094 Tips on Funding and Growing Your Side Hustle with Kara Stevens
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
I am so excited to share this episode featuring Kara Stevens of the award winning site The Frugal Feminista which helps women get their finances in order. We get some firsthand tips from Kara on how to grow and manage a profitable side hustle while juggling a full-time job and family. Kara was able to not only pay off $40,000 in debt in 3 years but also build a business on the site while managing a full time job & a family, so there is definitely much to learn
In this episode we will discuss:
- Kara’s background, money story & journey into entrepreneurship
- How she paid off 40,000 of debt in 3 years. Find step by step guide here.
- How to balance a full-time job, your side hustles & a family
- How as a principal, Kara wanted to start a community based businesses
- Time vs. money argument. When to outsource and build a team, and how to determine where to spend/invest when you still have debt
- How to build a team for the key aspects of the business on a budget and the tools to support communication?
- Tips on staying motivated from Kara’s article.
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
9 Things I Did to Pay Back My $40K Student Loan Debt in Two Years
6 Tips to Keep You Motivated While Building Your Business on the Side
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Journey to Launch Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | Tips on Funding and Growing Your Side Hustle |
| 0:08.0 | While staying motivated with Kara Stevens. |
| 0:11.0 | T-minous 10 seconds. Welcome to the Journey. Tara Stevens. her talk. She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real |
| 0:26.9 | well. Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:31.3 | Five, four, three, three, two... financial freedom in five four three two one |
| 0:40.0 | hey journeys welcome to the journey to launch podcast excited to bring you this conversation |
| 0:45.4 | always excited to have you here on this rocket ship with me we are taking off this is |
| 0:51.1 | episode 94 you can get the show notes for episode 94 at |
| 0:54.4 | Journey to Launch.com slash episode 94 and I am talking to Kara |
| 0:59.6 | Stevens. Kara is the founder of the award winning site, The Frugal Feminista, and she is the author of numerous books and resources to help women, especially black women, get their finances in order. I'm super excited to have Kara on because she |
| 1:16.7 | hasn't, one, been in the personal finance game for a bit now and she's seen success with her blog, |
| 1:22.0 | and she's also a mom, and she has a full-time job and she's managing all the things. |
| 1:27.0 | And so we're going to talk about how she got started in personal finance, how she grew her business, her side business, into something that was profitable, |
| 1:36.4 | how she manages all of that, and then how you, yourself, how you can relay some of those |
| 1:41.5 | tips into your side hustle or business and |
| 1:44.4 | entrepreneurship journey. If you are enjoying this episode please don't forget to |
| 1:48.7 | rate review and subscribe especially if you listen to this in Apple podcast I |
| 1:52.4 | really appreciate you sharing this with your family especially if you listen to this in Apple Podcast. |
| 1:52.6 | I really appreciate you sharing this with your family and friends. |
| 1:55.5 | It helps the message get more out there. |
| 1:58.4 | Follow me at Journey to Launch to keep up with what I'm doing and then tag me so if you're enjoying the |
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