Make money while you sleep

Make money while you sleep

Author: The Happy Startup School November 19, 2021 Duration: 35:32

Do you want to make money while you sleep?

That's the promise of passive income.

And anyone who doesn't make as much money as they'd like selling their time is attracted to this promise.

According to Tim Ferris’ Four Hour Work Week passive income brings promise of freedom, adventure, ease and wealth.

But is this always the case.

Does pursuing a passive income model actually bring less you happiness because you then become a slave to click funnels and spreadsheets?

And, given your interest in pricing well, what does it take to find the right price for a passive income product?

On this episode of Waking Up To Money Ben and I covered a couple of core ideas.

Firstly, what's your intention for starting your business?

Is it purely about creating a passive income business?

If so, your only metric of success will be money and your focus will be about maximising passive revenue.

However, if your intention is to maximise impact then creating a  product or course that many people can get value from without the need for your time might be the best way to go. And so passive income could be your revenue model of choice.

But in this latter case you'll be focused on the impact and not just the income.

Pricing well is about understanding what your customers consider valuable.

This requires you to be in conversation with them. But this doesn't have to be just one-to-one.

This can be done at scale through your marketing. Particularly through social media.

Then the job of marketing isn't to just tell people that you have something to sell.

But to engage with people you want to work with and listen to what they think is valuable.

You can then set your price accordingly.

And to get to the right price you need to iterate by putting a price out there and then changing it (or your target audience or your offering) if no one is buying.


For freelancers and founders who believe their work has genuine purpose, the conversation around money can feel like the most awkward part of the job. The Happy Pricing Podcast, from The Happy Startup School, steps directly into that discomfort. It operates from a simple, radical premise: pricing shouldn't be a silent calculation of fear or greed, but a clear, confident dialogue about shared value. This isn't about racing to the bottom to please clients or inflating rates to exploit them. Instead, each episode focuses on building the practical capability to have those necessary, often avoided, financial conversations. You'll hear real strategies for articulating your worth in a way that feels authentic, ensuring the exchange is equitable and that you are properly compensated for the impact you create. The discussions move beyond theory into the nuanced reality of running a purpose-driven business, exploring how to structure fees, negotiate with clarity, and ultimately create arrangements where both you and your clients feel good about the investment. Tuning into this podcast means re-framing pricing from a transactional headache into a core component of your professional integrity and happiness. It's for those ready to move past anxiety and into a practice where everyone truly shares in the value being delivered.
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Your money ceiling [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:35
In the episode we talk about the invisible ceiling we create around money.This ceiling limits how much we’re willing to charge for the work we do and therefore how much money we’re wiling to receive.In reality this ceili…
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Duration: 57:19
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Duration: 51:59
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The 3 toxic myths about money [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:48
Our emotional relationship to money impacts how we work with it.And so we're never going to develop our ability to price or sell if we don't also develop our personal attitude to money.On this episode we talk about the 3…
What are your customers actually buying from you? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:37
In this episode we talk about the reasons why customers really buy from you. It isn't about the things (i.e. coaching, training, website widget) but something else. These something elses are usually rooted in two categor…
The price in your mind doesn't matter [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:25
When we first thought about the the title of this episode we thought it would be "When pricing goes wrong".What we ended up talking about was when "selling" goes wrong.Amongst other things we cover the role of timing, al…
What if your clients knew you were on a pricing course? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:19
On our webinars we invite people to ask their questions about how to price better with their clients. Some people might think that this might put their clients off. We don't! Listen to this episode to learn why.
Money stories [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:39
On this episode Carlos and Ben talk about how their own money stories limited their growth and how these stories fit in with the rest of what they teach on the Happy Pricing course.