676: This PE Teacher Started a $150k Side Hustle

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How do you go from gym whistles and dodgeballs to foam cannons and $150,000 in side hustle income? This elementary PE teacher discovered a unique business opportunity that lets him earn six figures during his summer break — and have a lot of fun along the way. Tim Carstensen from FoamPartyAllStars.com runs a full-service mobile foam party that brings an interactive experience to the Chicagoland area. The best part is he started with zero business experience and figured it out as he went. Tune in to Episode 676 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: The smart marketing strategy that got his first customers How he scaled from 1 foam cannon to 9 setups across multiple locations Why this business model works better than bounce house rentals Full Show Notes: This PE Teacher Started a $150k Side Hustle 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	This PE teacher started a $150,000 side hustle. In this episode, you'll learn the fun, unique
0:06.8	business he chose, how he got his first customers, and how he's scaled it to a pretty serious
0:12.2	income stream all on the side. From foam party all-stars.com, Tim Carstinson. Welcome to The Side Hustle
0:19.9	Show. Hey, Nick. Thanks for having me. I've been
0:22.1	listening to your podcast for quite a while. Love it. And I thought, why not? Come on and tell our
0:26.5	story here. What a cool example. I guess I just gave it away. It's a foam party business.
0:32.1	Let's stick around. We're covering the startup costs, the marketing tactics, the pricing and
0:35.8	delivery. All that could stuff. So you might
0:38.1	be able to borrow Tim's idea or a similar local service and spin it up in your own town.
0:44.7	But I got to start off at the beginning. Like out of all the side hustles, why phone parties?
0:48.7	How'd you come up with this? Yeah. So I've been an elementary PE teacher for the past 18 years.
0:54.9	And always in my summers off, I have either another job or another business.
1:00.1	I used to teach and coach in the summers, driver's ed, stuff like that, which has its own stories.
1:05.7	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:06.4	I got the whole summer off.
1:07.5	I might as well take advantage.
1:08.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:09.9	So in 2022, in the summer,
1:12.8	I was kind of looking for for something else. And at first, I stumbled upon the bounce house
1:18.5	business. And I kind of did a deep dive on that. But for me, it was a little too saturated.
1:24.6	I found out that the floor for insurance in the bounce house business is pretty high
1:29.7	when you're just starting out, and it's hard to make money in the beginning. Okay. Interesting.
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