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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3128 - Q&A: “Both of my ideas are strong, but I can only do one…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Stuck between two side hustle ideas? In this episode, we’ll look at how to choose the right path when both options feel equally strong.

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0:00.0

Lemonada. Both of my ideas are strong, but I can only do one. What do you do if you are stuck

0:15.7

between two side hustle or two business ideas? In this episode, we're going to look at how to

0:20.4

choose the right path when both options feel equally attractive. Welcome to side hustle school. My name's Chris Gilleboh. This is one of the best problems a side hustler can have too many good ideas, but it doesn't make the decision easy, right? You can only do one thing, at least in this situation. And let's just assume that because even if you're like,

0:38.0

if I had two amazing ideas, I could do them both right now. Well, what if you had three or four ideas?

0:43.5

Like the point is at some point in life, you have to be selective. And in fact, being able to choose is going to increase your long term odds of success.

0:51.5

So in this case, let's consider how a listener might make this choice.

0:55.5

This is Devin, I believe. Devin is juggling two promising ideas, physical products, digital asset.

1:02.6

They'll tell us a little bit more about it. How do you choose the one that's right for right now?

1:08.0

And maybe that's actually the critical choice, the one that is right for right now.

1:11.4

Detailed question and my answer coming up after the break.

1:16.7

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1:50.1

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1:59.8

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2:07.8

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2:10.3

How those ahead stay ahead. Thank you. Hi, side hustle team. I'm Devin from Santa Fe. I'm in a bit of a dilemma right now. I've got two side hustle ideas I really like, and I think both have potential. One is a small-scale food product I've been testing at farmers markets.

2:35.7

And the other is a digital resource I've started building for hobbyists in a niche.

2:39.5

I know really well.

2:40.9

I know I don't have time to do both.

2:42.8

Not properly, anyway.

2:44.4

And I'm worried that if I pick one, I'll regret not doing the other.

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