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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to think through the one dollar challenge.

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Speaker 1: What could you do to earn an extra one thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars over the course of the next few days. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying you actually have to come up with the cash,

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Speaker 1: but knowing how you would can put you in a

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Speaker 1: different mindset about your finances. I'm taking this challenge from

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Speaker 1: my friend Chris Gilboe's brand new book, The Money Tree.

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Speaker 1: Chris runs the daily podcast side Hustle School and has

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Speaker 1: helped countless people figure out how to make some extra

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Speaker 1: money on the side doing things that are a little

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Speaker 1: different from their main job. The Money Tree is a

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Speaker 1: fable about a young man named Jake who's feeling broke

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Speaker 1: and unhappy until he learns to take charge of his

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Speaker 1: own financial future. I enjoyed reading The Money Tree for

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Speaker 1: the story, but one of my favorite parts was the

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Speaker 1: challenges that a mysterious guru helps Jake set for himself.

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Speaker 1: One of those challenges is to come up with a

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars before the next time they meet. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you're accustomed to earning a set salary, as Jake in

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Speaker 1: this case is magically coming up with an extra one

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars might seem a little crazy, but, as the

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Speaker 1: guru tells Jake, if you can figure out how to

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Speaker 1: make a thousand dollars, you can probably figure out how

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Speaker 1: to make more. And figuring out that first one thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars can teach you different ways of thinking. So Jake

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Speaker 1: stumbles through a few ideas and figures out that he

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Speaker 1: might resell textbooks as one way to generate a little

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Speaker 1: bit of extra cash. But regardless of Jake's tentative approaches

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Speaker 1: and their role in this plot, I think this is

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Speaker 1: a good exercise for anyone trying to feel more in

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Speaker 1: control of their lives. I'm not sure it's wise to

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Speaker 1: ever be completely dependent on one employer for a paycheck,

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Speaker 1: though I know I may be in the minority feeling

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Speaker 1: that way. When you know you can make more money

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Speaker 1: when you need to, you can be more relaxed in

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Speaker 1: general and operate from a place of abundance. So how

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Speaker 1: could you make an extra one dollars in this era

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Speaker 1: of the gig economy? Driving delivery runs for Uber Eats

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Speaker 1: or door Dash or such places as one approach, and

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Speaker 1: certainly a more accessible way to turn time into cash

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Speaker 1: than people had in the past. But that's far from

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Speaker 1: the only option. As Chris puts it in his book,

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Speaker 1: everyone's an expert at something one way or another. You

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Speaker 1: have acquired a lot of valuable knowledge throughout your life.

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Speaker 1: Something you already know about can be turned into cash.

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Speaker 1: You just need to figure out how to do it

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Speaker 1: for you. Maybe it's writing or editing. Maybe it's design.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's helping to curate people's closets or giving feedback

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Speaker 1: on presentations. Maybe it's helping people run online sales or

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Speaker 1: designing webinars. Maybe it's working with real estate agents to

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Speaker 1: stage yards for open houses. Maybe it's time management coaching,

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Speaker 1: or helping high school students with physics, or helping newbie

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Speaker 1: landlords create apartment listings. I have no idea what your

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Speaker 1: skills might be, but think about how you can turn

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Speaker 1: an idea into a service that people would pay for.

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Speaker 1: How would you find these people, how could you convince

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Speaker 1: them to give it a whirl. Now I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: that you're going to make a thousand dollars this weekend. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: right now, with much of the world on lockdown. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be a lot harder to do this than

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Speaker 1: at other points, but at least think this question through.

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Speaker 1: Think how you might try to plan it out, talk

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Speaker 1: about it with friends, and get feedback. When you have

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Speaker 1: a reasonable answer, you'll feel differently about life in general, because, again,

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Speaker 1: as Chris points out, if you can figure out how

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Speaker 1: to make a thousand dollars, you can figure out how

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Speaker 1: to make more, and then you'll know that whatever happens

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Speaker 1: at work, whatever happens in this uncertain economy, you'll probably

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Speaker 1: be okay. That's a liberating way to approach time in life.

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Speaker 1: So today, think about this one tho dollar challenge from

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Speaker 1: the book The Money Tree. How could you make one

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars on the side or if you have made

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Speaker 1: a thousand dollars from a side hustle, I'd love to

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Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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