Ep. 2998 - First $1,000: From Malibu Bartender to At-Home Bar Designer
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this week's First $1,000 segment, discover how a Malibu bartender began designing home bars, added a line of custom bar tools, and launched virtual cocktail classes to reach $150,000 a year.
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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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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| 0:45.1 | In this week's first $1,000 segment, discover how a Malibu bartender began designing home bars, added a line of |
| 0:56.7 | custom bar tools, and launched virtual cocktail classes to reach $150,000 a year. That's right, $150,000 a year. |
| 1:04.8 | As a side hustle, sounds pretty good to me. From Malibu bartender to at-home bar designer, |
| 1:10.5 | this is part of a feature. We call your first |
| 1:12.4 | thousand dollars. As you might guess, it's all about how somebody made their first thousand dollars. |
| 1:16.9 | Of course, we're going to get to that $150,000 point here in this story, but we focus on the |
| 1:21.9 | origins so that you understand what kind of business ideas are the most profitable. You have |
| 1:26.9 | lots of different ideas. |
| 1:27.8 | There are lots of things you could do. There are all kinds of different side hustles and small |
| 1:30.9 | businesses you could start, but you have limited time and you want to make sure that you're |
| 1:35.0 | choosing ideas that not only are profitable, but also you're excited about or going to be helpful |
| 1:40.0 | to people and so on. There's more than one factor, but being profitable is one of those factors, |
| 1:44.8 | to be clear. The podcast is called side hustle school. After all, it's not hobby school. |
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