Experiential / themed events business

Episode #1969 follows the founder of StartPlaying.Games, a marketplace connecting companies with professional dungeon masters for private tabletop RPG events.

Chris and Michael Girdley pitch foreign-language YouTube channels made with ElevenLabs voice cloning as one of several AI-assisted media and novelty business ideas.

Sam Parr and Shaan Puri include bulk custom gifts in a list of novelty/event-oriented ideas, suggesting a niche ordering flow for schools, faith organizations, or local service businesses.

A software engineer returns to an old photo scavenger hunt idea and grows it into a recurring side hustle. The episode traces how a one-time game concept evolved into a repeatable event business.

Video covers If People Pay for This, Your Idea Will Work Too.

Side Hustle School profiles a mystery enthusiast running a mailed-clue 'detective-for-hire' subscription with weekly reveals, an experiential participation-based game.

Video covers The Most Profitable Side Hustle You've Never Heard Of.

Summer Ray runs SomaluMin, a mobile aura photography service producing $5,000 weekends by partnering with yoga shops and gyms for ticketed pop-up sessions at $44 each.

Video covers $1K a Day From This Simple Side Hustle (Here’s How to Copy It).

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Video covers How to Make $60k per Weekend with an Auto Fair.

An academic advisor in Washington, DC started a profitable karaoke league combining entrepreneurial skills with his love of singing, illustrating a hobby-league business model that builds both income and community.

Episode #128 profiles a Boston event planner who designed a competitive scavenger hunt game that became a six-figure business. Participants pay to join themed hunts across the city, monetized via tickets.

A former temp worker in London launches ticketed guided chocolate-tasting walking tours through the city's chocolate shops.

Episode #284 profiles two New York City event planners who build a dessert-themed festival series, monetizing an underserved sweets event category through ticket sales.

A former government contractor runs a flash-mob proposal choreography business that earned $450,000 last year, as high-ticket themed event service.

The episode profiles a woman who ran paint-and-sip birthday parties as a side hustle, earning around $2,000 per event. It covers turning a casual birthday idea into a steady themed-events gig.

Two Boston training managers who saw little diversity in their local art scene launch a for-profit paint-party and multicultural arts space. The Side Hustle School episode follows them from idea to event-driven business.

Episode #990 features an Atlanta lawyer who builds a walking food-tour business into a multiple-six-figure annual operation. The episode presents guided food tours as a ticketed tourism experience rather than a themed paint-and-sip or escape-room style event.

Two professional musicians and new moms start a series of family-friendly classical music concerts as a recurring live-event business. The episode shows how expertise and parenting inspired the themed event format.

A couple wanting more time with their kids started running custom-guided paint parties, taking signage and instruction to clients' homes or rented spaces.

A Texas event planner built a side business earning at least $2,000 a month, including a floor-to-ceiling display of hundreds of bananas at one early event. The segment covers her path into creative event installations.

The episode features a California mushroom cultivator who hit her first $1,000 supplying gourmet and medicinal mushrooms to the local community while hosting Funghi Feasts events.

Video covers I Won A $10,000 Bet Against MrBeast... Then This Happened (#416).

Video covers How Walt Disney Turned Disneyland Into A $3.8 Billion/Year Empire.

A Tennessee marketing consultant runs a quarterly, high-end retreat weekend helping attendees take stock of their lives and businesses, focusing on positioning and pricing.

Episode #100 profiles a New York City man who built his own branded museum tour business from an idea born on a forgettable date, growing it to roughly $2 million in revenue. The model is differentiated, paid walking tours of cultural institutions.

A managerial accountant in Dubai runs poetry slams and writing workshops, earning about $1,000/month. The episode covers event ticket and workshop revenue from a themed live-events side hustle.

Failure Friday #2225 follows a scavenger-hunt side hustle operator whose corporate event booking collapsed when rain hit, illustrating how fragile ticketed themed events can be.

The episode profiles an Alberta man who runs paid wilderness hikes and tours weaving in indigenous knowledge, hitting his first $1,000 by charging per-person rates for small group experiences.

Side Hustle School's Failure Friday features Nate Martin, founder of Puzzle Break, America's original escape room, recounting a failed early expansion into San Francisco despite the brand now operating worldwide.

Two friends in LA combine their cultural food heritages into pop-up dinner events built around a rectangular format as a themed dining side hustle.