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What do a baby sleep mask, a detail van, and a print-on-demand candle have in common? They're all quietly generating serious income for real people — and in this episode, we dig into the numbers behind six of the most interesting side hustle stories making the rounds right now. I'm joined by Cody Berman — co-host of The FI Show and author of Retire by 30: How to Build Wealth, Gain Freedom, and Live Life on Your Own Terms — for a roundtable breakdown of the latest Side Hustle Headlines. Each stor...
“Nothing puts a smile on a consumer's face quicker than a good peach.” And it turns out, flipping produce can be quite the profitable side hustle! ($3000 in one weekend from one stand before we recorded.) Shannon Houchin reached out to me and said, "Nick, you’ve got episodes on flipping books , mattresses , clearance products , domain names , flea market finds , and a ton of other stuff — but have I got a side hustle for you: I flip peaches." So, of course, I had to call her up to learn more. Tu...
What if you could earn $1,500 a month in side income with just an hour of work a week — and do it with a business that practically runs itself? That's exactly what Will Butterton has built with five ATMs through his company, Viking Vendors LLC . Will is a full-time engineer , a dad of three, and a multi-side-hustler who got into ATMs when his wife was pregnant and he started looking for something low-risk . He started the business with a childhood friend, each putting in some cash to buy their f...
Live selling is having a moment and you don't need to be an influencer or have any e-commerce experience to get in on it. Clinton Benninghoff is a part-time pastor and full-time golf enthusiast who took over Golf HQ , a brick-and-mortar golf shop in Midland, Texas. He spent years building it into a community staple and developing relationships with the top golf brands. Then in October 2024, he joined Whatnot — and everything changed. In just over a year, Clinton's live-selling channel hit $2 mil...
What if you could make money this weekend helping people clear out their homes without buying a single thing yourself? Estate sales have been around for decades, but a newer, fully online version of this business makes it faster, safer, and more efficient for everyone involved. And it’s wide open for someone willing to learn the ropes. Sue Antinoro (Bird's Nest Auctions) has spent the last 10-20 years in consignment , eBay , estate sales, and auction sales . Today she runs AuctionMastery.com , w...
This episode features Jacques Hopkins explaining how he built "Rocky," an AI chief operating officer using free OpenClaw software, to revolutionize his online course business. Rocky handles SEO, email, and customer support, significantly cutting costs and increasing efficiency. Jacques details the setup, training, and various high-value use cases, including an "AI Council" for strategic decision-making. He emphasizes AI as an amplifier for businesses, not a replacement, and offers insights into its practical application and the future of AI consulting.
For his side hustle, this week’s guest didn’t start from scratch. Instead, he bought a business that was already profitable, then he went out and tripled the revenue in his first year — all while working a full-time job. Jono Santamaria from Melbourne, Australia is the proud owner of Nina’s Laundrette , a local self-service laundromat . Jono bought the business a year and a half ago to diversify his investments. When he took over, he implemented several changes to dramatically improve revenue an...
What if you could set up the same tents and pillows every weekend — and get paid $800 to $1,000 each time you did it? That's exactly what Anne McGraw has built with Firefly Slumber Parties , a luxury tent slumber party rental business based in Nashville. Anne and her husband run it as a side hustle while both working demanding full-time jobs, and last weekend alone they did five parties at $800 to $1,000 each . The idea came from Anne's daughter, who spotted the concept on TikTok or Instagram ba...
By month five, Jayden Clark's dropshipping side hustle was generating more profit than his corporate salary. Two years after that, he sold the business for $700,000 . The twist: he never bought a single unit of inventory upfront. Jayden was 27 when a post-vacation reality check made him realize he couldn't spend the next 40 years living for one week off a year. After exploring Amazon FBA , he landed on high-ticket dropshipping — selling products over $1,000 through domestic UK and US suppliers. ...
What if your inventory cost you nothing, and companies actually called you to come take it? That's the business Angie Nelson has built over the last 18 years. She runs Angie's Green Go Surplus on eBay and eWasteDirect.com , an electronic recycling company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her team does five to seven business pickups a day , collecting roughly 50,000 pounds of e-waste every month — for free — and then sorts, tests, and resells it through one of the most active eBay stores around. Tu...
In this week’s episode, I sit down with the Niche Pursuits Podcast to discuss what it takes to build a successful podcast from the ground up. As the host of The Side Hustle Show since 2013, I have over 700 episodes under my belt and a staggering 35 million lifetime downloads. We dig into how I got started, what’s been the key to growth, how I think about listener engagement, and the practical steps to moving someone from a first-time listener to a raving fan. Whether you're just launching a podc...
What if you could rent out digital real estate just as you would traditional real estate , but without all the headaches that come with maintaining a property? That’s exactly what Luke Van Der Veer is doing with his digital “Rank and Rent” business. What Luke does is he builds a local service business website, then “rents” it out to a local, less digital-savvy business that is more than happy for the extra leads. Luke has been doing this for several years but said it took about 6 months to repla...
What can a crossing guard, a car negotiator, and a mindfulness bracelet teach you about building a side hustle? Quite a bit, it turns out. This week, I sat down with Jason VanDevere to talk about some of the most unique side hustle ideas out there right now. Jason is the creator of the Goal Crazy and Goal Crazy Planners , author of Dream Driven: The Step-by-Step Process to Discover Your Perfect Business Idea and Launch it This Year , and a longtime real estate investor. He's a serial side hustle...
What does 24 years of hard-won entrepreneurial lessons look like in one place? Here are the biggest ideas from over a decade of building side hustles, interviewing hundreds of entrepreneurs , and learning what actually works. This is a collection of honest, practical principles — some learned through success, some through failure — that can help you start smarter, grow faster, and keep going when things get hard. Tune in to Episode 732 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: how to find your real moti...
What if you could turn a single dollar into $5,000 in under a month? That's exactly what happened to Mindy, a member of Shannon Jean's reselling mastermind community . She bought two pallets of books from a government auction for $1 total , discovered they were packed with medical and curriculum books selling for $200 to $400 each , and turned that dollar into $5,000 within about a month. And she's still selling the books today. Deals like that are hiding in plain sight — on government auction s...
A guest early on in the Side Hustle Show said this: "Why am I more excited to make $5 passively than I am to make $5,000 actively?" And whether or not that is true in your case, it is a line that stuck with me because that $5 can scale . The $5,000 usually can’t. Chelsea Shelton is a former elementary school teacher, a mom of three, and a digital products coach at Gold City Ventures , the same program co-founded by Cody Berman , who previously shared how he built a $1,000/month Etsy shop from sc...
Creating assets you can sell over and over again — that’s the passive income dream, right? This is exactly what Rachel Jones has done by creating and selling downloadable printables on Etsy. This year she’s averaging over $10,000 a month in sales, all while balancing a full-time job and two young kids. Rachel started in 2018, and took her Etsy business full-time in 2021. Note: I call this the Buy Buttons strategy. To kickstart your business, find the marketplaces your target customers are alread...
Half a million dollars in hamster balls. What if you spotted a gap in a market that hadn’t changed in 50 years and turned it into a fast-growing product business while still in college? That’s exactly what Ethan Haber did with Happy Habitats , a small pet products company he started as a sophomore at Wake Forest University. While watching his hamster Mooksy roll around in a standard hamster ball on campus, Ethan looked over and saw someone walking a dog. The thought hit him: why can’t I walk my ...
In This Week In Side Hustles, I'm bringing you some of the unique side hustles that have come across my desk this week. There are so many creative ways to make serious money, from local, in-person services to completely AI-created online side hustles. If you'd like to read more about the individual side hustles, check out the resources below. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/30/bay-area-kids-rentals-silicon-valley-parents-built-lucrative-side-hustle.html https://www.the-sun.com/money/15971252/flight...
What if you could earn $250-$300 an hour solving a problem most people would rather avoid? Jim Lashbaugh did exactly that, and last year, it added about $40,000 in extra income. Jim is a retired firefighter who spent nearly three decades on the job. On the side, he flipped houses . And as part of that, he had to wrestle with one of the most annoying parts of real estate development: building permits. He got good at it, but he never planned to do it for anyone else. Then a friend asked for help. ...
This week’s guest started his side hustle with the goal of earning an extra $1,000 a month. Four summers later and it’s now a 6-figure business! Blademir Hernandez is a Side Hustle Show listener who was inspired by Brian Winch’s story in episode 266 to start his business. Brian built a $650k a year operation picking up litter and cleaning parking lots — something Blademir felt confident he could do, too. Blademir reached out to Brian and ran the idea past him, before going out and finding proper...
What if you could turn your social media following into a $300/day marketing machine without relying on ads or platform algorithms to pay you? That's exactly what financial educator Brian Feroldi has built at LongTermMindset.co . He started by sharing investing content on Twitter back in 2019 and gradually built a funnel that now generates consistent daily revenue from digital products without a huge team or a big ad budget. Brian is the bestselling author of Why Does the Stock Market Go Up? and...
What if the pile of laundry sitting in your spare room was actually a business idea in disguise? That’s more or less how Susan Toft tells it. She was a new mom with a full-time corporate job, staring at a mountain of unfolded clothes and thinking: someone should offer this as a service . So she decided to be that someone. Susan is the founder of LaundryLady.com , Australia’s number one mobile laundry service. She started solo in 2012, doing pickups in her van with her toddler in the backseat. Th...
This episode features Adriana Tica, author of the State of Solopreneurship report, who shares hard data on what it takes to build a significant independent income. Key findings include the typical three-year path to six figures, the enduring power of email over social media for deepening customer relationships, and the profitability of services over passive income. Adriana also provides insights on validating digital products, effective newsletter growth tactics, and future content trends for solopreneurs.
Billboards are timeless. And they remain a successful advertising strategy even with the rise of digital technology. With that said, you probably never imagined that a solopreneur could rake in $30,000 a month from it (part-time!). But that’s exactly what Chris Brown from Signs of Good and wantmore.org has done for the past decade. Chris retired early at the age of 42 and now owns approximately 30 billboards around Bentonville, Arkansas. Tune in to Ep 608 of The Side Hustle Show to learn: how to...
What if you could unlock 5-10x more money from Amazon than you're currently earning? The Amazon Influencer Program has changed quite a bit over the last couple of years. What worked before, namely the strategy of uploading a bunch of product review videos and hoping they generate commissions, has started to produce diminishing returns. But there's a new strategy that is giving creators a way forward, and it's called Creator Connections . Jared Bauman from 201creative.com and host of the Niche Pu...
What if the million dollar business you're looking for is literally in your own backyard? William Milliken went from zero to 350 recurring customers in his first three months in business, starting a pet waste removal company as a side project. Last year, his business racked up over $3 million in revenue , all from the not-so-glamorous service of cleaning up dog poop. And if that wasn't enough, William turned his knowledge into another side hustle, teaching others through swoopscoop.com and the P...
What if you could create $1,000 to $2,000 per month in cash flow from a single property and need just three homes to replace your W-2 income? Sam Wegert discovered this path 14 years ago when he started house hacking a single property. Today, he owns over 200 rooms across his co-living portfolio, all passively managed while he lives overseas. Co-living is when you buy a larger house and rent out individual rooms instead of the entire property. It's the difference between earning $250 a month fro...
Are you willing to fail? Let that be your new mantra. It's the only way to get up the courage to get started. That's the rule Brian Scudamore -- the founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK -- lives by. What started with a $1000 investment (Brian's life's savings at the time) has turned into a home services empire that does $1 million in sales on any given day. Brian's come a long way since that beat-up pickup truck going door-to-door that first summer. His portfolio now includes house painting, moving...
Andy Hill details his remarkable financial journey, explaining how he leveraged the Coast FIRE strategy to build significant wealth while drastically reducing his work week. He discusses monetizing his "Marriage, Kids & Money" brand through evergreen YouTube content and affiliate marketing, offering transparent insights into his earnings. Andy also delves into his controversial decision to pay off his mortgage early for lifestyle flexibility, emphasizing the importance of aligning financial decisions with personal values like time freedom and well-being.
