#1812 - Failure Friday: “We went all-in on applying for a $2 million grant…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Suzanne Tucker, founder of Generation Mindful. Last year, her team decided to go all-in on applying for a big NIH grant—and the initial outcome was disappointing.
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| 0:34.9 | Thank you for tuning in to the podcast. My name is Chris Villabau. This is Sideosal School |
| 0:39.2 | and bringing you our weekly segment known as Failure Friday. |
| 0:42.8 | Principle is we can learn as much from failure as we can from success, if not more. |
| 0:47.6 | It's been our most popular new segment of 2021. I've been so fond to hear lots of different stories, |
| 0:52.7 | really helpful, interesting, vulnerable, transparent, honest stories from founders, |
| 0:57.9 | business owners, side hustlers, all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course, failure. |
| 1:03.6 | What went wrong? What was the struggle? What was tough? And what did you learn from it? |
| 1:08.2 | You know, that's what it's all about. How did you get through that experience? And what |
| 1:11.2 | does it taught you? How has it helped you to actually succeed more in the long term? |
| 1:15.4 | Today's short story features Suzanne Tucker. Suzanne is a mom of four, a physical therapist, |
| 1:20.3 | and a parent educator for more than 27 years. She's also the founder of a business called |
| 1:25.2 | Generation Mindful. We told a successful story of that project on episode 7-11, 7-1-1. |
| 1:31.3 | Educator makes playing cards to teach kids about emotions. |
| 1:35.3 | Now, her business has been doing very well overall, but in the early part of the pandemic, |
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