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The ultimate podcast where collecting passion and business collide! Let's face it, we all want to make money by doing something we love. If you could turn your hobby into your job, you'd never work a day in your life. Right? Welcome to Hobby Hustle, in each episode, we'll dive deep into the stories of passionate collectors who have turned their hobbies into successful businesses. We'll uncover the origins of their collections, unravel the threads of their entrepreneurial journeys, and uncove ...
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OVERVIEW: Today’s guest has blended his childhood love of collecting and his passion for sports and culture with his natural talent as an artist. Over the past 30 years his creative work includes penciling, drawing, inking, airbrush and painting, from realism to abstract. He has created a unique style that blends pop culture and sports with his art…
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OVERVIEW: Due to being sick, I was unable to record, so instead we are goingto take a step back to this year's National and revisit a great conversationwith two amazing people and friends in The Hobby. This was a conversation with Evan Parker, the CEO of Mantel, and Tom Fallos,aka The Card Carver, which recorded on Thursday, July 25 in Cleveland, O…
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Hobby Hustle - Episode 18: EJ Ferrer, Fanatics - Director Dealer Relations
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OVERVIEW: Today’s guest is a lifelong collector who is passionate about cards, toys, and people in the collectibles space. He has evolved from the early days of flipping cards into setting up at shows as a dealer. He then leveraged his design and marketing skills to start to help promote smaller local shows, eventually growing into being a co-found…
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OVERVIEW: Today’s guest is a long-time collector who has taken his passion and turned it into a full-time business. He is a true entrepreneur and is one of the only people in The Hobby I know that can say he sells both sports cars and sports cards! He has had multiple successful car brokerages and opened The Hobby Source in Denver, CO in 2022. You …
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OVERVIEW: Today’s guest has been a collector his entire life and turned a simple idea into a booming business! In 2020 he felt there was a need to make his slabs look better and protect them from drops & dings. After studying the market, he realized there was an opportunity in the marketplace. Using pure determination and passion, he hustled his wa…
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Hobby Hustle - Episode 15: Danny Black, Hobby News Daily / Collectibles on Sports Illustrated
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OVERVIEW: Today’s guest has been a collector his entire life and has been full-time in the Hobby for over 6 years. Over the course of his career he has worked in Professional Baseball with both The Atlanta Braves and Baltimore Orioles. Additionally, he has been a consultant for large Hobby brands like Magpie and the CenterStage app. In 2019 he foun…
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OVERVIEW: Today’s guest has been in The Hobby professionally for 20 years. Over her career she has built an impressive collection of modern sports cards and memorabilia focused on hot prospects and long term investment pieces. She is a pioneer in The Hobby as one of the first women to be a regular dealer traveling the country to set up trade shows.…
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Hobby Hustle Episode 13 - Jeremy Allen, Assistant Director of Popular Culture + Collector's League
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OVERVIEW: Today’s guest has over three decades of experience in creative, strategic, and marketing work within the collectibles space. He is an entrepreneur who over the years has collaborated with a variety of large collectible brands including Arena Club, Bleecker Trading, The RealReal, ComC, and many others. He currently is the Assistant Directo…
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OVERVIEW: Today’s guest is a long time passionate collector who has hustled his way from humble beginnings in Chicago. He is true entrepreneur has been a collector and connoisseur of sneakers, fashion, cards, and culture for many years. He has established himself as one of the top card dealers in The Hobby and travels both the country and world to …
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OVERVIEW: Today’s guest grew up as a collector and had turned his passion for cards into a full-time business. He’s a pioneer in the card art world as he started as early as 1991. He is most well known for his contribution in the custom card artwork world by blending sports and pop art. He has helped elevate the card art world through his own work,…
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Hobby Hustle - Episode 10: Merlin Peck, Pop Culture Photography
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OVERVIEW: Today’s guest is a passionate collector of pop culture and a well-established content creator. His expertise spans a wide array of non-sports items, including trading cards, pop culture memorabilia, wrestling, photography, Star Wars, and much more. Beyond his passion for collecting, he has worked as a film and video editor in Hollywood an…
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Hobby Hustle - Episode 9: Jeremy Lee, Sports Cards Live
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Today’s guest has over 40+ years of experience in The Hobby, and is a well known content creator who has interviewed over 200 industry insiders, passionate collectors, and fellow content creators. He chose to hang up his Finance and Accounting career in order to pursue his passion within the industry he loves, The Hobby. He is a sports card consult…
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OVERVIEW: Today’s guest is a long-time collector and music lover. His past experiences have included a variety of work within the sneaker space, as well as work in the authentication and preservation space. From humble beginnings as an immigrant from Nicaragua to helping create the music grading industry, it has been an impressive journey! His PC c…
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Hobby Hustle - Episode 7: Jay Coscolluela, Chief Operating Officer at Burbank Card Show
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EPISODE OVERVIEW: Today’s guest is a lifelong collector and has an amazing journey to share…he was born in the Philippines where he started collecting cards at a young age that included Michael Jordan and Magic The Gathering. In 2005 he migrated to the U.S. where he continued his collecting passion. Over the next decade he would continue to fuel hi…
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EPISODE OVERVIEW: Today’s guest is an entrepreneur who pivoted from owning a small electronic repair business into pursuing his passion as a collector. In 2021 he decided to take the plunge into becoming a full time sports card dealer. Since then he has traveled the country setting up at trade shows ranging from small local shows all the way up to …
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Hobby Hustle - Episode 5: Evan Parker, Mantel CEO
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EPISODE OVERVIEW: Today’s guest is an LA native who has been a collector his whole life, but has taken a very different path from our other guests to date. His focus has been in the sports content space, and recently shifted over to collectibles. He held multiple positions with NASCAR, including Head of Content. He was the General Manager for The A…
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EPISODE OVERVIEW: Today’s guest is a former tech salesman who decided he had enough of his “day job” and wanted to pursue his passion as a collector. In July of 2022 he decided that he was going to try his hand as a full time sports card dealer. Since then he has traveled the country setting up at trade shows ranging from small local shows all the …
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EPISODE OVERVIEW: Today’s guest is a wife, a mother of two, and a former middle school English teacher who has turned her passion for collecting into a full time business. When she is not doing the “mom thing” or adding to her collection of Baseball and Star Wars cards, she is running an extremely successful breaking business, MamaBreaks. She has w…
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EPISODE OVERVIEW: Today’s guest is a well established content creator in the collectibles space specializing in a variety of non-sports items. His collecting interests range from trading cards, pop culture, wrestling, Star Wars, comics, original artwork, toys and other non-sports items. In addition to being a passionate collector, he is the host of…
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EPISODE OVERVIEW: Welcome to THE FIRST EVER episode of Hobby Hustle! Today’s guest is not only one of the most knowledgeable basketball collectors around, but an amazing person as well. Adam Gray has over 30+ years of collecting experience, and is the Founder & Editor in Chief of Basketball Card Fanatic Magazine. Additionally, since 2023 he has bee…
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