Ep. 3065 - Q&A: “How do I take a break from my hustle without losing momentum?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Can you take a break from your side hustle without losing momentum? In this episode, we explore how to pause your business the right way—and come back even stronger.
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| 0:41.3 | Can you take a break from your side hustle without losing momentum? |
| 0:59.7 | In this episode, we're going to explore how to pause your business the right way and come back |
| 1:04.7 | even stronger. |
| 1:05.9 | I think this is a really important topic because your side hustle is supposed to give you freedom. |
| 1:10.8 | I talk about that |
| 1:11.5 | a good bit. You know, it's all about freedom, economic empowerment, being able to do more of |
| 1:15.5 | what is important to you. So those are all good things, but what happens when you start feeling |
| 1:19.9 | burned out? That is less of a good thing. In fact, that's something we want to avoid as much as |
| 1:24.4 | possible. Or if it happens, we want to be able to regroup. And so you might think, |
| 1:28.9 | well, I just need to take a break. But can I take a break? Like I've already built this up and people |
| 1:33.2 | are depending on me. And I also just, I don't want to lose momentum or sales or clients, customers, |
| 1:38.7 | et cetera. It just feels risky. And so then you get in this whole weird kind of situation where the thing that you love |
| 1:46.1 | is not the thing that you love doing or you love parts of it but not all parts of it. So you're |
| 1:51.0 | just trying to figure out how do you handle this or manage it or how can you in fact take that break. |
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