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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: This week we've been talking about lots of money related topics.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is about how to make time for a

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Speaker 1: side hustle. A side hustle is something you do to

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Speaker 1: make money on the side, meaning in addition to your

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Speaker 1: day job. People do this for lots of reasons. Me

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Speaker 1: plenty of people could use more cash, but a side

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Speaker 1: hustle can also be a way to pursue a passion

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Speaker 1: or use skills that don't fit so neatly into a

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Speaker 1: salaried benefit providing box. If you're interested in the wide

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Speaker 1: variety of side hustles out there, be sure to check

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Speaker 1: out the podcast Side Hustlers with my friend Carla Marie

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Speaker 1: or Side Hustle School, hosted by my friend Chris Gulabo.

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Speaker 1: Chris also has a new book out called a Hundred

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Speaker 1: Side Hustles, which is filled with inspirational ideas. People lead

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Speaker 1: scooter tours, urban hikes, They create morning routine journals, or

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Speaker 1: even saddles for pet chickens. Seriously, if you put your

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Speaker 1: mind to it, I'm sure you can come up with

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Speaker 1: something you are interested in that somebody is willing to

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Speaker 1: pay for. But then once you've got the idea, this

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Speaker 1: leads to a question that's relevant for this podcast. When

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Speaker 1: are you going to find the time? The honest truth

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Speaker 1: is that you're never going to find the time. You

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Speaker 1: have to make the time. But in a hundred sixty

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Speaker 1: eight hours a week, there is definitely time to build

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Speaker 1: a side hustle in addition to your nine to five.

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Speaker 1: This is true even if you have a family or

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Speaker 1: other responsibilities. The first step, and this is always the

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Speaker 1: first step, is to track your time. You want to

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Speaker 1: get a really good sense of the rhythms of your life.

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Speaker 1: When do you usually wake up, When do you leave

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Speaker 1: for work, When do you get home? What do you

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Speaker 1: do then? What do you do after your kids go

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Speaker 1: to bed? What do you do on weekends? What time

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Speaker 1: do you wake up? And what has to happen and

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Speaker 1: what doesn't. Then you need to figure out how much

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Speaker 1: time would be reasonable to devote to your side hustle.

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Speaker 1: The good news here is that you don't need to

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Speaker 1: find forty hours a week. Then it would basically be

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Speaker 1: your main job. Chris tells me that the amount of

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Speaker 1: time people spend on their side hustle varies widely by

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Speaker 1: the project and the person, but generally, he says, consistent

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Speaker 1: effort on the right things, even in small chunks, can

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Speaker 1: go a long way towards boosting those odds of success.

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Speaker 1: Even twenty minutes a day with the plan and mind

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Speaker 1: in advance, combined with half a weekend day, can be

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Speaker 1: enough in the long run. As he studied the schedules

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Speaker 1: of people who have written into him, he's found that

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Speaker 1: it's common for people who work full time to spend

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Speaker 1: about an hour or so a day on their projects

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Speaker 1: Monday to Thursday, and then maybe a little more time

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Speaker 1: on the weekends. If you can consistently find seven hours

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Speaker 1: a week, you'll be in good company. So look at

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Speaker 1: your schedule considering the whole of your week, then think

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Speaker 1: about your energy levels and logistics. For many people with

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Speaker 1: jobs and families, early mornings are good side hustle time.

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Speaker 1: Turn off the TV a bit earlier at night, go

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Speaker 1: to bed earlier, and wake up an hour earlier than

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Speaker 1: you might four days a week. Use those four hours

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Speaker 1: to move your project forward. Of course, if your kids

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Speaker 1: wake up at the crack of dawn, or you're not

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Speaker 1: a morning person, then early mornings might not work for you.

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Speaker 1: One option is to choose one evening to go somewhere

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Speaker 1: like a coffee shop or the library. You might be

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Speaker 1: able to work from six to ten pm on your business.

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Speaker 1: And yes, that's going to feel like a really long

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Speaker 1: day on top of your regular job, and you might

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Speaker 1: need extra kid coverage, but it's only one day a week.

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Speaker 1: You can power through knowing you can then relax on

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Speaker 1: your other evenings. Weekends are always an option, and if

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Speaker 1: your side hustling, working on weekends is somewhat inevitable, but

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Speaker 1: you can do it with an eye toward preserving family

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Speaker 1: or leisure time even as you're getting stuff done. A

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Speaker 1: great option is to choose one weekend morning to get

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Speaker 1: up early, basically as if it were a week day.

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Speaker 1: You can get a ton done between six and nine am.

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Speaker 1: If you've got teenagers, this is basically time that doesn't

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Speaker 1: even exist to them. You can still have time to

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Speaker 1: relax or get a workout in before anyone starts stirring.

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Speaker 1: With littler kids, you might opt to use mid afternoon

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Speaker 1: nap time or quiet time for your side hustle, or

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Speaker 1: if you're co parenting with someone, you might reach an

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Speaker 1: agreement on coverage. But in any case, if you worked

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Speaker 1: four hours on Tuesday nights and three hours on Saturday mornings,

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Speaker 1: you'd be devoting seven hours a week to your side hustle,

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Speaker 1: even though you're only really stretching your schedule two days

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Speaker 1: a week. Of course, with a limited time frame like that,

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Speaker 1: it's very important to be intentional with your side hustle hours.

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Speaker 1: You need to focus on what best moves the business forward,

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Speaker 1: rather than spending all seven hours answering emails. But there

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Speaker 1: are a hundred sixty eight hours in a week. If

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Speaker 1: you work forty and sleep eight hours a night, so

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Speaker 1: fifty six per week, that leaves seventy two hours for

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Speaker 1: other things. Devoting seven to a side hustle still leave

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Speaker 1: space for the rest of life. If it's important to you,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely doable. If you've got a side hustle, I'd

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Speaker 1: love to hear when you make it happen. You can

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Speaker 1: email me at Before Breakfast podcast at i heeart media

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Speaker 1: dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with

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