Ep 10: From Drowning in Debt to Making 5 Figures A Month: Courtney Sanders of Think and Grow Chick
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In 2009, Courtney Sanders found herself drowning in debt, bad grades, and almost having to leave college. Three years later, she had paid off all her debt, earned a scholarship, started a business and graduated from college magna cum laude. How did she turn her life around? Find out on this week’s episode.
Courtney is an entrepreneur, speaker, and goal achievement specialist. Through her training and development company, Think & Grow Chick, LLC, Courtney provides online & in-person education, mentorship, and community for women, students, and minorities looking to accomplish BIG goals. Courtney reaches nearly 50,000 young professionals every month through her blog and social media platforms. In 2015 she authored the book, Get What You Want: The Ultimate Guide to Figuring Out + Getting What You Want in Life which has since served as a catalyst for several related trainings and programs, including her 2015 live workshop, Launch Your Life.
In this this episode, Courtney breaks down:
- The inspiration for Think And Grow Chick and when she realized she could help other women
- How she grew her company into a profitable business
- How she juggles her side hustle with her full time job
- The financial wisdom she has learned along the way
- When she knew it was time to take her side hustle to the next level
Find out about all Courtney’s experience as a woman who has scaled her side hustle to extraordinary levels and is getting ready to make the leap into full time entrepreneurship.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Think And Grow Chick Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow a |
| 0:07.6 | Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business. |
| 0:11.3 | And I'm your host, Nkala Matthews. |
| 0:13.8 | So let's get started. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:20.3 | I am so excited to welcome a woman whose personal brand I admire and respect a great deal. |
| 0:27.0 | I've been following her business for some time now and was really pleased when I reached out |
| 0:31.8 | whole email and she accepted my offer to be on the show. |
| 0:36.0 | So let me go ahead and introduce today's featured guest, Courtney Sanders, better known as Think |
| 0:41.2 | and Grow Chick. |
| 0:42.2 | Hello, hello, thank you for having me. better known as Think and Grow Chick. |
| 0:42.6 | Hello, hello, thank you for having me. |
| 0:45.0 | Of course. |
| 0:46.0 | And you know, I gotta give the people a little taste of your bio |
| 0:48.6 | just to, you know, let them know how great of a business woman you are. |
| 0:53.2 | So let me just read that. |
| 0:54.8 | So Courtney is an entrepreneur, speaker, and goal |
| 0:58.3 | achievement specialist. |
| 1:00.2 | Through her training and development company, |
| 1:02.2 | Think and Grow Chick LLC, Courtney provides online and in-person education, mentorship and community for women, students, and minorities looking to accomplish big goals. |
| 1:14.0 | Courtney reaches nearly 50,000 young professionals every month through her blog and social media platforms. |
| 1:20.0 | In 2015, she authored the book, Get What You Want, The Ultimate Guide to Figuring Out, |
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