Ep. 3432 - First $1,000: “I wasn’t sure what to do, so I started selling sports cards…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s First $1,000 segment, we hear from a Los Angeles consultant who begins buying and reselling sports cards during the pandemic. He does it because it’s fun—but it also ends up being highly profitable.
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| 0:00.0 | I wasn't sure what to do, so I started selling sports cards. |
| 0:12.0 | That's what you're going to hear about in today's episode. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to Side Ussel School. |
| 0:15.7 | My name's Chris Gillibow, your host. |
| 0:17.2 | Thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:18.4 | This is, in fact, our segment known as first $1,000. We're going to hear |
| 0:22.9 | from a Los Angeles consultant who begins buying and reselling sports cards during the pandemic. |
| 0:28.8 | He did it because it was fun, but it also ended up being highly profitable. In fact, I believe |
| 0:33.7 | he is still doing it. He built this little business, which is not just a little business. It's actually pretty big business now. His name is Brad. He's known as the comeback card investor. In this segment, we get to hear how somebody makes their first thousand dollars. They often go on to earn a lot more than that. But I want you to understand the origin point because you too can make your first thousand dollars in a new side hustle and then |
| 0:55.3 | hopefully go on to earn much more from that as well. That's the whole point. We're teaching through |
| 0:59.4 | stories, case studies, and models. This one comes to us from Brad in Los Angeles. Going to pass |
| 1:04.2 | the mic to him. I'll be back at the end with a quick wrap up. |
| 1:24.2 | Hey guys, I'm Brad, and in the sports card world, I'm known as the comeback card investor. |
| 1:30.1 | Basically, my journey to my first thousand dollars in this very unique and seemingly random income stream was highly unexpected, but just like a lot of wonderful things in life, |
| 1:36.5 | that's just how it goes. So long story short, it was early March of 2020 and I was building |
| 1:43.5 | my financial coaching business. |
| 1:46.0 | I was essentially helping people here in Los Angeles make better decisions with their money and get out of debt and start building wealth. |
| 1:53.0 | And then all of a sudden, COVID hit and the world just completely stopped. |
| 1:58.0 | And you know, from a career standpoint, I thought that this would lead to more clients. |
| 2:02.8 | But the problem was that I was struggling. |
| 2:05.8 | Not with my money, but I was struggling emotionally and mentally since pretty much everything |
| 2:12.0 | enjoyable was taken away for me and everyone close to me was now far away. |
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