Season 1 · Financial literacy for people who already started
Structure over guesswork. A habit, not a hobby.
You already have a business. This show helps you run it like one — one small habit at a time. No jargon, no hype, no assumption that you took a business class.
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Latest · Episode 08
The Year-End Look Back
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You already have a business
If money comes in, you have a business. The only question is whether it is running on structure or on memory. Three habits move you from one to the other.
Name what you do
A rideshare driver is a transportation business in progress. Saying it out loud changes the decisions that follow.
Separate the money
One account for the work, one for your life. It costs nothing and it answers every question you will be asked later.
Leave a paper trail
Receipts, hours, prices, mileage. Written down once is worth more than remembered perfectly.
“You are a CEO — regardless of title or business structure.”
What Fortune 500 companies pay consultants for, you can do yourself — for free or close to it. That is the whole premise of the show.
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Real Hustle, Real Fix
Malik books weekend gigs like clockwork. His books live in three different apps.
Every other week we walk one hustle through the same four questions: what is already working, where the gap is, what to start now, and what can wait.
From the book's cast of characters.
Read Malik's fix →“Malik — Real Hustle, Real Fix”
The companion book
Side Hustle Banking & Building Wealth, Part I
By Donald E. Swann II. Every episode maps to a chapter — read it in order, or open the one chapter that answers this week's question.
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