#836 - Music Graduate Makes Spare Change Filling Spare Rooms
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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After graduating and moving to London, this self taught coder builds a website to help housemates find each other. Fifteen years later, it earns millions of dollars in profit and has hundreds of thousands of members.
Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes what you set out to make takes a turn for the better. |
| 0:12.4 | And you never would have had the new idea if you hadn't begun to pursue your original |
| 0:16.2 | one. |
| 0:17.2 | I discovered this myself when I started the blog with the Art of Nonconformity a decade |
| 0:20.6 | ago. |
| 0:21.6 | I started by writing about my travels and this quest I was on to go to every country in |
| 0:25.3 | the world. |
| 0:26.6 | And that was fine. |
| 0:27.6 | I got up commercial goals for it. |
| 0:29.2 | I wanted to do a book at some point, but that was pretty much it. |
| 0:32.1 | But then as people began to subscribe to the blog, and especially when I started doing |
| 0:35.8 | meetups, just a few months in, I remember in particular one meetup I did in New York |
| 0:40.1 | City with Jonathan Fields, who's another author and he's got a great podcast of his own |
| 0:44.0 | called Good Life Project. |
| 0:45.3 | Been a friend of mine for a decade now and we did this meetup and all these people came |
| 0:49.9 | out. |
| 0:50.9 | And it wasn't just that there were a lot of people, although that wasn't impressive to me |
| 0:53.6 | at the time. |
| 0:54.6 | People actually read my blog and they want to come to a meetup. |
| 0:57.7 | By the way, what's a meetup and how do you host a meetup? |
| 0:59.9 | I didn't know any of that stuff at the time. |
| 1:01.5 | But it wasn't just that there was a lot of people. |
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