Monday Morning Motivation:
3 Reasons You Need A Side Hustle
(And How To Get Started)
Happy Monday everyone… just a few more of these before 2015 rolls around.. are you ready for THAT?
So many of you know that I used to work in traditional media; for 20 years I was a news anchor, the last 4 1/2 I spent as co-host of The Early Show. In 2006, right after I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy due to family history of breast cancer and my own breast disease, I got fired from that high-profile gig.
But this is not a tale of woe… It’s a tale of WHOA!
See, even before my world was turned upside down, I had an idea. I wanted to write a book about my life as a mother and my philosophy of imperfect parenting. I told a friend of mine about it and she asked me, “Why do you want to do that? You already have a job.”
Yes. At that time I did have a job and it was a good paying one too. But I also knew it was a bad idea to allow one person, entity or employer to have the power to radically change my life.
Of course, that’s what happened when I was fired in 2006.
Related: 3 Reasons I Told The Truth About Being Fired… And Why You Should Too
But when the curtains closed on that act of my career, I already had the groundwork in place for the next; Good Enough Mother; The Perfectly Imperfect Book of Parenting was at the publisher.
A few years later, the friend who asked me why I was doing what I was in light of the fact that I already had a good job, told me she got it.. she finally understood why I was branding myself before I needed to (though I would argue now, we ALL need to be branding ourselves, even from the very beginning).
Related: Who Are You? 5 Reasons You Need A Personal Brand
So to that end, here are the 3 reasons you need a side hustle and how to get started!
1. You Need To Prepare For Job Loss
