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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3284 - Weekend Workshop: From Wedding Dresses to State Legislature

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.8 โ€ข 3.3K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 28 December 2025

โฑ๏ธ 6 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 young entrepreneur builds her way to the Nebraska State Legislature.

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

Lemonada.

0:10.7

What if deciding at age 19 that you will never work for anyone else could become the foundation

0:15.8

for building multiple successful businesses and getting elected to public office.

0:21.6

That's a little bit of the story we're going to hear today.

0:23.8

Framed Inside Usul School of Fashion, of course.

0:26.2

It is what Megan Hunt accomplished when she chose entrepreneurship of her employment.

0:31.0

She built a wedding dress business, then another fashion business, a stationary store,

0:35.2

and also became a Nebraska state representative.

0:38.9

So Megan, who is a longtime friend of mine, she is a multi-potentialit type hustler, a polymath.

0:44.9

She's smart about a lot of different things.

0:46.6

So let's look today at this case study.

0:49.3

In this segment, by the way, it's part of our weekend workshop format, how you can learn

0:53.1

the key steps to a new side hustle one step or concept per week.

0:56.7

We're including activities, examples, and we're now in the case study portion of the series.

1:02.2

We're using the book Side Hustle from Idea to Income in 27 days, available wherever books are sold.

1:07.8

And for the first half of the year, we went through the 27 steps in the book.

1:29.1

And now in that second half, and now in the second half, we're looking at those more detailed case studies. So you can understand how people apply the framework. And just remember, I'm telling you these stories because there's something you can do too. Okay, let's talk about Megan. Megan at a young age, made a life-defining decision. She was actually a 19-year-old college sophomore,

1:34.5

and she was like, I'm never going to do anything but work for myself. Was this youthful rebellion or naive optimism? Or was it a calculated choice based on understanding exactly what kind of

1:40.2

life she wanted to live? Megan recognized early that conventional employment would

1:44.3

limit her creative freedom and financial potential. And so rather than climbing corporate ladders,

1:49.1

she chose to build her own business from the beginning. She did work a couple of eight to five

1:54.1

desk jobs for a while, but only as stepping stones to gain capital for her entrepreneurial

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