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Side Hustle School

#2022 - Failure Friday: “We opened the box and it was a totally different product…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the founder of Kettlebell Kings, an ecommerce shop. When a big early order from a supplier went terribly wrong, he had to regroup and learn resilience.   

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.

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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


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Here we are, the upper jump!

0:01.5

What a punch!

0:02.5

Heavyweight champ Tyson Fury is back on Beatty Sport Box Office

0:07.0

for another all-Pretty Sportbuster.

0:09.2

I am the Gypsy King.

0:11.0

With a unification fight looming against BUSIC,

0:13.7

Old Rival Derek Chisoura provides the final test.

0:17.0

Wash me take the crown from the Gypsy King.

0:19.0

Watch all this and more Saturday exclusively live on Beatty Sport Box Office.

0:24.6

I'm knocking Chisoura into retirement.

0:38.6

Friends listeners, side us all school community, welcome.

0:41.6

Thanks for tuning in today.

0:43.2

My name is Chris Gilliboyer Host.

0:45.2

Today's segment falls into the future we call Failure Friday.

0:49.1

I have so enjoyed working on this series this year.

0:51.1

It is a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and failure.

0:56.1

In other words, all the things that go wrong, often a side usur or a small business owner

1:01.1

who is struggling to get something off the ground or sometimes they've got a business that's actually going really well

1:06.1

and something goes very not well, shall we say.

1:10.1

Now, these stories tend to vary, but they often begin with an idea and assumption.

1:14.1

But then that idea or assumption meets reality.

1:17.1

And of course, what do they learn through the process?

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