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Side Hustle School

#1847 - Failure Friday: “If I could do it over again, I’m not sure I would…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the founder of a business that transports bicycles to adventure sport locations in Central America. After spending $40,000 to get going, he learned it was harder than he thought!  

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.

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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


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

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0:38.2

Greetings and welcome. Thanks for tuning in today. My name is Chris Delabo,

0:41.7

your host of Sideosel School, bringing you a new episode every single day since January 1,

0:46.4

2017. And guess what, it's all free. It's all free with the goal of helping you earn extra money

0:51.5

without quitting your job. Okay, now this is our weekly segment called Failure Friday,

0:56.0

one of my favorite things to work on. It all stems from the principle that we can learn

0:59.6

as much from failure as we can from success. So, you know, throughout the podcast, I'm always

1:03.9

telling you lots of great case studies of people who have made lots of money and built a business

1:08.0

and created freedom for themselves and all kinds of good things. But throughout that process,

1:12.9

there are often missteps and challenges and things that go wrong. And I try to highlight those as

1:17.0

well so it's not always a fairy tale, like it's meant to be very practical and realistic.

1:20.6

But this particular segment, we really focus on the things that go wrong. So, every week,

1:25.6

you get a different story here. The stories will vary, but often they begin with an idea and

1:29.7

assumption, something that someone thought would happen. And then, of course, what really happened,

1:33.7

hopefully along with some lesson as well, usually. And today's short story features Richard Bexon.

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