#1889 - Failure Friday: “Something miraculous happened: I started making money…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the founder of Birthday Buddy, an app that sends automated birthday wishes to Facebook contacts. His free service ran into problems, but he regrouped to improve the app AND turn it into a moneymaker.
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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 | Welcome. Thank you for tuning in. This is Side Us From School. I am your host, |
| 0:42.1 | Chris Gilabo, bringing you episode 1889, almost at episode 1900, |
| 0:48.1 | all about helping you create extra income without quitting your job. |
| 0:51.6 | Stories of real people out there who are making something happen for themselves. |
| 0:55.9 | Detailed stories, case studies, tips, all kinds of good stuff. |
| 0:59.2 | And today is our segment known as Failure Friday. Failure Friday. |
| 1:04.3 | We can learn as much from failure as we can from success, if not more. |
| 1:07.6 | So Failure Friday is a collection of short stories about mistakes, |
| 1:10.8 | missteps, disasters, and of course failure. |
| 1:13.5 | Often it is failure as a precursor to success. |
| 1:16.3 | Nevertheless, we try to be really open and honest at looking at things that go wrong. |
| 1:21.8 | I have to really thank all of the side ushors that have been part of this so far because |
| 1:24.8 | of course it's their stories. So they're the ones who are sharing so openly. |
| 1:28.5 | And these stories vary, but they often begin with some kind of idea. |
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