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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3122 - “Can you sell ‘closure as a service??’”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Can you get paid to help people walk away from jobs, businesses, or relationships? In this episode, we explore the business of graceful exits—and whether it’s a service the world needs.

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

Can you sell closure as a service? Can you build a business around helping people walk away from

0:17.2

something, whether it's a job, a business, a relationship. In this episode,

0:21.3

we're going to explore the business of graceful exits. I like that phrase, sneak peek. And whether

0:26.7

it is a service the world needs, I always hear from listeners who have different business ideas

0:31.0

and they're thinking about maybe this is going to be my next side hustle or maybe it's my first

0:36.2

one, whatever the situation is. And we often hear about

0:39.4

how to start things. We've talked about that here on the podcast and in the world at large.

0:45.1

You hear about how to launch, how to grow, how to scale. But what about the other side, how to end

0:50.2

things, how to walk away? So today's question comes from Ben. He's got this idea of, like,

0:56.4

creating a specific coaching service around personal and professional exits. He's thinking of this

1:01.8

as a practical, structured service, helping people quit with intention. He'll talk more about it

1:07.2

here in his question. The question is, though, is this something that people

1:11.6

will pay for? Is it too niche or too emotional or esoteric, perhaps, to monetize? Well, I had to

1:18.6

think about this one a good bit for my answer, so you don't want to miss it, but you won't miss it

1:22.9

because here you are. Ben's question and my answer coming right up. What's up? I want to tell you today about

1:30.6

our partner, ZipRecruiter. You know, ZipRecruiter. If you don't, you should. Perhaps as a good

1:36.1

introduction to them, let's talk about speed and quality. You don't usually get both of those

1:40.2

things together. You don't go through a fast food drive-thru and expect a gourmet meal to go,

1:45.3

or if you do, you're probably going to be disappointed. If you use some automated fancy AI tools

1:50.1

to do online tasks, sometimes that works well, and sometimes it doesn't. Perhaps you have experienced

1:55.5

that. Speed and quality, they don't always go together, but there is an exception to this unwritten

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