Phil Kalas's guest appearances

Phil Kalas

Content Funnels

The Stitchdown Shoecast

TrepTalks with Sushant

Mark Cuban

Billy Keels

Fannie Mae

Jeff Weiner

Zack Arnold

Matt Johnson

Jack Rhysider

Eric Bandholz

Scott Keyes

Elena Ledoux

Benny Hsu

Jonathan Mendonsa

Prady Tewarie

Russ Morgan

John Crestani

OwlTail

The leather tanning process is an ancient one—almost 10,000 years old. And yet, it can also be a massive damn mystery! So Ashland Leather's Phil Kalas—who put in over a decade at Horween Leather—stopped by the Shoecast to take us through the entire leather tanning process, and all its possible routes to creating beautiful leather for footwear (and everything else). How does the veg-tanning process differ from chrome tanning? What's a base tan and what's a re-tan? How does grading work? Wet stuffing and hot stuffing? What are the different ways to dry hides and what does that affect? How does finishing go, and what's the deal with crust leather?? Phil lays it all out, in a beautifully understandable manner.  Even if you feel you know every single thing about leather, my suspicion is there's a LOT to learn in this one. This episode was sponsored by Grant Stone, one of the best values in Goodyear welted footwear, periodJoin the Stitchdown Discord today, unless you hate boots of courseTheme Song: The Road by Punk Rock Opera 

The leather tanning process is an ancient one—almost 10,000 years old. And yet, it can also be a massive damn mystery! So <a href="https://ashlandleather.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ashland Leather's</a> Phil Kalas—who put in over a decade at Horween Leather—stopped by the Shoecast to take us through the entire leather tanning process, and all its possible routes to creating beautiful leather for footwear (and everything else). How does the veg-tanning process differ from chrome tanning? What's a base tan and what's a re-tan? How does grading work? Wet stuffing and hot stuffing? What are the different ways to dry hides and what does that affect? How does finishing go, and what's the deal with crust leather?? Phil lays it all out, in a beautifully understandable manner.  Even if you feel you know every single thing about leather, my suspicion is there's a LOT to learn in this one. This episode was sponsored by <a href="https://www.grantstoneshoes.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Grant Stone</a>, one of the best values in Goodyear welted footwear, period <a href="https://www.stitchdown.com/join-stitchdown-premium/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join the Stitchdown Discord today</a>, unless you hate boots of course Theme Song: The Road by Punk Rock Opera

Literally Everything You Need to Know About How Leather is Made, With Ashland Leather's Phil Kalas

In this episode, I am chatting with Phil Kalas about how he grew his side hustle, Ashland Leather, while still working his day job. We go into how he got the idea, how the market led him to the best product to sell, and what it's like running a medium size team while you still have a day job. You can learn more about Phil's business by visiting ashlandleather.com #Four ways you can support this podcast:   Take a screenshot of this podcast and send it to a friend who may like it   I am doing a drawing for a free hard copy of The Side Hustle Journal for every 5 iTunes reviews. So if you want a chance to win, leave a rating and review on iTunes or Apple podcasts and send me an email at hello@gritandhustle.co. Detailed instructions on how to do this are at www.gritandhustle.co/review   Take your side hustle to the next level by implementing a sales funnel to turn your passive website visitors into paying customer with ClickFunnels, the #1 sales funnel software in the world. You can get a free trial by going to www.gritandhustle.co/profit   If you are interested in podcasting, which is the fastest growing content medium in the world, head over to www.gritandhustle.co/podcastingmadeeasy to enroll in my course now.   If you have an awesome side hustle that you would like to share with the world, I'd love to have you on my podcast. You can schedule a podcast interview by going to calendly.com/gritandhustleco/guest

In this episode, I am chatting with Phil Kalas about how he grew his side hustle, Ashland Leather, while still working his day job. We go into how he got the idea, how the market led him to the best product to sell, and what it's like running a medium size team while you still have a day job. You can learn more about Phil's business by visiting <a href="http://ashlandleather.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ashlandleather.com</a> #Four ways you can support this podcast: <ol> <li> Take a screenshot of this podcast and send it to a friend who may like it </li> <li> I am doing a drawing for a free hard copy of The Side Hustle Journal for every 5 iTunes reviews. So if you want a chance to win, leave a rating and review on iTunes or Apple podcasts and send me an email at hello@gritandhustle.co. Detailed instructions on how to do this are at <a href="http://www.gritandhustle.co/review" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.gritandhustle.co/review</a> </li> <li> Take your side hustle to the next level by implementing a sales funnel to turn your passive website visitors into paying customer with ClickFunnels, the #1 sales funnel software in the world. You can get a free trial by going to <a href="http://www.gritandhustle.co/profit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.gritandhustle.co/profit</a> </li> <li> If you are interested in podcasting, which is the fastest growing content medium in the world, head over to <a href="http://www.gritandhustle.co/podcastingmadeeasy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.gritandhustle.co/podcastingmadeeasy</a> to enroll in my course now. </li> </ol> If you have an awesome side hustle that you would like to share with the world, I'd love to have you on my podcast. You can schedule a podcast interview by going to <a href="http://calendly.com/gritandhustleco/guest" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">calendly.com/gritandhustleco/guest</a>

105 - How To Grow A Handmade Products Business While Having A Day Job | Phil Kalas