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So You Want to Start a Side Hustle: Build a Business that Empowers You to Live Your Life, Your Way
Featured on the Publishers Weekly list of Business & Personal Finance Books for 2021
It takes more than a great idea to make your side hustle a success. Here, two experts show you how to build one that creates the autonomy you desire and changes the way you live.
Carrie Bohlig and Craig Clickner started side hustles to make their lives better--to break free from the limitations of corporate America and have more time with their kids and each other. Today, they're entrepreneurs who have built multiple thriving businesses and helped thousands of people through mentoring, coaching and sharing their insights across the globe.
In So You Want to Start a Side Hustle, you'll learn all the secrets of their Through real-life stories, lessons learned from personal wins and losses, and illuminating anecdotes about their experiences speaking to solopreneurs and other small business owners, Carrie and Craig show you how to get your idea from the thinking and planning stages to the life-changing, revenue-producing venture you want it to be.
Designed as a "traveling adventure guide," So You Want to Start a Side Hustle lays out how to establish a clear Life Vision and develop the right Lifeset for ongoing success. This foundation, say Carrie and Craig, is crucial. It's the framework that allows you to sharpen your focus, overcome challenges and obstacles, and create a side hustle that has ongoing impact on your life and generates lasting success and revenue.
Will you find smart ways to handle marketing, decision making, and funding? Absolutely. But with its emphasis on building the right mindset, Lifeset, and support structure, So You Want to Start a Side Hustle is more than a how-to It's an essential guide to helping you establish a vision for your life--and to leverage your side hustle to create the life you truly want.
It takes more than a great idea to make your side hustle a success. Here, two experts show you how to build one that creates the autonomy you desire and changes the way you live.
Carrie Bohlig and Craig Clickner started side hustles to make their lives better--to break free from the limitations of corporate America and have more time with their kids and each other. Today, they're entrepreneurs who have built multiple thriving businesses and helped thousands of people through mentoring, coaching and sharing their insights across the globe.
In So You Want to Start a Side Hustle, you'll learn all the secrets of their Through real-life stories, lessons learned from personal wins and losses, and illuminating anecdotes about their experiences speaking to solopreneurs and other small business owners, Carrie and Craig show you how to get your idea from the thinking and planning stages to the life-changing, revenue-producing venture you want it to be.
Designed as a "traveling adventure guide," So You Want to Start a Side Hustle lays out how to establish a clear Life Vision and develop the right Lifeset for ongoing success. This foundation, say Carrie and Craig, is crucial. It's the framework that allows you to sharpen your focus, overcome challenges and obstacles, and create a side hustle that has ongoing impact on your life and generates lasting success and revenue.
Will you find smart ways to handle marketing, decision making, and funding? Absolutely. But with its emphasis on building the right mindset, Lifeset, and support structure, So You Want to Start a Side Hustle is more than a how-to It's an essential guide to helping you establish a vision for your life--and to leverage your side hustle to create the life you truly want.
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225 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 8, 2021
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January 8, 2022
Absolute garbage. General advice that can be obtained for free. They are using this book to shill their Amway pyramid scheme "business".
August 24, 2021
So You Want to Start a Side Hustle... trending toward a typical self-help book encouraging side jobs to generate additional income, this book lends itself to entrepreneurs looking for passive income as well as hands-on after-hours passion projects that could potentially get you away from day job and earn thousands or millions. Practical tips met with helpful suggestions to visualize your future self.
September 19, 2021
It’s great. The authors have serious credentials and compelling storytelling to lay out actionable steps to generate income without quitting your day job.
September 5, 2022
I think this book might have been misnamed. This is not really about a "side-hustle" -- it about becoming an entrepreneur and running a business or businesses. I realize that the term side hustle can mean a lot of things-- driving for Uber, selling crafts on Etsy, freelancing, etc., but I wish the authors had clarified early on that their version of side hustle is really about being business owners. There was certainly some good information, but I think it would be too overwhelming for someone just starting out with side hustles or who wants to build their entrepreneurial muscles.
There was also quite a lot of talk about becoming very wealthy so that they could have time with their family. There's certainly nothing wrong with that aspiration, but it smacked of Dave Ramsey (and I definitely have some reservations about Ramsey) and so that was a turn-off for me.
I'll certainly take some key points from this book, but it would not be my go-to recommendation for side hustles.
There was also quite a lot of talk about becoming very wealthy so that they could have time with their family. There's certainly nothing wrong with that aspiration, but it smacked of Dave Ramsey (and I definitely have some reservations about Ramsey) and so that was a turn-off for me.
I'll certainly take some key points from this book, but it would not be my go-to recommendation for side hustles.
January 14, 2022
It can be a little preachy and judgmental at times with an assumption periodically that just because something worked for them, it should be the same for everyone else..
The title is misleading as the book has very little to do with the actual building of a side hustle. Instead, it focuses more on getting your life in order to be able to create a side hustle. That knowledge is beneficial, and I gained a lot of good information, but it's not what I was hoping for when I picked up the book.
The title is misleading as the book has very little to do with the actual building of a side hustle. Instead, it focuses more on getting your life in order to be able to create a side hustle. That knowledge is beneficial, and I gained a lot of good information, but it's not what I was hoping for when I picked up the book.
January 8, 2022
Absolute garbage. General advice that can be obtained for free. They are using this book to shill their Amway pyramid scheme "business".
March 19, 2022
Helpful. But it often seems a bit like a pyramid scheme. Like the "side hustle" of choice is to help other people create a side hustle.
February 13, 2025
Every five years or so I read a business/self-help book and hate it. I'd like to start a side hustle because I'd like to have more income but I also don't want to devote any time or energy into it, determining how to find mentors, etc. The idea of personal brand (essential to side hustle success!) makes me want to vomit. Also whenever I ponder, "what does the world need that could become a good business?" I quickly resort to my strong feeling that there's too much crap in the world as is. I hate capitalism.
June 10, 2022
The writer comes off as arrogant, not helpful. There is no information about how to go about starting a business, instead the writer presumes to tell you how to live your life and how you should want to live your life. The book focuses why you should want your side hustle to become your main source of income... which I believe defeats the point of a side hustle. 100% do not recommend.
July 12, 2023
Love this book.
It is perfect for me as an entrepreneur coach while having a full time job and balancing my family needs with 5 kids.
Resonated so much, I reached out to Carrie to see about options to mentor/coach me.
I hope it turns into a working relationship.
It is perfect for me as an entrepreneur coach while having a full time job and balancing my family needs with 5 kids.
Resonated so much, I reached out to Carrie to see about options to mentor/coach me.
I hope it turns into a working relationship.
November 24, 2021
Good book, I like the husband and wife combination from a feedback perspective.
January 25, 2022
I got some good information about how to maintain a balance between business and family during all stages of developing a side hustle. It's different in that way from most other business books I've read. It's definitely worth a read for anyone in the entrepreneurial space.
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