#425 - College Student Pitches 300 TEDx Events, Becomes Semi-Pro Speaker
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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A full-time marketing director and MBA student writes to every single TEDx events in hopes of getting his first gig. He now earns $30,000 year on the side, speaking at events around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. This is episode 425 of Side Hustle School. I'm your host Chris |
| 0:10.7 | Gillibot. I have the privilege of bringing you a different true story every day of someone |
| 0:14.6 | who's creating a bit more freedom for themselves. Someone who's taking ownership over their |
| 0:18.4 | lives, not necessarily becoming an entrepreneur, not necessarily quitting their job, but in |
| 0:23.7 | whatever situation they are in life establishing an additional source of income so that they |
| 0:28.0 | have the ability to do more of what's important to them. That is what it's all about. It's also |
| 0:32.6 | about using the skills you already have. It's also about not going into debt. It's also about |
| 0:37.2 | not taking a lot of risk. Well, today's story features a college student who becomes a semi-professional |
| 0:42.9 | speaker all while working a full-time job and also going to school full-time. I don't think we've |
| 0:47.4 | ever talked about this at least not so directly on the show. You know, a lot of surveys report that |
| 0:51.8 | people's number one fear is public speaking, at least for a lot of people, but what if speaking is |
| 0:56.7 | exactly what you want to do? What if you'd like to get paid for it while working another job or |
| 1:00.7 | pursuing another career? So today you'll hear about that student who talks his way into speaking on |
| 1:05.4 | the TEDx stage. He actually speaks at 12 of them, 12 TEDx events, and then turns those experiences |
| 1:11.1 | into a side hustle that earns an extra $30,000 a year. That's right, $30,000 a year from semi-professional |
| 1:17.1 | speaking, all while working a regular job and going to school. Stay tuned and I'll tell you how this |
| 1:21.7 | came to be, including his unconventional and persistent habit of pitching events. This guy's |
| 1:26.4 | pretty hardcore, so let's say thanks to our sponsor and I'll tell you all about him. |
| 1:56.7 | SkyBet for UK's number one betting app. |
| 2:12.2 | Simon Tam is a big proponent of the adage, go big or go home. |
| 2:16.8 | And as someone who travels at least half the time, he rarely has to go home. |
| 2:21.0 | This marketing director has turned his public speaking side hustle into an evening's and weekends job |
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