Greetings, are welcome to thoughtful small money. Was personnel about quick reminder that in twenty twenty we must aim for a while we're gonna make it format, change with point twenty remedy, some life coaching and updates from listeners working on their projects throughout the year? You have interaction and excited, bring it to you and is part of that. I would love to feature some younger hustlers right so Is you or if you have somebody in your household who is starting early on the road to self reliance? Let me know when my favorite things to feature teenage. I'd hustler, sometimes even younger than that? So if that's you send a note to team sandyseal school dot com, that's team to eat, em, it's out of school, I let us know what you're working on. If you have a website, already include a link, so we can take a look. So why do I mention is now while I was inspired Working on today story, it's all about a teenager.

Signs and sells his own shirts. Among other things, he does this initially to find his interest in Dance bringing in eight thousand dollars a year while attending middle school he's a bit of a renaissance saw so I'll. Tell you about him how he made this happened right after this message from our sponsor It was twenty forty seven year old Hobbs Waters just couldn't find a hobby, the fifth quite right. We ve been trying to play basketball. It wasn't for him his mom, a J suggested football for maybe soccer hops rejected books. He loves It's pretty free time, drawing and painting in wanted him to also find something that would connecting with other kids, There are living in New Orleans at the time and eighty mostly had college friends who didn't have gets. There were missing a larger community and sense of belonging.

Later that your age, I happened to see that there was a ballet class taking place close to their home. She asked Cobb's if he was interested and he agreed to tried that classmate quite the impression he was lit up for several days. Afterwards. Soon he was taking two ballet classes are weak, Hobbs had found his people and twenty sixteen the family moved to pour on organ shortly. Thereafter, ops had the opportunity to attend a seven weeklong dance intensive over the summer. It lobby in depth, training and immediately started looking for more awkward.

It is to improve his new skills. The only problem was that dance intensive are expensive, a Jane you. It wouldn't be realistic to keep paying for those an his regular dance clasps. However, around the same time autumn, a friend of the families noticed Hobbs, artwork, automobile, talented, surrealist and thought hops could be successful. Selling his work entreat you didn't take long for both of them hops in Asia to jump on board with the idea to start they decided he would sell his artwork printed on a few items such as tee shirts mugs in tow bags. They created an online store, which they called city troll and started working on. Some prototypes Hobbs, attended a screen printing class and got health from a graphic designer to soup up the new website. His first customers came from a J friend group which they nicknamed anti nation. The women came together to both by his products, but also to spread the work now, at the same time, to be clear, this wasn't just a friends and family effort.

Hobbs started hustling. He talk to people in the community and posted on social media. Slowly, the spear of customers buying his work began to grow, to increase his entrepreneurial knowledge, Hobbs Red start with why, by Simon Cynic, shame is actually a good friend of mine, Shoutout Simon. He also went to several workshops talks in seminars. This is allowed him to network and build a community of support. After each workshop, he attended the increase the number of people around him, providing him advice. Point and help over the last three years since beginning at that very young age. The city troll hustle, has into a real business tee shirts on his website, cost around thirty five dollars, while hoodies run about fifty five hours. Many of his designs focus on black empowerment and include phrases like a black artists matter. You also sell shirts with drawings of animals on him, including elephants. Goes and ramps agent has a background in marketing a development which has been beneficial perhaps but he's the

and who does the social media and Rice the press releases, as eighty describes it she got. The resources and knowledge, but Hobbs does ninety percent of the work. So what kind of outcome are we looking at while city now brings about eight thousand dollars a year going a long way to helping him find. His dance career has also been quite a learning experience Hobbs is now juggling, not dance career and his sight us all, not to mention the day job of going to school and well, most people have been supportive age. They said they were recently told by a local business owner that kid's products are just not a good fit for the Portland market. Thankfully, the recent sales numbers are proving that to be incorrect thanks to the profits from city, Troll Hobbs is dancing all the time he's performing as the lead role in the nightmare before Christmas. At the World Trade Center in downtown Portland and that's not all hops is really trying to

well done on his business for next year. He starting to get wholesale orders had, has plans to keep growing city trop browser. Suddenly Hobbs is a bit of a renaissance all looking at his instagram in the website. This x then she led him to begin a number of other projects as well. So, in addition to the art he does the dance and a t shirt business is also an amateur musician. Among other things, he is also giving talks about the business, among other things. So to me, this points to a principle that I like to highlight from time to time, which is that experience produces confidence. Your experience brings you new ideas. It expands your vision, so the sooner you get started to better. If there is a young side, hustler in your life, encourage them give them resources show them. Examples basically follow the model that Asia is said here, but lesson

to the actual work as much as possible. That's my encouragement for you, I think so much to Hobbs. In a j, we will link up city troll in a show notes. Inspiration is good, but inspiration with action is better. Those notes are inside us all school dotcom, slash Trinity for one zero, eight four That is, of course, for episode. One thousand eighty four I'll be back, where I was another one, and I hope you will join me. My name is critical about this is site US school from the onward projects.