#1798 - Failure Friday: “Our first trade show was canceled with no refund…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Chris Cavallari, who sells high-quality products with a Maine vibe. In March 2020, he prepared for his first wholesale trade show—and then the world closed down.
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| 0:35.0 | Hey, hey, what's up? Welcome. This is Friday, at least. |
| 0:38.9 | Today's episode is going on on a Friday. I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can |
| 0:43.6 | from success. That's how we have this new segment called Failure Friday. It is a collection of |
| 0:48.9 | short stories all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. Things that go wrong. |
| 0:54.3 | Sometimes things that go very wrong. Just like our Thurback Thursday segment, |
| 0:58.8 | you get to hear directly from a side-usseler who has struggled in some fashion. |
| 1:02.8 | Any stories tend to vary, but often they begin with an idea, an expected course of action, |
| 1:07.8 | something that they think is going to happen, perhaps an assumption, and then of course, |
| 1:11.7 | assumption meets reality, and of course what they learn through the process. |
| 1:16.1 | So today's short story features Chris Cavallari from a small workshop on the coast of Maine. |
| 1:21.2 | We told this successful story of his handcrafted goods business on episode 1089, 1089. |
| 1:27.4 | Boy Scout Merit Badge leads to leather working lifestyle. He actually references that Boy Scout |
| 1:32.6 | work ethic in the story you'll hear now. So let's hand it over to him. I'll come back at the end |
| 1:36.8 | for a brief wrap up. |
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