#2274 - Failure Friday: “My first client was a total nightmare…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a woman who had a goal of becoming a personal shopper, but was stymied by a difficult client.
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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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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, thanks for tuning in today. |
| 0:12.4 | Today is episode 2,274 of Side Usual School. |
| 0:17.2 | It's also the weekly installment known as Failure Friday. |
| 0:21.0 | Failure Friday built around the principle that we can learn as much from failure as we |
| 0:24.8 | can from success, if not in fact more. |
| 0:27.6 | So ever since, I think the beginning of last year, in fact, we've started presenting |
| 0:31.6 | this collection of short stories on mistakes, missteps, disasters, all of the things that |
| 0:35.9 | go wrong. |
| 0:36.9 | You know, you're always hearing success stories, you're always hearing like here's |
| 0:40.3 | the things that went well. |
| 0:41.7 | But what about the other things, right? |
| 0:43.8 | Because most people in their side hustle journey and their entrepreneurial journey and |
| 0:47.6 | their journey of life in general, you know, it's kind of like universal. |
| 0:51.9 | Not everything works perfectly. |
| 0:53.6 | Often our assumptions don't hold up to reality. |
| 0:56.0 | So the main question is, what are we going to do? |
| 0:58.0 | You know, how are we going to adapt? |
| 0:59.4 | How are we going to move forward so that we don't just remain stuck in that failure? |
| 1:02.8 | How can we take that point of failure? |
| 1:04.5 | And in fact, use it as inspiration to, well, I guess, move forward towards success. |
| 1:09.8 | So we do this in the storytelling format. |
| 1:12.6 | Today's short story features Reese from Scottsdale, Arizona. |
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