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Side Hustle School

#1567 - Failure Friday: “First Etsy crushed us, then Google pulled the plug…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a serial side hustle who makes a series of mistakes—but keeps going!


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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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

Hey, what's up my friends?

0:06.9

So glad you're here.

0:07.9

My name is Chris Gellabo.

0:08.9

I'm excited to bring you a new episode of The Podcast today, just as I've been doing

0:12.4

every single day for the past 1,567 days, whether you have been along for every one of those

0:18.0

days or you just tuned in today and you're like, what is this thing?

0:22.3

Whatever the case may be, my mission is to bring you stories, tips, actionable examples

0:27.0

of real people out there who are all finding a way to reinvent themselves, often through

0:32.4

the form of a money-making project.

0:34.5

That's what it's about.

0:35.5

Those are our parameters, people with day jobs, starting side projects that happen to

0:39.1

be profitable and usually doing so without going into debt, without spending a ton of money

0:44.8

and by starting quickly.

0:46.0

Now, a lot of our stories, of course, are success stories, but I believe we can learn

0:51.0

as much from failure, if not more, in fact.

0:54.2

So it's with this principle in mind that we have an all-new segment called Failure Friday.

0:57.9

It's a collection of short stories all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course,

1:02.9

failure.

1:03.9

So, just like our Throbac Thursday segment, you will hear directly from side oscillars

1:07.4

who have struggled to get something off the ground.

1:09.3

They'll tell you a short story of something that went very wrong.

1:13.6

These stories will vary, but often it starts with an idea, an idea or an assumption, perhaps,

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