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🗓️ 2 November 2025
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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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| 0:52.8 | 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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