Ep. 3052 - Q&A: “How can I push past hesitation and market my creative work?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we help a listener overcome self-doubt and fear of judgment while launching a creative business. Learn how to build confidence and connect with the right audience.
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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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:02.7 | Turning a creative passion into a business can feel deeply personal. |
| 0:14.9 | It can also feel overwhelming. |
| 0:16.7 | It can be stressful, sometimes even paralyzing. |
| 0:19.8 | I think a lot of people just kind of hold back. |
| 0:22.1 | They have an idea or they want to do something different. Maybe they don't even have a specific |
| 0:26.5 | idea. They just have this nudge or this longing to do something different with their lives, |
| 0:31.0 | whether it's just a small project or something bigger than that. But they struggle with |
| 0:35.7 | hesitation and they struggle with taking some first steps |
| 0:38.5 | to move forward. A big part of what I hope to do with the podcast for 3,000 plus episodes now is |
| 0:43.8 | encourage people to move forward and to take action and to give them some examples of people |
| 0:47.9 | who've done that in different ways and to give them maybe some actionable ideas that they can, |
| 0:52.9 | in fact, take action on, actionable |
| 0:54.7 | ideas that you can action if we can say that. But of course, there's lots of different ways to |
| 0:59.6 | look at this and people have all sorts of challenges that we want to work to overcome. So how can |
| 1:04.9 | you build confidence and connect with the right audience? Today's question comes from Candice. |
| 1:09.1 | She transforms leftover fabric scraps into hair accessories, but feels stuck when it comes to marketing |
| 1:15.4 | her work. |
| 1:16.7 | It's an important topic. |
| 1:17.8 | Let's talk about it. |
| 1:18.7 | Overcoming doubt, pushing past hesitation. |
| 1:21.4 | Detailed question from Candice and my answer coming right up. |
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