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#1728 - Failure Friday: “Everyone in the room said ‘Turn it off!’…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Jonathan Fields (!), author of Sparked. The morning his popular yoga studio received a VIP guest, the sound system broke down. He ran out to get a new one just in time, and the problem was solved—or was it?

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

But let's face it, they rarely stick.

0:06.6

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0:08.6

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0:13.1

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0:17.3

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0:20.7

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0:25.6

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0:35.0

What's up everybody, welcome. I'm so glad you're tuning in today.

0:38.3

Very special episode. This is our weekly failure Friday segment.

0:42.7

We've got a very special guest. The principle of failure Friday is that we can learn as much

0:47.7

from failure as we can from success, if not, in fact more. So we put together a collection of

0:52.8

short stories all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course, failure.

0:58.1

And I'm excited because today's short story features Jonathan Fields from New York City.

1:03.4

Jonathan is a best-selling author, podcast host, former personal trainer and yoga studio owner.

1:08.9

You'll actually hear about that shortly. In a previous life, he was an attorney, a restaurant owner.

1:13.6

He's done all kinds of stuff. He's also one of my best friends. We have known each other for

1:18.9

more than a decade spoken together at different events all over the country. And among other

1:24.1

things, he has been part of all nine years of the World Domination Summit. That's the event I

1:29.7

found it. And when I started it, Jonathan was one of the first people I asked to come and keynote

1:34.7

for the inaugural WDS. And he has continued to be part of it year after year. I could say a

1:39.5

lot more good things about Jonathan, but I want you to hear from him. His new book, Sparked,

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