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Side Hustle School

#2753 - First $1k: Woodworker Breathes New Life into Old Lumber

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

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. 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

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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