Ep. 3131 - First $1,000: Sleep-Deprived Dad Creates Digital Baby Journal
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this week's First $1,000 segment, discover how one new parent turned a 3 a.m. spreadsheet session into a sellable baby tracker. With no ads and no tech background, he reached $1,000 in sales using only parenting groups and a Notion template.
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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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. |
| 0:02.0 | All right, all right. What's up? Welcome back to Side Hustle School. My name's Chris Gillibault, your host. |
| 0:15.5 | In today's episode, a sleep-deprived dad creates a digital baby journal. In this week's first $1,000 segment, |
| 0:23.1 | in fact, you're going to discover how a new parent turns a 3 a.m. spreadsheet session into a |
| 0:28.0 | sellable baby tracker. Baby tracker. That's what he sells. With no ads, no tech background, |
| 0:33.4 | he reaches $1,000 in sales using only parenting groups in a Notion template, a template using |
| 0:38.8 | the app Notion. Today's episode is part of a feature. We call your first $1,000, as you might guess, |
| 0:44.6 | as you might know, if you've been around for a while. It's all about how somebody makes their first |
| 0:48.0 | thousand dollars. How do they get to that point? Not their first $100,000. That is also |
| 0:52.6 | pretty awesome, but it would be a much longer story. |
| 0:55.3 | And we want to help listeners take action on their ideas quickly so that they can get to their |
| 0:59.8 | first thousand dollars and beyond. So let's hear about this first time parent who finds |
| 1:04.6 | some clarity in chaos, ends up building a digital product that's helping other people as well, |
| 1:09.4 | helping other people and bringing in revenue for him. The sales come from organic traffic, which means he's not paying |
| 1:15.1 | for it, which is nice. So let's hear about it. Let's hear the story. I'm going to pass the |
| 1:18.9 | microphone, and I'll be back at the end with a few words of wrap up. Life in general can be |
| 1:24.8 | chaotic. Do you ever experience chaos in your life or your business? I certainly do. I was 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 about other things I need to do |
| 1:45.5 | and just trying to manage and keep up as much as possible. One thing I don't have to worry about, |
| 1:50.1 | though, is order fulfillment because Shipstation handles that. And ShipStation can help you handle it. |
| 1:55.5 | If you have orders to send out, well, let me tell you, you can automate shipping tasks. |
| 2:00.4 | Automations allow you to |
| 2:01.4 | smoothly print shipping labels. You can scale your business. You never need to upgrade. Shipstation |
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