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Side Hustle School

#1997 - First $1,000: “No one in Boston could find a good pierogi…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s First $1,000 segment, we hear from the co-founder of Jaju Pierogi, a line of delicious Polish snacks now stocked in hundreds of New England grocery stores. 

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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Transcript

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0:00.0

Did you know that everyone has a parogi story?

0:12.0

A parogi story?

0:13.0

Yeah, that's right.

0:14.0

That's something I learned in today's episode.

0:16.0

You're going to hear all about it.

0:17.0

If you don't know what parogi is, you're going to learn that too.

0:20.0

Welcome to Side Usal School.

0:21.0

My name's Chris Gellibot.

0:22.0

Today's episode is part of a feature we've been doing all year.

0:25.0

It's called your first thousand dollars.

0:28.0

How did someone get to that point?

0:30.0

Not their first hundred thousand dollars.

0:32.0

Not their first million dollars.

0:33.0

That's good stuff.

0:34.0

But we want to hear about the first thousand dollars.

0:37.0

One thing I've learned is that once you begin to earn real money,

0:40.0

the steps required to go to the next level,

0:42.0

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

0:46.0

whatever the number is, it's often easier than that first real paycheck.

0:51.0

So I hope that you, listeners, will take action.

0:54.0

I hope that you will move forward on your ideas.

0:56.0

And that's why we have all these different stories and features every single day.

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