#957 - High School Bootlegger Grows Up
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
After beginning his entrepreneurial career selling beer to fellow high school students, this enterprising Canadian becomes an electrician and rents music rehearsal spaces on the side.
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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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:31.0 | What do you think of when you hear the phrase cereal entrepreneur? |
| 0:35.0 | For me, I always picture someone eating cereal. |
| 0:37.0 | Like, you know, cereal with a C. |
| 0:39.0 | They're like a business owner of some kind, but then they run their operation while eating Cheerios all day. |
| 0:43.0 | Maybe that's just me. |
| 0:45.0 | The other thing I think a lot of us tend to think about when we hear such a lofty phrase, |
| 0:49.0 | cereal entrepreneur, |
| 0:51.0 | we think about people like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs or Richard Branson or whoever it is. |
| 0:57.0 | And the thing is, someone who starts multiple projects has a certain personality. |
| 1:01.0 | And this is something that you can cultivate in yourself, even if you weren't born with it, |
| 1:06.0 | even if you're not a billionaire, even if like almost all of us, |
| 1:09.0 | we're not going to start a car company and go to outer space and go to the market. |
| 1:13.0 | And then you're going to have a car company and go to outer space and go to the market. |
| 1:18.0 | And then you're going to have a car company and go to outer space or do anything like that. |
| 1:23.0 | There really is a personality type of people who start cumulative successive projects. |
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