#1525 - Failure Friday: “A $300 mistake cost me $100,000”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In this week’s new “Failure Friday” segment, we hear from the founder of a lifestyle and apparel brand who wakes up one day to find out he’s being sued.
Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:00.0 | Busy making budget plans for the business year ahead, we've got you covered. |
| 0:05.6 | Switch to three business and choose from the latest handsets with unlimited data in our winter sale. |
| 0:10.6 | Woohoo! |
| 0:11.6 | Plus, our business price promise means if you find a cheaper deal from one of our biggest competitors, we guarantee you to beat it. |
| 0:18.2 | Search three business or visit us in store. |
| 0:21.2 | Business price promise means we'll beat it directly. |
| 0:24.4 | Quit you've been given my e-vote of 1.02 for business plans by at least £1 per month. |
| 0:28.2 | Time's apply, search three business price promise. |
| 0:30.2 | Hey there, what's up? Welcome to Sideosal School. My name is Chris Gillabo. |
| 0:38.8 | Welcome as well to a new, exciting segment we are doing every Friday. |
| 0:42.6 | I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success, if not more. |
| 0:46.8 | In fact, it's with this principle in mind, we're starting failure Friday. |
| 0:50.8 | Conveniently, as mentioned, it runs every Friday. It's a collection of short stories all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. |
| 0:59.0 | So just like our Throbac Thursday segment, you get to hear directly from Sideosalers who have struggled to get something off the ground. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm going to tell you a short story of something that went very wrong. |
| 1:09.0 | These stories will vary, but often it starts with an idea and assumption, perhaps, a presumption, you know, something that they thought would happen. |
| 1:17.4 | And then, of course, what really happened and what they learned along the way. |
| 1:20.8 | This has been so fun to work on in just a few short weeks here. |
| 1:23.6 | I applaud their courage and I will share some of my failure stories along the way as well. |
| 1:28.8 | But without further ado, today's short story features Joel Runyon from Austin, Texas. |
| 1:34.4 | Now, he, like Sean Ogle from last week, he's no stranger to Sideosal School listeners, as well as anybody who's been following my work for a long time. |
| 1:41.6 | I've been friends with Joel for more than a decade at the very first world domination summit that I hosted. |
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