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@natty.icecream Part 5: What it’s actually like building a healthy ice cream business 🍦
Trending short videosDocumenting our business building journey
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Video #34333 · Vlog
Documenting our business building journeyfrom @natty.icecream
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Overview
The creator narrates the fifth part of his and his brother's journey building a healthy ice cream business. He explains how they overcame their first major hurdle—reformulating their ice cream recipe to prevent it from freezing rock-hard—only to face a new challenge of outgrowing their production facility. The video documents their search for a co-packer, the difficulties in finding one with reasonable minimums, and culminates in them committing to an expensive $15,000 test run, leaving the audience on a cliffhanger about the outcome.
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Simple outline
- 1State initial success & first obstacle
- 2Show the difficult solution process
- 3Reveal the next, bigger obstacle
- 4Commit to a high-risk solution
- 5Tease the outcome as a cliffhanger
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Hook analysis
What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds
Title hook · 45%
PART 5 MY BROTHER AND I QUIT OUR SIX FIGURE JOBS
Verbal hook · 45%
My brother and I quit our 6 figure jobs to build a healthy ice cream business.
Visual hook · 10%
A man wearing a golden Spartan helmet and a red cape sits on a counter in a commercial kitchen eating ice cream, creating an unexpected and curious visual.
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Hook template
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PART : We Quit Our Jobs To Build A Business
- — PART 3: We Quit Our Six Figure Jobs To Build A Hot Sauce Business
- — PART 7: I Quit My Corporate Job To Build A Sustainable Clothing Business
- — PART 2: We Quit Our Stable Jobs To Build A Protein Snack Business
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Hook and payoff
The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back
Hook
A high-stakes premise hook that establishes a relatable 'dream-chaser' narrative and quantifies the personal investment made by the protagonists, while also signaling its place in an ongoing series.
Payoff
A cliffhanger payoff that deliberately withholds the resolution of the latest high-stakes problem, paired with a direct call to action to follow for the next installment.
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Narrative framework
The structural pattern this video runs on
Framework
The Entrepreneur's Gauntlet
A serialized narrative that follows a protagonist through a repeating cycle of 'Problem -> Hard-Fought Solution -> New, Bigger Problem,' culminating in a high-stakes cliffhanger to drive engagement for the next episode.
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The Honeymoon & The First Wall
Showcases initial success to build credibility, then immediately introduces the first major conflict to create narrative tension.
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The Critical Flaw
Defines the specific, tangible problem that threatens the entire enterprise, making the stakes clear and relatable.
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The R&D Gauntlet
Demonstrates the immense effort, time, and resources required to overcome the obstacle, building audience investment in the outcome.
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The Breakthrough Moment
Delivers a satisfying resolution to the first problem, creating a moment of victory and emotional release for the viewer.
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The Second Wall
Immediately follows the victory with a new, more complex problem that arises as a direct result of the previous success, escalating the stakes.
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The Scaling Crisis
Details the specifics of the new obstacle, highlighting external constraints and industry-specific challenges to add a layer of realism and difficulty.
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The Potential Solution
Presents a viable but challenging path forward, showing proactive problem-solving and moving the story toward its next climax.
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The High-Stakes Gamble
Quantifies the financial and emotional risk of the proposed solution, maximizing tension before the final beat.
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Part 5: What it’s actually like building a healthy ice cream business 🍦
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PART 5
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MY BROTHER AND I QUIT OUR SIX FIGURE JOBS
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HEALTHY ICE CREAM BUSINESS
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THIS IS PART 5 OF THE JOURNEY
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WE GREW TO 30 STORES REALLY FAST
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THEN WE HIT A WALL
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OUR ICE CREAM WAS FREEZING ROCK HARD
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AND WE KNEW WE COULDN'T GROW MORE UNTIL WE FIXED THAT
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SO WE WENT BACK INTO THE LAB
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HERE'S THE PROBLEM
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MAKING ICE CREAM THAT STAYS SOFT WHILE IT'S LOW SUGAR LOW FAT HIGH PROTEIN AND CLEAN NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE
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BUT WE WEREN'T GIVING UP
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AND OVER 100 RECIPES LATER WE FOUND A WINNING RECIPE
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WE WERE ON CLOUD NINE
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WE BEGAN DEVELOPING TWO NEW FLAVORS STRAWBERRY SWIRL AND MINT COOKIES AND CREAM
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THEN WE RAN INTO THE NEXT WALL
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WE HAD OUTGROWN OUR OWN PRODUCTION FACILITY
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WE NEEDED A CO PACKER TO SCALE
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BUT IN THE ICE CREAM INDUSTRY THERE ARE ONLY A FEW AND MOST HAD INSANE ORDER MINIMUMS
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FORTUNATELY WE STARTED TO LOOK IN THE SUMMERTIME AND BY NOVEMBER
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SO WE FLEW OUT TOURED THE FACILITY AND COMMITTED TO A TEST RUN
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THAT RUN COST US OVER 15 GRAND
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SO YEAH WE WERE A BIT STRESSED PRAYING NOTHING WENT WRONG
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NEXT EPISODE WE'LL SHARE WHAT HAPPENED
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FOLLOW ALONG TO SEE HOW FAR WE TAKE THIS
Transcript
My brother and I quit our 6 figure jobs to build a healthy ice cream business. This is part five of the journey. We grew to 30 stores really best, then we hit a wall. Our ice cream was freezing rock hard and we knew we couldn't grow more until we fixed that. So we went back into the lab. Here's the problem. Making ice cream that stays soft while it's low sugar, low fat, high protein, and clean? Nearly impossible. But we weren't giving up. Four months and over a 100 recipes later, we found a winning recipe. We were on cloud nine. We began developing two new flavors, strawberry swirl and mint cookies and cream. Then we ran into the next wall. We had outgrown our own production facility. We needed a co packer to scale, but in the ice cream industry, there are only a few and most had insane order minimums. Fortunately, we started to look in the summertime and by No, we had found one. So we flew out, toured the facility, and committed to a test run. That run cost us over $15. So, yeah, we were a bit stressed, praying nothing went wrong. Next episode, we'll share what happened. Follow along to see how far we take this ice cream dream.