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Side Hustle School

#1910 - Failure Friday: “My first customer bought out of pity…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a Tasmanian seller of reusable cutlery. Business is going well now, but her early experiences at the local farmers market were discouraging. 

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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

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0:05.9

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0:11.1

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0:16.7

like huddles for quick check-ins or Slack Connect, which helps you connect with partners

0:20.9

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0:26.9

Slack.com slash DHQ.

0:37.9

Good morning, afternoon or evening or if you are in the world, thank you for tuning in today.

0:42.4

My name is Chris Killebo. You are listening to Side Usal School. We're all about creating

0:46.3

economic empowerment, helping you make extra money without quitting your day job. Perhaps

0:50.6

eventually going full-time or perhaps just paying off debt or creating more savings. Otherwise,

0:55.5

just creating more autonomy and ownership for yourself, all those good things. Today, our

1:00.4

segment is Failure Friday. The principle with this segment is that we can learn a lot

1:05.0

from failure just as we can from success. In fact, often success comes through embracing

1:10.2

failure, kind of working through something, you know, got to get to the other side of

1:13.7

something. You got to go through something that's difficult in order to find that whatever

1:17.7

that thing is that you're looking for. Most likely, in our case, it's some kind of business

1:21.2

or income generating project. Just like our Thurback Thursday segment, you get to hear

1:25.8

directly from Side Usalers. They're going to tell you a quick story. These stories tend

1:29.7

to vary a bit. Today's features Nairi Burgess from Hobart, Australia. Hobart, Australia.

1:36.4

I've been to Australia many times, but I have not been to Tasmania. I believe Hobart

1:40.9

is on the island of Tasmania. In fact, I'm sure of it because we told this successful

1:45.4

story of our project on episode 1219 and that story was titled Tasmanian Insurance

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