The Side Hustle Activator Show

Manpreet Dhillon is the CEO and Founder of Veza Global, a company that transforms organizations to embed Equity, Diversity and Inclusion into how they operate. 

She’s an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Women’s Enterprise Center, helping BC women start, lead and grow their own businesses.

She has worked with organizations like The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (a UN affiliate), UN Women, City of Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 7-Eleven, and a host of tech and biotech companies and non-profit organizations.

I’m excited to bring her on as a guest to share her story and learn more about what equity, diversity and inclusion is all about. Like myself many of you at home work for large organizations and also have a side hustle. So on both fronts it’s important to think about how to effect change in the organization you work for but also how to incorporate it into the business that you’re building. 

John Norra is the founder of Promo Atlantic, an agency that helps E-commerce businesses scale to 7 & 8 Figures through paid traffic. His FB Group, FB Ad Giants is a community for online coaches, Facebook marketers, eCommerce owners who want to start or scale their business. If you own an eCommerce store you know that getting people to buy CONSISTENTLY is a big challenge. You have a great product, brilliant customer service, a clear shipping and refund policy, but your traffic does not convert well into PAYING customers.

They look at what your sales & digital strategies look like and we take it from there. Plug the leaky holes, and then drive highly qualified leads and sales to send a steady stream of customers your way.

Their clients have gone on to achieve incredible results ranging from 5X ROI to 23X ROI CONSISTENTLY MONTH AFTER MONTH.

Did you ever think you could create a product that people could help others?

Snugabell's Founder, Wendy Armbruster joins the show to talk about her journey from working for Telus corporate to launching a side hustle with her hands free bra and eventually escaping the 9-5. In this deep dive she shares her accomplishments and challenges trying to raise 2 daughters as a single mom while bootstrapping her business. She shares her experience on the famed Dragon's Den and her latest round of equity fund raising.

Conner Brown is an aerospace engineered who turned his loan signing agent side hustle into a $25,000 USD a month gig. In less than 1 year he's been able to leave his full-time job and turned his side hustle into his full time business. Conner shares his story of going from being an engineer to being an entrepreneur after going through Mark Will's Loan Signing System course.

Are you looking to get the most out of LinkedIn but don’t know where to begin?

Celeste Ansell launched her mentoring and mindset coaching service on LinkedIn just a year ago and she already has amassed 17,000 followers! That’s incredibly fast -- however, her success didn’t come overnight. You can say Celeste’s journey in mentoring and coaching began when she started exposing herself to many different industries, gathering wisdom along the way. It’s also safe to say that her journey is far from over with her upcoming plans. Have a listen and embrace Celeste’s values-driven approach to launching a side hustle.

Purpose trumps opportunity. While working at Spring Activator, Chin  worked with over 500 startups as an advisor and has now started his own company called Classy Narwhal. The conversation was a deep dive into sales. The 3 big ideas for this episode: 1) Starting a business isn't what you think it is. 2) Evaluate your purpose/mission first then build your business around you rather than chase opportunities. 3) Figure out whether you are starting a business because of opportunity or purpose. 

Knowing your purpose and mission will help guide you as an entrepreneur and increases the likelihood of success. Check out this interview as Chin dives into sales and emphasizes the need to start with your purpose.

Brian Winch has been making six figures for the last 30 years picking up parking lot litter in commercial properties. He calls it "America's Simplest Business." Others like him are making $30-$50 an hour doing it as a side hustle. In this interview we find out more about Brian's story about entrepreneurship and how the money is in the cleaning business.

Today his company is pulling in $650,000 in revenue with fairly low operating costs. It's an amazing business that is made for anyone as long as you have the persistence to do it.

Scott Epp shares his journey from corporate sales to owning 8 rental properties and eventually founding Sydney's top rated coaching company. Before Scott was able to unleash the lion from within, he went through heart break and took a while to find his place in the world. This episode is for coaches, entrepreneurs and those who are struggling to find their path.

Kyle Borawski shares his story about generating $224923 from dropshipping in just 3 months after graduating from college. In the first episode of the Side Hustle Activator Show, Kyle shares his genuine insights on what it takes to be a successful drop shipper, how to find the winning products, the tools he's using to continue to grow his stores such as Thiev.co, Direct Heroes, Spocket and how he scaled the business from a one man show to having a team of 7 others run his various e-commerce stores. At 23 years old, Kyle's already set himself up for financial freedom and he's here to just give value back to the listeners.