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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3259 - STORY: Accountant Earns Six-Figures Selling Spreadsheets to Etsy Sellers

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

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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