In this interview, Sandy, a mother of three who works a full‑time 9‑to‑5 job, explains how she built an AI‑powered side business that now generates over $50,000 per month despite having no technical background. She spends only 1–2 hours a day on the venture, using ChatGPT (a $20/month subscription) to deliver client work. Sandy recounts her dire financial past—living on $2 a day, being evicted, and even sleeping on a beach—before landing her first $3,000‑per‑month retainer. Within nine months she scaled to a six‑figure monthly income. The conversation highlights the importance of a growth mindset, “fake‑it‑till‑you‑make‑it” confidence, and the accessibility of AI tools that allow non‑experts to create high‑value services quickly.
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You don't have to know anything technical because AI is doing it for you.
Yeah. So you're making over $50,000 a month. How many hours per week would you say you're working?
I still have my full-time job, 9 to 5. Also, I have 3 kids under the age of 8 right now. So building all of this had to be easy for me. I could only spend 1 to 2 hours a day. Even the client work, I only spend like an hour a day maximum. That's it.
Wow.
I was super poor, like too poor to a point I could only spend $2 a day. One time I couldn't pay the rent, so I got kicked out. I slept on the beach. The police came up to me and I got kicked out from the beach as well. So I'm like, oh my gosh. So the reason why I'm sharing this is because I wanted to tell you where I was in terms of I need to make money. And that's the first, the very first money that I made online, which is $3,000 a month retainer.
Wow. Now, did you have any experience when you applied for this?
No.
You're just using ChatGPT?
Yeah.
Oh man. Using ChatGPT. Oh, I got ChatGPT, $20 a month. I'm now an expert. That irrational confidence, that fake it you make it has never been more like in everyone's grasp than it is today.
Just have a one mindset of if Sandy can do it, I can do it just because I just started this 9 months ago.
Yeah, that's beautiful. Yeah. I just think that humans are much more likely from a place of insecurity to like, oh, who am I? No, just like do it. Just go try it. Talk to people on their deathbed. Like they regret things that they didn't do, not things that they did. So we always learn something from things that we did, but we never learn from something we never did. Yeah, exactly. So you either win or you learn. I started so many businesses that failed and I regret none of them because I at least answered the question for myself.
Okay, so here's some secret sauce. What you want to do is
