Kathleen Elkins

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Max Adams |Kathleen Elkins |Henry Blodget

Jeremy Barker spent much of his career bouncing between construction, working as a paramedic and as a fireman, as well as experimenting with start-ups. "I kind of played ping pong for the first 35 years, trying to decide what it is that I loved, which was fire," he told Business Insider. "Unfortunately, it doesn't pay. I didn't want to live on $1,600 take-home a month."Unwilling to give up his firefighter career completely, he decided to supplement the modest salary with a side hustle.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Joe Ciolli |Kathleen Elkins |Henry Blodget

Letizia Alto and Kenji Asakura built a portfolio of cash-flowing rental properties to buy back time. The physician couple had spent their early careers working up to 80-hour workweeks in the hospital and wanted their future lifestyle to look different. In 2015, shortly after getting married, they set a specific cash flow goal. "We said, 'We're going to replace both our clinical incomes in seven years,'" Alto told Business Insider.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Max Adams |Kathleen Elkins |Henry Blodget

At the height of their medical careers, Letizia Alto and Kenji Asakura had to block off time on their calendars if they wanted to see each other. "We would schedule out a month in advance, days that we could spend together because it was so busy," Alto told Business Insider. "And this was without us having kids together."They were both working more than full-time as hospitalists, logging 80-hour weeks.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Max Adams |Kathleen Elkins |Henry Blodget

In 2025, Manny Reyna quit his project management job and moved to Tokyo with his family. He'd spent the last couple of years building a portfolio of cash-flowing rental properties on the side and was eager to spend more time with his young son. He and his wife, who works as a behavior analyst, determined that they had enough coming in between rental income and her earnings to sustain their lifestyle abroad.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.jp | Kathleen Elkins

不動産業やヘルスケア事業、コンサルティング業などを手がけるジュボー・カンパニーズ（JUBOH Companies）の共同創業者であるジャレン・ウボー（Jalen Uboh）は、子どもの頃からいくつものビジネスを立ち上げてきた。 まず小学生のとき、同級生にキャンディーを売ることで起業家としての一歩を踏み出した。思いつきで始めたビジネスだったが、「ジェイズ・スナックス（Jay's Snacks）」という屋号もつけた。 2014年にジョージア州のケネソー州立大学に入ると、1年生のうちに数人の友人と一緒に数百ドルを出して芝刈り機を買い、人工芝の敷設と芝刈りを請け負う会社を立ち上げた。2016年になると、その後ビジネスパートナーとなるオーブリー・エヴィンス（Aubrey Evins）と共に、地域の病院や医療法人、一般の人々に医療機器を納入する会社も立ち上げた。 大学は2018年に卒業したが、9時5時の仕事の入社試験は受けずに、会社経営を続けることに決めた。 「普通の仕事に就くべきか、起業家を続けるべきか——このときの決断は今までの人生で一番怖かったですね」...