How to Run 2 Side Hustles When You Already Have a Full-Time Job
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What is the Cheat Sheet Club and why should listeners grab it?
Howdy my friend, really quick, I want to talk to you about something new we're doing here at Creator News Live. It's called the Cheat Sheet Club. Every week we take the best ideas from the episode and boil it down into a downloadable cheat sheet. The key takeaways, the tactics, the tools our guests actually use so you get the good stuff without having to re-listen or furiously try to take notes during the episode. Ever try to take notes while walking on a treadmill? Completely impossible. Impossible. Don't ask me how I know. It's free, so go grab it at Jeff C dot com forward slash cheat sheet. That's J E F F S N SAMIEH dot com forward slash cheat sheet. Alright, let's get into today's episode. Treat this seriously, right?
If you want to treat it like a hobby and you want to show up every now and then, that's fine. Hobbies are great. I love golf. I love all my hobbies that I have. Right. I'm not going on the PGA tour anytime soon because I'm not dedicated to doing any of that stuff, right? Sit down, put in the work. You have to show up. Hello folks, welcome to Creator News Live. I'm Jeff C and you're not. And I'm Connor Brown and this is the show that keeps you up to date on what's happening in the world of the creator economy and so much more. You ever looked at someone building a business on the side of a full-time job and thought, you know, how in the world are they pulling this off? Are you a marketer who has wondered if you could take your corporate skills and build something of your own in the margins?
Or maybe you're a solopreneur who needs a system for growing without burning out. If that sounds familiar, you are in the right place. This week we are flipping the script on Creator News Live, our co-host Connor Brown. Is on the guest chair for the finale of our side hustle secret series. Connor is the founder of Vacation Kingdoms and the director of agent development at Keys to the Castle Travel, where he has trained dozens of travel advisors. He's a former Walt Disney World cast member and a marketer by trade. And he's doing all of this on top of his full-time job. So today we're unpacking the side hustle stack, how the day job and the two side hustles feed each other. and what he has learned building a real business in the margin of a full-time career.
So sit back, clear your schedule, clear your mind, and get ready for this week's episode of Creator News Live.
It's Creator News Live, welcome to the show. Connor Brown is here, he's ready to go. Two side hustles and a full-time gig. His marketer's playbook, yeah, it's big.
Awesome Connor Brown. I've never looked better than when Jeff C makes me from AI look like Jacob Alordy out here. And I am not ha uh uh I am not disappointed with that, that's for sure. That's what that's the actually the new uh Chet G B C in image model, their image two, which they need to have a better name, but Yeah. So it's getting really, really cool. It basically did that from one prompt. And then of course I did my face uh swapping little thing that I do. And it it's just really, really sharp. So yeah, we've got we're gonna dive into this because Connor does have a lot of knowledge about side hustles. But first of all, I want to give a shout out to our friends over at Ecamm who sponsored the show.
You can find out more about them at ecamm.com forward slash Jeff. They're actually all right now in the UK. Wrapping up a crater camp there on the uh kind of a YouTube conference as well. But they're having a couple more this year. I'm gonna be in Chicago, I think in June or July at their event there, and then they have their big one in Portsmouth later on, uh, more towards the fall time of year. So we will uh we gotta go to one of those because it's amazing. Connor's been, I've been a couple times. They are awesome. ecamp.com forward slash Jeff. All right, so we're gonna get right into To it, Connor, because you've got a ton of side hustles. But I want to know from the audience, how many side hustles do you have running right now?
Like drop the number in the chat.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Cheat Sheet Club and why should listeners grab it?
0:02–14:20
2
How did Connor Brown turn his Disney obsession into a side‑hustle business?
14:20–27:12
3
What early steps did Connor take to launch Vacation Kingdoms and what surprised him?
27:12–32:07
4
How does a marketer‑first mindset shape Connor’s side‑hustles and travel‑advisor work?
32:07–37:10
5
What systems, templates, and automations does Connor use to juggle a full‑time job and two side hustles?
37:10–41:33
6
Which corporate marketing skills does Connor apply to his side hustle and what did he have to unlearn?
41:33–46:20
7
How is AI being integrated into Connor’s workflow and what concerns does he have about it?
46:20–50:40
8
What final advice does Connor give to creators and marketers looking to start or grow side hustles?
50:40–51:33
Speakers
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