#1707 - Failure Friday: “Hundreds of people were shut out of my webinar…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
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🗓️ 3 September 2021
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a boudoir photographer who diligently planned for her first webinar with 400 excited attendees—but the platform could only handle 50 of them.
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| 0:35.2 | Hey there, what's up? Welcome to Sadduceville School. My name is Chris Gellibot, your host. |
| 0:39.2 | Earlier this year we started a new segment called Failure Friday. It has been incredibly |
| 0:44.4 | popular, probably our most popular episode of the week, at least on some weeks. And the principle |
| 0:49.6 | of it is we can learn as much from failure as we can from success, if not in fact more. |
| 0:54.8 | So this is a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters and of course, |
| 1:00.0 | failure. So you get to hear directly from a side usher or someone who has gone full time, |
| 1:05.1 | which is the case today. She actually has a very successful business. But instead of hearing the |
| 1:10.3 | success story, which is what we usually talk about, you get to hear something that went very wrong. |
| 1:15.0 | It often starts with an idea, an assumption, and then that assumption meets reality. And then |
| 1:20.3 | what do they do? What do they take away from it? What do they learn and so on? But as much as |
| 1:24.3 | possible, I like people to just kind of focus on the moment of how did it feel in that experience. |
| 1:29.1 | So today, I really enjoyed this story. It comes from Tanya Smith from Hamilton, Ontario. We told the |
| 1:35.8 | successful story of her Budwa photography studio on episode 1035. Tanya was a corporate banker |
| 1:43.9 | back in the day. She underwent a big reinvention and then also built a second business helping |
| 1:49.2 | other Budwa photographers. So you'll hear a bit more about that in her story here. As she was |
| 1:54.0 | beginning to debut, this new business, something went very wrong. She'll bring you to story, |
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