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Side Hustle School

#1983 - First $1,000: “I’ll never forget the moment I got paid…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s First $1,000 segment, we hear from Jennifer Sobel, a belly dancing coach (!) who takes her program online. It’s now a midsection-shaking success—but how did she get there?

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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0:00.0

Hey there, what's up? Welcome to Sideosal School. My name is Chris Gilebo.

0:11.5

It's me tuning in today. Today's episode is part of a new feature we've been doing

0:15.6

called your first thousand dollars. I've actually been doing it for almost six

0:19.2

months now and as you might guess, it's all about how someone made their first

0:23.0

thousand dollars. I think it's really insightful to break down this entry point

0:27.2

to perhaps eventually going on to make a hundred thousand dollars or more.

0:31.4

But that's a much longer story. How does someone actually get started? And once

0:35.4

you begin to earn real money, the steps required to go to the next level, whether

0:39.0

it's a thousand to two thousand dollars or five thousand or ten thousand, whatever

0:42.8

it is, those steps are often easier than that first real paycheck. So that's

0:46.8

what we're doing here. With that in mind, today's feature comes from Jennifer

0:50.5

Sobel. We first featured her on episode 1704, the six figure belly dancing

0:55.9

course. Six figure belly dancing. That's right. It's pretty much exactly like it

0:59.9

sounds. She has done very well with this online course, a series of them now

1:04.0

if I'm not mistaken. So obviously that's become a huge success. But what about her

1:08.9

first thousand dollars? How did she make it happen? What did it feel like and what

1:12.3

did she learn? She's got several insights for us here. So let's hear it from

1:16.0

Jennifer. I'll come back at the end with a quick wrap up.

1:28.4

Hello, hello. This is Jennifer Sobel, the creator of the belly dance

1:32.5

solution and feminine fire. And I was on side hustle school episode 1704. And

1:40.0

today I want to share with you the story of how I made my first thousand dollars

1:44.7

in my business. I want to tell you a little bit about the struggles that I had,

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