Nick Loper
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293 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Feb 2025
Nick Loper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Absolutely. Get out of your comfort zone a little bit. Do it for 30 days or even maybe the baby steps way to do it would be to end your showers cold, which is kind of what I tend to do today because that's less, for some reason, less jarring than just like jumping straight into the cold water.
And I would definitely advocate focus first, simplify first, and then diversify second. So, you know, try and get one thing, one business, one income stream off the ground before going crazy and trying six things, you know, with an unfocused effort, because I think that's harder to see results from.
My original side hustle was, when I was working corporate, was a footwear comparison shopping site. It was called Shoesniper.com, and it would aggregate the product catalogs from Zappos and Amazon and all these other online footwear retailers and tell you where you could find the best price on your next pair of shoes, and it earned money as an affiliate.
Basically just a blog and podcast for people trying to make extra money outside of traditional employment. At the very low end of that, it could be like babysitting, walking dogs, delivering pizzas. I think all of those count as side hustles. There's a connotation that...
So if somebody went and bought that pair of shoes through Amazon, the site would get a commission. And while I was running that, and the site had a almost a 10 year run, was always looking for stuff on the side. And it was kind of like during one of these lower points of that business, doing some soul searching, be like, well, what do you want to be known for when people Google you?
a side hustle has a little bit more of an entrepreneurial upside where maybe you're not directly trading hours for dollars or maybe there's this vision, this hope, this dream that it could become something bigger as it definitely did for me with the shoe business.
What do you get excited about talking about? And it was that prospect of lower risk entrepreneurship. You know, how do I build a business on the side? How do I make extra money that, you know, really never gets old and still doesn't get old? Because there's a million and one creative ways that people are doing it.
Probably the textbook definition would be that upside potential. It's something that you have ownership over. Maybe it's an asset that you own versus, okay, I drive for Uber. or I'm delivering pizzas, or I'm doing Instacart deliveries or something like that.
And that's kind of where the Side Hustle Show and the Side Hustle Nation blog kind of were born from.
That absolutely counts as a side hustle in my mind, but at the same time, you're limited on how much you can do by your hours in the day versus with you starting The podcast, it's all of a sudden from a single mic and two people having a conversation, you could reach thousands and thousands of people and that is really powerful.
A lot of them. And so my days of experimenting with a lot of this stuff are kind of limited. So I used to do some freelancing, used to do some e-commerce experiments with like Amazon and eBay. And I still do a little bit of that, but that's kind of taken the back burner. The Side Hustle blog has... kind of become in the podcast, so kind of become the main focus.
It becomes a little bit more leveraged and I think there's a lot more upside. Even just like starting a freelancing business, like I'm going to do freelance writing, I'm going to do freelance podcast editing, whatever it is.
But there still are a dozen income streams related to that and not related to that through self-publishing, through affiliate marketing on the site and on a couple other sites that I still run. Sadly, the shoe site no longer exists, but some other sites that were started during that time are still around, starting some experiments in the investing world.
And it all adds up versus trying to rely on one source of income, having like a single point of failure.
That's a weird, it's a weird time, right? It's a weird statistic because on the surface, the economy is great. Unemployment is at record lows. Why are 44 million people feeling the need or the desire to go out and make extra money? So I think part of it is reactive, right? Housing, education, insurance, or healthcare, like all... All of those costs have grown way faster than real wages.
Well, not necessarily a preference one over the other, but the ultimate freedom, right, is control over your calendar. How do you spend your time? How do you spend your days? And if you can piece together an income on your own terms rather than on somebody else's terms, you're more likely to have that freedom. So that's kind of where it came from for me.
So that's a driving factor, like just the straight up cost of living and people feeling the crunch to make ends meet and pay down student debt. That's maybe the negative way to look at it. And the more positive way to look at it is I have the ability and the desire to start something that scratches a creative itch, that...
And I would definitely advocate focus first, simplify first, and then diversify second. So, you know, try and get one thing, one business, one income stream off the ground before going crazy and trying six things, you know, with an unfocused effort because I think that's harder to see results from.
is something that I have control over, that I'm interested in, that I'm passionate about, that's probably driving some of that as well. And those are kind of the people that are more interesting to talk to than the people like, well, I need to make rent next month. You're approaching it from a completely different standpoint. Yeah.
Basically just a blog and podcast for people trying to make extra money outside of traditional employment. At the very low end of that, it could be like babysitting, walking dogs, delivering pizzas. I think all of those count as side hustles. There's a connotation that...
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