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The Educator’s Hustle – Issue #1
Deborah Vyborny
February 27, 2025
📢 Welcome to The Educator’s Hustle!
Hey Educators! 👋
If you've ever wondered how to turn your knowledge, experience, and passion into additional income, you're in the right place. The Educator’s Hustle is here to help you unlock multiple streams of income while making an impact beyond the classroom.
Each edition will bring you:
✅ Actionable side hustle ideas
✅ Success stories from educators like you
✅ Tools & resources to help you grow and flourish
Let’s get to work! 🚀
Table of Contents
🎯 Featured Topic
Why Every Educator Should Start a Side Hustle
Teaching is a fulfilling profession, but let’s be honest—it’s not always financially rewarding. Here’s why more educators are turning to side hustles:
📉 Rising Costs & Stagnant Salaries – Inflation keeps climbing, but teacher pay isn’t keeping up. A side hustle can help bridge that gap.
💡 Skills You Can Monetize – As an educator, you have valuable skills in communication, curriculum development, coaching, and public speaking—skills people are willing to pay for!
⏳ Flexible Earning Opportunities – Online platforms allow you to make money on your schedule, whether it's evenings, weekends, or summers.
🔥 Building Financial Freedom – A side hustle isn’t just extra cash—it’s a way to take control of your financial future.
💰 Side Hustle Spotlight: Creating & Selling Digital Products
One of the easiest ways to start earning is by selling digital products—they require minimal ongoing effort and can generate passive income.
Best Digital Products for Educators
📝 Lesson Plans & Worksheets – TeachersPayTeachers is a great place to sell them.
📚 E-books & Study Guides – Share your expertise on a subject.
🎥 Educational Videos & Courses – Use platforms like Udemy or Teachable.
📄 Printable Resources – Think planners, flashcards, and activity sheets.
🔹 Getting Started Tip: If you’ve ever created a resource that worked well in your classroom, there’s a good chance other teachers or parents will pay for it!
🚀 Educator Success Story: From Teacher to Course Creator
Meet Sarah Thompson, a middle school math teacher who turned her passion for teaching into a thriving online course business.
💡 How She Started: Sarah created short math tutorials on YouTube, then packaged them into a paid course.
📈 Results: Within 6 months, she made over $5,000 selling her course on Udemy!
🎯 Her Advice: “Start with what you already know and build from there. You don’t need fancy equipment—just start!”
🔹 Actionable Tip: Think of a topic you’re great at teaching. Could it be turned into an online course?
🧠🧠Prosperity Mindset Matters
A prosperity mindset is the foundation of any successful venture, whether you are an educator transitioning into entrepreneurship or simply looking to build wealth through a side hustle. It’s the belief that there is abundance in the world—opportunity, wealth, success, and personal fulfillment—and that you can tap into that abundance through hard work, innovation, and positive thinking.
When you shift your mindset from one of scarcity (where opportunities feel limited and success feels out of reach) to one of prosperity, everything changes. You start to recognize opportunities everywhere, believe in your ability to achieve your goals, and see setbacks as lessons rather than roadblocks. This shift is not just about changing the way you think—it’s about changing the way you act, make decisions, and even how you approach challenges.
Here’s one way you can foster a prosperity mindset and apply it to your business and life:
Embrace Abundance Over Scarcity
Actionable Idea: Believe that there’s more than enough for everyone.
Many educators face a scarcity mindset, especially when it comes to income. You may feel that there’s a limit to how much you can earn or how many opportunities are available. This can be rooted in thinking that the number of available students, clients, or opportunities is finite.
However, a prosperity mindset teaches that there’s plenty of success to go around. The world is full of opportunities—whether in your classroom or in the broader marketplace. There is a demand for skilled educators, and you have something unique to offer. By shifting your focus to what’s possible, you begin to see opportunities you hadn’t noticed before.
How to Apply This:
Start by affirming abundance: Each day, affirm that you have everything you need to succeed. For example: “There is unlimited opportunity for me to grow, and I am open to receiving it.”
Action Step: Take time to visualize your success—imagine not only succeeding in your tutoring or business ventures, but thriving. What does that look like for you? Visualize it every day to reinforce the belief that you can make it happen.
📅 Hustle Action Plan: Your 7-Day Challenge!
Want to take action this week? Here’s your 7-Day Side Hustle Challenge:
✔ Day 1: Pick a skill you can monetize | ✔ Day 5: Upload & market your product |
🔹 Join the Challenge: Reply to this email with “I’m in!” and I’ll send you extra resources!
A Little Humor
Corny but Cute!
They’ve been around for a long time, but I still love them! I’ve kept a file of these for years!
🍊🍊My first job was working in an Orange Juice factory,
but I got canned. I couldn't concentrate.
🪓🪓Then I worked in the woods as a Lumberjack, but I
just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the axe.
🕴🏼🕴🏼After that, I tried to be a Tailor, but I wasn't suited for
it -- mainly because it was a sew-sew job.
🚗🚗Next, I tried working in a Muffler Factory, but that
was too exhausting.
👩🏼🍳👩🏼🍳Then, I tried to be a Chef -- figured it would add a
little spice to my life, but I just didn't have the thyme.
🍔🍔I attempted to be a Deli Worker, but any way I
sliced it, I couldn't cut the mustard.
👩🏽⚕️👩🏽⚕️I studied a long time to become a Doctor, but I
didn't have any patience.
👡👡Next, was a job in a Shoe Factory. I tried but I
couldn’t fit in. I became depressed and soulful.
🎣🎣Then there was the Professional Fisherman job. But I
discovered that I couldn't live on my net income.
🏊🏻♀️🏊🏻♀️I managed to get a job working for a Pool Maintenance
Company, but the work was just too draining.
💪🏾💪🏾So then I got a job in a Workout Center, but they
said I wasn't fit for the job.
📚📚After many years of trying to find steady work, I
finally got a job as an Historian -- until I realized
there was no future in it.
☕☕My last job was working in Starbucks, but I had
to quit because it was always the same old grind.
– The Educator’s Hustle Team
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Let’s build something great together. See you in the next edition!
– The Educator’s Hustle Team Edition 1 Feb 2025