#1658 - Failure Friday: “They refused to listen to my big pitch…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the woman who invented the “peeLUX.” When she tries to pitch her product to the founder of Spanx, she runs afoul of the company’s lawyers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? Welcome to Side Hustle School. So glad you were here. Thank you for tuning in. |
| 0:10.3 | My name is Chris Galabo. Now we are focused today on a concept called failure Friday. |
| 0:15.6 | It's because I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can for success. |
| 0:19.1 | It started this a few months ago. A collection of short stories, all about mistakes, missteps, |
| 0:23.2 | disasters, and of course failure. So these stories that you'll hear, they will vary, |
| 0:29.0 | but often they begin with an idea, something that they thought would happen, |
| 0:32.4 | the person who you're going to hear from, what they thought would happen, and what really happened, |
| 0:36.4 | and of course what they learned. Very often there is a gap between those two things. |
| 0:40.1 | I've got this idea. It's going to go really well. I've got this idea. Here's what actually happened. |
| 0:44.6 | It doesn't go so well sometimes, and that's just life and that's reality. And what's most |
| 0:49.4 | important is what we do in that situation, how we adapt, how we respond, whether it's a mistake |
| 0:55.2 | of our own or an out and out disaster, whatever category it fits in. The whole question is how |
| 1:00.8 | then do you respond? So today's short story features Tracy Beck from Hood River, Oregon. |
| 1:05.9 | We told the successful story of her invention on episode 815, 815. What is that invention? |
| 1:12.9 | Well, it is the P. Lux. A kid's you not. That is the name, and that's also what it is, |
| 1:18.5 | the P. Lux. An accessory that helps women use the ladies room while wearing shapewear, |
| 1:23.1 | which I now understand to be a pressing problem. The P. Lux is actually a very profitable product, |
| 1:30.0 | but as you'll hear in the story, when she tries to pitch it to the founder of Spanx, she runs a foul |
| 1:35.4 | of the company's lawyers. So that's what you'll hear from her about, and I'll come back at the end |
| 1:39.9 | to wrap us up. Hi, my name is Tracy Beck and I invented P. Lux. A device that allows women to more |
| 1:50.0 | easily use the restroom while wearing shapewear. I invented P. Lux after having surgery and having |
| 1:55.1 | to wear shapewear for five weeks day and night as part of my recovery. I found it very difficult |
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