#2260 - Failure Friday: The Influencer Who Quit Instagram
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from an aspiring influencer on her unsuccessful attempt to become a professional Instagrammer … which ended with her quitting the platform altogether.
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.
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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
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| 0:40.9 | Oh hey there, what's up? Welcome to Side Asel School. This is your host, Chris Gellibau. |
| 0:45.4 | Here with another episode of Failure Friday. Failure Friday, a fun weekly segment we do |
| 0:50.7 | to kind of like our Thurrish Day segment where you get to hear directly from a side |
| 0:53.9 | of Slaughter who has struggled to get something off the ground. Well that's actually today. |
| 0:58.3 | Thurrish Day is just like, hey here's an update. Failure Friday, that's today a collection |
| 1:03.0 | of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. I think what |
| 1:08.1 | ties them together as you get to hear directly from this side of Slaughter, that's where it |
| 1:11.1 | started. And in today's segment they're going to tell you a short story of something that |
| 1:14.8 | went very wrong. The stories tend to vary a bit. They often begin with an idea or an assumption, |
| 1:20.2 | and then what happens when that assumption or idea meets reality. Often we have an idea |
| 1:24.2 | to do something but we don't really understand what it's really going to be like. And what |
| 1:28.4 | are the positive and negative effects or impacts of turning that idea into action, which I |
| 1:33.4 | think is good. But in doing so we gain some experience, we gain some knowledge that we |
| 1:37.7 | can then apply to perhaps our next project or towards improving this project or just doing |
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