a segment known as Throwback Thursday. We do it every Thursday.

In fact, that's why we call it Throwback Thursday. And we also take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. More than 3,400 episodes on the show so far. So we have a wealth of back catalog episodes and features to go back to and be like, hey, what's happened with your business since a number of years ago often? And so today we're going to hear from a woman in Iowa

who makes and sells a lot of scrunchies, like a lot of scrunchies, hair scrunchies, right?

You know what a scrunchy is. Long live the 90s. Let's talk about it. We've also featured

headbands. We have featured hair

ribbons, all kinds of hair accessories throughout the years. So let's talk about this particular

business. How did she get the idea? How did she make it happen? What's happened since? All those

things. Her name is Kristen. She's the founder of Bryn bands. Let's go to her. I'll come back at the end with a few words of

wrap up. My name is Kristen for Horbert. I'm from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. My side hustle is

Bren Bands, and it comes from my middle main,

which is Bryn, and I was featured on episode 737. And when I first started, I wanted something

that would kind of go along with what I was doing. So I started with just scrunchies, but I didn't

want to just be like Kristen scrunchies.

So I kind of brainstormed on what I wanted to do and Bryn and bands kind of just fit together and

kind of worked from there. So it's Bryn bands and I create different handmade hair accessories

for ladies across the nation. About two and a half years ago, I was at my old job,

and I was in charge of some college girls through the summer camp that our college hosted.

So scrunchies were making a comeback, and they knew I was crafty, and so they asked if I could make

them a scrunchy. And it kind of just snowballed from there, And I was like, sure, I'll try it. I knew that

in the 90s, my mom had actually made scrunchies. She worked out of hospital and she just made them

and all the nurses loved them. And so I asked her for help because you can find them on YouTube

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