Ep. 3452 - STORY: Mental Health Counselor By Day, Headband Artist by Night
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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A mental health counselor gets a head start with a side hustle that brings in $3,000 a month
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| 0:00.0 | Mental health counselor by day, headband artist by night. |
| 0:12.2 | This headband artist, this person who makes headbands, they are earning about $500 a month, |
| 0:17.4 | and then they make some changes. |
| 0:19.3 | They go on to earn more than $3,000 a month. So how does an Etsy seller go from $500 a month and then they make some changes. They go on to earn more than $3,000 a month. |
| 0:22.6 | So how does an Etsy seller go from $500 a month to more than $3,000 a month? Part time on the |
| 0:28.7 | side, of course. I love a story with a good ramp up. I think a lot of listeners out there have |
| 0:33.1 | figured out how to make a few hundred extra bucks or maybe $1,000 a month, which is wonderful. As I often say, |
| 0:38.9 | when you do that, you can learn to do more. So how does somebody go from that initial range to the |
| 0:44.5 | higher range? The mental health counselor at Moonlights as a headband artist going head and shoulders |
| 0:49.8 | above the rest, earning, as I said, an extra $3,000 a month. Let's tell the story of Brittany Lepowski. |
| 0:55.8 | There's something you can take away from this story. |
| 0:57.7 | You can apply it to your own ideas. |
| 0:59.4 | I'll bring you that story after this quick shout out to our sponsor. |
| 1:18.4 | Brittany Lopowski was busy. The overwhelmed grad student was trying to balance her school course load, a part-time job, some semblance of a social life, going to the gym, and all |
| 1:23.9 | of the errands associated with adult life. Also, like most adults, she had to wash her |
| 1:28.4 | hair in between all these activities. But that didn't always mean she looked as put together as she |
| 1:34.1 | would prefer. All she ever wanted to do was to be able to go through her daily activities while |
| 1:39.2 | looking effortlessly adorable. Not an unreasonable ask, right? Especially once she started her side hustle to help her |
| 1:45.8 | accomplish that feat. Busy B. Crafts, Busy B. Crafts became Brittany's answer to a question |
| 1:52.6 | she'd only half ask herself. How do people wash their hair every day? With a surge in dry |
| 1:59.3 | shampoo sales, she's clearly not the only one who struggled with |
| 2:02.3 | looking put together when she felt anything but. It wasn't until she was in Virginia to visit a |
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