Hustle 101

In 2021, when much of the world was still figuring out the new reality of lockdown restrictions, Chloe Winstanley from 100kartist.com found herself no better than everyone else: stuck at home. Based in New Zealand, Chloe started toying with a series of creative projects just to fill time, but one of them eventually turned into a money-making side hustle.

Polymer clay earrings was an experiment that she found herself turning into a business overnight — in just a couple years, Chloe had garnered more than $100,000 in profits through her workshops.

Here’s how she did it.

How can a food tour side hustle turn into a $300k a year business?

Chris Andrews from Bienville Bites Food Tour started his little side hustle back in 2017, just giving food tours on the weekends in Mobile, Alabama.

Fast forward a few years, and now he’s running a $300k business! He quit his job at the steel mill and now runs these tours full time.

How did Chris go from slinging steels to doing food tours?

In this episode, we’re diving deep into the listener mailbag for a Q&A session.

I’ll tackle things like lifestyle creep, the role of luck, and inadvertently breaking a bunch of links.

And hey, why does it seem like every podcast guest is selling an online course?

Spoiler: there’s some truth to it, and we’ll dig into why that happens.

In honor of father’s day, I wanted to share some of the best advice I’ve received from my dad over the years, and how we can all work to apply it in life and in business.

The funny thing is almost all of these were very literal conversations, which I’ve extrapolated out (30 years later!) to have a broader meaning.

What if we looked at our businesses like professional sports teams?

That’s what Vincent Pugliese from Membership Freedom shared, drawing parallels between running a successful business and how sports franchises operate.

Vincent helps people build successful membership sites and communities around topics they care about.

He previously shared his freelance-to-freedom story of going from making $30k a year to earning $30k in a single day through freelancing.

In this episode, Vincent explains the “Stadium Model of Entrepreneurship.” This model draws inspiration from how sports franchises operate, offering various levels of access and products to their audience.

Even with the rise of digital technology, billboards remain a profitable business.

In fact, Chris Brown built his billboard side hustle to $30,000 a month (part-time!).

Chris now owns approximately 30 billboards around Bentonville, Arkansas, and retired early at the age of 42.