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Side Hustle School

Ep. 2935 - First $1,000: The High-Profit Second Life of Thrifted Goods

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this week's First $1,000 segment, we meet a repair enthusiast who's giving gently used items a second life. He shares how he created a repair and resale business with unique product stories, quickly reaching his first $1,000.

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.

Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

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Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com

If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 

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.


Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

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0:05.1

system. It integrates with over 180 popular e-commerce channels. Over 130,000 companies have used

0:11.4

ShipStation, and you can get a free 60-day trial. Just go to shipstation.com and use Code Hustle.

0:17.4

That's shipstation.com code hustle.

0:22.4

Lemonada.

0:27.1

The high profit second life of thrifted goods. Welcome, friends. Welcome to Side Ussel

0:36.5

School. Welcome to our first $1,000 segment. We do this

0:40.3

once a week. It's all about how somebody made their first $1,000, and often they go on to earn a lot more

0:44.7

than $1,000. Just to be clear, we want people to make a lot of money. I mean, that's the goal,

0:49.1

right? Not just a little bit of money, but a lot of money. Nevertheless, understanding how somebody makes their first thousand dollars is key to understanding how you can do the same and then go on from there to make

0:58.9

your first or your next $10,000, $100,000 and more. We have profiled so many six-figure side hustles,

1:05.6

multiple six-figure side hustles, sometimes seven figures. And it all starts with being able to have a product or a service,

1:12.2

some kind of offer, something that people purchase. So that's why we like to go back and look at

1:16.4

the origin story, the very early origin story of something that is a big success. So with that in

1:22.0

mind, today we're going to meet a repair enthusiast who's giving gently used items a second life.

1:27.1

And he shares how he created a repair and resale's giving gently used items a second life, and he shares how he

1:28.2

created a repair and resell trade with unique product stories quickly reaching that first $1,000

1:33.6

point. I'm excited for this one. His name is Eli. Let's hear Eli's story. I'll come back at the

1:38.7

end with a few words of wrap up. What a holiday season it has been. I'm very glad it's over myself. I'm excited about the new year.

1:48.0

Whatever your experience was like, I hope you are now finding some calm in the chaos.

1:52.4

And you know what can help with that? Our long-term partnership station. They've been with us for

1:56.9

seven years, helping many of our listeners. I get emails all the time from listeners with

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