Fireside Chat with Ed Justus

I had the pleasure of interviewing Ed Justus, the owner of Talk Story Bookstore in Kauai, on my show ahead of my book signing this Friday, April 7th from 5-7 pm. Ed and I talked about how he started his store and what it's like to run a small book store in Kauai. Enjoy the show! Be sure to check out Talk Story Bookstore on Instagram. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS books, bookstore, authors, story, kawaii, friday night, business, customers, talk, started, book signings, generally, thought, sell, hobbies, debt, meeting, david bach, podcast, friday Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. 00:01 Hey everybody, it's Dr. Sam and I'd like to welcome you to a special EyeClarity podcast today. So we have on the line, the owner of talk story books in kawaii gentleman's name is Ed Justus. And I am doing a book signing at the bookstore this coming Friday. And well, I was curious about having it on and you know, as an independent bookstore, there are not as many of those I would like to see. But anyways, let's bring Ed on to the program. So Ed, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you started the bookstore and give it give us your story.   00:52 Sure, thank you for having me on Dr. Berne. Why I'm originally from Virginia, actually, I came to Hawaii in 2002, just for a visit. And then when I got here, it felt more like home than any place I've ever been. So I just decided to stay. And I started over with a few $100 in my suitcases, and just took it from there. And month to month, I started going around to garage sales and picking stuff up and reselling it on eBay to make a living. And that's after two years of doing that, that's how it sort of became the bookstore. I never actually planned to open a bookstore, it just sort of happened. So there was a landlord couple in the town upon a paper they who I got to meet when I moved to the west side of kawaii and they, after talking with them for a little while they to make the story short, they actually offered me a space free per month to start a business. And at the time, I didn't have any background and books or retail or business. So I it just seemed like a good way to get the eBay, eBay product out of the house. And I figured it customers would walk into the shop maybe I might sell more the eBay product. But it seemed obvious once I removed all the stuff into the shop that it seemed like a bookstore and Curiosity Shop because I had about 3000 use books and a variety of Watson ends. And that's basically how it got started. And I I also didn't know what to call it either because I didn't want it to have a name that would be kind of typical, like paradise books or something boring like kawaii bookstore. I thought okay, what can we call it? So I put it out to the community to ask them, What would you like the store to be called. And eventually somebody came back with a name talk story. And it just fit it just felt right. And talk story is a local colloquialism, which means to chat or to shoot the breeze or to share his story. And that's how talk story bookstore began back in 2004.   03:10 Yeah, I love to hear those stories, you know, has a because you're, you're an entrepreneur,