#1833 - Failure Friday: “My complacency set in over time…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Brock McGroff, founder of TheModestMan.com. While he was focused on other things, his website plateaued in traffic and then began a gradual decline.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:38.3 | Greetings. What's up? Welcome to Side Us All School. My name is Chris Gillibot. |
| 0:42.2 | So excited you are here today. This is our very first failure pride ace segment of 2022. |
| 0:48.7 | Episode 1833 to be specific. This is definitely a segment we're going to keep going. |
| 0:53.2 | It's been one of my favorites, and I hear from so many listeners who really appreciate |
| 0:57.2 | the transparent, honest, sometimes vulnerable stories that side hustlers, small business owners, |
| 1:03.0 | and entrepreneurs have been sharing. The whole point here is we can learn as much from failure |
| 1:07.2 | as we can from success, if not more. So that's why the weekly segment called Failure Friday |
| 1:12.7 | offers you a collection of short stories. Now this story is we kick off a new year. |
| 1:17.5 | Some of these stories are often about disasters or, you know, epic fails. |
| 1:21.1 | This one is a little bit different from some of the ones we've had in the past, |
| 1:24.4 | like a cruise ship not showing up in Croatia. That was, you know, the cruise ship owner |
| 1:29.0 | who his ship didn't show up. That was a pretty big disaster. Or the time that Jonathan |
| 1:33.3 | Fields, a popular author, former yoga studio owner, had a major malfunction in his yoga studio |
| 1:39.3 | while an editor from Yoga Journal was there to kind of check it out. So those stories are in |
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