5 Claude AI Side Hustles That Will Protect You Against Layoffs

I'm going to show you Cloud AI side hustles that pay better than your 9-5, so much better in fact that they'll protect you against layoffs. And this is coming from someone who's made over $10 million from something that started as a side hustle while I was doing my full-time pharmacy job, and I've helped people that come from this YouTube channel that I've worked with generate over $100 million doing their own versions. So when I tell you this is realistic for a normal person with a day job, I'm not making this up. And the data is screaming. Over 1.2 million job cuts announced last year, the most since the pandemic, and this year AI has been the number one saved reason for layoffs three months in a row. So no one's coming to save your job. Not loyalty, not tenure, and definitely not HR. But the same AI cutting paychecks can quietly build you an income that nobody can take away. And no, this is not another recycled list of dropshipping and survey apps. Some of these are so under the radar that you'll think I'm making them up until I show you the receipts. Which I will. I'm going to be giving you examples of each one and showing you on the screen. And by the end you'll know exactly which one fits your situation, even if you have zero tech skills and even if you're strapped for time and even if you've never opened Claude in your life. Now, one warning. Most advice on this topic is AI generated slop from people who've never made a dollar with it. This, on the other hand, is the real thing. And the great thing about this is you can easily do this with Claude, which I'll show you here in a bit. So if you appreciate me making this type of content, let me know by gently cheers in that like button. Let's jump into it right now. OK, so the first one on the list is going to be a death doula, and this is basically end of life support. Now, by the way, I'm going to put a bundle of Claude prompts and Claude skills down below that you can follow along with while you do this video. So click down there to check that out. Now, viewers of this channel know that I always like to start with weird or strange opportunities, and this is definitely one of those. And you might think that this is made up. A death doula, also called an end of life doula, is a non-medical professional who supports a dying person and their family through the whole process. The emotions, the logistics, the paperwork, the goodbyes that nobody knows how to say. So think about it like this. We hire a wedding planner for the happiest day of the family's life. And then for the hardest week of that same family's life, we hand them a pamphlet and wish them luck. Same logistics, same emotional stakes, but almost nobody offering to help. Now, you might be thinking, who actually pays for this? Well, families in the hardest week of their lives. That's who. Death doulas charge $25 to $150 an hour, and full end of life support packages run from $500 to $5,000. So do the math with me. Two families a month at $2,500 is $5,000 a month. And this is, of course, as a side hustle next to your day job. So the average pay in this field sits around $49,000 a year, and that's the people doing it the old way without leverage. And there's a whole world around this that most people have never seen. For instance, there's a channel called Talk Death that does nothing but explain this space. What a death doula is, how to become one, and it's pulling millions of ranked views. And there's even a talk from a death doula named Alua Arthur, and the title is literally I Help People Die, and it's sitting at 820,000 views. So people aren't just paying for this, they're fascinated by it. And keep this in the back of your pocket. Talk Death isn't a doula. It's a channel about doulas, and it's getting paid for the topic. So you can do the work, then you can document the work and get paid twice. And if you play your cards right, you can be making far more than just what you make from the side hustle. Plus, you might even get clients from the channel itself. Now I cover these weird, sometimes strange, sometimes morbid types of side hustles and careers because the truth is, it's a bit icky to talk about. It's a bit taboo. But another truth is that this position gives a lot of value to society. People really don't know what to do in these cases. And if you've ever lost somebody in your family, you probably know exactly what I'm talking about. This happened to me just a few months ago. Everyone's shocked. They don't know what to do. And it can cause a lot of discomfort, distress. People can make really bad decisions when they're in that position. So this position gives a massive amount of value to people who are going through this. And because of the fact that it's a bit icky or morbid, there's not a lot of competition. All right. You guys know that I like to do a few weird ones, usually to start out these lists. Then I typically get to the more boring, stable ones later on. And I like to do that just to get the creative juices flowing. Because the truth is, there's so many different ways to make money these days, but some of them require a little bit of creativity. Here's how to get started with this. So like I said, the Claude prompt is up on the screen. You can just literally screenshot it, put it into Claude. Quick break. I'm going to be doing a live training this week on how to start YouTube step by step for beginners. This is going to be for people who want to start a channel, but they don't know what niche to pick, what videos to make, or how to actually get started the right way. And it's a completely free training, no strings attached. In fact, I'm giving away even more bonuses at this training. Just as an example, I'm going to be giving away my niche validator, which works for Chachapiti as well as Claude Skills, which is a super valuable piece of software where you can finally figure out what the best niche for you is. So do not miss out on this training. Make sure you sign up for it down in the description and the pinned comment below because you only get it if you join the training. So if you don't join now, you might miss out on it forever. But that being said, in the workshop, you'll get to meet me and you'll get to ask me questions directly. So I look forward to seeing you. So click the link in the description and the pinned comment below this week. Make sure you put on your calendar and if for whatever reason you missed out on it or you weren't able to attend, make sure you still click that link because we might be having workshops in the future as well and you'll be the first to know about it. So yeah, hope to see you there. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. So the second one is going to be the name dealer, aka the baby naming consultant. So this next one is branding consultancy for a human who hasn't even been born yet. So parents fill out a questionnaire, surname, siblings, heritage, sounds that they hate, initials, meanings, family history, etc, etc. And you hand back a research shortlist with an explanation for every finalist. Sounds ridiculous? Well, startups pay naming agencies five figures to name an app that'll probably be dead in two years. Parents are naming something that they plan to keep for 90. And the receipts on this are pretty wild. Business Insider reported consultations start around $250, higher profile consultations charge $1,500 to $10,000, and one offers a $30,000 baby name branding service for public figures. Now, a good example of this is SJ Stroom. She's a mom in the UK who's been a baby name consultant for years, and she documents the whole thing. Weekly name lists, style breakdowns, how she works with parents, etc, etc. And this documentation built her an audience of 124,000. And it turned into a published book, which is Baby Name Envy. Now, by the way, you're probably noticing a pattern here. The site also can make money directly right away. You can get even more clients, build your brand, and open up almost unlimited streams of income by growing on social media as well. So the consulting pays her, the audience pays her again, and now she's even launched a book. Here's how to get started with this. So like I said, the Claude prompt is up on the screen. You can just literally screenshot it, put it into Claude. All right, next is the talking paycheck, and this is teaching people what you already know. Now, this is the weirdest one on the entire list because the product is literally your mouth, right? Teaching people something that you already do on a day-to-day basis, which could be your job, your hobby, something you've done since childhood, or a problem that you solved once that somebody out there is Googling in panic right now. Now, you might be thinking, I'm not an expert. Why would anyone listen to me? Well, you don't need a PhD. You need a few-month head start on one person, and there are honestly millions of people that are a few months or two years behind you. Because if you've done something for two years, statistically speaking, you're probably an expert at it. So let me show you what this looks like when regular people actually do it. One of my community members, Nurse Julie, teaches women who are tired of being tired. And she is not inventing anything. She is documenting what she already does every single day anyways. So it helps more people than just the ones in front of her. Or Nathan Rose. He teaches busy adults how to get better at chess. And four months in, he went from zero to a fully booked one-on-one coaching roster and making a full-time income. And signing his first high-ticket client for $1,000 a month. And now he's sitting at roughly $5,000 to $6,000 a month, aka a full-time income from a board game. And then there's my brother Zach. Almost 30 years in the trades. Never recorded a video in his life, and the man is, lovingly speaking, a little bit technologically challenged. And he started teaching people how to get into the trades, and his very first video blew up, got 822,000 views and counting. And 29 days after publishing it, he had a $214 day. That's about a $78,000 a year run rate, just from talking. And to close out his first year, he had an $18,000-plus month. Meanwhile, the rest of the internet is vibe-coding apps that MIT says fail 95% of the time, with whole teams behind them. And a 50-something-year-old tradesman got paid for talking. About what he already knew. Which was common sense to him and people like him, but is not common sense to 99% of the population. So that should piss you off just a little. In a good way. And by the way, if you want to learn exactly how he grew my brother's channel, I'm actually doing a live training explaining that this week. Click the link in the description and pinned comment below. Now here's the part I need you to actually hear. Because every other hustle on this list you row out or you hunt for clients. This one is a lighthouse. You turn the light on, and the clients row to you. Because the most layoff-proof asset on earth isn't a certification, and it sure isn't seniority, it is people knowing who you are and what you know. AKA, building your personal brand. Nobody can restructure that away from you. Because you own it. So keep this chapter in the back of your pocket, because every single hustle left on this list is about to grow a second engine. Here's how to get started with this. So like I said, the Cloud Prompt is up on the screen. You can just literally screenshot it, put it into Cloud. All right, next I'm going to call the Yes Day Architect, and this is designing marriage proposals for strangers. Now, this is a type of event planning. I'm not saying you should do this one specifically, but this is a type of event planning. There's lots of other events out there, but you typically want to niche down when you first start and pick something like this. So somebody out there is about to ask the biggest question of his life, and he has no idea what he's doing. You sell him the plan, the concept, the location shortlist, the budget, the vendor emails, the speech, the timing, the weather backup, and of course, the secrecy checklist. You don't hang the lights, you hand over the folder, aka you make sure that his proposal goes to plan and she says yes. So a good example of this is Lexi Tobin. She filmed her sister's proposal, posted it on a whim, and it got 100,000 views in 30 minutes. Then strangers started paying her to plan theirs. And now it brings in six figures a year, roughly $9,000 in a median month, or over $20,000 in her best month. And this is all with the documents reviewed by CNBC. And the catch is this, part of that revenue is brand deals from posting the proposals to her 330,000 followers. So she gets paid to plan the moment and then paid again to show it. And this isn't just one lucky planner. The Associated Press has covered the proposal planning boom and working planners are doing segments on daytime TV explaining the job. And one in four proposers now pays for help popping the question. So the demand is real, but the supply is asleep. There's really just not that many people doing it. And if you do it like her, every proposal that you post with permission is an ad that you got paid to film. So Lexi's 330K followers came from the work itself. Here's how to get started with this. So like I said, the Claude prompt is up on the screen. You can just literally screenshot it, put it into Claude. All right, next is Amazon KDP self-publishing, aka the bookshelf machine. And this is the money anchor of the whole list. So Amazon KDP, if you didn't know what it is, it stands for Kindle Direct Publishing and it's on Amazon, of course. And you basically just publish a book once, Amazon prints it, ships it and collects the money. And it pays you royalties forever. So think of every book as a tiny rental property with no mortgage. Each one pays you a little bit of rent every month. And Claude is your construction group. Now, a good example of this is Sarah Tyler. So this was her first book ever. And she threw it together on Canva and it made her $80,000 in a year and not even mostly from royalties. The book became the front door to everything behind it. And even inside of our own community, this one has a ceiling that most people won't even believe. Sean went from $30,000 a month to over $500,000 a month at his peak. And he has the number one Amazon KDP channel. He's a category king. And we helped him get there. And we'll teach you how we did it in the live training this week. So again, click that link in the description in the pinned comment below to sign up to that. It's completely free. But yeah, half a million a month. Just talking about Amazon KDP on YouTube. Now, KDP is currently flooded with fully AI garbage books that nobody can finish. So if you actually have someone who's good at this teach you how to do it, such as Sean, then you're going to have a much higher chance of having success. So there's way less competition for anyone who actually gives a ****. So the play isn't make Claude write a book. The play is Claude does the research, the outline, the keyword work, the draft passes, and then a human being, you add some actual flavor of life to it, some actual spice to it, makes it worth reading. So in a sea of slop, the real human is the premium product. And notice what Sean did. He didn't just publish the books. He documented the publishing and a second layer actually documenting the publishing is what turned an income stream that was really nice into an empire. Here's how to get started with this. So like I said, the Claude prompt is up on the screen. You can just literally screenshot it, put it into Claude. Now, by the way, I'm going to put a bundle of Claude prompts and Claude skills down below that you can follow along with while you do this video. So click down there to check that out. Now, I know that 99% of you are just going to watch this content. You're going to get a lot of value out of it. You're probably going to attend the live trainings as well. For instance, Isaiah watched my channel, attended the life trainings and without ever working with us, got incredibly good results. And you can see his testimonial on the channel. So I know 99% of you are going to do that. I'm going to give you way more value, completely free than even paid courses with my free content as well as my free life trainings. And we're never going to end up working together one-on-one and that is completely fine. But I know that 1% of you or even 0.1% of you out there are going to want to work one-on-one with a mentor to help you grow and make money on YouTube as fast as possible. Or you just want us to do the work for you. And if that sounds like you, we do work with a small amount of people at a time and we're accepting about five people right now. So go ahead and click the link in the description and the pin comment below to book a call to apply. We only accept about 18% of people who apply and we only work with people who we think we can get results for. So only apply if you're very serious about growing and making money on YouTube. The types of people we typically work with are going to be business owners who want to build their brand and use YouTube to get more leads and sales, people who are already big on other platforms and they want to move over to YouTube, YouTubers who are getting a lot of views but they're struggling with monetization, YouTubers who are crushing it but they want to crush it even harder, and then professionals, typically people on the older side who want to grow their personal brand with YouTube in order to get better jobs, network better, start side hustles, make money online, or launch their business that they've always wanted to do. So if that sounds like you, go ahead and click that link in the description and the pin comment below and we look forward to talking to you. And check out this video right here of Isaiah and how he helped him grow his singing coaching business.