674: How to Make $500/day as a Personal Chef

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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$500/day doing work you love? Let’s talk about it. In today's topic, we'll look at the delicious business of being a personal chef, with someone who’s been doing it for 25 years and turned her skill into a six-figure solopreneur business. Jessica Leibovich, from ChefJessica.com, didn’t start off aiming for this. She was working in catering, young, overworked, and — like a lot of us at some point — burnt out. But one suggestion changed her life: "Have you ever thought about being a personal chef?" she was asked. So not only was she good at it, but her first client paid her more in a day than she used to make in a week. And she's been doing it ever since and sharing it with her students through her Prosperous Personal Chef’s Success Suite. Tune into Episode 674 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: how to get your first high-paying personal chef client what tools, pricing, and offers actually work ways to scale with digital products and partnerships Full Show Notes: How to Make $500/day as a Personal Chef New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Mint Mobile — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! OpenPhone — Get 20% off of your first 6 months! Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!

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0:00.0	500 bucks a day from work you love. What's up? What's up? Nick Loper here. Welcome to The Side Hustle Show where it's all about ideas, action, and results toward building extra income streams. Fun one for you. Today, where my guest took her passion for cooking, turned it into a six-figure business from Chef Jessica.com, Jessica Leibovic. Welcome to The Side Hustle Show. Hello. Thank you for having me.
0:23.2	Excited for this one. Stick around in this one. Even if you don't know a saucepan from a spatula,
0:28.3	we're covering how to get clear on what kind of service niche. You could offer creative ways to get
0:33.5	clients and the different revenue streams that one skill can turn into. So, Jessica,
0:38.8	my understanding is you're working in catering. You have some culinary background. And then there's
0:43.1	this switch that flips. Well, maybe I can take this skill freelance. Maybe I can go solo. Maybe I
0:48.3	get a personal chef type of client. Can you talk me through your first, like first time getting paid
0:52.9	for this type of work as a personal chef?
0:55.9	Yeah, my background was in catering. I was very young, working very hard, burnt out in my early 20s.
1:03.7	And someone told me, oh, have you heard about being a personal chef? You might be really good at this.
1:08.9	And I looked into it and I thought, I would be really good at that.
1:12.9	I was still working.
1:14.2	I just decided to take a client on the side.
1:17.1	And I made in one day what I was used to making pretty much for the whole week.
1:21.7	Wow.
1:22.4	So, yeah.
1:23.6	So being young and naive, I quit my job with no exit plan. I would not recommend that to anyone, but that's what I did at 22. So, and I've been doing it ever since. I've been a personal chef now for 25 years. Okay. How did you find that first client? It was through word of mouth, through some recommendation in the community. Most of my
1:45.8	clients in the beginning were word of mouth. But when I initially started my business, I created a
1:50.3	press release for a local community newspaper in a sort of an upper class neighborhood. And they
1:58.1	loved it. They ran with it because I wrote the story for them. And that really got
2:03.3	the momentum going in my business because as a personal chef, you really only need a few clients. And
2:09.2	once you have a few clients, word of mouth starts to spread. Oh, I love this example. How big of a newspaper
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