Season III Begins! Make 2019 Your Best Year Yet

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Greetings and hello and what's up and welcome to Side Hustle School season three. It is now 2019. We are kicking off something brand new, yet we are also continuing at the same time. It's complicated, but it's not. Two years ago, I had an idea to make something for people who didn't identify with a lot of the traditional messages about starting a business.

Now that was exactly 730 days ago. Since then, we've had a nonstop, no break series of stories that are designed to inspire and equip you with the tools you need. And guess what? We're gonna keep going strong all year along with some leveling up, which I'm gonna be telling you about as we go along. So for anybody new out there, here is a super, super quick intro.

My name is Chris Guillebeau. I'm the host and guide of Side Hustle School. And for my entire life, which is true, not short, I've been starting projects that make money without costing much money. And the whole purpose of what we do here at Side Hustle School is to shine the spotlight on regular people out there, perhaps people just like you who are starting income generating projects of their own. So every day this year, every single day in 2019, I'll tell you how they got their ideas, how they made those ideas happen, what mistakes they made or what challenges they had to overcome and what the outcome has been.

Now, oftentimes you'll notice that even though some people are making a lot of money, what they find to be the most valuable is the confidence and self-worth they gain merely by unlocking that new source of income. So there's all kinds of benefits, all kinds of gains, all good things here. And before I go any further, let me give you a few examples from season two. Now you can listen to our entire archive catalog, 730 episodes so far, completely free. And these are all true stories of real people and you'll hear a new one every day.

Just looking at a couple of highlights, last year we had the Trader Joe's sign artist who earns $43,000 selling tea stained prints. That was episode 635. The Denver tour guide who chomps down on a $100,000 profit. It's a woman who starts a food tour guide business and makes a $100,000 and more. That was episode 648.

Also the Nestle employee who doubles his salary by playing video games at night. I was simultaneously excited and depressed about that episode because when I was 20 years old, like 100 years ago, that was my dream to make money playing video games. So I didn't figure it out, but he did. That was episode 654 and so much more. Those are just three examples.

And when I talk about a title, so by the way, I'm talking about people making real money. I'm not talking about going out to drive for Uber. I'm not talking about making a few dollars here and there. I'm talking about creating an asset. It's something that has the chance to truly improve your life for the better.

Also, many stories come directly from our listeners who've been part of season one or two or both. So we know this works. In fact, about 20% of our stories are coming from listeners. So it's just really fun to see and hear that people out there, again, people like you are following this model and creating this reality for themselves. So before I go any further, if you're new, you're like, wow, this sounds great.

How much does it cost? So good news, this is all completely free. That's right, the cost is at $0. Every episode, all the archives, more than two dozen extended episodes that I've made over the past two years, diving into specific topics as requested by our listeners, all that stuff is completely free. I'm also doing meetups across the country and around the world as I travel.

And we're able to do that because of our sponsors who often provide valuable offers to our listeners. So we try to keep everything relevant. We try to only work with companies that are truly bringing you a value ad. And if it doesn't work for you, no problem. All the episode is still there for free.

So with that in mind, as we're kicking off the new year, here's an example. Thanks so much to our sponsor for making this happen. Here's a message from them. And then I'll tell you a bit more. [Music]

All right, so once again, season three, 2019, a different story every day.

And also we are leveling up, got some other stuff planned. You wanna make sure that you are subscribed to the show. You can listen to all these episodes. You can listen on sidehustleschool.com. You can listen directly in Apple Podcasts and Spotify, wherever you prefer, wherever you choose to listen to podcasts, you should be able to subscribe there.

Also on the website, you should be able to get a free five steps to hustle course. And give us your email there. And we're gonna send you some valuable information. Not gonna spend you too much. I'm not gonna spend you at all really.

We're gonna send you the things you asked for. Now also you might wanna pick up the side hustle book. That's really the only thing for sale at this point. It's a book about going from idea to income in 27 days. That should cost $25 or less wherever books are sold, whether online or at your local bookstore.

Now you don't need that book, but a lot of listeners find it to be a good companion guide to the show. Last but not least, next week we are relaunching in the long awaited side hustle society. That's a training program and online community. We launched last year in beta. It hasn't been available for, I don't even know how long, maybe more than nine months, something like that.

And people have been asking me about it every single day. New training program, new community coming. If you'd like to learn more about that, head to sidehustleschool.com/society. And you can sign up for the wait list there. So much more news is on the way.

Let's do this together. New year, new you, always room for improvement. We're trying to improve ourselves over here and we are grateful for you. So onwards and do come back tomorrow. [Music]