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Side Hustle School

#816 - Rustic Wall Hangings Rack Up Worthwhile Profits

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A self-taught manufacturer of home decor transitions her part-time curiosity into a full-time woodworking business. 

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0:00.0

Only four months into starting, today's side hustler transitioned her project into a full-time

0:13.7

income.

0:15.0

She did this by following a different approach than we usually recommend.

0:17.9

In fact, in her words, she jumped off the cliff, closing off her other sources of income

0:22.6

so that she would be hyper-focused in making this new business venture work for her.

0:26.3

You can call that side hustle hard mode.

0:28.8

Not something we recommend, as I said, but she won the challenge.

0:31.8

She passed the test, she defeated the end boss.

0:34.3

Then she became her own boss, which is the point.

0:37.0

In this story, we'll hear about how this self-taught manufacturer of home decor begins earning

0:41.2

up to $8,000 a month from her woodworking.

0:43.6

There's also a twist, one that we don't have very often, and that she begins the project

0:47.9

with her partner, like her life partner and her work partner, and that person is no longer

0:52.4

her partner, either her life partner or work partner.

0:55.2

Unfortunately, they were able to decouple amicably, but not without some regrets.

1:00.0

She was very open with us about that.

1:01.7

We'll look at that experience along with a couple of tips for anyone interested in taking

1:05.0

a hands-on project like woodworking to the next level.

1:09.2

Lots of good stuff in this episode.

1:10.8

Stay tuned for rustic wall hangings, rack-up worthwhile profits.

1:25.5

In Spokane, Washington, CJ Morrison runs her own business hand-crafting unique items

1:30.1

made from wood.

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