Advice Line with Angie & Dan Bastian of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP

Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. This is the place where we help try to solve your business challenges. Each week I'm joined by a legendary founder, a former guest on the show. who will help me try to help you. And if you're building something and you need advice, give us a call and you just might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Leave us a one minute message that tells us about your business and the issues or questions that you'd like help with. Alright, let's get to it. Joining me today are Angie and Dan Bastian, co-founders of Angie's Boom Chick-a-Pot Popcorn. Angie and Dan, welcome back to the show. Thank you, guys. Thank you. We're happy to be back.

We first met, uh back in I think it was twenty nineteen, we sat in it down in front of a live audience in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was so fun. You told us This crazy story about how you saw an online ad that said, uh, make thousands of dollars by popping kettleborn, which sounds so crazy. Angie, you were a nurse uh practitioner at the time, Dan, you were a high school teacher. You guys were looking to make some extra cash to put away for your kids' college, and so you bought uh some kettle court equipment and started selling in parking lots and a Vikings games and eventually somehow

This becomes a multi million dollar business. It's an amazing story. And for those of you listening who have not heard the original episode of Angie's Boom Chicken Pop, you've gotta listen to it. It's so good. We'll put a link to it uh in the show notes. Um anyway. So it's been a while since you were last on the show. Angie, I think you were still involved with Boom Chica Pop at the time. Um and Dan, I think you had moved on from the brand. So Angie, what are you still working with the company? Wha tell me what's going on. Uh no, I'm not. Um Dan and I started getting involved in some of the things that um we were passionate about and one of those things was with a nonprofit in Nicaragua, um, working with small shareholder farmers that were producing yuca and um

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