#538 - Children’s Book Author Turns Page to New Income
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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A successful children’s book author pivots from making book trailers to coaching other authors. Along the way she learns to grow her business and spend more time with family.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you do when you're overwhelmed with life, work, and business? |
| 0:09.1 | Well you start another business, of course. |
| 0:12.7 | Except perhaps you start a different kind of business. |
| 0:14.9 | Perhaps you pivot, perhaps you make a change. |
| 0:16.9 | Perhaps you say farewell to something you've been doing for a while, even if it's been |
| 0:20.0 | working well because you know there's something better out there. |
| 0:22.6 | Or you believe you just have to make a change, whether there's something better out there |
| 0:24.9 | or not. |
| 0:27.1 | Welcome to Side Us All School. |
| 0:28.1 | My name is Chris Kula Bao, and today we're going to look at a successful children's |
| 0:31.2 | book author who pivots from making book trailers to coaching other authors with plans of developing |
| 0:36.0 | an online course. |
| 0:37.8 | So I'll get things there, stay tuned and I'll tell you how she did it. |
| 0:41.5 | For work at home mom, Evie Jones, a career that was non-location dependent was a vital |
| 0:54.7 | importance. |
| 0:56.0 | So in a military spouse she could never stay in one place for too long and in fact had |
| 0:59.2 | moved 12 times over the past 19 years. |
| 1:02.6 | When she wasn't building Lego castles with her two boys, Evie was also a successful children's |
| 1:06.5 | book author who helped publishing houses launch book trailers. |
| 1:10.8 | By all measures her career was going well. |
| 1:12.8 | With over a dozen children's books published, Evie had substantial experience authoring, |
| 1:17.0 | illustrating, and marketing books. |
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