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🗓️ 30 September 2025
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Want to escape the billable-hour treadmill? Today we map out three proven paths—courses, content, and compounding cashflows—that turn one-time effort into long-term income.
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. Let's talk today about passive income. Specifically, which passive income model might suit a consultant. If you want to escape a billable hour treadmill, if you are a consultant or a |
| 0:22.5 | freelancer, or if you have been exploring service businesses, service ideas where you're |
| 0:27.5 | getting paid, you're trading your time for money, well, that can be a fast way to cash, |
| 0:31.8 | but then, you know, you wake up every Monday or every first day of the month or whatever |
| 0:36.0 | it is and your revenue is once |
| 0:37.8 | again, and so you've got to start sprinting again. We've got a caller here. His name is Jonathan. |
| 0:42.9 | He's thinking about, well, his dream actually is to create a body of work that pays him even when |
| 0:49.0 | he's out hiking. I believe he's from Washington State or otherwise doing something else. And as I said, |
| 0:55.6 | that is the dream. But the good news is plenty of solo creators have replaced or at least been able to |
| 1:01.1 | buffer their freelancing slash consulting income with assets that earn on autopilot. Just a couple |
| 1:07.0 | days ago, in fact, we were talking about how can you create more of a steady paycheck with |
| 1:10.3 | freelance income. |
| 1:11.7 | This is a variation here. |
| 1:13.1 | Let's unpack what these assets might look like and try to pick a roadmap that suits this listener's strengths. |
| 1:18.9 | And of course, not just this listener, but hopefully somebody else out there as we come to the end of a month, episode 3195. |
| 1:25.5 | I'll do my best to give a helpful answer. |
| 1:28.3 | Stay tuned. |
| 1:40.8 | Hello, team. It's Jonathan here from Tacoma, Washington. I stumbled on to Side Hustle School after Spotify recommended one of your episodes, and I've been hooked since. |
| 1:45.8 | Right now, my income is pure time for money consulting, and I keep hearing about earning while you sleep. |
| 1:53.3 | What does it actually look like to build a portfolio, a body of work, that keeps generating revenue after the initial effort, |
| 2:00.5 | whether it's digital products, |
| 2:02.4 | evergreen content, or something else. |
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