In this solo vlog, Matt Ragland introduces and enthusiastically endorses Chris Guillebeau’s newly released book Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days. He explains his belief that everyone should have a side hustle for extra freedom and financial flexibility, and highlights the book’s core promise: a concrete, 27‑day plan that moves a reader from idea generation to earning income. Matt flips through the book, noting its actionable structure (weeks 1‑4 covering building, selecting, preparing, launching, regrouping, and refining), visual tools, and a memorable line that a side hustle is like a hobby that makes money. He then outlines a simple three‑step giveaway: subscribe to his channel, like the video, and comment with either a current side hustle or a reason for wanting one, with optional extra credit for sharing the video. He also mentions Chris Guillebeau’s upcoming 100‑city tour related to the book. The video serves both as a promotion for the book and a call‑to‑action for viewers to engage with Matt’s channel.
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Hi everyone, my name is Matt and welcome back to the vlog. In this week's side hustle episode, I want to talk to you about and walk you through a little bit the best side hustle book that I think has ever been written. It was written by my friend Chris Guillebeau, just came out yesterday, and I'm going to be giving away a copy of his book, Side Hustle. I think it's fantastic. I'm about halfway through it already, and the basic premise of it is You know how I feel about it. Everyone needs a side hustle, even if it doesn't become your primary source of income. Certainly, maybe it can down the road, but it gives you extra freedom, it gives you extra financial flexibility, and just more options in life. You know that I believe that side hustles are incredibly worthwhile and necessary, and Chris's book Side Hustle takes you through 27 days from idea to income. Idea to income in 27 days. Let's take a look. I'm just going to flip through a few pages and point out some things that I really have liked in the book already, and I'm going to tell you right after that how you can enter the giveaway in order to win a copy of Chris's new book. Alright, let's take a look. The first thing I love about this book is how actionable it is. From Idea to Income in 27 Days. One sec. There we go. We talk about building an arsenal of ideas, and it goes through week 1, 2, 3, 4. Build, select, prepare, launch, regroup, and refine. So, we talk about the 27-day plan. A couple of things that I've already liked: how to use the plan and track your progress. He has great visuals as always. You'll see that I've got a couple of visuals of my own. One of the things, this is right from the beginning, that I loved: "A side hustle is like a hobby with one big difference. Most hobbies cost money." but side hustles make money. That's something that I want you to keep in mind is that hobbies cost money, side hustles make money. All right, so what do you have to do in order to win this great book, Side Hustle by Chris Guillebeau? Well, you only have to do 3 things and you can do them all right now in just a few seconds right on this YouTube video. All you have to do is go ahead and subscribe to this channel. You can click the button right below. Go ahead and give this video a thumbs up and leave a comment letting me know what your side hustle is. Or if you don't know what it is right now, this book is going to be great. Just let me know why you want to have a side hustle. Okay? And for extra credit, this isn't a necessity, but for extra credit, go ahead and share this video with someone you know would also enjoy it and appreciate it. If it gets a lot of shares, I might be giving away some more books, but you can share on Twitter, on Instagram, on Facebook. I'm Matt Ragland on all of those platforms. So go ahead and give it a share, but like I said, all you have to do to enter, you can do it in just a couple of minutes or less right here on this page, is subscribe to the channel, give this a thumbs up, and then leave a comment below letting me know either what your side hustle is or why you want to have a side hustle to begin with. I can't wait to be sharing more of this book for you. And also keep an eye out, Chris is doing like a 100-city tour talking about this book and different side hustles. So I'm going to link to that tour in the description below. Make sure you enter the giveaway, and I can't wait to send this book to someone who needs it. All right everyone, love you all so much and I will talk to you soon. Thanks. Bye.
