Side Hustles: A New Normal in Financial Stability

Wondering how to navigate the new normal? The rising trend of side hustles is becoming a popular solution for many Americans as they grapple with increasing inflation rates. Linda and I (Enrique), in our latest podcast episode, unpack the reasons behind this trend as we share about our personal journey of starting a business during a pandemic. 

We dive into the realities of side hustles, sharing the ups and downs of our personal journey, and exploring how the pandemic has amplified the trend. Amidst financial challenges, many have turned to social media and the internet to create new financial opportunities. Take a deep listen as we share our experience with selling products on Amazon and the lessons we've learned along the way. We also highlight the importance of resilience, passion, and creativity when starting a new venture.

Finally, we discuss numerous options for starting a side gig, and how to leverage social media for marketing. We hope our experiences will spur you to consider launching your own business, no matter how small. Stay tuned for our next episode as we continue to explore life in these changing times. Remember, we’re available on Instagram, YouTube, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon. Until then, keep hustling!

Transcript

Enrique: 0:00

Hello everybody. My name is Enrique and this is.

Linda: 0:02

Linda.

Enrique: 0:03

And today we're going to be talking about side hustles in the US. But first honey, let's do a podcast. Hello everybody, welcome back again to Honey. Let's Do a Podcast. I am your host, enrique, and today we have my lovely wife Linda.

Linda: 0:22

Hi, how are you guys?

Enrique: 0:24

And we've been having a little hiatus lately, but we're back and today we're going to be talking about a great subject, kind of a subject that's pretty, has gone recently, up the last couple of years. It's about people, or Americans, or pretty much, I think, worldwide. This is happening, but we're going to be specifying on the US, and Americans have been doing a lot more side hustles later and trying to get an extra job on the side apart from their main job, and just to get a little more finance, more income into the household and to deal with the growing inflation that has been going on since the pandemic. And, yeah, we're going to be diving a little bit into it. I think Linda has a couple of statistics to share here.

Linda: 1:03

Yes, so the first set of six were, generally speaking, in the last 10 years. The average is around 2 to 3%.

Enrique: 1:11

I think around 2.8 or somewhere around there.

Linda: 1:14

Yeah, somewhere around there is the average inflation per year, but during the last four years, specifically after the pandemic or during the pandemic, specifically 2022 and 2021, for 2021, the inflation rate was 4.7%. Yeah, 4.7%, and for 2022 was 8%, which is a huge increase in inflation.

Enrique: 1:41

And we're talking here about the average. And if you look at the graphs and you go to the US and the inflation rates and there's a couple websites that can tell you this but if you go to the graphs, you can see that in 2019, which is kind of like at the end of 2019, that's when the COVID started and the pandemic it was around 2% end of the year, inflation Right and the average.

Linda: 2:03

Which is on the average, and that's more or less the average. That's the normal situation.

Enrique: 2:06

It actually lowered in 2020, which is kind of like that first year of the boom of the pandemic was 2020. It actually lowered that year and then it just spiked out of control in 2022. And that's when, I think, when people started going back to work more regularly in 2021, sorry, not 2021, that's when people started going back to work Normally. 2020 was that year that nobody was working. You know, everybody was like grab and get the government aids and all that stuff, but that year actually went down. And then the next year where people started working, that's where it kind of spiked up.

Enrique: 2:39

Towards the end of December I think it had the highest one of 7%, and then it just kept going up on 2022. 2022, I think it just got up to a point. I think there was a month that it went up to 9% in a month and then it kind of started going down. And if you see the trend now, it appears to be going down this year. I think the last November it was 3.2% and we'll see what December happens, right, but I think it's starting to go down because that spike that we had during the pandemic started it's kind of dwindling. So hopefully it kind of you know balances out. But because of that it opened the eyes to a lot of people that, hey, we need extra ways to make income. You know, I mean it was going so people were having a lot of apart from just not being able to work as much with the pandemic, and you know some people lost their jobs people lost their job, at least people started, hey, we need to somehow make money.

Enrique: 3:32

And then the problem that I was talking to my wife about this the other day is that the problem that a lot of times you have is that inflation goes up, prices go up, most of the things.

Linda: 3:44

But then the income doesn't go up.

Enrique: 3:46

Exactly. Your salary doesn't necessarily go up to match it. So you're basically stuck like what do I do? Because everything goes up my mortgage, my property tax, whatever, obviously the groceries going out if you were going out to eat before that that goes. Restaurants raise up the prices, the auto payments, whatever it is you know. The auto goes up, the electricity goes up, the water bill goes up, everything's going up, but you're still making the same amount you were making before.

Linda: 4:19

Or if you got an increase, it was not substantial to compensate for that increase for, based on the inflation. So it's not balancing. You're actually gaining less money for the same work that you're performing.

Enrique: 4:32

That made a lot of Americans starting to look for you know.

Linda: 4:37

Alternatives.

Enrique: 4:38

Alternatives, which is what people call the side hustle right. Just alternatives to their main job and actually based on geo banking rates. They reported that in November this year, there was around 28% of people in the US that are already engaging in side hustles.

Linda: 4:55

What's the percent that I get?

Enrique: 4:57

38.2%.

Linda: 5:00

That's a big number, guys. That's a big number of Americans that are working on two or more jobs because they need to pay the bills.

Enrique: 5:10

Get this so according to, then you know Lincoln.

Linda: 5:13

Uh-huh, Lincoln yeah.

Enrique: 5:17

They made another survey or report that they actually said that around 50% not 38.2% around 50% of Americans are already engaging in side hustles. That's half.

Linda: 5:28

That's half of the people.

Enrique: 5:30

What's even more crazy, it's that 62% of them out of those 50, there's a 60% are making more than $100,000.

Linda: 5:40

Which is great because it's both is helping the economy. What?

Enrique: 5:43

I'm basically saying is that 62% are not from what they consider middle, middle, high class.

Linda: 5:51

Uh-huh.

Enrique: 5:53

So most of these people are not. You know what are the ones that you would be saying oh, they're like I don't know more, into the lower class, or that they're not making a lot of money. You know, these are a lot of people in middle high class. They're the ones going for the for more side hustle, and they're saying that this is actually contributing to around 50 billion in additional revenue for the American each month. So that's crazy.

Linda: 6:20

It is crazy, it is just amazing how all this shift that was actually created by the pandemic was not the intention, but because of all this shift in the financial aspect, people have to refer to different options to keep paying their bills and hopefully, well, one might substitute the original job and that might not be the original plan, but it might happen if they are still gaining their side hustle, more money than what they were gaining in their original traditional job.

Enrique: 6:54

I think part of the reason and again based on these are based on surveys and based on, you know, reports that have been coming out that one of the reasons that people started going into the side hustles and getting extra forms of incomes apart from their main job Was because, also, they had a lot more time.

Enrique: 7:10

A lot of people started working from home, mm-hmm a lot of people started, you know, not going to their office and just staying at the house and what happens? You get more. You got more time to do stuff because you know, now you're at, you know you don't have that commute, you don't have this, you have a little extra, more time to start engaging in other things, right, and also and I told you, I talked to you about this the other day I think the the growing, because you know, the pandemic did a lot of bad things, but I think it also started a lot of good things because With the pandemic, a lot of people started going into more I Mean it was growing before, but I think it even boon more the social media thing, mm-hmm, and nowadays there's a lot of forms that you can make money Through social media.

Enrique: 7:57

You see a lot of like young people started doing.

Linda: 7:59

I would say not necessarily social media, but internet, anything that is interesting.

Enrique: 8:05

I'm saying they use the social, because I'm not saying about just you're a tick-tock star or something. I'm not. I'm not talking about that. There are right, there are a couple of them. There are a couple of people who do the YouTube they really successful or Instagram, whatever it is, but I'm not talking about that specifically. But but using that as a platform. If they have something, let's say, they do have a business started, a business, right.

Enrique: 8:26

I don't know my business. Maybe they started an Etsy shop and they're selling I don't know like stuff through Etsy or there are they started another Gig for art and they're selling art somewhere else, but then they use social media Instagram in tick-tock all this to market it that is correct.

Linda: 8:41

So what I'm?

Enrique: 8:41

saying everything's connected. They started making ways to connect everything To allow them to make an easier way to make money to connect with people and to sell their product. Yes, see, so the pandemic brought that because you had so much time where you just and what? What else do you have to do? Just being in it and be in the Internet. There's nothing else to do.

Linda: 9:02

Well, some people are also looking for self-care on other stuff. But I can. I can understand your point.

Enrique: 9:07

Yes, people were on their phone, computer, internet, because you couldn't go out of the house, so it it developed as a thing. Were were even that that's the only. You started finding other things to do, started looking at videos, started doing this.

Enrique: 9:22

Oh, let me, let me try to see if I can Start doing, start making this happen to let me all this guy started doing this in the pandemic and a lot of people started trying out all these ways of a Social media, everything to start to make, make some money on the side or learn a new craft. And you know they started studying about oh, let me see if I can learn how to be, I don't know Play music or whatever and I don't know like different things that people started Engaging because they just had the extra time to do them.

Linda: 9:53

Well, that, and they might also be a layoff and they will just force to just look for another option.

Enrique: 10:00

Yeah, yeah, I think that the, the, the pandemic did the boom.

Linda: 10:05

Yes, the trend of the side the side hustles.

Enrique: 10:07

I agree, people started running out of the pandemic era savings, the tax credits, all that started to you know started to go off. So let's say, people were having their job but they were having the tax credits or the you know. The government issued some help To you know to help people, but that was only for a certain, maybe 12 months or something. So once that started to subside, people are like, okay now we do, I do we need more money now, because what that's? The money's not gonna keep coming. Well, for an eternity, right.

Enrique: 10:36

So we need to do something and, like I said, prices kept going up.

Linda: 10:39

They spiked up and you know, you know you started to To find ways to support and I think another thing that happened on the pandemic is you know we had the baby boomers, but then we have the, the after pandemic boomers.

Enrique: 10:56

Which is the name of that. I'm not sure I got a look into that.

Linda: 10:59

I'm not sure if after pandemic boomers, after covered boomers I'm not sure if there is a word for it, but it's pretty much the kids that were born as a result of the pandemic, like like my baby. I also have other friends that they had their baby during copies.

Enrique: 11:16

So the way I find out the name it's called.

Linda: 11:22

Gen Z Gen C.

Enrique: 11:23

Yeah, I'm guessing the C for COVID for COVID Okay, that doesn't make sense. That's where they're calling them Gen C for the babies born during the pandemic in the period, and I'm guessing it's probably Usually, those things are like like 10 years. Usually, yeah, usually it's probably gonna be like what 20? 2020 to 2030 or something.

Linda: 11:42

Yeah, probably.

Linda: 11:44

I haven't checked that part, but I know they do call them Gen C, so yeah, so that there's a lot of babies are grow during that, during during that period of the COVID, and was also another Fact for people to look for other sources of income.

Linda: 11:59

Because now you are let's assume that in our case it was just the two of us and we can be easily sustained with our finances. But now we have another baby and babies are very expensive in the United States If, especially if, you don't have insurance, but even if you have insurance is quite expensive to have a baby In the United States if you are typical middle-class people. So that's another fact that motivates people to look for a side hustle, because now you have a little person that is depending on you and you want to make sure that you are giving the best to that person, which, in our case, will be our baby. But for other people also have their families and I'm sure they want the best for them, and that's just another factor that Helps make the decision of these people. Now we have financial need and now we have also a family to you know, a growing family To keep healthy, safe and educated and all those things that comes with it.

Enrique: 13:02

So that also is the factor actually I'm gonna use this subject because I think in our case, linda actually started a Side hustle herself. This is something she was planning for a long time, but I think you can, you kind of started it during the pandemic.

Linda: 13:22

I started it, was it towards the end, towards the end of the pandemic.

Enrique: 13:25

Yeah, but she kind of, she kind of take took the leap During the, you know, during the pandemic and towards that, like we talked. I think it was like 2022, 2022 2022, yeah so she started a whole company selling products on Amazon. Amazon yes and that's another form that you can use that a lot of people are using to, you know, selling stuff, whether it's through Amazon, like I said, I gave you another option through Etsy, through, you know personally. You you probably know a couple of them.

Linda: 13:58

Oh yeah.

Enrique: 13:59

That you can sell stuff. But you know, because there's a lot of talented people out there that have all these different skills, whether they create it or they can Sketch it and then some, but they send it to somebody else to do it, and then that other person you know fabric, you know manufacturers, that whatever and then you sell it. So there's, but there's a lot of people out there, great ideas out there, and I think the pandemic or that that motivation to make extra money started making you be more creative and starting to come up with more ways.

Enrique: 14:29

Thinking okay, I can do this, or I can do this, oh hey. Explore something or maybe a friend of you say hey, this, you gave me this the other day. This is awesome. You know, like I really like, this is really cool. And then you're like okay, so he likes it or she likes it.

Linda: 14:45

Maybe more people like it, or you discover, you realize that there is a need of something and that something is not available, and you just decided to create it from scratch because you, you are like, oh, I don't know why this doesn't exist. This should be out there and nobody has thought about it. So you thought about it, but you also took action and made it a reality to solve the problem to somebody else. And you're solving your problem, but you're also solving the problem for thousands of people, so that that's also a very good one. It doesn't have to be something physical like a product from Amazon. It could be a ebook, it could be a Kindle, it could be an art, like a Word document, or it could be Information, like essays or presentations, or Like, like, like for us.

Enrique: 15:45

When we started the podcast, we went to what was that fiber? Was that?

Linda: 15:49

fiber.

Enrique: 15:49

Yes, we went to fiber To help, to get somebody to help us with the artwork For like the podcast cover, so that little artwork that you guys see there's like a caricature of us or what's that how you say it, or art like Kind of like a cartoonish that we have at the beginning, that was made by somebody in fiber and a lot of people who have these type of.

Linda: 16:11

Like hustles. They are like.

Enrique: 16:15

Abilities, or or they have Really good knowledge of something, or Creative or whatever. They do go to those websites like fiber To just help out or sell their Sell what they know, you know, sell it and have somebody come out to me. Come out to me, hey, I need a project on this, can you do this? Hey? Yeah, yeah, we can, I can do it for you. It'll be this much, whatever. So they sell their knowledge through there, right? Uh, there's other.

Linda: 16:45

Yeah, I actually wish I knew this when I was in college, to be honest, because I would probably create a fiber gig or something like that, because a lot of people who are studying also have.

Enrique: 16:53

You know, yes, you have, you're busy with schoolwork, but you do have more time that when you older and you have the job and you have to maybe kids or whatever. So you do that more time when you're in college. So a lot of a lot of people you mean these things are younger, right? Same with the thing with tiktok and all that. It's popping off, all that, and most of the people who pop off are younger.

Linda: 17:14

Yes.

Enrique: 17:14

Because, again, they, they know how to use it. They're more involved in what's trending right now. And all that so.

Linda: 17:21

They have a little bit more time as well to spend on All the things that benefit like. For us right now it's really hard because we're very busy.

Enrique: 17:31

But not not we, you know, touched up on the subject that we about the finance, the us and the inflation and Things that americans have to go through. Uh, let's actually talk about our situation, right, and I kind of like started it talking about Linda's uh amazon. You know seller what's?

Linda: 17:51

that called amazon. What amazon seller account.

Enrique: 17:56

Yeah, you started amazon business.

Linda: 17:58

Let's call it like that.

Enrique: 17:59

She started, you know, having a company, and then she started doing products and you know she's talking to manufacturers. I think she has a couple in china.

Linda: 18:08

Yeah, most of them well all of them right now are in china, but you can find them in the united states and mexico and just depends. You gotta look at prices. You know what's better for you, what can you pay exactly.

Enrique: 18:19

So, but you can check anywhere and just you know, see prices, see what works for you. But basically she started this like we talked, like we said a little while ago 2022, late 2022 or Was?

Linda: 18:31

it. My first product was this year actually.

Enrique: 18:34

Yeah, but you started the whole thing late 20s.

Linda: 18:36

Yeah the company, yeah you launched this year?

Enrique: 18:37

Yeah, but so now, when Linda, I wanted to ask her, because obviously this is something that maybe you guys are interested in doing or you've heard about people doing it I'm not talking about this in particular, but just the whole thing about starting something, because a you want to make more money, which is normally what's the main driver, but also be.

Enrique: 19:02

you could be just looking for a way to go out of your like static zone that you're in right now. Maybe you're in a job and you don't really like it that much, or you don't really like to be having to drive or eight to five, or starting at a certain hour, ending at a certain hour, and you know all the pain. Or maybe you have a boss and is annoying I don't know whatever it is and you just want a little like some different where you're more in control of it and you can decide what to do.

Enrique: 19:31

Obviously it's going to be. That doesn't make it easier because that's one of the questions up and it's going to ask Linda but it just makes it a little more like it's yours. Maybe you grow in love with it more. You know like it's different when something is yours and you care about it than when it's somebody else's and you're just working to make money out of it for salary.

Linda: 19:54

Just think about if you have a car and it's your car, versus when you're renting the car. The treatment is not the same, yeah you don't give it.

Enrique: 20:01

Probably you don't give a shit about the rental car. Maybe you do give a shit just because you know you're going to pay for it if you, if you mess it up, but you don't really care about it really. But your car, you're probably going to wash it and you clean it up all the time. You, you, you know your wax it, all that stuff. So you're more. You're more protective of it. Yes, but let's go back to this. So, linda, you guys started the whole thing in 2022. You guys made the first launch in 2023. How has been the experience so far?

Linda: 20:32

Just to be honest, to start is we didn't know anything. We started from scratch. We had no idea what we were doing. We got some courses that they were help help us to get an understanding of how to do it, but it's not easy to start At least it was not for us Easy to start but we are quite determined. We know what we want and we know that we want to get there. It's just a matter of we need to think.

Linda: 21:03

For us, the most difficult part, besides the learning experience, which is going to take years probably I would probably like there will really never end, but the first years are the hardest and also the another hard thing for us is the time, because my partner is is also my best friend. She have kids, two girls and I have one girl. So we have to manage and we both work on different companies. She also have another company and I work for another company that is not mine, but I'm just an employee there and so how do we manage our time to have the responsibility of this full-time job, then taking care properly our kids, make sure that they are fine, make sure that we address all of their needs and beyond, and when they are asleep. Then we start working on our business and how do we have the time to to, how do we manage that time to work on everything? That is a challenge, especially at the beginning years, but we are so determined we really, really like what we do. For us In our case is not obviously there is a manufacturer and there's always some kind of money manufacturer, but in our case I always wanted to do a business and we saw a need, specific need, and we wanted to solve that problem. So in our case, I'm just going to talk about my business a little bit.

Linda: 22:45

My business is about baby toys that are modern looking, that are very educational but they look good. So the challenge that I have when I had my daughter and I was searching for toys, it was that most of the toys are ugly, they are horrendous, and I have a very nice, modern, good-looking house. I just don't want to have those ugly toys all over my house. So finding good-looking toys are very educational. Montessori toys or something like that is extremely challenging and they are typically very expensive. So the need that I saw was that there are really no toys very difficult to find. Toys that are very good-looking, very stylish, very educational, that exceed that, help that kid develop properly, and they are affordable. That was the main challenge. So I was like well, that doesn't exist there, maybe I can create it. And that's how my company started.

Enrique: 23:49

And one more question or I've got a couple more, but the next question how many mistakes have you guys made?

Linda: 23:57

Many mistakes and I think that we are going to continue to make mistakes, but that's exactly how we are learning.

Enrique: 24:03

And just so you can explain to the people how difficult this is. How many times has it crossed your mind about quitting?

Linda: 24:13

To be honest, not yet.

Enrique: 24:17

But I'm just saying because it's a real question. Right, it is a real question. It's going to come up to a lot of people.

Linda: 24:21

I think the one thing that I am concerned is that I fail. Well, there might be a chance that I fail. I will lose a lot of money, but I think I am so determined that I think I will keep going even if I fail. Even if I fail, I will start all over again and try again. It's like when I was taking my test for architecture. I failed some of those tests and I didn't quit. I tried again.

Enrique: 24:53

And right now you're, and eventually I did you guys are in the verge of putting product number two out right.

Linda: 25:00

Yeah, we. Product number two is on their way to Amazon right now. We've finished the design. The first product was a complete disaster. I'm not going to lie to you. It was a gigantic disaster. I have very good hopes for product number two, mainly because we design a lot of it and because of very highly educational toy and because it is better than what is out there. So I have really big hopes for this one. It looks really good and it's going to be relatively affordable. It's not going to be super cheap, I'm not going to lie to you but it's not going to be like Pottery Barn level of expensive or restoration hardware level of expensive. So it's just going to be still affordable, but not super cheap.

Enrique: 25:53

And can you please I'll put this in the video too, but can you please tell them, because we've been talking about it, what's the name of it, of the company?

Linda: 25:59

The name of my company is called Bebe Moderna, and it's modern baby in Spanish. And it's pretty much that it's like toys.

Enrique: 26:08

And I'll put it up in the. If you're watching this on YouTube, I'll put it up in the video.

Linda: 26:13

Yes, so it's pretty much a company that it will be educational toys that are stylish, are good looking, they are highly educational, they will exceed the traditional toys and they are a reasonable price. They are affordable for middle class just like us, people like us, and that's how everything started and I hope I can keep it that way.

Enrique: 26:38

And basically, again, this is not a video about that, but what I wanted to come up with this is that my wife started this and, kind of like, why I wanted to ask her this question is because maybe, if you guys are thinking about starting this, understand that you might be a 1% lucky person and everything goes perfectly from the start, but 98% of chances are that you're going to have a rough patch 99% of chances, or 99% whatever, I'm just, I'm giving you an estimate A high, high likelihood that you're going to have a rough patch starting and again, my wife hasn't really come out of that rough patch yet, but she knows that.

Linda: 27:22

It's part of it.

Enrique: 27:23

It's part of the process and think about it. A lot of these successful companies that you hear about. You know the.

Linda: 27:31

Apple, google, google and all these billion dollar people, that billion dollar, all of them.

Enrique: 27:35

A lot of them started and had a lot of failures before they had their big Apple is starting in the garage.

Linda: 27:40

Well, the garage, but I'm talking.

Enrique: 27:42

A lot of these people had failures and they lost a lot of money right on it. But then they had one that just popped up and then obviously they started to understand better from failures. Okay, what do I need to do different in the next one? Okay, cool, I'll do, I'll change this up. But if you don't, if you never give yourself the chance to try, you never will know if you can do it or not. Right, so you at least have to try to then understand okay, it didn't work out, or it did work out, or maybe it's not working out and I can make it work. But what I'm we're trying to enforce this or not enforce Support you guys to do or encourage you guys to do is to go out there and be creative and come up with ways.

Enrique: 28:27

There's a lot of options from Amazon. We gave you a bunch. I mean we've talked about a couple of them, but there's even more out there. There's way more Like there were a lot of websites where you can. You can. What are these? Websites that you can actually give classes and lessons? I know there's the websites out there?

Linda: 28:47

Yeah, there are. That's another site also Ashley.

Enrique: 28:52

Yeah, that you can do classes about some certain subject.

Linda: 28:55

There are courses about everything.

Enrique: 28:57

Photography. I don't know whatever it is, fiber. These are just a couple of them. Right, there's websites to sell stuff. When you create it and then you just sell it through them. There's like the middle of the middleman, like Amazon. You can do a personal website. You can do your own website. You can use social media to market it. Maybe you have a big following already in subject. Maybe you're a person that's a big fitness Maniac right, you're just. You love to be in the gym and you have a lot of following in the gym and you started.

Enrique: 29:27

You have a lot of Instagram people. Then you can start doing extra stuff classes, whatever you can do Online course.

Linda: 29:33

It will be great.

Enrique: 29:34

Instagram with all those follows you have to start promoting. Maybe you start promoting brands or whatever. I don't know. There's a protein brand and you start promoting their brand. I mean, there's a lot of things Out there that you can do. You just have to think about a little bit what do you like? Because obviously you got to like what you're gonna do.

Linda: 29:54

Yeah, I think that's a key. If you hate it, yeah, if you hate it.

Enrique: 29:58

There's no point, right? Yeah, why do it do?

Linda: 30:00

something that you like, because this man and that's something that I really like about my business is that I enjoy every moment of it. It is tedious, it is a hard work, it is very unknown processing my life, but I enjoy it so much it is. I Will not change it under under any circumstance, because I do enjoy it and I think that's the most important. This, this side hustle, is not too Okay. It's going to bring you some financial benefit, but the idea is to bring you more than just a financial benefit, if to also bring you life and to make you a richer person in more than just one. They're the financial area, but also the spiritual area and the knowledge area, so you're just going to elevate you in so many ways beyond the financial aspect based on that.

Enrique: 30:57

Well, we've given you guys today. I think that's mainly what we wanted to speak about, and what we wanted to like come across today, as our information is, is about the necessities that lately Americans have had and why, if you're not a person that's already doing it, why we should we really can Want to make you consider the option of of engaging in it, because you really benefit, not just economically, but maybe you benefit different ways by finding more Time, which time is precious, and time doesn't have any money to it.

Linda: 31:36

Time is like I don't know the most valuable thing in the world. It's more valuable.

Enrique: 31:41

So maybe you find more time that you can have, maybe with the family, maybe the travel, whatever it is right apart from financial. So we really want to encourage you guys to go out there and If you're, if you're already doing it, maybe how to Make it better or how to even, you know, improve it. If you're not doing it, maybe start to think about Engaging and start doing it, and if you're under cusp of doing it, they just go for it. You know, and just you know go and let's do it, let's give it it, let's give it a go and let's see, let's give it our best and hopefully you know we can make this.

Linda: 32:15

Go, go and get positive with it also, when you fail, because you will fail at some point, try again, because that try again is with experience. So you now know what doesn't work the first time, so you don't. You already know I cannot try that. Just think about what's the, what's the name of the, the person that invented light, thomas Edison.

Enrique: 32:39

Yeah, Thomas Edison.

Linda: 32:41

So he failed more than a hundred times I think more than a thousand times before he invented the light and now Everybody can enjoy the light with his invention of all of those failures. So he knew Thousand ways of how electricity will not work or how the light will not work. One more thing is just to think about the why. Why are you doing that side hustle and keep in mind all the way, like when you're going through that why always in your mind? Because there is going to be some times that you will probably want to quit. It hasn't happened to me, but you might think about it too quick and then you think about that why and that Give you that drive, that motivation that you need to continue with.

Enrique: 33:28

That said, let's end it here today. I think we just wanted to do a quick one to talk about these subject Again. We have our Instagram. You can follow us there. We have our YouTube. You can hear it us on Apple music. You can use, I mean, an Apple Podcast on Spotify. We're all done Amazon, I'm not mistaken, and We'll be here. We'll try to get back to every Wednesday. We missed a couple, had family in town, made it a little bit difficult to keep posting these last couple weeks. We're going to try to get back into a regular schedule, so look forward to it. Next Wednesday. That subject is going to be hidden. We don't. We're not going to tell you you're going to have to wait for that day, but until next Wednesday, my name is Enrique, this is Linda, and we hope you have a wonderful day and we'll see you then.

Linda: 34:13

Bye.