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From Corporate Stability to Retail Shelves With a Side Hustle With David Ask

A thermostat guard with a combination lock doesn’t sound like the start of a reinvention story, but that’s exactly why it works. Host Eric Dickmann sits down with David Ask, a Nashville singer, corporate professional turned product entrepreneur, and founder of The Ask Experience, to unpack how a side hustle that “went nowhere” quietly became a real business on the shelves of Home Depot and later Lowe’s.

We talk through the unglamorous middle: learning manufacturing, prototyping, supply chain management, retail distribution, and even basic bookkeeping from scratch, all while keeping the…

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