#1165 - From $11/hr Barista To Six Figure Copywriter
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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When this Austinite starts a coffee blog and becomes a barista at a local cafe, he has no idea his two hustles would merge into an $8,000/mo dream job.
Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up friends, listeners, Sad Us Little School community. |
| 0:07.6 | My name is Chris Gill about so excited to work on this story today from an Austinite. |
| 0:12.4 | Austinite means someone from Austin, Texas. |
| 0:15.1 | Wonderful city. |
| 0:16.1 | I've been there many, many times, especially for book events. |
| 0:19.3 | And in 27 days from now, I'll be beginning my new tour for the Money Tree. |
| 0:24.0 | My book, The Money Tree, is going to take me to 40 cities in North America. |
| 0:26.8 | I would love to see you in one of them. |
| 0:28.8 | If you're not in North America, I'm going to work on that next one thing at a time. |
| 0:32.2 | But if you go to MoneyTreeBook.com, you can see all the dates for my upcoming tour, |
| 0:36.0 | which includes Austin, Texas. |
| 0:38.3 | All right, today's story, this Austinite starts a copy blog and becomes a barista. |
| 0:43.0 | And all that is cool, but he has no idea that these things will merge into an $8,000 a month dream job. |
| 0:49.2 | What changes he make to go from an aspiring freelance writer to making $2,000 a month, |
| 0:54.4 | which is not bad at all, but then making four times that amount. |
| 0:58.8 | Some of the answer, as you'll hear, is consistency, finding better clients, et cetera. |
| 1:03.6 | But he also made a simple tweak to his work description, or his title, essentially, |
| 1:07.8 | that had an immediate effect. |
| 1:10.3 | What was that tweak? How did it work? |
| 1:12.0 | How might you apply this to your idea? |
| 1:14.3 | All that's coming up in today's episode from $11 an hour barista to six figure copywriter. |
| 1:24.4 | Garrett Odin can remember the very first cup of coffee he actually enjoyed. |
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