In this chapter I had the privilege of sitting down with Luke Massie, owner and founder of Vibe tickets. Luke has recently been swarmed with bad press due to his business declaring bankruptcy, to which he then chose to buy back him self. I sat down with Luke to hear his side of the story and to ask him why he thinks he’s being attacked for his business decisions.
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286: How to Become a Loan Signing Agent and Earn $100 an Hour Part-Time
“It’s the best-kept secret in the real estate industry,” Mark said, talking about becoming a loan signing agent.
You can make $100 an hour as a part-time, and the only real requirements are that you know what you’re doing, and you have a notary license.
(A loan signing agent is the person who walks you through the giant stack of forms and contracts you have to sign when you close on a new home loan.)
I was first introduced to this side hustle early last year, when I first sat down with Mark Wills and his business partner Roman Rosario.
That conversation turned into episode 215 of the Side Hustle Show, where the pair walked me through how they built and sold an online course starting with no audience.
At that time, the Loan Signing System course, which he teaches people how to become loan signing agents, was doing around $4k a month.
A year and half later, and they’re doing around $30k a month and hosting a national conference!
But what we didn’t really cover in that episode was how to become a loan signing agent and what that business is actually like — to the frustration of many listeners. So in response to audience feedback and several listener testimonials, I invited Mark back on the show, along with one of his successful students, to dive into the loan signing side hustle.
Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: How to Become a Loan Signing Agent and Earn $100 an Hour Part-Time
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337. How to Build a Smart City
We are in the midst of a historic (and wholly unpredicted) rise in urbanization. But it’s hard to retrofit old cities for the 21st century. Enter Dan Doctoroff. The man who helped modernize New York City — and tried to bring the Olympics there — is now C.E.O. of a Google-funded startup that is building, from scratch, the city of the future.
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E18: Chris ‘Drama’ Pfaff – Dealing with Fame, Anxiety and Addiction
In Chapter Eighteen I’m honoured to invite Drama aka Chris Pfaff, founder of the internationally renowned Young & Reckless streetwear brand. After creating a fashion powerhouse with no prior business experience or a college education, I wanted to find out what drives him and the lessons he’s learnt along the way. We discuss the struggles of being an entrepreneur, the pressures of being a reality tv star and his addiction to alcohol and Xanax.
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285: The Passive Income Service Business
“I set up a big business just selling somebody else’s stuff,” Wes said.
Wes runs TheSalesWhisperer.com and is the host of The Sales Podcast which started around the same time as The Side Hustle Show back in 2013.
He’s an Air Force vet, a father of 7, and has built up an interesting side hustle that on the surface looks like a typical consulting business but is done in such a way that it’s set up to generate recurring passive income.
Wes has been side hustling since the 90’s and started his online business around a decade ago.
He saw an opportunity to become one of the first Infusionsoft resellers, a piece of software that not only streamlined his own business but offered attractive recurring affiliate commissions.
Wes became one of the top earners in the world and was netting $15k a month in mostly passive income, all on the side from his primary consulting, speaking, and sales training practice.
He’s adapted his strategies over the years and diversified his income streams but his business model stays similar to this day – scalable affiliate marketing with recurring passive income.
Tune in to hear how Wes started generating passive income through affiliate marketing and how you may be able to use a similar strategy in your service business.
Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: The Passive Income Service Business
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How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns? (Rebroadcast)
Nearly two percent of America is grassy green. Sure, lawns are beautiful and useful and they smell great. But are the costs — financial, environmental and otherwise — worth the benefits?
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E17: Marriage, Mental Health, Masturbation
Damn, it’s been a long time, this the first episode on my new US journey. In this chapter I explain why an elderly couple made me jealous, debunk a common myth around visualisation and discuss marriage, mental health and masturbation. What a weird ending.
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#33 Dan Ariely: The Truth About Lies
On this episode of the Knowledge Project, I’m joined by the fascinating Dan Ariely. Dan just about does it all. He has delivered 6 TED talks with a combined 20 million views, he’s a multiple New York Times best-selling author, a widely published researcher, and the James B Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University.
For the better part of three decades, Dan has been immersed in researching why humans do some of the silly, irrational things we do. And yes, as much as we’d all like to be exempt, that includes you too.
In this captivating interview, we tackle a lot of interesting topics, including:
- The three types of decisions that control our life and how understanding our biases can help us make smarter decisions
- How our environment plays a big role in our decision making and the small changes we can make to automatically improve our outcomes
- The “behavioural driven” bathroom scale Dan has been working on to revolutionize weight loss
- Which of our irrational behaviors transfer across cultures and which ones are unique to certain parts of the world (for example, find out which country is the most honest)
- The dishonesty spectrum and why we as humans insist on flirting with the line between “honest” and “dishonest”
- 3 sneaky mental tricks Dan uses to avoid making ego-driven decisions
- “Pluralistic ignorance” and how it dangerously affects our actions and inactions (As a bonus, Dan shares the hilarious way he demonstrates this concept to his students on their first day of class)
- The rule Dan created specifically for people with spinach in their teeth
- The difference between habits, rules, and rituals, and why they are critical to shaping us into who we want to be
This was a riveting discussion and one that easily could have gone for hours. If you’ve ever wondered how you’d respond in any of these eye-opening experiments, you have to listen to this interview. If you’re anything like me, you’ll learn something new about yourself, whether you want to or not.
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284: From Active to Passive Income: From $25 an Hour to 6-Figure Launches
When Abbey made $8000 from her 1000-person email list, she knew she was on to something.
Over the last several years, Abbey Ashley has gone from earning $25 as a virtual assistant, to coordinating monster 6-figure launches of her own product.
I actually met Abbey at the bar during Traffic and Conversion Summit. Her “Virtual Assistance Is My Jam,” t-shirt caught my attention and I had to know more.
Eight months pregnant with her first daughter, she couldn’t imagine putting her child in day care just to go back to work at a job she hated.
So she started devouring everything she could find online about working from home and virtual assisting. Before long, she’d landed her first clients and booked enough work not to have to go back to her old job when her leave was up.
Eventually she started subcontracting out some of the work, which was her first taste of passive income. As some of her clients were doing really well selling online courses, Abbey tried to enter that world as well.
Her first course launches were major flops.
Then she did what all good entrepreneurs do when a first attempt doesn’t go as planned. She looked at what went wrong, made the necessary changes, and tried again.
She pre-sold her next course idea to the tune of $8000 from a 1000-person list.
Her second launch generated $40k in sales, and 6 months later her next launch generated $160k in sales.
Tune in to how Abbey walked The Side Hustle Path, her actionable hacks and strategies along the way, and how she built and sold her online course even without a huge audience starting out.
Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: From Active to Passive Income: From $25 an Hour to 6-Figure Launches
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336. The Most Vilified Industry in America Is Also the Most Charitable
Pharmaceutical firms donate an enormous amount of their products (and some cash too). But it doesn’t seem to be helping their reputation. We ask Pfizer’s generosity chief why the company gives so much, who it really helps, and whether all this philanthropy is just corporate whitewashing.
