Ep. 3442 - TBT: Bestselling Author Publishes Novels, Online Courses, and More
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s “Throwback Thursday” segment, we hear from an incredibly productive author who writes novels in the morning and makes online courses in the afternoon. Lots of lessons here!
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| 0:00.0 | Best-selling author publishes novels, online courses, and more. |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome, friends. Welcome to Side Ussel School. My name's Chris Gillibow, your host. |
| 0:17.1 | Welcome as well to Throwback Thursday, also known as Where Are They Now? |
| 0:21.3 | In this segment, we take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. |
| 0:26.2 | We've had all kinds of people in these features, a New York City musician with a blog teaching jazz that becomes a multiple six-figure business, an Australian woman who draws houses, and so many more. You can go back and listen |
| 0:38.7 | to all of them, completely free. Today, and our latest feature, we'll hear from Jessica Brody. |
| 0:43.8 | We first featured her way, way, way back 3,000 episodes ago, which is hard to believe, but it's |
| 0:49.9 | true. Episode 303, published author ads, income source makes an extra $21,000 her first year. |
| 0:56.8 | That was a pretty cool story, but it's, you know, it's been 3,000 days. |
| 1:00.4 | What's happened since? |
| 1:01.5 | Let's hear directly from her. |
| 1:03.0 | She's got a lot of updates. |
| 1:04.2 | It was a struggle for me to condense them because she gave us so many good things to work with. |
| 1:08.7 | But in short, she has massively increased her following in income and influence. |
| 1:13.2 | Since that first episode, she's also making some really smart moves. |
| 1:16.4 | I enjoy following her on social media. |
| 1:18.1 | Jessica Brody is her name. |
| 1:19.8 | So you can go and check her out on Instagram and elsewhere. |
| 1:22.3 | But also, let's just hear from her right now. |
| 1:25.0 | Passing the mic to Jessica. |
| 1:41.9 | Okay. to hear from her right now. Passing the mic to Jessica. Hi, I'm Jessica Brody, and I'm a full-time novelist living near Portland, Oregon. |
| 1:48.1 | I was featured on episode 303 of the podcast. And as a full-time novelist, my side hustle is a company called Writing Mastery, which is dedicated to teaching |
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