The Side Hustle Show
Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation | YAP Media
The entrepreneurship podcast you can actually apply! The award-winning small business show covers creative ways to make money online and offline, including online business, side gigs, freelancing, marketing, sales funnels, investing, and much more. Join 100,000+ listeners and get legit business ideas and passive income strategies straight to your earbuds. No BS, just actionable tips on how to start and grow your side hustle. Hosted by Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation.
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Mar 26, 2026 • 42min
730: $1,000 a Month with Passive Digital Products
Chelsea Shelton, a former elementary teacher turned digital products seller and coach, built a $1k+/month Etsy shop selling printables. She talks about finding in-demand products before designing, niche and seasonal strategies that drive recurring sales, listing and image tactics that increase clicks, and repurposing items across platforms for more passive income.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 1h
Etsy Printables: $10,000 a Month Selling Digital Products on Etsy (Greatest Hits)
Rachel Jones, creator of MoneyHackingMama who built a large passive-income shop selling printable downloads while raising a family. She shares how to find profitable niches, use tools like eRank and Canva, optimize listings and images, leverage ads and social traffic, scale with outsourcing, and adapt products with trends and AI.
Mar 19, 2026 • 40min
729: $500,000 in Hamster Ball Sales? How a College Student Brought a New Product to Life
Ethan Haber, founder of Happy Habitats who reinvented the hamster ball while in college. He talks about spotting a market gap, partnering with designers, navigating patents and manufacturing, surviving COVID shipping chaos, cracking retail and Amazon, and landing big-box distribution through smart outreach and packaging changes.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 20min
728: $28k Hanging Balloons, $115k/mo Selling Spreadsheets, the 6-Figure AI Monk, and More
A roundup of five inventive money-makers, from luxury kids rentals and high-grind balloon party services to a nostalgic physical phone product that went viral. They explore a lucrative Google Sheets template business and the rise of a synthetic AI influencer selling e-books. Quick takes cover pricing, logistics, niche marketing, and ethical questions around AI-created personas.
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Mar 12, 2026 • 44min
727: $250/hr by Productizing Your Expertise
Jim Lashbaugh, a retired firefighter who turned house-flipping permitting know-how into SynergyPermits, explains how he productized a niche skill. He describes finding clients through networks, shifting from hourly to flat-value pricing, building referral pipelines with partners, and closing deals by relieving clients of a painful task. Practical, unglamorous strategies for turning specific experience into reliable income.
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Mar 9, 2026 • 41min
The 6-Figure Side Hustle Cleaning Up Parking Lots (Greatest Hits)
Vladimir Hernandez, founder of LitterFreeLots.nyc who turned a weekend litter-pickup side hustle into a six-figure recurring business. He shares how he found the idea, landed property-manager contracts, priced work and timed jobs, built a subcontractor team, and scaled to multiple lots while adding extra services and systems for billing and growth.
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Mar 5, 2026 • 51min
726: The $300/day Marketing Funnel: From Content to Cash Flow
Brian Feroldi, financial educator and author of Why Does the Stock Market Go Up?, built LongTermMindset.co and a content-to-cash marketing funnel. He breaks down choosing one platform, using a $7 tripwire and email/webinar sequences, and structuring a $200 core offer into $7 and $27 steps. He also explains tech, content rhythms, and scaling to consistent $300/day revenue.
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Feb 26, 2026 • 44min
725: How One Mom’s Laundry Side Hustle Turned into an $12M Business
Susan Toft, founder of LaundryLady.com, turned a new-mom pain point into a global mobile laundry business. She talks about starting solo with van pickups, hiring contractors and building booking tech, landing a $1M Shark Tank investment, and expanding into new countries. Short, practical stories about scaling service operations and creating a recurring local business.
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Feb 23, 2026 • 45min
724: The Path to $250k+ Per Year: The State of Solopreneurship in 2026
Adriana Tica, strategic marketer and author of the State of Solopreneurship report, runs marketing and copywriting agencies and the Strategic AF newsletter. She discusses owned vs borrowed channels, why email still outperforms social, the typical timeline to reach six figures, using services to inform product ideas, and why workshops and targeted newsletters convert best.
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Feb 19, 2026 • 53min
How to Start a Billboard Business: $30k a Month Part-Time (Greatest Hits)
Chris Brown, billboard owner and entrepreneur behind Signs of Good and wantmore.org, built a 30-sign local portfolio and retired early. He talks about finding and buying signs, choosing locations and structures, leasing land, pricing ad faces, and how the business scales and runs with minimal weekly time.
