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🗓️ 3 December 2025
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She was burned out being a CPA, so she turned her efforts to an Etsy business—but it wasn’t long before she was hitting the books again, just in a more creative way. Her new spreadsheets help Etsy sellers and earn a six-figure income for her.
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:10.8 | Today's story is a joyous one. |
| 0:13.3 | It is an Etsy story with a twist, my favorite kind. |
| 0:16.6 | I love a good story with a good twist. |
| 0:18.6 | A dissatisfied accountant longs to do something different. |
| 0:22.4 | And so at first she begins selling handmade items on Etsy, as one does. That's what you do on |
| 0:27.4 | Etsy, right? It's a handcrafted marketplace. We've had lots of stories of people doing that. |
| 0:32.0 | Nothing wrong with it at all. But then, here's what's cool, the twist, she finds a way to do something |
| 0:36.6 | even better. Discovering a way to do something even better, |
| 0:42.4 | discovering a way to use her financial skills, but in a different manner than she does for work, |
| 0:47.3 | which is often a good clue to your side hustle, and in a way that serves a unique market. |
| 0:52.7 | And of course, she does this while getting paid because it's a side hustle, not a charity or a hobby, |
| 0:55.7 | even though other people can benefit and it can be fun. |
| 0:58.6 | Side hustle can be all those things and also profitable. |
| 1:00.5 | So what are we talking about? |
| 1:05.8 | Well, basically, she sells spreadsheets, not at the seashore, but on Etsy. |
| 1:11.3 | She sells spreadsheets on Etsy, perhaps not as a literative there, but much better business model. |
| 1:16.1 | She was burned out being a CPA, so she turned to this Etsy business. Her spreadsheets help Etsy sellers and help her earn a six-figure income. That's right. It's not small money. |
| 1:21.4 | As I said, it is a joyous story. I think you're going to like it. Accountant earns six |
| 1:25.3 | figures selling spreadsheets. That story right after this. The fluorescent lights, grueling schedule, and endless calculations of being a CPA for |
| 1:42.9 | international tax was sucking the life |
| 1:45.1 | out of Janet LeBlanc's soul. She knew something had to change, but she didn't know what it was, |
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