Speaker 1: Every free second, you're probably going to have to use
Speaker 1: that for your side hustle. Like like I said, side
Speaker 1: hustles are not for fainthearted. It's you're working before work,
Speaker 1: during lunchtime, after work, and you just have to make
Speaker 1: it happen. Welcome back to the Rise and Conquer Podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Georgie Stevenson, former lawyer turned entrepreneur, social
Speaker 1: media personality and personal development junkie. This podcast is for
Speaker 1: my girl gang who want to feed their mind with
Speaker 1: positive and expansive thoughts to help them step into their
Speaker 1: power and live their most authentic life, which hat a
Speaker 1: variety of topics including mindset, business, relationships, health, and so
Speaker 1: much more. Basically, wherever you are on your journey, I
Speaker 1: want to help you feel inspired and howard to rise
Speaker 1: up and conquer your next bold move. I know that's
Speaker 1: going to look different for everyone, but just no, I'm
Speaker 1: right here by your side and that you have the
Speaker 1: RNC community behind you.
Speaker 2: Let's do this.
Speaker 1: Hello and welcome back to the Rise and Conquer Podcast.
Speaker 1: It is your host, Georgie Stevenson. My voice might sound
Speaker 1: a bit like kind of croaky because it's early in
Speaker 1: the morning.
Speaker 2: I supposedly.
Speaker 1: I'm not sick. Maybe I've got a bit of hay fever.
Speaker 1: But it is quite early in the morning on the Thursday,
Speaker 1: so you guys will hear this on the Friday. But
Speaker 1: I have a big day at the NH warehouse. So
Speaker 1: I'm recording this and getting this done. Then I'm going
Speaker 1: to quickly get ready and then Cooper's picking me up
Speaker 1: because I'm currently carpooling. So, as you guys probably know,
Speaker 1: probably like a month ago now, oh wait, so probably
Speaker 1: like three weeks ago, my car got stolen and they
Speaker 1: found it the next morning. It wasn't stolen for very long,
Speaker 1: but the kids who stole it, they smashed a side
Speaker 1: mirror and so there wasn't too much other damage. It
Speaker 1: was very lucky in that regards, and we found it,
Speaker 1: but they, yeah, they smashed a side mirror. And so
Speaker 1: my my little cars getting fixed.
Speaker 2: And so my car is from Germany, and so.
Speaker 1: They literally had it for three weeks and nothing much
Speaker 1: has been done because they're waiting on parts from Germany.
Speaker 1: And he's like, look, it's probably not going to be
Speaker 1: to the end of the month. And I'm with sun Corp.
Speaker 1: And they only gave me a higher car for twenty
Speaker 1: one days and then they're like, after that, you have
Speaker 1: to pay for it, and it was like one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars a day, and I was like, look,
Speaker 1: I only really go to the warehouse, which I can
Speaker 1: usually car pool with, you know, my husband Tim or
Speaker 1: my brother Cooper or Mel and then anything else, like
Speaker 1: I can probably just uber and it's going to be
Speaker 1: less than one hundred and fifty dollars, So I am
Speaker 1: going to be car pulling. And oh yeah, also Cooper
Speaker 1: goes away on holidays next week, so I'll be able
Speaker 1: to use his car.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Long story short is, I'm in this new reality where
Speaker 1: I have to be on everyone else's time, not my
Speaker 1: own time. So I've got to quickly get ready so
Speaker 1: Cooper can pick me up and I can go with
Speaker 1: him before our meeting this morning.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna quickly do this episode. And this episode is.
Speaker 1: Going to be about Side Hustles. I feel like I've
Speaker 1: definitely spoken about my story with Side Hustles, and you know,
Speaker 1: you've probably heard it in various podcasts, but I've never
Speaker 1: dedicated a whole episode. And you know, my solo podcasts
Speaker 1: are usually short and sweet so it's not going to
Speaker 1: be anything too crazy, but I did want to dedicate
Speaker 1: a whole episode to this because honestly, anyone who has
Speaker 1: a side hustle, I just I feel you.
Speaker 2: I see you.
Speaker 1: It Like now, looking back, when I had a you know,
Speaker 1: was doing my side hustle and working a full time
Speaker 1: nine to five job, it was definitely like the most busiest,
Speaker 1: the most rewarding, hardest times of my life. So anyone
Speaker 1: out there who's got a side hustle while they're working
Speaker 1: full time or you know, being a mom full time
Speaker 1: or studying full time, yeah, I see you. And just
Speaker 1: first of all, big congratulations, a big clap on the back,
Speaker 1: because yeah, holy shit, it was like one of the
Speaker 1: hardest times of my life. So I'll quickly give you
Speaker 1: a brief story.
Speaker 2: About me and my side hustle.
Speaker 1: So have some I guess a bit of a concept,
Speaker 1: but I and my heights my side hustle is like
Speaker 1: a little bit different because it was my so social media,
Speaker 1: but that's still a side hustle because you know, I
Speaker 1: used to charge brands, I used to create content. It
Speaker 1: was very time consuming and also like most of the
Speaker 1: content was free value content, not even paid content, so
Speaker 1: I was, Yeah, it was a lot. So I don't
Speaker 1: want to discredit that because I definitely, you know, as
Speaker 1: much as people are like, oh, influencers, they just do nothing.
Speaker 1: You guys know how hard I work, And especially when
Speaker 1: you're working full time and then you have a social
Speaker 1: media on the side, it's like, it's honestly like another
Speaker 1: full time job.
Speaker 2: So I have.
Speaker 1: So I went straight from high school, I did my
Speaker 1: law degree. During my law degree, I always worked either
Speaker 1: part time or full time. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: I started to grow my social media. So my social
Speaker 1: media was very much health and fitness. At the beginning,
Speaker 1: it was you know, my account got a lot of
Speaker 1: traction at the start because of before and after photo
Speaker 1: and so I just used to share like, you know,
Speaker 1: healthy recipes, workouts, all that sort of jazz. And then
Speaker 1: it very much morphed into more of a lifestyle account.
Speaker 1: So when I was doing my law degree plus working
Speaker 1: full time, I guess it really morphed into this account
Speaker 1: where it was, you know, I was the girl who
Speaker 1: worked full time, did her law degree, plus was healthy
Speaker 1: whatever that means. And so again I would share my
Speaker 1: life on YouTube on Instagram, and I had a following
Speaker 1: off that, and then on top of that, you know,
Speaker 1: I would work with brands who would either you know,
Speaker 1: give me like a contrabasis, which means I would receive
Speaker 1: products or services in exchange for my you know services,
Speaker 1: or I would get paid, you know, for promoting a brand.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I don't need to say this
Speaker 1: because you guys know me, but you know, like I
Speaker 1: would never promote a brand or you know, say I
Speaker 1: was using it unless I was. Of course, I think
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have got to this point if I had
Speaker 1: ever lied about that. And yeah, so that was you know,
Speaker 1: my thing, and so what that involved and kind of
Speaker 1: the real kind of side hustle for me, I guess
Speaker 1: when I took my side hustle seriously. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of my first point is if you have a side
Speaker 1: hustle and you're like ready to progress it, you really
Speaker 1: need to be treating this side hustle as a business.
Speaker 1: So for me, even though you know, social media and
Speaker 1: having brands pay for things, it was like this new
Speaker 1: concept and it was kind of a weird thing to
Speaker 1: get your head around, but I very much treated it
Speaker 1: like a business, like I was so professional with the
Speaker 1: brands I were with, I, you know, would have a
Speaker 1: calendar and I would have a media kit and I
Speaker 1: did everything myself as well. So I guess like that
Speaker 1: was kind of And yeah, I was working full time
Speaker 1: at a law firm doing family law at this point,
Speaker 1: also studying whether that was my law degree or my
Speaker 1: pot which is the study you have to do after
Speaker 1: you finish your law degree to become a lawyer. And
Speaker 1: so what my day would look like is I used
Speaker 1: to like the firm I was at started work at
Speaker 1: seven thirty, which is just honestly, now I'm thinking about,
Speaker 1: I'm like, why does a law firm start at seven thirty?
Speaker 2: It's beyond ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And it's not like we even finished early, Like it
Speaker 1: was still to fucking five pm. Don't mean to share,
Speaker 1: don't mean to square swear, wow, but yeah, just a
Speaker 1: bit outrageous. And so I would get at four thirty,
Speaker 1: I would do a gym class or have a pt,
Speaker 1: come back, make breakfast, have all my lunch ready, leave
Speaker 1: for the bus at like six thirty because I used
Speaker 1: to catch the bus in there, catch the bus into work,
Speaker 1: start work at seven point thirty. Work, you know, work
Speaker 1: all day. I used to use my lunch break to
Speaker 1: either edit YouTube videos or you know, email people back,
Speaker 1: and then I would get home quite late because you know,
Speaker 1: traffic and stuff. I probably would finish work more five
Speaker 1: point thirty, get home at six thirty, Me and team
Speaker 1: would make dinner, and then I would sit on my computer,
Speaker 1: edit youtubees and ser emails, and then usually spend my
Speaker 1: whole weekend, you know, filming videos, editing videos, doing my
Speaker 1: Instagram posts, getting them ready. And it was like, like
Speaker 1: I said, it was fucking hard. Like in saying that
Speaker 1: I was obsessed. Now looking back, the only reason what
Speaker 1: got me through, I reckon there was a good three
Speaker 1: solid years of me grinding was I was obsessed, I
Speaker 1: want to say, with both careers. But the mental state
Speaker 1: I was in was very much like I was going
Speaker 1: to be a lawyer, but I also was so passionate
Speaker 1: about this side thing and my health and fitness.
Speaker 2: So I was so obsessed with both, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: So I had this a huge goal, like I was
Speaker 1: going to finish my degree. I was going to get
Speaker 1: that certificate that says I was a lawyer, but I
Speaker 1: also was going to do this side business. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just like grinding, and I think that's the
Speaker 1: big thing with the side business. For example, maybe you
Speaker 1: haven't got one and you want to start one. Is
Speaker 1: I just don't think it's going to work if you
Speaker 1: start one just for money. So if you're working your
Speaker 1: nine to five and you hate it and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I need to make extra money or something like that,
Speaker 1: like doing something just for money, I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just look it can. But for me it's like
Speaker 1: it was a grind. It was hard, and if I
Speaker 1: wasn't obsessed and so passionate about it, I just don't
Speaker 1: think it would have worked. So that's just like a huge,
Speaker 1: huge thing. You need to be obsessed. You need to
Speaker 1: be passionate because there is going to be like for me,
Speaker 1: it was you know, three years. I don't know for
Speaker 1: you guys, but there's going to be a time where
Speaker 1: you just have to put in the work, you have
Speaker 1: to grind, you don't have a social life. Yeah, it's hard,
Speaker 1: like you know. I also at this point, I think
Speaker 1: I was planning a wedding like lots was happening, and
Speaker 1: on the weekend, like poor Tim, I basically wouldn't have
Speaker 1: much time for him. I'd give him a couple of
Speaker 1: hours and then just be working on, you know, my
Speaker 1: side hustle. And God bless his soul, he stuck around
Speaker 1: and was so fine about it. But it's just like
Speaker 1: you're going to have to sacrifice things. So I think
Speaker 1: if you don't have the passion, it's just yeah, you
Speaker 1: really need it there.
Speaker 2: So then the next thing.
Speaker 1: With a side hustle is you really have to not
Speaker 1: care what people think. So, you know, I was at
Speaker 1: this law firm, I was being professional. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to really work hard and show that
Speaker 1: I could be a lawyer. And I worked in a
Speaker 1: really good law firm too, where it was very respected,
Speaker 1: and you know, I had partners above me, lawyers above me,
Speaker 1: and they all knew what I was doing on the side.
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes not that I was embarrassed about it,
Speaker 1: but I could kind of tell that they thought it
Speaker 1: was like silly or just like what is she even doing?
Speaker 1: Or like why does she bother? Like it's ridiculous, or
Speaker 1: you know, she just needs to focus on one. And
Speaker 1: even sometimes my family and Tim wouldn't understand. And I
Speaker 1: think it's just like you need to have that self
Speaker 1: belief yourself and you need to be able to put
Speaker 1: yourself out there. So you need to be able to
Speaker 1: be like, this is what I want to do, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm doing, and kind of have your own back,
Speaker 1: because especially with a side hustle, like especially when it's
Speaker 1: not succeeding, Like don't get me wrong, like now, people like, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course you should have lest your corporate job and
Speaker 1: you know, started Naked Harvest and started a podcast because
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm quote unquote successful. But you know, back then,
Speaker 1: when I was working full time in a law job
Speaker 1: doing this side hustle thing, and when I was like,
Speaker 1: I knew I wanted to leave and do the side
Speaker 1: hustle thing, like it didn't look like, it didn't look great,
Speaker 1: and people like, what the fuck is she doing? But
Speaker 1: you need to have your own self belief and you
Speaker 1: need to have your own back. The next thing I
Speaker 1: want to chat about is, you know, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: going to go the complete other direction and say, even
Speaker 1: though I've said you've got to be super passionate about it,
Speaker 1: is it also does need to be monetized at some point.
Speaker 1: So for example, with my Instagram, you know, I've had
Speaker 1: it for over seven eight nine years now and I
Speaker 1: only started monetizing it probably three years in three or
Speaker 1: four years in so like it was like three or
Speaker 1: four years of literally just creating free content. And I
Speaker 1: know it's Instagram, so you might think it's different, but
Speaker 1: there's a lot of time and effort that went in there,
Speaker 1: and even to this day, like for example, this podcast,
Speaker 1: like to be very transparent with you guys, I have
Speaker 1: a podcast manager who works full time that helps me
Speaker 1: out with the podcast because you know, like I don't
Speaker 1: have the time. I full time work in Naked Harvests
Speaker 1: and Geers Collective, and I obviously work with other brands,
Speaker 1: and so I need someone working full time to run
Speaker 1: this podcast. And I do you know, you guys would
Speaker 1: hear the ads and whatnot that would sink in every
Speaker 1: now and again, but to be honest, like those ads
Speaker 1: would just cover my podcast managers, you know, salary or wage.
Speaker 1: So it's like I'm kind of breaking even. But for me,
Speaker 1: the podcast is such like a passion an outlet that
Speaker 1: that's okay for me, and you know, I make my
Speaker 1: money in other ways. But in saying that, if you are,
Speaker 1: you know, doing this podcast, you do have to monetize
Speaker 1: and it does have to be able to make money
Speaker 1: in some way so you're not just like completely burnt
Speaker 1: out for no reason. But yeah, you have to be
Speaker 1: able to put in free value content. And that's like
Speaker 1: basically what this podcast is is something I do you
Speaker 1: know on top of everything else that is pretty much well,
Speaker 1: it is completely free value for you guys. That takes
Speaker 1: a lot of time and effort and resources of my own,
Speaker 1: but for me it's so there's always going to be
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Speaker 1: into today's episode. So I'm just gonna get straight onto
Speaker 1: the tips because i feel like I'm in chatting forever
Speaker 1: and I just want this to really be like a yeah,
Speaker 1: like resourcefulp for you guys. So, like I said, too,
Speaker 1: is like treat your side hustle lack a business like
Speaker 1: I think sometimes.
Speaker 2: We can get in this mode of it's just a
Speaker 2: side hustle.
Speaker 1: And I kind of remember when it was getting to
Speaker 1: the point where I was like, I think I have
Speaker 1: to pick between this law job and the side hustle.
Speaker 1: And I kind of said to myself, I'm going to
Speaker 1: give myself the year and if I can match my
Speaker 1: wage that I was earning, as you know, a law clerk,
Speaker 1: a lawyer with this side hustle, I would feel comfortable
Speaker 1: and safe enough, I guess to leave. And so that
Speaker 1: year I really kind of took my side hustle a
Speaker 1: lot more seriously. And it's funny because, like I said,
Speaker 1: like influencing, it's not like it's this new thing. And
Speaker 1: for example, we do influencer marketing with Naked Harvest, and
Speaker 1: I will talk to my influencer marketing manager, Jacinta, and
Speaker 1: she just will tell me some of the stories of
Speaker 1: influencers who you can just tell they don't take it
Speaker 1: seriously and they don't treat it like a business. And
Speaker 1: it's like you know we do we do contract and
Speaker 1: paid posts for naked harvest. So like this person is
Speaker 1: getting paid, they are giving us their services, they are
Speaker 1: getting paid like this is a contract, this is a
Speaker 1: legit thing.
Speaker 2: And they almost like.
Speaker 1: You know, they won't reply for ages, or they won't
Speaker 1: know how to make an invoice or you know, just
Speaker 1: like so many things where you're like, this is a business.
Speaker 1: You need to start treating it like a business, if
Speaker 1: that makes sense. And I totally get that, and I
Speaker 1: said to Justcinta, there was definitely a point when I
Speaker 1: was influencing where you kind of it's like you don't
Speaker 1: grasp that concept. And when I kind of put that
Speaker 1: goal in where it's like I would only leave my
Speaker 1: law job until I matched my wage, my mindset changed
Speaker 1: and I took things a lot more seriously. So I
Speaker 1: treated my side hustle like a business. It was very professional,
Speaker 1: you know. I yeah, Like I just treated it very professional.
Speaker 1: And I think that's something like if you have a
Speaker 1: side hustle, but you're treating it like a side hustle,
Speaker 1: but you want it to turn into a full time,
Speaker 1: you know, legit thing. It's like where can you change
Speaker 1: things or make things more professional, make things more legit,
Speaker 1: or just take yourself a bit more seriously, because it's
Speaker 1: honestly like when you embody something, that's when you can
Speaker 1: show up as that person. And I would kind of
Speaker 1: get into what I used to do with visualization. Actually,
Speaker 1: let's just get into it now. So also a huge,
Speaker 1: huge change. And I know people are gonna be like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is so woo whatever, but my side hustle, honestly,
Speaker 1: honest to god, it would not have turned into a
Speaker 1: legit thing. And me felt like that without my visualization
Speaker 1: and affirmation practices. So because I used to catch the
Speaker 1: bus that used to take me like half an hour
Speaker 1: to get into the city every day, I used to
Speaker 1: use that time to either listen to a podcast or
Speaker 1: I would sit there with music and I would visualize.
Speaker 1: So I would literally close my eyes like people probably
Speaker 1: would have thought I was like fucking asleep on the muss,
Speaker 1: but I would sit there and visualize what would my
Speaker 1: day look like if I worked full time in my
Speaker 1: side hustle, So like I would visualize waking up, what
Speaker 1: time would I wake up? And to be honest, this
Speaker 1: is when I was visualizing a lot about the beach,
Speaker 1: which is so crazy because what I used to visualize
Speaker 1: is literally my life now. So I used to wake
Speaker 1: up and you know, I used to wake up at six,
Speaker 1: which was like two hours sleeping for me, and I
Speaker 1: used to you know, get up gradually. I'd make myself
Speaker 1: a coffee, I'd play with the dogs, and then i'd
Speaker 1: go for a beach walk and i'd listen to a
Speaker 1: podcast and I would you know, take this time and
Speaker 1: have this really long morning routine. And then i'd you know,
Speaker 1: call my employees, chat to them, tell them what they
Speaker 1: need to do today. And then i'd get into, you know,
Speaker 1: my projects for the day and make my list and
Speaker 1: feel accomplished and then be able to have a lunch
Speaker 1: break where I sat in the sun and all this
Speaker 1: different stuff which is literally my life now. But I
Speaker 1: used to sit there and visualize and very kind of
Speaker 1: you know, detailed and not detailed, like it was almost
Speaker 1: like I was watching a movie and I just yeah,
Speaker 1: I used to think, like and then from that visualization,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, you know, how would this person show up,
Speaker 1: what would she wear? How to treat others? Like I
Speaker 1: would really get into it, and it's like that like
Speaker 1: I wasn't that person yet. But because I would consistently,
Speaker 1: like I reckon probably three times a week, I would
Speaker 1: be visualizing this life, it almost felt like I was
Speaker 1: living it. It almost felt like I knew it. And
Speaker 1: that is the biggest like kind of manifestation as a
Speaker 1: secret is like, if you want something, you need to
Speaker 1: get comfortable with it, you need to feel worthy of it.
Speaker 2: And then holy crap, it just like the attraction.
Speaker 1: And getting there is so much easier because when we
Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable, when we don't feel worthy, where it
Speaker 1: feels completely out of touch, you know, it's it's out
Speaker 1: of touch, it feels like it's not ours. And so like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time literally getting comfortable with
Speaker 1: what would it feel like to be my own boss,
Speaker 1: you know, to take charge, to lead employees, to all
Speaker 1: this sort of thing. And it's funny because I'm currently
Speaker 1: a new life right now, not like a new life,
Speaker 1: but I guess like the next Georgie. And it's just
Speaker 1: really surreal to think that the current life I'm living
Speaker 1: literally to a tea, Like this morning, I literally did that.
Speaker 1: I woke up, I made a coffee, I walked to
Speaker 1: the beach, I listened to a podcast, I did my
Speaker 1: informations and meditation and then came here recording the episode,
Speaker 1: and then Coop's going to pick me up and I'm
Speaker 1: going to nh you know, to lead my employees. And
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, it's surreal, but guys, this stuff works,
Speaker 1: and it's like if you can embody that person you
Speaker 1: want to become and really get into that, that's when
Speaker 1: the magic happens. So yeah, like, I think it's called
Speaker 1: like acting as if. So I did that a lot,
Speaker 1: So I'd love for you to start thinking about, like
Speaker 1: how would it feel. And this is only if you
Speaker 1: do want to take your side hustle full time. If
Speaker 1: you don't, that is completely fine. I think we need
Speaker 1: to take the pressure off. But if is if that
Speaker 1: is something that is like a goal. It's like act
Speaker 1: as if, even if you don't have employees, like feel
Speaker 1: into what it would feel like. The next thing is like,
Speaker 1: you don't have negative feelings towards your full time job,
Speaker 1: even though you know, my full time job was kind
Speaker 1: of draining the life out of me, and you know,
Speaker 1: I hated certain things, like the fact that we started
Speaker 1: at seven thirty and I just thought it was outrageous
Speaker 1: because I was like if we started at nine like
Speaker 1: every other law firm, I'd have so much more time
Speaker 1: to you know, work on my side, hushle, just have
Speaker 1: more time for me. But never be negative towards your
Speaker 1: nine to five, because it's like we just don't want
Speaker 1: that toxic energy. And also like I used to see
Speaker 1: my nine to five as like how grateful I was
Speaker 1: that I was getting real world experience that I could
Speaker 1: then apply to my own life, to my own business.
Speaker 1: And also I had a safe income, like I had
Speaker 1: a mortgage at this point, so it's like, thank God,
Speaker 1: I've got this job that I know, you know, my
Speaker 1: mortgage is taken care of. I can somewhat live, but
Speaker 1: also work on my side hustle and like kind of
Speaker 1: get it to the point, like I said, where I
Speaker 1: could match it. And so like I really want you
Speaker 1: to start seeing your nine to five a as a positive.
Speaker 1: And like even when I would get negative feelings or
Speaker 1: I have to work leg or something, I used to
Speaker 1: sit there and sit in gratitude and be like I
Speaker 1: am so thankful I had this job, even though I
Speaker 1: know this won't be my future, Like this is towards
Speaker 1: the end, even though I won't I know this won't
Speaker 1: be my future. I am so thankful and really sitting
Speaker 1: in gratitude because we know gratitude is one of the
Speaker 1: highest vibes. What it is the highest vibe, So like,
Speaker 1: don't have toxic or negative feelings towards your nine to
Speaker 1: five because it's we just don't need that. Also, like
Speaker 1: I said, like, realize with a side hustle is every
Speaker 1: free second, you're probably gonna have to use that for
Speaker 1: your side hustle. Like like I said, side hustle and
Speaker 1: not for fainthearted. It's you're working before work, during lunchtime,
Speaker 1: after work, and you just have to make it happen.
Speaker 1: It's funny because a really weird thing happened is when
Speaker 1: I left my corporate job and was like, you know,
Speaker 1: full time side hustle. I went through a couple of
Speaker 1: months and I said to Tim, I'm like, I literally
Speaker 1: have you know, seven and a half more hours per
Speaker 1: day and I'm not getting anything done. And it's because
Speaker 1: when you're in this side hustle.
Speaker 2: Mode, you get shit done.
Speaker 1: There's no scrolling on Instagram, there's no you know, being preoccupied.
Speaker 1: You get shit done. And so like I just I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but it's bullshit. If you come to me and you go, oh,
Speaker 1: I just don't have the time. You have the time.
Speaker 1: If I had the time, you have the time, and
Speaker 1: you just have to make it work and you just
Speaker 1: have to be in that mindset. And yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: every free second you put towards that side hustle and
Speaker 1: if you don't have passion for that, then maybe this
Speaker 1: isn't the side hustle for you. Also, another big thing
Speaker 1: is like teach yourself and be constantly learning. I definitely
Speaker 1: have had a couple of like business coaches and stuff,
Speaker 1: but that didn't come to a lot later. The biggest
Speaker 1: catalysts for me learning what to do on my side
Speaker 1: hustle and just like life in general, was podcasts and
Speaker 1: audio books. So, guys, podcasts are free and there's I
Speaker 1: guarantee you there's a podcast about anything like if you
Speaker 1: don't know about social media influencer marketing, I guarantee you
Speaker 1: there's a podcast. If you don't know you know how
Speaker 1: to start a website or you shopify anything like that,
Speaker 1: there's YouTube videos, there's podcasts. And then also I'm such
Speaker 1: a big believer with books because they completely change your
Speaker 1: mindset and if you think about it. For example, if
Speaker 1: I'm going to write a book, I'm going to put
Speaker 1: all my best shit in it because otherwise, like I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna put out, you know, a piece of crap.
Speaker 1: So books they're literally, you know, they're twenty four dollars
Speaker 1: or auto boats fifteen dollars a month, and you can
Speaker 1: read a book a month. Could you get a credit
Speaker 1: and you're literally reading the best you know, brain juice
Speaker 1: from other people, the lessons they've learned, like the best
Speaker 1: lessons they've learned in their life for twenty four dollars.
Speaker 1: Like utilize that, And I know, like then on top
Speaker 1: of that, it's like courses and those sorts of things,
Speaker 1: and that does start to get a bit more pricey.
Speaker 1: But I just hate when people are like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I don't have the resources. It's like, no, listen to
Speaker 1: a podcast, they're free, and there's YouTube videos, Like there's
Speaker 1: so much free resources out there.
Speaker 2: You just have to you know, be.
Speaker 1: Proactive and be ready to listen and learn. The last
Speaker 1: point I really want to chat about is surrounding yourself
Speaker 1: with people who have done it before. So me, personally,
Speaker 1: none of my friends were doing what I was doing.
Speaker 2: No one I really knew.
Speaker 1: Even like in the influencers space, I didn't really have
Speaker 1: any people to look up to who were doing what
Speaker 1: I was doing. And what really was my expander and
Speaker 1: kind of like my permission slip to do what I
Speaker 1: did is I listened to It was probably mostly podcasts
Speaker 1: of women who had done what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: And so even though I didn't know these women personally
Speaker 1: or these people personally, listening to stories where someone had,
Speaker 1: you know, worked nine from five a nine to five,
Speaker 1: had a side hustle, built it up and then left
Speaker 1: it and been successful was kind of like a permission
Speaker 1: slip for me to do it too. And guys, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like you know that whole thing of I'm
Speaker 1: gonna butcher this, but like you know, back in the
Speaker 1: day where no one could run a mile under a
Speaker 1: certain time, and then one person did it, and then
Speaker 1: after that, like heaps of people started to do it.
Speaker 1: And it's just like the human brain, like if other
Speaker 1: people have done it and done it well, we kind
Speaker 1: of think we can do it as well, and then
Speaker 1: we do it. And that's literally the reason why I
Speaker 1: was able to do it is because I surrounded myself
Speaker 1: with people aka you know podcasts, you know celebrities, not celebrities,
Speaker 1: but you know people in the space who had done
Speaker 1: it that made me believe I can do it too.
Speaker 1: So again, you are the curator of your own life.
Speaker 1: Follow on Instagram people who are.
Speaker 2: Doing what you want to do.
Speaker 1: Don't just fucking follow on Instagram the skinny model who
Speaker 1: has no substance and you know, no life goals, no
Speaker 1: offense to that person. Like follow people who in by you,
Speaker 1: who give you permission, because oh my god, you're going
Speaker 1: to reach your goals so much further if you believe
Speaker 1: you can do it too. I remember I used to
Speaker 1: listen like you guys know, I love Cara from Style
Speaker 1: Your Mind podcast and she literally would like record podcasts
Speaker 1: on side hustles of like leaving her side hustle, sorry,
Speaker 1: leaving her nine to five job and doing her side hustle.
Speaker 1: And I used to sit there and be like, one
Speaker 1: day I will record a podcast telling other people how
Speaker 1: they can leave, you know, their nine to five and
Speaker 1: do their side hustle and be successful because I've done
Speaker 1: it too, And do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: I just needed to see that someone else could do
Speaker 1: it do it to have that belief in myself and
Speaker 1: then I went and did it. And if you're listening
Speaker 1: to this, like let me be your expander where you're
Speaker 1: like Georgie did it, I can do it too. And
Speaker 1: like I say, guys, I'm not special. You guys know,
Speaker 1: I come from very humble beginnings where I worked all
Speaker 1: through my law degree. I worked all like full time,
Speaker 1: through my side hustle and all those sorts of things.
Speaker 1: So if I can do it, you can do it too. Anyway, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm going to wrap up this podcast. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for listening. Also, I just wanted to do a
Speaker 1: bit of a shout out and say I'm going to
Speaker 1: be doing more episodes with the Advice with G. So
Speaker 1: if you have any questions for me whatsoever, email me
Speaker 1: at Georgie at Georgie Stevenson dot net and have the
Speaker 1: subject line as Advice with G and I'll be picking
Speaker 1: a couple of those in the next couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and getting back to that segment.
Speaker 2: But thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I've got to quickly get ready so Koopy can pick
Speaker 1: me up and I'll chat to you guys soon.
Speaker 2: Bye.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening for another RNC episode.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate.
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