From Side Hustle to Seat at the Table

Beautiful, this episode is called From Side Hustle to Seat at the Table.

And let’s be clear: your side hustle was never supposed to stay small.

For many high-achieving women, especially women of color in corporate spaces, the “side hustle” begins as extra income, a creative outlet, or a quiet backup plan. But at some point, the work evolves. The vision gets bigger. The calling gets louder. And the question becomes:

Are you still treating your expertise like a side project when it is actually preparing you for a seat at the table?

In this episode, Dr. Kimberly Dunlap, Wealth & Career Elevation Strategist, breaks down the identity shift required to move from side hustle energy into wealth-building, leadership, visibility, and authority. And she is joined by Bart Merrell. Bart Merrell, The Side Hustle Samurai, helps people turn what they know into income through Monetize Your Mindset and side hustle strategy.

This is not about doing more.

It is about positioning differently.

Inside this episode, Dr. Kimberly Dunlap explores:

•  Why your side hustle may actually be evidence of your next level 
•  How to stop minimizing the value of what you know 
•  The difference between extra income and strategic wealth-building 
•  Why visibility, confidence, and positioning matter 
•  How corporate women can leverage their expertise beyond the 9–5 
•  What it means to stop asking for permission and start taking your seat 

Beautiful, you are not building “a little thing on the side.”

Connect with Bart Merrell: 

WEBSITE: http://youridealsidehustle.com/

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-merrell-2440148/

 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/bart.merrell 

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@BartMerrell-SideHustleSamurai 

You may be building the bridge to your next level of wealth, freedom, and authority.

Ready to stop treating your expertise like a side hustle and start positioning it like a wealth asset?

Book your strategy call here:
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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:03

Beautiful. Welcome back to She's Beyond Elevated. And today's episode is for the woman, and honestly the men too, who knows that there's more out there for them, but hasn't actually acted on it yet. This episode is entitled From Side Hustle to a Seat at the Table. And we're talking about what it actually looks like to take something that you've been doing, basically, on the side and turn it to income, influence, and real opportunity. But let's just be honest, right? In today's world, having one stream of income is literally like having no streams of income, because one stream of income can switch to no streams of income really quickly. So we all have to have a side hustle, right? And with AI shifting the workforce the way that it has, a lot of people are starting to ask, what do I actually own? Like outside of my skills with the company, what do I actually own? And how can I monetize what's mine? So beautiful, I'm joined today by Mr. Bart Morrell, also known as the side hustle samurai. And Bob helps, excuse me, Bart helps people turn what they already know into income through his monetize your mindset approach and side hustle strategy, right? So right now he's working with individuals who are realizing something important. One, life is too short to spend all your time building someone else's vision. And especially, that's especially if you um have the ability to build your own, right? So Bart, welcome to She's Beyond Elevated.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Thanks. Thanks for having me today. Excited to have this conversation.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

I know I am so I was, you know, when we spoke earlier um before, I was just outdone with the the side hustle samurai. That was so good. So I really am going to give you some time because I want you to explain to the listeners um the reasons behind that. But Bart, let's kind of start here. With everything happening, the economy the way that it is, unemployment rates are through the roof. Okay. Um, now AI and job insecurity and all of these things. Why is it such an important time for people to start thinking about building their own income streams?

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Because you never know when life is gonna happen. This really hit my so I had a dream job. My dream job was to get in the FBI and chase serial killers. Okay, and I did not make it. I I had a family friend who was an ex-fbi agent. He said the easiest way into the FBI is through accounting, and so I went and I studied accounting. Once you get into the FBI, you can move to wherever the job openings are. My pathway in was through accounting. Okay. Once I started studying accounting, I found out two things. One, I didn't like it, and two, I wasn't very good at it.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

You might have wanted to find that out at the beginning, Mark, but that's okay. We digress.

SPEAKER_00 3:29

But I continued through because it was my path into the FBI. Okay. And I had one semester left. I went home to help my dad on the farm, improve my Spanish speaking ability. While I was down there, I had RK surgery done on my eyes. This was before LASIK. And it's where they go in and they make a bunch of slits in your eyeball, and the scar tissue changes the shape of your eyeball and corrects your vision. And mine was successful. I was 2020 in one and 2025 in the other, and I was that way till I was about 52. So from 23 to 52, I had perfect vision. But after I got it done, I got back up to school, finishing up my accounting degree, started the application process in the FBI, and I found out that that surgery automatically disqualified me from the FBI. Because at the time it was still considered experimental, and they didn't want to put tens of thousands of dollars into training an FBI agent and then he goes blind. And so it kind of makes sense, but I was devastated. What am I gonna do? I can imagine because I'm in the degree, I do not want to be an accountant, I don't want to go count other people's money. I did not want to do that. And so things just happened. Um, I spent time in Japan. A buddy of mine who worked for a bungee jump company said, Hey Bart, do you want to go back to Japan? We just sold a bungee jump to Japan. You can help with the the building of it and help with the training of the staff. And he was kind of joking, but I thought about it for a second and I said, Yeah, I think I would. And and so that's where I started. I I took that, I contracted with the Japanese company, and things just started to where in my lifetime, the way I have survived financially is anything that crosses my path, good, bad, or ugly, I always ask, How can I monetize it?

SPEAKER_01 5:30

There you go. Monetize, monetization, putting putting a dollar sign to it. That's basically what monetize means putting a dollar sign to it. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 5:43

And that's kind of how I survived. I just did survive. I that's how I made my money. And I really only had one major income stream. Okay. And then a I say one, one major with little tiny other ones. Okay. And my wife, she's Japanese, she goes back to Japan to visit her family, and while she's there, she gets her health checks done. And if several years ago, she called me from Japan. She calmly informed me that the initial test indicated cancer.

SPEAKER_02 6:15

Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

I'm whose life hasn't been touched by cancer in one way or another. My brother died at age 53 from cancer. Two sisters at age 62. So you can imagine what was running through my mind.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 6:34

I could lose my wife. Sadly, you know what the second thought was? What wasn't it? We can't afford this. I can't afford to drop everything and be by her side as she goes through whatever it is she's gonna have to go through.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

And it's crazy. I remember my great grandparents used to say it's gonna be where you can't afford to live.

unknown 6:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:59

And I was thinking, oh, paying mortgage and so forth, but literally, you some you can't some people can't afford health care, they can't afford the medications that they need and things like that. So you can't afford to live, especially on one or no incomes. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

Yeah. And it's you know, so we say money isn't everything, or is it when you don't have enough?

SPEAKER_01 7:23

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

It becomes everything when you don't have it, and so that's why you need multiple streams of income.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

You are so you are so right. Wow, that uh again, my condolences on on the loss of your your siblings, and and um wonderful that your wife had you to support her during her well, and and so the let's finish the wife story, not leave everybody hanging.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

Eight days later, the biopsy came back negative for cancer. Oh so we got a wake-up call. She just had to have surgery. We got a wake-up call. I'm telling people out there that are listening, don't wait for the wake-up call. No, because you may not get it, you may not be lucky. Yeah, and and so start now before life happens. I say, what happens when what happens happens? Are you prepared?

unknown 8:19

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

So get prepared before it happens so that you have the resources to deal with it.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

Good stuff, Bart. Oh wow, wow. So uh, what is the biggest misconception that you've seen people have about starting a side hustle?

SPEAKER_00 8:39

So you've probably heard this quote Jack of all trades, master of none, master of none. Have you heard the full quotation?

SPEAKER_01 8:51

No, go enlighten, enlighten the audience.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

Jack of all trades, master of none, right, though oftentimes better than the master of one.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

Got you. Never knew the rest of that quote. Okay, everybody uses it the opposite, exactly, kind of like kind of like um blood is thicker than water, and and and that's not the the correct quotation either. Um, but people use it all the time, and it's used in the exact opposite of the way that it was intended. So, yeah, okay, so it's the master the jack of all trades, master of none, but sometimes better than the master of one.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

Is that what though though oftentimes better than the master of one?

SPEAKER_01 9:43

Okay, gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 9:44

So it's it's like we use it as oh, we need to focus. I need to focus on what I do. Well, maybe you do, but you're also new. What if that what if that what you do disappears? Correct. You talked about AI at the beginning of your opening here. Lots of lives are going to be changed because of AI. Yeah, their jobs are going away. Yeah, they need to start to figure out what they are going to do, what do they know that they can monetize and not worry about getting their money from someone else? Create their own opportunity. And have it so it's like having all your eggs in one basket. You know, if you if you have all your eggs in one basket, that's not good. And that's exactly what the full quotation means. Gotcha, gotcha.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

Now, a lot of people feel like they don't have anything to offer, so to speak. How do you help someone identify what they already know and turn something like that into something that they can monetize?

SPEAKER_00 10:57

And so, like I mentioned, anything that crosses my path, good, bad, or ugly, I always ask that question. How can I monetize it? I don't monetize everything, but I always ask the question. There you go. Gotcha. And I do that naturally. It comes naturally to natural to me because of my father. My father, he was a pig farmer, but he didn't only have a pig farm, he had his hands in many different things in the agricultural industry. Part owner in a dairy farm in Idaho, part owner in a mushroom farm in Utah, part owner in a produce warehouse in Arizona.

SPEAKER_02 11:36

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

And so he never set me down and taught me the birds and the bees of business, but he showed me by example. And then anytime I wanted to try something, he was there to encourage me. And so that's why this comes so natural to me. But if you didn't grow up with my dad or someone like my dad, you don't think like I do. And so I help people think, start to think that way. They're they're blind by the closeness of the opportunities that are right here. They they can't see what they have, their life experiences, the things that they've gone through.

SPEAKER_02 12:12

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

And so I tell them to make three lists. Okay, make a list of the things that you like to do, the things that you need to do, and the things that you're already doing. And as you're making these lists, do not think about oh, I can't turn that into a stream of income. Just make the list. You can refine it later. Make the list, and then you're gonna go through and and just ask on each one of those things, how could I turn that into a stream of income? Okay, not can I, not can I, how can I? Because that opens your brain to to to think about it. You you don't automatically shut it off, you know. You you don't say, can I do it? No, you can't. Yeah, because when you asked how can I do it, it opens your mind to thinking, okay, if I could, how could I do it?

SPEAKER_01 13:10

And your subconscious starts. Yeah, your sub your subconscious, when you ask how, your subconscious starts to work in the background, and it starts to come up with ideas and things that may not be in your conscious thinking, um, but subconsciously, it opens up the universe and lets the universe answer the question, basically, is is is what it does. So, how do how but but in doing those things? Like we've we've moved from the three the three lists. How do you know if something is actually marketable?

SPEAKER_00 13:44

Like so the short answer is you let the market decide. Gotcha. Okay, but the the long answer is you need to do your research. Okay, and and some I say that sometimes you do, sometimes you don't, sometimes it's obvious. But let's let's let's I'm gonna so one of the things that people neglect is the things you need to do because they it's not something you necessarily want to do. So I'm not sure if you know this, but I'm a below-the-knee amputee. My left leg was amputated in actually uh two years ago yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

Yes, you did share that.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

And when I found out this was gonna happen after the shock and awe was over, my twisted mind goes like this. Okay, I don't like this, but it's gotta happen. There's nothing I can do about it, so how can I monetize it?

unknown 14:44

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Well, beautiful, stay right, stay, stay with us, okay? Hold that thought, Bart. Because when we come back, we're actually going to talk about how to move from idea to actual income without overthinking the process. We'll be right back. Before we get into today's episode, let me share something with you that I use personally in my business. Today's episode is sponsored by Go High Level. And yes, I am a proud affiliate because I don't recommend anything that I don't use myself. If you're a coach, consultant, service-based entrepreneur who's tired of juggling five, six, seven different platforms to try to efficiently run your business, then Go High Level is for you. Go high level helps you centralize your systems, CRMs, emails, text messaging, calls, um, calendars, webinars, even automation, all in one place. For me, time freedom is non-negotiable. Legacy doesn't require burnout. And Go High Level helps me build a business that works with my life and not against it. If you want to explore for yourself, you can learn more by using the affiliate link in the show notes. Now let's get back to the elevator. Now, Bart, let's talk about execution. Once someone identifies their idea, okay, what's the simplest way to move from thinking about it to actually generating income from it?

SPEAKER_00 16:29

Yeah, and so let's let's kind of go back to the leg thing. I thought about it six months before the surgery, six months post-op, the opportunity came up. Okay. Because I thought about it, because I it was already on my thoughts in my the back of my mind. I'm sitting in uh an appointment with my prosthetist.

SPEAKER_02 16:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

And I said, Scott, you know, I interviewed three other prostitutes before I decided on you. One of the other prostitutes, they had a guy, a guy that I could talk to. A guy that had his leg cut off that I could say, hey, how bad is this gonna hurt? I could get my question answer questions answered. Scott, you don't have a guy. I'm your guy. Then that's he's like, okay, what do you what do you want? I said, Scott, I don't want a job. I don't want to come into the office. I want to help people go through what it is that I went through. I want to answer their questions and and just help them mentally and get ready for what's about to happen. And so I'm basically on retainer. We've been doing this for a year and a half now, where he sends me the numbers, I talk to the people, and it's been a good thing for both me and him and the people that are having to go through it.

SPEAKER_01 17:57

And let me tell you something. The first step to monetizing any skill set is to solve someone's problem. Because if they are having a problem, they will pay you an absorbent amount of money because they need that problem solved. That's it, that's the first thing. And that's one of the things that we cover and that I cover in my workshops. That when you solve the problem, money becomes no object to them. Right? Yeah. It just does not happen. People don't talk about that because they have this problem that needs to be solved. That's why the weight loss industry is an astronomical industry, that's why personal development is is through the roof, all of the things. That's the reason why. Because you're solving a problem for someone, right? And you're not going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

That's why you can't you can't overlook the question about what did you need to do? I have a friend, she is a uh she is a grief counselor. She's not a grief counselor because she wants to be. That's not what she dreamed of doing. She's a grief counselor because she lost her son when he was a teenager, and she had to go through the grieving process.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

She gets paid to help other people go through that process. When when I was having my leg amputated, it's it's kind of weird, you might think, but my process says you need to you need a grief counselor, you need to say goodbye to your leg before it happens. And she was the person that helped me say goodbye to my to my foot.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

She solved the problem for you, though. She saw the problem. Yeah, and and it's the name of the game.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

And so that's why we overlook the things we always talk about monetizing your passion. That's good, that's fun, and and I and I have done that. But when you like you say, solving a problem that you went through, that you have the experience to help other people go through, is money.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

Yeah, and I think people get stuck so often because they feel like, oh, well, I'm not certified, or who am I to tell them, or I just did this myself. But I tell my clients all the time, if you are one step ahead of someone who is where you were and you came through it, you can help them through it. Yes, that's what makes you qualified. Because this example, all the time, if I have a cardiologist and I need heart surgery, right? Just like your your friend Scott, like like your your your um your Dr. Scott, if I need heart surgery, am I going to feel more comfortable with giving that, giving handing my life over to someone who's only studied it in books, or someone who has successfully performed 52 open heart surgeries?

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

Yeah, I don't care how many books you read. Can you get me off the operating table alive? That's the that's the only thing I want to I want to know. And if you've done it 52 times and you've only read about it, yeah, I'm going with you. I'm gonna go with you. Now, Bart, we talk about monetizing your mindset, right? You you you you talk about that. So what mindset shift has to happen to someone to stop like building someone else's dream and start to build their own?

SPEAKER_00 21:52

So we've been taught from a very young age that you go to school, you get a job, we've been taught this. So they have to shift their mind. Mindset to I want to take a little bit of risk. And they don't have to jump in with both feet, but sometimes that's good. But they need to be committed. And so, but they need to be committed to this mind shift, even if it's a little bit at a time.

SPEAKER_02 22:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

And it's you're you're not going to have a net. You know, you can think about it, you're on a high wire act. If you if you quit your job and you're, I mean, I've never done the real job thing. So I've never had the net. So it's easy for me to try new things.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

But someone who has been in the world of the real job thing, that that stepping out, especially once you get to a point where you're trying to leave it, that's hard. That's hard for them.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

It is.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

And you have to they need they need the confidence that that they can do it, that they can that they have someone there. So a mentor is key. Having someone to help them when things get rough, because they will. You know, it it's it's not always uphill.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

I mean, my my income goes like it's not for the faint of heart.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

And but when it is down, I don't I don't give up. I'm like, okay, what can I where can I create more? What what can I do to create more, even if it's a new venture? Let's try something new.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

And I'm sorry, Bart, but I I think that people really get too comfortable in their corporate job. They they really get too comfortable. And and and I I I believe I'll I'll venture to say that the comfort is part of the problem. Because if you really truly think about it, they could walk in tomorrow and tell you that you no longer have a job. Yeah, like they they truly could, and that's happening.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

And some of those cushy jobs, the in the in the tech world, that's gonna happen to them. Yeah, in the next couple of years, a lot of those jobs are gonna disappear, and those are very cushy jobs for these people. They make a lot of money, very safe, very comfortable, and that's gonna happen. And they need to get ready now.

SPEAKER_01 24:25

Yeah. So, how do people actually overcome the fear of putting themselves out there? Like, how how do you how how how can we help them to get over that fear?

SPEAKER_00 24:39

The biggest part is having someone being there to hold their hand, being there when they when when because things are gonna happen. So, one of the things I've started right now with AI, with the AI and stuff, I got into creating AI music. And I have a I have two alter egos who are AI singer songwriters, and they put out stuff that I create. And I, as I do that, you get haters in the in the in the music world, the musicians, they hate you, and they will I've had them say vile stuff on my posts on the internet, yeah. And you have to be okay with that. You because you're people are you're gonna have naysayers, and a lot of times the biggest nay or naysayer is right here in your own head that you've got to get around.

SPEAKER_01 25:35

You have to trust yourself. There's no other way around it.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

You have to trust what you're doing, and the biggest help, the biggest way to get over that is to have a mentor, have someone to guide you through it, have someone to be there in the hard times when you need someone to, if if you want to say it, cry on the on on your on their shoulder.

unknown 25:55

Right.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

You need some help, you need some comfort, you need someone to give you the attaboy, and hey, you got this, you you know you got this. That is good, that is what is gonna help get you past those those hard times.

SPEAKER_01 26:11

Okay, well, beautiful, stay with us because when we come back, we're actually gonna talk more about how to move from the idea to actual income without overthinking the process. We'll be right back. Beautiful. Before you go, I want to invite you to take the wealth asset archetype quiz. Because here's the truth: you don't need more information, you need clarity on what you already carry. The quiz will help you identify the exact strengths, skills, and patterns you already have and how to translate those into income, influence, and real wealth. No guessing, no overthinking, just alignment. You can find the link in the show notes. Take the quiz and start building from who you already are, where expertise becomes wealth. Okay, Bart. Now let's evaluate this. What separates someone from having a side hustle from someone who turns it into like a platform, a business, or either even an opportunity for them to expound or replace their current income? What separates the two?

SPEAKER_00 27:35

So I don't know that there's really a separation in the person as much as it is what they have chosen. Gotcha. And it's okay to have a small stream of income coming in. Okay. Okay, so I have one rental apartment that brings me $1,300 a month in. Not a whole lot of income, but it's passive pretty much. Exactly. Unless I'm putting a new person in or unless I'm calling someone to fix something, it is passive income. I do nothing, it comes in every month.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

It's a small side hustle, but it definitely helps, and I don't have to do anything about it.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

One of my other side hustles, and it's it's it's a main hustle, it brings in a good amount of money every month, is I'm a dog trainer. Why am I a dog trainer? Because I adopted a nine-month-old 80-pound Rottweiler that didn't know the word no.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

And I kept calling my buddy, who's a dog trainer. Hey, Sean, Rex is doing this. What do I need to do? By about the third and fourth time, he says, Mart, we're doing a train the trainer program. Why don't you come and take our program and train your own dog?

unknown 28:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

If you're not going to pay me to do it, quit calling me. Come learn to do it yourself. If I'm going to learn to train my own dog, I'm going to get paid to train other people's dogs. And to be honest, I have always wanted to monetize my mutt and I didn't know how to do it. Now my buddy Rex, who's sitting right here, he's the reason I'm a dog trainer and it's made me hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past six years.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Wow. Right. And that's that's where I want my audience's mindset to go. I want them to understand that every single thing that you do all day at your job, someone will pay you for it outside of your job.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

That is the reason why you are employed, because it is a monetizable skill. That's why you get paid for it. It is monetizable.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

You just have to take those first few steps. Once you get that momentum going, then it's easier. It gets easier. Now, granted, you even if it gets easier, you are gonna hit roadblocks and you still have to push push through.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

Correct. But I always feel like the true blessing is on the other side of those roadblocks. If you can make it over that roadblock, you're gonna hit another play, you're you're gonna hit another valley, smooth sailing. And then if you can make it over that one, you're it and I believe that it takes you, it's preparing you for bigger and better things. So if you knew you learned from this small roadblock, when you get five roadblocks in, you don't have to revisit the first one, you know how to handle that one. You've learned. You following me? So yeah, so tell me, what does a seat at the table really mean in the economy like it is today?

SPEAKER_00 30:57

So the big thing for me with what I do is the freedom that I have. Now, I probably work longer hours than most nine to fivers, but I like what I'm doing. I enjoy it, and I have the opportunity to say, okay, I can do this later and go do whatever it is I want to do with my wife, or I can I can I have the freedom to decide when I do it.

SPEAKER_02 31:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

And to me, that is that's freedom. That's why I I couldn't have a real job because of that.

SPEAKER_01 31:34

That's it. You are so correct. And you know, and and the thing about success and and all of those things, the reason that it's viable for every single person is because we all want something different. We all want something different. You want to have the freedom to be able to go and hang out with your wife and do the things I want to have the freedom and do have the freedom to move wherever I want to live, to live wherever I want to live, and to be in my granddaughter's life every single day. That's my freedom. That's my definition of success. So, however, whatever allows me to create that, I'm successful. You know, that's free. That's what freedom looks like to me. So I wow, Bart, this has been so very, very powerful. Now, if you could just tell our listeners how they can connect with you and what the next steps are working with you or or or coming into your your your your community there.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

So, right now I have a I call it the the 1k blind spot assessment. What is keeping you from making your first $1,000 in a side hustle? And you can get that at your idealside hustle.com. Okay. That will connect you to me, and we can continue the conversation, see what the assessment says for you. It'll take you probably 30 minutes to finish the assessment. So it's it's a big ask to spend 30 cents, but it's it's eye-opening. It'll it'll show you the things that you really are good at, and it's going to show you the one or two blind spots that you are missing that you and it'll give you information on how to overcome those blind spots. It'll give you ideas to take you to the next level.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Okay, great. So so again, Bart, um, you can actually they can contact you. That was your idealside hustle.com. Is that correct? They can follow me.

SPEAKER_00 33:37

I'm most active on Facebook and I also have a YouTube channel, Bart Merrill, the side hustle samurai YouTube channel, where I drop hints and and just walk people through different different scenarios when it comes to starting a side hustle and taking that from everybody thinks a side hustle is small money.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

It's not, it depends on the side hustle.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

Several of my side hustles are big money, yeah. And I do have a couple that are small money, yeah. But they've they put me in a in a position to live the way I want to do. I have a a mentor that once says living life on your own terms.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

That's it, by your own terms every day.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

That's that's that's what the goal is when you start your side hustles.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

That's it, that's the name of the game. And people do, you're right. People think side hustles are small money, but it just depends on the side, the the size of the side and the hustle. That's it. Exactly. That's it. We're actually gonna have all the links um in the show notes so they can make sure that they um stay connected with you and also take that assessment. Now, just uh if this conversation really sparked something for you and you're wondering what you could actually monetize, after you've taken Bart's assessment, I really want you to, you guys, to tune in and take the wealth asset archetype quiz. Now, it's just gonna help you identify the strength and the skills that you already have and how to translate those into income, which is what we're talking about today. You're also gonna find that link in the show notes as well. Now, beautiful, I want to leave you with this. You don't need permission to build something of your own. You don't need another credential to do that, you don't need a certification to get started, you don't need a plan or even a perfect plan to get it off the ground. You just need to decide am I going to keep building someone else's vision or start building mine? Because the skills that you are actually sitting on, they're not small, they're uncleaned. Beautiful. Thank you so much again for tuning in to today's episode of She's Beyond Elevated. Bart, thank you so much for being a guest. Would you like to leave our audience with any final words?

SPEAKER_00 36:10

If I can, yes, I would. Yes. So have you heard the story Acres of Diamonds? I have never heard that story. It's about a Persian farmer who sold his farm and he went in search of diamonds. He died broke alone in a foreign land. He never found his riches. The farmer that bought his farm was watering his camel in a brook that ran through the property, saw this strange rock in the water, picked it up, it was a diamond. He literally found acres of diamonds in what was Alia Fed's backyard.

SPEAKER_02 36:48

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 36:49

My family, we have a similar story. Instead of acres of diamonds, we call it acres of pig poop. Okay. I grew up in a small town in southern New Mexico. There were more pigs than people in our town because of us. My dad was a pig farmer. I mentioned that earlier. Right. At any one time on the farm, we probably had 18,000, 19,000 pigs.

SPEAKER_02 37:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:15

We had 2,000 sows. Do you know what a sow is? Yes. A mama pig, for those who don't know. A mama pig can give birth 2.5 times a year. And on our farm, we average 9.95 pigs per per litter. Right. If you do the math on that, that equals a lot of pig poop. We had these three man-made ponds called the lagoons that we would, it was the sewage ponds for the pig poop. It would, they were settling ponds. One would go, it would go here one year, then here the next year, then here the next year, and just rotate, rotate. Happened for years and years and years. When dad hit 65, he decided it was time to shut down the pig operation and go in search of his next acres of diamonds, his next big opportunity. He died at age 81. He never found his next big thing. Two years after he passed, we sold the farm for $235,000, which was a fair price for the property at the time.

SPEAKER_02 38:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 38:22

The new owner, six months later, was leveling those old ponds. They'd been dry on top for years. But as the heavy grater was going across the middle of the pond, it broke through the crust and sunk up to its belly in this black muck. This black liquid muck.

SPEAKER_02 38:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 38:43

They called in experts. The experts analyzed the stuff and right there on the spot offered the new owners of our farm, what was our farm, two thousand dollars a ton for the shit stuff. That's a dollar a pound for old pig poop. Five hundred plus tons of old pig poop was acres of diamonds right under my dad's nose. The farm that we sold for two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars was suddenly worth over a million dollars. Wow. So here's what I ask your audience. What about you? Are you right there not ready to discover your acres of diamonds? Or are you overlooking them like Alia Fed and my dad? Because your your thing, your side hustle, your next big opportunity is right in your own backyard, right there within your grasp, right there under your nose. And it might even look like a pile of pig poop.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

And it may not smell good.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

And it may not smell good. And so just be aware of the stuff that is all around you, the opportunities that you have experienced, and don't overlook them.

SPEAKER_01 40:15

Wow. Thank you so much, Bart. Thank you so much. Oh my goodness. Again, thank you guys for tuning in to She's Beyond Delegated. If this episode resonated, share it with someone who's thinking about starting that something and hasn't taken yet the first step. So until next time, you weren't born to blend in. You were born to break ceilings, break out of boxes, and break generational curses. Stay bold, stay brilliant, stay beyond elevated, where expertise becomes wealth. Thank you again, Bart. And I thank you, and I will see you next time. Bye-bye, everyone. Well, beautiful. Thank you for tuning in to Peace Beyond Elevated with Dr. Kimberly Dunlap. If this episode spoke to your soul, share it with another woman ready to rise. Remember, elevation isn't a destination, it's a decision. Keep shining, keep walking in purpose, and I'll speak in the next episode.