Episodes
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Brent made his first land wholesale deal using only 250 bucks. He's since stepped up and created the Land Sharks Program at thelandsharks.com where he teaches people to wholesale land using a proven mthod.
Wholesaling land can be a great way to not only make money by finding off market parcels, but also a way to create monthly payments with interest from buyers using owner financing
Super interesting stuff!
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John MacAdam had a decent job as a civil engineer but always knew he wanted to work for himself. After becoming a self taught mobile app developer he slowly found success in becoming an entrepreneur.
In this episode we talk about the slow process of creating side income that will eventually overcome your main income and the investment that changes your life for the long term.
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Jason Fitzgerald never thought Strength Running would grow into what it has become when he started several years ago. Now, with a podcast, courses, a blog, a coaching business, a YouTube channel, Jason has become one of the top running instructors in the country.
You can check him out on Strengthrunning.com
In this episode we discuss growing your business from scratch and branchin gout into new areas once things start to mature.
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Lisa Holtby started her home organizing business the same way people should start a lot of side hustles, by offering it to free for friends and family. After a while she honed in on her strengths and her side hustle allowed her to quit her job. Lisa Now works full time and is booked several months out. You can check her out at lisaholtby.com
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Davide H. Lawrence XVII, who you may recognize from the show Heroes, created what has now become the de facto app for actors practicing for rehearsal. It wasn't success from the beginning though and a small change to how the app was monetized created a massive change in the success.
In this episode we talk about those changes, being persistent with your idea, scratching your own itch, and voiceover acting as a career in general.
You can check out David's work at voheroes.com
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Sam Davidson and his co founders at Batch USA (then Batch Nashville) thought they'd have a subscription service selling curated items from their hometown. After realizing the margins were too thing, instead of quitting, they made a small change that lead them to immediate and amazing growth.
In this episode we talk about starting and building a subscription service and always keeping an eye on your customer to evolve your start up over time.
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This episode covers a lot of territory (literally and figuratively). We talk with Josh about becoming one of the highest ranked Airbnbs in the area. Creating and marketing whatever it is you do in a special way by doing what others aren't. The benefits of remote work and using living in another country as a tax benefit.
We cover a lot with an emphasis on how to make anythign successful, whether it's a product or your own brand.
Josh does this all while working from a remote island and will soon be taking in other digital nomads who want to do the same in his upcoming rentable social workspace.
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Brittany Shillingford started making headbands as an Etsy hobby in 2013 and has grown to selling 10s and 10s of thousands of headbands on her site Bizzy B Crafts.
In this episode we talk about building a website, finding local manufacturers, delegating tasks to help scale and utilizing social media to get your product to sell itself
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Meredish Marsh started Vid Pro Mom and grew here channel to over 66k subscribers.
In this episode we discuss growing a youtube channel from scratch, creating clickable videos, how to edit and produce your own channel and a bunch more!
Follow me on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/johnnymartinez__/
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Food Truck Empire started as a blog and grew to the go to place for teaching people how to start food truck businesses. Now Brett has a podcast, marketplace for food trucks selling all over the country, as well as some other stuff cookin.
Not only food trucks but Brett talks about coffee shops, barbeques tents, even hot dog trucks
Keep up to date with Johnny:
https://www.instagram.com/johnnymartinez__/
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Jacques Hopkins tells the story of leaving his job as an engineer to making a living teaching online piano courses.
These days Jacques is the most recognizable piano teacher on the internet and has created a successful system that works for his students.
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Jesse Goldfarb has made quite a side hustle out of making his tiny terrariums. What started as a small project has turned into large corporate events, a popular social media following, and more business than he ever thought of having. When it comes to quitting your day job, getting out of the 9-5 Jesse could do that but he's one of the rare birds that likes his job.
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Sharon is a mom of 3 and has made a living building and selling niche sites for years.
She doesn't hold back on her recipe to do the same and has all kinds of free information on her site, Digital Nomad Wannabe, on how to create and sell niche sites.
This episode is great for people not sure exactly what they want to start doing besides just knowing it's time to quit their jobs or 9-5s any way they can
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The Rist Roller is like a foam roller but for your wrist. The success has led her to create other projects with her time.
In this episode we go through going from idea to getting smaples from manufacturers and how to do so for free.
We also go through how Jessika was able to create a product that was able to sell itself. If you are able to find the customers in your niche and reach them, they'll buy it, it's a Field of Dreams situation
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Jon Sherman created practical golf as a way to provide a complete guide for any level of golfer looking to improve their game. After some time the website grew into what is now the de facto place to go for new golfers, and has parlayed that into a high selling book, 101 Mistakes All Golfers Make (and how to fix them), with another one on the way. In this episode we go through what it's like to build an audience and monetize it through different means. Most importantly, Jon quick his day job along the way and no longer has to work the 9-5
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Garret and Sabrina of I Know Dino spend their time doing what they love, talking about dinosaurs.
After starting the podcast they quit their jobs and now do it full time. In this episode we talk about how to start a podcast. Creative ways to promote your podcast. How to shortcut growth and not waste time by finding your peers and doing cross promotion.
Garret and Sabrina now have a patreon, bonus episodes, merch, and also teach others how to do the same!
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Kelly Belknap and his wife Mathilda were selling backpacks as a side hustle until they realized that the high markups were enough for them to create a backpack company of their own.
Kelly talks about how he got Adventurist Backpack Co off the ground with almost no capital and how they've since grown to selling almost 7 thousand backpacks and providing over 171 thousand meals to people in need.
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Welcome to another episode of How to Quit Your Day Job, where we interview successful entrepreneurs who built their own life from scratch away from the 9-5 job.
Marcus Harvey acquired the @Portland Instagram handle and used that to build the @Portland Gear brand over the years.
We talk with Marcus to hear exactly what made him successful and having the likes of Damian Lillard wearing his Portland Gear brand.
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Tune in every week for a new episode of How To Quit Your Day Job where we interview people who successfully quit the 9-5 and found their own path to freedom, whether it be creating a new product, real estate, gathering a large following or any other type of side hustle you can imagine. We talk to people from all walks of life and get into the details of what made their specific project successful.
