This is the Afford Anything Podcast, all about building a life that you love.

You can afford anything but not everything.

So what are you going to choose?

My name is Paula Pant.

I'm the host of this show and today we're going to talk to somebody who used to be an accountant,

but she started looking for ways that she could make money on the side.

Initially she got a second job doing more taxes in the evening, but then she realized

she wanted a more creative outlet, so she started writing it.

For the span of the next two years, she built up a clientele of websites that paid her

to write about taxes and other finance-related topics.

And after two years, her side business was doing well enough that she actually quit her

full-time accounting job to become self-employed full-time.

Now the reason that I want to talk to her today is because she shares a lot of information

about how you can start to earn money on the side, outside of your 9-5 day job.

This is called a side hustle and I firmly believe that everyone should have some type of

side income, even if you want to stay in your day job for the rest of your life.

It is wise to have multiple streams of income to diversify your income portfolio a little

bit so that if heaven forbid you lose your job, you've still got something coming in

the door.

So I invited her on first and foremost to talk about how she started making money on the

side and what lessons she could share with the rest of the audience.

And later in the interview, we also go into how she then transitioned into working for

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