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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3046 - Weekend Workshop: Ask 10 People for Help

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This new segment is all about helping you learn the key steps to a new side hustle in 2025, one step or concept per week. It includes activities, examples, and more—and of course it’s all free. Today’s topic: building your support network.

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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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:10.8

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0:18.9

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0:22.9

That's shipstation.com code hustle.

0:28.1

Lemonada.

0:32.7

Weekend workshop time. Today we're going to talk about asking people for help.

0:41.6

How do you build a support network of people who can help you in specific ways?

0:46.3

That's a big part of the process asking for specific help. This segment, weekend workshop,

0:50.8

it's all about helping you learn the key steps to a new side hustle in 2025,

0:54.1

one step or concept per week. We are using the book Side Hustle from Idea to Income in 27 days

1:00.1

as our text. It's available wherever books are sold. And basically, I'm kind of taking you through

1:04.3

the key steps along with listener stories and some examples throughout the year. Today's episode

1:10.3

comes from day 19 of the book,

1:12.0

which is all about building that support network. And we're going to focus on this concept of

1:16.1

asking 10 people for help, 10 people. Yeah, that's a lot of people, but you can get a lot of things

1:21.9

if you ask the right people for the right things. So our learning objective is to learn why and

1:27.1

how to recruit help for your

1:28.6

business, your next side hustle idea, whatever it is, rather than trying to do everything alone.

1:34.3

You know, there's this whole myth of the solo entrepreneur who's like working alone in their garage.

1:39.9

And it really is just that. It's like a myth because ultimately every successful business relies on help from others, whether formal or informal. And so the sooner you can build a network of people to talk with about things and check in and indeed ask for help, the better your chances of success. So when I wrote the book Side Ussel a number of years ago, I told the story of Brianna Faith.

2:02.6

Brianna was 16 at the time.

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