#2043 - Failure Friday: “After I was hit by a car, things got worse…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from an affiliate marketer who encountered an unusual problem: after he was hit by a car, the public knowledge of his business was used against him.
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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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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:08.4 | Side-ass whole school listeners, friends, community. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome. |
| 0:11.6 | My name's Chris Gellibot. |
| 0:13.0 | This is our weekly segment known as Failure Friday. |
| 0:16.4 | One of my favorite things to work on every week, |
| 0:18.5 | is because I believe we can learn as much from failure |
| 0:20.8 | as we can from success, if not in fact more. |
| 0:24.0 | So in this segment, we have a collection of short stories |
| 0:26.6 | about mistakes, missteps, disasters, |
| 0:28.4 | and of course, failure, all those things that are not super |
| 0:31.3 | amazing, at least not at first. |
| 0:33.5 | So you get to hear directly from a side-ass |
| 0:34.7 | or who's struggled to get something off the ground, |
| 0:37.2 | or otherwise encountered a pretty significant difficulty |
| 0:39.8 | along the way. |
| 0:41.0 | These stories are usually pretty candid and honest, |
| 0:43.9 | and often there's something we can take away from them. |
| 0:46.3 | And if it's not a direct practical tip, |
| 0:48.3 | sometimes it's just the sense of belonging |
| 0:50.4 | or the sense of feeling inspired and motivated |
| 0:53.0 | that things can go wrong. |
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