This transcript was generated from the episode audio and may contain minor errors.
[Music]
Hey everyone, guess what? A crazy thing has just happened. A new year has arrived. I don't know if you noticed it. These things can creep up on you.
In fact, I'm always surprised myself when it rolls around. I am recording this during the last few days of 2022, as I enjoy a few days of holiday, along with Chuck, our producer, the rest of the team. But presumably if the world has not ended, most likely you're hearing this in 2023. That is just insane, but I guess we made it. Congratulations.
I mean, that's some good news to start the year off with, right? We are still here, we are alive. So from me here, my name's Chris Guillebeau. This podcast is called Side Hustle School. Just in case you are joining in most years, we do get a new group of listeners joining sometime in January.
Perhaps some people who are rejoining. You know, we've been doing this for a while, so you might've listened in year one, year two. Took some time off and now you're back. So welcome back or welcome. Whatever the case may be in this short inaugural episode of season seven, season seven, I would like to spend just a few minutes today reorienting us.
All right, so what's it all about? The mission of Side Hustle School, a daily podcast, is to help you create a new source of income without quitting your job. And to be specific, this is not about the gig economy. It's not about just driving for Uber, or even just working two jobs, you know, two kind of menial jobs, or like your extra night job, you know, that kind of hustling. It's about creating significant revenue, AKA money through an asset you create, okay?
I wanna help change people's lives here, not just, you know, pays and bills. I mean, paying bills is good too, but we look at people who have made six figure incomes through their side hustle, sometimes more than that. We have featured hundreds of real people, not quote unquote entrepreneurs, quote, you know, as people who've had day jobs, but found a way in their limited time to create something that, as I said, brings in significant revenue for them. So in the show, we look at the practical nuts and bolts of how you can do this for yourself. This includes everything from generating the right idea, down to the implementation and marketing of the idea, how you can grow that business.
I mean, that's what it's all about, basically. Like our values are being frugal and resourceful, but also being willing to invest in yourself, right? Because you want to achieve a positive return. So if you have no idea who I am, in case you're curious, well, I'll just be brief here. I am an author and entrepreneur.
I have always worked for myself from the age 19 onwards. I learned I wasn't good at working for other people, but I found a way to do lots of stuff for myself, which eventually I had this whole career of writing and sharing about. I was an aid worker in West Africa for several years, and then I started a blog called The Art of Nonconformity, which also documented my journey to visit every country in the world. And these days, I feel really fortunate to connect with a global community of amazing people doing interesting things, such as yourself. Yes, I'm talking to you.
You are awesome. You're doing some awesome things. I want to help you do some more awesome things this year. And by the way, this is all free. Just to be clear, nothing is for sale.
There's literally no way to give me money on the Side Hustle School site. More than 2,000 episodes are freely available in the archives. How is this possible? Well, it's possible because we do have sponsors, and I appreciate those sponsors. I appreciate those brief advertising messages.
And if you've listened to podcasts, you probably know how that works. It's just super simple. One at the beginning of every episode, one part way through. And we try to choose partners whenever possible who are on brand and are making truly valuable offers to you. So I hope you'll find some of them helpful, but there's never any pressure to do anything.
So speaking of sponsor messages, in a moment here, you're gonna get an example of one of those. And when we return, I'll tell you more about what lies ahead for 2023. [Music]
All right, what lies ahead? Well, Side Hustle School is a daily podcast, first and foremost. You know, we actually started that trend or a very big part of it.
Now there's a number of other daily podcasts, but when I started this, there were very, very few. The only ones were kind of large produced shows that had, you know, a lot of staff, a lot of people working on them. And so we kind of started that up and we're gonna keep it going every day in 2023. A few upcoming episodes include a lesson on how, or a case study on how to sue telemarketers, just in case you're tired of getting telemarketing calls. What if you get paid when you got a telemarketing call?
That's pretty cool. We're gonna hear from a guy who's working multiple jobs simultaneously. And when I say that, I don't just mean kind of like what I was referring to earlier about, you know, hustling menial jobs. I mean a guy who's like working multiple full-time jobs remotely without, you know, either employer or knowing about it. So it's a whole interesting concept called over-employed or multi-working.
So we'll talk about that, some tips for doing it. A failure Friday episode where a wedding planner experiences basically every possible disaster you can imagine. An episode on how to make a sales page. So we've got lots of stories, but they're also like practical tips that try to have a mix, you know, of like where you can be inspired, but also go away and do something. That's the goal of the show pretty much every day or at least weekend, week out, you're gonna get that.
Also, if you've been following me for a while, you know that writing books is my main thing, at least as much as I have a main thing, I have a whole life of side hustles, but, you know, being an author is my primary role. So the last book I published, "The Money Tree," came out in April, 2020. It was not a great week or month or season for touring, it turned out, because of that whole pandemic thing. But new book coming out called "Ganzo Capitalism." I am really excited about it. It's about how the global economy stopped making sense a couple of years ago.
I've got lots of really great stories that I've been saving, almost none of which have been told before. So "Ganzo Capitalism," that book comes out in August. I will be touring to at least 15 cities to meet readers and listeners, hopefully more as well, but I'm gonna commit to at least 15. So hopefully we'll get a chance to hang out somewhere. And, you know, I guess maybe just in conclusion as we begin, so it's in conclusion, but to begin a year, I know that some of our community, some of you guys have been around for years.
I just wanna say that you are awesome, you inspire me. I really hope that something this year is truly significant for you. And that's what I was thinking about as I kind of came into the studio this morning to record. I was like, there's nothing wrong with small tweaks and continuous improvement. In fact, you know, most of the time, that's probably the roadmap to success, you know, just making these small tweaks and, you know, improving day to day.
But, you know, at the same time, this year, I am also rooting for you that you will go above and beyond, all right? I'm just rooting that there's gonna be some significant change. I'm rooting for you, Taylor Swift style. You're gonna go above and beyond this year. And let me know, of course, if that happens.
I'd love to share your story or not. You know, we can keep you anonymous or I just like to know when the show is making a difference. So, that's it for today. A new episode out tomorrow, every single day, right? Seven days a week.
And then let's see here. Oh yeah, before I go, what is a new year's resolution? It's something that goes in one year and out the other. Also, one more thing. I was gonna quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter.
You're welcome, throwing that in free as well. Okay, subscribe, follow, wherever you get your podcasts. It's gonna be fun. My name is Chris Guillebeau. You're listening to Side Hustle School.
[Music]
From the Onward Project.
