#2753 - First $1k: Woodworker Breathes New Life into Old Lumber
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this week's First $1,000 segment, we meet a woodworker who discovers the beauty and potential of reclaimed lumber—and then sells it!
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 | Woodworker breathes new life into old lumber. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome friends, welcome to Sidesal School. My name is |
| 0:14.2 | Chris Guillipo, your host. Here we are at the midpoint of July for those |
| 0:18.0 | listening in real-time episode 2,753. I'm excited to bring you a new feature here. |
| 0:25.0 | Well, part of a feature we call your first $1,000. |
| 0:28.0 | A new episode in this feature. |
| 0:29.6 | It's actually a long-running feature, a very popular feature. |
| 0:33.0 | Lots of people like to know how people get started |
| 0:34.9 | making money, how they get started with a new project, |
| 0:37.6 | something they haven't done before, |
| 0:39.3 | or maybe they've done something similar, |
| 0:40.6 | but they're like, let me deploy my skill in a new way so that I can find a way to |
| 0:45.2 | create some economic empowerment for myself, make some extra money, pay off debt, get more |
| 0:50.7 | independence, you know, away from my day job, whatever that is. |
| 0:54.0 | That's our audience, basically busy people out there who are trying to do something for themselves, |
| 0:58.0 | to advance their own interests. |
| 1:00.0 | And I think that's good, even if you love your job. |
| 1:02.0 | No problem with loving your job, but you also have to look out for yourself. |
| 1:05.2 | So how does this person, you know, each week get to that point? Not their first hundred thousand dollars, |
| 1:11.6 | but their first thousand dollars, how do they get up and running? And then of course it's much easier |
| 1:15.8 | after that to go to the next level, or at least often it is. Often depends on the industry, the |
| 1:20.9 | category, and so on. But typically it is easier to go to $10,000 from $1,000 than 0 to 1,000. |
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