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Hey, hey, what's up? Welcome to Side Usals School. So glad you're tuning in today.

My name is Chris Gilapur, your host. Here with a special segment we call Failure Friday.

What is that all about? Well, it's about the principle that we can learn as much from

failure as we can from success. We can learn as much from defeat as we can from victory,

struggle as much as whatever the opposite of struggle is, I guess, something going very

easily or simply. And that's not always how it works. In fact, quite often, it's not how

it works. So, been sharing all these stories, a collection of short stories, all about mistakes,

missteps, disasters, and of course, failure. So, these stories tend to start with an idea

what somebody thought would happen and then what really happened and of course what they

learned. Today's is a little bit different. It features Gabriella Jacobson from Washington,

DC. I think she might be in Detroit now. We told this successful story of her sustainable

design studio, Green Upward, on episode 524. But of course, just like any story in the

segment, not everything went smoothly, easily, simply. So let's hear from her about an

overwork struggle in particular. Something goes very wrong. And so I'll let her tell the

story and I'll come back at the end to wrap us up.

Hello, side hustle school. My name is Gabriella and I founded Green Upward, a sustainable design

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