Side Hustle City

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wanted to be an influencer online? Of course you have. Who wouldn't want to get paid just to live your life, post some things and have brands send you money. Sounds like a great side hustle but it's not easy. This is the world Antony Demekhin lives in and has a focus on music rights for the creator space. Antony is also a classically trained musician, enter...

Send us Fan Mail Are you a little too comfortable with self-loathing? Tired of feeling like you are not enough? Carrington Smith spent a lifetime trying to be someone else—to fit in, to be loved, to keep the peace, and to make others happy. Until finally, Carrington discovered that her own path to happiness wasn’t based on fitting in but on standing out—celebrating her uniqueness and owning her pa...

Send us Fan Mail Brent Keltner, Ph. D. believes that buyers and customers are hungry for authenticity.... His Revenue Acceleration Playbook introduces a simple, value narratives framework that will put your go-to-market team on the path to top performance. He's spent more than a decade as a revenue leader in enterprise to early stage companies, including Kaplan, Eduventures, Plus Delta Partne...

Send us Fan Mail In the wake of COVID, people have started their own businesses , evolving into solo entrepreneurs . What questions keep these solopreneurs up at night? Are there financial land mines I’m missing? Am I paying too much in taxes? Should I save more? Will I ever be able to retire? As your own boss and sole employee, it’s easy to feel anxious and unsettled, even when you’re making a pr...

Send us Fan Mail One of our most highly anticipated episodes becomes our first to kick off 2022. NFT's have been on fire and people around the internet can't stop talking about them. They are literally making people millionaires who are diligent enough to pay attention to the space. One of those people is Nick Fontova, aka Mr. Pink to the NFT community. Nick has been staying on top of th...

Send us Fan Mail This week we welcome friends of the podcast, Brad Zapp and Vance VanDrake. Both have been involved in the startup scene for years and are considered OG's in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Vance VanDrake is a legendary Patent Attorney at Ulmer & Berne LLP and Author of The Patent Game . We tell people he literally wrote the book on patents, which he technically did. Van...

Send us Fan Mail Mike Stricker has been working with the Reversed out Creative team for over a decade helping us with SEO and PPC campaigns across various industries. He joins the podcast this week to share some of his tips for creating your own effective strategy and the components you need. Search engine optimization is a key component of any small business, even Mike's golding side hustle....

Send us Fan Mail Why are we paying such high insurance costs ? Side hustlers feel the pain, especially without an employer picking up some of the costs. John Butler has been in the insurance industry for years and joins us to share its dirty secrets. He also explains that we don't have to put up with it and here are other options like healthshare plans . Not only can you save money and get on...

Send us Fan Mail Nick Earls and Eric DiNicola are real estate investors focusing on multifamily.  They purchase/syndicate large multifamily properties in the Southeast and develop luxury multifamily condominiums in the Boston market.  They also develop affordable housing and have experience with land entitlement. They join us on this week's episode of Side Hustle City to discuss how real esta...

Send us Fan Mail Business consulting exists for a reason, but let’s get real: it’s a bandaid for what entrepreneurs actually need: an experienced C-Level executive on their team to guide them through their business growth.  Benjamin Wolf has been there before, and has developed a new and unique way for entrepreneurs to tap into that Exec-Level expertise at a price point that won’t break the bank....

Send us Fan Mail Phil and Tiffany Young were working in government and as a teacher. Their lives were very typical of many American couples. They were raising four kids and both came from nothing with no idea how to start a business. They did know they wanted more for their future and took advantage of an opportunity when a tanning salon went up for sale. They both had a passion to start a side hu...

Send us Fan Mail A good friend of the show and a key piece to the success of Dotloop joins us this week on the podcast. Alex Allison is the Founder and CEO of the pioneering hospitality brand, D. Alexander , and the Founder and Managing Partner of D. Alexander Capital - together, a vertically integrated real estate investment platform that owns and manages homes in destination-oriented locations,...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are joined by side hustler and after5preneur Randy Rutledge, who is the founder of Singletree Media , a one-stop media shop, specializing in social media marketing with data and targeting. Right now, she is working on the Singletree Media Entrepreneur Incubation Model (EIM). Over the last year, she has worked with many entrepreneurs, those with defined brands, consist...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are joined by Jackie Barnes, an interior designer who turned her passion into a new career. After years in the corporate world working for one of the best hospitals in the country, Jackie needed a change. She had always been passionate and creative but had little opportunity to use her skills in the job she had. Jackie left in all and decided to live the life and do t...

Send us Fan Mail Ever wanted to travel for a living? Emily Geiger   ( Vitamin Collective ) and Summer Crenshaw are building a venture studio that will enable founders to build tomorrows mobile innovations. Companies coming out of the RoadX framework could be the next venture capital darlings. Based in Cincinnati Ohio this incubator is position to take advantage of emerging mobile living trends. Em...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are joined by a team of young men that used their time to build a great company that has a huge impact on the people of Uganda. For every 1,000 ripple water bottles sold, a community in need receives a well that provides clean water for the next 20 years. We often talk about side hustles that can help regular folks make a little side income that eventually becomes the...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Robert Towle . As an entrepreneur & author of an upcoming book “Don’t Be Dumb”, he debunks little-known limiting beliefs today’s entrepreneurs face on their journey to success. Robert Towle is the CEO and Founder of 636 Advisors and the author of a new book Don’t Be Dumb. Robert grew up living around the world. Although the majority of his career has been in Finance and C...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are joined by equestrian expert Ash Atkinson , Founder - Atkinson Equine Group. Ash was born and raised in the small industrial town of Sudbury, England located 60 miles north of London. At the age of 20, he moved to Germany to work for one of the largest equestrian breeding facilities. He spent 2 years learning and received great exposure to the sales and management...

Send us Fan Mail At 41 years old, Nathan Hake has lived several lives. It's crazy the different side hustles and experiences he's had. You could make a Netflix movie of everything he's been through, the good and bad. Despite some of the drawbacks he's faced Nathan keeps moving forward. Here are some highlights. Nathan is the father of 4, Eleanor, Lexi, Harlan, and Silas. Farm k...

Send us Fan Mail William Slocomb Reed (“Slocomb”) believes in the transformative power of real estate investing to give everyday people the opportunity to gain flexibility in their lives, become financially independent, and build generational wealth for their families. He draws on the experience of a 5+ year career building his own portfolio and meeting the needs of his sales clients to get top do...

Send us Fan Mail Branden McAfee joins Adam Koehler on this weeks episode of the Side Hustle City podcast. We discuss the struggles of growing up in poverty and how to avoid the pitfalls of a bad neighborhood. Branden shares his own story and the issues he faced with his family, negativity and overcoming a lack mindset. Branden's story is not unique and many folks in America find it difficult...

Send us Fan Mail Steve Bennett joins us on the podcast to discuss why he left a lucrative business career to buy and existing lumber business. Pilot Lumber is a locally owned and operated hardware, building supply and lumber store. Steve's goal is to serve the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area with the highest quality products and best customer service. This is a popular topic amo...

Send us Fan Mail On the path to early financial freedom, Shamus Madan is an Entrepreneur, Investor, Founder, and Owner of the The Markets Business Investing and Tech (MBIT) Podcast . It was created to break down complicated economic and financial topics to be easily understood no matter your experience. At just 13 years old, he developed a major interest is in business topics. He decided to create...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are joined by Nick Wade, Executive Director of Renaissance Covington .  The product of a small town in Kentucky who had big dreams for the future of his beautiful home state. His organization amplifies the vibrancy of Downtown Covington’s evolving community to create a business district rich with a bold entrepreneurial spirit, diversity, history, and creative culture....

Send us Fan Mail Verge Brewing is a proudly family-owned brewery with neighborhood-level community focus and a leadership group half made up of women. A true side hustle with the people closest to them. We welcome them on the show this week to discuss what motivated them into a side hustle, especially such a large endeavor in manufacturing. The family's mission is to put excellence into pract...