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Thursday for you, but our segment is throwback Thursday, and every week we take an in depth. Look at someone who story has evolved considerably, since we first feature that now we're on a role here, because last week we heard from Karen Newport in New Zealand, who creates and sells digital paintbrushes. If this is not an hour, typical example of the new economy. I don't know what is digital paint brushes and asset for by using the Ipad and using the Ipad Pencil in software called procreate. How this is something that didn't even exist a few years ago, if you had said this, a thing in somebody would be out there. You know making a good income from it and now she's going on to teach lots of Youtube, tutorials, etc, a lot of people would have said. Well, I believe it when I see it and now it's there so today and our latest feature this one, as is quite different for my favorite stories of all time. I actually wish we had feature these guys in the wondered side of souls book. Maybe I'll get a chance to another photo book at some point, and if so, they are first time. I was to call so many here today from Lindsey Baublitz one one half of the.

Our due out behind near endear aside us all that sells foe, taxidermy taxidermy. Talking about mounting animal heads on the wall except foe, its fake, its artificial. It's something that she has crafting so a pretty incredible origin story. We told the whole thing back an episode which was what was it episode for seventy one. You want to go in here more, but I think she touches on it in her comments. You get a bit of a preview and we're gonna hear some updates from her. They have been selling out. Lots of ice aids in such so let's hear directly from Linsey, I will come back at the end to wrap us up. Today's episode is

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muscle is nearing dear foe, taxidermy. We make fake animal health while they core ear moose cows calls and when you know, horns T Rex and dragons anything Think I really am we custom hand paint everything in any color that our customers can imagine when regular. Dating and thinking about buying a house together, we got into some heated debates over his real dear ahead. Mount collection he's a hunter who grew up with we'll dear heads on the Wall- and I am not a fan- I'd like to see them in hotel lodgings, far away where I can't really think about what it truly is. I we still really bad for the animals. I just can't get past the fact that a real honest I just feel, but it's cool, anger. Heads on a wall, the I decided to make a big to your head. I bought A rise in big, dear head off of Ebay and covered it with fabric rich, wasn't a fan of buying fabric choice, but he thought was a good idea, so I decided to start and Etsy Store, and I soul that one that I made in two weeks

so that over the next couple months I started making more and I selling about once a month which is great money for me, but Rick thought he could do more with it, so he decided you start hand, cleaning them solid colours and we ended up selling a higher volume at a lower price. Quite so things really started growing after that. My main hustle is I I am a business appraiser. I basically tell business owners, but their companies are worth and I like my job. I think it's really interesting and did not want to quit my job full time. Run. Your endear Rico However, he was in its Vs Ie guy for government facilities, and you know it had a great job and good money, but just one or two change. He was interested in taking the job to really start growing the business, and I am happy that either we have grown

an efficient way of when we did our less episode. We were renting a facility robbed down the street and we had a rented space to make the products, and then it warehouse a couple blocks down the street, so we were keeping their products and once thought we'd have to DR and pick them up with our work ban, drive back through a different facility in paint them and then pack em up and drive them to our expec up. So there is a very inefficient way of running the business and it was fined at first but as we grew up, became way to labour intensive. So we decided to purchase our own warehouse. It is it's about four thousand square foot warehouse on our biggest challenge.

Is working with a team of people and delegating the rolls so that everyone has a say in how the business can grow. We have had several wonderful employs stuck around with us for years and they really are focused on either painting or packing, and we haven't really had. The time was always so busy to train and invest money and effort to really bring that person to the next level where they can work on new products, spreadsheets and answer customer service question. So a lot of those has so far on reckon myself and without a large enough team of people to help in leverage.

Work. It's been challenging to help us growth so reckon I feel, like a lot of the work, still falls on our shoulders in the evenings and we're still working super late, and that's our fault that we haven't been able to train staff and make the time during our visit times. I would suggest that somebody wants to follow in our footsteps that they really take baby steps. One thing that I reckon I do, but we never took on a big debt or big loan to get the business started. We did it all and chunks and was very deliberate about the decisions that we made so that we wouldn't grown to fasten and be stuck with. You know a big loan to pay off I'm. So what we did was me baby stepped from are faced man into our courage and worked our way up to a third point. Lease buying or a warehouse, and did it gradually and

You only use the space that we needed rather than from day one just going to buy a new warehouse and having all this extra space and maybe not being able to afford it in terms of our products. You know we gradually introduce more and more skews and we also added different marketplaces starting on at sea, and that adding Amazon Wayfarer in and on and on from there. Also thank you so much the regulations on all those updates. Congratulations on the new warehouse, in particular and I was glad to hear as well when he also had some notes for separately about how covered nineteen has actually been a big seller for them. So who knows? I guess you know when the krona virus hits? All you can think of is like you now I need a dragon or a t rex or you know a moose up on my wall. Listen stranger! Things have happened, and twenty twenty I'll say that. I also like what she says about her advice

have you not take these baby steps in this is the sort of school way you know they could have taken on alone. Perhaps they could have gone into debt somehow and it would have been riskier. You know what I've been a lot riskier right. They would say that got this really creative crafty but now we have all this money it we have to pay back or we're obligated to someone else and they didn't make that choice. So now there obligated to themselves, which is a lot better, a lot easier to be obligated to yourself. You are obviously not an obligation, it's a privilege, you know it's an asset have created for themselves, so anyway, I'm a big fan of nearing dear dear I'm grateful to Linsey for helping us out this segment wearing to keep doing these throughout the rest. I ve been very popular. Let me know what you think and who you like to see featured are lives of more than one thousand stories were not at thirteen episodes in well. Over a thousand stories, Twenty twenty is our Europe interaction. So if you had a question like to update us about your hustle, if you would like your artificial Moosehead, while for the last one you gonna go,

Near and dear, but for everything else come to satisfy scored outcomes. Last questions what we featuring them throughout the year allow with updates mother listeners as they launch their projects. Show notes for today are cited so Skoda, com slashed, thirteen, twenty wine. Thank you so much You are a rock star going. Do something for yourself make some progress on an idea mighty Miss Priscilla RO. This is silent. Gone. From the onward projects.