The Side Hustle Project

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Lewis Howes, the best-selling author of The School of Greatness and The Mask of Masculinity. Today, Lewis has over half a million followers on Instagram… he’s the host of a Top 100 iTunes Podcast—The School of Greatness that features interviews with people like Gary Vaynerchuk, Casey Neistat, Rob Dyrdek, Daymond John, and hundred more. Lewis also has a blog with millions of readers, he’s been on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Ellen and I could keep going on and on… but things weren’t always this way for Lewis. In fact a little over 10 years ago, he was completely broke and living on his sister’s couch—not even able to afford rent. Originally from a small town in Ohio, Lewis got into sports in high school… and pretty quickly excelled on the football field. He went on to play professional arena football, but an injury landed him out of the sport permanently. After taking some time to recover, get back on his feet, and begin figuring out what he wanted to do with his life now that football was out of the picture, Lewis turned back to his interest in sports marketing and began combining that with social media… Pretty soon, he launched his first business as a LinkedIn consultant and about the same time began sharing publicly about his life & business over on his blog. And the rest is history…

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Joel Gascoigne, the co-founder and CEO at Buffer—the social media management tool for small businesses. That product now has over 75,000 customers—the company has 70 employees, and they’re bringing in over $1.3 Million in revenue each month. Perhaps what I like most about Joel and how he got Buffer off the ground in the early days… is that he was incredibly systematic and disciplined with how he validated the idea for the product. The very first thing he did was build a super simple landing page with nothing more than a description of the product with a call-to-action button that people would have to click on in order to sign up—but instead of taking these early visitors to the actual product—that didn’t yet exist—it directed them to another landing page where they could enter their email address for early access when Buffer did launch. After about a month of promoting this landing page to his audience on Twitter and through HackerNews, Joel had 120 signed up… and the rest is history. He continued working on Buffer as a side project for the next month or so, brought on his first round of paying customers, and within another 6 months they’d climbed up to around 100,000 users… most of which were on the free plan, but many of whom would later upgrade.

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Andrew Kozlovski, a college senior at The University of Southern California and entrepreneur behind the company, Brainz Power. Andrew’s company produces a cognitive enhancement supplement known as nootropics or more commonly: smart drugs.

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Anna Vital, an infographic designer who’s worked with companies like Google, LegalZoom, Cisco, The World Bank and more… Anna is also the Founder of Adioma, her infographic maker in use by over 13,000 people. Anna, originally from the Ukraine… moved to the US for a year abroad during high school, and came back to finish up her college career, then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area for law school. And it was during her studies that she started getting into infographics—first as a way to visually help herself understand the course material better, and then she started creating infographics to generate interest for startup events she was organizing with friends called Funders and Founders. That’s when things really started to take off… her infographic series chronicling the founder journeys of entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos went super viral and got millions of views. She started fielding tons of inbound requests for infographic work, and the rest is history…

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Susie Moore, the #1 Amazon bestselling author of her book titled, “What if it does work out? How a side hustle can change your life right now.”

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Preston Lee, the founder of Millo.co - a blog, community and phenomenal resource hub for all things freelancing.

Preston and I, along with Ian Paget, also co-host another podcast together called The Side Gig Show where we take turns diving deep into the tactics, strategies, ups, downs and decisions we’ve made - that have helped us grow our own side businesses into FT endeavors over the past couple of years.

Intro to the episode: Welcome to The Side Hustle Project, a podcast where we explore the nitty gritty details behind what it takes to start and grow a profitable side hustle. I’m your host Ryan Robinson. In this podcast, I’m bringing you interviews with entrepreneurs, bestselling authors, CEO's, investors and people just like you, who are building (and profiting from) interesting side hustles.

In today’s episode, we’re talking to the founders of Working Not Working, Justin Gignac and Adam Tompkins.

We’re also hearing from their Head of Growth and a good friend of mine, Emily Slade. Now, we’ve had a few episodes of the show recently talking with freelancers and consultants who’ve had experience working on the marketplace sites like Fiverr and Upwork.

Intro to the episode: Welcome to The Side Hustle Project, a podcast where we explore the nitty gritty details behind what it takes to start and grow a profitable side hustle. I’m your host Ryan Robinson. In this podcast, I’m bringing you interviews with entrepreneurs, bestselling authors, CEO's, investors and people just like you, who are building (and profiting from) interesting side hustles.

In today’s episode, we’re talking to two freelancers who’ve built massive personal brands for themselves.

First up, Jon Youshaei - who actually still works a full-time job as the Head of Creator Product Marketing at YouTube. Jon’s a writer for sites like Time, Forbes, and Inc Magazine - the latter of which ranked him as one of the top 7 marketers of the year

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Grace and Silas Moser - the husband and wife behind the blog and massive social following, Chasing Foxes. Grace and Silas started their blog as a side project just a year and a half ago while Grace was between work and Silas was working a demanding corporate job and they got the inspiration for starting a blog from a few podcasts they’d been listening to about building an online business.

In today’s episode, we’re doing things a little differently. Over the past couple of months, I’ve

been busy recording more than 50 video interviews that have yet to see the light of day. And

today, I want to give you a little preview of what’s coming your way