Ep. 3051 - Q&A: “How do I balance what I love with what the market wants?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Is it better to focus on what sells or what you love making? In this episode, we explore how to balance passion and profit in a product-based business.
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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
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:10.7 | How do you balance what you love doing with what the market wants? |
| 0:15.0 | This is the age-old question, a very important question for side hustlers. |
| 0:18.7 | Is it better to focus on what sells or what you love |
| 0:21.4 | making? Wouldn't it be best if there was a perfect Venn diagram? Well, that would be best, and sometimes |
| 0:26.7 | that works. But often there's a little bit of adjustment. So in this episode, we're going to talk about |
| 0:31.4 | how to balance passion and profit, specifically in a product-based business. So we're going to hear |
| 0:37.2 | a question from a listener in Chicago. |
| 0:39.3 | This guy designs custom wooden desk organizers. |
| 0:43.0 | And so this is what he really likes to do. |
| 0:45.9 | Well, let's see. |
| 0:46.5 | He's going to explain it more. |
| 0:47.5 | But basically, there's a certain kind of design that he likes, |
| 0:49.6 | but his customers seem to be gravitating toward some other designs. |
| 0:54.0 | So what do you do in that situation? |
| 0:55.7 | Do you give the people what they want? |
| 0:57.5 | Do you hold fast as an artist, a craftsman, a maker, and say, this is what I want to make? |
| 1:02.7 | Or as I said, might there be some happy medium? |
| 1:05.1 | Let's talk about it. |
| 1:06.2 | Let's talk about how to find that sweet spot. |
| 1:07.7 | How do you balance what you love with what the market wants? |
| 1:10.1 | I love this question. Detailed version from Martin and my answer coming right up. |
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