People who introduce us to our new favorite foods are the real MVPs! You’re about to meet the ultimate food plug who makes it easy to find the restaurants who cook up dishes that make our hearts sing—and our Instagrams bling (seriously, they have a guide called “How to Take Food Photos That Will Make Your Friends Want to Lick the Screen“).
What’s the recipe for turning a hobby into a hustle—and then into a small business? Chef JB is about to give us the raw story of how he turned an Instagram post into a business that he now runs full-time.
Meet Jabari.
Jabari is “a budding culinarian with a passion for people and food, Jabari Butler focuses on creating unique memorable food experiences. ‘eat with JB’ is a full-service brand that provides prepared meal services, coordinates private catering, and hosts seasonal food events.”
This is probably a good time to warn you: this Side Hustle CEO feature is about to make you very, very hungry.
Jabari is a young chef who didn’t take the conventional route. He didn’t start his journey in culinary school. He doesn’t come from a long line of fancy chefs. And, no, he didn’t even major in Hospitality in college.
If you’ve ever had his cooking, you wouldn’t know that. Continue reading →
How do you go from not being interested in dance—while growing up in a dance household—to owning and running your own dance studio? Courtney Holland, Founder and Creative Director of The Gallery Dance Collective, is about to spill the whole story for us.
Courtney has danced for the majority of her life. It’s a craft that she’s continued to perfect—and she’s damn good at it. But many of us know that not everyone who can do something well can also teach it well.
When you’re thinking about which side hustle to start, one of the best ways to get ideas is to ask the people who know you well or who have worked with you in the past what they think you’d be good at. Think about what people ask you for help with and what they ask you to do for them. Are they always asking you for advice, or to bake a cake for a party, or to help them revamp their resumes? When multiple people ask you for the same thing—especially on a regular basis—there’s a market for what you do and how you do it.
Some of the best business ideas come from our own life experiences that we know the rest of the world would benefit from. This is absolutely the case with Kwaku Osei-Bonsu and his idea for TheStrangeRootsBox.
As a college student, Kwaku’s mother would send him care packages that really covered all the bases. These incredible care packages had your usual home-sickness curing snacks and candy, but they also came with books and other real-life necessities. These care packages made being a broke college student a lot easier to handle.
According to Kwaku, “These care packages were a lifeline.” We totally get it—these care packages sound like they were love in a box.
Kwaku decided that he wanted to make it easy for families to send their loved ones care packages that make them feel loved and cared for the way his mother’s care packages did for him.
We think he hit the nail right on the head when he created TheStrangeRootsBox. Continue reading →
Short answer: You. Me. Anyone else who has a side hustleand is in charge of its success.
Your side hustle could be something you work on for 3 hours a week or it could be something you work on more than you work at your day job. It’s a side hustle until it’s your main hustle.
Side hustle = side income. Main hustle = main income.
You might be a Side Hustle CEO who is running a business that’s grown too big, i.e. makes you too much of your money, to still be called a side hustle. That’s cool. If it started out as a side hustle, and you remember the grind it took you to get where you are, then you’re still one of us.
But, more specifically, when we’re talking about Side Hustle CEOs here on the Side Hustle Business School website, we are talking about the amazing people who are featured in the Side Hustle CEOs series. Continue reading →