The 500K Side Hustle – Epi-3654

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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We talk a lot about side hustles as a transition strategy from the world of the J O B to the world of entrepreneurship but what if you could do it in a big way. From wage slave to 500K business, it can be done and today we talk to someone actively doing it. Our guest today is Nate who will remain anonymous other wise. He started his business in 2019 on a whim ager a slew of other attempts failed. This time he has gotten traction and is blowing it up. Today we will dig into how you actually … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	and we're a better way to do this
0:05.6	and we are live.
0:22.6	Welcome folks to episode 3,654 of the Survival Podcast.
0:28.7	It is a Wednesday, and Wednesday usually means interview day.
0:32.6	And today, Wednesday means interview day.
0:35.8	You know, we have talked about the transition from employment to entrepreneurship via
0:40.4	the side hustle almost since this show began because honestly, that's how the show began.
0:46.8	I actually owned a company, but I really didn't want to work there anymore.
0:50.7	Imagine that.
0:51.6	And started this podcast in my car, for those that are new around
0:55.3	here, back in 2008. Well, that makes me an old man. And I did that for about 18 months and then sold
1:02.0	out my interest in my, actually several companies that I was part of at the time, and went to do
1:06.6	this full time. So that transition we've talked about. But what we haven't really talked about
1:11.2	is doing it in a big way or maybe even doing it perpetually. I'm not sure actually what's going on
1:17.1	with our guest Nate today, whether he plans on continuing this way for a long time, because
1:21.8	it sounds like he's actually built his business to not need him that much while he sells a job.
1:27.1	And there are certain things, I'm sure as we get into it today, that are really nice about
1:31.6	having employment, i.e.W2, I own the company, but still like the company's paying
1:37.8	things like matching SSI and benefits and having a big side income, which, you know, I had
1:42.8	that for about a year here. And it was a little hard to walk away from, except, you know, depends on what you want to do with your business in your life.
1:50.0	So we'll talk about those transitions, finding a niche, finding customers, and how to do this in a big way.
1:57.0	How big, like a 500K way, right?
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