#317 - Lifelong Girl Scout Earns Her Side Hustle Badge (And $3,500/Month)
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
After spending 20+ years as a scout and volunteer, a woman creates a series of resources for troop leaders. Selling at just $3-5 an item, she earns $3,000-3,500 each month
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, what's up, what's up? Welcome back. My name is Chris Gillebo. You're listening |
| 0:10.6 | to a new week of side hustle school. I'm really excited because every day on this show, I'm |
| 0:15.5 | telling different true stories of people who create new sources of income, not just |
| 0:20.8 | getting another job, not doing contract labor, but by building something for themselves |
| 0:24.9 | using the skills they already have. And most of the time, these people do it without quitting |
| 0:28.7 | their day job, which is the whole point of the show. I don't believe everyone should |
| 0:32.5 | go and quit their job right away, if ever. But I do believe very much that everybody should |
| 0:37.3 | have money coming in from different sources. So if you agree with that, this show is for |
| 0:41.4 | you. Today, we're going to talk about Girl Scouts. Now, in the side of a slow book, I had |
| 0:45.4 | this whole section called Sell Like a Girl Scout. And I've gotten a lot of emails and |
| 0:49.4 | questions about that. That's way to understand it is to actually read that chapter. But the |
| 0:53.2 | short version is when I say Sell Like a Girl Scout, I'm talking about how during Girl Scout |
| 0:57.8 | Cookie season, which if you're not in the United States, you may not be familiar with Girl |
| 1:01.3 | Scout cookies. If that's the case, it is in fact a tragedy. You should go online and see |
| 1:05.6 | if you can import them somehow because for a short period of time, each year, the Girl |
| 1:09.7 | Scouts, also called Girl Guides in some other countries, will set up shop on a table in the |
| 1:14.1 | street, usually outside a retail location or some other place where there's a lot of |
| 1:17.6 | people walking by. I think in some areas, they also go door to door and they're selling |
| 1:21.8 | these delicious cookies. Now, it's not that difficult for them to sell these cookies |
| 1:25.4 | because they're so delicious and everyone knows it. So when I say Sell Like a Girl Scout, |
| 1:30.0 | I'm talking about making something that has a really clear benefit and finding the people |
| 1:34.1 | who really want it. Like I said, there's more about that in the book, but today we're |
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