524: How to Make Money with a Small Podcast

<p>Megan Champion is a mom of 3, a 15-year elementary education teacher, and in the past year, she’s started a side hustle that has brought in $20,000.</p> <p>Megan’s side hustle is in the parenting niche and has 3 main parts:</p> <p>An Instagram account to drive awareness</p> <p>A podcast called <a href="https://www.ontheharddays.com/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On The Hard Days</a> to drive connection</p> <p>And a paid membership to drive community — and recurring revenue.</p> <p>In this episode, you’ll learn how all three of those work and how they work together to build Megan’s business — and how you may be able to apply some of the same strategies to your own business.</p> <p>The exciting thing here is that the audience numbers that Megan shares aren’t huge, but they’ve still been enough to build a pretty substantial extra income stream and help a lot of people at the same time.</p> <p>Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear:</p> <ul> <li aria-level="1">how and why Megan had the idea to start a podcast and paid membership</li> <li aria-level="1">the ways she has leveraged a small but dedicated social media audience</li> <li aria-level="1">how Megan validated her membership idea and launched it</li> </ul> <p><a href= "https://www.sidehustlenation.com/make-money-with-a-small-podcast/"> Full show notes</a></p> <p> </p>