BiggerPockets Money Podcast

How to Make an Extra $100 a Day in 2025 (Working from Home!)

Jan 3, 2025

Jackie Mitchell, a TikTok star and side hustler, completed her $100-a-day challenge to save for a home, earning nearly $11,000 in just over three months. She shares her most profitable side hustles, including one that earned her over $100 an hour. Jackie discusses her strategy of using side hustles to cover travel and gifts, alongside budgeting tips that help reduce expenses. With a goal to pay off her mortgage by her thirties, she challenges conventional FIRE advice, showcasing her journey towards financial independence and smart money management.

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Jackie Mitchell

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Quick takeaways

Jackie Mitchell successfully earned over $10,000 in 100 days through structured side hustles, emphasizing accountability and social media engagement.

Her disciplined budgeting strategies, including meal planning and detailed grocery lists, allowed her to maintain financial stability while also saving for future goals.

Deep dives

Financial Motivation and the Challenge Genesis

Jackie Mitchell started her $100 a day for 100 days challenge to save an additional $10,000 for a house down payment. With both her and her husband working full-time in the nonprofit sector, they realized they needed to solidify their goal of homeownership. By breaking the ambitious target down into daily increments, Jackie created a structured way to earn extra income, which also helped her maintain accountability through social media. The motivation behind this challenge stemmed from her desire to build stability and take active steps toward achieving their dream of finding a permanent home.

Intro

4min

Exploring Side Hustles: Income, Taxation, and Personal Insights

5min

Mastering Side Hustles and Savings

8min

Budget-Friendly Meal Planning

6min

Navigating Vehicle Choices and Embracing Financial Simplicity

5min

Embracing a Debt-Free Lifestyle

15min

Want to know how to make $100 a day in 2025, all while working from home? We brought the queen of side hustles, Jackie Mitchell, back on the show to share how her money-making journey has been going. Jackie set a goal to make $100 a day to save up for a down payment. She did just that, making close to $11,000 in total in her one-hundred-day side hustling stretch. Now, she’s bought a house, still side hustling, and saving a TON of money. How’s she doing it?

Jackie reveals the easiest and most profitable side hustles from her $100-a-day challenge. Some side hustles made her $500 for just three hours of work, while other more casual tasks paid her anywhere from twenty to twenty-five dollars per hour while she was hanging out at home. But what has she done with that extra money?

Today, Jackie shares the huge money moves she’s made to put herself in a FIRE position early on in life. She’s got a big goal: pay off her new house in her thirties! Can she do it? With these side hustles, it’s looking likely. Plus, she shares how she pays for trips, holiday gifts, and more with her easy work-from-home side hustles anyone can sign up for.

In This Episode We Cover

The $100-a-day work-from-home side hustles you can do entirely online

One side hustle that paid Jackie over $100 per hour and how she found it

The time-consuming side hustle that is NOT worth the money

Paying off your mortgage early vs. investing and why Jackie is going against FIRE advice

Budgeting hacks Jackie and her husband use to spend just eighty dollars a week on groceries (seriously!)

Why Jackie DOESN’T want to retire early (but WILL still reach financial independence!)

And So Much More!

Links

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