424: She Started a Cleaning Business as a Side Hustle, Now It’s a Million Dollar Business

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week in the guest chair we have Jhanilka Hartzog, podcaster and owner of Founders Cleaning Business University. Together, she and her husband Anthony are certified side hustlers who turned their hustle into a thriving cleaning business—all without cleaning homes themselves.

In this episode she shares:

How she and her husband paid off over $100K of debt by holding multiple side hustles on top of their 9-5s
How they built an online course that has earned her students $13.5M in sales
Where she re-invests her money to continue building financial security for her family

Highlights include:

00:00 Intro

03:40 Side hustling to pay off debt

08:00 Juggling multiple side hustles

14:00 Vetting employees

26:00 Marketing and scaling

35:37 Building relationships with cleaners

40:00 Transition from 9-5 to full time hustle

43:40 Starting an online course

48:00 Investing in real estate

53:00 Marriage and family

58:50 Advice for entrepreneurs

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Links mentioned in this episode

Jhanilka’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehartrimony/?hl=en
Cleaning Business University: https://www.cleaningbusinessuniversity.com/
Jhanilka’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8CGDWkM-bink3-4O5x5sQ#:~:text=6.31K%20subscribers%20%E2%80%A2%20855%20videos.%20Welcome%20to%20our%20channel
Jhanilka’s Cleaning Business: https://maids2match.com/
Jhanilka’s Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-than-a-side-hustle/id1600737639
Total Money Makeover: https://www.amazon.com/Total-Money-Makeover-Classic-Financial/dp/1595555277

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0:00.0	You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your Side Hustle,
0:08.0	from Passion Project to Profitable Business. And I'm your host, Nikala Matthew Zakome. So let's get started.
0:14.7	Hey friends, hey today in the guest chair I have Janilka Hartzog. She is one half of the dynamic duo known as the
0:24.8	Hart Trimony over on Instagram and YouTube and she is a mother of two from
0:29.6	Brooklyn living in Dallas for the past eight years.
0:33.0	Together, her and her husband, Anthony,
0:35.0	are certified side hustlers who paid off $114,000 in debt
0:40.0	by doing various side hustles after work at their 9-2-5s.
0:45.0	They then started exploring different business ideas
0:48.0	and they became millionaires by owning a cleaning business without cleaning homes themselves.
0:54.2	And they have taught thousands of students to do the same.
0:57.2	In today's episode, you'll hear from Janilka,
0:59.4	who was five weeks postpartum at the time of this recording,
1:02.4	by the way, talk about a side hustler and she shares
1:06.1	how and why they got started on the side hustle path and the real ends and out of owning a contractor-based cleaning business and how you can get
1:15.3	started owning one as well. She talks about so much more. I love this episode.
1:19.9	It's like a teaching workshop, real deep dive episode so I hope you love it. Let's get right into it.
1:28.6	Janelleko, welcome, welcome to the guest chair.
1:31.1	Yes, thank you for having me. Of course. Now I am so fascinated by your
1:36.8	story both individually as well as with your husband and the fact that you are five
1:42.0	weeks postpartum and doing this with me I just have to give you all the snaps so thank you
1:47.0	thank you so so much yes I could not miss this opportunity so I'm like yeah I'll be there I'll be. My husband can watch the baby. It's fine
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