#1665 - Failure Friday: Failure Friday: Tea Supply Chain Meets Its Matcha
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Luciana Torous, the founder and owner of 3 Leaf Tea. She had relied on the same supplier from Japan for years—but that supplier threatened to disappear just as the pandemic was disrupting supply chains everywhere.
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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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| 0:55.1 | without going into debt, by doing something they enjoy and are good at. That is what we are all about |
| 1:00.4 | here. And for several months now, we've been running this new series called Failure Friday. |
| 1:06.3 | Ultimately, I want to tell you about success stories, but this segment has been so popular. I think |
| 1:10.8 | it's because we can learn as much from failures we can for success. People really appreciate the |
| 1:16.4 | transparency, the honesty. And so what we're trying to do here is share a collection of short stories, |
| 1:22.2 | all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and as mentioned failure. Stuff that goes wrong, |
| 1:27.6 | stuff that is unexpected and you have to adjust or pivot or make some different decisions. |
| 1:32.8 | Maybe the initial decision you made was not the right one. And then you have to figure out how to |
| 1:36.5 | kind of pick yourself up and move forward. And rather than just, you know, me explain that to you, |
| 1:41.8 | it's been so fun to highlight different stories of people who are going through this process. |
| 1:46.6 | So I really applaud their courage. And today's short story features Luciana Taurus from |
| 1:51.6 | Auburn, New York. We told the successful story of her tea business, Three Leaf Tea, on Episode |
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