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You know, a lot of people ask me, Shane, I'd love to make money online, man.

I just don't know how I could do it.

All I got is a bunch of weird ideas, man.

You ever seen anybody with a weird idea to make money online?

I always look back at them. I tell this story. I say, let me tell you about Teresa Perleybird because she had the weirdest idea I have ever seen that made money on the internet. And if she can make money with this idea, I bet your idea ain't so weird and it can make money too. So Teresa came to one of our workshops and she said, Shane, I've got a weird idea, man. I like to do this weird crap, this weird hobby. It's called needle

felting. Needle felting. It's kind of like crochet. You take wool and you take this needle and you put

it all together. And what happens is you make stuffed animals. And she held up like this elephant and this

giraffe, this stuffed animal elephant giraffe made out of wool like sheep wool. And I said, wait,

let me get this straight. So you're a needle felting stuffed animal enthusiast. And you want to

teach other people how to be a needle felting stuffed animal enthusiast in their spare time. And she said, sort of. Yeah, it's a great hobby. It's very relaxing. I really like to do it. And I'd like to teach other people how to do this so they can relax and have fun. It's a good hobby. But I'm not exactly what you just said. There's layers to this hobby that I've got, this love, this passion that I like to do on the

weekends and in the evenings. You see, I also like to dye my own sheep wool. I like to dye my own

wool and then I needle felt it into a stuffed animal. She holds up another little stuffed animal on the

camera. And I'm like, okay, hold on a second. So, Teresa,

you're a wool-dying, needle-felting, stuffed animal enthusiast, and you want to create courses

or teach people how to do this through coaching them, or you want to build a community of

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