#2134 - Failure Friday: “My Facebook page with 40,000 fans was hacked…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a coach who had been building her business on Facebook—until she made a mistake and clicked a password reset link from a hacker.
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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 | Hello, hello, hello, welcome to Side Us All School. |
| 0:11.4 | This is Chris Kill about your host of a daily podcast all about helping you make extra money |
| 0:16.0 | without quitting your job. |
| 0:17.5 | Now, today our segment is known as Failure Friday. |
| 0:21.2 | We started this last year. |
| 0:22.2 | It's been very popular. |
| 0:23.7 | Looking at all the stories of things that don't go well, right? |
| 0:26.8 | Of course, we're all about success here on Side Us All School, but sometimes you come to |
| 0:30.4 | success through a pathway that is lined, let's say, with mistakes, missteps, disasters, |
| 0:36.1 | and of course, failure. |
| 0:37.8 | As I said, the things that don't go so well. |
| 0:40.1 | And just like our throwback Thursday segment, you get to hear directly from a side us |
| 0:43.1 | slower who is struggled to get something off the ground or otherwise encountered a mishap. |
| 0:47.3 | Right? |
| 0:48.3 | They're going to tell you the story, their idea, their assumption, what ended up happening, |
| 0:51.8 | and of course what they learned from the process. |
| 0:53.5 | So today we have a valuable lesson. |
| 0:55.8 | I have actually been through this lesson myself of getting my Facebook page hacked at some |
| 0:59.7 | point. |
| 1:00.7 | You're going to hear a similar story from Shari who is from Chicago, I believe. |
| 1:05.5 | And after spending a year building a Facebook page up to 40,000 fans, good work, Shari. |
| 1:10.6 | But then some bad news happened. |
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