I have got a fun first thousand dollar story for you here today. If you are not familiar

with the podcast, this is called Side Us All School. If you're not familiar with this segment,

it's all about how someone made their first thousand dollars. So we're all interested

in deconstructing that process of like how do I go from idea to income, not how I made

a hundred thousand dollars, which is awesome, but how did I actually just get going? You

know? And we've featured all kinds of people from all over the world who have started

all kinds of little businesses. Sometimes not even thinking of them as a business or

capital E entrepreneurship project, but just something that they like to do that happens

to also pay them money. It's not just a hobby, but something that is money making. Okay?

That's the point of Side Us All School. Welcome. My name is Chris Gellibot. And with that

in mind, without further ado, I should say, today's feature comes from Sheila in Houston,

Texas. Sheila is now earning two thousand dollars a month on the side as an independent

event planner. She's only been doing it a few months and it's going well. But what about

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

she learn? Let's hear it from Sheila. She's got a couple of tips as well about becoming

an event planner and what you want to focus on or not focus on. So let's hear from her

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