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Side Hustle School

#2123 - First $1,000: “I have 3 clients and $4,000/month in retainer fees…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s First $1,000 segment, we hear from a Social Media Manager from Toronto. She has a day job she enjoys but—naturally—also has a side hustle that’s bringing in $4,000 a month. 

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

So glad you're tuning in today. This is Chris Gell about your host of Side

0:11.7

of Soul School. Welcome wherever you are in the world, whatever you're up to,

0:14.9

if you're exercising, commuting, if you're working on something else, you just

0:18.8

have this on in the background or if you're like full-on focused, you know, whatever

0:22.8

it is, I just respect your time so much and we make this program for you every

0:27.0

single day because we want to help you make extra money without quitting your

0:31.1

job or sometimes make extra money enough that you can quit your job. We've got

0:34.7

all kinds of people out there doing all kinds of interesting things and this

0:38.7

episode is part of a feature we call your first thousand dollars. We run this

0:42.8

every week as you might guess or as you might know by now it's all about how

0:46.1

someone made their first thousand dollars. How do they get to that point? How

0:49.6

do they go from idea to income? How do they make it happen? What did they learn?

0:52.5

In fact, all those things in a brief less than 10 minutes a day update and with

0:58.0

that in mind because I want to focus on that update, today's feature comes from

1:01.5

Rachel. Rachel from Toronto, Canada I believe. She is a social media manager in

1:06.8

her side hustle. She also has a day job that she enjoys. I believe she works for

1:11.2

an e-commerce brand, probably a pretty major e-commerce brand in Canada

1:15.5

and other I think about it. But in addition to her day job, she's got that side

1:18.9

hustle that's bringing in around four thousand dollars a month, four thousand

1:23.1

dollars a month. Very cool. Well done Rachel. What about that first thousand

1:26.7

dollars? How does she make it happen? What did it feel like? What did she learn?

1:29.4

As I said, all that in this short update. So let's hear it from Rachel. I'll

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