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#228 - Fashionista Starts Boutique After Getting Fired While Pregnant

2017-08-16

Upon losing her job, this Washington, DC government analyst and fashion lover didn’t panic… she started a side hustle.  Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. You need a hustle! Share: #SideHustleSchoolShow notes: SideHustleSchool.comTwitter: @chrisguillebeauInstagram: @193countries

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This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Hey, they're, friends, listeners welcome back. This is critical about risotto. Squawked hope you enjoy the rabbit story from yesterday at a bunch, a listener email about that one. By the way did you about the rabbit who refused to leave her house. Apparently, she was having about her day when we all have challenged us. We must overcome, got another great story for you today, it's about. A government analysed in Washington DC but actually gets fired, while she's pregnant, thankfully ends up with another job, but also starts asylum. To create more security for herself. She actually ends up going to present at the BT awards. I'll tell you all about her project and I just realized I was preparing for we ve actually had a bunch of government analysts featured on site also score monsieur. Why that is the case. Maybe government analyser not feeling a security about their position if they once did, maybe they have a lot of free time, I reminds me of when I was writing bounded on start up or born for this. Those looking for different case studies, a feature:
I heard from so many lawyers. I D put a cap on number of lawyers that I would feature in those books just because I dont want to be monotonous every story to be like, oh so, and so was a lawyer. They were unhappy being a lawyers, they went, did something else etc and then one on twitter I was like hey like. Are there any happy lawyers out there? Is anybody out there like working in a line likes their job, like somebody should write that book, but apparently would be a pretty short, but because I think I heard from like two people anyway, that's a side note, government, endless and lawyers tend to be pretty good at starting other projects, or least they're, pretty motivated to do so. That story about a fashion Easter who starts at boutique after getting fired while pregnant, is coming up red Equitas support for this fog has come from sea W and Hewlett Packard Enterprise at C D. W we get modern servers need to be flexible, scalable, unpredictable abrogated, you'd, say that Ok, what what I say next probably but a month's security, impressive and freaky
Sweetie w can implement secure, Hewlett, Packard enterprise, gentle servers that improve speed and performance while reducing rising costs. The product of all. I too, straight by C D, W people who get it. I predict a web address. W dot com, slash hp, I'm in your mind, man. Today story comes from Quichua, Nelson Harris, US on this clash of she works. As an accusation analysed for a government agency in Washington DC and our side, hustle is closest closet about cheeks selling, custom apparel and accessories for the modern and sexy woman, including corset, bout, foe, leather robbers, founded dresses bodies, and more, she also designs. Custom clothing for both men and women. Cautious started recitals, in a very stressful time, in her life she just returned to work at the Department of General services following bereavement leave after the death of her father, she was pregnant at the time and was fired from her jobs shortly after revealing her pregnancy,
of course, not just unethical, but also illegal. In most cases, her boss had a horrible reputation for his treatment of women and was himself fire. Three months later, thanks The key shut eventually ended up in a better job, but for the purpose of our story, we're in a focused on her side, hustle and for that is public, a dimension that she has a background. In fact, and entertainment. The idea of opening a boutique had been running through her head, since she was twelve years old and after losing her job, she took a flying leap into building on She bought a domain and daughter website on the platform wicks she's been. Five hundred dollars to get her LLC Commission a logo and build that initial site. Just about Small amount of inventory, with her savings and, alas, check from her job, she decided to mix her boutique with items from wholesale. There is all over the world as well as her own custom designs. She found most of those vendors searching for them online or by building relationships with budding designers to a thorough and checking out their websites. Reading your client review, who's in following up on referrals. She also discover. She can order samples if you want to check Quadi when she got there. Psyche uploaded a few items and designs and did a soft launch marketing herself through social meat
a word of mouth and vendor shows for those vendor shows she learned a display, mannequin and I've model to encourage people to come to a table. In fact, she got her first sale through of indoor show and then more began, arriving through social media. It took about two months to sir inventory and make back her initial investment after about six months. She was earning these five hundred dollars a month, her current monthly side. Us income varies from five hundred dollars to fifteen hundred dollars a month depending on a season, but for the past few months it's always been at least thousand dollars. Chiesa recently presented her designs at the stylus sweet for the BT awards. This led to a lot of Bossier and new connections with the stylists of many of her dream, celebrity clients. Next upper classes, closet arson, shows where she's introducing new pieces and a brand new product lines, cautious, Kirby girl? Eventually, he shall hope to develop a fashion related tv show, as well as a fashion camp for young teens, possum, congratulations to catch up
don't go back to something in her story. This idea of opening up a cheek had been running through her head, since he was twelve years old, and I want to think about something. Is there. An idea has been running through your head for awhile. Maybe, since you were twelve years old, We just recently, maybe and time even listening to side, hustle school, maybe whenever you're motivation wise to start listening to satisfy school like. Why are you is to invest your time in this process, but I'm guessing it. Because in one way or another you want your own site. Also, success story now often try to help people out with their best idea, is and, of course, how to make it happen so get emails every single day from people her, Why dont know my idea is, but I you might want think about that model. That concept of how there's been some your head for a long time, but you haven't done anything about it, but if so, maybe you should look at it and also when you experience a hard time. All of us have misfortune. We all have challenges that we go through. I don't ever want to make light of someone's misfortune, but I would encourage you when you experience something like that: losing your job,
looks like he's experienced. I would just encourage you to try to find a way to let your potential misfortune become an opportunity for positive change. So me to settlement let your potential misfortune become an opportunity for positive change does it mean that you wanted the misfortune to happen of course night? But since we can control the past, I believe we should do what we can to influence it, which is yet another reason why you never going to guess what I'm going to say. You need to start hustling right. That's my inspirational pep talk for the day, but don't just leave them creation. I want you to do something about it. Let this story these words lead you to action, keep your eyes on the prize, keep building something for yourself today shows our online at sight of sport. Dotcom slash to two eight yesterday story featured a rabbit three today: story featured a fashion Easter tomorrow, story features a beard. Man we're not only grows a beard, the also grows at grooming business. I'm excited to bring to you tomorrow it six. I want I M eastern time, but of course, listen whenever you want have
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