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Side Hustle School

#2239 - Failure Friday: “I wasn't making enough money to cover expenses…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a travel agent who’s excited to take flight—until a trip she books for ten clients is unexpectedly canceled.

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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

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0:05.7

to Wishing by opening a Monso Business account.

0:07.7

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0:13.1

it can be tagged. We thought we'd have to manage our business around our banks, but that's

0:17.3

not the case for Monso.

0:18.4

My name is Shun. I am the Founder of Target Trition.

0:21.6

Apply in minutes at Monso.com slash business. To apply you must be a sole trader or director

0:26.6

of a limited company, UK Business is only terms and conditions apply.

0:40.8

Hello, hello, welcome to Side Usual School. My name is Chris Gillibot, your host, and also this

0:47.2

is Failure Friday. Failure Friday are weekly segments, all about mistakes, missteps, disasters,

0:53.1

and failure. All based on the principle that we can learn as much from failure as we can from

0:57.7

success, if not, in fact more. I have so enjoyed working on all these stories, hearing different

1:02.8

things that have happened to people. Sometimes they're humorous, sometimes they're like, oh my god,

1:08.6

sometimes they're like these true disaster stories. Often it's just a person has an expectation

1:14.3

of something and then that expectation meets reality and then what do you do? Presumably,

1:20.1

at some point what do you learn through the experience? So today's short story features Jan

1:24.6

from Denver. Jan hoped to become a travel agent and she was ready to take flight, but alas failed

1:31.4

to receive takeoff clearance. Well actually that's a lot of metaphors. She did in fact receive takeoff

1:37.2

clearance. The business was going okay at least in the beginning, but a trip she booked for 10 clients

1:43.1

becomes unexpectedly canceled and that kind of sets off in other series of events. So let's hear

1:47.6

the story from her over to Jan. I had always dreamed of becoming a travel agent. Since I traveled a

2:03.4

lot myself, I loved the idea of helping people plan their dream vacations. So I decided to take the

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