meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Side Hustle School

#2197 - Failure Friday: “On the day of the wedding, a huge storm rolled in…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from an event planner specializing in weddings. Everything goes perfectly at weddings, right? Okay, not so much … and in this particular wedding, everything goes perfectly WRONG.

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 Twitter: @chrisguillebeau

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.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. 😎 🙏🏼 

To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. 😎 🙏🏼 


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

The simplest healthy habit to start this new year is one for your dog.

0:04.0

Every day, more dog people and more vets are quitting the kibble,

0:08.0

kicking the cans, and feeding their dogs dog food that's actually well-food.

0:13.0

The farmer's dog food is developed with vets made fresh from real meat and veggies,

0:17.0

portioned for your dog and delivered right to your door.

0:20.0

Get 50% off your first box of smarter, healthier pet food at the farmers.com slash start fresh.

0:27.0

Hello, side oscill school listeners. Welcome. This is episode 2,197. We're almost at 2,200 episodes.

0:48.0

And of course, this is the beginning of an all-new season, first week of the podcast in 2023.

0:54.0

And our first failure Friday segment. So yeah, by the way, if you've been listening for a while,

1:00.0

you're like, oh yeah, failure Friday, is that going to continue? It is going to continue.

1:03.0

We're going to keep doing it at least most Fridays, if not every Friday,

1:06.0

just because it's been such a popular segment. And for everybody who's new,

1:09.0

well, what is failure Friday? Isn't this a show all about success, all about making extra money,

1:14.0

all about trying to start a side business using a skill you already have to be able to,

1:19.0

you know, again, make extra money, get out of debt, maybe even quit your job. Yes, yes, all those things.

1:24.0

However, I believe we can learn as much from failures we can from success.

1:28.0

And often, in fact, failure or something that goes wrong is a stepping stone, you know,

1:33.0

toward, you know, the ultimate success that you're seeking. So it's been really fun over the past year

1:37.0

to have these stories, highlighting a lot of just, you know, disaster sometimes, big mistakes.

1:43.0

Of course, you know, personal failures or professional failures.

1:47.0

You know, I'll focus on a small business idea that you had that didn't work out nearly as well as you hoped.

1:52.0

Or maybe just in the experience of your small business or your side hustle something that went very wrong.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Chris Guillebeau, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Chris Guillebeau and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.