Press & Speaking

The story, told
on other people’s stages.

Featured in national press, dozens of business podcasts, a bestselling business book, and headline talks at the cleaning and staffing industry’s international conferences.

As featured in
TIME Side Hustle School Side Hustle Nation The Penny Hoarder 100 Side Hustles The ZenMaid Maid Summit + Business outlets across the world
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Talks &
appearances

Side Hustle Nation

How to start a cleaning business: from zero to $60k a month

The ZenMaid Maid Summit

Going remote: running your cleaning business from anywhere

Filthy Rich Cleaners

Running a cleaning company from 7,000 miles away

Keynotes, interviews, and podcast appearances. Press play on any of them.

Listen · Side Hustle School · Episode 87

College student earns $20,000 per month cleaning houses

Chris Guillebeau tells the Think Maids story: the constraint, the systems, the first year.

The episode on sidehustleschool.com →

Selected press

In print
and in podcast feeds

TIME

Travel the world without quitting your job

A piece on people who built lives that travel. Think Maids appears briefly, among a few others doing the same thing quietly. A small mention, kept here honestly.

Bestselling business book

A two-page spread on the Think Maids story

The case study: building a seven-figure service company without ever meeting a customer.

Side Hustle School

From zero to a cleaning company that runs itself

Chris Guillebeau’s telling of the early days: the constraint, the systems, the first year.

Side Hustle Nation

The remote cleaning company playbook

A long-form interview on the numbers, the hiring, and the phone tree that replaced the owner.

The Penny Hoarder

He built a business he never visits

The consumer-side story: what it costs to start, and what it pays back.

ZenMaid

Top 20 cleaning business experts to follow · 2025

Named to the industry’s expert list, alongside headline talks at the ZenMaid Summit every year since 2019, to thousands of attendees.

Chris holding 100 Side Hustles open at his two-page story ZenMaid: Top 20 cleaning business experts to follow in 2025
In print

Two pages in
100 Side Hustles

Chris Guillebeau’s bestseller tells the Think Maids story under the headline “College student earns $20,000 per month cleaning houses”: the constraint, the systems, the first year. As Guillebeau put it later: “I mention your story all the time.”

Speaking

Three talks,
given properly

International headline speaker in the cleaning and staffing industries. Each talk is operational, honest about the numbers, and free of hype.

Keynote

The Remote Local Business

The model, end to end: how absence becomes an operating system, and what it asks of the owner who builds it.

Keynote

Staffing Without Walls

The first virtual staffing agency for home services: what remote teams can and can’t do, and how to hire for warmth at distance.

Talk / workshop

The Owner Is the Bottleneck

A working session on documentation, delegation, and planning your own redundancy. The kindest thing an owner can do.

Booking

Invite the story
to your stage.

For conferences, podcasts, and press. Include the date, the audience, and the format.