Ep. 3036 - TBT: Montana Videographer Redefines Remote Filming
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Throwback Thursday segment, discover how a pro videographer ditched travel hassles by mailing filming kits worldwide and directing online course shoots entirely from afar.
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:02.7 | A Missoula Videographer redefines remote filming. |
| 0:15.3 | Welcome to Throwback Thursday. |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome, friends. |
| 0:17.6 | Welcome to Sidesa School as well. |
| 0:19.0 | That's the podcast, episode 3,000-plus episodes. In today's, we're going to take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. That's the part of Throwback Thursday. And last week in the segment, we heard from a side hustler who built a spring break site, like information about spring break in Florida and other |
| 0:38.4 | locations, that soars to $8,000 during peak months, making $8,000 a month during those peak |
| 0:45.1 | spring break months. I was going to say summer months, but I guess it's actually before that. |
| 0:48.8 | He does that by combining ad networks with carefully edited AI content. |
| 0:53.5 | Today, in our latest feature, we'll hear from a pro |
| 0:55.5 | videographer based in Montana, and he ditches travel hassles by mailing filming kits around the world, |
| 1:01.9 | around the country, and I think maybe some clients internationally as well, and directing |
| 1:05.7 | online course shoots entirely from afar. So this is pretty cool. What has happened since we first featured him? |
| 1:12.0 | His name is John. Let's hear the story from John. I'll come back at the end with a quick wrap up. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm John, a videographer based in Missoula, Montana. |
| 1:29.0 | When I first got into the industry, I assumed I'd need to live near a big city to stay busy. |
| 1:35.3 | L.A., New York, maybe somewhere in Texas. |
| 1:38.5 | But then the pandemic changed the game. |
| 1:41.5 | My clients scattered across the country, suddenly couldn't meet me on set or |
| 1:46.3 | fly me out for shoots. I improvised. I started mailing them carefully curated boxes of gear |
| 1:52.3 | and directing each shoot live over video calls, all from my home office in Missoula. The initial request |
| 1:59.5 | came from a fitness instructor in Atlanta, who needed |
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