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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3225 - TBT: A Guided Journal, a Friend in Need, and 1,000+ Sales

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Throwback Thursday segment, learn how a creative project for a friend in recovery became a business, eventually leading to a partnership with a Washington, DC nonprofit.

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

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0:46.0

Lemonada.

0:50.6

All right, all right. What's up? Welcome back to Side Ussel School. Chris Gillibow,

0:58.7

your host here. Today is Throwback Thursday. We're going to hear how a creative project for a friend

1:04.4

in recovery became an actual business, eventually leading to a partnership with a Washington, D.C.

1:10.1

In these episodes, we like to

1:12.5

take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. We do all

1:16.7

kinds of updates. Last week, it was a side hustler who builds a trustworthy supplement guide,

1:21.6

originally based on one TikTok video, turning it into a $40,000 affiliate business. Today, as mentioned, a creative project

1:29.5

for a friend who was going through recovery, alcohol, recovery, substance abuse, recovery.

1:35.6

Morgan was a friend to somebody going through this process and, of course, wanted to be as

1:39.3

helpful as possible, ended up coming up with a project that helped not only their friend, but also lots of

1:45.4

other people. And now, as mentioned, kind of partnering with a nonprofit. So it's a do good and do

1:51.2

well story, which I always like, as long-term listeners know. You can do good for others and also

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