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🗓️ 13 July 2025
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This new segment is all about helping you learn the key steps to a new side hustle in 2025, one step or concept per week. It includes activities, examples, and more—and of course it’s all free. Today’s topic: turning a personal experience into profit.
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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0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
0:02.7 | What if your next vacation could lead to a $3,000 a month income stream? |
0:16.2 | That's exactly what happened to Tanner Kallay, who turned a single cruise gift into a thriving side |
0:22.1 | business that now provides a lot of income. In fact, I think it's actually more than $3,000 |
0:27.1 | a month. Now it's probably a good bit more. When we first wrote about Tanner in the side hustle book, |
0:32.1 | that's where it was at. And this new segment weekend workshop is all about helping you learn |
0:36.6 | the key steps to a new side hustle, |
0:38.4 | one step or concept per week. It includes activities, examples, and more. And of course, it's all free. |
0:44.2 | Today we're going to talk about turning a personal experience into profit. And let's just get into it |
0:49.4 | with Tanner's story. Oh, I should have mentioned we're using the book book Side Hustle from Idea to Income in 27 days. |
0:55.5 | In the first half of the year, we covered one step per week. In the second half of the year, |
0:59.0 | some more detailed case studies. So Tanner Calais, he is working as a copywriter in Austin, |
1:04.2 | Texas, and his life took an unexpected turn when his in-laws gave him and his wife a cruise as a wedding gift. Now, Tanner was a first-time |
1:12.8 | cruiser and he had lots of questions. He was like, which cruise line should we choose? What should we |
1:17.5 | pack? What's worth spending extra on? You know, the cruises, the cruise companies, they want you to |
1:21.9 | spend money on all kinds of things. Maybe some of those things are actually worth it, but a lot of them are probably not. So how do I make that choice? |
1:29.2 | Like, how do I know? |
1:30.5 | So he goes online to search for answers, but the information he finds is scattered, it's outdated, |
1:35.9 | it's biased towards certain cruise lines, or there's just an overwhelming amount of information. |
1:41.0 | So he's like, how do I know who to trust? |
1:43.1 | And Tanner ended up having to |
1:44.3 | piece together the information he needed from dozens of sources to prepare for his trip. |
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