#1990 - First $1,000: “I wanted to be the guy with a laptop on the beach…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this week’s First $1,000 segment, we hear from the founder of Maid This, a cleaning company that grows to millions of dollars in sales and allows the founder to work remotely.
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 Twitter: @chrisguillebeau
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.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. 😎 🙏🏼
To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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. 😎 🙏🏼
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey there, thanks for tuning in today. |
| 0:10.2 | This is episode 1990 of Side Us All School. |
| 0:14.2 | We are almost to 2000. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm so excited about that. |
| 0:17.0 | I'll have more to say as it gets closer. |
| 0:19.4 | But for now, today's episode is part of a feature we've been doing all year long. |
| 0:23.8 | It's called your first thousand dollars. |
| 0:25.4 | And as you might surmise from the title, or as you might know by now, it's all about |
| 0:29.1 | how someone made their first thousand dollars. |
| 0:31.9 | How do they get to that point? |
| 0:32.9 | Not their first hundred thousand dollars or million dollars. |
| 0:35.8 | Like the business you're going to hear about today actually is a multi-million dollar business |
| 0:39.1 | now. |
| 0:40.1 | But of course, it didn't start that way. |
| 0:41.6 | It started with an idea and then the implementation of said idea. |
| 0:46.2 | So this feature comes from Neil Park in Los Angeles. |
| 0:50.1 | We first featured his business made this back on episode 1452. |
| 0:54.8 | Reddit post inspires Airbnb cleaning service. |
| 0:57.9 | Now, the business grew to, as I said, millions of dollars in revenue and much expansion. |
| 1:03.2 | He actually was able to work remotely, kind of oversee this business while traveling. |
| 1:07.4 | Pretty cool. |
| 1:08.4 | But again, what about those first steps? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Chris Guillebeau, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Chris Guillebeau and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.