What's up? Welcome to Sad Usal School. Hey there, my name is Chris Gellipo. So glad you're

out there. Now we're doing something new every Friday. I believe we can learn as much

from failure as we can from success, if not more. In fact, that's why we're running

this new segment called Failure Friday. Conveniently, it comes out every Friday. It is a collection

of short stories, all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. And just

like our Thurberk Thursday segment, you will hear directly from Sad Usalers who have struggled

to get something off the ground or otherwise had some major setback or detour. And they'll

tell you this story of what went wrong as well as what they learned from it. The stories

will vary, but often they start with an idea, some kind of preconception of like, well,

I've got this idea here, but I think it's going to happen. And then here, of course, is

what really happened along with what they learned from it. So as we are just getting

started with this series, I want to say that I applaud their courage. Anybody who's willing

to step forward and say like, yeah, this was a tough one, right? So I'll try to share

some of my failure stories along the way as well, but we really can learn from this process.

So today's short story features Sean Ogle from Portland or again. Now he is no stranger

to Sad Usal school listeners, as well as anybody who's been following my work for a long

time. I first wrote about Sean and the Art of Nonconformity, my first book. And I actually

know some of this story that he's going to tell pretty well, but I don't think I knew

all the details, including how he was effectively walked out of his office the day he left

his job forever. So I'll let him tell that story, all the details as well as what happened

next. All right, here's Sean.

Hi there, my name is Sean Ogle. I'm the founder of Location Rebel, where I teach people

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