#305: Business Ideas (Past, Present & Future)
6/22/20261 hr 9 min
This week we're sharing stories from our past businesses, updates on our current ventures and dream business ideas we're still saving for the future.
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Businesses we talk about:
Emma's Cupcake / Bubble Tea Shop
Elsie's Scrapbook Product Line
Emma's Bar
Querying
The Golden Bakery
Book Report
Emma: First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
Elsie: The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer
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First 90 secondsEmma Chapman· Host0:00
[upbeat music] You're listening to the Beautiful Mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen. I'm your host, Emma Chapman.
Elsie Larson· Host0:09
And I'm your host, Elsie Larson.
Emma Chapman· Host0:11
And this week we're sharing stories from our past businesses, updates on our current ventures, and dream business ideas that we're still saving for the future.
Elsie Larson· Host0:19
I love it. Okay.
Emma Chapman· Host0:21
Business, business, business.
Elsie Larson· Host0:21
Before we jump in, do you wanna tell us about your beautiful, gorgeous... We both had a date night last night, so we can both do our date nights.
Emma Chapman· Host0:29
Okay.
Elsie Larson· Host0:29
Tell us about your date night last night, 'cause our kids were both at our mom's house.
Emma Chapman· Host0:34
Mm-hmm.
Elsie Larson· Host0:34
That's how it went down. That's how it happened.
Emma Chapman· Host0:35
Yeah, my older was going over to have a sleepover with the cousins.
Elsie Larson· Host0:39
Mm-hmm.
Emma Chapman· Host0:39
It's the only sleepovers he gets to do currently.
Elsie Larson· Host0:41
Yeah.
Emma Chapman· Host0:41
[laughs] And very special to him.
Elsie Larson· Host0:43
It's very special.
Emma Chapman· Host0:44
So he was doing that, and then my youngest went over to his other grandma's. And so we were like, "Oh, we're gonna have a date night." We don't have a lot of, like, full date nights. That's, you know, we just- it doesn't happen very often for us, so we were kind of like... I called a couple restaurants to see about reservations, and we finally landed on where we were gonna go, and it was a restaurant that, like, didn't actually need a reservation, so we didn't make one 'cause we were a little unsure on what time. So anyway, my husband came home from work a little early, and so the swing set- set that we had bought had just come in the mail. And it's really cute, and he was really excited about it, and this is gonna show how he's more optimistic than I am. But here we go. So he was like, "Let's just put part of it together," 'cause also part of it's wood, and it's gonna start