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Side Hustle School

#1749 - Failure Friday: “I was exhausted and doing the bare minimum for my business…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Julia Taylor, the owner and designer of an adventure-themed brand of totes and mugs. When she and her husband combine business with travel, they get an unexpected surprise.  

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:34.9

I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success, if not more.

0:40.0

It is with this principle in mind that I offer you a weekly segment called failure Friday.

0:45.7

As the name suggests, it is a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps,

0:49.6

disasters, and, of course, actual failure. That's right, we're talking about things that don't go

0:55.1

well, things that go wrong, things that are unexpected, or assumptions that are

1:00.1

false or incorrect, or otherwise, turn out to be different from reality.

1:04.2

So, just like our Throbac Thursday segment, you get to hear directly from a side hustler

1:07.8

who has struggled to get something off the ground. And I'll tell you that story themselves.

1:11.9

Today's short story features Julia Taylor from Breckenridge, Colorado.

1:16.5

And we told the success story of her adventure-themed brand of totes, mugs, and more,

1:21.2

on episode 1042, 1042. But when she leveled up the adventure side of this adventure-themed brand,

1:28.8

she discovered that Nomad's life is not all it's claimed to be. In fact, I can tell you that myself.

1:34.1

It's tiring, folks. It's not how it always looks on Instagram. So let's hear how she tells it,

1:38.6

her story, her experience, and her lesson. And I'll come back at the end to wrap us up.

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