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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3228 - Weekend Workshop: When Getting Fired Becomes Your Best Break

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This new segment is all about helping you learn the key steps to a new side hustle in 2025, one step or concept per week. It includes activities, examples, and more—and of course it’s all free. Today’s topic: if he hadn’t been pushed, he wouldn’t have made the leap.

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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0:05.6

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0:10.1

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0:14.7

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0:19.0

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0:37.2

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0:39.7

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0:48.2

Lemonada.

0:52.8

What if losing your job could become the best thing that ever happens to your career?

1:02.0

Maybe even to your life, maybe even to a huge life transformation.

1:06.0

I love stories of reinvention when somebody goes from one thing to another and it's completely

1:10.5

unexpected.

1:11.6

And sometimes it often involves this element of fear or insecurity or like,

1:15.6

oh my God, what do I do next? But then, as we're going to title this episode,

1:19.6

when getting fired becomes your best break. I also think of it sometimes as if you hadn't

1:25.4

been pushed, you wouldn't have made the leap.

1:32.4

So let's hear the story today of Michael Hanna. He discovered that a corporate layoff ended up transforming him from a cubicle dwelling sales professional into Portland,

1:36.9

Oregon's most innovative mattress entrepreneur. He actually becomes a mattress salesman,

1:42.3

well, at the owner of a mattress store. And so this segment

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