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Hello, what's up? Welcome. Thanks for tuning in today. It is the I'd of April,

15th of April, episode 1931. At least that's when this is being published.

And today's segment falls in the framework known as Failure Friday.

I love working on this segment. I think I say that every week,

but it's one of my favorite things to work on. And it's because people are bringing us

these very honest stories, very honest, truthful stories about learning from failure,

or mistakes, or missteps, disasters, maybe something that just goes wrong or something

that's unexpected. There's just so many good things that come through these stories.

They often begin with an idea or an assumption, something that someone thought would happen,

and then of course what really happened, and then what they learned from that.

I don't want to spend too much time on an introduction. Today's short story features

Jen Penaro from, I believe it's Pennsylvania or Delaware, the general area.

She is the owner of WasteWell, a curbside composting company that provides educational resources.

And it is a company, but it's mostly a side hustle. You're going to hear all about that.

Also, you're going to hear that Jen had the opportunity to undertake a major contract

with a municipal government, which sounded amazing. In fact, she committed to it.

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