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Hey, what's going on, Chris Gullivogue here with you. Bringing you another episode of

Side Usual School and specifically bringing you an episode known as Failure Friday.

I always enjoy working on these. Today is actually going to, well, hold on. Let me tell you

about it first. I'll tell you what's going on today. Failure Friday is a collection of

short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. I've had a lot of

things go wrong in my life, both in my life in general and in my entrepreneurial career.

I think I've actually probably learned more through those experiences than through whatever

successes I've had. Year or two ago, we decided to start this whole segment that's all about

those mistakes, missteps, disasters. Of course, failure, not just mine, but many of our featured

case studies, other small business owners, entrepreneurs, side hustlers, and some from

our listeners as well. As I said, excited about today's, excited about all of them, but

enjoyed working on today's. This one features Thomas from Massachusetts. I think you get

to hear that a bit in his accent. Thomas is a fisherman who started his own fishing

store in a coastal town, and it, well, let's just hear the rest of the story from him.

So I'm going to hand it over to Thomas.

Hi everybody. My name is Thomas Soule, and for five years I was the proud owner of a

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