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- 0:00Speaker 1: She's on the Money.
- 0:02Speaker 2: She's on the Money. Hello, and welcome to She's on
- 0:13Speaker 2: the Money, the podcast from millennials who want financial freedom.
- 0:16Speaker 2: Today's episode of the show is brought to you by myob,
- 0:19Speaker 2: a side hustle's best friend, but more on them later.
- 0:23Speaker 2: My name is Georgia King, a copywriter and TV assistant
- 0:26Speaker 2: with some savings but no idea what to do with them.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Just like last week and the one before that and
- 0:31Speaker 2: also the one before that, I am joined by Melbourne
- 0:34Speaker 2: Money with Miss Victoria Devine. Hello Victoria.
- 0:36Speaker 3: Hello.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Today's show is for the hustlers out there who have
- 0:39Speaker 2: side gigs on the go and want to know how
- 0:41Speaker 2: they can use their proactive side projects to accelerate their
- 0:44Speaker 2: savings and wealth. But first let's get into this week's
- 0:47Speaker 2: money wins and confessions. If it's all right with you,
- 0:50Speaker 2: I'll go first because I'm feeling a little bit guilty,
- 0:52Speaker 2: a little bit red face, because it happened, happened this week.
- 0:55Speaker 4: Go go go.
- 0:57Speaker 2: I got a Mikey, Fine, what do you do doing? Yeah?
- 1:00Speaker 2: I ran to the tram. I got onto the tram.
- 1:02Speaker 2: It was before seven am, and for some reason I
- 1:05Speaker 2: thought that it was free before seven am.
- 1:07Speaker 4: That's just the trains, though I didn't know that.
- 1:10Speaker 2: That's what the inspector said to me, so anyway, I
- 1:13Speaker 2: got whacked with it. I think it was two hundred
- 1:15Speaker 2: and eighty three dollar five.
- 1:16Speaker 4: Oh nasty.
- 1:17Speaker 2: Yeah, should have tapped on all right.
- 1:19Speaker 3: Well, that's a learning out there for everybody else who
- 1:21Speaker 3: thinks it's both trains for trams, It is, in fact
- 1:23Speaker 3: only trains.
- 1:24Speaker 1: How did you go go?
- 1:25Speaker 3: I went really well, I actually have a money win
- 1:27Speaker 3: for you this week. Je Who are you ready? Morgan
- 1:31Speaker 3: and I usually go to the gym we were with
- 1:33Speaker 3: f forty five and also had a separate Polarates membership,
- 1:36Speaker 3: which really expensive, so expensive, but we totally love what
- 1:40Speaker 3: we do and really liked doing that before work. Anyway,
- 1:43Speaker 3: we decided to go check out a new gym that
- 1:45Speaker 3: has opened in our area who oftens functional fitness classes
- 1:49Speaker 3: at exactly the same time as the forty five class
- 1:51Speaker 3: we were doing, and has a ripper reformer Polarts studio,
- 1:56Speaker 3: And we have now signed up and it's thirty dollars
- 1:58Speaker 3: a week compared.
- 1:59Speaker 4: To the dollars exactly. How good is that?
- 2:02Speaker 3: And we get our pilates and our forty five style
- 2:05Speaker 3: classes in the lucky. Yeah, less than so absolute money
- 2:09Speaker 3: win from us. Well done, girls, I am all about
- 2:12Speaker 3: it now.
- 2:12Speaker 2: As always, it's been a great week for this She's
- 2:15Speaker 2: on the money community with so many members coming forward
- 2:18Speaker 2: with their wins. Did anything stick out to you this
- 2:20Speaker 2: week as being particularly sparkly?
- 2:22Speaker 3: Yes and no, I have one from Jane. She actually
- 2:26Speaker 3: wrote in and said that she has a money loss
- 2:28Speaker 3: to share with us, and I thought that it was
- 2:30Speaker 3: worth sharing on here because apart from finding it slightly hilarious,
- 2:34Speaker 3: Sorry Jane, I also thought it was really fun to
- 2:37Speaker 3: share with the group. She said, I was inspired by
- 2:39Speaker 3: the podcast to think about a side hustle.
- 2:40Speaker 4: Yes, Jane go.
- 2:42Speaker 3: She said she didn't have any talents like music or arts,
- 2:44Speaker 3: so she responded to an ad for delivering junk mail.
- 2:47Speaker 3: It didn't say how much it was getting paid, and
- 2:49Speaker 3: it took her about ten hours over three evenings to
- 2:52Speaker 3: complete the letter. Drop and guess what she got paid
- 2:56Speaker 3: forty dollars and that is so hard labor. Whilst I'm
- 2:59Speaker 3: not she did post this in jest and said I
- 3:02Speaker 3: politely declined next week and said that it's probably not
- 3:05Speaker 3: for me.
- 3:06Speaker 4: She then said her hunt for our.
- 3:07Speaker 3: Side hustle is continuing, and I think that this is
- 3:11Speaker 3: kind of a funny money loss because it's not impacting
- 3:14Speaker 3: her too much, but also a really good learning shoes
- 3:17Speaker 3: last lesson that maybe if we're going to start a
- 3:19Speaker 3: side hustle, we should work out first.
- 3:21Speaker 4: How much we're gonna get paid.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Absolutely, Oh god.
- 3:24Speaker 4: Gee, have you got one for us?
- 3:25Speaker 2: So I had a little scroll and mine is from
- 3:28Speaker 2: lovely Lydia, who is sharing with us a money win.
- 3:32Speaker 2: She's written that every Sunday at the market, there's a
- 3:35Speaker 2: stall that lets you fill a box full of fruit
- 3:38Speaker 2: and veggies for fifteen dollars, so you can pack it
- 3:40Speaker 2: full of.
- 3:40Speaker 3: This, yes, and she uploaded the photo of the box.
- 3:42Speaker 3: Yeah and yeah, yeah it's massive.
- 3:44Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 3:45Speaker 2: So to make this food last because she does get
- 3:47Speaker 2: quite a bit, she freezes, marinates, or preserves where she
- 3:50Speaker 2: can to make the most of it.
- 3:52Speaker 3: So yes, fifteen dollars for a box full of fresh
- 3:55Speaker 3: fruit and vegetables is an absolute bargain.
- 3:57Speaker 2: So I am all about that, perfect way to start
- 3:59Speaker 2: your week.
- 4:00Speaker 4: That'szy.
- 4:01Speaker 2: Now it's into today's main chat. Side hustling. So many
- 4:05Speaker 2: people seem to have side gigs going on, be it
- 4:07Speaker 2: jewelry making, yoga, instructing, candle making, pet sitting, babysitting, dog walking,
- 4:13Speaker 2: instant influencing, podcasting, all the so many.
- 4:16Speaker 4: Things we get the gist.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Recent figures showed that more than one million Aussies have
- 4:21Speaker 2: their own side hustles in addition to their usual full
- 4:24Speaker 2: time jobs vib Why do you think we're seeing such
- 4:26Speaker 2: a rise in side hustles at the moment?
- 4:28Speaker 3: I think we're in a position where we all have
- 4:31Speaker 3: so much more opportunity because we are able to see
- 4:33Speaker 3: the opportunities that other people are uptaking. Before the rise
- 4:37Speaker 3: of social media, I don't think that there was the
- 4:39Speaker 3: clarity around what we are actually capable of and seeing
- 4:42Speaker 3: other people do things and thinking, ah, I could do that,
- 4:45Speaker 3: that doesn't seem so hard, or I could you know,
- 4:47Speaker 3: pet sit?
- 4:48Speaker 4: And I also think.
- 4:49Speaker 3: That it's a lot easier to have a side hustle
- 4:51Speaker 3: because we're able to connect far easier now than we
- 4:54Speaker 3: could ever before. So things like uber pet sitting, selling candles,
- 4:57Speaker 3: online babysitting are all increase because we have those online
- 5:01Speaker 3: platforms that actually connect us to the people who need
- 5:03Speaker 3: those services, Whereas previously it would be about posting an
- 5:07Speaker 3: ad in the paper and hoping someone saw it. I'm
- 5:09Speaker 3: actually really excited about this topic because we recently did
- 5:13Speaker 3: their She's on the Money community survey. We had twenty
- 5:16Speaker 3: seven hundred responses and ge it turns out that twenty
- 5:20Speaker 3: percent of all She's on the Money community members that
- 5:22Speaker 3: responded have a side hustle.
- 5:24Speaker 2: What other reasons would you say, Like, maybe rising costs
- 5:27Speaker 2: of living would be a good example of.
- 5:29Speaker 3: Yeah, I think rising cost of living is a really
- 5:31Speaker 3: good one. Actually, g people need that extra bit of income,
- 5:34Speaker 3: especially when we are living in a city. It is
- 5:37Speaker 3: so expensive rent, if you've got a mortgage on top
- 5:40Speaker 3: of rent, if you are grocery shopping, it is so much.
- 5:43Speaker 4: More expensive than it used to be.
- 5:45Speaker 3: And side hustling is a really good way to bring
- 5:47Speaker 3: in that extra income and support yourself financially through a
- 5:52Speaker 3: time that maybe you aren't able to.
- 5:54Speaker 4: Support yourself to the capacity you would want to.
- 5:56Speaker 3: And in saying that, I also think it's a really
- 5:58Speaker 3: good way for people to tell out a job that
- 6:01Speaker 3: they potentially might like but don't want to commit full
- 6:05Speaker 3: time to jumping over to another full time job. So
- 6:07Speaker 3: side hustling gives you that experience.
- 6:10Speaker 4: Without the risk associated.
- 6:11Speaker 2: Obviously be it will vary from hustle to hustle, But
- 6:15Speaker 2: for those considering starting a little side business, what things
- 6:18Speaker 2: would you say they need to be mindful of before
- 6:20Speaker 2: diving right on in there?
- 6:21Speaker 4: There's a fair few things.
- 6:23Speaker 3: I mean, I think side hustle is a really exciting
- 6:25Speaker 3: thing to start, But the first thing that I'd want
- 6:27Speaker 3: you to consider is your work life balance. Is this
- 6:30Speaker 3: side hustle going to take over all your free time?
- 6:33Speaker 3: And if it is, is that something you want to
- 6:36Speaker 3: actually happen. Can you actually fit this in with full
- 6:38Speaker 3: time work? Is that going to impact your capacity to
- 6:41Speaker 3: perform at your full time job? And is it going
- 6:44Speaker 3: to impact your capacity to hang out with your friends
- 6:47Speaker 3: or see your partner or go and see your family.
- 6:50Speaker 3: So I think these things need to be taken into
- 6:51Speaker 3: consideration before you do that. But on the flip side
- 6:54Speaker 3: of that, that's often why people are starting side hustles.
- 6:57Speaker 4: It's to provide more for their.
- 6:59Speaker 3: Families, see the friends more, and actually have something that
- 7:02Speaker 3: they really like in their lives. I also think it's
- 7:04Speaker 3: really important to work out why you're doing it, Like,
- 7:07Speaker 3: what's the reason are you doing this for additional income?
- 7:10Speaker 3: If so, maybe pick a side hustle that's more aligned
- 7:13Speaker 3: to that additional income, or are you really passionate about
- 7:17Speaker 3: candle making like you mentioned before, G I think if
- 7:20Speaker 3: you think that that's a really beautiful thing and you
- 7:22Speaker 3: could commercialize it in a way that people are going
- 7:25Speaker 3: to purchase your product, and you are really passionate about it,
- 7:28Speaker 3: like where is your drive coming from and what does
- 7:30Speaker 3: that actually look like for your future business? Because if
- 7:34Speaker 3: your intention with a side hustle is to start it
- 7:36Speaker 3: for additional revenue, maybe an all organic soy candle business
- 7:41Speaker 3: that only users pure essential oils is not the best
- 7:44Speaker 3: way to make money if you don't want to put
- 7:47Speaker 3: the time and energy into branding and marketing that because
- 7:49Speaker 3: obviously the cost of those materials is far higher than
- 7:52Speaker 3: the cost of doing something else. So I think it's
- 7:54Speaker 3: about just working out why you're doing what you're doing
- 7:57Speaker 3: and then to overlay that. You guys have a million times,
- 8:01Speaker 3: but does it align to your values? Is this something
- 8:03Speaker 3: that you actually want to do over the long term,
- 8:06Speaker 3: and are you going to sustain it?
- 8:07Speaker 2: For me doing my side hustle of this podcast and
- 8:11Speaker 2: my copywriting as a freelancer, it's important that the work
- 8:15Speaker 2: really aligns with my values and contributing creatively in the
- 8:19Speaker 2: media space is very important to me. That's what I'm
- 8:22Speaker 2: quite passionate about. So I hope she's on the money also,
- 8:26Speaker 2: that's a big part of it. Yeah, Ensuring that those
- 8:28Speaker 2: values align means that you're not going to get seven
- 8:31Speaker 2: weeks into your little side hustle and then loose all steam,
- 8:34Speaker 2: you know, and then feel deflated in yourself as well.
- 8:36Speaker 3: I also think it's really important to point out here
- 8:40Speaker 3: if you start a side hustle, it doesn't have to
- 8:42Speaker 3: be the thing that overtakes your full time job. I
- 8:44Speaker 3: think in this age of the entrepreneur, you're in a
- 8:47Speaker 3: position where often people say, I've started this side hustle,
- 8:50Speaker 3: and there's this expectation that you're going to grow this
- 8:53Speaker 3: side hustle to a size that it can overtake your
- 8:56Speaker 3: full time job. I don't think that that should be it.
- 8:59Speaker 3: I think we should be celebrating that people are bringing
- 9:02Speaker 3: in additional revenue, and if your side hustle turns into
- 9:05Speaker 3: a big business, amazing, fantastic, I'm so excited for you.
- 9:09Speaker 3: But often people who do side hustles do it because
- 9:12Speaker 3: they're supplementing a full time income. So that they can
- 9:14Speaker 3: create a lifestyle for themselves, and that's amazing.
- 9:17Speaker 2: So we've got lots of stuff now to consider before
- 9:19Speaker 2: we dive in to our side hustle. But what about
- 9:22Speaker 2: people that have already started their side hustles. Maybe it's
- 9:25Speaker 2: not going that well. How do they reinvigorate their hustle?
- 9:28Speaker 4: I think that's a really good question, gee, because I
- 9:30Speaker 4: think a.
- 9:31Speaker 3: Lot of people start side hustles and maybe don't structure
- 9:34Speaker 3: it properly. I know a lot of people often start
- 9:37Speaker 3: a side hustle with the one bank account, so they
- 9:39Speaker 3: don't separate their side hustle income from their regular income,
- 9:43Speaker 3: so they start spending it, but they haven't taken into
- 9:45Speaker 3: consideration any tax consequences or potential fees that they need
- 9:50Speaker 3: to pay, so they don't really separate it out and
- 9:52Speaker 3: budget it. So I think the important thing here is
- 9:55Speaker 3: separate finances. Put the money from a side hustle into
- 9:58Speaker 3: a separate bank account. Easy to set up a bank
- 10:01Speaker 3: account and potentially get a debit card for that as well,
- 10:05Speaker 3: because then you can put all your transactions in one account.
- 10:07Speaker 3: So if you're paying for subscriptions or you know, a
- 10:10Speaker 3: male Chimp subscription, you can put that on there and
- 10:13Speaker 3: at least have a really clean account that has all
- 10:16Speaker 3: of your income, all of your expenses, and all your
- 10:19Speaker 3: transactions in one place, and make the most of your time.
- 10:22Speaker 3: How long a task taking you? Like, what are you
- 10:25Speaker 3: doing that you could cut time down on? Are there
- 10:28Speaker 3: things that you could outsource as well?
- 10:30Speaker 4: It's like, if you're.
- 10:31Speaker 3: Doing something and it's taking you ten hours, is there
- 10:34Speaker 3: someone that would do that task in one hour that
- 10:37Speaker 3: you could pay fifty dollars to to do that task?
- 10:40Speaker 3: That then means you have ten free hours to generate
- 10:43Speaker 3: revenue in your business. So I think we need to
- 10:46Speaker 3: sometimes spend a little bit of money to make some money,
- 10:48Speaker 3: but we really need to put a little bit of
- 10:50Speaker 3: strategy and thaw into those decisions before we make them,
- 10:54Speaker 3: not just go oh, I'm going to outsource it, because
- 10:56Speaker 3: that's what good businesses do. It's like, all right, well,
- 10:59Speaker 3: if you outsource this and you're going to incur this
- 11:01Speaker 3: cost of fifty or one hundred dollars, how are you
- 11:04Speaker 3: going to make that back? What does that look like?
- 11:06Speaker 3: Because to be honest, sometimes it's just worth doing it yourself.
- 11:10Speaker 2: They're really good points. Victoria, and I guess speaking with
- 11:13Speaker 2: a lot of my friends who do have the side
- 11:15Speaker 2: hustle going on, they find it hard to value their skills.
- 11:19Speaker 2: So establishing what you're worth and what people are willing
- 11:22Speaker 2: to pay for that, how do you figure that out?
- 11:23Speaker 3: Stop undervaluing yourself. So many people are doing this. They
- 11:28Speaker 3: are under charging clients for the work they're doing, or
- 11:31Speaker 3: they're charging clients what the work is worth, but putting
- 11:34Speaker 3: too many hours into it and not reassessing those goals
- 11:37Speaker 3: and having a chat with them about hey, is this
- 11:39Speaker 3: taking me ten more hours? I'm going to need to
- 11:41Speaker 3: up my prices or I'm going to need to invoice
- 11:44Speaker 3: you for this. And I think it is totally fair
- 11:46Speaker 3: and reasonable to go back to a client and say, hey,
- 11:49Speaker 3: I did more work on this than I needed to,
- 11:51Speaker 3: or just make sure that you're really valuing the piece
- 11:54Speaker 3: of work before you even start. So have a think
- 11:56Speaker 3: about it. Is this going to take me five hours?
- 11:58Speaker 3: Is it going to take me ten hours? What does
- 12:00Speaker 3: that look like? But I think putting a value on
- 12:02Speaker 3: your work is very very hard, and it's something I
- 12:05Speaker 3: even struggle with. But I think it's a conversation to
- 12:08Speaker 3: have with your friends as well.
- 12:10Speaker 2: I find as well a lot of my friends because
- 12:13Speaker 2: they're kind of starting out, people will come to them
- 12:15Speaker 2: and be like, oh, can I have a discount? Like
- 12:17Speaker 2: kind of family, friends or people that are kind of
- 12:19Speaker 2: connected to them. How do you say no to that?
- 12:21Speaker 2: I know it really grinds their gears.
- 12:23Speaker 3: If your friend has a side hustle and is breaking
- 12:27Speaker 3: their back doing a whole heap of work to try
- 12:30Speaker 3: and supplement their income, it's a bit disrespectful to ask
- 12:34Speaker 3: them for a discount. If you want to support your
- 12:36Speaker 3: friends who have a side hustle, support them by going
- 12:38Speaker 3: and buying their product full price. Support them by going
- 12:42Speaker 3: and showing them that you believe in their product and
- 12:44Speaker 3: you are promoting them.
- 12:45Speaker 2: So what about when you're putting a price on your work?
- 12:49Speaker 2: How do you know how high to go and how
- 12:50Speaker 2: low to go? I know if you go too low,
- 12:53Speaker 2: people will think it's cheap and they won't value your
- 12:56Speaker 2: work for what it's worth. How do you find that medium?
- 13:00Speaker 3: That's such a behavioral psychology thing, And I'm glad you
- 13:03Speaker 3: brought it up. Putting a value on your work is
- 13:05Speaker 3: really important. We all go through the stage where we
- 13:07Speaker 3: need to prove ourselves, and you do some work that
- 13:09Speaker 3: is potentially undervalued. But once you get through that initial phase,
- 13:13Speaker 3: I think putting yourself in a position where you go, no,
- 13:16Speaker 3: the work that I do is good and it needs
- 13:17Speaker 3: to be valued means that you're going to find your people.
- 13:20Speaker 3: You're going to find the people who believe in the
- 13:22Speaker 3: value that you have and they are able to reciprocate that.
- 13:26Speaker 4: So you create the.
- 13:27Speaker 3: Community of people that you want instead of having a
- 13:30Speaker 3: community of people that just don't see your value. So
- 13:33Speaker 3: I think it's really important to also pick the people
- 13:36Speaker 3: that you're marketing to. It's important to pick the people
- 13:39Speaker 3: that you are trying to get to engage with your product.
- 13:42Speaker 4: What do they look like? How does that work?
- 13:44Speaker 3: You know, if you want to be a dog walker
- 13:46Speaker 3: and you want to charge a premium, well, what type
- 13:49Speaker 3: of person are you looking for and what is that
- 13:52Speaker 3: service that they would expect in return? Because I'm telling
- 13:54Speaker 3: you right now, it's more than the cheaper dog walkers.
- 13:57Speaker 3: So where is that value going to come from? And
- 14:00Speaker 3: how do you help them to see that? Now?
- 14:02Speaker 2: VI we touched on GSD before, made my skin crawl
- 14:05Speaker 2: feeling a little bit sick about it because I don't understand.
- 14:08Speaker 2: Can you talk to me from it. Talk to me
- 14:11Speaker 2: about tax and what we need to consider.
- 14:13Speaker 1: Do we need ABMs?
- 14:14Speaker 2: What else do I need? Tell me the things? Wise, lady,
- 14:17Speaker 2: all right, Wise, lady G.
- 14:20Speaker 3: I know you probably don't want to hear this, but
- 14:23Speaker 3: if you've got a side hustle, you do have to
- 14:25Speaker 3: be paying tax. And yeah, I'm sorry. A side hustle
- 14:28Speaker 3: is actually an activity where you are generating business income,
- 14:32Speaker 3: so you do need to pay tax on this.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Do you need to be earning a certain amount to
- 14:38Speaker 2: have to pay tax? How does that work technically? But
- 14:40Speaker 2: all your business income actually needs to be declared to
- 14:42Speaker 2: the ATO. Whether you end up paying tax or not
- 14:45Speaker 2: is a different story based on how much revenue you're
- 14:47Speaker 2: generating in addition to your full time job. But I'm
- 14:51Speaker 2: going to preface this conversation really quickly with that I'm
- 14:55Speaker 2: not a tax professional, I'm not an accountant, but I
- 14:58Speaker 2: do know that you need to be declaring all your
- 15:01Speaker 2: income and that means registering your business as soon as
- 15:04Speaker 2: you start it with the ATO and making sure that's
- 15:07Speaker 2: all up and running. And one thing I would say
- 15:10Speaker 2: is do your research work out how much money you
- 15:12Speaker 2: need to be putting aside for tax, because the worst
- 15:15Speaker 2: thing that can happen is you start a side hustle
- 15:17Speaker 2: and you're like, sweet, I've got all this additional money
- 15:20Speaker 2: coming in, start living your best life. And then comes
- 15:23Speaker 2: June thirty, which, by.
- 15:25Speaker 4: The way, is my birthday.
- 15:26Speaker 3: Great day, let's try change the perception. But I think
- 15:30Speaker 3: it's really important to then not get stung at tax
- 15:32Speaker 3: time with a big tax bill that you no longer
- 15:35Speaker 3: have that cash to pay.
- 15:36Speaker 2: So vee, does this tie into the separate bank accounts thing?
- 15:39Speaker 2: Is that going to make this easier? Because yeah, it's
- 15:40Speaker 2: going to bum it on the microphone.
- 15:42Speaker 4: Sorry, you are being incredibly dramatic.
- 15:44Speaker 3: For this episode. You are absolutely correct. It does make
- 15:48Speaker 3: everything clearer. Having a bank account that just has a
- 15:51Speaker 3: list of your expenses and a list of your income.
- 15:54Speaker 3: It's going to mean that you know what you need
- 15:56Speaker 3: to be taking out for tax and reserving. And you
- 15:58Speaker 3: could potentially have a separate bank account where you put
- 16:01Speaker 3: the money that you're putting aside for tax once you
- 16:04Speaker 3: work out how much tax you need to be paying
- 16:06Speaker 3: each year.
- 16:07Speaker 2: Are you free after this because I'm going to need that.
- 16:11Speaker 4: I am.
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- 17:33Speaker 2: twenty twenty business goals. I bet, just for a moment there,
- 17:36Speaker 2: you thought I was going to introduce the listener question.
- 17:38Speaker 2: Alas that's not happening this week. We're not always that predictable, guys.
- 17:43Speaker 2: Instead of our listener question and our money diary, Victoria
- 17:46Speaker 2: sat down to chat side hustles with a friend. You
- 17:48Speaker 2: may already be familiar with, the fabulous Emma from the
- 17:50Speaker 2: Broke Generation.
- 17:51Speaker 4: Where'd you start? Why?
- 17:53Speaker 1: When? Where?
- 17:53Speaker 4: How?
- 17:55Speaker 1: Okay?
- 17:55Speaker 5: I've kind of always been a bit of a side
- 17:57Speaker 5: hustler way back of like high school and UNI. I
- 18:01Speaker 5: would sort of sell my clothes on eBay and stuff
- 18:05Speaker 5: because eBay in the UK is like quite lucrative. Then
- 18:08Speaker 5: it kind of progressed into me having quite a good
- 18:11Speaker 5: eye for things that would sell really well, sort of
- 18:13Speaker 5: back before there was online shopping, which makes me sound
- 18:15Speaker 5: one hundred years old there was kind of a bit
- 18:17Speaker 5: of a culture of if something was seen on the
- 18:19Speaker 5: very early iterations of bloggers or in like Cosmopology and magazine,
- 18:23Speaker 5: it would sell out really quickly. So I would kind
- 18:25Speaker 5: of have a good eye for what those things were
- 18:27Speaker 5: and then buy them and then sell them on eBay
- 18:29Speaker 5: when people would pay like double for them. Very I
- 18:31Speaker 5: kind of wish I pursued that, but I didn't. You
- 18:35Speaker 5: had been like a designer buyer ip me. But then
- 18:41Speaker 5: I kind of stopped start tustling for a while and
- 18:43Speaker 5: then got really back into it when I moved to
- 18:45Speaker 5: Australia when I was twenty two, so five years ago,
- 18:47Speaker 5: and I started doing freelance writing just purely kind of
- 18:52Speaker 5: started because I needed to get a full time job
- 18:54Speaker 5: and I just needed to kind of get some connections
- 18:56Speaker 5: with some agencies. So I started freelancing there and then
- 18:59Speaker 5: got jobs from that and kind of dipped in and
- 19:01Speaker 5: out of freelancing, and that was like my main side hustle.
- 19:03Speaker 5: So I would write website copy, blog copy, that type
- 19:06Speaker 5: of thing, and then now I've moved more into obviously
- 19:09Speaker 5: half the blog. A couple of years ago, I started
- 19:12Speaker 5: doing cat sitting, so I go to homes, good to
- 19:16Speaker 5: the homes, feed their cats.
- 19:17Speaker 1: While there on holiday.
- 19:18Speaker 4: I'm all for it.
- 19:19Speaker 3: I did so wish I'd known that that could have
- 19:21Speaker 3: been a job for me before I started doing money.
- 19:24Speaker 1: But so great.
- 19:25Speaker 5: One of the best clients in the world because they
- 19:27Speaker 5: can't speak. And then I also sell secondhand clothes on
- 19:33Speaker 5: my Instagram account called midsized Thrift so for mid size
- 19:36Speaker 5: gals size like twelve to sixteen. So I find stuff
- 19:38Speaker 5: in markets and thrift shops.
- 19:40Speaker 3: Yeah, and you blog about that too, right about going
- 19:43Speaker 3: to the op shops and picking up things and like
- 19:45Speaker 3: what around Melbourne is a good place to pick up
- 19:48Speaker 3: a bug in?
- 19:49Speaker 4: Right? Yes, amazing?
- 19:50Speaker 1: I love it.
- 19:51Speaker 3: Can you tell me a little bit more about how
- 19:53Speaker 3: you got into freelancing? So, but like where did you start?
- 19:56Speaker 3: Did you advertise online? How did you find your first
- 19:58Speaker 3: clients to freelance too?
- 20:00Speaker 5: I've pretty much got where I am because of sending
- 20:02Speaker 5: a shitload of cold emails, also using platforms like it
- 20:06Speaker 5: used to be called oDesk but now it's called upwork.
- 20:09Speaker 5: Oh yeah, get a copyright dot com. So I've been
- 20:11Speaker 5: sort of blogging and contributing to really early iterations of
- 20:15Speaker 5: blogs and online magazines I suppose, which was obviously unpaid
- 20:19Speaker 5: kind of online internships type thing. And then from there
- 20:21Speaker 5: I started getting some paid work through platforms like upwork
- 20:24Speaker 5: and things like that. The income started really really low,
- 20:26Speaker 5: like twenty dollars a month.
- 20:28Speaker 3: Yeah, we were speaking before this interview and you were saying,
- 20:30Speaker 3: you always have to start low because you've got to
- 20:32Speaker 3: prove yourself.
- 20:34Speaker 4: But like, what does that journey look like.
- 20:36Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a really difficult journey because at the beginning,
- 20:38Speaker 5: even though I don't believe anybody should work unpaid, unfortunately
- 20:41Speaker 5: we live in a world where you have to do
- 20:43Speaker 5: things to get opportunities. So if you can do stuff
- 20:46Speaker 5: for free or for very little money, it does help
- 20:48Speaker 5: you build up a portfolio. You have to start really low,
- 20:51Speaker 5: and then at that point when you are starting to charge,
- 20:53Speaker 5: you kind of want to go lobal because you want
- 20:56Speaker 5: the work. Especially if it's like a client that you
- 20:58Speaker 5: really really want to work with, you are going to
- 21:00Speaker 5: go low so that you get it, especially.
- 21:02Speaker 3: If you want that sitting on your portfolio so you
- 21:04Speaker 3: can say you worked with them.
- 21:05Speaker 1: Right exactly.
- 21:06Speaker 5: So it's really balancing the value that they're giving to
- 21:08Speaker 5: you that isn't money. So if it's a big client
- 21:11Speaker 5: and they've mentioned possibly future work, or you think there
- 21:13Speaker 5: could be referral opportunities, or it's really really what you
- 21:16Speaker 5: want and you know you're going to be able to
- 21:17Speaker 5: leverage it to get other work, then going low. I
- 21:19Speaker 5: would still go low now if I had the right opportunity,
- 21:22Speaker 5: and I've been doing this for like eight nine years.
- 21:24Speaker 5: The difficult part is when you get good at what
- 21:27Speaker 5: you're doing and you can charge more, but you are
- 21:30Speaker 5: scared to charge more because you're scared that the work
- 21:31Speaker 5: will go away. But it doesn't happen all that often,
- 21:34Speaker 5: and you do need to know you're worth because ultimately
- 21:36Speaker 5: your time gets more expensive as you get more experienced.
- 21:39Speaker 5: So even if you're thinking, oh, well, I might as
- 21:41Speaker 5: well do it for two hundred bucks because I'd rather
- 21:44Speaker 5: do it for two hundred than not to do it
- 21:45Speaker 5: for four hundred, Yeah, you need to be quite self
- 21:47Speaker 5: aware of when that stops being true.
- 21:49Speaker 3: Personally, when I'm increasing my prices in my business because
- 21:53Speaker 3: I know that what I'm putting on the table is
- 21:54Speaker 3: now more valuable. It's very easy with new clients because
- 21:57Speaker 3: you give them a clean quote and they go, well.
- 22:00Speaker 4: That makes sense.
- 22:01Speaker 3: How have you renegotiated payment terms with clients who got
- 22:05Speaker 3: you at that start point where they were paying you
- 22:08Speaker 3: twenty dollars an article and now you're worth seventy five
- 22:10Speaker 3: dollars an hour, Like what does that journey look like?
- 22:13Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a really difficult aspect of it. I've
- 22:15Speaker 5: recently had to do it for my pet sitting clients
- 22:18Speaker 5: because again I went in really lobal because you're entering
- 22:21Speaker 5: somebody's home when they're not there. Don't trust you stuff, right, Yeah,
- 22:26Speaker 5: So I just had to raise my rates for that,
- 22:28Speaker 5: and it was because of you know, public transport goes
- 22:30Speaker 5: up every year. Petrol's ridiculous. At the moment my car
- 22:34Speaker 5: is being used more, the rate has to go up,
- 22:36Speaker 5: and I think it's you've got to be really careful
- 22:38Speaker 5: that you explain. I kind of drafted the message out
- 22:41Speaker 5: to my fur families, as I call them, and it
- 22:43Speaker 5: was like, I'm really sorrychel's gone up and I hope
- 22:46Speaker 5: you understand. And I was just like, don't be don't
- 22:48Speaker 5: apologize absolutely, because it's unrealistic for I mean, look at
- 22:51Speaker 5: metro Metro gets more expensive every year. Like, no, if
- 22:56Speaker 5: you bought the same kind of soup from the supermarket
- 22:58Speaker 5: every year it would go up because that's what so
- 23:01Speaker 5: I haven't raised my rates for them since the very beginning,
- 23:03Speaker 5: which was two and a half years ago, and you
- 23:06Speaker 5: just have to go in and say that it's factual
- 23:08Speaker 5: and again price it. So some of my clients are
- 23:11Speaker 5: on preferential rates because.
- 23:12Speaker 4: They still want to work with them don't want.
- 23:14Speaker 1: To work with then they're really near my house.
- 23:16Speaker 5: With things like that, it's quite easy to balance what's
- 23:17Speaker 5: valuable because if they live far away, it's more petrol,
- 23:19Speaker 5: it cost you more. So there are some that are
- 23:21Speaker 5: on rates, and yeah, balance whether or not you want
- 23:23Speaker 5: to raise the rate or whether you want to offer
- 23:25Speaker 5: them a preferential rate. If you have, tell them that
- 23:27Speaker 5: you have, then they see that there's value and that
- 23:31Speaker 5: you value them. It's really just communication and being okay
- 23:35Speaker 5: to walk away if they say no, if they kick
- 23:37Speaker 5: up a fuss and you go, okay, we'll just keep
- 23:39Speaker 5: it out wads, that rate's never going up because you've
- 23:42Speaker 5: just completely relinquished all your power.
- 23:44Speaker 3: And it sounds as though this whole side hustling inside
- 23:47Speaker 3: business area is a lot harder than people make it
- 23:50Speaker 3: out to be. Would that be true in your case?
- 23:54Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely harder than it seems because people see
- 23:57Speaker 5: on the surface like, oh, wow, you come home and
- 23:59Speaker 5: you get paid seventy five dollars an hour, not every
- 24:02Speaker 5: hour I'm working in space, even my dollars an hour,
- 24:04Speaker 5: because sometimes it's pet sitting, which is obviously way cheaper
- 24:06Speaker 5: than that. Sometimes it's selling clothes online, which is no
- 24:08Speaker 5: money until I've sold the item, and I have to
- 24:10Speaker 5: physically invest in product, which is a whole other ball
- 24:12Speaker 5: game which I wasn't really prepared for. Got to also
- 24:14Speaker 5: charge enough to cover your costs of how much it
- 24:17Speaker 5: takes to maintain it. And you can get lazy in
- 24:19Speaker 5: the beginning because you're not making loads of money that
- 24:22Speaker 5: you kind of think, oh, it's just really small. I
- 24:23Speaker 5: won't you know, do proper invoicing, or won't pay for
- 24:25Speaker 5: an accounting software or an accountant.
- 24:27Speaker 1: But it's worth doing.
- 24:29Speaker 5: Even though it feels counterproductive at the time because maybe
- 24:32Speaker 5: it costs more than you're making, it's definitely worth it
- 24:34Speaker 5: because you're leveling up and you're preparing to scale. And
- 24:37Speaker 5: I think as a trap people fall into with a
- 24:38Speaker 5: side hustle, they think that it's always just going to
- 24:40Speaker 5: be a bit of extra coffee money, but it doesn't
- 24:42Speaker 5: have to be you can earn the same in your
- 24:43Speaker 5: side hustle as you make in your full time job.
- 24:45Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And I love that you're saying you can
- 24:48Speaker 3: make the same as your full time job in a
- 24:50Speaker 3: side hustle. You didn't say you can make enough to
- 24:53Speaker 3: quit your full time job. So I'd love to know
- 24:56Speaker 3: a little bit about your opinion of side hustling turning
- 24:59Speaker 3: into full time work or potentially not turning into full
- 25:02Speaker 3: time work, Like how do you view a side hustle,
- 25:04Speaker 3: Like where does that fit into your life?
- 25:06Speaker 5: I wrote a blog recently called why don't have to
- 25:08Speaker 5: work for yourself to be successful? I think that the
- 25:10Speaker 5: side hustle culture has really fallen into the trap of
- 25:13Speaker 5: it being kind of a bridge between you know, hustling
- 25:17Speaker 5: working really hard and staying up till midnight and listening
- 25:19Speaker 5: Tony Robbins at five thirty in the morning. But eventually
- 25:22Speaker 5: it's not a culture to that drinking coffee with butter
- 25:25Speaker 5: in and oh.
- 25:26Speaker 4: Yeah, no wi we say, sitting here without Alma and lat.
- 25:32Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a real culture of the hustle being really
- 25:35Speaker 5: hard at the time, but eventually it will be over
- 25:37Speaker 5: because you'll be working for yourself.
- 25:38Speaker 1: And you'll be your own man and that kind of thing.
- 25:41Speaker 5: But I think what people forget is that if everybody
- 25:43Speaker 5: did that, we wouldn't have a developed economy because if
- 25:45Speaker 5: everyone was just working for themselves, it wouldn't work the
- 25:48Speaker 5: same way.
- 25:48Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't think that that's aligned to a
- 25:50Speaker 3: lot of people's values. And like, no one's going to
- 25:52Speaker 3: be surprised that I'm going to say that values are
- 25:55Speaker 3: really important here. But I think that if you are
- 25:58Speaker 3: really happy in a full time job, there's absolutely no
- 26:01Speaker 3: pressure on you to go and get a side hustle
- 26:04Speaker 3: or get a job or start your own business that
- 26:07Speaker 3: is outside of what you're doing. You can be a passionate, enthusiastic,
- 26:12Speaker 3: well rounded person without being a business owner.
- 26:15Speaker 5: Employment is very demonized at the moment when actually, if
- 26:21Speaker 5: you have a full time job and a side hustle,
- 26:23Speaker 5: you can afford to take real big swings in your
- 26:25Speaker 5: side hustle because you're not relying on the income to
- 26:26Speaker 5: pay atual you rent. Absolutely So, Yeah, I've just spent
- 26:29Speaker 5: four thousand dollars on a new website for a blog
- 26:31Speaker 5: that doesn't make any money, which, guys, is By the way,
- 26:35Speaker 5: I'm pretty happy with it. I wouldn't be if I
- 26:37Speaker 5: was doing my side hustle full time. I wouldn't be
- 26:39Speaker 5: in a position to make that kind of investment because
- 26:41Speaker 5: it's pretty much every dollar I've made from all four
- 26:43Speaker 5: side hustles in the last few months gone straight back in.
- 26:45Speaker 5: Whereas because my job pays my bills, I can take
- 26:49Speaker 5: bigger swings and I can grow more, and you get
- 26:53Speaker 5: to take loads of risks and make massive mistakes while
- 26:56Speaker 5: someone else is looking after your bills being paid.
- 26:59Speaker 3: I think that there is a lack of clarity on
- 27:02Speaker 3: what it actually means to have a side hustle because
- 27:04Speaker 3: Instagram and Facebook and this whole internet community make it
- 27:08Speaker 3: seem really glossy and shiny and a little bit sexy.
- 27:12Speaker 3: So I think that there is just this perception that
- 27:15Speaker 3: side hustling is really cool, and it obviously is, like
- 27:19Speaker 3: we're here, but it is one of those things that
- 27:21Speaker 3: you should be doing it, like what is your side hustle?
- 27:24Speaker 3: And I just think that pressure can sometimes be really unnecessary.
- 27:27Speaker 5: Yeah, and the pressure to make loads of money from
- 27:31Speaker 5: it right away. If you go into it just to
- 27:33Speaker 5: make extra money, probably isn't going to last. I think
- 27:35Speaker 5: you need to see it as a long term thing
- 27:36Speaker 5: and kind of be serendipitous with it, because I'm not
- 27:39Speaker 5: sitting here. I don't want people to come at me
- 27:41Speaker 5: in two years and be like, you're doing your side
- 27:42Speaker 5: hustle full time and you said you never would. Because
- 27:45Speaker 5: I'm not saying I never would.
- 27:46Speaker 4: It don't come at me because it was good.
- 27:49Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not saying it will never go full time,
- 27:51Speaker 5: and I might, but that's not why I did it.
- 27:54Speaker 1: I didn't do it as an escape.
- 27:55Speaker 5: Route from my full time job. Yeah, it works in
- 27:58Speaker 5: tandem with that.
- 28:00Speaker 3: And something I love about you and what you talk
- 28:02Speaker 3: about on your blog is not necessarily what you make,
- 28:05Speaker 3: it's actually how you use it. And you mentioned just
- 28:08Speaker 3: before that people are going into side hustles to make money,
- 28:13Speaker 3: and that's obviously a reason that we pick it up,
- 28:15Speaker 3: But like, why should people get side hustles? So if
- 28:17Speaker 3: I was starting today and I was saying, Emma, what
- 28:20Speaker 3: do I do?
- 28:20Speaker 4: How do I do it? Why should I start our
- 28:22Speaker 4: side hustle, what would you.
- 28:23Speaker 5: Say, can you make money from something that you love doing?
- 28:27Speaker 5: Because obviously yes, don't go in just to make money
- 28:29Speaker 5: because they don't start out very lucrative.
- 28:31Speaker 4: I mean, I love cats.
- 28:31Speaker 3: If you just told me that, I can there you
- 28:33Speaker 3: go from so I'm here for this, please tell me
- 28:36Speaker 3: your secret.
- 28:36Speaker 5: Then you've got to look for things that you love
- 28:38Speaker 5: and then gaps in the market that you can fill.
- 28:41Speaker 5: That said, there doesn't have to be a gap in
- 28:42Speaker 5: the market. I think a lot of people shy away
- 28:44Speaker 5: from side hustles because everything's already been done. But that
- 28:47Speaker 5: isn't Yes, okay, if you're going to go and say
- 28:49Speaker 5: your side hustle's going to be a fashion blog, I'd
- 28:51Speaker 5: say the market's are tiny bit saturated. Yeah, but just
- 28:54Speaker 5: because obviously there's already cat sitters. If I've done a
- 28:56Speaker 5: quick Google search, oh there's cat setches in my area,
- 28:57Speaker 5: I can't do it.
- 28:58Speaker 1: Then yeah, I wouldn't.
- 29:00Speaker 4: Be yourself out of an opportunity.
- 29:02Speaker 5: Give yourself a chance to try and test it out
- 29:05Speaker 5: and see if people take it up again, send loads
- 29:08Speaker 5: of cold emails, or advertise on Facebook. You can, you know,
- 29:12Speaker 5: do Facebook adds really cheap now. But I think a
- 29:15Speaker 5: really good way to start a side house is set aside,
- 29:17Speaker 5: whether it's one hundred bucks, five hundred bucks, a thousand bucks,
- 29:20Speaker 5: and say that that's your like startup money, and be
- 29:24Speaker 5: okay with losing that if it doesn't go anywhere.
- 29:27Speaker 4: But it's an investment, right, it could swing either way.
- 29:29Speaker 5: Yes, So to make sure that you don't go down
- 29:32Speaker 5: the rabbit hole of plugging away money at something that
- 29:34Speaker 5: isn't going to turn into a lucrative sidehussle. Yes, set
- 29:36Speaker 5: aside some money that you're okay with spending on that
- 29:39Speaker 5: and just try different things. I got into petsitting using
- 29:42Speaker 5: an app called Porshake a bit like I was saying
- 29:43Speaker 5: about the writing, there's so many websites and apps now
- 29:46Speaker 5: that are literally designed to help you make money. Know,
- 29:49Speaker 5: you shouldn't stay on them forever because they take big
- 29:51Speaker 5: fees and they need to make money too, so be
- 29:54Speaker 5: smart about it. But it can help you, like I said,
- 29:56Speaker 5: get experience. So I was on Porshake for about a
- 30:00Speaker 5: months and then I came off of their.
- 30:02Speaker 4: Platforms do take a lot more than you think they.
- 30:04Speaker 5: Take, right, they do, But I mean in the case
- 30:07Speaker 5: of Pulshake, they were also paying my insurance, and my
- 30:10Speaker 5: insurance was almost a thousand dollars a year, So before
- 30:12Speaker 5: I had clients, I wasn't in a position to pay
- 30:14Speaker 5: for that, So take it with a grain of salts.
- 30:17Speaker 5: Quite often they're taking care of something that you would
- 30:19Speaker 5: have to. I mean, I don't doubt they're oh petitors
- 30:21Speaker 5: that don't have insurance, but yeah.
- 30:23Speaker 3: And I think, I think if you're doing something like
- 30:26Speaker 3: going into other people's homes, I just want that security.
- 30:29Speaker 3: And not even as a client, but if I was
- 30:31Speaker 3: doing that, I'd want the security to know that I
- 30:34Speaker 3: was safe doing that and that I wouldn't ruin anything
- 30:37Speaker 3: that couldn't be fixed, and I would end up in
- 30:39Speaker 3: a whole heap of debt because that's absolutely counterproductive to
- 30:42Speaker 3: the reason you were there in the first place, right exactly,
- 30:45Speaker 3: So if I said to you, am I really want
- 30:46Speaker 3: to start a side hustle, and I know what I
- 30:49Speaker 3: want to do, Let's say I want to be a
- 30:51Speaker 3: dog sitter?
- 30:53Speaker 4: What steps do I need to take? Like where should
- 30:55Speaker 4: I be going?
- 30:56Speaker 5: First of all, I'd start treating it like it makes
- 30:59Speaker 5: a lot more than it does. So set up a
- 31:03Speaker 5: spreadsheet track your expenses because things like that type of
- 31:08Speaker 5: side hustle do incur a lot of expenses. There's obviously kilometers.
- 31:12Speaker 5: Get savvy with tax. People forget tax on their side hustle.
- 31:16Speaker 5: But it's also not taxed high. I get this a lot.
- 31:19Speaker 5: Oh it's not worth me getting a second job because
- 31:21Speaker 5: it's tax so high.
- 31:22Speaker 4: But they don't take a home.
- 31:23Speaker 1: It's no more tax.
- 31:25Speaker 4: It's the same amount of tax that you already pay
- 31:27Speaker 4: at your marginal rate.
- 31:28Speaker 1: Right likely.
- 31:29Speaker 5: And then also think about the brand and the marketing
- 31:33Speaker 5: of it. You need people need to know about you,
- 31:35Speaker 5: and depending on what type of side hustle it is,
- 31:37Speaker 5: but we'll use the dog sitting example. They need to
- 31:39Speaker 5: think about what they need from you. So do they
- 31:41Speaker 5: need experience? Do they need to trust you? Do they
- 31:43Speaker 5: need all of the above? Do they want you to
- 31:45Speaker 5: be a female? I mean I think I get a
- 31:47Speaker 5: lot of work because I'm a female. People wouldn't necessarily
- 31:49Speaker 5: want a man coming into their home if they live alone.
- 31:53Speaker 5: So yeah, think about what they need from you. So
- 31:56Speaker 5: my cat sitting business including name and my suburb names,
- 32:01Speaker 5: so people knew I was female, and then they knew
- 32:04Speaker 5: exactly the areas that I would service. Obviously, you need
- 32:07Speaker 5: to be a bit smart bout business names in case
- 32:08Speaker 5: they're taken or if you want to trade. But that's
- 32:11Speaker 5: that's you know, that's not really the super early stages.
- 32:14Speaker 5: You were not going to trade market on day one necessarily,
- 32:16Speaker 5: and then you really want to think about the actual brand.
- 32:19Speaker 5: You might think that just because it's your small dog
- 32:20Speaker 5: walking business, it doesn't need a brand. But using photography
- 32:23Speaker 5: and consistent colors and fonts, you can do loads of
- 32:26Speaker 5: things on really free tools like Canva.
- 32:28Speaker 3: Now, oh I love can Yeah, I started most of
- 32:31Speaker 3: the shoes on the Money staff just using Canva.
- 32:33Speaker 4: They have so many good templates.
- 32:35Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't have to cost you a lot to
- 32:37Speaker 3: start a business and make it look professionally marketed.
- 32:39Speaker 5: Right exactly, And then eventually you'll kind of graduate to
- 32:43Speaker 5: more page tools like Photoshop and things.
- 32:46Speaker 1: You can start off.
- 32:46Speaker 5: Really low cost and get your assets and get everything
- 32:49Speaker 5: kind of like well rounded, don't leave any holes. You
- 32:52Speaker 5: might want to make booking forms or anything like that
- 32:55Speaker 5: that can help kind of legitimize the offering because you
- 32:57Speaker 5: don't want it to look like it's your first day
- 33:00Speaker 5: doing it. And yeah, just kind of locked down that
- 33:02Speaker 5: messaging as though it's a global business. And then if
- 33:06Speaker 5: you one day are a global business, you're ready.
- 33:07Speaker 1: To be Yes.
- 33:08Speaker 4: Absolutely.
- 33:09Speaker 3: Too many times do I see people shooting themselves in
- 33:11Speaker 3: the foot because they've structured their business in a way
- 33:15Speaker 3: that they aren't ready to scale. And when we say scale,
- 33:19Speaker 3: we're not talking about going from earning one hundred dollars
- 33:22Speaker 3: extra income each week to six million. We're not talking
- 33:25Speaker 3: about that scale. We're just talking about, you know, really
- 33:27Speaker 3: ramping up the costs. Because when you have a business
- 33:29Speaker 3: that is generating you forty or fifty thousand dollars a year,
- 33:32Speaker 3: you do have accounting fees, you do have things that
- 33:35Speaker 3: you need to pay, like tax in not GST yet,
- 33:38Speaker 3: but tax, and at some point in the near future
- 33:41Speaker 3: you'll need to pay GST on that money. And I
- 33:43Speaker 3: think being able to pay that is really important. And
- 33:46Speaker 3: if you're taking half of it in cash and not
- 33:48Speaker 3: declaring it, you're making it really messy for yourself.
- 33:50Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 33:51Speaker 5: Absolutely, other kind of tips on starting up. A big
- 33:53Speaker 5: thing I like to do is try and find someone
- 33:55Speaker 5: who's already doing it really well and go for a
- 33:57Speaker 5: coffee with them. Some people were network Some people you
- 34:01Speaker 5: might think, oh, why would they give me tips because
- 34:03Speaker 5: it's competition, But if they're a good person, they won't
- 34:04Speaker 5: see it was competition.
- 34:06Speaker 4: Hundred percent.
- 34:07Speaker 3: I think that there is so much room in this
- 34:09Speaker 3: industry and this country in general for everybody, but also
- 34:14Speaker 3: on a more behavioral psychology level, people love talking about themselves.
- 34:19Speaker 3: And if you reach out to someone and say, hey, Emma,
- 34:21Speaker 3: I would love to grab a coffee with you, it's
- 34:23Speaker 3: my shout. I just really want to ask you a
- 34:24Speaker 3: couple of questions about how you've become so amazing. It's
- 34:28Speaker 3: very likely that that person is going to feel complimented
- 34:31Speaker 3: by that and want to create a relationship with you.
- 34:35Speaker 3: And you know, some people are too busy, so don't
- 34:37Speaker 3: be offended if they say no, or some people might
- 34:40Speaker 3: just not want to engage in that. But the worst
- 34:42Speaker 3: thing someone can say is no, So it's always worth
- 34:45Speaker 3: your time to be like, hey, I'd love to grab
- 34:46Speaker 3: a coffee with you, And if they say no, no
- 34:48Speaker 3: harm done. You're still in this position where you were
- 34:51Speaker 3: really lovely and reached out to someone for a coffee,
- 34:53Speaker 3: and that's that's something I would love people to do.
- 34:56Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. You can get a lot from them, and
- 34:58Speaker 5: in terms of just on the spot, get information from
- 35:00Speaker 5: them and tips and you know, words of warning or
- 35:03Speaker 5: where to get the best insurance or really tangible stuff
- 35:05Speaker 5: like that. Or it might be a referral down the line.
- 35:08Speaker 5: If you meet up with an established dogsitter, she might
- 35:11Speaker 5: in two weeks say, oh, I'm actually going away, can
- 35:13Speaker 5: you do one of my bookings for me? And then
- 35:15Speaker 5: it kind of spirals from there. I think people really
- 35:17Speaker 5: underestimate the value of networking in inverted commons. I guess
- 35:20Speaker 5: the last tip as well is something I really like
- 35:22Speaker 5: to do is it kind of starts with setting up
- 35:25Speaker 5: those marketing assets and stuff. But do taking those steps
- 35:28Speaker 5: really helps you prove to yourself that you're going to
- 35:30Speaker 5: do it. A lot of people say to me like, oh,
- 35:32Speaker 5: I've tried to start a blog so many times and
- 35:33Speaker 5: I just haven't written the post or whatever. I wrote
- 35:36Speaker 5: thirty five blog posts before I put my blog live,
- 35:39Speaker 5: because I put fifteen up and then I scheduled the
- 35:41Speaker 5: others one a week for the rest of the weeks,
- 35:43Speaker 5: so that if I got lazy, or I got busy,
- 35:45Speaker 5: or I got sick, it would take care of itself.
- 35:47Speaker 5: And it also before I spend any money on hosting
- 35:51Speaker 5: and domains and all that stuff, proved I had content,
- 35:54Speaker 5: proved I was bothered enough to do it, prove that
- 35:57Speaker 5: I actually had the time to do it. So anything
- 36:00Speaker 5: that you can do to prove to yourself that you're
- 36:03Speaker 5: going to do it before you actually spend the money
- 36:05Speaker 5: and put the effort into start doing it.
- 36:07Speaker 1: Is really valuable.
- 36:08Speaker 3: Emma, what good is a money podcast without having some
- 36:12Speaker 3: pervy stuff. I would absolutely love to ask you a
- 36:16Speaker 3: little bit more about how much you earn doing these
- 36:18Speaker 3: side hustles spoken you know, in roundabout ways of like
- 36:22Speaker 3: you can add this and you have to pay tax,
- 36:24Speaker 3: So tell me, like, how much are you making from
- 36:26Speaker 3: your side hustles and is it worth it?
- 36:29Speaker 5: So I will break it down from pet sitting. Pet
- 36:34Speaker 5: sitting really is my extra splurg money. It's not a
- 36:36Speaker 5: lot of money. I'm not saying it's the most lucrative
- 36:39Speaker 5: industry in the world. And I don't charge a load
- 36:41Speaker 5: for it because I do really love it and it's
- 36:44Speaker 5: very simple. It's at a place now where it kind
- 36:46Speaker 5: of looks after itself. I've got regular clients and they
- 36:47Speaker 5: go on holiday all the time, so I'm not really advertising.
- 36:52Speaker 5: So from that, I probably may three or four thousand
- 36:56Speaker 5: dollars a year. It's not a lot, but.
- 36:59Speaker 4: That is still a lot of money that you didn't.
- 37:01Speaker 1: Have before exactly.
- 37:02Speaker 5: And it's also in dead time, Like the hour before work,
- 37:05Speaker 5: if I go and feed three cats, I've made sixty.
- 37:07Speaker 1: Dollars before breakfast. Yeah, amazing, obviously before tax and expenses.
- 37:11Speaker 5: The online thrift store has been a bit of a
- 37:12Speaker 5: journey because I originally built it out as part of
- 37:14Speaker 5: the break generation and.
- 37:16Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and then you broke it off and kind
- 37:17Speaker 3: of made it extra Instagram.
- 37:19Speaker 5: Yeah, because I felt a bit weird about it was
- 37:22Speaker 5: kind of triggering people to buy things. As much as
- 37:24Speaker 5: I think thrifting is really great and so we're all
- 37:26Speaker 5: good money saving activity, I also was like kind of
- 37:28Speaker 5: going against my own belief. There's a lot of dissonance
- 37:31Speaker 5: there because yeah, I was kind of shoving things that
- 37:33Speaker 5: people wanted in their faces when I didn't want them
- 37:35Speaker 5: to spend any money. So I separated it so that
- 37:38Speaker 5: if you do want to buy clothes and you want
- 37:39Speaker 5: to buy the second hand, you can go and find that.
- 37:42Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 37:43Speaker 5: Since I split it off in sort of October, so
- 37:45Speaker 5: what four months ago, I've probably made about.
- 37:50Speaker 1: Fifteen hundred two thousand.
- 37:52Speaker 5: That's pretty good, not bad considering it's getting paid to shop.
- 37:56Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it's something that you said before you loved
- 37:58Speaker 3: doing it.
- 37:59Speaker 1: I loved doing it.
- 38:00Speaker 5: I don't spend a lot of time on it because
- 38:02Speaker 5: it is a case of do a collection, put it up,
- 38:03Speaker 5: post it, and then I won't touch it until I
- 38:06Speaker 5: do another one. The freelance writings where it's really grown
- 38:08Speaker 5: the most. Like I said back in the beginning, sort
- 38:11Speaker 5: of five six, seven years ago, when I first started charging,
- 38:14Speaker 5: I was getting paid twenty to forty dollars per piece.
- 38:18Speaker 5: Now I'm charging sixty five to seventy five dollars an hour,
- 38:21Speaker 5: and I've been making with those types of activities between
- 38:25Speaker 5: eight and ten thousand a year before tax on top
- 38:28Speaker 5: of my salary.
- 38:29Speaker 1: This year I.
- 38:31Speaker 5: Should be set to double it, so I should okay,
- 38:34Speaker 5: which I'm pretty excited about if it carries on. I'm
- 38:36Speaker 5: so I'm at ten already and it's only jammed, so
- 38:39Speaker 5: there's still six months.
- 38:40Speaker 4: Yes, incredible. Yeah, so it's a great Thanks you so
- 38:44Speaker 4: much to add.
- 38:45Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really nice to see it growing, because I
- 38:47Speaker 5: did get a little bit deflated. You do plato in career,
- 38:51Speaker 5: and inside puzzles, you plata in your experience, so i'd
- 38:54Speaker 5: sort of was making like eight nine For the last
- 38:57Speaker 5: couple of years, i'vecurred the same thing and then there's expense,
- 39:00Speaker 5: and it's all a bit kind of like, oh am
- 39:01Speaker 5: I growing. I've sort of that my account must be
- 39:04Speaker 5: laughing at me because it's not going anywhere. Absolutely not,
- 39:08Speaker 5: but no, it has grown this year, which is great.
- 39:11Speaker 5: And then with the blog, because it's such a similar
- 39:13Speaker 5: discipline to the freelance writing. I guess some things may
- 39:16Speaker 5: have eventuated from having the blog, but they're ultimately freelance writing,
- 39:19Speaker 5: so they've gone in that twenty thousand pot. I have
- 39:21Speaker 5: done a couple of I have done a couple of
- 39:24Speaker 5: ads on the break generation, but obviously I'm very careful
- 39:28Speaker 5: because it's quite a specific industry, is also highly regulated industry,
- 39:31Speaker 5: so it's not like I'm batting away teeth whitening.
- 39:33Speaker 1: With a stick.
- 39:35Speaker 4: So challenging.
- 39:36Speaker 5: It's very challenging, and I obviously only want to promote
- 39:39Speaker 5: things that I.
- 39:40Speaker 4: Really believe in and actually used.
- 39:42Speaker 5: I know everybody says that, but it, particularly with banking,
- 39:44Speaker 5: it's really difficult. I have had opportunities that I've turned
- 39:47Speaker 5: down because I just don't think that it's a good
- 39:49Speaker 5: thing to promote. Anything I have promoted I do genuinely
- 39:52Speaker 5: think is worth promoting, and it is a message I
- 39:54Speaker 5: want to spread. But yeah, we're talking, you know, around
- 39:57Speaker 5: the one to two thousand mark. Yeah, overall for you know,
- 40:00Speaker 5: eighteen months of content. It's not the most lucrative one
- 40:03Speaker 5: of the books, but it's a personal branding thing.
- 40:05Speaker 3: So yeah, absolutely, that's amazing. Thank you so much for
- 40:08Speaker 3: sharing that with us. Everybody likes to get a little
- 40:11Speaker 3: bit pervy and go, yeah, but what do you know.
- 40:13Speaker 1: People love that you're.
- 40:14Speaker 3: Working on something that you're really passionate about. Would you
- 40:17Speaker 3: say that all of this side hustle and extra income
- 40:20Speaker 3: is worth it?
- 40:20Speaker 1: Yes.
- 40:22Speaker 5: Actually, one of my goals for the year was her
- 40:26Speaker 5: goal setting was to chuin in mortar when I'm tired
- 40:31Speaker 5: and overworked, and not when other people are telling me
- 40:33Speaker 5: that I am.
- 40:34Speaker 3: That is such a struggle, Like you've said that and
- 40:36Speaker 3: we've both got this smirk on our face. I think
- 40:39Speaker 3: that both of us have potentially been told a lot
- 40:42Speaker 3: like oh, you must be so tie and it's like,
- 40:44Speaker 3: I'm not tired.
- 40:44Speaker 4: I'll show you tired.
- 40:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 40:46Speaker 5: It's a really interesting one that because yeah, I am
- 40:50Speaker 5: working a lot, and I filmed like a day in
- 40:51Speaker 5: the life on my Instagram just because I wantn't to
- 40:54Speaker 5: be that kind of.
- 40:54Speaker 4: Person and it's so fun.
- 40:56Speaker 1: It's funny. Do you want people love it?
- 40:59Speaker 5: But yeah, I was sort of up at six and
- 41:01Speaker 5: I was doing some emails and I didn't get nasty comments,
- 41:05Speaker 5: but they were quite confronting because people were obviously a
- 41:07Speaker 5: bit spiky about that, and they're like, why are doing
- 41:09Speaker 5: emails at six I am, And I'm like, well, I
- 41:11Speaker 5: work eight thirty to six, So when else am I
- 41:13Speaker 5: going to do that? I think I get energy form
- 41:15Speaker 5: my side hustle. I'm very empowered and I feel strong
- 41:18Speaker 5: and excited and like buzzed for everything else I do
- 41:21Speaker 5: in my life when I'm doing my side hustles. So
- 41:24Speaker 5: don't stop doing them just because someone else thinks you're
- 41:26Speaker 5: burnt out, because you'll know if you're burnt out. I
- 41:28Speaker 5: know what burnt out feels like.
- 41:29Speaker 3: So a lot of people don't realize they're burnt out
- 41:32Speaker 3: until they are burnt out. What are you doing to
- 41:34Speaker 3: check in with yourself to make sure that you are
- 41:37Speaker 3: still okay and not tired? Because it can be exhausting
- 41:40Speaker 3: in itself being told by people that you're tired. But
- 41:43Speaker 3: how do you identify that you need a little break?
- 41:46Speaker 5: Yeah, it is difficult to identify besides, you know, I
- 41:49Speaker 5: fainted at work or something, then you're probably pretty tired.
- 41:52Speaker 3: Maybe don't let it get that far.
- 41:55Speaker 4: So how do you check in before then?
- 41:57Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. I kind of judge it by my mood.
- 42:00Speaker 5: I'm generally quite sort of upbeat, chatty kind of person.
- 42:05Speaker 5: So if I'm finding myself getting really snappy with people,
- 42:08Speaker 5: I know I'm burnt out, or I have PMT who
- 42:11Speaker 5: knows or the same we both need to sleep, Or
- 42:15Speaker 5: if I'm finding myself not wanting to do the thing,
- 42:19Speaker 5: whether it's you know, do Instagram content, or if I
- 42:24Speaker 5: often I'll have no ideas. Quite often, like what I
- 42:27Speaker 5: post on stories, people always go, how do you know
- 42:29Speaker 5: what to post? And I'm like, I don't even think
- 42:30Speaker 5: about it. It just it's like a stream.
- 42:32Speaker 3: Of copat it out into an Insta story and here
- 42:37Speaker 3: we are.
- 42:38Speaker 5: So if I've got no ideas, I know I'm burnt out,
- 42:41Speaker 5: and you'll you'll have specific cues that you'll probably know
- 42:44Speaker 5: from your own personality. It helps if you really know
- 42:46Speaker 5: yourself quite well to know when something is off. It
- 42:49Speaker 5: might be the way you're communicating, it might be the
- 42:50Speaker 5: way you feel. It's not literal tiredness, because often when
- 42:53Speaker 5: you're on a high, you won't feel tiredness even if
- 42:55Speaker 5: you're exhausted. So try and pick up on other cues
- 42:58Speaker 5: or ask a partner or a friend and if they
- 43:00Speaker 5: ever noticed when you're a bit different and actually call
- 43:02Speaker 5: you out on that, and it might be a good
- 43:04Speaker 5: indicator that you're doing too much.
- 43:05Speaker 3: I love that, and I think it's really important to
- 43:07Speaker 3: point out here that just because you have a side
- 43:09Speaker 3: hustle doesn't mean you have to be this like hustle personality.
- 43:13Speaker 3: Like you can take a nap, you can step back
- 43:15Speaker 3: and say, Okay, I'm going to do what's best for me,
- 43:17Speaker 3: and at the end of the day, doing a side hustle,
- 43:20Speaker 3: regardless of your passion or regardless of the reason you're
- 43:23Speaker 3: doing it, it's actually to increase the way you live life.
- 43:27Speaker 4: It's to add value to.
- 43:29Speaker 3: Your life, either through the content you're creating or the
- 43:33Speaker 3: activity that you're doing, or through the money that you
- 43:35Speaker 3: get to go on another holiday, or you know, be
- 43:38Speaker 3: able to afford something that you weren't able to afford before,
- 43:42Speaker 3: or pay off more of your mortgage. Like however you're
- 43:44Speaker 3: using that, I think you need to step back and go,
- 43:46Speaker 3: Is this worth it? And am I giving myself enough
- 43:48Speaker 3: space to be happy and be present? And if you're not,
- 43:51Speaker 3: maybe have a think about it.
- 43:53Speaker 4: So I love that. Yeah, thank you so much for
- 43:55Speaker 4: sharing it.
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