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Side Hustle School

#2733 - Q&A: “Six months in, and I need more life / work balance...”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we tackle the challenges of avoiding burnout while growing a side hustle. Discover techniques for staying motivated, managing stress, and maintaining alignment—as much as possible! 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: [email protected] 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.substack.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

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0:00.0

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CODieK slash Special Offer. In this episode we're going to look at the challenges of avoiding burnout while growing a side hustle

0:40.0

we're going to hear specifically from a graphic designer. I think he is in Washington State,

0:45.1

could be wrong about that, but wherever he is, he's feeling the pressure of balancing

0:49.2

multiple responsibilities. Isn't that how it is these days? We've all got so many things that we are trying to look after, manage, be somewhat responsible for.

0:58.0

Could be the demands of juggling a nine to five freelance projects starting a new business obviously your personal life

1:04.4

your relationships child care elder care all kinds of things that people are dealing with

1:09.6

and it can take a toll on your mental health and lead to burn out if not managed effectively.

1:14.3

At the same time, the answer is not just to abandon your goals of having a side hustle or to create economic

1:19.9

empowerment, because ultimately if you can do that that will allow you to mitigate

1:24.0

some of the stress elsewhere right so it's a little bit tricky but I think it's

1:27.5

super important to focus on let's see what we can do to advise Jensen and anybody else out there.

1:34.6

How can you in fact set realistic goals?

1:37.4

That's part of what we'll talk about.

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