More Than A Side Hustle
More Than A Side Hustle
Our 10 Sources of Income (That Anyone Can Start)
We went from $114,000 in debt to building 10 different income streams - and we're breaking down exactly how we did it. No fluff, no get-rich-quick schemes, just the real strategies that actually work.
In this video, you'll discover:
✅ Our 10 income sources (with real numbers)
✅ Which ones you can start with $0
✅ The "unsexy" businesses that pay the bills
✅ How we built systems that run without us
✅ Common mistakes that kill income streams
✅ Which income stream to start with first
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Today we'll be talking about how we built 10 income streams starting from zero and most people think we're crazy for doing it this way, but here's the thing everything we do isn't sexy. Some of it is, some of it isn't.
SPEAKER_00:Our first stream of income is the cleaning business. We've grown into over three million dollars. It has honestly changed our entire life by starting that unsexy business.
SPEAKER_01:Let's go, guys. What's going on? Welcome to another episode of the More Than a Solid Soul Podcast where we help nine to five us create more impact, income, and influence outside their jobs. My name is Anthony.
SPEAKER_00:And I'm Janoka, and I was gonna say welcome to another episode of Cleaning Business University. That's because it's been so long, child.
SPEAKER_01:So today we'll be talking about 10 streams of income, and these are things that we've built over the last eight, nine years. And you know, as you guys may or may not know, seven years ago we had$114,000 of debt working multiple jobs, and we paid it off in about 23 months. And today we're gonna walk you through the exact income streams, how we built it, what you can actually expect if you decide to copy us. Some things you won't be able to copy because they're very specific to our background, but a lot of things are open for everyone to decide if that's something they want to do.
SPEAKER_00:So our first stream of income is the cleaning business. This is where it all started. This was our first business ever, and so it has been the catalyst or the beginning to everything else that we have going on or that we'll list today. And so the way that we run our business is a remote cleaning business, and we do not do any of the cleaning. And so that has been the first thing that has helped us or continues to help us as an income stream at this point of our life. So the past eight years.
SPEAKER_01:We've grown into over three million dollars, as you guys may or may not know. This taught us about the power of unsexy businesses. And you see all the things online, and I want you guys to remember this quote. I heard this quote from one of our students, and he said, People talk about seven streams of income, but when I think about that, I hear seven streams of headaches. And that could be the case. People think that most millionaires have seven streams of income doing completely different things when more often than not, they did one thing really good for a while, grew it and scaled it, and then did something else. And normally it's around the same thing. So it's not like I'ma start a cleaning business and then I'm gonna start a handyman business, or I'm gonna start a plumbing business if you use the same model. But that still would make it similar. Yeah, it would make it similar, but more often than not, people think I need seven streams of income to become a millionaire. It's like, no, most millionaires became millionaires from one thing, they did it really well, and then that thing turned into multiple streams of income. So that was the first one for us that we really focused on, and that was the cleaning business.
SPEAKER_00:We connect our customers with cleaners, essentially. Who would have thought would be something that we would do, let alone when we first started in this journey or getting into paying off debt and stuff? Starting a business was never a conversation that we've ever had. And so the fact that we were doing this, and at that time we really got family and friends involved to like help us choose a name, help us do a logo, all that type of stuff. Looking back, it's kind of unbelievable that we did it and we still have it now. Yeah we're not saying that we will have it forever or that it'll be passed down to our kids or anything, but it definitely was the first thing that we did, and it has helped us to change our life. It has honestly changed our entire life by starting that unsexy business with less than$500. Yeah. Can you imagine? So you never know what you start, what you do, and how it can help you within your life.
SPEAKER_01:And imagine taking$500 or even a thousand dollars and turning it into multiple billions. That is power of the unsexy business. You see a lot of business models out there, and this is one of those where we're like, eh, wasn't really sure about, but you know, once you focus on one thing, grow it, and then you do the next thing, you can not only change your life, but you just change other people's lives. Right. So speaking of changing other people's lives, that's number two. So digital products and coaching. That's another stream of income for us.
SPEAKER_00:Mr. Delete the Debt, that was one of the first digital products that we did.
SPEAKER_01:One of the first digital products we did was Mr. Delete the Debt, where I helped people pay off massive amounts of debt. I think overall, you did coaching with that, you did a course. Once we did something, and not only did we did it, we were able to help other people do it. Then we turned it into a digital product or service. So for us, once we figured out the cleaning business, people kept asking us how we were able to build a six-figure cleaning business outside of our nine to five jobs. Like that was a question. Once we started sharing it on social media, once people started asking about it, then we went on to help other people do the same, like help them build a remote cleaning business, whether they have a cleaning business or not. And that's what we took, what we knew and what we did, and we told other people how to do it. So that was digital products and coaching.
SPEAKER_00:And so now we have students in over 40 plus states that are doing great, have done over 18 million dollars in revenue, and we've had cleaning business university now for five plus years, and our students are doing better than us, which is great. We've built community with that, which we've done in-person events. The cleaning business has allowed us to then do digital products from it, which continues to change our life as well. Like, we meet with people, we build community to help us to just do all the things. What I want to say about digital products is like no one can take that from you, essentially. No matter if we stop the cleaning business or decide not to do it anymore, no one can take digital products from you. That's something big for us.
SPEAKER_01:The coaching of it. No one can take your intellectual property. This is something everyone can do. If you have an idea or you achieve the result, people who are always asking you these questions, that could be a digital product or service to help somebody else out.
SPEAKER_00:Number three is our software, our SaaS, Tidy Track, and we built it for cleaning business owners. We've been in this business now eight years. We've seen all the things, and so we made it so that we can connect all the dots, all the holes that we've seen throughout this time that would make our students and any cleaning business owner life easier. That's what we put into tidy track. That is a software that we have that we've been promoting now for about a year and a half, and we have our students in that. And even if you're not a student, you can join in tidy track.
SPEAKER_01:So that's tidytrack.io. But the reason we created it was because we were using all these different tools. We were using these platforms, we were using Zapier, which connects all these things. Phones, it was it was emails, it was text messages, it was marketing, it was the booking platform, it was the checkout page, it was all these things. And when we got one of our partner Damien, he was like, Yeah, we could just put this into one platform. So that's what Tidy Track is, and that's what we've been able to accomplish with that. Now we got dozens of students on it, using it every single day, helping them to grow their cleaning business. And that business model is software as a service. So essentially, if you think about anything in 2025, 26, 27, even going back a couple years, everything is subscription. I remember back in the day when you used to be able to buy Photoshop. Photoshop used to be able to buy, it was like$300 and that was it. Now it's a monthly subscription. Everybody's like, because people don't understand that software is not just a one and done. You give me$300 and that software breaks, you're coming back to me. Or if there's a change in your computer that no longer is compatible with the software, we got all these developers on staff. So software as a service is what it has become, and people are becoming hip to it now where they're like, listen, you don't just use it softly.
SPEAKER_00:Everything is a subscription.
SPEAKER_01:Everything is a subscription. So it's a software as a service. So we're providing that software to our students, and we built what we needed, now others pay for it. So is this something that you are using every single day in your life that you're like, oh, this would be cool if I could sell it to other people. It doesn't have to be original.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think about that when I see people promoting planners. Planners. Like they make the planner how they felt, what they felt was missing from other planners that they seen, and then they sell it. It's the gap in the market play. Yeah. I'm thinking about using that word play. Listen, that's the gap.
SPEAKER_01:Every time somebody says I guess that's the way to say it. Every time somebody says, Oh, I saw a gap in the market, so I did this. Like, ain't no damn gap in the market. You just ain't look hard enough. That's totally fine. Just say that. No, somehow, like, so somebody I've seen. Give me one gap in the market play.
SPEAKER_00:So I'm telling you, I see I see a lot of planner content because I I like planners. I don't get them as much as I used to, but like somebody made like an ADHD planner. That's not out there really. Somebody made, I've seen like, it wasn't a planner, but a checklist of how to clean your house.
SPEAKER_01:You don't think that it's in the planner somewhere?
SPEAKER_00:Not in the planner.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's in the planner.
SPEAKER_00:In the physical thing? Probably like somewhere that you can ety.
SPEAKER_01:They printed it out a checklist.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but it's not my fault they didn't have it available.
SPEAKER_01:That's the play. The gap in the market. That's the play. The gap in the market play. Ain't no damn gap in the market. Unless you build an Amazon Uber. Unless you're sending a rocket to the moon, ain't no gap in the market. Like, let I'll just leave it at that. So our software was a gap in the market. So we built it. It wasn't necessarily a gap in the market, but it's we made it cohesive where we think it's a one-stop shop. And if somebody's coming to you with these questions, why not build it for them? Right. We built it for ourselves first. And then we sold it to our students. Yeah. Using it and sold it to our students. So they're using it. So number four. So speaking of doing things, software as a service, we're talking about done-for-you services now. This is another part of it. When people come and start asking you for things, some things might fall in line with what you were already doing. So for us, it might be for some examples like website building or virtual assistant service. So if you guys don't know, we used to own a virtual assistant agency or cleaning business owners. So we've hired probably dozens of virtual assistants from all over the world and they helped run our students' cleaning businesses. So we have some experience in hiring, training, softwares, tools, resources, what to do, what not to do. Yes. Sure.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, we can. Yes, we can do that for you. So I know, yeah, VAs is a big one that a lot of our students ask about or kind of get to that point of making enough money or I'm missing calls. I need to get some VAs in. And so that is something. I don't know it's something that we necessarily talk about out loud because it is time consuming, but it is services that we have and do provide for our students. That just like, you know, I just want to pay you. You you do all the work. Just give me the person. As good as they are, because I know you're gonna train them well, as you know, how you guys have it in your business, just give me the person. Easy peasy. So that's another way that we are receiving income.
SPEAKER_01:So we have our uh teams, they do all the hiring, they do all the training. So now we have them do that for other people's um assistants. It doesn't require us to do a lot of manual work. We just kind of accept or decline, you know, if we're gonna do that just based on their time commitment. But that was a business that we own, so we have the experience in that. Going back to you, is there something that you can do for someone else to help them get a result? Some people don't want to go through a course or they don't want to software, they just want to hire the person to do the thing. So, what is this something that you do very well that people ask you about? Can that be a done for you service? So, in that instance, like, yo, you do this very well. Can we pay you to help us design and plan our outfits? And it was like, all right, cool, we're gonna give you this money, and that was the done for you service. And that's you turning your systems into services. So you might have a system where you know skin color, you know hair, you know. Stylus. Stylus. That's the way that's stuff. So now can you turn that to a service for other people? Yeah, that's another thing that you could go out and do as well.
SPEAKER_00:Do that for someone. That was number four. Number five of income is consulting. If you didn't notice, a lot of this still aligns with um cleaning business university or the cleaning business essentially. But we've done consulting about relationships, we've done consulting about debt payoff, managing your money, things like that. So, consulting, sometimes people just want one-on-one attention, right? Both of our students have access to us in the community, but there's two, three hundred plus people in there. You're not getting our one-on-one attention. So sometimes people just want, they're like, I just want to speak to you, I just want to pick your brain. That comes with a fee. So consulting is something that we do, but obviously it's our time, it's our energy, it's our intellectual property. So that is a much higher fee, especially if you want both of us. You know what I mean? So, and another thing about it is we are particular on who we do it with, right? So I feel like when you're consulting, especially if it's a recurring thing, you have to be aligned. Like, I'm very mindful of my energy, I'm very mindful of who I'm talking to on a constant basis. And so that's another reason we don't just broadcast everywhere, like, hey, anyone, pick our brain. It's very specific to people that maybe we've spoken to closely or worked with closely, but consulting is another thing that we do.
SPEAKER_01:There was this viral post about if you guys don't know um Patrick Bet David, you can go look him up. But he charges$45,000 for about 20 minutes of consulting. And you're like, well, no, and we had this conversation. Well, I'm not paying$45,000, or of course you're not. Like, of course we're not paying$45,000 for a consulting call, right? But is why is it of course? Why are you saying of course you're not? Because you gotta be in a you have to be that's the thing about consulting too, is like you don't want to take on every client, but you don't want to you don't want to price yourself based on time either. It's on the value. So the person that can receive the value of doing a a 45-minute coaching call, a 15-minute coaching call for$45,000, they have to be able to action that advice for it to make sense. I did this video about somebody paying um Alex Ramosy like a quarter million dollars. And it might be something that might be on his YouTube, and you gotta be okay with that. But you gotta be able to action the advice.
SPEAKER_00:It's the question of Jay-Z or the$25,000.
SPEAKER_01:If Jay-Z tells you to grind harder, you can find him or something like that. If Jay-Z tells you to grind harder and you like, all right, I'm already in. I'm out. I don't know why they said that that's what he was saying. No, keep keep doing what you're doing, my man. Keep going. Like you're on the right path. I'm not paying$45,000 for that. But if there is something, because he's a billionaire, there is something you probably can get from the conversation. One example was a person that did the$45,000 consulting call. They pitched him a product or a service or something that he needed that he said he was on a email. He was in a room. He was in a room. So now you're getting a call with somebody that has the ability to actually buy the service that you want, that could absolutely change your life. But you got to know the right question. So be mindful of that. But anybody could do consulting, again, if you're an expert, not even an expert, if you know a little bit more than someone else, you can help them get a result. So that's something that everyone can do.
SPEAKER_00:Getting people to just the place that you're at. I know a lot of times people question and say, like, well, I don't know it all, and you don't have to know it all to get started on something in consulting or um done for you services.
SPEAKER_01:And again, you don't want to charge based on the time, you want to charge based on the value. So, you know, to hop on a call might be a good idea.
SPEAKER_00:Well, you come on charge based on the value, then the course should be way higher. It actually should.
SPEAKER_01:Because you can't get that time back. Being on the phone with somebody for 30 minutes or an hour, you can't do anything else but be on that call with that person. So, you know, if it's a thousand dollars or five hundred dollars, then come to that call with the value you're looking to get out of. I paid someone recently$300 for like a 20, 20-minute call. I mean, I was like, well, eh, it was kind of okay. But the problem was I didn't go into that call with the with what I wanted to get out of it. Yeah. That was another thing, too. I went in there like, oh yeah, I'm just gonna ask you a bunch of questions. Like, no, what is the result I'm looking to get out of this particular call? And that was on me. So think about what result you're trying to get. So anybody could do consulting. Number six, YouTube podcasting, advertising revenue.
SPEAKER_00:Advertising. This ain't the biggest amount of income coming in. And honestly, it's not because we haven't been as consistent as we once were, right? There were one time we were dropping a podcast a week for about two years straight. Then I think a second kid came in play. I don't remember what when it dropped. But anyway, when the second kid came in play, we just haven't been as consistent. However, we do post content, we do post shorts, and we do post videos on YouTube. So YouTube does pay us. In regards to podcast advertising, that's not a consistent thing. We've gotten paid maybe once from it, but consistently YouTube pays us for showing up, for putting videos out for you guys consuming, for you guys watching, how long you watch, whatever, that impacts it. But the consistency of showing up gives you a little bit of money, right? Gives you a little bit of a coin in your pocket, even if it's not a lot, but it can add up, right? The more you put out, more money you can get, more views you're getting.
SPEAKER_01:So it's called AdSense. So we make a couple hundred dollars from AdSense. And the thing about it is that you could post yourself advertising your product or services every single day. YouTube is going to pay you for sharing your business to get clients. So there might be somebody that watches this video that's like, oh, I love them, I want to work with them. And we're gonna get paid from the video, from the AdSense, and we're gonna get paid from any one of these things done for you, consulting, software, digital products, or we might have a client in our cleaning business. So you're able to put yourself out there and make money from these platforms, but again, you don't want to just make your money from the platform itself. You gotta have these other things in place, but it does pay you to advertise yourself. So yeah, and we started our journey on YouTube back in 2017. So we still get from some of those videos, and again, like Janoka said, going back to the consistency. Our first videos were literally on the iPhone. We look at them and they're like, we're like the phone is like down, and we're like, huh? Yeah, at our kitchen, kitchen table, kitchen table, no lighting, no cameras, no mics, no nothing. But it was just about getting started. Consistency over perfection. So that's YouTube, and then a podcast goes hand in hand. So we could take the YouTube video long form, that's one video. We could take the audio from it, put it on the platform, we could take the shorts from the long form video, put that onto YouTube, put that onto TikTok, put that on an Instagram. We could take that and then also create emails from it and send it out to our clients, send it out to our students, send it out to our 20,000, 30,000 person email list. So you could take this one long form video and do five, six, seven. I can give you eight other things we could do with it as well.
SPEAKER_00:And it still can make you money, even if it's not directly from YouTube. But that one video that somebody saw that made them say, Okay, I'm gonna join Cleaning Business University, there you go. That's a way you know that it makes us money. So, number seven is affiliate commission. So we work with different companies throughout different businesses, and it's things that we use specifically and we recommend it. One plus one equals two. Um, kind of like what you see with influencers, they use lotions and they recommend it, and you buy it, or clothes, and the same thing in that way, but on a different level, if you will, right? So any platforms that we use or anything that we mention, we've had partnerships with people, and because we're mentioning your services to thousands of people, we get a kickback for doing that. And that's the affiliate commissions that we've been working with for the past few years. And now it depends. We're so we're very selective on if it's just commission versus like we probably just need to get paid for it. But affiliate commissions is number seven, another way that we bring in revenue monthly.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, monthly.
SPEAKER_00:A couple thousand a month from that, but long-term relationships. That's that's what we build with those affiliates and hopefully to continue on.
SPEAKER_01:But we recently turned down a relationship because we wanted to focus on our own product and services. So you gotta think about that too, is like if you're promoting somebody else's stuff and it's too in alignment with what you already have going on, sometimes it might not be the right fit at the right time. So we had to turn down a couple thousand dollars a month because it's like eh, we rather use that time and energy to focus on promoting our own stuff versus somebody else's.
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_01:But if you don't have anything, let's say we had a like for you, you want to get like the like affiliates from like oh sponsorship, sponsorship.
SPEAKER_00:There's a difference. There's affiliates and sponsorship, they can be pretty similar, but I think it's it can be a little different. See, we didn't put that on there, but I had got a$50 gift card from heart, but it's not consistent. So would that be affiliate?
SPEAKER_01:That would be like affiliate, that would be sponsorship sponsorship.
SPEAKER_00:You just get paid that one time for whatever it is. Affiliate is ongoing.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, affiliate, you get paid. Like the Amazon, you get paid for promoting a product or service. Yeah. If somebody gets if somebody makes the sale. So you only get an affiliate commission off of the sale. Sponsorship, you don't need the there's no commission on that. It's like you're getting paid regardless. So affiliate commission, make sure you are using the product or service that you're promoting or say it, tag it, tag it, put it out there. You could go to a lot of websites and just think about the things you're using on a daily basis. Go in and type in, let's say we're using Canon cameras. You can go in Canon.com and type in the word affiliate, and then they're gonna give you an affiliate link. Sometimes they have that in every company. They talk about every time you talk about the product or service, you could just post it. Hey, I'm using Canon. Here's my affiliate link. Feel free to go and buy it. So think about that every day. Look around your house right now, think about your day-to-day, think about something you love that you're using on a daily basis. Like in our um Clean the Business University program, our students have the ability to get affiliate commissions. So they're inside the program, they're loving it, they're building their businesses, and they want to promote it to other people. They have the ability to get an affiliate commission on that sale of that product or service. So only promote something you believe in. That's that's super important too.
SPEAKER_00:Number eight is therapy, essentially. I am a therapist, licensed therapist, and I do consultant three states. Three. Well, I added Wisconsin recently. Oh wow, congratulations. Another story.
SPEAKER_01:I'll be saying two states now is three. We gotta make sure we're in the same page.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that was recent. But so three states, and I do consultant for a company, so essentially it's considered as disaster relief. So when something big happens or something happens at a company, they will hire out maybe like an EAP or something, and I would come in employee assistant program. Most companies, I think I don't know if all, but most companies have that, and I would come in to be like the therapist or a listening ear there. So if someone dies at the job or a lot of layoffs or any type of catastrophe that happens, I could be flown somewhere when the whole flooding happened in Miss Mystique, it was it was when like the kids passed away, those type of stuff. Any type of disaster relief, basically. So I'm a consultant with a company, and that's another way that we make income. So it's a 1099 role, of course. And so if I'm available, I'll go. If I'm not, I don't go. And that's it. But they have different programs out there to do it. At one point, I don't do it anymore. I was doing online therapy. That's another way that I can, or anybody, if if you're a therapist, of course, can bring in income and it's all virtual at this point, right? So that's another thing that you can do if it's not necessarily consulting with a company for therapy, but definitely doing online therapy for companies.
SPEAKER_01:And if you think about companies like BetterHelp and like Talkspace and there's tons out there. Yeah, so this part was more, yes, we're talking about Janokas, we're talking about our income streams, but you can think about that, you could think about that for yourself. Like, so a lot of nurses during a pandemic, they got travel nursing. Travel nursing, right? What other things can you do that are in alignment with your nine to five job, your career, that you could do outside your nine and five? So for me, I was in IT. So I was doing IT consulting at a um a firm back in New York City back in the day, right? And I was I was getting paid for that. Can you help people doing the thing you're already doing? So think about the product or service you are offering because you're like, well, I'm not an expert. The company that is paying you today for your product or services, they believe you're worth the money. You're nine and five. Yeah, yeah. The company that you're working for that pays you for your product and services is called your job. And you think you're not an expert, but they're paying you six figures. And you're like, well, nobody will want me. Well, they wanted you, right? Somebody wants you. And I was literally talking to like one of my old co-workers, and I'm like, you are one of the best at our job. Like, why don't you think you could consult on the side for somebody else? Like, yeah, nobody. I'm like, it's a limited mindset that we have though.
SPEAKER_00:Because that's because you're so close to grow, but that's also just how we grew up. It's like you get the job and then that's it.
SPEAKER_01:Not there's you don't think outside of that generally unless you're listening to the I think that we're too close to it sometimes that we don't think people would pay us for our product or services. You are offering your services to every single job you work at. You put yourself out there, you interviewed, they hired you. It's no different than you doing that on the side for somebody else. Right. There's something that you're currently doing at your job that you can now do outside of your job to help more people. There's always more money outside your job than it is inside your job.
SPEAKER_00:Number nine, real estate. With the because real estate can go up and down, as you know, if you're involved in that world, but it's really like a long-term wealth building. It's not necessarily something that I would say we get income from it, absolutely, but that I'm saying, like, oh, it's helping me to pay a bill or do anything at this moment, right? The goal is to hold it long term and build, build equity, things like that, maybe pass down to our kids. But we've took the business profits that we've had throughout the years and getting real estate, you know, made it an asset essentially. But real estate is something that we get income from. We had three properties. We sold one this year that we had out in Dallas, and so we still have two out in St. Louis that we have. Now, we don't know if we'll get more real estate at this point. I don't think so right now, but it is something that we still own and get paid from monthly.
SPEAKER_01:That's one thing you mentioned was taking a business profit. So when you start making more money, your taxes are going to be higher. So one of the ways that you could offset your taxes is by buying real estate. So that makes that makes it a perfect vehicle. Instead of paying Uncle Sam 50,000, you put that into a property and you'll all you offset your taxable income. A consult your professional tax experts. If you're inside of our community, you can hit a Melissa, she, you know, tag her or something like that. But anyway, yes, so you can mix long-term wealth building, you could do short-term rentals, you could do long-term, you could do commercial, you could do residential, all these different things, different, different options. Right now, we only have we just have rental properties right now. So if we want to buy more, maybe one day we'll scale up like a monopoly and we buy a commercial property. But for now, right now, real estate is one of those income streams. The last one I put on here, because I wanted to make the number 10. I didn't want to just leave you guys with nine. I put a stock portfolio dividend. This is like the boring income stream where people's like, oh, I made, you know, stock portfolio and dividends, and then pretty much you're getting paid to you're getting paid to own a company, uh, a share of a company. So like Apple, whatever companies you own, you get paid to own different shares within that company. So we don't day trade, we don't do anything like that. We just do long-term index investing, and our money reinvests itself, if that makes sense. So let's say we got paid$50 from a dividend stock, we just reinvest that back into the stock. Long-term wealth building. So that's one of the boring income streams that's not sexy, that's kind of like, eh. But again, it's one of them, and we just reinvest it.
SPEAKER_00:Money coming in, money is income, is income, right? Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01:And it's kind of like a high yield savings account, but it's much better. You get paid a lot more.
SPEAKER_00:The biggest thing that we wanted to take away from is that the cleaning business has opened doors for us that we never thought that it or never expected or never even thought about, right? So one thing can simply change your life and it can all trickle down. Or these income streams didn't happen overnight. It wasn't like, okay, we started the cleaning business, now everything else happened. It took years for, honestly, it took the past eight years to get all of this in place. So it's not that it has to be done right away, but if you think bigger, if you think in a way that how can I make more income from the things that I'm already doing or the things that make sense, the things I like to do, then that can get you further. That can help you to get that seven streams of income that everybody wants, right? It doesn't have to be jumping all over the place though.
SPEAKER_01:Another key lesson is we built systems that can run without us. So if you look at some of these income streams, we talk about the cleaning business, we talk about digital products, we talk about the software, we talk about the done-for-you services, like real estate. Those are things that can run without us. We can have, you can put teams in place, you can put systems in place, you can put people in place, you could put automations in place that help you run those businesses a lot smoother. So you're not required to be there every single step of the way. So don't just think you're gonna start seven things, and it's going to be impossible to grow all seven things or eight things or nine, whatever you have at the same time. It's gonna be almost impossible.
SPEAKER_00:I would we would just always say pick one, grow it to where you feel comfortable or where it needs to be, and then you can trickle down to other things. Like there's no way we would have started a cleaning business university if we weren't comfortable with what was happening in the cleaning business. Just think about it in that way. Pick one, grow it, and then you can move on if that's what you would like to do.
SPEAKER_01:If you want to get more income. So the biggest mistake people make is trying to build all 10 at once and start with one, get profitable, and then add the next. And if you think about starting a cleaning business like we did, you could tap into any of the links below. Go to cleaning businessmasterclass.com. Check the show notes for anything we have going on. You want to check out TinyTrack, which is our automation software, or go to tiny track.io, and that's it for us. Thank you for coming to another episode of More Than Side House of Podcast. Make sure you leave us a five star review, make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel wherever you're listening to this, and we'll see you next time. Bye bye. Peace out.