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Side Hustle School

#1688 - ESL Teacher Resells Furniture for Big Profits

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Small Business, Entrepreneurship,, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Side Hustle, Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

When a Missouri ESL teacher sells a couple of barstools on a whim, she begins a furniture flipping journey that leads to a full-time income. 

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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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.


Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:35.2

Question for you today here at the top of the show. What would it look like to reinvent yourself?

0:41.0

Do you ever feel like you're on the outside looking in? You know, everything up to this point in your

0:46.1

life is, it's already done, it's in the past, it's a sunk cost. Or if you prefer, if you think

0:51.6

sunk cost is not negative, it's a dot that remains to be connected based on what happens next.

0:57.6

So here we are. You have a chance today, every day to reinvent yourself. If you feel like you're

1:02.0

on the outside looking in, if you feel like there's something more, well, I encourage you to think

1:06.0

about reinvention. As you hear these stories and are ongoing dialogue through a new episode every day,

1:12.1

through all the different questions, the updates from people, think about, you know, how might this

1:16.3

apply to me? And very often, it's not going to be the specific story or the specific example.

1:24.1

But hopefully there is some message or example, or just kind of an idea that comes to you as you

1:29.6

listen, as you hear someone's story and think, you know, what could I do to make a change for myself?

1:34.9

And ultimately, my goal is to help people make positive changes for themselves, especially in the

1:39.5

area of micro entrepreneurship, you know, starting a small business, you know, creating a new source

1:43.5

of income without quitting your job, et cetera. But really, you know, all sorts of positive changes.

1:47.7

That's the focus of my work. So with that in mind, thank you for joining me today.

1:51.5

In today's story, when an ESL teacher sells a couple of barstools on a whim, she ends up

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