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From Landscaper to Podcast Producer Earning $4k/Month

A Canadian landscaper lands on the side hustle trifecta: passion, skill, and opportunity. He eventually uses his new income to quit his job and travel to 10 countries.
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What It's About

A podcast production side hustle that earns more than a landscaper's day job.

Business Model
Service
Skills Required
Production Skills & Business Savvy
Complexity
Medium
Profit Potential
Medium

Words of Wisdom

In addition to cold emailing podcasts to see if they were looking for a producer, Jeremy was also applying for jobs on UpWork.com and managed to land his first client within a week of coming up with his side hustle idea. This immediate validation was just the boost he needed to really pursue it.

If you need to validate your idea, try using a starter website similar to Upwork. It's low-risk and well worth it if it gives you the validation you need to move forward!

Fun Fact

At this point, Jeremy’s side hustle is completely location independent. In fact, he spent two weeks running his business from his bicycle while he toured the UK and another two weeks on foot while he walked the Camino de Santiago in Portugal and Spain.

Notes from Chris

Episode 319

Back in early 2016 Jeremy Enns was working at a landscaping job in Vancouver that he knew he didn’t want to do forever, which is why he wanted to start some sort of side hustle. When it came time to decide what that side hustle would be, it was actually a pretty easy decision.

You see Jeremy is obsessed with podcasts. He listens to 50+ hours a week at 2x speed so he can get through so many. In addition to his love of podcasts, he also has the necessary skills to edit and produce podcasts since he went to school for audio engineering and production. As he started thinking about doing podcast editing and production as side hustle, he realize that there was also a huge potential audience for these services.

He had hit the trifecta: passion, skill, and opportunity.

After validating his idea using UpWork, he continued landing clients and realized that not only did this idea have merit but he needed to update his website to reflect this new focus. His existing site was aimed at musicians looking to record albums. So he slowly started updating and tweaking the website himself.

With some minor changes and no additional marketing, Jeremy continued to get clients via word of mouth and UpWork. Good shift!

At the beginning of August 2016, about four months into this hustle, Jeremy started thinking about turning this into his full-time focus. At the end of August, a couple weeks after he gave his notice, he finally added up all of the revenue streams he was getting through his clients and realized that he had made more money that month on his side hustle than his day job.

That was the moment he knew he had made the right decision. Within a couple months of quitting his day job he was bringing in an average of $4k per month.


MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Ascetic Productions | Podcast Resources: If you're interested in learning more about Jeremy's podcast production side hustle, check out his website!
  • Rain City Scoop: Learn more about all of the ice cream that Vancouver, WA has to offer through Jeremy's niche podcast
  • Wordpress: Jeremy used Wordpress to create Ascetic Productions, and here you can learn how to install your own Wordpress site in 5 minutes
  • UpWork, Google Suite, Leadpages: Some of the programs and platforms that Jeremy used along the way
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Yours in the revolution,

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