#1896 - Failure Friday: “If I want to do good work, I can’t sacrifice my wellbeing…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the creator of a card game that sparks meaningful conversations. As sales increased along with her busy day job, she struggled to take time for herself.
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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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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Slack. With Slack, you can bring all your people and |
| 0:05.9 | tools together in one place. It's your digital HQ where you can increase productivity, |
| 0:11.1 | enable flexibility and automate workflows. Plus, Slack is full of game-changing features |
| 0:16.7 | like huddles for quick check-ins or Slack Connect, which helps you connect with partners |
| 0:20.9 | inside and outside of your company. Slack, where the future works. Get started at |
| 0:26.9 | Slack.com slash DHQ. |
| 0:29.9 | Hey there, thanks so much for tuning in today. My name is Chris Gillibot, your host of |
| 0:41.7 | Side-Asel School, bringing you daily episodes seven days a week, every day since January |
| 0:46.4 | 1, 2017. Looking at all kinds of case studies and examples, tips, ideas for creating extra |
| 0:52.8 | money without quitting your job. We have heard so many different stories, all kinds of life |
| 0:57.2 | journeys as well. Last year we started this segment called Failure Friday. Under the |
| 1:01.8 | principle that we can learn as much from failures as we can from success. Or let's really |
| 1:06.1 | dive into things that go wrong, struggles, mistakes, perhaps missteps, sometimes disasters. |
| 1:12.3 | Of course, just life struggles, failure. Just like our Thurback Thursday segment, you |
| 1:17.3 | get to hear directly from a side-usselor who has gone through something, a lot of different |
| 1:21.4 | variations we've had so far. But they're going to tell you a short story of something that |
| 1:24.8 | went very wrong. Today's contribution comes from Dr. Cherini Gopriol from Atlanta, I believe. |
| 1:31.6 | We told the successful story of her uncurated card game on episode 1298. It is a card game, |
| 1:38.6 | but it's so much more because with uncurated, Cherini is on a mission to spark meaningful |
| 1:43.5 | conversations. It's a really cool project. I enjoyed going through her website as I worked |
| 1:47.6 | on this. But as you're going to hear from her, she got a little busy and overwhelmed and |
| 1:52.2 | neglected to take care of herself. So she's got a story for us, along with some advice. |
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