Hello there friends, listeners, side hustle school community. Welcome back. My name is Chris

Gillibow. You know, the other day we talked about, I think this was episode number 450 on

Monday. In a world of uncertainty, you should build your own security. In that episode,

I told you about a guy who had this little side hustle slash hobby, making a couple hundred

dollars a month, and then he loses his job and uses that side hustle to grow a full-time

income. So in other words, even though his project wasn't making that much money, he had

taken the time to build a foundation so that when this other situation occurred, he did

have something that he could go and focus on wasn't starting from scratch and it ended

up being a huge success for him. Having a side hustle as your security, I think, isn't

one of the greatest reasons for having a side hustle in the first place. But hey, what

if you don't want to make your side hustle your full-time gig? I try to be really clear

about this point, but I still get a lot of emails about it. People who are like, you know,

I like this show, but I don't know if I'm like most of the listeners. I don't actually

want my side hustle to become full-time. I like my job. For some other reason, I just,

I don't want to do that. And I'm always surprised because I say, well, if that's your situation,

then it sounds like you're like about half of our listeners, roughly about half of our

community. They're not trying to make their side hustle full-time. That's why it is side

hustle school. It is about creating freedom and establishing new sources of income so that

you have options, you have that security. But again, those options, those choices are

your own. So my goal with the show is to get you to that point of having security. And

then if you deliberately choose to just keep your side hustle relatively small, well, that's

fine because relatively small is still significant. Today, I'm going to tell you a story of a Canadian

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