Afford Anything · Friday, July 24, 2026
Cody Berman utilized a four-hour daily commute, involving trains and walking, as a dedicated time to work on his side hustles. He describes this commute as a 'forcing function' that enabled him to consistently dedicate hours to building his businesses outside of his primary job.
“You had like a rough commute. You were commuting 3 hours per day, an hour and a half each way. It was on a train, going in and out of Boston.”
“Yeah, so the train itself was about an hour 20. I had walking in between each of those. So I had to drive to the train station, you know, get on the train for hour 20, then walk 20 minutes to Boston. The commute in each end was two hours. So four hours commuting.”
“But it allowed me to side hustle my butt off.”
“So during all that time, I'm just working on my whole slew of side hustles. You mentioned, had 30 plus side hustles.”