Day Job

Don’t Keep Your Day Job will get you fired up, ready to rip it open, and use your zone of genius to add a little more sparkle to this world. Cathy Heller, host of the popular podcast Don’t Keep Your Day Job, shares wisdom, anecdotes, and practical suggestions from successful creative entrepreneurs and experts, including actress Jenna Fischer on rejection, Gretchen Rubin on the keys to happiness, Jen Sincero on having your best badass life, and so much more.

In Don't Quit Your Day Job, former Google and Twitter executive Aliza Knox delivers hands-on, practical steps for achieving career success. Driven by Knox's four decades working in and leading some of the world's most celebrated firms, and featuring candid accounts of other people's successes and missteps in global tech, consumer goods, healthcare, academia, social services and more, this book is an essential guide to integrating your professional and personal goals to build a fulfilling, complete life.

Learn to let go and achieve the life you’ve always dreamed of! Are you a creative person seeking more satisfying work? Do you want to make the transition from a job you find secure but soulless to a life built around your creative dream? Then look no further than this essential guide, written by a tenured professor who quit his job and pursued his dream as a successful "story merchant" and film producer.

For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to start their own business is exhilarating. For many others, the loss of a stable paycheck is terrifying. But what if we could easily create new income without giving up the security of a full-time job? Enter the side hustle, a mini-business that earns you extra money. With Chris Guillebeau's step-by-step guide, you can go from idea to income in just 27 days.

This unique guide features the start-up stories of regular people launching side businesses that almost anyone can do: an urban tour guide, an artist inspired by maps, a travel site founder, an ice pop maker, and many more. In 100 Side Hustles, best-selling author of The $100 Startup Chris Guillebeau presents an "idea book" filled with inspiration for your next big idea. Distilled from Guillebeau's popular Side Hustle School podcast, these case studies feature teachers, artists, coders, and even entire families who've found ways to create new sources of income.

Originally written for monks, the principles in the Rule of St. Benedict may be applied by anyone — and in today’s hectic, changing world, following its principles offers a rich spiritual connection to the stability and wisdom of monastic life. This essential guide explains how people who live and work in “the world” are still invited to balance work with prayer, cultivate interdependence with others, practice hospitality, and otherwise practice their spirituality like monks.

What if you could blow up your dream without blowing up your life? What if you could go for broke without going broke? What if you could start today? What if you already have everything you need to begin? From figuring out what your dream is to quitting in a way that exponentially increases your chance of success, Quitter is full of inspiring stories and actionable advice.

Here are proven methods for building an online income stream. Maybe you dream of making money with an online business, but haven’t tried so far because you’d have to quit your current job and enter the risky world of Internet startups. Or because you think you need lots of capital and way too much time. If these reasons sound familiar, Dave Lindahl and Jon Rozek beg to differ.

In The 10% Entrepreneur, Patrick J. McGinnis shows you how to integrate entrepreneurship into your life by investing 10% of your time and, if possible, 10% of your capital into side projects. You will generate more income, discover new opportunities, sharpen your skills - and get the life you've always wanted.

Learn how to get in the right "state" with specific techniques so that you can easily approach strangers and start conversations. In Day Game Step by Step, you learn how to start conversations with complete strangers and maintain the conversation easily by providing value instead of asking questions.

Do Good, Get Paid shows you how to make meaningful change in the world while being paid to do so. Award-winning environmental campaigner, author and speaker Natalie Fee draws on her experience in this sector to outline the areas of work where you can make a positive change and excel at what you do. Make a living while making a difference to the world.

This step-by-step guide to mastering LinkedIn will teach you how to optimize your LinkedIn profile, make high-quality connections, and create compelling content, with 60 LinkedIn lessons that are short enough to understand, and implement in 15 minutes or less. If you complete one each day, within 60 days, you’ll fully master LinkedIn. If you’re looking to find a new job, your LinkedIn profile will attract the best employers. If you’re recruiting, you’ll find and connect with top talent. And if you’re growing a business, you’ll attract your ideal customer to you.

Want more freedom and travel in your life? Read on to discover an increasingly popular lifestyle that’s surprisingly affordable. Despite what you might think, the RV lifestyle isn’t just for the wealthy or the retired. While it’s an alternative living arrangement, you can still continue to work, have a place to come home to every night, and raise a family. The RV Lifestyle Manual helps you see if this is for you, get everything up and running, and plan while on the road.

Take control of your time and money with this real estate investing guide from NFL Pro Devon Kennard. As a 9-year NFL veteran, Devon Kennard knows that even the biggest paychecks eventually run dry. That's why he developed passive income streams in real estate that freed him from relying on his athletic career. Now, in Real Estate Side Hustle, Kennard shows you how to gain that same financial freedom and flexibility with straightforward strategies.

Getting a new job or a big promotion is like building a house: You need to get the foundation right for both. With a job, the quick-drying cement is how well you do in your first hundred days, since they establish the foundation for long-term momentum and great performance.

What if I told you there was a way to go to that dream destination this year, and that you could even bring your job with you wherever you decide to go after that? This isn’t a Hollywood movie scene, but something entirely possible for you. By working online and becoming your own boss, you will no longer have to be tied down to any one place. You can quit your job and explore the adventurous world RV-living has to offer you.

Larry Winget often says people have been sold an old bag of "hooey" about what it takes to be successful in business. Forget passion, motivation, "loving what you do", etc. Those things matter, but only a little. What really matters is finding a problem and solving it, serving your customer better than the competition, knowing how to sell, and managing your time, resources, and employees. Don't Quit Your Day Job! is a must-listen conversation between Larry Winget and Dan Strutzel. You will not only be asked the tough questions, you'll get the answers in this book.

Building a product on the Internet is relatively easy these days. It's the making money part that's hard. I wrote this book to help you become a parallel entrepreneur faster than I did, and to encourage you to do so while you have the safety net of a day job.

Learn how money can work for you by taking a closer look at exactly where you are financially and discovering how quickly you can break through the rat race to achieve financial independence, so you can do whatever you want without money having to factor into your decisions.

Are you tired of self-doubt, self-criticism, and holding back? Do you often feel like you're not good enough? Are you ready to change your life and reclaim your self-confidence? Lets start with a thought experiment. Take a moment to imagine yourself, only a supremely confident version. If you have a ridiculous imagination like I do, you might like to really run with this and have fun. If you had zero body hang ups, no doubts about your value as an employee, no worries about your innate lovability, and no second guesses as to how good your karaoke really was and whether people have just been lying to you this whole time...what would things look like?