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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3256 - Weekend Workshop: Building Teams Without Hiring Employees

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 10 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: a small-scale, large-reach transcription business.

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

If you ever shop online, which, let's be real, who doesn't, you already understand how important

0:05.6

customer reviews are. You know this as a consumer, right? You always check the reviews before you buy

0:10.1

something and your customers are checking reviews as well. That's why if you run an e-commerce

0:14.7

business, reviews have an enormous impact on your business and you want to level up your business

0:19.0

to get better reviews. You can do that with

0:21.1

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0:26.7

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0:31.2

faster, and better shipping. Upgrade to ShipStation today to get a 60 day free trial at shipstation.com

0:37.2

and use code hustle. No credit card or

0:39.7

contract required and you can cancel any time. That's shipstation.com code hustle.

0:48.2

Lemonada.

0:52.9

Imagine you got laid off while caring for a toddler, and that actually becomes the catalyst

1:02.6

for building a business that runs itself.

1:06.1

Well, you know, we love stories like this here on Sautil School.

1:09.3

My name's Chris Gillibow.

1:10.2

Welcome.

1:10.9

This scenario is exactly what Erica Kosminski discovered when losing her HR job forced her to transform a simple service idea into a scalable transcription empire.

1:21.7

We're going to focus this episode around building teams without hiring employees, which is exactly what Erica did. And this is part of our

1:29.2

weekend workshop segment. It's all about helping you learn the key steps to a new hustle,

1:34.0

one step or concept per week. We are using the book Side Hustle from Idea to Income in 27 days as our

1:40.8

text. This story today actually comes from a previous book I wrote, the $100

1:45.4

startup. So we're using these stories as examples to kind of talk through the concepts,

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