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🗓️ 28 April 2025
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In this week’s First $1,000 segment, see how a simple promise of secure data wiping and refurbishment helped a tech-savvy neighbor earn thousands of dollars by flipping outdated electronics.
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0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
0:02.7 | Llipping phones and tablets for fun and profit. |
0:14.8 | Hey friends, welcome to side hustle school. |
0:17.1 | My name's Chris Gillibow, your host. |
0:18.7 | Today's episode is part of a feature we call your first $1,000. How does somebody get an idea, take action on that idea and make $1,000? And they often go on to make much more than a thousand dollars. But we want to know how they got started. What is the plan to make that happen? And where does the idea come from in the first place? |
0:42.3 | So today we're going to see how a simple promise of secure data wiping and refurbishment helps a tech-sabby neighbor earn thousands of dollars, not just $1,000, but we're going to start |
0:47.6 | with that, earn thousands of dollars eventually by flipping outdated electronics. First $1,000 |
0:53.0 | going to feature Trevor today. Let's hand the microphone |
0:56.2 | to him. I'll come back at the end with a few words of wrap up. |
1:02.1 | Hey, Julia Louis Dreyfus here. If you listen to me on my Wise and the Me podcast, you probably |
1:07.1 | already know that I'm an investor and an evangelist for the Mill Food Recycler. |
1:12.1 | There are a lot of reasons to love Mill, but for me, it's all about the impact. |
1:16.6 | Keeping food out of the garbage is one of the most powerful things we can do to help the |
1:20.2 | planet every single day. We're talking banana peels, carrot tops, old takeout. When that stuff |
1:26.2 | heads to the landfill, it becomes a huge driver of climate change. If you already compost, great. But of course, there's the smell, the flies, the running to the curb every day with a little leaking compost bag made of cornstarch. That's where mill comes in. It makes keeping food out of the trash as easy as dropping it in. It can handle |
1:45.6 | nearly anything from a turkey carcass to like 20 avocado pits. It works automatically while you |
1:51.5 | sleep. You can keep filling it for weeks and it never, ever smells. Mill makes dry, nutrient-rich |
1:58.3 | grounds that you can use in your garden, add to your compost, feed to |
2:01.7 | your chickens, or milk can get them back to a small farm for you. But you kind of have to live with |
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2:22.8 | Music for an exclusive offer. I'm Trevor, recording this update from the east side of Cincinnati. |
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