What It’s Like to Be…an Ice Cream Truck Driver

Transforming school buses into ice cream trucks, watching kids grow up (one popsicle at a time), and struggling to keep the freezers running with Erin Bailey, an ice cream truck driver in New Jersey. What’s her best selling treat? And does she ever get sick of the ice cream truck song?

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Music credit:
“The Entertainer” by Scott Joplin
Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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About What It’s Like to Be…
In each episode of What It’s Like to Be…, bestselling author Dan Heath speaks with someone about what it’s like to walk in their (work) shoes. Behavioral Scientist serves as a distribution partner with episodes released every other week. Learn more about the podcast’s mission of “slow curiosity” here.


The “Ice Cream Truck Driver” episode of What It’s Like To Be… featured Erin Bailey. It was produced and edited by Matt Purdy. Copyright © 2024 by Dan Heath. All rights reserved.