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Side Hustle School

#1616 - Failure Friday: “The client ordered the most expensive thing on the menu…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a “Reddit Secret Santa” who builds a whole business around an idea that started as a seasonal project.


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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

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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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, terms apply such three business price promise.

0:35.2

I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success, if not more.

0:40.6

This is what this principle in mind, we have started Failure Friday.

0:44.4

It is this new segment that we've been running for a couple months now.

0:46.8

A collection of short stories all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course, failure.

0:53.6

Just like our Thruback Thursday segment, you'll hear directly from side uslers who've struggled to get something off the ground.

0:58.8

I'll tell you a quick story if something that went very wrong.

1:02.6

Hey, what's up? Welcome to Side us all school.

1:04.4

Glad you're out there. My name is Chris Gillibault, your host.

1:06.8

And I have been enjoying this segment so much. I hope you have as well.

1:10.6

The stories that we've been sharing, they tend to vary a bit.

1:13.8

But often the story begins with an idea what the person thought would happen and then of course what really happened.

1:20.4

And finally, what they learned from it. So there's often a bit of a gap between that part about how here's what they thought was going to happen.

1:26.2

And here's what actually happened in the end.

1:28.6

That's often where the adjustment and expectations, you know, has to take place and then hopefully some lesson after that as well.

1:35.2

But the whole entrepreneurial journey, just like the whole life journey, is one that consists of mistakes, missteps, sometimes disasters, sometimes failure.

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