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Side Hustle School

#1868 - Failure Friday: “What you didn’t hear was how unfocused I was…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Chelsea Raehl, who sells 3D printed cookie cutters. After starting out strong, she quickly became unfocused and exhausted in trying to do too many things at once.   

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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

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

0:43.6

And that's why we have this segment called Failure Friday.

0:46.4

By the way, welcome to Side Usal School. My name is Chris Gellibot.

0:49.2

Failure Friday is a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps,

0:52.8

disasters, and of course, failure. These stories tend to vary, but often they start with an idea,

0:58.3

or a plan, a plan of attack. And you think the plan of attack is going to work out and be amazing,

1:03.6

but of course, it doesn't always go that way. And that's why we try to actually, you know,

1:08.0

just delve into that moment and what does it feel like? That moment or that process sometimes,

1:12.7

it can take a while. When you're in that space of, I thought this was going to be amazing,

1:16.8

but it actually turned out to be something different. And eventually, I'm going to get to amazing,

1:20.4

but you know, I have to go through that other part first. So today's short story features

1:26.0

Chelsea Rail. We told the first version of her story. I'm going to call it the first version for

1:30.2

a reason. The first version of her story on episode 1198, Nurse Relief Stress earns cash from

1:36.6

custom cookie cutters. She actually made 3D printed cookie cutters. It's not a cookie cutter business.

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