u/Upset_Walrus_6398

I’m a woodworker who is about to start a business selling handmade goods. To start I want to use the rule of 100 but am confused on what my offer could be when doing outreach.

I’d be selling hardwood home accessories for high income individuals. Margin roughly around 50-70% depending on the item I land on.

Free products given away are expensive and not feasible with the high cost of hardwood. So I’m curious what might be a good offer or lead in besides saying “Do you know anyone who is interested in buying this thing?”.

Thoughts and insight would be great! Also curious what ACQ AI would say if someone is willing and able, thanks!

Overthinking and would love input from others who have dealt with the same or have insight:

Problem: I overthink every possible business I can start and also have some imposter syndrome as well. I really struggle with determining what I can do as a business.

Constraints, limitations, and context:

• I only have roughly 10-15 hours per week to spare due to children/family obligations currently. And the hours are usually scattered in the early morning, lunch hour, and evening.
• I'm an intermediate-level woodworker (roughly 4 years of experience building things for my own home)
• I work in IT risk and compliance for a large public company
• Struggling with these options, as woodworking is very time-intensive and IT risk/compliance is touchy from a legal perspective. Public companies need the most help in this area but also spend tons of money hiring large firms to do so.
• Past ideas considered: woodworking closing gifts for realtors regularly; flipping furniture and recording content for social media; AI implementation for small businesses, although this hasn't proven very helpful yet for actual revenue generation.
• I'm okay not building an empire worth millions, so I know some of these options may not fit super closely with Alex's principles.

Any feedback would be super helpful, thanks!

My toddler gets home from daycare around 4pm and screams until she goes to bed around 6:30 or 7pm.

She is so fussy and upset through the whole evening from dinner through clean up and bath time.

It’s stressing us both out so much, we can’t even hear ourselves think half the time and we’re exhausted.

She’s 16 months exactly, any tips for this phase? How can we occupy her during the evenings, is it just a short phase, please send help. Thanks!

My wife and I have been in debt for years, with the highest amount of consumer debt totaling upwards of almost $300k.

I'm 34 and my wife is 33, we've got our debt down to $150k and we feel so close and so hopeful. Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel is so uplifting. The grind has been hard and we've definitely made some mistakes and gotten off track, but overall we've done really well. We're on track to be debt free within the next 2 years if everything goes well.

If you're paying off debt, just keep going little by little. I promise it gets better and you'll thank your future self!