From 15yo high school drop out, to business owner with a $60k side hustle

<p><strong>Each week BusinessDesk and the NZ Herald’s Cooking the Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it’s the path from leaving school early, to becoming a business owner. Hosted by Frances Cook.</strong></p> <p>Sometimes school just isn’t for you, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be successful in life.</p> <p>Today’s guest decided exactly that, leaving school at 15, in order to become a mechanic.</p> <p>Even if she’d stopped there, that would have been a plenty successful, skilled career, for many people.</p> <p>But she didn’t stop there. She started a side hustle worth tens of thousands, finding cars that needed a quick fix, that could then be sold for thousands more.</p> <p>And as she looked for parts, she came up with a business idea, one that’s already proving profitable.</p> <p>Now at 24 she’s carving her own path.</p> <p>For the latest podcast I talked to Kassandra Beehre, founder of Performance Kingdom. </p> <p>If you have a question about this podcast, or a question you'd like answered in the next one, come and talk to me about it.</p> <p>I'm on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookNZ/">Facebook here</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/">Instagram her</a>e, and <a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesCook">Twitter here</a>.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>