What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here. Welcome to the Side Hustle Show because grateful beats hateful happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

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What I mean into 10 creative side hustles that make real money.

This is the 4th installment of the series so I encourage you to go check out the other episodes in the series if you like this format but stick around in this one to learn how real people are making real money from everything from tarantulas to luxury picnics from invisible sculptures to reselling driftwood that you can go pick up for free notes and links for this one are outside us on nation.com slash 472 or to set up the link in the episode description of your podcast player app.

First up is serial entrepreneur serial side hustler Jen glance from the odd jobs newsletter and the you're not getting any younger podcast one of her first businesses renting herself out as a bridesmaid.

It's me Jen glance and I am the founder of bridesmaid for higher you can check it out at bridesmaidforhier.com. I got the idea because when I was in my early 20s all of my friends got engaged and I was always the bridesmaid.

And then distant friends started asking me to be a bridesmaid and that's what my roommate at the time and nickname me the professional bridesmaid.

That's when I had this light bulb moment where I thought if I could do this for friends and distant friends perhaps I could do this for strangers.

Well I decided to give it a try and I posted an ad on craigslist.com and received hundreds of emails from people who wanted to hire me.

After I got those emails I built a website planned out services and booked my first client.

That was all in 2014 and fast forward seven years later I have worked with hundreds of people all over the world and I've also hired people to work for my business.

We have had over a hundred thousand people apply to work for bridesmaid for higher and since I can't hire them all I created an online training program to teach them exactly how to do this business on their own.

We've also expanded to offer services for maids of honor we do speech writing services and planning services as well.

I'm super excited for this business to hit its eighth year and beyond it started as a crazy idea but it's been something that has truly taken off every single year.

You can find out more at bridesmaidforhier.com or check us out on Instagram and TikTok at at bridesmaidforhier.

In an interview with business insider Jen said her packages started at two thousand dollars with extra add-ons for travel rehearsal dinners speech writing and additional services.

She said when people hire me they feel like they're hiring a friend they can reach out to at any time.

I know what things can be super stressful and it turns out that Jen's service has really hit a sweet spot for brides helping them through this process as a trusted confidant.

Creative side hustle number two is hosting luxury picnics.

Austin Chen and his cousin Myri Chen started a luxury picnic business in early 2021.

They booked thirty thousand dollars in revenue in the first couple months of which they reported it to CNBC.

80% is profit. You can find them at ocluxurypicknics.com, OC for Orange County.

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