Pep Talks For Side Hustlers

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! Today I’m sharing with you another tool you can use to fall back in love with your day job so that you have the energy to put into your side hustle and so you don’t make any desperate moves that could leave you feeling more stressed and in a bad position financially. So, you know how if you’re having a bad day or something negative is occuring in your life and someone says to you, “Just look on the bright side,” or “You’ll get through it,” or “You just gotta work through it.” and your thinking to yourself, okay, easy for you to say, but HOW? If you’re anything like me, you can’t just change how you feel on a whim. But, you CAN change how you feel. You are in total control of it. I went through most of my life not realizing I was in total control of how I felt and I jus

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! Today we’re talking about ways we can fall in love with our day job again – but before we dive in, let’s talk about a few reasons why we might want to stay at our day job as long as possible while building our side hustle. First and foremost, our day job provides us with a steady paycheck, and when we have that steady money coming in, we have more freedom in our side hustle to experiment, to make mistakes and make calculated risks. We have the time we need to build a strong foundation in our business, one that’s going to be able to support us financially without draining us emotionally. And we also get the time to decide if owning our own business is right for us – because it’s not right for everyone. It’s a huge benefit to you to have the safety net of a day job to fal

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! Today we’re talking about how being a great employee at your day job can be a huge benefit to your side hustle. So if you’re a normal human being, there are days when you’re at work and you’re just not feeling it. It’s hard to stay focused and be productive, and you’re just distracted. And that’s totally normal. Everyone goes through that from time to time, whether we’ve got something going on in our personal life, maybe we didn’t sleep well, whatever. But it becomes a problem when we find that our performance is dragging more often than not. That can happen when we don’t like what we do for a living. Maybe we have a stressful work environment, maybe we don’t gel with the people we work with. Maybe the work we get paid to do isn’t aligned with our core genius. Maybe we h

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! Today we’re talking about the path to quitting your day job. If you’re starting your own business because you want the freedom, flexibility and financial independence that comes with being your own boss, then I want you to know that it’s totally possible. It takes time, patience and action, but it’s possible. Today I’m going to share with you what the path to quitting my day job looked like for me, and some key takeaways for you as you start on this path. From the very first day that I decided to start a side hustle, I believed that it was possible for me to turn it into my full time job. I’ve never been so sure about anything in my life. I mean, sure, I’ve wanted things before, like to lose the 30 extra pounds I’ve been carrying around with me ever since I can remember.

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! Today we’re talking about the impact of your side hustle on your relationships. When I first started my side hustle, as I’ve mentioned in earlier pep talks, I was doing freelance web design outside of work. It was summer time, and I would come home from work and open up my laptop and start working on client projects, and at first my husband was totally fine with it. He was doing his thing – golf league, outdoor projects, whatever. Before long, my work started to take over. We would go out with friends every Wednesday night, and instead of going with him at the same time, I would work for a couple of hours and then show up later. Before long, every weekend I was stressing out about what plans we had because I needed to make sure I had enough time to get client projects do

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! So yesterday, I shared with you why I think it’s better for people with a full time job to create a side hustle that sells their knowledge and expertise rather than their time, and then I asked you to think about a couple of things to help you figure out what you have to offer and who you want to help. If you missed that, you can find it over at www.peptalksforsidehustlers.com/10 Today, I’m going to give you the basic steps of how this type of side hustle actually works. So the basic steps are 1) build a website 2) find your audience online 3) build an email list 4) build a relationship with your subscribers 5) turn your expertise into income So let’s break it down: The reason you build a website is to establish yourself as an expert on your topic. It’s your online hom

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! Today we’re talking about strategies for creating a side hustle that fits into your busy schedule. So if you’re anything like me when I first started my side hustle, you’re working full time and you need to work full time. You have obligations, and you’re not in a position to just leave that steady paycheck – but you also want to do something you love for a living. You know it’s going to take you some time to get there, a couple years even, so you don’t want to burn yourself out and alienate your friends and family because you’re working all the time. Yes, I did that in the beginning, and it was not fun, and I’ll tell you all about it on another pep talk. So you could create a side hustle where you’re freelancing, doing one-on-one work for clients, but I can tell you fro

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! So when I first started my side hustle, I felt like I was living a double life at work. I stopped going to lunch with people because I was spending that time on my side hustle. My social interactions with people changed because when they’d say, “Hey Shannon, how was your weekend, what did you do?” I’d be all weird and cagey about it because I didn’t want to tell anyone that I spent it working on this side business. And honestly, it felt super weird. I started my side hustle because I wasn’t in love with my job, and keeping this big secret was creating an ever bigger divide. And it was even more noticeable because it was a really small company with only about 20 people in the office, and we all knew each other pretty well. So, it was stressful. My ultimate goal was to gro

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! When I first heard the term “Passive Income” I thought about it as something only rich people could create with real estate and stock market investments. And considering that the lack of money was always an issue in our house growing up, I never really believe that it was possible for normal people like me to not have to struggle to make money. Only rich people swim through their piles of money that they made from “passive income”. Or that passive income is some scheme that slimy internet marketers use to try to get rich quick – and by the way, if you’re looking to create a side hustle that’s going to get you rich quick, this isn’t the place for you! But what I discovered is that passive income is a really, really powerful tool for us side hustlers to be able to bring mo

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! One of the biggest struggles I hear from people who want to build a business on the side but work full time is finding the TIME, and I struggled with this too. I’m married, we don’t have kids, but I had a pretty demanding job with long hours before I built my side hustle up big enough to quit my day job. There were many times in that first year that I just felt overwhelmed and stressed out. It felt like I had so much work to do in my side hustle and I just didn’t know where I was going to fit it in. And that’s kindof how I did things – I would just do whatever was top of mind when I had a moment of time. And I felt I was on a neverending treadmill, constantly running but getting nowhere. It wasn’t until I was able to put a few habits in place around my time that I starte

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! IMAGINE THIS: You wake up to the blaring of an alarm and after hitting snooze a couple of times, you begrudgingly get out of bed and head straight to the coffee pot for that first cup, the only thing that’s going to make this morning bearable. You’re standing in your kitchen, checking your email while sipping that warm coffee, and a sense of dread just hits you. You really, really don’t want to go into the office today. You can’t quite put your finger on it, but there’s just a sense of dread that overcomes you when you think about getting in your car, sitting in morning rush hour traffic and arriving at work to spend your day doing a job that drains and exhausts you, sitting in rush hour traffic again and having just a few free hours until it starts all over again. What

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! What you believe plays a huge part in whether or not you’ll find success with your side hustle online. I’ve helped over 5,000 people build their websites for their online businesses, and through helping them, I’ve there are four common beliefs that people have about themselves that hold them back from finding success. Belief #1 – You’re not techie enough to build an online business. So, there’s no such thing as being “techie”. Yes, if you’re going to build a business online, there’s tech involved. There’s no way around it! But it’s not like you’re NOT techie, and everyone else out there understands something that you don’t. The only difference between someone who is “techie” and someone who isn’t is PERSISTENCE. Do you give up when you hit one roadblock, or do you keep l

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! Today we’re talking about what it really means when you feel resistance to an idea. Has someone ever shared an idea with you or given you advice, and you feel major resistance to it? Like, a physical feeling where maybe your chest tightens and you get really uncomfortable and you just want to stop talking about it? Like when you think about putting your first blog post online for the world to see. Or making a video. Or recording your voice for a podcast. Or even scarier, going live on Facebook or instagram. I used to think feeling resistance was a red flag, that it meant something was a bad idea, but what I’ve come to realize is that when I feel resistance, my shield is up and I’m trying to protect my blind spots. I’m trying to be right. I’m trying to stay in control, to

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! This week we’re talking about whether or not you should start a side hustle, and today’s topic is freedom. So, what does freedom mean to you? Depending on your answer, a side hustle may or may not be right for you! When it comes to freedom, it’s meant different things to me over the years. When I turned 16, freedom meant working at the ice cream shop as much as I possibly could to save enough money to buy a car – to drive myself to school and to work! For most of my life, freedom meant having a job so that I could afford a car and rent. I had security. I didn’t have to worry about where my next paycheck was coming from. I could take comfort in a predictable work schedule, be responsible and follow all the corporate rules and be corporate Shannon when I was on the clock,

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! This week we’re talking about whether or not you should start a side hustle, and today’s topic is motivation. So are you self motivated? Do you need someone to tell you exactly what to do or are you willing to take charge and figure it out? Are you willing to dig in and research and learn what you need to learn to accomplish a task? Or are you waiting for someone to tell you how to do everything? So I’m guessing if you subscribed to my Flash Briefings, then you are the kind of person that is going to figure it out. You’re not the kind of person who waits around for someone to tell you what to do are you. You’re a doer, an action taker, and you won’t stop until you’ve reached your goal. If that sounds like you, then starting a side hustle so that you can work towards quit

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! This week we’re talking about whether or not you should start a side hustle, and today’s topic is money. Can you make enough money from a side hustle to replace your day job income? The answer to that question is yes, absolutely, and the reason that I know is because I’ve actually done it! Three years ago. I started a side hustle teaching entrepreneurs how to build their own websites with WordPress and then I grew it big enough to where I could replace my day job income and take my side hustle full time. The way I was able to do that was not by trading my time for money building websites for people one on one – but by creating different streams of passive income and building an audience online. So if that’s something that you’re interested in doing, then you’re going to