Jacques Hopkins tells the story of leaving his job as an engineer to making a living teaching online piano courses. 

These days Jacques is the most recognizable piano teacher on the internet and has created a successful system that works for his students. 

Jesse Goldfarb has made quite a side hustle out of making his tiny terrariums. What started as a small project has turned into large corporate events, a popular social media following, and more business than he ever thought of having. When it comes to quitting your day job, getting out of the 9-5 Jesse could do that but he's one of the rare birds that likes his job.

Sharon is a mom of 3 and has made a living building and selling niche sites for years. 

She doesn't hold back on her recipe to do the same and has all kinds of free information on her site, Digital Nomad Wannabe, on how to create and sell niche sites. 

This episode is great for people not sure exactly what they want to start doing besides just knowing it's time to quit their jobs or 9-5s any way they can

The Rist Roller is like a foam roller but for your wrist. The success has led her to create other projects with her time.

In this episode we go through going from idea to getting smaples from manufacturers and how to do so for free.

We also go through how Jessika was able to create a product that was able to sell itself. If you are able to find the customers in your niche and reach them, they'll buy it, it's a Field of Dreams situation

Jon Sherman created practical golf as a way to provide a complete guide for any level of golfer looking to improve their game. After some time the website grew into what is now the de facto place to go for new golfers, and has parlayed that into a high selling book, 101 Mistakes All Golfers Make (and how to fix them), with another one on the way. In this episode we go through what it's like to build an audience and monetize it through different means. Most importantly, Jon quick his day job along the way and no longer has to work the 9-5

Garret and Sabrina of I Know Dino spend their time doing what they love, talking about dinosaurs.

After starting the podcast they quit their jobs and now do it full time. In this episode we talk about how to start a podcast. Creative ways to promote your podcast. How to shortcut growth and not waste time by finding your peers and doing cross promotion.

Garret and Sabrina now have a patreon, bonus episodes, merch, and also teach others how to do the same!

Kelly Belknap and his wife Mathilda were selling backpacks as a side hustle until they realized that the high markups were enough for them to create a backpack company of their own.

 

Kelly talks about how he got Adventurist Backpack Co off the ground with almost no capital and how they've since grown to selling almost 7 thousand backpacks and providing over 171 thousand meals to people in need.

 

 

Welcome to another episode of How to Quit Your Day Job, where we interview successful entrepreneurs who built their own life from scratch away from the 9-5 job.

Marcus Harvey acquired the @Portland Instagram handle and used that to build the @Portland Gear brand over the years.

We talk with Marcus to hear exactly what made him successful and having the likes of Damian Lillard wearing his Portland Gear brand.

Tune in every week for a new episode of How To Quit Your Day Job where we interview people who successfully quit the 9-5 and found their own path to freedom, whether it be creating a new product, real estate, gathering a large following or any other type of side hustle you can imagine. We talk to people from all walks of life and get into the details of what made their specific project successful.