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Side Hustle School

#311 - Former Construction Inspector Earns $200,000 Helping Students Pass Exams

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A teacher-turned-construction inspector aces his exams and creates a series of courses to help others entering the field. Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. You need a hustle! Share: #SideHustleSchoolShow notes: SideHustleSchool.comTwitter: @chrisguillebeauInstagram: @193countries 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there side hustlers, friends and listeners, welcome back, my name is Chris Gellipo, I have

0:11.4

the privilege of bringing you a different story every day.

0:15.0

And today I'm thinking back to Teresa Greenway's story.

0:18.0

If you've been listening for a while, you might remember that one.

0:20.0

It was especially popular.

0:21.0

It was episode 237, and I've actually been telling Teresa's story on tour because it's

0:25.6

one of my favorites.

0:27.2

Teresa is a woman who creates a series of breadbaking courses, in particular sourdough

0:32.2

bread, and long story short, last year she ends up making $85,000 through this series

0:37.4

of sourdough bread courses.

0:38.8

It ends up changing her life.

0:40.8

She actually gets out of poverty, puts a down payment on the first home she's ever

0:43.8

owned, all kinds of amazing stuff, all because of her side hustle.

0:46.7

I've got a similar story for you today, at least in terms of the content.

0:50.2

It's about a former construction inspector who creates a series of online courses to

0:54.7

help people who want to enter this industry.

0:57.0

Now industries like inspection tend to have a lot of barriers to entry.

1:01.1

Not just anybody, a convenient inspector.

1:02.2

You have to go through all this process.

1:04.6

You could probably argue that some of these barriers to entry are good, like it's important

1:08.1

for safety, it's important for quality control, and so on.

1:11.0

You could also probably argue that some of these barriers are set up simply to protect

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