#1875 - Failure Friday: “I started to realize how little I knew…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Danielle Winton, a furniture reseller in Missouri. Business was going along smoothly, until she took on a project that proved to be much tougher than expected.
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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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| 0:38.2 | Hey there, greetings. Thank you for tuning in today. My name is Chris Killabaugh, |
| 0:41.6 | your host of Side Puzzle School. And this is, of course, our segment known as failure Friday. |
| 0:48.1 | Coming to you every Friday. Conveniently packed between Thursday and Saturday. |
| 0:51.8 | And the whole point here is that we can learn as much from failure as we can from success. |
| 0:56.3 | We're often talking about success. I'm telling you amazing stories of people making all kinds of |
| 1:00.0 | money and quitting their jobs sometimes and having dance parties when they have their first |
| 1:05.7 | sale or get their first client. But I think it's so important to look at the struggles that happen |
| 1:10.2 | along the way. So this is a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, |
| 1:14.4 | and of course failure. These stories vary, but often they start with an idea and then the idea |
| 1:20.0 | meets reality and you hear what happens and then of course what someone learned. |
| 1:24.6 | So today's short story features Danielle Winton. She's the owner of awintonfurnishing.com. |
| 1:30.2 | We told the story of her success in episode 1688, I believe, 1688, ESL teacher |
| 1:37.0 | resells furniture for big profits. Now business continues to pace. She's doing well, |
| 1:42.4 | reselling lots of furniture, presumably for big profits. But as her confidence grew, |
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