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Cooking the Books podcast: From 15-year-old high school drop out to business owner with a $60k side hustle

Frances Cook
Frances Cook
BusinessDesk Investments Editor·NZ Herald·
25 Sep, 2023 06:42 AM2 mins to read

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Kassandra Beehre.

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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.

Sometimes school just isn’t for you, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be successful in life.

Today’s guest decided exactly that, leaving school at 15 in order to become a mechanic.

Even if she’d stopped there, that would have been a plenty successful, skilled career, for many people.

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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.

Kassandra Beehre working on a motor.
Kassandra Beehre working on a motor.

And as she looked for parts, she came up with a business idea, one that’s already proving profitable.

Now at 24 she’s carving her own path.

For the latest podcast I talked to Kassandra Beehre, founder of Performance Kingdom.

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For the interview, listen to the podcast here.

• 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. I'm on Facebook here, Instagram here, and Twitter here.

• Listen to the full interview on the Cooking the Books podcast. You can subscribe on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.


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