#1595 - Failure Friday: “If it worked once, it should work twice… right?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ ? minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a full-time blogger who migrates to YouTube. His first attempt is a big win, so he assumes he can do it again—but that turns out to be a big assumption.
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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.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
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Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Slack. With Slack, you can bring all your people and |
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| 0:26.9 | Slack.com slash DHQ. |
| 0:34.9 | As we begin today, I want to give a shout out to Scott Keys. He's got a new book out called |
| 0:38.9 | Take More Vacations, which sounds like a wonderful theme for 2021 after such a year of being |
| 0:44.9 | homebound. We featured Scott on the podcast a couple of times. He is the founder of Scott's |
| 0:49.9 | cheap flights. He wrote about him in the 100 side hustles book. Really great guy. Very |
| 0:56.6 | generous and helpful. I think this book is going to do really well. If you'd like to take |
| 1:00.5 | more vacations, check it out wherever books are sold. Welcome to Side Hustle School. I believe |
| 1:06.3 | we can learn as much from failure as we can from success. That's what today's segment is about. |
| 1:10.9 | It is indeed failure Friday. We've been doing this a couple of months now getting great listener |
| 1:15.6 | feedback on it. Failure Friday is a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, |
| 1:21.1 | and of course failure. Just like our throwback Thursday segment, you get to hear directly from |
| 1:26.4 | side hustlers who have struggled to get something off the ground. They'll tell you a quick story of |
| 1:30.4 | something that went really wrong. The story is very, but often it starts with an idea or perhaps |
| 1:35.3 | an assumption. That's what we've got today. An assumption, something that they thought would |
| 1:39.5 | happen. Then of course, what really happened and what they learned along the way. I applaud |
| 1:44.8 | their courage. I appreciate their honesty. Today's short story features Jeff Campbell from Austin, |
| 1:49.9 | Texas. I told you about his transition to full-time blogging on episode 718. Jeff is the middle-class |
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