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After winning $100,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, a couple launches a subscription box business featuring natural hair care products…

A product manager suffering back pain from desk work designs and sells a laptop stand that raises screens to eye level. The episode covers…

A scientist and an engineer, tired of corporate life, open a healthy food bowl stall called Unbelieva-Bowl. The episode covers their pivot…

Introvert Rosie Sherry built the Ministry of Testing community into a $1.2MM/year business with no advertising, while homeschooling five…

A corporate publicist starts doing freelance fashion-related work on the side, then gets laid off and grows that freelance hustle into a…

A former White House aide who was good at networking asks whether he can teach that skill for money, and builds a course or service around…

A man goes from unemployed to a day job, then from side hustler to millionaire in five years by funneling 80% of his income into…

Two Delaware college students start a business placing ads on roughly 450,000 private cars, paying drivers up to $500 per month, and…

A mother and her young 'kidpreneur' daughter invent a double-face, double-snap barrette to solve the problem of hair bows that disappear,…

An engineer who lives in a 180 sq ft Airstream travels the country while teaching personal finance through online courses and content. The…

Ben Orenstein and two co-founders come up with an idea, sell $8,000+ in pre-orders, hit ramen profitability and only then launch Tuple, a…

An energy scientist spends six months designing an indoor gardening unit and raises $226,542 on Kickstarter to bring it to production. The…

A Colorado transplant and EPA employee who wanted an eco-friendly, no-added-sugar energy bar invents his own 'energy bites,' which are now…

A graphic designer pursues his lifelong interest in magic and becomes the resident magician at a local bar, performing regular paid shows.…

A Canadian juice bar owner launches a second business around a heavy-weight product: weighted blankets. The episode covers diversifying an…

A short announcement that the host's new book '100 Side Hustles' is available in bookstores and online, with a 14-city national tour. There…

A graphic designer who wanted to travel the world ends up settling into a new line of work: leading paid guided sailing tours. The episode…

After learning about a little-known vinyl record pressing technique, a high school teacher turns his hobby into a full-time business. The…

An Austin transplant begins a blog covering the city's craft breweries, and the project grows from hobby to a side business that now earns…

Chad Pytel has run consultancy thoughtbot for 15 years and grown it to a 100-person firm on pace for ~$20MM in revenue, while also shipping…

A full-time second grade teacher who recently got married starts a wedding planning business, drawing on the organizational skills she…

A flea-market enthusiast turned her love of thrifting into a curated flea market inside Dallas shopping malls. The episode covers pop-up…

A mechanical engineer developed her own fatty (tallow-based) skincare line after failing to find products she liked on store shelves. The…

Two friends launched bat houses as a natural alternative to pesticides after the Zika scare, working to make bat-based pest control…