#1672 - Failure Friday: Weighted Blankets Get Weighed Down in Customs
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2021
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a Canadian who sells weighted blankets. After scaling up to serve thousands of customers, his company experiences a truly disastrous holiday season when their overseas shipments are delayed.
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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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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to Failure Friday. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a collection of short stories all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course |
| 0:14.1 | failure. |
| 0:15.1 | It is part of Side Usal School, my daily podcast. |
| 0:17.7 | My name is Chris Gallipo. |
| 0:19.2 | You're listening to episode 1672. |
| 0:21.7 | If I'm not mistaken, we've been doing this every single day since January 1, 2017, an |
| 0:28.1 | unbroken streak of stories, tips, case studies, actionable information you can use in your |
| 0:34.1 | pursuit of going from idea to income. |
| 0:37.2 | It's all about creating extra money without quitting your job, using the skills you have, |
| 0:41.1 | etc. |
| 0:42.1 | Failure Friday has become one of our most popular segments that we do. |
| 0:46.3 | This particular story that you're going to hear today, I have to say I think it's |
| 0:49.4 | one of our best yet. |
| 0:52.0 | These stories are going to vary, but often they begin with an idea, what the person thought |
| 0:56.1 | would happen and then what really happened. |
| 0:58.6 | Of course, what they learned. |
| 1:00.6 | I just want to get out of the way today because today's short story is so good. |
| 1:04.5 | It features Aaron Speback from Toronto, Canada. |
| 1:07.6 | We told the successful journey of his weighted blanket business on episode 885. |
| 1:13.3 | But disaster struck. |
| 1:15.4 | When I say disaster, in this case, I mean total disaster. |
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