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A teacher turns his love of sports memorabilia into a reselling business that generates about $8,000 per month between teaching contracts.…

A Seattle medical examiner uses house/pet sitting gigs to fund travel from Seattle to New York and ultimately retire early, monetising…

After a stressful divorce, a social worker and mom starts by selling cupcakes at a local market and grows it into a sustainable food…

A Christmas-themed story about a London clerk who hires three people to haunt his employer in order to collect owed wages for medicine for…

An advertising art director discovered a niche in puppet fabrics and built a new career selling materials and products to puppeteers. It is…

An Australian communications strategist built an online memorial service that earns about $250,000 a year. The product lets families create…

An actor turned a creative outlet into a profitable side hustle earning at least $3,000 a month. The exact product isn't described beyond a…

A Wall Street banker left finance to launch an organic-superfood snack brand that eventually became a new career. The episode tracks the…

A self-described 'middle class dad' runs a parenting-advice blog that brings in about $2,000/month in passive income. The episode focuses…

A former product manager saw an opening in importing specialty car parts and built a reselling business around them. The hustle is…

Two banking professionals noticed business news sites weren't written for millennials and built their own news brand tailored to that…

A mental health counsellor runs a side hustle making and selling headbands that produces about $3,000 a month. It is a hand-made…

A self-described collector started buying used guitars cheaply and reselling them, building a flipping side hustle that earns more than…

A self-taught developer who disliked formal computer science lectures built a series of friendly coding tutorials aimed at people learning…

A Fortune 500 employee built a custom rack to store his wakeboards and, over nine years, grew that invention into a multimillion-dollar…

A mom and educator built a card game to help parents teach kids to recognise and handle emotions, branded around the idea of taking a…

A movie editor who had been making webcomics since 2003 turned that hobby into a $10,000-per-event business around 19th-century art. The…

A stay-at-home mom who relocated from Canada to Tennessee started an online farmers market that delivers produce to more than 200 homes per…

A director at a non-profit college of music runs an e-commerce site selling greeting cards with unusual niches, including cards…

Two financial traders applied their quantitative skills to the diamond industry with an algorithm that drives affiliate commissions of…

A group of friends tapped into the Korean face-mask trend by launching a subscription box around skincare products. The episode covers…

A runner and industrial designer set out to build dress shoes that look good and perform athletically, aiming for a $1 million milestone.…

This special feature profiles an illustrator who designed a line of animal-print glassware. The description focuses on the artist's work…

A short host monologue updating listeners on the Side Hustle School show itself: what's coming next, a personal regret, and a hint about…