Ep. 3108 - Q&A: “Can I make money as a film location scout?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Is scouting cool locations for film sets a job you can do solo—and without Hollywood ties? In this episode, we explore the surprising ways city explorers can turn their local knowledge into income.
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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. |
| 0:02.7 | Is scouting cool locations for film sets a job you can do on your own? |
| 0:16.1 | A job you can do as a side hustle, I should say, and without any Hollywood connections. |
| 0:20.4 | What if you're in a |
| 0:21.0 | different city? What if you were far from those classic film set cities, such as Hollywood? Well, in |
| 0:26.9 | this episode, we're going to explore the surprising ways city explorers can turn their local knowledge |
| 0:31.9 | into income, filmmakers, photographers, influencers, anybody who's hunting for the perfect backdrop. We've got a caller |
| 0:39.1 | who is in Philadelphia. She spends her free time wandering the city, finding hidden gems that could be |
| 0:45.5 | perfect for an album cover or a content creator or a short film. And she's wondering, |
| 0:51.7 | could this be a real business? How can she actually get paid to do |
| 0:54.7 | location scouting, even if she's not part of a formal crew? Let's talk about it. Detailed question |
| 0:59.6 | and my answer coming up in this short action-packed episode. And by the way, thanks so much for |
| 1:04.6 | being out there. All right, stay tuned. Life in general can be chaotic. Do you ever experience chaos in your life or your business? I certainly do. I was |
| 1:15.2 | recently on book tour and trying to manage a whole bunch of other stuff at the same time. And so I'd get ready to go out and speak with a crowd and audience of awesome people, perhaps including some of our listeners out there. And then I'm also thinking |
| 1:28.3 | about other things I need to do and just trying to manage and keep up as much as possible. |
| 1:33.3 | One thing I don't have to worry about, though, is order fulfillment, because Shipstation |
| 1:37.6 | handles that. And ShipStation can help you handle it. If you have orders to send out, |
| 1:42.1 | well, let me tell you, you can automate shipping tasks. |
| 1:44.9 | Automations allow you to smoothly print shipping labels. |
| 1:47.7 | You can scale your business. |
| 1:49.0 | You never need to upgrade. |
| 1:50.2 | Shipstation grows with you. |
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