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🗓️ 11 July 2025
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Is it shady to use a fake name for your side hustle—or just smart privacy protection? In this episode, we look at the ethics, risks, and alternatives to staying anonymous.
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0:00.0 | Lemonada. Is it ever okay to use a fake name for your business? A fake name, a pen name, a pseudonym. |
0:17.3 | Today we're going to hear from a guy who doesn't want his employer to find out about his side hustle. And to do that, he needs to use a different last name. He's just concerned about |
0:25.6 | the search engine rankings, his boss basically finding out. So not everybody out there wants |
0:30.9 | their boss or their neighbors or just other people knowing what they do outside of work hours. |
0:35.6 | Or it could be the kind of project that you want to have |
0:37.9 | privacy in, perhaps depending on the topic or industry or just depending on yourself. So what do you do |
0:44.3 | in this situation? Can you just use a different last name or a different name entirely in your |
0:49.1 | marketing materials on your website, your LinkedIn and so on? The goal isn't deception. It is |
0:53.8 | privacy, but is that |
0:55.3 | allowed? Is it ethical? And perhaps could it backfire in some way? Let's talk about what's |
1:00.3 | really at stake when you operate under a pseudonym and how to protect both your business and |
1:04.4 | your boundaries. That is today's episode. Welcome to Side Ussel School. Detailed question and my |
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1:51.1 | leaving all the time in the world for more U-time and for the things you actually want to do. |
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